Igbo treated as a conquered colony in Nigeria ~ Amaechi

...Says there’s no leadership for Igbos
By Chukwuemeka Chimerue

NNEWI— FIRST Republic Minister of Aviation and elder statesman, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, has decried the current position of Ndigbo in the affairs of Nigeria, saying Igbo are not only being marginalised but treated as a conquered colony.

Fielding questions from a cross-section of journalists at his hometown in Ukpor, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, the foremost and only surviving nationalist added that the Igbo currently lacks credible leadership, especially since the principle of rotation of leadership was introduced in the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

He said, “Not that they(Igbo) are just marginalized, they are being treated as not equal partners in the country. The Igbo are not treated as a part of the federation. They are being treated as a conquered race, as a colony. That is the truth.

“I know Ohanaeze as an organization until they introduced rotation into the constitution; that is, this state will now produce the leader and at the end of this, this state will produce. The leadership shifted from what would be given to where you come from and the thing started deteriorating. It started going down. When it will go up, I don’t know but it will not be easy for the man who will raise it up to do so because it’s easier to destroy than to build.

“The destruction has been so much. So, the Igbo now don’t have leadership. Nobody leads them. Like in the olden days, Dr. Azikiwe was in charge of the political leadership; Chief Z. C. Obi was the leader of the Igbo culturally and non-politically. So, wherever there was a problem of common interest to Ndigbo, whether you belong to the Action Group of those days or the NCNC of those days or the Mbadiwe’s Democratic Party of those days; what will happen is that Z.C. Obi will summon a meeting, special meeting and all these leaders will come together and solve the Igbo problem and everybody goes back to his political party. There is no leadership in Igbo land. There’s no leadership for Igbo now.”

The elder statesman also advised the Federal Government to accede to the demands by pro-Biafra groups to conduct a referendum as a means of addressing the issue of the renewed agitation for Biafra.

According to Amaechi, “I would have advised the government of the day to give the agitators for Biafra what they want. They said they want plebiscite, if you go to plebiscite, they will lose. In Abuja for example, apart from government buildings, 70 percent of the private buildings in Abuja is owned by Ndigbo. Go to Lagos, Ndigbo own 40 percent of the buildings. In every town in Nigeria, if you take away the population of the indigenous people of such place, the next people in population are the Igbo and so, if Buhari and his people were good politicians, they will just say, okay; we give you plebiscite. Go and conduct your plebiscite. INEC will conduct the plebiscite because the Igbo in Abuja will not say that they are going back to Biafra. The Igbo in Kano will not vote for plebiscite, neither will Igbo in Lagos, neither will Igbo anywhere. There are more Igbo abroad than at home and if by any crises, they are forced to come back home, you will see real crises at home. There will be no peace. The place geographically cannot even accommodate them. Administratively, it will be difficult to govern them. Who will govern them if we get plebiscite; that Kanu, or Okorocha or all these people? They are the people that will govern you when you get Biafra? I don’t like what is being done to Ndigbo now in Nigeria but I believe granting them referendum will go a long way in addressing some of the issues.”

When asked about his views on the demand by some section of Igbos for restructuring and others for 2023 Igbo presidency, the nonagenarian has this to say: “I’ve always spoken for and in support of those agitating for restructuring; restructuring in writing a constitution for Nigeria because there is no constitution. Nigeria is being ruled without the people’s constitution, without a constitution written and owned by the people of Nigeria. The only constitution that was people’s constitution was the one of 1963; the Republican Constitution of 1963 which the military overthrew in 1966 and said we abrogated it, we cancel it. Then in 1977, 1978, 1979, Obasanjo organised a Constituent Assembly headed by Rotimi Williams. Rotimi Williams and his men wrote a constitution for Nigeria, passed it onto the military; the military instead of sending the draft then to plebiscite for Nigerian people to see, the military removed some of the things they didn’t like and put what they wanted into the constitution and then one man signed it; one man who’s occupying the seat of the government illegally by treasonable act of overthrowing a democratically elected government. The same man signed this constitution as an order-in- council. So, it’s not a constitution of the people of Nigeria.  Then the military continued to rule with this; one military after the other until 1998; when Abacha died; so they set up another Constituent Assembly.  They drafted a constitution again instead of putting the constitution as it is or even as amended by the military for the public to vote and say this is our constitution, they did not do that. The military removed what they did not like, what the North did not like and signed approval; ‘I hereby approve that this is the constitution’. Constitution signed by one man. So, all along till today, Nigeria is being run as an illegality. Nigeria is an illegality. There is no legal constitution, there is no constitution. Nigeria is not being run under a constitution now. It’s being run by the illegal imposition of the military from one side of the country and so, my advocacy is that the people of Nigeria should meet, write down their own constitution, not like some people saying, we will go to the House of Representatives, we will go to Senate, secure amendment, if you amend a building that is built on a wrong foundation, you are still building on a wrong foundation and the building is bound to collapse at the time it should collapse.

