Essential Ndubuisi
By Tai Emeka Obasi.
Maybe because I am a writer that always has plagiarism at the back of his mind while penning any sentence, any act that indicates copying another without improved modifications revolts me with nausea.
Since I saw EBUBEAGU as the name of the proposed Southeast Security outfit, I have been wondering why we couldn’t step away from AMOTEKUN that has been firmly franchised as a very creative innovation.
Must we copy? And this time very poorly?
Both the leopard and the lion are excessively hunting carnivals. They go for their preys without provocation. Their food is fellow animals and they kill their mates when hungry and even for fun. The Southwest may have their reasons for choosing such very aggressive creature as the symbol of their security network.
Here, we’re not the aggressors, have never been in our history. Whatever we offer in violence is in self-defense. So why the involvement of a lion even if Ebube leads as a sobriquet?
Must there be an animal involved?
What about a name like Ofor Na Ogu Vigilante Organisation, ONOVO?
What about Nkwucha Aburo Ujo Vigilante Organisation, NABUVO?
Both names or something similar would have depicted a creative innovation, far from copying the Southwest without scruples.
More importantly, such nomenclature would have clearly depicted the fact that we’re only acting in self-defense of our dear region.
And of course, adding VIGILANTE to whatever name we come up with makes it local and sends out the message that we’re only beefing up what has been existing in all communities in our region. That way, we won’t have infiltrators as official supervisors, that would hunt with the wolf and hide with the hare.
And worse, close observation of most points of the communique indicate an exercise was hurriedly organised for political reasons instead of looking really deeply at the very scary security situation in our region.
One question continues to force its way through the whole surface-scratching – obu ukwua ka nama ga-eji luo Umuahia?
