Public Political Education Books and Pamphlets No.1 Caliphate Colonialism I The Taproot of the Trouble with Nigeria By CHINWEIZU The Caliphate is the Taproot of the Problem Buhari is today’s Political Leader of the Caliphate Buhari and Caliphate Colonialism Must Go Corruption and the Caliphate The average Nigerian who decries corruption is hardly aware of its peculiar dimension that’s rooted in Caliphate colonialism. Nigerian-style corruption is actually the constitutionally licensed looting of the public treasury by an official. What secularist Nigerians regard as immoral looting of the treasury is no such thing in the feudal ideology of the Caliphate. In feudalism, the appropriation of state property by an official is not considered theft, but simply his entitlement as the holder of a fief in exchange for loyalty and services to be rendered to his monarch. Under Caliphate feudal ideology, a public office is a fief for the life-support of the official and his retinue, provided he renders allegiance and the prescribed services to his overlord. If one were sent to administer the Customs or NEPA, one would be entitled to embezzle its funds to the best of one’s ability and greed. Doing so is not considered illegal or immoral; it is a practice anchored in feudal ideology and protected by the constitution. That’s what’s peculiar with Nigerian lootocracy. Hence the Caliphate-derived Nigerian practice where, once salaries are paid, and even before they are, a department’s budget allocation is treated as being for the responsible official to put in his pocket. Which is why the Caliphate-serving 1999 constitution institutionalizes and protects this entitlement with an immunity clause that licenses a Governor to seize and export his state’s budgetary allocation, hence the rampant money-laundering by Nigeria’s state governors. After half a century of unpunished practice, lootocracy has become the norm in Nigeria, and is imitated by all and sundry; which is why officials, down to the policeman at the checkpoint and the messenger sent to get a file, brazenly extort (i.e. loot) money from the public that they are paid to serve. Nigerian officials have become addicted to lootocracy even though a significant segment of the population decries it as “corruption”. But it is a gross misnomer to call lootocracy “corruption” and the error should be rectified: it is like calling a bank robber a pick-pocket when he has made away with millions. So long as the Caliphate, with its fake-democratic constitution, directs Nigeria’s affairs, this Caliphate-introduced and Caliphate-customary practice will endure. To eradicate Corruption/Lootocracy in Nigeria, the fake 1999 Constitution must be replaced with a People’s Constitution 1. Buhari celebrates with Sultan of Sokoto, Supreme Head of the Jihadist Caliphate and King of Caliphate Colonialism. 2. Bauchi Emir’s Palace: Example of life-style of Caliphate aristos. 3. Emir’s Palace, Kano: Example of life-style of Caliphate aristos. 4. Durbar fantasia, Kano. Example of the feudal retainers of Caliphate aristos. 5. Boko Haram Terrorists: Extra-constitutional Caliphate army. 6. Fulani Herdsmen Terrorists: Extra-constitutional Caliphate army. 7. The Nigerian 1999 Constitution: Basic Instrument of Caliphate Colonialism. 8. President Buhari, Jihadist Political leader of the Caliphate today. 9. Service Chiefs: Heads of the Official Armed Forces of Caliphate Colonialism. 10. PDP and APC: Two of the main Caliphate parties for dominating Nigeria. 11. Kidnapped Chibok Girls, North-East Nigeria. 12. Chief Falae, a former Secretary to the Federal Government, after Fulani herdsmen attacked his farm and kidnapped him, South-West Nigeria. 13. Mass burial of Christians Massacred by ethnic cleansing Fulani Herdsmen terrorists in Benue State, North-Central Nigeria. 14. Python Dance: Pro-Biafra demonstrators tortured and drowned in mud by the Nigerian Army, South-East Nigeria. 15. Niger Delta Oil spill, South-South Nigeria: one of many thousands that have made the region a physical and economic wasteland, even though it is the Caliphate’s cash cow. 16. Nigerian child starving in the midst of the Caliphate’s enjoyment of plenty. MORE of CALIPHATE RULERS AND THEIR VICTIMS More Caliphate rulers 1. Emir of Dass’ Palace, Dass, Bauchi State 2. Emir of Dutse’s Palace, Dutse, Jigawa State 3. Emir of Katsina’s Palace Katsina, Katsina State 4. Former Head of State, Gen Gowon, paying courtesy visit to the Sultan of Sokoto More Caliphate victims 5. Shell oil spills data 6. Oil spill in Bodo community, Ogoniland, Rivers State. 7. A man collecting polluted water near River Nun, Bayelsa State 8. Oil spill in Forcados community, Delta State. 9. Helicopter attack on a village, Akwa Ibom State. 10. Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) fleeing Boko Haram 11. Nigerian IDPs being fed 12. Scene after herdsmen attack, Benue state 13.Victims of the helicopter attack, Akwa Ibom state 14. 