“There can only be one final solution. Let the people of Nigeria meet, work out a basis for being together. The wealth of the country is being produced from one side of the country; the South South, the South East and part of the South West. The wealth of the country now is on oil and gas and that is the only source of revenue of the country and yet the imperial Fulani Government that is ruling the rest of the country as a colony will not permit the people who produce the wealth to gain from the wealth; to have a say in the control and the management of the wealth that accrues from their place.  Even in the management of the production that creates the wealth, they have eliminated people from the area completely.

“I’ve always heard Ndigbo talk of Igbo presidency, I don’t talk about Igbo presidency but I’ll understand when you talk of a Nigerian president of the Igbo extraction or of Igbo origin. There is nothing like Igbo presidency but if you are talking of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction, one; nobody will ever come and offer it to you on a platter of gold. It has never been done anywhere in the world. If you want to be president of the country, you have to work for it, you have to plan for it, you have to strategize for it and you have to mobilise for it and capture it, not being given, no. You have to capture it. So, if anybody is talking about Ndigbo must be president in 2023, yes, okay. If you want to be, work for it, organise for it and if I may say this, I was NCNC’s final authority in party organisation and political party strategy. Being the principal organising secretary of the NCNC and being in everything in the NCNC as a party; this is my field, this is my specialisation. If Ndigbo wants to be president, let them come to me for advice. I have the key. Let them come to me to tell them what to do because you don’t get president by merely wishing to be president".

Photos: Kim Kardashian Acentuates Her Hourglass Curves In Skintight Caramel Thierry Mugler Corset Dress

Kim Kardashian accentuates her hourglass curves in skintight caramel Thierry Mugler corset dress... as she reveals his vision was a 'California girl stepping out of the ocean dripping'.

And on Monday, Kim Kardashian arrived to the 2019 Met Gala in a stunning caramel colored gown that accentuated her hourglass figure - a Thierry Mugler creation.

The 38-year-old reality star dazzled on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City while posing with husband Kanye West.

She told E! News that designer Thierry 'envisioned me a California girl stepping out of the ocean dripping' for her Met Gala look: 'That is the vibe tonight.'

Kim added that the look was 'eight months in the making.'

The entrepreneur said to the E! reporter: 'This is the first time in 20 years Mr. Mugler has designed for the House of Mugler,' calling it an 'honor' for him to design it for her.

Nigerians To Get Vehicle Loans At 6% Interest Rate

The federal government will soon be launch a new ownership scheme that will enable Nigerians to acquire vehicles with ease.
According to the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), under the scheme, Nigerians aspiring to own vehicles but without the needed funds can obtain soft loans from the participating banks to do so. NADDC said yesterday in Abuja that the federal government would roll out “the much-awaited Automotive Vehicle Finance Scheme before the end of June.” The council said that it was partnering with three commercial banks on the scheme and that vehicle loans would be given to eligible Nigerians after they made an initial deposit of 10 per cent of the total cost of the vehicle they desired to buy at a 6% interest rate.

 Mr. Jelani Aliyu, the director-general of NADDC dropped the hint when he inspected the newly - introduced Honda HR-V into the Nigerian market at the NADDC headquarters in Abuja. Mr. Aliyu said that the scheme was being implemented under the National Automotive Industrial Development Plan (NAIDP).

