Goldie departed for South Africa after selling our lands and the work was continued by Fred Lugard who was recalled by Chamberlain in 1897 from Bechuana land where he was guarding diamond miners.  The prime minister of Britain gave him the mandate to set up the West African Frontier Force which later became the Nigerian Army.  Lugard perfected Goldie’s work after the charter was revoked in 1900. The resistance in Zaria was conquered in 1901, Sokoto that was founded by Dan Fodiye (1809) was subdued by Lugard in 1903 and Kano too.  The worst atrocity committed by Lugards troops was the total destruction of Satiru a town close to Sokoto during a Mahdi uprising in 1906.  This method of subjugation was transmitted into the nations psyche and has been repeated again and again as in Odi (1999). In 1912 Lugard returned to our land to complete his assignment of amalgamation in 1914.  The Omoluabi contribution was submerged by the audacious British yoke and our hopes dimmed through those years.  Welded into a colonial contraption called Nigeria without our consent we marked time until a spark of hope was relit in the years of the Western Region.

As the Omoluabi added formal education to the kitty many issues were revisited but the most crucial of all were the notes of Taubman Goldie.  Unfortunately Goldie had collected all his diaries and memoirs and burnt them! To ensure that the secret behind Nigeria’s design would remain in the grave he summoned all his children to his death bed and proclaimed a curse on any that dared to publish any papers he might have missed destroying. The Omoluabi in the UK today should have access to the colonial diaries as much light could be shed into the Nigerian darkness for platforms to be created for progress. All diaries belonging to the all so called Governors of Nigeria starting from Lugard to James Robertson should be acquired by our people so as to expose the roots of many challenges we face today.  There is no doubt that the contents of Goldie’s diaries would have helped the nations within Nigeria to devise more workable directions than the ungainly dinosaur inherited from the colonials. The light of Omoluabi began to shine afresh in 1952 when the Western region was granted self government. In line with the matrix education became the first priority. 

When the history of the Western region is revisited it will be discovered that it was not all about Awolowo but the fact that God gave him the insight to see the Omoluabi legacy that was waiting to be rekindled. Of the seven pillars that Oduduwa laid in the matrix, Awolowo demonstrated a thorough understanding of

five. The diplomatic deficiency was his undoing else the Omoluabi would have been Untameable today. While there are no regrets that our people stood alongside Zik and many other that agitated for independence the benefit of hindsight allows us to wish that the frames of reference had been better defined.  If for instance we put another scoundrel that was involved in defining our national roots under scrutiny we wonder whether the Omoluabi would not have reconsidered our Positions in those days. Lord Lewis Harcourt after whom Port Hacourt was misnamed was the Secretary of state to the colonies from 1910-1915.  Lewis was a sexual predator who was attracted to both sexes! He committed suicide in his Brook street London home when a scandal erupted over his attempt to rape a 12 year old boy.  It was this character that declared that Nigeria was a marriage of the North to a Southern wife!

Because we had a common enemy in the colonial forces we presumed a common destiny with our neighbors who had suffered under the same yoke. A lot of the characters that were sent to oppress us from Britain were just common criminals who were later perfumed with titles. If only the Omoluabi in the UK would arise today and take advantage of the information act so many of our artifacts that are lounging in British museums would be listed. The records in the colonial office would also expose all the terrible dealings behind the formation of the gridlock called Nigeria. The original foundation of Nigeria was not designed to support a prosperous nation instead it was crafted as a colonial convenience! Until this foundation issue is addressed those who insist on constructing a skyscraper on quicksand will continue this fruitless exercise of folly.  In a nutshell Nigeria is like a locomotive running along rail lines laid by Taubman Goldie and constructed by Lugard!  Sooner or later the locomotive will run out of steam and their will be a very costly explosion.