“I SAW THE HAND OF ESAU BUT HEARD THE VOICE OF JACOB” EVEN AS AN UNDER-AGED COMMANDO SOLDIER OF THE DEGEMA STRIKE FORCE, 4TH COMMANDO BRIGADE, BIAFRA. WERE THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND HIS FOREIGH AFFAIRS OFFICERS NOT ANGLICAN CHRISTIANS WHILE THEY WERE ARMING MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA TO EXTERMINATE CHRISTIANS IN THE SOUTH? SHAME ON ALL BRITONS!

“I saw the hand of Esau but heard the voice of Jacob” even as an under-aged commando soldier of the Degema Strike Force, 4th Commando Brigade, Biafra! 
When will Britain really become Christians?

NIGERIA ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES IN 1996 Both, Cross River and Rivers are Igbo areas carved out by the Northern oligarch to malign the minority ethnic groups within the region against the Igbo. “I saw the hand of Esau but heard the voice of Jacob” even as an under-aged commando soldier of the Degema Strike Force, 4th Commando Brigade, Biafra. It is the “divide and rule” policy of Britain; a diplomatic masterstroke whispered into the ears of the illegitimate military dictator in Nigeria then, to persuade the riverine peoples to sabotage the efforts at independence by Biafrans. It worked; ‘divided we fall’ was proven right! This author, “Nzeogwu the Second”, was a nineteen year old conscripted ‘ad hoc’ Sergeant in March 1968 but by sheer bravery rose by ‘bush commission’ to a Substantive Major by December 1969. 

THE AUTHOR AS AN UNDER-AGED BIAFRAN SOLDIER (a picture of the author in battle dress was here)
The Nigerian civil war started in 1967 when Nigeria’s Eastern Region, due to excessive pogroms unleashed on the Igbos in the north seceded and proclaimed itself the Republic of Biafra. Here, this author as a youth of nineteen years participated in the defence of Oguta, converted to a river port and used to import medical necessities as blockades by land, sea and air became a weapon of war by the Nigerian government. Starvation, hunger and disease; malnutrition, kwashiorkor, marasmus and hepatitis took their toll on children, refugees and soldiers on the Biafran side before it eventually capitulated. The brave leaders of the dislocated Biafran forces then surrendered to the Nigerian armed forces in January 1970. Photo by; Hulton Deutsch/Corbis & Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. 

“Why did we lose the war of survival? Should Nigeria the aggressor defeat us the victims of their cruel and premeditated pogroms? Of what use were the prayers to a god that never answered us? Or did our leaders commit unpardonable war crimes or indulge in sacrilegious absurdities? Is the Muslim religion more authentic and reliable than Christianity? If yes, then let us join them and go on pilgrimages to Mecca!” Finding answers to these existential questions drove the young war veteran crazy. He could not comprehend how an unjust war ended in favour of the aggressors. For him it meant that we wasted all our time and youthfulness in the war fronts praying to the God of Christians! He truly deserved veritable explanations! He withdrew from all religious engagement for a period of ten consecutive years, from 1970 to 1980. That gave him enough time to reflect on some existential questions about all he had learnt from the Christian missionaries that moulded his early life in the junior and senior seminaries. 

FAMINE IN BIAFRA ( Pictures of malnourished children with pot bellies and swollen feet were here)
During the Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970, the Nigerian government imposed blockades around Biafra, effectively cutting off the secessionist state’s food supply. The resulting famine in Biafra was devastating, as upwards of one million people died of starvation. The swollen bellies and ankles of these Biafran children are symptoms of kwashiorkor, an extreme form of protein-energy malnutrition. Culled from Archive Photos & Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. 

