In a rogue video gone viral, an Igbo Canadian-Nigerian, whose name shall not be mentioned here, went into what looked like a crazed frenzy, calling on other possibly crazed fellows to take the earliest opportunity to poison Nigerians of Yoruba and Edo extraction in Canada.

On a virtual meeting with more than 100 attendees on a TikTok platform, the ethnic bigot, who lives in Ontario, Canada, goaded on by a conspiratorial male voice, declared a horrific fatwa in pidgin English against the Yoruba and Edo, living in Canada.

Her words: “I go dey put am for all una food. If I go work tomorrow now, I go put am for Yoruba people food. Go tell government. O ya. I dey Canada. I dey Ontario. Oya hurry. Fast. Fast. I go put otapiapia, I go put Ogbomosho, everything for una food.

”Una go dey hear small, small. Yoruba don die o. Bini don kpeme o. Una go dey hear am. Na me talk am. I wan make Nidgbo get that heart of wickedness. Una too dey quiet. Una too dey cool. Enough is enough.

“If you have a means of kpaing them, kpai them. Record me very well. It is time to start poisoning the Yoruba and Bini. Put poison for all una food for work. Put poison for una water, make una dey kpai one by one.”

This, roughly translated into everyday English, means, “I will put (poison) in all your food. When I go to the office tomorrow, I will put poison in the food of Yoruba people. Go tell the government. I am in Canada. I am in Ontario. Be quick. I will put rat poison. I will put Ogbomosho poison in your food.

 “You will hear about it gradually, that the Yoruba have died, and the Bini have died. You will hear about it. I am the one that spoke it. I want Ndigbo to have a heart of wickedness. You (Igbo) are too quiet. You are too cool. Enough is enough.

“If you (Igbo) have a means of killing the Yoruba and the Bini, kill them. Put me on record (for saying so). It is time to start killing the Yoruba and the Bini. Put poison in all their foods at work. Put poison in their water, let them die one after the other.”

This, in her weird and convoluted logic, is an appropriate response for what she probably perceives as hatred of the Igbo by the kindred of those she wants to be poisoned. Understandably, many Igbo and other Nigerians have called for her arrest and prosecution by Canadian authorities.

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, weighed in against ethnic profiling that justifies insults and such deranged incitement against Nigerian compatriots. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, reportedly got the Canadian police to arrest the woman, who is reported to have been sent home from her job.

These interventions may have checked her and others inclined to surreptitiously execute the fatwa, in the cause of an irrational, demented, deranged and genocidal agenda obviously fed by hate, though an equally unstable “Kingsley,” based in Austria, responded by asking the Bini to poison Igbo children.

Her action trumps the gaffe of Eze Ndigbo Ajao Estate who called on the militia arm of separatist Indigenous People of Biafra pressure group to visit violence in cosmopolitan Lagos State, where many of his Igbo kinsmen reside and earn their livelihood.

Her call also reminds one of IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa, who employ vitriolic incendiaries against the Yoruba and the entire country of Nigeria that Kanu derisively described as a zoo. There’s also an unstable Yoruba apologist, with the name, Grand something, who called for the annihilation of Igbo residents in Lagos.

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Imagine how the words, “We Germans fear God, but nothing else on this earth,” uttered by a servant in Asyl fur Obdachose, or Asylum for the Homeless, an Austrian shelter for the destitute, affected the young and impressionable Adolf Hitler, who grew up to become the scourge that annihilated roughly six million Jews during the Second World War.

Hitler, who adopted the title of Fuhrer, which ordinarily means leader, but became synonymous with totalitarianism, coldly ordered the death of Jews in gas chambers in concentration camps at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec and other death chambers, in a most horrendous holocaust.

By the way, holocaust is derived from two Greek words, “holos,” or whole, and “Kaustos,” or burned! So that such proportion of hate is never replicated in the history of mankind, Every man must be careful about the “truth” and history they pass to succeeding generations.

In the books of most reasonable people, the outbursts of this lady, especially in a society with a well-structured legal and security system, are nothing short of lunacy; only a possibly deranged individual can issue such fatwa.

If this development is not nipped swiftly, it could lead to the level of Rwandan-proportion tragedies that set nomadic Tutsis against farmer Hutus in a genocidal war that resulted in the death of more than 800,000 Rwandans in just 100 days of sheer horror.

This woman, who offered no particular reasons for her hate speech, reminds one of Iago, the evil character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, “Othello.” Literary critics described Iago as a villain with “motiveless malignity.” He needlessly schemed for the downfall and death of his boss, Othello, and his harmless wife, Desdemona.

Her action may have resulted from “institutional knowledge,” handed down, over the decades, by ethnically bigoted elders, who wanted to achieve parochial political objectives, by framing Nigeria’s history, so that younger generations of Igbo and Yoruba, resent, if not hate, each other.

The Igbo must stop profiling the Yoruba as their traducers, and embrace them as partners in the Nigerian project. And the Yoruba must be more accommodating of the Igbo. Leaders of both groups must engage in soul-searching dialogues to achieve lasting solutions. If not, both sides will forever remain apprehensive of each other.

There is no doubt that Nigeria’s recent history is shaped by opinions formed from events that occurred after the first military coup, the countercoup, the unnecessary Civil War and the half-hearted reconciliation that led to the phenomenon of “Abandoned Property” and dislocation of the Igbo in the Nigerian economy.

Though the Igbo found a way around the economic disadvantages, they are yet to achieve full reintegration into Nigerian society and its politics. As long as a “glass wall” shuts the Igbo out, and they too play the victim card, it may take some time for One-Nigeria to manifest.

Maybe Nigeria needs to assemble its historians, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, political scientists, philosophers and culture experts to interrogate the Nigerian society, identify causes of the fissures and social tensions and recommend a harmonious political, social and economic template to achieve social justice for all.

In addition, pressure groups, like the National Peace Committee, led by former military Head of State, General Abubakar Abusalami (retd.); The Patriots, led by Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary General of Commonwealth of Nations; Yoruba Afenifere and Ohaneze Ndigbo, should join the conversation.

Maybe calls for a review of Nigeria’s political structure are the place to start. The crooked firewood from faraway Canada must not be allowed to upset the fire of harmony in Nigeria.