14 Year Old Christian Girl abducted and forcibly married by the Emir of Katsina. 15. Anti-Fulani Protest: We can't be funding cattle business with our lives 16. A slum in Nigeria The Caliphate’s 1999 Constitution and its Frauds The 1999 Constitution is the codification of the sources of all the vices that plague Nigeria. Though ostensibly democratic, its frauds make it a fake-democracy constitution. Two of its frauds are: #1: The “We the people” fraud: “We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria . Do hereby make, enact and give to ourselves the following Constitution:” A law suit filed on May 23, 2007, in the Federal High Court, Abuja, is still, due to recurrent adjournments, “seeking the termination of the operation of the 1999 Constitution on the ground that it is a forgery and a fraud in that it was made via Decree by one ‘Gen. Abudusalami Abubakar’ who lied in the preamble that ‘We the people of Nigeria….’ made and enacted it.” In fact, no Constituent Assembly met to produce it; the public never discussed it; and it was never submitted to the people to adopt and enact it by referendum. It was concocted in secrecy and imposed on Nigerians by military decree. #2: The “Federation” fraud; The Nigerian Federation is a fraud because: (a) Nigeria ceased to be a federation in 1966, with the abrogation by the military of the 1963 federal constitution. (b) Its present states, the alleged federating units, have no constitutions of their own, making them false federating units; (c) It lacks fiscal federalism: its behemoth Central Government (falsely called “Federal Government”) takes for itself a lion’s share of the country’s resources and gives crumbs to the 36 states and the 774 local governments; they are, in effect, mere economic dependents and administrative agencies of the central government – which is contrary to federalism. For the other frauds, please see: http://thenslm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Four-Frauds-of-the-1999- Constitution.pdf All in all, the 1999 Constitution has been, and remains, a guarantor of bad governance and the Mother of all evils in Nigeria. And it is probably the most fraudulent constitution in the world. (The Guinness Book of Records should please take note!) --------------------------------------- This fake Constitution Must Go! How? I suggest 3 non-violent steps: (a) Publicize the situation widely in Nigeria and globally; (b) Submit the Constitution to a referendum conducted by the UN; and (c) Take the frauds to the World Court. EXPOSING THE CALIPHATE COLONIALIST MASTERS Under British colonialism, Nigerians knew the source of their torment, and they directed their attacks at it until it withdrew. But with Caliphate colonialism it has been the opposite: Nigerians generally have not even been aware of its existence. They knew something was wrong, but not what exactly was causing them their agonies. Diagnostics is the queen and servant of the healing arts. A disease diagnosed is a disease that can be intelligently tackled. Once we know that our disease is the Caliphate’s Colonialism, we can intelligently go about finding a true and permanent cure and how to apply it. Or let’s look at it another way, from the story of the bull and the matador: Since 1959, when the British rigged the Caliphate into inheriting their power, the Nigerian bull has been charging at the red flag held up by the Caliphate matador. In the delusion that its torment is caused by the red flag, the bull has been charging at a succession of red flags: tribalism, feudalism, the military, lack of true federalism, corruption etc. But behind these distracting flags, and holding them up before the bull, has been the Caliphate. And the tortured, ignorant and deluded bull has been unable to end its agony these many decades of Nigeria’s so-called independence. When its horns tore up one flag, the matador simply held up another flag. Once the Nigerian bull is shown the Caliphate matador holding up the red flag, it can charge at the Caliphate. As in the bull fight, the Caliphate’s days are numbered once the bull stops charging at the flag and goes for the matador. That’s the message of this exposé essay on Caliphate Colonialism. The Caliphate is the taproot of the trouble with Nigeria Caliphate domination must go! Caliphate Colonialism I The Taproot of the Trouble with Nigeria By Chinweizu (February 2013 Essay; with February 2015 Postscript; and December 2017 upgrade of expired links) WHAT READERS SAID ABOUT THE CALIPHATE COLONIALISM ESSAY The Committee on Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Golden Jubilee Book Project have received peer review responses on your paper. We seek a final clearance from you that this paper is not under review and has not been published elsewhere. If your response is in the affirmative, kindly send in your updated bio- data on or before July 22, 2014.