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CURIOSITIES ON THE DAY TO DAY OF THE IGBOS AND THEIR WAYS.IGBO.MADEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13018770337256731244noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-66304843613744153282024-01-27T03:20:00.000+01:002024-01-27T03:20:00.103+01:00NDIGBO; A BRAIN RESET NEEDED <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTo2I8dQV0QPeV4Ccel-MY2oIIz8Finy8tVvkmHqtVcauHenaFm2f2NLDHc7RX-IAMGK6XxaZNoJUFVObQVy16QEY99cSJTxqGzsVb6OdDVTYWjF5Err7KUXkyPznOn_jJKrmsnzg0wmrZDY8xo11p2glARYwV6tdSXOlM03b-WWiqbx4mexQgiO_NM626/s727/Screenshot_20240127_020829_WhatsApp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTo2I8dQV0QPeV4Ccel-MY2oIIz8Finy8tVvkmHqtVcauHenaFm2f2NLDHc7RX-IAMGK6XxaZNoJUFVObQVy16QEY99cSJTxqGzsVb6OdDVTYWjF5Err7KUXkyPznOn_jJKrmsnzg0wmrZDY8xo11p2glARYwV6tdSXOlM03b-WWiqbx4mexQgiO_NM626/w198-h200/Screenshot_20240127_020829_WhatsApp.jpg" width="198" /></a></div>Ndigbo, unu abọọla chi. Djaamalụwooo! Ihe na-eme anyị si anyị n'aka. Ndígbo, we need a BRAIN RESET, so as to rearrange our priorities.Ndigbo, we keep majoring in minor things like a student who dwells on EXTRACURRICULARS and overlooks his studies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When IPOB was birthed by the following Igbo greats; Ozobu, Ikedife and Achuzia, they had a well thought out vision with various components; immediate, short term and long term. However, Ndigbo wanted it NOW! NOW!! NOW!!! and preferred the 'Nzogbu!Nzogbu!!' message of some younger elements, who believed these iconic elderstatesmen were too slow. Using the instrumentality of the radio, these men were demonized and forced out of the way. They were harried and called terrible names and Ndigbo cheered in bloody ecstasy like Romans watching gladiators devouring each other at an amphitheatre.Just the other day, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu made a policy statement,"IPOB IS NOT AVERSE TO GENUINE RESTRUCTURING"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR INSECURITY IN THE SOUTH EAST ARE THOSE WHO STOPPED THE PLANNED TRUCE BETWEEN IPOB & THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN 2017". These statements shows that Kanu wants to be released and his release is at hand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">With these statements that are factual, a Spanish phrase easily comes to mind, "Hasta la vista!'. Until the circle comes round. Ndígbo, certainly, the circle has come round 360⁰!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Instead of discussing inanities like presentation of a "special mysterious drink box" to Omekannaya, we should be bold enough to look the facts in the face by calling a strategic meeting(s) to discuss Kanu's factual assertions. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We can't keep blaming others all the time; let's tell ourselves some home truths.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After 7 years, occasioned by so much blood shed in the South East, by both Igbos and non-Igbos, it's not too late to wake up and turn back to 2017. It's not time to apportion blames; else all parties involved have their blames, to varying extents. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ndigbo, as a nation, it is time to cry to the spirits of Ozobu, Ikedife and Achuzia for forgiveness for 'enjoying the sport' while they were being vilified on radio.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ndigbo, taa bụ gboo; o si taa dị mma, ọ dịrị gawa</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> *<span style="background-color: #04ff00;">Mazi Ikechukwu Bismarck Ọjị,</span> MNSE, COREN* </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(Ọ́VỤ̀ MỌ́Ọ́ WÈRÙ NENWE)</div></div></span></div></span></div>CHARLIE.MBChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08895974414571315765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-56120888251782476382020-06-21T23:10:00.000+01:002020-06-21T23:19:41.191+01:00UNABATED FULANI HERDSMEN PROVOCATIONS & DESTRUCTIONS IN NENWE TOWN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Eleven months ago the Nenwe community in Aninri LGA of Enugu State was in the limelight when they <b>vehemently but peacefully</b> resisted fulani people settling in their farms with hundreds of cattles i their farmland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Many interpretations were given to this and the Federal government promptly through the state government sent a delegation of<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">all the service chiefs</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span>in the state who went to the Igwe to 'muscle out' (as we learnt) statements to the press which indicated there were no problems and that the fulanis were living in harmony in the town. This statements that went on air was later debunked by the youths through the Punch newspaper two weekend after. <b><i>The youths pointed out many reports to the police and pending court cases of un honoured financial compensations, illegal occupation of 4 strategic points of the town, wanton destruction</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i> of their farm lands and harassments </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i>of women in the farms by fulani herdsmen.</i></b> The whole world and the nation were told other stories.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">According to the complaints from the community members that spoke to us recently the herdsmen took advantage of this apparent intimidation by the state security agencies and Governor Ugwuanyi and have continued to expand and illegally occupy their farmlands. They are obviously sure of immunity and impunity therefore have been acting to the latter. Their <span style="color: red;"><b> provocations have been daily </b></span>and the youths have continued to restrain themselves from taking unilateral actions. They have complained to the community leaders who are so frightened by the state security agencies storming of the Igwe of one of the communities last year in what was said to be a 'mediatroty mission' . They have complained that nobody has come to hear from them and address their complaints the way they rushed to query why the cattle men were stopped from settling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Some days ago the provocations and destructions continued and a woman in the farm was wounded by these herdsmen. The people succeeded in catching one of the herdsmen and handed him over to the police.