In his statement, NAIDP contains a number of policy measures needed to revitalise the industry for local value addition, job creation, and technology acquisition. Aliyu clarified that the scheme covers only vehicles manufactured in Nigeria.
He added that at a low-interest rate, the country’s large demographics would be able to own any vehicle of their choice and pay over a couple of years. He expressed concern that Nigeria was spending over $8 billion on the importation of vehicles and other automotive related products, and emphasised that the figure simply goes out of the economy to purchase 300-400 used vehicles yearly with a lot of challenges with efficiency, safety, and zero- contribution to the economy.

The NADDC DG said: “We are doing market development and as you are aware, in a number of countries, when you buy a vehicle, you have to put down 10 or 15 per cent and you drive home with the vehicle for a number of years.

"But that is technically not available in Nigeria. Where you do have vehicle financing is in the high-interest rate of 20 per cent or 28 per cent,” he stated. It is against the backdrop that the government had evolved the  new scheme to ease the acquisition of vehicles among Nigerians, he concluded.

War: Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu Powerful Speech In Front Of The Knesset:

"To Ismail Haniya, and the leaders and operatives of Hamas:

We, the people of Israel, owe you a huge debt of gratitude. You have succeeded where we have failed. Because never before, in the history of the modern State of Israel, has the Jewish people been so united, like one person with one heart. Everyone in Israel, from Left to Right, secular and religious, in united in the knowledge that there is no accommodating an enemy that is sworn to the genocide of our people.

And now, as you continue to launch deadly missiles indiscriminately, intended to maim and murder as many civilians as possible, while you take cowardly refuge behind your own civilians - you continue to inspire us to hold strongly onto our unity. Whatever disputes we Jews may have with each other, we now know that we have one common goal: we will defeat you.

But we are offering you now one last chance. Within 24 hours, all rocket fire - and I mean all rocket fire - will cease. Completely. Forever.

I give you formal notice that our tanks are massed at the Gaza border, with artillery and air support at the ready.  We have already dropped leaflets over the northern parts of the Gaza strip, warning civilians of our impending arrival, and that they should evacuate southward, forthwith.  If you fail to meet our ultimatum, we are coming in, and, with God's help, this time we will not leave.  Every centimeter of land that we conquer will be annexed to Israel, so that there will *never* be another attack launched at our civilians from there.

Even so, we will continue to keep the door open to allow you to surrender gracefully. The moment you announce that you are laying down arms, we will halt our advance, and there we will draw our new borders. If you continue to attack our citizens, we will continue to roll southwards, driving you out of territory that you will never again contaminate with your evil presence.

It pains me deeply that your civilians will be made homeless. But we did not choose this war; you did. And if our choice is between allowing our citizens to be targeted mercilessly by your genocidal savagery, versus turning your civilians into refugees, I regret that we must choose the latter. If only you loved your people as much as you hate ours, this war would never have happened.

To the rest of the world: Israel are tired of your ceaseless chidings that we should "show restraint".  When you have your entire population under constant missile fire from an implacable enemy whose stated goal is the murder of every man, woman and child in your land, then you may come and talk to us about "restraint". Until then, we respectfully suggest that you keep your double standards to yourselves.

This time, Hamas has gone too far, and we will do whatever we have to in order to protect our population.

Hamas, once again, I thank you for bringing our people together with such clarity of mind and unity of purpose. The people of Israel do not fear the long road ahead.
Am Yisrael Chai.
THE NATION OF ISRAEL LIVES"! 

Biafra Day: Designate May 30 our solemn, national day, ADF urges Ndigbo, FG, others

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue

ENUGU— A prominent pan-Igbo organization, the Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF, has urged Ndigbo, churches, government parastatals, town hall unions and other relevant bodies to accord May 30 of every year as the Igbo national day in honour and remembrance of victims of pro-independence war that broke out in 1967.

ADF, in a press statement tagged “May 30 As Igbo National/Biafra Remembrance Day,” and jointly signed by its President, Prof. Uzodinma Nwala and Secretary, Prof. Nath Aniekwu, the Igbo think tank group, said Ndigbo should not bother whether the Nigerian Government agrees with its yearnings to set apart May 30 as its national day, but should be observed as a symbol of national consciousness, unity and solidarity.

The Igbo group said the mode of celebration of the remembrance day would be determined accordingly through public lectures, rallies, symposia, sit-at-home exercises and other civil methods, urging the public, government and relevant stakeholders to honour the endorsement.

