It is an amazing feat that all former British colonies in Africa have never sponsored a research into the lingering effects of colonialism. The script followed by all the former territories is so similar that we could be accused of muddled thinking! The Omoluabi concept of “ironu and oponu” needs to be applied for the obvious to emerge. We need to build detailed dossiers on the contributions of the following; William McCoskry, Henry Stanhope Freeman, W.R. Mullinar, Charles George Edward Patey,  John Halwey  Glover, Miles Cooper, W.H. Simpson , J. Gerrard, Henry Fowler, George  Berkeley, Charles Cameron Lees, George Cumine Strahan, John Shaw, Charles Cameron Lees, John d'Arcy Dumaresq, F. Simpson, Malcolm Brown, Cornelius Alfred Moloney, William Brandford Griffith, C.D. Turton 

These men served either as Governors, Administrators, Acting Governors or Lieutenant Governors between the years 1862 and 1906. Whether positive or negative, corrupt or true their records still exist and their memoirs can be acquired for the future of the nation they either spoiled or helped.

Even if we did not invent the written word the Omoluabi know the power of records! Our commission should be instructed to go after every scrap of information behind the formation of the Nigerian nightmare. Official records, private diaries, memoirs, financials, assets and every thing related to us. Many British families would volunteer heirlooms and all assistance needful voluntary while Government records could be pursued officially. These men would also be included in the surveys …. Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, Sir Graeme Thomson, Sir Donald Charles Cameron, Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon, Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns, Sir Arthur Frederick Richards, Sir John Stuart Macpherson, Sir John Stuart Macpherson, Sir James Wilson Robertson.   These were the Governors General that served between 1914 and 1963.

The Queen of the United Kingdom should not be left out but much tact would be needed in the area of financial records. Sir James Robertson’s private financial records would be particularly interesting as all pointers indicate a negative contribution.

A study of the so called constitutional conferences that were hosted on our behalf become laughable when examined under the prism of the Omoluabi matrix.   Nigeria had four major constitutions, each named after the colonial governor who put it together:

n      Clifford Constitution 1922

n      Richards Constitution 1946

n      Macpherson Constitution 1951

n      Lyttleton Constitution 1954

After subjugating our lands by trickery and force the “Oyibo” man proceeded to determine our destinies along the lines of what they believe was best for us! The first 2 constitutions were imposed and the equations of the last two contained the contribution of nationalists that had been led down the garden path. The bottom line is that the imperial forces tele-guided all the constitutions to create a strong governing centre with subordinate regions or units contrary to the desire of the Units or regions.  

The Omoluabi heritage began to really revive when the regions were delivered from the British bent towards a Unitarian government at the Oliver Lyttleton conference of 1953 where regions were permitted autonomous self rule. The two regions in the south obtained this self rule in 1956 while the Northern region waited until1959. It was this lapse in colonial concentration that helped the Omoluabi to revive. Awolowo with his usual lack of tact informed Sir James Robertson that we had made more progress in our 3 years of self governance than the British since 1914!

Exploiting the Omoluabi foundation, Awolowo led us into the 10 golden years; he literarily picked up where Oduduwa left off. The civilization that is burnt into our blood responded and by the time our legacy revived we were well on our way to becoming an advanced state nation. The colonial authorities panicked and forged a plan to tame our progress. The exhumation of the British records of the last colonial years will expose facts and figures that would shock any Omoluabi! We were diverted away from a glorious future by a more experienced civilization that understood our potentials too well. 

Once we do our homework thoroughly it would be easy to prove that the British

Government deliberately laid a Nigerian foundation that was unworkable.

1. The deliberate nurture of religious differences between North and South was ordained to promote a permanent tension.
2. The subjugation of ethnic minorities was part of a power and political sharing equation primed to explode with time.
3. The divide and rule strategy was calculated to create discord.
4. The artificial creation of a monolithic North and splintered South was a trick of political engineering.
5. The fostering of enmity between ethnic majorities and minorities was a strategic ploy.
6. The political wedges that accentuated the differences between the Eastern and Western region was a ploy to retard the unity of two great potentials.
7. The merging of regions with uneven rates of developments was introduced to inhibit rather than catalyze progress.
8. The West African Frontier Force evolved into the Nigerian Army primed with Sandhurst Military Academy coup detonators along ethnic lines.