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00:00When was the last time you saw Ajuku?
00:03The group that I represent, all we want for you to do is to call a halt to the fire.
00:09We will not allow him to destabilize our nation.
00:12Yes, sir.
00:13The regime wants him silenced with nothing traced to us.
00:16But that will require placing a hold on secession.
00:20Yes.
00:21And that is the sticky point, Wole.
00:23The Igbos were nothing but an excuse for the military and the mafia
00:28to not do the actual work of nation building.
00:31And that, my friend, is carrying out the aims of January 15.
00:35You should be in class teaching.
00:37Why are you always disturbing the peace of the land?
00:41The last time you held up a radio station with a gun.
00:44Stop that.
00:45Now you are in bed with Ajuku. Why?
00:48I think we need a group of new entrants into this world.
00:53So that we can neutralize the two combatants.
00:56Absolutely.
00:57A third force that will work in terms of a compromise for the people.
01:03Wole, speak all the grammar you want.
01:06But this, this is not the way to go about it.
01:11So what will you have me do, Obama?
01:13I have a message that could end this war and bring about peace.
01:17Supporting the Igbos against this nation does not look like a decision
01:21an intelligent Obama like you should make.
01:23People have been subjected to a degree of inhuman violation
01:28for which there is no other word but genocide.
01:31I believe very strongly that they have a right to seek an identity
01:35apart from their aggressors.
01:37You know, when I see you fighting each other
01:41and then the war does, fighting you and you fighting each other.
01:45You know what I see?
01:47I see this nation.
01:50Have you heard the story about the red ants and the black ants in the jar?
01:54You know, they're all going about their business, you know, doing their thing
01:58until someone shakes the jar.
02:01And then the ants, they start to fight each other.
02:04Now why the red and black ants are fighting is a secondary issue.
02:07The urgent question is, who shook the bloody jar?
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