Dear Royal Colonial Institute

Dear Royal Colonial Institute,

The atmosphere in the room that I am sensing seems to be one of distraught and dismay from our recent dilution in ownership of our colonies. Whilst this may seem problematic and troublesome from the surface, I beg to differ. According to me anyone who feels in this manner should be cuffed and sent to prison for direct interference with this great countries laws. Our country deems it unconstitutional to infringe the rights and freedoms of the less fortunate, those who can not defend themselves - but this is what we continue to do in the Lower Niger in Iboland. 

Firstly, dear institute our treatment of these people is beyond acceptable. Notice the usage of the term "people". Dear Institute how long will we continue to plunder these people in order to salvage a few more pounds. From what I have heard the District Commissioners are being bribed by the fortunate few converts in Iboland and the others who decide to follow their religion are being whipped and their daughters and wives even being raped. Dear Institute, our government has provided immunity for those who decide to follow our religion of Christianity, but those Ibo people who don't are treated with utter disrespect. What happened to our all-encompassing policies. Even those locals who we have hired as our interpreters/messengers (The Kotma) and taught English to are using this power to fraud their own. 

However, dear institute that argument is only focused on our treatment of the Ibo people. Now, I will proceed to expose our flawed reasoning in the colonization of the people of the Lower Niger. My fellow man Chamberlain had argued that we should continue our colonization on the moral grounds that we are bringing civilization to the Iboland. However, dear institution these Ibo people have an abundance of civilizations. They have mastered the iron sculpting and make spears, hatchets, swords and etc. of a much higher quality than us. They know how to harness wine from trees and their agricultural sense is far superior to ours. 

However, their self-sufficiency doesn't end there. The so-called government and order we are trying to bring about in Iboland is already present there and has been so for almost 5 centuries. The Ibo have an interesting form of governance which is a morphed form of democracy meaning, that their people have more of a voice in matters of the state than do ours. The Ibo society works on the basis of titles and thus everyone is motivated to work hard, yielding a society with a motive. Those who don't uphold any titles in the Ibo society are looked down upon and the society is self-driven and prosperous in their own ways. So when Chamberlain makes claims of bettering the Igbo society, he is simply justifying the ruthless plundering by us Britishers on an innocent Igbo society.

Thus, I have only one question to ask you dear institute

Why try to fix something which isn't broken?