CHIEF INNOCENT CHUKWUMA'S LOT COULD BE THAT OF ANY IGBO MAN HOWEVER WEALTHY OR HIGHLY PLACED:

Chief Innocent CHUKWUMA is one of the major banners of Igbo industrial ingenuity. He is a source of pride to the Igbo race.
However  from President Obasanjo's regime, the Federal government has consistently fought to bring him down with toments not deserving of any free citizen. I sympathize with Chief CHUKWUMA but I hold Igbo poltical and business elite responsible for the sordid trampling on Igbo rights. They live under the misconception that their wealth and/or position can exclude them from the sordid lot of Igbos in Nigeria - being treated as serfs by the oligarchy.
 Unfortunately they are mistaken and Chief Chukwuma's case confirms that. It is only a matter of time and convenience of the oligarchy and they will come for any Igbo man  however so highly placed.

In their characteristic individualism the Igbo wealthy and highly placed have refused to participate in the organised non-violent fight for Igbo rights in municipal and international Courts. They parrot meaningless "restructuring" and "true federalism" like infants in kindergarten classes without offering any meaningful mechanism for achieving such.

 Crimes against humanity are being committed daily by government agents against the Igbo and these people keep their distances from any effort to challenge the government, reasoning in their parochialism that it is confrontational. In some cases they even aid and abate these atrocities against their own Igbo people.

 The few cases where NGOs have organised and filed suits in Nigerian and overseas Courts these people starve these suits to death with total boycott of financial support. Until these folks break out of their self-centred defences and join in the organised struggle, Chief Chukwuma's lot could be the lot of any Igbo man, no matter how wealthy or highly placed.
Like they say, In a democracy, the people get the government the deserve.

PRINCE CHUKWUEMEKA ONYESOH