EBURU OZU ONYE OZO, O DI KA E BU UKWU NKU

A few days ago, a brother, nwanna posted a link to a youTube Igbo news. He asked Umu Igbo to share the laughter with him. I was very curious and really excited that somebody has finally arrived with a new facet of the Igbo language revival project. What a brilliant idea, I thought, to have an Igbo News channell on Youtube. I saved it and went back to it after deleting all the mails I had no interst in.
Upon clicking on the link, the image of a young well dressed, good looking man presumably Igbo, could not tell by his attire popped up. He went straight to the bussiness of delivering the news or was it news? Although this was supposed to draw laughter, I was appalled by what I was hearing. The bearer of this joke from hell went on talking about, actually joking about nurses killed by their spouses. The gruesome pictures of the murdered women played before my eyes as I listened to this young man with a smile on his face comparing nurses to Abakaliki rice. These are daughters, wives, sisters, aunties and friends of umu Igbo. The callousness of the so called joke was unbelievable. Even if the murdered women were all bad women and bad wives, did they deserve to lose their lives? Is cold blooded murder part of the Omenani this young newscaster was predicting must survive? The husbands of these murdered nurses who are tarnishing in jail, are they better off than their dead wives? The orphans left by these destroyed couples, are they not alive and sometimes re-live the good times when mother and father were alive and things were allright.
I am still trying to figure out what has become of our people. Ndi Igbo have a saying----- Eburu ozu onye ozo na aga, o di ka e bu ukwu nku. ( when the coffin holding the body of a dead stranger is carried by, it looks like a bundle of firewood)

This "funny "video was available for all to watch and laugh about, even friends and relatives of these nurses, even nurses and non nurses, male and female who suffer at the hands of their spouses. It is a shame how insensitive we have become. Some of the things said to other people, done to other people, said of other people are mind boggling and then we wonder why things are falling apart.
I had deleted the e mail with the link after listenting to the video but I could not get it out of my mind since then. I thank God that no news of a dead nurse has surfaced recently, no matter whose fault it is, no matter how worthless the nurse was, assuming nursing has become a disease.
I am hoping that the culture and omenani talked about in that broadcast will prevail, the culture of abhoring Igbu Ochu, no matter what. Ndi Igbo abhor murder, cold blooded murder. Return to sender, peacefully. Kama madu ga eriju afo dachie uzo, aguu lee kwa ya buru. For that reason, Ndi Igbo abhor Igbu ochu. Ka Chineke mere Umu Igbo ebere, weghachi ako na uche ha furu efu.

To be continued.

Nwada Chinwe Enemchukwu
Onye Uwa oma
na Orlando, Florida.