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Now it is a clear fact that the fulani herdsmen have not relentened in targeting the town and looking for confrontations</b> . The <span style="color: red;">villagers are abandoned to themselves </span> since they cant even report or when they report to the press they are threatened by the security chiefs of the state, they youths have been very cool headed and disciplined in handling this provocations but would like the Governor to intervene.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> That they never leased any parcel of land to the herdsmen.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That Nenwe is a 100% agrarian community in the Aninri LGA.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That Nenwe town like other parts of the Old Awgu LGA being an agrarian community <b>dosen not by culture permite OPEN GRAZING</b>. All animals must be in the owners closed compound or they are bound to be hunted down.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That they have hosted and tolerated cattlemen passing, even temporary brief overnight stays (since many years) and they were relatively peaceful but <span style="color: red;">cant cope anymore</span> <b>with these new violent and arrogant new breed of fulani herdsmen with guns</b>.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That they don't see why herdsmen should be carrying openly<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> <b>AK.47 assultand battle guns</b> </span>in the farms and community.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That they gently ask all herdsmen to leave the farmland they are illegally occupying with threats of gun and rape of the women</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That the State government should intervene in their removal from the lands before it results to other problems. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That they continue to praise the youths whom we are all aware of their temperaments and wort for restraining themselves from misconducts and for being lawful in the face of these provocations.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That the continue to ask their neighbours to be vigilant and communicate movements of criminals.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That the whole igbo people should be aware of these provocations in Nenwe that has escalated since 2019.</span></li>
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*Korona Vairọsụ*<br />
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<br />FOTO 2 NEWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994315459052217908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-734782971814738472019-09-21T18:47:00.001+01:002019-09-21T18:47:32.075+01:00ABBA Town under siege By Chimamanda Adichie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">By Chimamanda Adichie</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One night in July, the signboards disappeared. The people of Abba, my hometown in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state, woke up to see that the signboards were gone — the signboard that said ‘Welcome to Abba Town’ had vanished. The signboard mounted by the state government that said ‘Drive safely through Abba’ had vanished. Every signboard that announced Abba’s boundary had disappeared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a country where signboards exist to make communities visible, this was an act of erasure, a way of saying to a community: you no longer exist. An attack on a community’s autonomy. An aggression. But how could it have happened? There are laws, after all, and signboards set up by the state government cannot arbitrarily be torn down. It happened because the Nigerian police accompanied people at night to commit this illegal act. Witnesses saw them: the police vans, their flashing lights, their guns. And it happened because a Nigerian billionaire, Prince Arthur Eze, is financing a campaign of intimidation in order to win a land dispute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Land disputes are depressingly common all over Nigeria – Awka-Amawbia, Umuleri-Aguleri, and Ife-Modakeke are some well-known examples – but perhaps what makes Abba-Ukpo different is the brazen meddling of a wealthy man. The land in question is called Agu Abba – a vast stretch of woods, farmland, and a market, Oye Abba, with roofed wooden stalls. All land cases are complex, but here is a simplified history of this case: In 1967, shortly after the Nigeria-Biafra war began, Abba sued a nearby town, Ukwulu, for trespassing on its land. A state high court ruled in Abba’s favour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the war, Ukwulu questioned the legitimacy of the ruling, as Biafra no longer existed. Abba then sued again in 1975. The case dragged on until 1985 when Ukpo, another nearby town, formerly a witness for Ukwulu, made a surprising volte face and joined the suit, claiming some of the land as theirs. The suits were subsequently consolidated and in 1999 a state high court ruled in Ukwulu/Ukpo’s favour. Abba got a stay of execution on the judgment. Then something strange happened: the record of proceedings in the case suddenly disappeared. The Anambra State government set up a panel of inquiry, which sat for three months and returned empty-handed to say they could not find the court records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Abba filed an appeal but the appeal failed because the record of proceedings, which are indispensable materials for the determination of the appeal, could not be presented. Abba then appealed to the Supreme Court. In a lead judgment, Paul Adamu Galumje referred to the disappearance of the records and asked both parties to go back to the state high court and ‘sort out the mess.’