Sunday, 3 January 2016

The late Tiv warrior, Gideon Orkar's, coup speech, April 1990

Fellow Nigerian citizens,
On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the
Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major
Gideon Orka, wish to happily inform you of the successful
ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man,
deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-
patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi
Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for
unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy,
the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta,
with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere
intentions that were yet to materialize and other human
rights violations. The National Guard already in its
formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect.
Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to
emphasis that this is not just another coup but a well
conceived, planned and executed revolution for the
marginalized, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle
Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and
children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonization
by a clique of this country.
Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable
instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive
intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate
till eternity the political and economic privileges of this
great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle
Belt and the south. They have almost succeeded in
subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and
now extending same to the south. It is our unflinching belief
that this quest for domination, oppression and
marginalization is against the wish of God and therefore,
must be resisted with the vehemence. Anything that has a
beginning must have an end. It will also suffice here to
state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards
need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with
skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear,
because the time of reckoning has come. For the avoidance
of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we
have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration.
The reasons are as follows:
(a) To stop Babangida's desire to cunningly, install himself
as Nigeria's life president at all costs and by so doing,
retard the progress of this country for life. In order to be
able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has
evidently started destroying those groups and sections he
perceived as being able to question his desires. Examples
of groups already neutralized, pitched against one another
or completely destroyed are:
(1) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan
to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto
caliphate.
(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State,
especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the
body politics of this country.
(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours
and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of
terror.
(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of
the draconian decree Number 47.
(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching
staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million
dollar loan as the necessitating factor.
(6) Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to
make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical
scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half
of the members of the armed forces. Other pointers that give
credence to his desire to become a life president against the
wishes of the people are:
(1) His appointment of himself as a minister of defense, his
putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate
manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction
of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political
options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders
that have installed themselves as life presidents and his
dogged determination to create a secret force called the
national guard, independent of the armed forces and the
police which will be answerable to himself alone, both
operationally and administratively. It is our strong view that
this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable
to Nigerians of the 1990's, and, therefore, must be resisted
by all. Another major reason for the change is the need to
stop intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the
Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few.
This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90
percent of the problems of Nigerians. This indeed has been
the major clog in our wheel of progress. This clique has an
unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering
of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put
together have been our undoing as a nation. This will ever
remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is strongly
believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique
and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved
developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea,
Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan. Evidence, therefore,
this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a
major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the
Nigerian state. (Sic) It is suffice to mention a few distasteful
intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent
past. These are:
(1) The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the
longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General
Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the
Babangida administration.
(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida's administration
by the all powerful clique.
(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore
Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams
and so on from office.
(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of
Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their
instant replacement by the favoured class and their
stooges.
(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and
retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the
detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the
Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and
feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the
aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute
affluence on a daily basis without working for it.
(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative,
oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where
people and stooges that can best be described by the fact
that even though they contribute very little economically to
the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served
and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in
the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this
country, while the people from these parts of the country
have been completely deprived from benefiting from the
resources given to them by God.
(8) The third reason for the change is the need to lay a
strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off
of the Nigerian state or states as they circumstances may
dictate. In the light of all the above and in recognition of the
negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the
overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision
to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno,
Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic
of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following
conditions are met.
The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of
the aforementioned states are as following:
(a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji
Maccido, who is the people's choice.
(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised
Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch
that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination
and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be
practised in any part of the Nigeria state. By the same
token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are
temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in
Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the
mentioned conditions above are met.
They are also required to move back to their various states
within one week from today. They will, however, be allowed
to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the
stipulated conditions are met. In the same vein, all citizens
of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back
to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all
Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united
Nigeria. A word is enough for the wise.
This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt
public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since
the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard times,
when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles
to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with
complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both
inside and outside the country.
We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth
back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our
people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no
cause for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as
directed by God. All airports, seaports and borders are
closed forthwith. The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is
now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council
to be chaired by the head of state with other members being
a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector
general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ,
NBA, and NANS.
A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until
further notice. All members of the armed forces and the
police forces are hereby confined to their respective
barracks. All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting
to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we
are prepared at all costs to defend the new order. All radio
stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the
national network programme until further notice.
Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May
God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all.


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