There arose the need for him to re-evaluate his belief system, moderate his scrupulous orientation to social life and thereafter, formulate a realistic code of conduct that could guarantee his survival in the conflicting world of the Nigerian society he found himself trapped in! He lived as a war captive for the next 30 years! Within this period, he fully practised the introverted meditative lifestyle of Viktor Frankl or that detached life of a research scientist reminiscent of the great Austrian monk geneticist, MacGregor Mendel. He earned four university degrees that spanned a period of 15 years, with breaks here and there to assist his eight younger brothers and sisters, siblings of the same humble family of a school teacher/catechist! To achieve this, he again joined the armed forces of the nation he lived as an exile, the fallout of which was that he neatly sandwiched a military diploma, pjsc, from the Nigerian Air Force in between the four degrees! A bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, sponsored by the Catholic missionaries in1970, then another bachelor’s degree in Psychology, self-sponsored and partly aided by a Federal Government Loans Bursary award in 1975. This loan was later paid in full after his NYSC, which he served at the Department of Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Ibadan and Lambo’s Aro-Village System, Abeokuta from 1975- 1976! This was followed by the three-year stint as an Air Force Medical Officer, NAF 759. Upon winning the Anambra State Ph.D. Scholarship Award in 1977 he resigned in 1979 and later earned a Masters in Clinical Psychology, from the School of Medicine, University of Benin, in 1982. He rounded his training with a Doctor of Science degree in Research Psychometrics, earned by innovative researches in personality evaluation, organisational psychology and family counselling in 1993! This doctorate degree qualified him to join the prestigious African College of Research Scientists, Addis Ababa Campus, of which he is now, a Fellow! A rare feat of academic achievement for anyone to obtain through self-reliance, ingenuity and resourcefulness! 

For the next phase of his research/academic life he combined family roles and clinical duties, churning out psychological tests for guidance/career counselling, personality evaluation and marriage/family counselling. In the interim he got married and to date has two boys and a girl, who became the well-deserved consolation for his long years of ambivalence! Today he is a retired Flight Lieutenant in private clinical practice as a HUMANISTIC-EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST. He still does extensive research in Family Counselling, Existential Family Therapy and Community Medicine. His published psychological tests and books exceed fifteen, as at the last count. He is a respected authority in Psychometrics, a Member of the National Association of Clinical Psychologists and the Founder/Animator of three world-wide NGOs; i. KENEZ HEALTH KLINIK, an Interdisciplinary Therapeutic Organisation for Family Health, ii. HAPPY FAMILY NETWORK an Inter-ethnic CBO for grooming healthy & successful families, iii. INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, a Spiritual Fellowship for Modern Scientists! The greatest contribution he has made so far seems to be in the area of family counselling and existential therapy where he has developed, constructed, validated and standardised more than thirteen psychological tests for school career guidance, pre-marital counselling and crises intervention in families that need help! In addition, he has written nine books covering such areas of knowledge as: social ethics, theosophy, cosmology, social and community medicine. The manuscripts of these inspirational works are, in the real sense of the phrase, begging for funds to print them. Can anyone publish these books so that others may benefit from the information stashed away in them? His religious involvement in early life became an asset as this book in moral ethics has turned out to be the best outcome of his contemplative lifestyle. Below are some of the verses he wrote that kept him mentally alive and hopeful that his children would have a better future! You may benefit from reading and practising some of them in your daily living! There are existential truths rather than theological jargons! Establishment of Universal Truths and control of one’s tongue and selfless service summarises ISM. Double-faced Christians now abound everywhere; they worship Satan at night and come to church on Sundays! This lifestyle has eroded the credentials of our forebears! There is now, an urgent need to redeem our children from these nefarious practices! We must revert to the legacies of our renowned grandfathers, improve on it and bequeath the next generation a better religious legacy than we had! 

