AS a proud Igbo man, I profess dismay at the columnist Uche Ezechukwu who in the Sun of October 25 and November 1, 2010 took his time to calumniate Ambassador Raph Uwechue, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. This is because I have always had a lot of respect for Mr. Ezechukwu and his journalism.
But I was shocked by the degree of debasement to which he applied himself and his respected column in these pieces he titled, “Uwechue’s sad swan song”(1 and 2). My source of discomfort is not simply with the abrasive prose but also because of the penchant for execration that he exhibited in attacking the person of Chief Uwechue – a much-respected Igbo icon and elder statesman.
Among some other ethnic groups, Ezechukwu’s animus and scorn for Uwechue would have earned him and, possibly, his immediate relations, some bashing! The youths would have congregated to teach them how not to convert the pages of a newspaper for the humiliation of a blameless septuagenarian. It is obviously because Ndigbo do not resort to violent action on account of this kind of misbehaviour that Ezechukwu was unrelenting in his verbal diarrhoea.
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