Part of the statement read, “ADF is aware that several groups, organizations and individuals have annually been celebrating this auspicious day in our history as a Remembrance Day in one form or the other. Many religious groups and several Pan-Igbo organizations, including Pro-Biafra organizations such as Ekwenche, MASSOB, IPOB, Coalition of Pro-Biafra Groups, etc, have been celebrating this for some years.

“ADF is of the view we as a people should collectively do this in remembrance and honour of the millions of our brothers and sisters who died for our sake, as well in honour of  several nationalities and their Governments, Churches, Humanitarian Organizations and heroic individuals including those who burnt themselves for the sake of our liberty, we should hold May 30 as a Solemn Day in our history. We do this also for the sake of our National Consciousness, Solidarity and Unity as well as for our unity with all our neighbours who suffered with us and still believe in the unity and progress of our region.

“Ndigbo, do not bother whether the Nigerian Federal Government aligns itself or not with the yearning of the Igbo for May 30 as their National Day, otherwise called BIAFRA DAY. It is a call made entirely in the interest of our Regional Unity and Solidarity.

“The mode of celebration will certainly be determined accordingly. Activities such as free Sit-At-Home, holiday for workers, Public Lectures and Symposia, Rallies, Wearing of Black or Red Bands, etc, can be defined as forms of the Remembrance Day celebrations.

“We shall formally address this appeal to all Governments, Churches, State Assemblies, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Clan and Town Union and other bodies for their endorsement of this call.

“We are addressing it to you individually as major voices in our land. Please give this call your endorsement and push for its actualization".

Xenophobia: How I Sheltered Mandela For 6 Months During Apartheid ~ Amaechi

Xenophobia: How I Sheltered Mandela For 6 Months During Apartheid ~ Amaechi
....Says my people don’t deserve death in South Africa

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue

NNEWI— FIRST Republic Aviation Minister and elder statesman, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has frowned at the upsurge of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa, regretting that the significant roles played by Nigeria during the darkest era of the country were not being appreciated.

Speaking to journalists in his hometown at Ukpor in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra state, the foremost nationalist who fought for Nigeria’s independence alongside late Nnamdi Azikiwe, reminisced over the memorable period of six months he spent with former late South African president, Nelson Mandela when he took asylum in Nigeria during the apartheid regime of the British rulers in his country home in 1963.

The nonagenarian also condemned the European countries for allegedly conspiring to divide and suppress Black Africans, as well as the military intervention that “did a lot of damage”, advising that Africans would be ridiculed by the European powers if they fail to rise and ‘fix things’ in their countries.

He said: “Honestly, I feel very sad when I read in the newspapers or watch in the television, some of the atrocious things being done in South Africa today, particularly Black South Africans not wanting their brothers to be in their country and particularly Nigerians. My people don’t deserve death in South Africa. The killing going on in South Africa is a lesson to my people to think home, invest in Igbo land. That is the only place you can call home and feel safe.

“Nigeria played a very significant role in the darkest years of the Black South Africans during the apartheid era. You know they were killing them, imprisoning them and in my own government of Eastern region by my party the NCNC then because when we won independence in 1960, I was elected a member of parliament, I was first of all appointed a parliamentary secretary then in 1962 before I was appointed as minister. I was Nigeria’s first minister of aviation and I remained a minister, won election the second time in 1964, reappointed a minister and remained a minister until the military took over the government. Of all the ministers that served in the first republic, I’m the only surviving one amongst them and I’m now 90 years old.

“So we collected a lot of young boys and girls from South Africa, from Zimbabwe, from Tanzania, Malawi and gave them scholarships in Nigerian secondary schools. The Zikist Grammar School here had about 20 South Africans and 20 East and Central Africans when they were being oppressed by the Whites. We gave them education. Most of their politicians, we trained them in the NCNC political training school at Yaba. They went home and became ministers in their own countries.

“When Nelson Mandela was being haunted by South African apartheid government and British Intelligent Service, he went to Tanzania and being a small country, they wanted to round him up there because there were so many whites in Tanzania. So he found his way to Nigeria in 1961 and when he came here, he reported to the governor general at that time which was Nnamdi Azikiwe and Zik said ‘okay, we’ll host you here, we’ll keep you in this country and we’ll give you refuge here. Let me find a nationalist that has similar thinking with you, whom you’ll feel comfortable at home.’ So, Zik sent for me and I went to see him at the State House. He introduced Nelson Mandela and said I should take him and that he should stay with me.

