“The Dirt we Swept Under the Carpet” is a book by Alex Ogechukwu also Known as Alex O. Bells. The Dirt We Swept Under The Carpet is available in both Print and Ebook
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Ebook version: N500
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About The Author/Book
Alex Ogechukwu happens to be the founder of the Igbo Province of Nigeria, this book is his suggestions of solutions that could solve the political problems of Nigeria, especially as regards the unity of Nigeria and the way forward concerning Biafra.
Alex Ogechukwu believes that the Biafran war was a necessary evil and that the Balkanisation and state creations in the East especially was illegal and an act of bullying, in this book he made it clear that the aim of going back to the past is to find solutions not to unravel the rancor.
Extract From Introduction Passage in The Book (Look inside)
Introduction
War is a language, the Wars we fight do not define us it is the reasons and motivations that do. Today you know the Igbos as Biafrans; as secessionists, but little do you know that those Biafrans were in actual fact the defenders of Nigeria, defenders of devolution of powers, the defenders of due process, and the only factor that stopped Nigeria from being completely hijacked. The Biafrans will remain the hope for Nigeria and as far as there is Biafra inside Nigeria, Nigeria will someday get it right; Biafra is the only force the enemies of Nigeria fear.
This book is certainly not about Biafra but about Nigeria, about the Igbo People of Eastern Nigeria, as we go back in time to see Biafra for what it really is: Eastern Nigeria where the Igbo nation is the Veto! Like Ojukwu said “when the result is good we should share the kudos when it is bad we should share the blame”, I have come to realize that no single person or people is responsible for Nigeria’s problem as such no single person or people can solve it, it has to be a genuinely collective effort as the problem had been a succession of errors and tragedy of passion. I had never seen any Nigerian in the past who is a total villain, to a point everyone’s action was justified even in the alter of morality.
As I get to delve deeper into the situation of Nigeria, I found out that people understood the problems as it gets more personal, everyone understands how being a Nigerian have kept him or her poor as an individual, everyone understands how living in Nigeria have kept their family hungry; you certainly understands how being in Nigeria have kept your community underdeveloped, how being in Nigeria have kept your state poor, how being part of Nigeria have kept your tribe backwards and finally how the whole country is down.
All these shows that people of Nigeria clearly understand their problems but the major issue lies in the fact that everyone is angry with Nigeria as such that whenever anyone gets any opportunity he solves the problems in the order of relativity, so if an Igala man becomes the president, he first satisfies himself, satisfy his family, his community, his state, his tribe to the detriment of every other Nigerians and still blames every other Nigerian for the misfortune of his and his people. The reality then is since everyone understands the problem of Nigeria up to their regional/Tribal point, isn’t it better that there shall be some autonomous arrangements that can take care of these regional/Tribal challenges.
In this regard, trying to answer these crucial questions, the Igbo Province emerged. While I had argued that a semblance of the kind of government practised in the UK is the best for Nigeria as the UK is a Unitary Confederation, I also know that even if we opt for a Unitary Confederation, we shall not exactly subsume the UK model as Nigeria is a unique country but still, the notion here is for a traditional confederation blended into the current unitary system.
The Presidential system can exist alongside a traditional system where the traditional governments shall embody the confederation while the Unitary system shall embody the federation, but being Igbo where the traditional scope is quite limited, none of our traditional institutions spans up to a state like as seen in Sokoto, Benin, Oyo, etc. Where the Sultan, Oba, and Alaafin respectively are the paramount traditional rulers, it will not be advisable for AlaIgbo (Igboland) to enter such confederation as constituents as that will inflate the number of the constituents of the confederation, this necessitated a unification of AlaIgbo, these whole considerations led to the emergence of the Igbo province of Nigeria as a proposed umbrella traditional government for the Igbos.
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