When God(s), Prophets, Ancestors, And Priesthood Failed

When God(s), Prophets, Ancestors, Loas, Orisha, Priesthood, Chief-priests, Spiritualists, And “God Head” Fail You, Evoke Alternatives.

God(s), Prophets, Ancestors, Loas, Orisha, Houngan, Priesthood, chief-priests, spiritualists, men of God, women of God, overseers of church, seers at shrines, spirits or beings in league with them one and all, and “God Head”, have failed. We group them under “God(s) and ancestors”. They disappointed children accused as witchcraft-children, children-victims of sorcery and those Lost for words, confused, or too young to know. They disappointed human victims of ritual violence in the past, hostages who were focuses for initiations of ancient ritual trials of the gallows. They disappoint hostages in modern slavery (some of the abducted girls are joining them). Now young female student hostages abducted under suspicious circumstances are beyond their deliverance. Time is now, to reevaluate your relationship with “God(s) and ancestors” on one hand, and their only viable alternative, on the other hand.

People are being fooled, believing that students, focus of #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS, will be released. They believe in error Boko Haram leader forcibly removed them from one version of Judeo-Christian Religion to another of same tradition. This would have conformed to tradition of crusades and jihads—Christianity and Islam have always expanded at expense of heads of people they seek to convert. However, spread of Islam through violence is a façade this time, as the leader of Boko Haram has confessed his true intentions, namely, slavery. He did not abduct them so he could convert them to Islam; he was on slave-raid. He said he “captured” them. The world “slave” came from his mouth.

Slave Raid Of Modern Times!

In present context, “our girls” should aptly read, “Chibok Slavery-Girls” (or CSG). The statement from leader of Boko Haram that they have CSG as slaves should not only remind us of Trans-Saharan slave trade, but also point out prevalence of slavery in Africa today—more than 27 million. (See “Slavery in Africa to day”, and Global Slavery Index.) The world ignored its continued existence, such that people do not mention it as international news. Chibok Slavery-Girls are now bringing it into proper focus.  We should remain eternally grateful to them for this and THANK THEIR HEAD(s).

Leader of Boko Haram revealed true motive when he confessed they captured our daughters for slavery. He said he had already sold some for two thousands Naira ($12) each; he gave the money to their CAPTORS, he said. He promised to do with them what is called, “put them on the block”—display them at auction sales. These are powerful revelations. The UN took him seriously enough to warn, “Sex slavery is illegal”. Envoy of secretary-general of UN announced that Sex slavery had no statute of limitation. The UN Security Council blacklisted Boko Haram consequently. (We got the announced in Nigeria on 23 May 2014). Why have the agitators not picked up this confession as rallying point? Why are Nigerian or African governments not responding? You, the reader, what are you doing about it?

Whom To Blame?

Meanwhile, people had been looking for whom to blame for their abduction; this, when people thought only of Boko Haram as Islamic fundamentalists or fanatics. Outburst of Resident of Nigeria astounded us, saying the Northern Governors should be blamed for emergence of Boko Haram. Reason, the Governors failed to sponsor “education”, and did not build schools while in power. Our commander in chief of the armed forces should not be blaming those he swore to defend and protect under the Nigerian Constitution, now that theirs are “states under emergency rule”; he should be defending all, including those he believes he ought to blame for Boko Haram.

We all remember the “underwear suicide bomber” Mutalab(?), who moved from Nigeria to blow himself up inside a US passenger plane; he wanted all passengers to perish. However, as I wrote elsewhere, the HEAD(S) of the passengers saved them. (Re We Thank Our Head)The chemical fuse inside his underwear only smoldered, scorching his skin without igniting the bomb. The US promptly listed Nigeria, his home and origin of the trip, a terrorist country. Nigeria pleaded her name be removed from the list. US obliged. Hilary Clinton, then US secretary of state, recently regretted publicly for delisting Nigeria.

The US announced that Boko Harm was a terrorist group. President of Nigeria promptly refuted that, explaining, the US might bomb Nigerian villages with drones if he accepted that. Again, we know now that he was wrong; Boko Haram was and is a terrorist group that would run slave trade in our people if not checked.

Federal Government of Nigeria appropriately proscribed Boko Haram later as terrorist organization. However, same government set up a negotiating committee to work out conditions for granting them amnesty! Reason of Government is that some Muslim leaders in the North of Nigeria recommended it. Leadership by our commander in chief ought to include ability to say NO when necessary, and stand by it, instead of moving with every suggestion to avoid hurting feelings. What is more important, sparing the feelings of tribal and religious leaders, and allowing the country to perish on one hand, or standing your ground for survival and prosperity of the whole, even if it means stepping on toes of the few?

