Why I will Sit at Home on May 31

Why I will Sit at Home May 31, 2021 | EASTERN PILOT  By Mazi Obi Okoli-OjeluIgbozi Many wonder why all South East will stay at home on the 3...

Why I will Sit at Home

May 31, 2021 | EASTERN PILOT 

By Mazi Obi Okoli-OjeluIgbozi

Many wonder why all South East will stay at home on the 31 of May. 

We are NOT compelled to stay at home because Nnamdi Kanu said so. He should not in the first place "order" us if we think right . Because we are very afraid and scared to remember those who died for us, he needed to remind the ignorant amongst us. 

Does anyone force or order you to remember the day Christ died? Does anyone order you to remember June 12? Does anyone order you to remember Jan 15 , (the day Nigeria armed forces remember the Genocide against us)?

You see!! Because we have for long acted like men who lack testicular erectile fortitude so it takes a young man born after the war to remind us of our responsibilities. 

I and my entire family will never move out on any 30th to 31th of  May. 

We lost 7 uncles in that war of Genocide. I stay at home for their memories. 

I stay at home to remind me that the war is not over. 

I stay at home to remind me that we got where we are today with only N20 after they stole all we had. 

I stay at home in memory of the over 1 million Children who died from kwashioko. 

I shall stay at home because I am Igbo, marginalised by the brutal wicked forces from futajelon. 

I stay at home because I am human and I have  never forgotten as the bombs were dropped on our schools and places of worship. 

I shall stay at home in memory of all the properties of my people stolen as abandoned properties. 

I shall stay at home to mourn all that have been murdered, raped and killed through the connivance and silence of Nigeria leaders. 

I must stay at home in memory of my younger brother Christopher Timber Okoli who died from shell shock by Nigerian soldiers. 

I will stay at home in memory of my uncle Onochie buried alive at Asaba. 

I shall stay at home because it is my right to mourn my dead heroes.

It is also the right of every right thinking people of South East to do so.

So leave us in peace to mourn our dead in our ancestral land.

We are not your slaves, devoid of fundamental human rights.