A view-point consistently offered by pro-Nigeria’s togetherness is fatalism. We were meant to be together, they say, in pursuit of ad hominem against campaigners of a review of the “unity”, while not necessarily seeking a dismantling. I believe absolutely in the sovereignty of God and His unsearchable ways. If He had long decreed, even before the mountains were brought forth, that Musa in Birnin-Kudu and I would be countrymen, when nearly everything common-place to him is as weird as stranger-than-fiction to me and vice-versa, so be it.
Without doubt, God can use anyone to achieve His will and we can safely assume that Frederick John Dealtry Lugard was His choice for the Nigerianisation of peoples of not only completely dissimilar indoctrinations and convictions, but also of parallel mentality and choices. God’s ways are also unsearchable. Reason, He constantly chose the foolish things to shame the supposed wise. Two things are outstanding here. First, God doesn’t shame the wise that are of Him. He promotes them and enhances their undertakings since they must be doing His will. If a wise man is put to shame by God, who is the Giver of pure wisdom in the first place, two things are likely. One, that wise man has either become haughty and being resisted by God Himself to retrace his steps or the supposed wisdom he earlier exhibited is not from God.
There is something about Lugard’s life that suggests the wisdom that he carried and which partly birthed the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorates to form Nigeria wasn’t of God. Accounts of his life showed that he was a fanatic for blood oath, known during his time as blood brotherhood. That makes him a cultist of a blood covenant type!
Wikipedia says of his early military expedition, “In August 1890, Lugard departed on foot from Mombasa for Uganda to secure British predominance over German influence in the area and put an end to the civil disturbances between factions in the kingdom of Buganda.
“En route, Lugard was instructed to enter into treaties with local tribes and build forts in order to secure safe passage for future IBEAC expeditions. The IBEAC employed official treaty documents that were signed by their administrator and the local leaders, but Lugard preferred the more equitable BLOOD BROTHERHOOD (emphasis mine) ceremony and ENTERED into several brotherhood partnerships with leaders who inhabited the areas between Mombasa and Uganda.
“One of his famed blood partnerships was sealed in October 1890, during his journey to Uganda when he stopped at Dagoretti in Kikuyu territory and entered into an alliance with Waiyaki Wa Hinga.”
Apart his fetishism, history also says of his amalgamation project: “In 1912, Lugard returned to Nigeria as Governor of the two protectorates. His mission was to combine the two colonies into one. Although controversial in Lagos, where it was opposed by a large section of the political class and the media, the amalgamation did not arouse passion in the rest of the country, because the people were UNAWARE (emphasis mine) of the implications.
“Lugard took scant notice of public opinion, neither did he feel there was need for consensus among the locals on such a serious political subject which had such key implications for the two colonies.
“Lugard, assisted by his indefatigable wife, Flora Shaw, conceited a legend which warped understanding of him, Nigeria and colonial rule for decades. He believed that ‘the typical African is a happy, thrift less, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline and foresight, naturally courageous, courteous, and polite, full of personal vanity, with little of veracity, in brief, the virtues and defects of this race-type, are those of attractive children”.
That was the man who made the Nigeria, some don’t want renegotiated, including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, recently preaching dividends of diversity and pluralism at National Christian Centre, celebrating the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day!
As a political leader, it is normal for Osinbajo to speak the way he did, at least, in the spirit of political correctness. But now that it is established that an unfazed open-cultist, sensu stricto, laid Nigeria’s foundation, as a spiritual leader which he is, the VP should know that the foundation is faulty ab initio, and that the righteous would have nothing to build on. Even in Law, where he is distinguished professor, something isn’t also allowed to be built on nothing.
Convictions are a matter of faith and Lugard should not be criticised for his. For someone born and partially raised in Madras (today’s Chennai) in India, the home of voodoo, till this modern age, he would only give what he had, given the time and chance available to him. But no blood covenant is free of deadly repercussions. This insight into the person of Lugard and his involvements with the occult world, possibly explains why countries his kind, helped the colonial masters weave together, continue to experience a free-fall, into economic, political and developmental abyss, despite manifest applied energy and human sense by patriotic citizens, to salvage what is left of the black race.
This spiritual angle is usually discounted when the evils of colonialism are being recounted. Incidentally, it is the most pivotal point to consider. When a spiritual bar is placed, no human effort will yield bigger and better results.
Truth should set free. Knowing the beginning of a thing, should help with ending it gloriously. Idolatry is about pledges and covenants. If Lugard had done it openly in other parts of Africa for the same conquest purpose, there is almost a certainty he went diabolical fixing Nigeria, maybe this time, secretively to avoid the prying media and the raucous, baying Lagos crowd.
For someone who also died childless alongside his wife, Lady Shaw, who incidentally, christened Nigeria at birth, his world outlook and perceptions were bound to be different, given his personal experience and challenges. You can’t divorce the person from his leadership.
(To be continued).
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