Lecture
delivered by Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga-On the 6th of June 1993 on the occasion of the
Reparation Campaign Rally in Support of the Presidential Ambition of Basorun
MKO Abiola for the Presidency of the Nigerian Federation ,Held at the Nigerian
Institute of Journalism ,Ogba, Lagos. & The
launching of the book- The Seething World – Reparations for the black Race
– A functional Approach- written by Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga, President of the Association for
Development And Reparations for Africa [ADARA]
THE SEETHING WORLD-REPARATIONS FOR THE BLACK RACE: A FUNCTIONAL
APPROACH!!-
Chairman, Distinguished Participants and Fellow
Compatriots,
I
acknowledge the presence of the following personalities in attendance: Chairman
of the occasion :President Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida Represented by Admiral
Oduoye- Chief of Naval Staff- Armed Forces Ruling Council [AFRC] of the
Nigerian Federation. Deputy Chairman Group Captain Ajibulu Sulaimon-Director of
Training & logistics ,Nigerian Air Force, Maj. Jide Ajibola rd. [Nigerian
Army] Prince Olajide Abegunde, Chief Kunle Shogbegede,Special Guest of
Honor: Basorun MKOAbiola [The Are Ona Kakanfo of the Yoruba Nation of Oduduwa],
Alhaji Abdulraman Okene -Chairman Arewa Nation Consultative Forum, Father of
the Day – Chief Gabriel Onaivi Ukonga- The Okomayin of Igarra & Former
Controller General of Accounts Nigerian Military Complex [ My Father],
Representative of Yoruba -Afenifere and OPC, Representative of Igbo
Nation-Ohanaezie , others: Students,[NANS-representative],Market women
Associations, National Association of Road Transport workers ,Diplomats,
Journalists, Pressmen, Intellectuals, workers unions etc.
My lecture is addressed
to acquaint you with the historical and dialectical significance of our demands
for reparations for the damages inflicted on the Black Race by the white Race
and the colonial imperialist lasting a period of more than 500 years in human
History.
The white Race, starting from the
Portuguese, Dutch, British, United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and
the entire European Union as well as many Arab Nations forcibly removed able
men and women from the soils of Africa [Peace loving people, who never offended
them] to slave in America and Europe under chains and most denigrating
conditions ever conceived by mankind, as the beast of burden to build the
western civilization.
The present glories of the western
civilization were built by the blood and sweat of the black slave of fortune.
On the enslavements and dastadious violation of the Black Race on a global
basis.
More than 500 million able men and
women were plucked in their prime from mother Africa to slave in plantations
and factories, used as the scourge of the earth, denigrated and humiliated and
in many cases killed by their oppressors all for a singular economic reason of
building wealth and prosperity for their own Nations using unpaid slave labor.
The situation is despicable and a bad case in Race Relations.
They did not stop at that, they
followed with the bestiality of colonization, looting the wealth of the entire
Africa and killing and destroying the great glories of the empires of the
entire African people. Looting all the gold bullions, and bars, all the
diamonds, minerals as well as human resources. Destroying all the features of
our formidable African institutions and primordial legacies and loyalties.
Looting all the works of Art, Artifacts, and all valuable conceptions, being
and essence of our superlative and qualitative African civilization and
supplanting it with decadence.
They Raped mother Africa in a
larceny that will terrify Chiron -de Centurion!! - they continued another
neo-colonialist slavery of economic, cultural and technological
imperialism that is with us today and perhaps will be our faith till the end of
the 21st century unless we do something drastic to stop them.
And that is why Africa is poor and
they Europe and America are rich]. This lecture is out to prove the scientific
instances for the justification of our demands for Reparations costs to be paid
to Africans at home and in Diaspora. The laws of production relations have
proved beyond doubts that this impudence was purely economical as it conforms
to all the Laws of Karl Marx as developed by Franz Fanon and Antonio Gramsci.
Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jnr and Malcolm X also noted this economic
undertone.
Basorun MKOAbiola [Chairman of EPG
[Eminent Persons Group on Reparations] offers the following observations:
“Today
many of the problems afflicting Africans and Blacks in Diaspora are the direct
results of the damages done by slavery, colonization and imperialism without
reparations these problems cannot be solved. Just like a man whose leg has been
broken cannot walk much less run until the damage has been put right and his
wound healed”
This simplistic but highly
intellectual and dialectical simile drawn by Basorun Abiola summarizes the
plight of all black people on a global basis and proffers its solution.
