JUNE 9th, 2022 Mega Rally @ U.S Dept. of State.
Injustice To Yoruba People & Lack of Equity Before the Law In Nigeria
The Secretary of State, Anthony J. Blinken, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Uzra Zeya, Congress of the United States, The President of the United States Joseph Biden, Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, World Citizens across the globe, fellow Yoruba patriots present and in absencial. All other protocols observed. My name is Moses Abiodun Ojo and I’m a Yoruba man from the Sovereign O’Odua Nation that the world must now recognize.
From the crime of 1914 perpetrated by the British Government using the legal infamy known as amalgamation of Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria, and the neo colonization of Nigeria through imposed imbecilic Fulani puppets aided to rig or seize political power in Nigeria, to today’s stunning silence from London’s Downing Street and Buckingham Palace, the Yorubas as a people have enduringly suffered unimaginable injustice and atrocities.
Let me remind the world that O’Odua Sovereign Nation is not existing in a vacuum. We are an integral part of the larger world society. Therefore, the lack of justice in our Yoruba Land is injustice everywhere. The skewered federalism in Nigeria is the main injustice that allows the North to be in total control of the human, mineral and natural resources from O’Odua Nation in the south to the disadvantage of the Yoruba host communities. This has resulted in the hopelessness of the Yoruba people. The poor education of our children, the lack of economic opportunities for our youths, the absence of health care for the elderly, and the destruction of our farmers’ farmlands by nomad terrorists are the direct consequences of the wicked policies the British Government hatched against our unsuspecting fathers over a century ago.
It has gone from bad to worse. And now, it has come to an unacceptable climax where we as a people have no choice but to seize the bull by its horns and turn the tide of our future. We considered how in 1992, 159 high ranking military officers who are mostly Yorubas from the southern states of Nigeria were murdered in a downed military plane at Ejigbo near Lagos. In hindsight, the Fulani officers must have been worried of vengeance from our young military men should they continue to grow in number. On July 14th, 2020, a 24-year-old Tolulope Arotile was stage-murdered. Her killing has been squashed and questions about her death swept under the rug of injustice. She was the first female Combat Pilot and, she’s a Yoruba patriot. May her soul continue to rest in peace. Her memory lives on with us. On 2/22/2021, another military plane crashed near Abuja and killed all officers on board. Guess what? They were all military officers from the Southern part of location 419. Anyone should sense a systemic dissipation of military officers from the South to ensure the North continues to maintain superior command and control in the armed forces. On December 23rd, 2001, the number one law enforcement officer of the country and Attorney General of Nigeria, Chief Bola Ige was murdered in cold blood. Not a single person has been brought to justice over the past twenty years. On June 12th, 1993, the military junta from the North annulled what is possibly the only free and fair election in Nigeria. MKO Abiola (of blessed memory) who won that election is a Yoruba man from O’Odua Land. His mandate was seized, he was unjustly detained and murdered while still in detention. My question is, if there is no justice for the Attorney General, if there is no justice for MKO Abiola, who especially among the Yorubas thinks of getting justice in location 419? Does Tinubu think he will be treated differently to MKO Abiola? Then on December 11th, 2020, Fulani terrorists in Igangan murdered Dr. Fatai Aborode and the culprits are today still left to wander the community freely and terrorize our people.
They have become very emboldened by their political sympathizers in the corridor of power in Aso Rock who started to give these terrorists billions of Naira saying they are “repentant” bandits. The Buhari government started a secret program called “SULHU” to enrich their terrorist BOKO HARAM brothers also known as Fulani Foot Soldiers. But when innocent Yoruba civilians started to question these killings and began exercising their fundamental rights to freely express their feelings, the residence of Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) at Sokka in Ibadan was assaulted with deadly force on July 1st, 2021, and twelve people unjustly detained under unimaginable conditions at the DSS headquarters in Abuja for several months. Two people were brutally killed that day at Sokka without cause. REALLY? Where is the equity under the law? Where is the justice? I ask again, where is justice and equity under the law in Nigeria? Now, the killing, the kidnapping, the raping and the terror has only escalated as the FGN pretends to be unaware or unconcerned.
The gods are not to blame according to Ola Rotimi. And the classics have pointed out that everything was perfect after creation. Events in Nigeria today as always, has persistently proven the validity of presumed contradiction. The question therefore remains, WHO IS TO BLAME? I tell you to look no further than the amalgamation of 1914. Look no further than the policies and stronghold from Downing Street & Buckingham Palace. And, look no further than the folly of Nigeria’s political elites.
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka said “the man died who keeps silent in the face of tyranny.” Yoruba Nation Diaspora Mega Rally USA (YNDMR USA) is therefore refusing to keep quiet.
Allow me to re-introduce ourselves to you again. We are Yoruba Nation Diaspora Mega Rally USA. And we are here because we believe in justice. We are saying that the Yoruba people are no longer part of the enslaved British colony named Nigeria. We are here to inform you that we are our own people, on our own land, in our own sovereign nation – O’Odua Sovereign Nation. We are therefore asking for your Recognition.
Thank you.
Moses A. Ojo Sec. Gen. YNDMR U.S.A
6/9/2022