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Abba went back to file suit in state court, where the case is currently ongoing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Do court records just get up and walk away?” a spokesperson for Abba said. “We all know Prince Arthur Eze paid people to destroy the records. We don’t have money but we will fight him with the truth in court.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But before the case could proceed in court, the siege of Abba began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On June 19, 2019, Oye Abba market was full of people trading in vegetables and yams when police vans screeched in and policemen leapt out, shooting tear gas canisters, pushing and hitting traders and buyers, asking everyone to leave the market immediately. People ran. Children cried. Two weeks later, more policemen arrived at the market, destroying the wares of innocent people. And again a few days later. The terrorized traders then abandoned the market and set up on a busy intersection at the center of Abba, a less than ideal site, but the only option left to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While visiting my elderly parents in my hometown in August 2019, I saw the makeshift market at this intersection, some traders sitting on the bare earth, in the sun’s harsh glare. Something about that scene broke my heart – the smallness and sadness of it, villagers determined to keep on going, even though their market had been forcefully and illegally taken from them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I began to ask questions and soon learned that it wasn’t just mass harassment of market traders, there was also a more targeted harassment of individuals who had spoken up for Abba in the land dispute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On July 3, 2019 policemen from the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Area 10, Garki Abuja arrived early in the morning and arrested three people from Abba. A woman was about to unlock her shop on the main road in Abba when policemen jumped on her and arrested her. A man was about to leave home for his construction work site when policemen barged through his door, scaring his family, and bundled him away. They were detained first at the State CID for one week and then were moved to Abuja where they were detained for two weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“On what charges?” I asked a young man, a member of the Abba Youth, who has witnessed the events from the beginning.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">‘They had a long list of charges, including conspiracy and attempted murder,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Attempted murder of whom?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“It’s all nonsense. They fabricated charges, based on zero evidence, and took them to Abuja just to intimidate them and make them give up our land.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The point of these illegal arrests is indeed intimidation. But many in Abba were not cowed. The Abba town union organized a peaceful protest along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway, on the spot where the signboards were torn down, to raise awareness about what was happening. They had no weapons, only their voices. Shortly after the protest began, the police arrived in large numbers. Some witnesses said there were at least 100 policemen, which in a small protest in a small town is akin to a hostile invasion by state machinery. The police fired tear gas to disperse the protest. The young man I spoke to was there, and told me how his eyes burned for days afterwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“There were so many tear gas canisters, up to 300, and they were brand new. We all know the police in this area don’t have that much. Who paid for the tear gas? Arthur Eze,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Abba Women also organized a protest to appeal to the governor for help. Hundreds of women gathered at the government house, all dressed in somber black, carrying signs, and singing mournful songs. Watching the video, one cannot help but be moved by these women, by their determination, their orderliness, their commitment to peaceful means of protest. They wanted the governor to step in and stop the police harassment of Abba indigenes. One of the cardboard signs they carried read: Stop police harassment of Abba. Another, to my surprise, read: Arthur Eze, emulate Alhaji Aliko Dangote. He does not use his money to intimidate people. He uses his money to invest wisely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Abba town union wrote detailed letters of complaint to the DSS, the state governor and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. An excerpt from the letter to the President reads: “It is no secret that the I. G. P. Adamu Mohammed is being used by a known moneybag in Ukpo, Prince Arthur Eze, to intimidate and silence Abba people like he did to their neighbouring Abagana community.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a child I was often skeptical of historical stories in which the homeland of the storyteller was always in the right. And so my natural skepticism made me ask why Prince Arthur Eze would engage in this violent campaign of intimidation, and whether perhaps he was being unfairly maligned. Where was the evidence? How could we be sure that Prince Arthur Eze was indeed responsible?