by Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
“The human insatiable wants is an unending thirst that affects us all. Certain factors are pivotal to the existential wounds: hunger, greed, corruption, and the strive for survival has changed our behaviours,” Chinedu Nduka Obiaku has analysed.
He also revealed that, “The story of identity operations by the different militant groups, i.e., Boko Haram, the herdsmen, the Egboho group, Niger Delta Militants, IPOB, the ESN, the Bakasi Boys, the Amazonian from Southern Cameron operating in Southern Nigeria and the heartless kidnappers across Nigeria are excruciatingly alarming.
“Many scholars in their narratives and analysis have drowned similar views, alluding the cause of the spread of havoc in the land as hunger and survival instinct.
“The story of Mr. Ebeledike, written and published earlier this year by Chinedu Nduka Obiaku, is a classical case picturesque on how hunger is responsible for the behavioural change amongst the low and middle-class Nigerians,” he noted.
Entitled, ‘The man whose job caused him losing on both sides,’ Obiako added that “Many Nigerians can do any kind of work for survival. The story of Mr. Ebeledike, who is labelled ‘the doubled-edge sword,’ will not go down in a hurry. The work-man for Biafra and Nigeria was extremely a taker like many others.
“The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is the agitation of a people for self-determination to exit Nigeria permanently and remain apart. The challenge is one that the Igbo people are engrossed in, to see nothing less than to win the state of Nigeria and the northern caliphates.
“The lingering fight between the IPOB and Nigeria is the recruitment of men and women, who are ready to shortchange the interest of their people, despite the adverse dividends causing harm, deaths and internally-displaced persons (IDP) in Nigeria.
“A competing market is existing, for some time, now where IPOB and the government of Nigeria are paying high rates for espionage business with agents leaking information to counter plans of opponents.
“With many attacked and killed, young and gallant men across the country taking up jobs to work as informants, for government and IPOB, threats, attacks and deaths are the visitors on their doorsteps resulting from betrayal, little or no delivery of service they took oaths for.
“Why all these? Regards for the provision of the UN Charter for people’s sovereignty from their colonizer is the background for IPOB agitation. Secession of a people from a unitary state defined by a given constitution is not freely achieved, and so much is expensed and costly, too.
“Frustrations amongst the IPOB circles have been the deterrent with so much defeats, including shutting down of proposals to conduct a referendum that will determine whether the Easterners are ready to exit Nigeria or not.
“The story and attacks in Iboland orchestrated by ‘Operation Pyton Dance’ by Nigerian soldiers saw many young Ibo men dead. Young Ibo men, who took oath to work for the Nigerian military, turned out to be known as betrayers, who will do nothing, but deceives and deliver nothing to the Nigerian military.
“The case of Mr. Ebeledike – ‘The man whose job caused him losing on both sides’ – is, indeed, a lesson to learn as Ndigbo. A husband and a father of four beautiful children had no clue that a day will come where he will be attacked and chased away by those who recruited him.
“A misleading report on public domain was circulated far and wide in the southeast about a break-in attack on Mr. Ebeledike and family; causing death of a family member is only but a way to conceal and deceive our Ndigbo people about Mr. Ebeledike’s odious activities against his own people in the southeast.
“Mr. Dike, who took the risk, knew his involvement – to betray his people by leaking the activities of IPOB to the government of Nigeria – is a dangerous commitment with grave consequences. As many have feared him dead, following the attack on his life and family, a family member (who asked for anonymity) said before Mr. Dike went missing, disclosed that his attackers were the military soldiers as most times, too, the IPOB killer squad, have threatened to take his and his family’s lives.
“The question about Mr. Ebeledike’s situation hinges on who he is and not what the public sees him to be. The conjecture between good intention and betrayal clads on his truest character.
“Perhaps one would think that taking the job as an informant to either side of the recruiter was intended for survival.
“There isn’t any common sense for survival. Taking to serve two opposite forces against each other is dangerously an invitation to self-destruction that will culminate into threats and attacks by such forces to silence secret operations.
“The question many, who know this family, are asking is where is Mr. Ebeledike and family? It would seem no one cares anymore about him with speculations in the different Ibo communities reporting that ‘Mr. Dike is in detention, while he and his family were on their way to leave the country.’
“For how long will the Ndigbo people continue to betray their own native land of the rising sun and citizens of Biafra? Is Mr. Chukwudi Christopher Ebeledike the proverbial wood insect that gathers sticks, and on its own head, carries them?,” he stated.
‘The Man Whose Job Caused Him Losing on Both Sides’ is an article written in Feb, 2024, by Chinedu Nduka Obiaku.