The False Gospel Of Unity Poem by Emeka GOC

The False Gospel of Unity 1


When I listen to the soiled slogans of a forced unity,
The diabolical tactics and perverted strategies,
Masked as the preservation of territorial integrity
I hear the echoes of a total messy war
What is the worth of unity today, sixty years later?

A nation promoted by sheer coercion,
Deaf to the desperation of a besieged population.
They barked their chilling catchphrases;
'To keep the country one is a task that must be done!
'Spelling out his own name in the blood of the innocent;
'Go On With One Nigeria.'
How far With One Nigeria?

They boasted with arrogant ignorance of finality;
'The so-called rising sun of Biafra is set forever! '
They spoke as if Gowon were God supreme,
But every god who did not fashion the heavens and the earth
Shall perish from under the face of this soil.
How far? The risen Sun has come to stay.


Then came the literary poetry of betrayal
The hollow decree of 'No Victor, No Vanquished.'
A beautiful phrase quickly followed by the twenty-pound scam,
Sustained by the bitter saga of 'abandoned properties, '
And crowned by the grand illusion of the Three Rs?


The 1970 generation demand accountability
What were reconstructed? , where, when? ? ?
Who was rehabilitated?
How was reconciliation practiced?
Evidence based comprehensive report required
Not another book of false hood.


A highly contested message of reconciliation.
Used to build Lagos, Kano and Kaduna
With no single presence as a pointer in Biafra
For the darkest era was a brutal reality,
Engineered by hard-line warfare and primitive savagery.
They weaponized starvation, unbothered by dying children,
Deliberately shelling markets, hospitals, and civilians areas,
Enforcing the cold barbarism of their own decrees