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Arthur Eze wants to build a university named after him, and Ukpo doesn’t have any land big enough and so he wants to take our land,” the young man said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Prince Arthur Eze has a documented history of muscling his way into contested land – in the past few years he has used the police to terrorize another nearby town, Abagana, after which he annexed their land. But perhaps the clearest evidence that Prince Arthur Eze is the mastermind of the harassment in the Abba-Ukpo case comes from his own words. After the Supreme Court judgment, Prince Arthur Eze called the traditional ruler of Abba, Igwe LN Ezeh and asked for a meeting on May 21, 2019 at the Geneva Hotel in Okpuno, a town near Awka. There, Prince Eze made a proposal: if Abba agreed to abandon the court case and share the land with Ukpo, he would call off the police. Igwe LN Ezeh told him that Abba people wanted to conclude the case in court. There are witnesses to this meeting. It was after this meeting that the police harassment of Abba indigenes went into full force.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today in Abba people live in fear. Rumours swirl every day. Somebody says there is a list of Abba people to be arrested. Another says the police are coming from Abuja to arrest the town union members. Another says the community school, partly located on the disputed land, will be completely demolished. Some fearful parents keep their children home from school. When a big car with tinted windows drives through Abba, the people worry. Some men skulk away. Who will be arrested today? Who will be harassed? Who will sleep in a cell tonight?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My 87-year-old father, a retired university professor, is bewildered. He is from a passing generation of principled Nigerians who do not understand how a single individual can buy and control the Nigerian police force. After my father heard of an Abba man abducted while driving through Ukpo, his empty car left abandoned by the roadside, he asked my brother to take a longer route to a Pharmacy rather than drive through Ukpo. He feared for my brother’s safety. I fear for my parents’ safety. I fear for my hometown now unfairly living in distress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most recently, on September 6, 2019, Abba people woke up to see a Caterpillar demolishing the structures of Oye Abba market, while armed policemen and mobile policemen stood guard. Abba people watched, helpless and hapless, as the economic center of their small community was destroyed. The Caterpillar also demolished the walls of the nearby community secondary school, only days before students are supposed to return to school. Now the school walls and the market stalls are</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a jumble of broken wood and cement, and a symbol of a brokenness in our system. Abba-Ukpo might well be a provincial land dispute, but it speaks to larger issues in Nigeria. A wealthy individual has turned the Nigerian police into his private terror group. Those deemed protectors of the people have become their attackers. Those supposed to uphold the law are now the practitioners of a particular kind of lawlessness lubricated by crass wealth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not all members of the police seem to be so shamefully on sale — the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, and the Divisional Police Officers of Ukpo and Abagana refused to harass Abba because they believed it to be illegal. But the consequences for them were swift: they were unceremoniously transferred to other states.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t know who has a legitimate claim to the land – it has for decades been known as Agu Abba and farmed by Abba people in the often-unwritten rules that govern customary land ownership. But that is what the courts should determine, in a process free from meddling. Court records should not disappear. No community in Nigeria should be terrorized by state machinery. No private citizen should have the power to turn the police on an entire community. Injustice is stalking Anambra state and the rights of every citizen should be protected. It is in protecting the rights of others that we protect our own rights, because we create a system of rights from which all can potentially benefit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I ended my conversation with the young man, he said, “Please don’t use my name. The police will come and abduct me and take me to Abuja. My family is poor. I don’t have anybody to bring me food in Abuja, not to talk of bailing me out.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was struck by his use of the word ‘abduct.’ Some members of the Nigerian police have soiled its name and its legitimacy. The Nigerian police has been used to cause great harm in Abba. The Nigerian police must now refuse to be used any longer. The Nigerian police must show that it is not for sale. The Nigerian police must stand up for justice and fair play. Stop the harassment of innocent Abba citizens, and let the courts decide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Adichie is a Nigerian author of Purple Hibiscus, The Thing Around </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your Neck, Americanah and others.</span>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-5726582107546357282019-09-12T18:03:00.001+01:002019-09-12T18:03:51.809+01:00NIGERIANS BACK ON AIR PEACE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I Wept When Nigerians Sang The National Anthem On Their Return From South Africa - CEO Air Peace, Allen Onyema,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I put together over N280 million in other to bring these people back, Air Peace decided to bring them free of charge, nobody paid us a dime, we decided to do it free of charge for our country and for our people.