By Chief Godwin Ossai
I would love to hear a PG whose core Mission is to unite our people as a family with a common VISION and ESSENCE.
Ukwuani, Ndosumili, Ndoni, Orogun/Aragba (partly), Ejeme, Nsukwa, Adonta, Ishiagwu, Uku Oba, Aba Uno, are a common stock of a primordial ancestral Root.
A FAMILY.
Back to only Ukwuani and Ndosumili, specifically:
Imagine for an example, a family of 1 Father and 5 wives with 15 children. Each wife had her on children; none I’d barren. Within the family, of course there will naturally be misunderstandings, disagreements and internal conflicts.
They are nonetheless still a family. Suppose a daughter of that family is raped by a renegade from another family, what do you think the men of that family would do in response?
Would the half-brothers overlook that audacious brigandage because the girl victim is not their mother’s child?
Never!! They will fight to the death and serve the culprit with the due consequences. An injury to one is an injury to all. They will surely settle the family shame.
In Ndokwa, should Obiaruku be attacked senselessly by a hostile foreign clan enemy, Ushe attacked by a foreign enemy; should Onya, Abbi, Emu, Ossissa, Ibrede, Ase, Ibedeni or Aboh etc, be attacked in same senseless effrontry: our people do not see these as common threat.
ABSURDITY. To us as at today, their problem is not our problem. WHY? We’ve been living in false divisions. This is not so with the Izons, the Fulani because an injury to one is injury to all.
There is UNITY not in mere gathering to share power and position in government, but Unity is ESSENCE, SPIRIT and PURPOSE.
That is the kingdom we ought to start rebuilding afresh unto which every other thing will be added.
We are sailing as a family in one boat and a leakage is discovered. Its not my business because the hole is not near where I’m sitting.
Nobody wants to do the needful because everybody believed that somebody will do something and in the end nobody does it. They all will be doomed eventually because they are not a true family.
It’s not my business because I’m not a politician. Your non family people take over political power and decides your family is of no consequence to the society.
To show some kindness to your family – your whole family is enslaved because they love you.
That’s what happens to those who have no proper family values.
With proper family values, you know the reason you’re selected to represent your family. Needless building personal empires to be run by you and your children perpetually.
Representatives, appointed are not family leaders!!
I look forward to family leaders that will ensure our age-long family values, not one rich man squad looking for praise singers and hero worshippers.
Our family is in search of AUTHENTIC HEADS that will galvanise and protect our family heritage to earn us respect before our peers.
Let’s think and chew on these things as we trudge on to REPOSITION our NNU
Chief Godwin. O. Ossai is a respectable Ndokwa son. An academic and business relations expert
