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Fifty years in the past, precisely on July 29th 1966, a person with the name Lt. Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi gave his life in defence of our region and the then Head
of state, Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi. His killers were a group of Northern officers who participated in the so-called Northern "revenge coup" of July twenty ninth 1966. Not less than three hundred
Igbo army officials were slaughtered that night collectively with a handful of yoruba soldiers, among who are as Fajuyi.
Fajuyi became a yoruba man who opted to die in defence of an igbo Head of the Nation at that time. This became unprecedented. He became a selfless hero and a person that we will honour and immortalise within the new Nigeria.
People who murdered Aguiyi-Ironsi and the three hundred officers that night, are nevertheless managing the affairs of our country until today. They decide who is who and who receives what. They decide who our President would be and how long he will continue to be in service. They wield more powers now than they did in 1966 and their grip on the levers of strength in our country is even more potent.
Today, they're fully in control and a number of people who really shot Fajuyi are fully behind them. Yet, despite their purpose to dominate, silence, and control the rest of the people, one aspect remains clear: the Fajuyi spirit of courage, unity, selflesness and sacrifice has been imbued by using thousands and thousands within the southern and middle Belt regions of our Country to achieve their aim.
These are men and women that are prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with the oppressed of our country, whether or not they be Niger Deltans, Igbos, Yorubas? Middle Belters or something else. These are men and women who are prepared to resist the intentions of non secular and ethnic schedule of the "born to rule" in our midst and that understand the fact that they regard the majority of Nigerians as nothing but slaves. when it comes to southern rights and pastimes we the Yoruba especially should learn a lesson from our son Fajuyi and emulate his instance.
Like him, if necessary, we ought to be equipped to sacrifice our lives and liberty in defence of all or any of our southern and Middle Belt brothers and sisters who are dealing with persecution, genocide and injustice from our collective slave masters. It is also time for us to comprehend the truth that if we virtually need to be free we must extend our hand of friendship across the River Niger to the Igbos and we have to see their sour travails as being ours.
We have to additionally sense the pain, when an Igbo or Niger-Delta teenager is slaughtered through President Buhari's army inside the call of "crushing all competition and dissent" and "maintaining Nigeria as one". We should additionally feel the ache whilst an Igbo or Niger-Delta kid is slaughtered with the aid of President Buhari's army with the intention of "crushing all competition and dissent" and "keeping Nigeria one".
We need to know the fact that Nigeria cannot remain one as long as there's ethnic and religious bigotry, oppression and injustice. We have to admire the truth that there can by no means be southern, or indeed Middle Belt, emancipation without southern solidarity. Fajuyi understood that factor 50 years ago. consequently he opted to face up to the evil in the land and die for it. He changed into certainly a true martyr. He paid the perfect price for his fellow southerner and he stood against northern adventurism, oppression, domination and hegemony. 50 years later it's time for the rest of the people to replicate what he did.
It's time for us to acknowledge and honour his sacrifice and be collective as one. it is time for us to arise, look at our collective oppressors and say "no more". no longer should we bow our heads in submission, servility and shame. It's time for us to push up, invite the presence of God and be honest with ourselves.
May also the gallant and delightful soul of major
General Adekunle Fajuyi maintain relaxation in eternal peace and may those who murdered him 50 years in the past be delivered to justice.
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