I am not trying to apportion blame; I hold office of the President in high esteem.  Rather than apportion blame, I am trying to trace recent history for the records. We want it on record, so posterity will know on whose watch (the three tiers of government) foreigners started invading our land and schools to capture our people for slavery. UN Security Council records already contain it.

This has become necessary, as some campaigners for release of Chibok Slavery-Girls stated on camera that, ”when terrorists bomb in Pakistan, the bombers are blamed; in Nigeria, the president is blamed”. We are all aware, the security forces did not respond to the abduction of the CSG two to three weeks after the abduction! They represent Mr. President in the war zone. They explained later that they were following “rules of engagement”! Besides, case of CSG does not involve bombing. I have not heard or seen anyone blame bombings anywhere in Nigeria on Mr. President; the woman-campaigner who read the protest document got it wrong.

A document presented at the inquest organized by “First lady” showed that Minister of Education wrote the Governor of Borno State to move the girls from school where Boko Haram could abduct them, or in the alternative, to increase security in the premises. This instruction, as cabinet member of Federal Republic of Nigeria, is deemed to come from commander in chief of the armed forces to the Governor of a Sate, a region under “state of emergency”! Why did the instruction go to the Governor and not to the General Officer Commanding the Joint Task force? The governor of course referred the letter to the commissioner of Education, who in turn referred it to Commissioner of police. Commissioner of Police passed instructions through some officers.

We learn these details from the inquest organized by the “First Lady”. I saw it on NTA (Nigerian Television Authority). Some women had gone on public protest in the third week after inaction by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The wife of the President invited leader of protest and others, as part of investigation to find out truth about the abduction. In other words, the presidency was not convinced at that point, the event occurred.

The wife wanted to establish falsehood of story of abduction. The school principal testified on camera, that she sent a member of her staff to report the abduction to the Police. Commissioner of Police testified he sent ten men after the abductors in response. Why did the president’s wife not put suggestion of an inquest to her husband rather than conduct it herself?

Where was the army the Federal government drafted to the region under state of emergence rule all this while?

Underlying Causes

We all agree that CORRUPTION and GOVERNANCE is the root of all our burdens as country and race. However, people think of various things, institutions, and human agencies. I think corruption of God(s), ancestors, and their agencies of religion and priesthood are the foundation. Every occurrence on visible Earth starts in the invisible world. Hence, they come first in a chain of authority in the invisible world for occurrence on Earth to occur. They have all failed abysmally. We need to replace them–disengage them from authority over us. This is not easy; some would say it is confusing or impossible. Nevertheless, this will become inevitable as history unfolds.

Way Forward

We observe that humankind united on the project #BringBackOurGirls. This emerged without prior propaganda of any sort. People are responding spontaneously, not waiting for others to convince them. They do not respond as Christians, Muslims, white, or black; they do not respond on racial, ideological, irrational, or logical grounds. The response is spontaneous. They respond because the CSG as people elicited their response on own merit. This point is important—CSG merited the response without struggling for it. This we term manifestation of their HEAD(s) (their UHHUN’UN in Edo/Benin Language spoken in Southern Nigeria—mother tongue of the Oboiro, author of this blog). The same caused the invasion in the first place, to prevent their HEAD(S) from being dethroned and subjected to unconditional surrender to Gods, ancestor, Allah, Jesus, Loas, Orisha, or God Head at the camp in the secondary school. If other schools closed, leaving Chibok Government Secondary School open as an exception is a mystery. Otherwise, the circumstance is suspicious.

CGS are no longer in group as they were while at school! Each HEAD is on own now. Their abductors put them in separate places with some being in “matrimonial homes”. Some should be pregnant by now for their ”husbands” who paid their dowry, or their masters who bought them. The situation is grave. However, we should stop crying over spilled milk, or trying to lock gate of stable after the horse has bolted. The CSG are gone forever; we should accept their sacrifice. They are defacto MARTYRS (though not dead); the sooner we recognized this and drew the lessons, the better. That way, their suffering would be for humankind and others under every form of slavery.

Their HEAD(S) will recover under certain conditions. We should endeavor to meet the conditions. Their HEAD(s) will continue to fight for all victims of slavery in every sense. Prayers to “God(s) and ancestors for their release is irrelevant at this point, especially in the light of them being mixed up with politics of the God(s), Godhead, ancestors, and priesthood. We should all evoke our HEAD(s), to join in the struggle of freedom from slavery, which includes slavery of us.

Reconcile with, and evoke YOUR HEAD (UHHUN’UN). (Re “My Head My Bastion”.) “In My Head I Trust.”