“Mandela came with me and lived with me in my house at number 5 Okokiebu street, Ikoyi Lagos for six good months. The British secret intelligent service were looking for him desperately. South Africa has no representation in Nigeria in the apartheid government, so the British people were fighting for them. They were looking for him but it was impossible for them to get to Mandela because Mandela was with me. I wasn’t a soft person. The British knew me, but they won’t get near me. If they try getting near me, the person will burn. So Mandela felt free with me. Most often, we’ll go to clubs at night, we dance at the Empire Hotel, we go and dance high life and so on. You dare not touch me and then once a month, I use to come home. Mandela and I will come to this village, we stayed here in this village, spend the weekend then on Monday or Tuesday, we go back to Lagos. There’s an African diet he liked very much, Abacus, the flat one, the one they call ‘Akpu mmiri’. Mandela liked it very much and my mother was always very fond of preparing it even when we’re going back to Lagos, she will package it for us because Mandela liked it.”

However, according to Mbazulike, Mandela, the revolutionary that he was, knew that he could not run forever, and decided to return to South Africa and face whatever fate held for him.

“But after about 6 months, Mandela started thinking and said, ‘look comrade, this my stay in Nigeria is not productive. It’s true that I’m with you here but my people are still slaves. I think I better go home because if I go home, one of two things will happen. They’ll either kill me or they’ll send me to prison. Whichever way they do, will give inspiration to other nationalists to fight on and continue with the struggle.’ So he said he was going home and we decided he should go. We rallied a few of the known old Zikists then, we escorted him to the airport and then we sat together and we sang the Zikist anthem. After singing it for him, he boarded the aircraft and went home. Barely three months after he went home, they arrested him and sent him to prison for life,” the elder statesman asserted.

Mbazulike added that Mandela wrote him letters while he was in prison, and continued even after his release and subsequent ascendancy to the presidency.

He stated that, “Significantly, the typical Mandela, he wrote me a letter from prison, signed it and in that letter, he told me that one Dr. Balange, the son of the lawyer who defended them, that the apartheid government was trying to get him so as to imprison him. He said that Dr. Bolange was running away to Nigeria and that I should help him get a job in Nigeria. So he came to Nigeria and reported to me and I arranged the University of Ife to offer him a job as a lecturer. So that was Mandela from prison, writing to think about somebody else’s concern. That’s the nature of the kind of person Mandela was.

“Mandela was eventually discharged from prison after 27 years. He came to Nigeria to say ‘thank you’ to us. By then, Nigeria was under military dictatorship but Mandela said, whatever happened, he wanted to see two people in Nigeria – Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Mbazulike Amaechi. Zik was then a man that has no position as a governor or president at Nsukka, so they arranged then military governor at Enugu who arranged with Mandela to meet with Zik. They sent for me that Mandela was at Enugu and wanted to see me. I went to Enugu with my wife and we met with Mandela. He introduced me with his wife because he came with her. We spent some time at Enugu before we escorted him back home.

“When Mandela died, I wanted to go for his funeral but the Federal Government under Goodluck Jonathan refused to sponsor me. I even begged him to give me a lift in his free aircraft. Then, the secretary to the government, the one from Afikpo, Pius Anyim, said ‘look, what are you going to do in South Africa? The way they do their funeral is not the way we do it here. It’s just to stand on the street and wave when they carry the corpse'.  Peter Obi was the governor of Anambra state at that time. Four days to the event in South Africa, Obi solicited for me. I was in Abuja trying to beg these people but Peter Obi said ‘No, don’t worry. Anambra state government will sponsor you.’ So he sponsored me, my PA and my secretary and we went to South Africa.