I. S. M. UNIVERSAL PRAYER 
The Animator International’s Version Lord of the universe, the Almighty Creator God, I am your humble son, Jideofo Kenechukwu, born into the family of Sir Daniel Paul Mbaezue. In your Infinite Wisdom and Love you have created me for a purpose, Permit me to understand and fulfil the mission you have assigned me, May your Holy Spirit guide me to accomplish it in my short span of life. My Eternal Creator and Lord of the universe, I know that you exist, I observe also that all beings are interdependent, we need each other, Therefore, increase my loyalty and dependence on your benevolence. I love you as the Father of all that exists, I want to love other beings, As much as I love myself, permit me to truly achieve this increasingly! I worship you as my first beginning, I wish to do this as long as I live, I acknowledge your constant sustenance and care for me and all that is, Guide me by your divine wisdom, correct me with your eternal justice, Comfort me with your mercy and protect me with your limitless power, So that I may obey all the laws, you put in creation for our own good! I have a princely heritage in that I function at three levels of operations, In that tripartite functionality of thought, word and action I am like you. Grant me a large heart and mind to appreciate the universal knowledge That all humankind are blood relatives and co-heirs of this your ability, Therefore, we all are brothers and sisters, children of the same Father! Permit me to fix all my thoughts on you; my words to edify mankind, My actions to reflect my love for all humanity because I respect you, And all my trials and sufferings to be endured for your greater glory. I want to do whatever you ask of me, in the very way that pleases you, Thereby, obey all your natural laws for as long as you permit to live here. Lord, enlighten my understanding, strengthen my will, purify my heart And make me holy so as to resist temptations and repent of all my sins, Help me to rise above human weaknesses and to grow stronger in truth, So that with simplicity of heart and humane love I may care for others, And in caring for others may my worship and adoration be self-evident. Help me to conquer every anger with gentleness, greed by generosity, Apathy by true charity, selfishness by works of mercy and compassion, Help me to forget myself and thereby freely reach out towards others. Let my conscience be clear most of the time, my conduct without fault, My speech blameless, my thoughts edifying and my life well ordered. Make me very prudent in planning ahead for all, courageous in taking risks, Patient in adversity, honest at work and unassuming in times of prosperity. Keep me attentive at my prayers, temperate at table and sober in drinking, Firm in my holy resolutions, diligent in my good intentions/ labours of love. May my lifestyle be exemplary and reflect your infinite goodness for all to see. Put me on guard against mundane desires, protect me from every vanity And licentiousness, which can draw me away from obeying your dictates. Let me cherish your benevolence for all humanity and imitate your ways. Teach me to realise that the world is passing by and that nothing here lasts, That my true happiness is being a loyal citizen in your heavenly kingdom! At the dusk of my earthly life, help me to prepare for death with a proper focus On your fair judgement, for even guilty I still rely fully on your Infinite Mercy. Lead me safely thro’ the pangs of physical death to that endless place of peace, Where all those who have done your will on earth will be adequately rewarded, With the bliss of singing your praises in communion with your saints forever! 

THIS IS THE LITMUS TEST FOR ALL GENUINE KENEZIANS Anyone who cannot internalise the noble thoughts, words and actions enunciated in this universal prayer has no business joining Kenezianism, a.k.a. INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT. Every sane man or woman who lives by the dictates of this interethnic, intercultural, inter-religious, interdisciplinary and international prayer points is a true Kenezian and a candidate of God’s kingdom on earth. We must be saints here not after our deaths. Kenezianism is the only natural path to holiness. * Signed at 0500 hours GMT on 11th March 2001 by Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez & Approved by the Holy Spirit of the Almighty Creator of the universe.

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 * Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, a.k.a Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez The Humble Vessel of the Holy Spirit of the Creator of the Universe Animator International of RENASCENT IGBO RELIGION, a.k.a I S M E-mail:saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk or agunabu1948@gmail.com Websites: www.happyfamilynetwork.hpage & http:wwwrenascentigborel.blogspot.com MY 64TH BIRTHDAY GIFT on Sunday, 11 March 2012 TO ALL HUMANITY FOR FORGING A UNIFIED RELIGION IN OUR CURRENT GLOBAL VILLAGE FOR A LASTING GLOBAL PEACE.