Lauretta Onochie: How else do you define a witch

When you read the story of witches some of you will think it’s a fairy tale, while those who believe they exist will just think it’s about those stories of Edo witches that fly at night. But, in recent history, we’re all witnesses to the story of a witch who neither flies at night or like those fairy tales, turning to ochicha to suck human blood at night. This particular witch, sucks blood though, but in a broad daylight with lies and intentional destructive tendency.

All you need to do to attract her anger and fall victim is to be an Igbo that is making progress in life. Yes, just let God in his infinite wisdom create you an Igbo person, then by this divine incident that happened to you, you will feel the venom of Lauretta Onochie.

In Lauretta Onochie, you will see a perfect description of someone who hates to see something good in Igbos. You wonder why? Your confusion is as good as mine. Because, her hatred for Igbos is exceptional yet, she is from Delta Igbo and like several ignorant others, she denied her Igbo root.

Some school of thought describes her as a Northern apologist and enemy of Ndi Igbo. I accept the later view point, but the first, sycophancy has to come in between the lines. Something like, “She’s a sycophantic northern apologist. When Lauretta noticed that Buhari and a few people around him weren’t favorably disposed of to Igbos, she latched on to that to start attacking Igbos right, left, center. The lady was so desperate to do anything to put food on her table through the pain of any Igbo person since nothing financially much was coming out of her frustrated unmarried life.

Her evil genius mind predicted accurately, feeding Buhari with the hate speech he wants to hear, while parading herself as a Northern apologist, Buhari during his tenure, nominated Lauretta as INEC Commissioner, but Nigerians in their millions rejected her nomination and cried out and insisting that there are positions not made for witches, because of public interest. She was rejected. Being used to rejection and lacking shame, it didn’t mean anything to desperate Lauretta. Well, that’s the pretense she did put on while running back to her masters to cry. Later on, Buhari appointed her Chairperson of NNDC of which, she was once more, disgraced out of office within a few months. Reason being, she went there and was not at peace with anyone. She fought the management, fought the staff, quarreled with security officers, came to meetings late and drunk, as a result, what made Nigerians to rise up and the rejection at INEC, followed her to NNDC also.

Since her disgraceful sack from NDDC, with her unpaid house rent in London hanging on her neck, in her desperation, she started abusing Buhari, while lamenting about how after everything she did for him, she was left empty handed. She has been busy running from pillar to post looking for any Igbo man she can run down on and see if she will use that to win the attention of Tinubu, but she didn’t know that time has changed. Tinubu is not Buhari, Tinubu is too sophisticated to allow a little mind like Lauretta Onochie to mess up his brain like she did to Buhari, as she capitalized on Buhari’s hatred for Ndi Igbo to gain notorious attention.

Lauretta Onochie fought Peter Obi and did all manners of things just to discredit him during the election, hoping to build her CV on that, and used that to attract President Tinubu’s attention but regrettably and as expected, that project failed woefully. Confused, after lamenting to some circle of her witches friends, she was advised to pick up another Igbo project and try her luck again.

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Not knowing what to do, Lauretta Onochie went and unearthed an old 2016 video of imported rice consignment by another Igbo man, and started circulating it as a new video, presenting it like the company intentionally smuggled in an expired rice into the country to sell. How else do you define a wicked old witch? Her anger and hate filled mindset against anything Igbo and state of desperation blinded her to the fact that no one is still importing rice into Nigeria.

What actually happened was that the Igbo industrialist did import about N1b worth of rice in 2016, everything was properly documented and due process followed. The clearing agent was funded to pay the actual duty but in the clearing agent’s greed to make more money, he started cutting corners and instead of declaring the goods as rice and declaring same, he went and registered it as yeast to get reduced tax to enable him make extra money having been paid in full to clear the goods as rice. Every effort was made to clear this error when the ever busy owner and this company got a hint of the clearing agent’s bad intentions, but the actual reality was that those involved saw it as another big opportunity to punish an innocent Igbo business man.

The rice was said to have been sized, but what was made public was nowhere near the quantity of rice involved. I don’t want to dwell on that, but coming almost 10 years later to pick on the story clearly shows who Lauretta Onochie is and her stock in trade. Whoever hired her to do this hatchet job might actually have over estimated her intellectual capacity.

In psychological terms, we can describe Lauretta Onochie as being envious towards any progress of anything Igbo. She’s always feeling resentful and bitter about Igbos success or qualities. This Lauretta Onochie’s act of feeling insecure, feeling threatened by strengths or achievements of Igbos l understand started from her school days, when her heart was broken because an Igbo guy dumped her over her pretentious character. That’s where this jealous spirit of resenting IGBOS started possessions of her soul.

So, when you see her personality traits of being resentful, bitter, unjustifiably critical in disparaging, belittling and condescending just pity her. Lauretta Onochie can’t help herself but spreads negative rumors to see if she can foster negative and discord against IGBOs. So, her exhibits of passive-aggressive behavior towards Igbos is understandable..

The Igbo merchant who owns the rice is an extraordinary entrepreneur with a focus on manufacturing, oil and gas and industrialization and we won’t watch haters and bitter minds like Lauretta Onochie the evil contractor to destroy his hard earned reputation.

Voice of the Oppressed.