“Record me very well. It is time to start poisoning the Yorubas and the Benins. Put poison in all your foods at work. Put poison in all your water so that you all will start dying one-by-one.
“You people will not die one day. You people will fall sick for a long time. I will put Otapiapia (rat poison) inside your waters and foods. You people will never get well.
“This kind of hatred I have for you people will last forever. In all your foods, I will put Otapiapia, “I will put them in all your foods. If I go to work tomorrow, I will put it (poison) in Yoruba people’s food. Go and tell the government that I’m in Canada, I’m in Ontario. Hurry up, go fast.
“I will put Otapiapia; I will put Ogbomosho inside your food. You will start hearing that Yorubas have died, Benins have died. I’m the one saying it. “I want Igbos to have a heart of wickedness. You people are too quiet.
You are too cool. Enough is enough. If you have a means of killing them, kill them out of the way, because they are too foolish. They are of no use to society. Lots of prostitutes and everything.”
That was Amaka Patience Sunnberger, a woman presumably of Igbo extraction and parentage based in Canada in a live video released a few days ago. If these were the words of a Nazi zealot or skinhead in Hitler’s Germany of the 1930’s and 40’s we should have understood or at least be able to understand. But they are not. Even Nazis were far too clever, nobler and less audacious than this sociopath.
The sad thing however, the frightful thing that should worry us all is that there are now many people of Igbo descent who share and believe what that woman posted and, given the right opportunity, will be too ready to carry out exactly what that woman proposed. Did you notice there were other people in the background recording her and suggesting other poisons to her? Who could those be? We have a big problem on our hands. We are living in the midst of deceit pretending that all is well.
There are now potential genocides, mass murderers walking on the streets waiting for opportunity. Children of hate, sociopaths, serpents and scorpions whose model is the Serpent and who behaves like the serpent – the likes of which the star prophet, William Marrion Branham calls “the seed of the serpent.”
Think of this woman working as a chemist or hydrologist in a water corporation of a cosmopolitan state like Lagos with a large Yoruba population. All she needed is to increase the chlorination of the water supply and then the deed is done to interminable generations.
That is why you should worry. That is why you should be afraid. It is okay to be accommodating and be welcoming, it is even required to love everyone including your enemies.
But the same Holy Scripture warns that your love should be according to knowledge and judgement. In other words, you do not for love sake ignore immediate and remote consequences and hard evidence.
A man or woman does not make this kind of video because she ate too much or because she got a raise or promotion in the place of work and was overjoyed. No, this kind comes out of the depth of the heart. It is when a vessel is full that its content flows out. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
There are no jokes, there is nothing like comedy or fiction in real life. Jokes are the truth that spills out of the mouth after the heart is full; fictions are the avenue and medium to tell the real truth that are too explosive to be told in actual language.
A person does not make this kind of video for fun; this is coming from the depth of the heart. (I actually listened to the video myself.) You do not threaten a human being with death for fun, much less an entire race and record it.
I know the thought police will attack me for writing this essay; the miseducated “useful idiots” of political correctness among the Yorubas, the do-gooders who always want to be polite even if they must jettison the truth.
But as you know I have paid my dues as an intellectual and have been writing for long and can’t be intimidated by anyone or tribe or even government from expressing what I know to be the truth.
Not me. This leads me to the next stage: the root of hatred. What we see in the video is simply the outgrowth of a seed waiting for harvest. Lady Amaka did not just hate Yoruba people yesterday; she had nurtured this hatred for long and now the serpent has grown inside her that she has to voice out for relief.
This is how the psychology of hate works. Like a seed it germinates and grows waiting for the right opportunity for harvest. Adolf Hitler did not just hate the Jews when he was elected by the German people in 1933, he already hated them long before then as he revealed in his book ‘Mein Kampf’.
The Nazi Party only gave him the platform and Germany merely gave him the opportunity to carry out his agenda. It is the lack of a platform and needed opportunity that occasioned the frustration which led Amaka Patience to make her video. This is how genocide occurs.
This is how hate develops into behavior and behavior to action that crystallizes into harvest leading to disaster and tragedy. Who planted the seed inside her? Who sowed the seed of Yoruba hatred inside her in a foreign nation and in the land of the free? Someone sowed that seed inside her.
She was too young to have witnessed the Civil War first hand so someone, most likely the parents, sowed the poison inside her against the Yoruba – a poison most Igbo men still carry even in our midst although they are too polite to acknowledge it.
Here I come to the most interesting part of this essay which some won’t agree with. But as a writer I must be true to the facts and to those who read and follow me.
Pay attention
The reality of Igbo hatred against the Yoruba is what we have to admit and which we must address. Many Igbos hate the Yorubas with passion. Not all of them to be sure and we must be thankful to God for this.
Of course I know there are Yorubas who hate the Igbos too. My former landlord in Lagos would charge the Igbo tenants more than the Yoruba for the same space. But there are more haters on the Igbo side.
That is the truth. Three Igbo men and women have confessed to my hearing personally that they were actually taught to hate the Yorubas.
You don’t have to believe me, but I say this in my honour and I will defend it before God on the Day of Judgement if it is a lie. If there were three women or men who taught their children so then there could have been three hundred or three thousand or three hundred thousand.
And if three admitted it to me there are probably ten or twenty who won’t admit it. I am educated but I also think. I cannot accept that those people were lying against their parents or elders. No one lies against his parents when no consequence is involved.
It is such seeds that produced the likes of Amaka and the video that you see. These are the results of bad parentage and of teaching children what no noble parents should teach their children. You do not sow a seed of hatred against another race and a people group in the impressionable minds of your children.
You are setting them up for disaster. Two things are responsible for this hate. The perceived and often – repeated lie of Yoruba betrayal during the Civil War. This is the worst lie ever told and I am even ashamed that many Igbo scholars believed this trash.
I have examined most of the literature and the things written about the Civil War and I have done my own research and I have challenged any scholar to show me how the actions of the Yorubas during the Civil War could be termed betrayal. No one has accepted my challenge till today.
How does self-defence become betrayal? How is self-love an act of treachery? You are bringing war and carnage to my doorstep and you are surprised that I joined the war to stop you? And you called this betrayal? Then the English Language must have lost its meaning. Unfortunately, this is accepted by many Igbos and scholars and, sadly too, by even some Yorubas – too bad.
