Ohanaeze PG: Mike Okiro, “Ethnic Harvesting”, Azuta-Mbata & Ozichukwu Chukwu

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By: Sam Onwuemeodo.

Mike Mbama Okiro, grew from the ranks to become the lnspector General of Police, IGP, in 2007. He never jumped the guns in his career. One of the blessed assurances. Nigerians benefitted to a very large extent, from his expertise or professionalism. The Nigerian Police Force , NPF, benefitted. The world at large, benefited immensely. He left the force with both his head and shoulder high. He left no stone unturned. He was a success story. A good ambassador of the womb that gave birth to him and to his people and his generation.

To the glory of God too, he became lnspector General of Police, IGP, when one dollar was almost equivalent to one naira in terms of value. Call it exchange rate if you so desire. One Hundred and twenty naira in the black market. And less than N120 in the official market. You could imagine the scenario. A very good omen. I am saying something here. I am insinuating here. Do you understand?. I had also enjoyed his outing as IGP, courtesy of HRH Eze Leo Nwokocha, a very close pal of the man.

Okiro was also DPO at various stages of his vocation. He was Deputy Commissioner of Police. He was Commissioner of Police. He was Deputy lnspector General of Police. During all these, the economy was ok. Like I said, the naira was rubbing shoulder with the dollar. I am still talking. The take home of a DPO before 2007 or in 2007 could threaten the salary of the IGP in 2024/25. True or false? Your answer is as good as mine. Okiro was a living witness to those old jolly days in the Police. I am talking in terms of the packages. Easy ways of policing.

In other words, Okiro left the Police with good name and fat pocket. Extremely fat pocket. And he has continued to eat the fruits of the good name with his family. Since he retired, every successive government in lmo, had given him or any of the Children appointment.

If you ask me to score Okiro, looking at all the indices of evaluation, l would score him eighty- five percent over one hundred percent and withhold the remaining fifteen Percent. And l am going to say or unveil why.

Tell me also to list twenty good things about Okiro, l would do that with ease. With speed. With alacrity. With the needed accuracy. Many good things to write about him. Too many good things to count. To behold about him.

And you ask me too to point out one thing against the man, l won’t delay to write or say that, he’s an “Ethnic Harvester”. What l do not know is whether, “Ethnic Harvesting” is a crime in Nigeria . I don’t not think so. I only know about organ harvesting being a serious crime. Okiro has continued to benefit from his “Ethnic Harvesting” strategy, until the issue of Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General came up this time and the bubble finally burst.

Even when the debate was on about whether he was a Rivers State’s man or lmo man, when he was appointed the IGP, he kept quiet. He was mute. And the argument or the question had lingered unanswered by the man himself.

Okiro, for long, never came to say he’s from lmo or Rivers, inspite of the growing debate about that. Imo lgbo, he would harvest. Rivers lgbo, he would harvest. And if care was not taken, he would have emerged Ohanaeze President General this time, meant for an lgbo of Rivers State’s extraction.

I was one of those who raised the alarm and early enough that , any attempt, either by commission or omission, to deny Rivers State their slot to produce the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo would spell doom for the body. Would not augur well for the organisation.

Throwing up Nze Ozichukwu Chukwu, as the President General of Ohanaeze few days to the January 10, 2025, when a new PG from Rivers State would be elected was suspicious. There’s heightened scepticism or apprehension. And the suspicion was that, the lmo governor, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, might have a plan different from the emergence of a Rivers man of lgbo inclination as PG.

Even when the name Mike Okiro came up, the suspicion snowballed with the feeling that, the lmo governor might have planned to install him, leveraging on the lacuna arising from the “ethnic harvesting” stuff, associated with Mbama to achieve that.

It’s a thing of joy that, the suspicion ended up being imagination. And Senator Azuta Mbata, a known lgbo man of Rivers State’s extraction emerged as the new President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. He’s a goal.

It’s no more in doubt that Mike Mbama Okiro is an lmo man. And we should be happy with that. No more ambiguity. The business of ethnic harvesting has come to an end. Uzodimma played a good one by not backing Okiro contrary to the speculation. He destroyed the fears of many.

For Mbata, he’s a round peg in a round hole. He has never hidden his lgbo background. He has never hidden his lgbo inclination for any reason. He understood early enough that, Azuta Mbata, core lgbo names, were not given to him by accident but by design. Not a case of happenstance. Wonderful lgbo names given to a beloved lgbo son by beloved lgbo parents. Unlike Elechi Amadi and his cohorts, Azuta Mbata had known that, what God had joined from birth or from generation to generation, no one should put asunder. Can’t be sacrificed at the altar of petty politics and unfounded ethnic bias or jingoism.

Ozichukwu Chukwu, had lived upto expectation. For those who had known him very well before now, like yours truly, he would not have acted otherwise. He had known better that, true honour lies in one acting well his part. For conducting the Ohanaeze Ndigbo election on January 10, 2025, the approved date and ensured transparency, he deserves a Plaque. A big one and in gold. My uncle, Rev. Chris Onwuemeodo had told me much about the man and all in the positive. They were together in Enugu.

And the added advantage of his brief outing as Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General, could be that, when it was lmo slot , the three zones of the State, Orlu, Owerri and Okigwe, tasted it. Oke ezuo. George Obiozor, Orlu zone. Emmanuel lwuanyanwu, Owerri Zone. Ozichukwu Chukwu, Okigwe Zone. This development has already painted a picture. And time will tell. I press the pause button here and to GOD only, be the GLORY.

While we continue to clap for Jesus#

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