In the United States of America
Black children are likely to end up in jail than go to college. Blacks are
relegated to live in ghettos and slums with all the doors of opportunity
slammed.
In Latin America of Brazil, Bolivia,
Argentina Blacks are hounded and killed in all the streets of Bones Ares,
Bogotá and Bahamas. And yet it is our gold, blood and sweats that built these
great cites of western civilization.
Our Game Plan is to position Basorun
MKO Abiola the leader of Reparations movement as the Executive President of the
Nigerian Federation. He is determined to lead the entire black race out of the
wood and lead the Black Race into the 21st century with Nigeria in front
pulling the rest of Africa and the entire population of Blacks in America and
Diaspora behind and along. The Game Plan is to make Nigeria into a Super power
Nation [economically and militarily] with modern powerful defense initiative
that can face any other Nation on land air and sea!
Basorun Abiola will begin a
MARSHAL PLAN for rapid development of Africa and assist Blacks in Diaspora.
There will be mass exodus of Black people from the western world back to
Africa; engineers, Doctors, bankers, experts, funds and investments for rapid
development of Africa.
Basorun MKO Abiola is a great son of
Africa that the entire world respects immensely. The United States classified
his intelligent Quotient as one of the 1% of the world population. And that he
is the product of the finest mould in human creation. A person in this
cartegory determines their own salary in any corporation he works and must be
the leader as well as have a sizable percent of stocks of the company. His name
open doors in the most exclusive circles of the world and this is one of the
greatest gift of God to Africa at this juncture to lead Africa out of the wood
into the world of Economic and social prosperity.
This book we are launching here today
is one of the greatest books ever written on earth in the context of Research
and Development, scientifically into Race Relations and many other vexing
topics of our contemporary time addressed to guide, shield and direct our
journey to the Promised Land. We bequeath this book to the movement of Basorun
MKO Abiola as a reference book of instructions, as a book to motivate and as a
sword to fight on, to deliver the Black Race from exploitation of the
imperialists on a global basis.
It is given as a simile of the
Prof. Wole Shoyinka’s Translation of the great improvisations of T.S Fagunwa of
the “Forest of a Thousand Demons’; where the seven hunters were armed and given
the mission to go into the evil forest of millions of demons to conquer and
solve all the problems that bedevil the Human Race and in that same order we
banquet this book to you to do the same for the Black Race on a global basis…To
liberate the Black Race from the shackles of slavery, colonization and
imperialism and remove the shame from all our faces that we are not cowards…
Africa has been violated for the
past 700 years and this denigration continues from one generation to another.
It is time to put our foot down and say enough is enough….
….And we are all waiting for that
glorious day when you will present our demands for apology, restitution and
reparations on the floors of the United Nations General Assembly……
….. We are patiently waiting for the
day you will announce our membership of the United Nations Security Council as
a permanent member with equality of veto in the status of other 8 super powers
of today…..
… we are waiting for that day that
you will announce to the whole world on the floors of the UN General Assembly
the arrival of a Black Supper Nation that can face any other super power
militarily and economically on land, air and sea…and stand its grounds…..just
like H.E. Nikita Krushov, the great Soviet Leader announced in the 60’s on the
floors of the UN General assembly of the arrival of the Soviet Union to face
any other power on land , air and sea, were he pulled his shoe and banged it on
the table , to sound a note of warning that the Soviet Union is second to
none….
……..Just like H.E. Josef Dugashvilli
Stalin met on equal terms other powers in Yalta to shape the present
world order… so shall we meet other powers very soon , to shape a new world
order on the terms of equality, diplomatic reciprocity, détente…mutual
respect…and deterrence…
…..all the ideas, logistic and
stratagems to achieve this great goals are well spelt out in the book…The
Seething World- Reparations for Africa – A functional approach that we are
launching today and presenting to you as a gift of solemn bequest to march on
and conquer the world. You are our own Napoleon Bonaparte; you are our own Alexandra
the great…you are our Vladimir Lenin…you are our own George Washington….you are
our chairman Mao…
May God almighty help us in our
resolute journey to achieve this greatness for Nigeria, Africa and the Black
Race in generality….
…
Thank you. God bless Africa and the Black Race in entirety……. AMEN....cont. next edition
