By Adeyinka Olaiya/Brazil
The clamor for rather separated Nigeria seems becoming serious among some Nigerians living in Brazil.
In fact , It is no longer “a sidon look palaba “ as several separatist groups are emerging in the Latin American country.
The ones that are connected with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) would always claim they are not from Nigeria again , comparatively a zoo in their group’s manifesto . “ I am not from that zoo, I am from Biafra “ Opara Solomon would always sing to my hearings
The question is , if nobody in Brazil is a Nigérian again , then who actually is a Nigerian in Brazil ? Though It is nothing new that most Nigerian Yorubas in Brazil wouldn’t accept any other option apart from an independent YORUBA NATION, the IGBOS would do the same , they would always stand by their independent BIAFRA.
The situation is getting serious that even the ones from the middle belt wouldn’t even want to be addressed as Nigerians because of the insecurity in their lands.
In fact , many would call Nigeria a scam , a mistake , a crime committed by Lord Lugard who deliberately amalgamated two incompatible entities , the North and the South to form a nation called Nigeria.
One wouldn’t deny the fact that the ethnic , social and political distress in the country has also triggered some Nigerians in Saopaulo to a non-stop struggle for independent states.
In Brazil , the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) seems stronger in their activities as members would constantly deny Nigeria , they would make rallies and claims in the streets of Saopaulo.
The Yorubas in Brazil would in the name of their Ancestral link , Oduduwa demand an independent YORUBA NATION of their dreams.
While in a simple chat and asking who actually is a Nigerian In Brazil , an aggrieved Yoruba man shouted at me “ Restructuring my foot. Please get out of my sight “ Olalekan Abass , a Yoruba man who vowed never to return to Nigeria again until the nation is disbanded , he said that Nigeria failed him , his family and his projects , he claimed to have worked as a street hawker in Lagos , he said Nigeria never respected even his Masters degree in Administration.
“There is no reason to say that Nigeria is not loved by those of us living abroad , the problem is the country and the leaders who even were stealing and hiding palliatives from their citizens at a difficult Pandemic period “ Chinwe said in anger and walked away.
According to a number of Nigerians in Brazil, the separatist movements in Brazil are not just emerging for nothing , they are also reacting to several of the government’s attitudes regarding the bad treatments of the Nigerians at home .
“A Nigerian parliamentarian recently denied listening to the request of a group of Tivs in the diaspora (USA) who had solicited for a better condition from the government of Nigeria regarding the recent dislocation of their families from their communities in Nigeria” Demola said and also asked if the Tivs are also Nigerians ? He gasped and walked away .
Are you really a Nigerian living in Brazil or just from a tribe in Africa ? It’s quite painful to be a citizen of a country who despite seeing its citizens doing well in the cabinets of the United States of America, the United Kingdom , Germany , Italy and in several nations around the planet , yet nothing concrete is done to better the future of the young ones at home, nothing is done to allow this new generation to be part of a new Nigeria.
In the real sense of it , this is just the Nigeria IPOB and YORUBA Movements are fighting against.
They are fighting against the corrupt Nigeria, they are tired of a stagnant Nigeria, they are tired of a Nigeria without nothing to boast of in its 60 years of independence, they are fighting against the Nigeria who in the recent years are wasting the future of the young ones.
They are equally fighting against the Nigeria that recently slaughtered its youths at the Lekki @ ENDSARS , they are tired of the Nigeria where life security is zero , they are fighting against the Nigeria where the leaders are never Patriotic, they are fighting against the Nigeria destroyed by the unknown caliphates.
This is no doubt that Nigeria is a great nation, a nation with great people and great minds, a nation having good citizens in the diaspora ready to make the nation great if allowed and treated as real citizens in the lands of their forefathers.