“But the significant thing was that my going to South Africa was the only way of letting the world know that Nigeria played a role in the affairs of Mandela and South Africa. Our president, Jonathan, went there, he sat among the VIPs in the field. Only one spokesman was allowed per continent. One woman spoke for Africa, American president spoke, somebody spoke for Europe and so on. But Jonathan was there, nobody took notice of him and he went home. It was only when I arrived that the Nigerian mission in South Africa became very happy. They surprised me at the airport by 5am, they gave me VIP treatment inside the Nigerian embassy in South Africa. They later arranged for me to go to Mandela’s house to sign the condolence register. From there I went to the place and paid my respect to him, then they took me to his village, I saw some bullet marks on the wall when they were fighting during the apartheid. The most important thing was that they arranged a big dinner party of international people for me and a world press conference for me to address the world. It was there that South Africans and the world came to know that Nigeria played a very significant role in the struggle of South African Blacks" .

Regretting the killings of Nigerians and other Black Africans in South Africa by their nationals, the former minister said, “Now that I’m hearing about South Africans killing Nigerians or other Africans, I feel so sad because in their darkest hours, many Nigerians played a role even during military regime. The military in Nigeria, under (Mohammed) Abacha of all people, received Mandela and I think they gave him something but Mandela was not bothered about money. Wealth was not his concern in life. But it’s true that people from Zimbabwe, Malawi and other areas were rushing down to South Africa because of its development and its mineral resources and there’s more wealth there. Most of the South African people, it will be unkind for me to say that they’re lazy but they’re not playing their roles in seeking for employment. They’re just eager to enjoy the new freedom they have than working. And so when others come to work and earn their salaries, they become jealous; it makes one feel very uncomfortable. When they’re killing Blacks, perhaps they don’t discriminate among Nigerians. All Blacks are blacks but Nigeria played a very significant role in the struggle by the Blacks of South Africa to free themselves from the yoke of imperialism called apartheid. So that they should be killing Nigerians like that is not good enough.

“But I must tell you that even some Nigerians are killing themselves in South Africa. When I was there, the High Commissioner called me and told me to address a particular section of Nigerians in South Africa that in the last 6 months, there have been 15 cases of Nigerians killing themselves. It’s true that the economy is bad in Nigeria, it’s true that the government of Nigeria is discriminating against certain sections of the country, the South East and the South South and it has forced many of them to rush out of the country. But I’ll tell them to start thinking home. The Igbos should start thinking home, make some money there and return back home.

“It’s not fair that Nigeria will give protection to big companies like MTN from South Africa, Shoprite and all these big companies and organizations. We give them protection and when our people go there, they’re being killed. So the government of South Africa has a very big responsibility, duty and obligation to protect Nigerians and other Africans in South Africa because when they were in their darkest hour, these people came to their rescue.

“Europe conspiratorially held a meeting to divide Africa. They suppressed Africa and ruled Africa. Black African people struggled and liberated themselves from imperial governments of European powers in those days. Now, if we don’t rule ourselves, if we start killing ourselves here, they’ll ridicule us and say, ‘that’s why they said we should be colonized and ruled’. But unfortunately, amongst so many governments in South Africa, military intervention did a lot of damage like the case of Nigeria. 38 years of military intervention in Nigeria destroyed nationalism in Nigeria, destroyed patriotism, introduced stealing, vandalism, looting, massive corruption, killings and made the nation lose conscience. No ideological reasoning, nobody is thinking about tomorrow. People who go to government now, go there for what they can get out of government but people like us who fought for independence, went into government for what we could give and we gave the best we had but now, these people are extorting, looting and destroying the country".

Another Mbaise lady breaks record in Indian University; Bags First Class in Pharmacy

A pretty young and vibrant Nigerian lady, Miss Chideraa Njoku has broken a record in Indian university. Chideraa, 22, who hails from Mbaise in Imo state has shattered academic records in Pharmacy in Indian Subharti University.

Miss Njoku came on top of her class with first class honours and has been awarded a gold medal for her academic excellence and a scholarship for her onward doctorate degree by the University.

Her parents, Mr Joe & Mrs Happiness Njoku Udorly took their daughter to study overseas due to lack of continuity in the Nigerian system of education and the poor regulatory system of Nigeria Universities commission.

Miss Njoku's great accomplishment comes at the wake of the current Nigerian government's reckless statement that Nigerian doctors are free to leave Nigeria.

It will be recalled that  an Mbaise man recently won a sit  in Canadian Parliament making him the first African to will election in Canada.