The Rise And Fall Of Killer-“General” Kenneth Okonkwor
How Not To Demonize And Make Mockery Of The Ways Of Our Forefathers
(Intersociety, Onitsha Nigeria: 26th May
2017)-It is recalled that the leadership of Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the
Rule of Law (Intersociety) had on 12th, 14th and 15th
of May 2017 issued parts one, two and three of its public statement, titled: the return of troublesome billionaires and
killer-“generals” in Anambra State. The 15th May 2017 segment of
the statement was specifically and statistically targeted at exposing killer-“generals” and violent market leaders
and their violent activities in the State so as to draw the attention of
the general public and relevant security agencies against the allied security
threats and the forthcoming governorship election in the State.
The said public
statement of ours and its parts was chiefly brought about by: increasing activities of troublesome
billionaires in the State who have also pocketed strategic conventional
security formations in the State and at Enugu, Umuahia and Abuja; violent
activities of some killer-“generals” and violent market leaders such as wanton
demolition of citizens’ private houses and properties without recourse to due
process and rule of law (i.e. Okpuno-Nkwelle-Ezunaka Estate property
demolition); and 2017 Anambra governorship election war drums of the incumbent
Government of Anambra State.
As the release
of fourth part and concluding part of the statement is being perfected and
awaited, we received sad and shocking news that “General” Kenneth Okonkwor, who
is “Managing Director/Superintendent General” of Governor William Obiano’s “OCHA
Brigade” or “Operation Clean & Healthy Anambra” has died. “OCHA Brigade”
which “General” Kenneth Okonkwor headed before his reported sudden death is
popularly called “Obiano militia or police”. “General” Kenneth Okonkwor was
said to have died in a fatal automobile accident while driving /coming back
from a function. A version has it that he died while returning from a Christian
wake keep of one of his trader-friends while another said he died while
returning from a pre 2017 Anambra governorship poll “security meeting” at
Agulueri, the home of Governor William Maduabuchi Obiano of Anambra State.
The reported
sudden death of “General” Kenneth Okonkwor is a lesson too many. As recently as
early May 2017, he roared and boasted before the likes of Comrades Justus Uche
Ijeoma of Int’l Human Rights & Equity Defense Foundation (I-HEF) and
Aloysius Emeka Attah of the Civil Liberties Organization, Southeast Zone that he is above human destruction and untimely
death. He also boasted that he had education,
money, black power, connection, access to government and security
establishments. As earliest as few days ago, “General” Kenneth Okonkwor was
also reported to have openly boasted in a function that anybody that stands in the way of the present Government of Anambra
State in the forthcoming governorship poll, no matter who he is or represents, will be crushed.
We had in the third segment of the said statement of ours dated 15th
May 2017 described
killer-“generals” and violent market “leaders” in Anambra State, which “Gen”
Kenneth Okonkwor belonged before his reported sudden demise as chief touts and lead-retreatists as well as
militant traders and other inherently violent citizens recruited at market,
communal, street and State levels for group, political and vigilante violence
who got indoctrinated in the art of black powers and physical violence through guns, machetes and voodoo or
criminal/killer charms.
It saddens our heart that the ways of our forefathers which were strictly laid in purity,
self discipline or restraint, abstinence from social ills and taboos, truth
telling and self contentment, protagonist self defense, reconciliation (resulting
from truth and mercy, justice and peace in inter personal, intra and inter
group disputes/conflicts); prestige and honour; science of innocuous traditional medicine etc have over the years
suffered, blackened, darkened, demonized, cajoled, lampooned, misrepresented,
misinterpreted, misused and misapplied.
These bastardizations have continued till date to
the extent that the ways of our forefathers
and their allied good ways of life are today categorized by Christian bodies
such as fundamentalist Christian bodies and persons as evil, fetish or satanic; whereas in the real sense of it, there are
more evils and Satanism or satanic ways of life today in Christian bodies and
persons than in the years of our forefathers or Oracular Igbo Society.
In the words of the Very Reverend
Father Dr Raymond Arazu in his Man Know
Thyself book published in 2003: p. 16, there
are four major types of (benevolent) Ndi Dibia or Oracle Priests in Oracular
Igbo Land, namely: Ndi Dibia Afa( those who specialize in divination and
soothsaying), Ndi Dibia Aja (those who specialize in performing various
sacrifices associated with divinities or shrines), Ndi Dibia Ogwu (those
specialize in diagnosing and treating diseases and disturbances with herbs,
talisman, charms and rituals), and Ndi Dibia Oje N’ Mmuo (those who demystify
mysteries of nature, perform miracles and communicate and intervene in good and
frosty relationships between humans and supernatural, perfect spirits or benevolent
ancestors).
That is to say that the ways of our forefathers being mocked
and demonized today are thousands of miles away from evil doing. Igbo Oracular
Society also acknowledged the existence and abominable roles of evil, evil
people and evil doing, which was why there were Ndi Ajo Mmuo (evil and wicked spirits) and Ndi Ajo Mmadu (evil minds or
wicked people). In the realm of Igbo
medicinal or medical science in Oracular Igbo Society, there were also Ajo Ogwu or Ogwu Ojoo (evil or killer
medicine); Ndi N’ Agwo Ogwu Ojoo (evil or Satanic medicine men); and Ogwu Aja (sacrificial medicine/black power),
Ogwu Afa (medicine for divination and soothsaying), Ogwu Oria (curable or
healing medicine), and Ogwu Oje N’ Mmuo (i.e. back to sender medicine or
mysticism).
The foregoing analysis and
clarifications are not only to debunk age long erroneous impressions chiefly
masterminded by the British colonial masters and their earliest Christian
missionaries or allies that Oracular Igbo’s ways of life or ways of our forefathers were totally
evil, demonic and Satanic; same wrong impressions that are upheld till date by
the present Christian bodies and persons.
The analysis and clarifications above
are also geared towards letting the generality of Nigerian public know that Oracular
Igbo Society lived with human rights and other purified or saintly ways of
life. For instance, the use of human blood or parts for sacrifices or
institution of deity or clan group masquerades in the Oracular Igbo Society
were outlawed or tabooed in the mainstream Igbo Society under the spiritual and
aristocratic influence and guidance of Nri Holy Kingdom. They were extensively
imported into Oracular Igbo Land on account of several intertribal wars between
Igbo warriors and Igbo neighbors such as the
Igbo-Ibibio wars over Arochukwu in 1650s to 1690.
Therefore, the violent and malevolent
voodooist activities of the likes of “General” Kenneth Okonkwor expressly
represents malevolent and abominable lifestyles in Oracular Igbo Society and
have nothing to do with the purified ways
of our forefathers. Those who lived and died saintly and aristocratically
in Oracular Igbo Society are today called perfect
spirits or benevolent ancestors while their opposites are called Ndi Ajo Mmuo (wicked spirits or malevolent
forefathers).
“General” Kenneth Okonkwor and his
likes in the present Igbo Society expressly represent Ndi Ajo Ogwu and Ndi Aruru Ani (killer charms men or those that have desecrated
the land/abomination perpetrators). This is on account of the fact that no
true or illustrious son of Oracular Igbo descent will indulge in such
abominable activities as “General” Kenneth Okonkwo had done, to the extent of
embarking on willful and unjustifiable demolition of properties legitimately
acquired by widows, retirees, pensioners, petty traders, palm wine tappers,
subsistent farmers, etc; banking on criminal and killer charms, guns, machetes,
government backing and access to the joint security operatives provided by
Governor William Obiano as his basket-load of protection or Ndawu-Inyi (anti deity oath charms). As
if that was not enough, he went for extortion and bribe collection spree,
collecting and pocketing over N40M as bribery conditions for sparing others
from having their dwelling houses and properties demolished.
We understand, from our ongoing
research that a good number of Igbo citizens have headed back to the ways of our forefathers or Oracular
Igbo Society; on account of their deep disappointment in the hands of leaders
of Christian bodies, who appeared to have abandoned the true teachings and
purest ways of life of Lord Jesus Christ and his apostleship and discipleship
and enmeshed in pursuit of material wealth and building of paradise on earth as
well as encouraging their parishioners and followers to go all out in pursuit
of wealth including fraudulent wealth, money
rituals and stealing of public funds.
It is extremely important to point
out and caution those that have headed back or heading back to the ways of our forefathers or Oracular
Igbo Society to first study carefully the true
ways of our forefathers before embracing same in the spirit of right to freedom of worship. We say this
because true ways of our forefathers
had nothing to with promotion and institutionalization of evil or evil doing as
rampantly the order of the day in the present Igbo and Nigeria Societies.
Seeking for Satanic or killer black
powers so as to “become humanly indestructible” or engaging in a legion of evil
doing such as encroachment and possession
of illegal properties and their destruction, stealing of public funds, raping
of under age or married women, offering of human blood or parts as sacrifices, desecration
and dethronement of communal traditional stools, willful acts of murder, fraud,
telling of abominable lies, terrorization of communal neighbors and natives and larger society, etc, are in no way the ways of our forefathers.
We strongly advise other killer-“generals” and troublesome billionaires
in Anambra State to learn a big lesson from the ordeal of “General” Kenneth
Okonkwor and begin to make amends and change from their violent and reprehensible
ways of life. We are not worried about the reported sudden death of “General” Kenneth
Okonkwor because death is the end of every mortal journey which is mandatorily
attached in the life of every human citizen, but our deep worries are what types
of lifestyle that citizens put in place in the course of their living on earth.
Signed:
For: Int’l
Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
Emeka
Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman
Mobile Line:
+2348174090052
Email: info@intersociety-ng.org
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www.intersociety-ng.org
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