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“When I stepped inside the aircraft to welcome them, they mobbed me and started singing the Nigerian national anthem, there was nobody there singing about separation, they felt proud to be Nigerian, they rose in unison, that drew tears from me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Allen Onyema is the Owner of Air Peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He's an Igbo man</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He’s not a politician</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He’s not a pastor </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He’s not a celebrity musician/actor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He sent in his plane ✈️ to evacuate Nigerians from South Africa 🇿🇦 to escape being killed in the xenophobic attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">NOTE: Nigeria government did not help her citizens rather an individual from Igbo extraction volunteerd to help evacuate all Nigerians risk being killed in South Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No tribe can render such help apart from Igbos yet they fed you that Igbos hate themselves and you foolishly believed them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mazi Onyema is not the richest man in Africa, he is just an Igbo man with a beautiful heart.</span>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-30298366170196957822019-08-28T20:15:00.000+01:002019-08-28T20:17:15.639+01:00THE WALK TO BIAFRA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We, the future and current stakeholders of the Igbo nation, need to read every word and punctuation mark in this article. 🤷🏼♂</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is utterly enlightening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Until we have achieved that state of being, the desired geopolitical region remains at risk. So we must pursue both tasks together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And the State of Being is as follows:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">We have to do as the Catalonians do in Spain.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">When they realized that the Castelianos (Madrid) will never voluntarily or easily give them Independencia, the Catalonians (Barcelona) decided to turn inwards and develop their region Technologically, Economically and Infrastructurally - and now they are the economic powerhouse of Spain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The same thing is with Bayern in Germany. When Germany was declaring itself as a nation, Bayern (Bavaria) had the choice to stay out and be a country on its own (like Austria did) . Instead it opted to stay within a greater Germany and become it's best part. Today Bavaria is the most technologically and economically powerful region in Germany - and it has the whole of Germany now as its primary and biggest market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The same thing is with California in the USA.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">It's not only the biggest economy WITHIN the US, it's also the 6th largest economy in the World!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">However, this is only because it is within the US and can leverage on all the synergies that come with that, that it can be so powerful.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">If it were suddenly to try to break away overnight to stand alone, as a competitor against the rest of the US, things would not be so easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Nigeria does not fear IPOB as it is. *In fact, they WANT IPOB to challenge them, so they can militarily wage war on the Igbos.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> IPOB at present is not the Biafra that Nigeria fears.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">They fear the Biafra that becomes like Catalonia, like Bavaria, like California.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">That's the Biafra they fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*So they NEED this militant IPOB to give them an excuse to come and reduce Ala-Igbo to a wasteland again and turn back the hands of our clock once more to Zero, like they did in the last Civil War.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Even if we don't want and don't start any hostilities, they will use the slightest excuse or provocation or accident to send in their troops. Britain will support them and in the end USA will establish a military base in Igbo Land, to keep the peace. And that is how we will become occupied territory.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*We have to be smart, and shift the battle to the field where we can win.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What I am saying is this: *yes we will continue to ask for Referendum, like Catalonia does in Spain, like Scotland does in Great Britain.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*But it is not Referendum that will give us the Biafra we need. And of course It is not guns that will give us Biafra, that we know.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*As Igbos, we have to conquer our chronic INDIVIDUALISM - and we have to pool our wealth, intelligence and efforts together to turn Ala-Igbo into a First World region, right here and now. But this is the most difficult thing for us because we are individualists! It is easier to protest.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The second point is: Our Governors. As much as we don't like them, we have to work on them and with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*If IPOB mobilises the people against the Governors, the same way it is mobilising them against the Federal Govt, you will see how fast things will change.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">What will the governors do? Start shooting their own people? If any governor does that, where will that governor run to hide from the people's revenge? They have nowhere to hide. Your State is your home - so they MUST listen to the people. *If the people are united, (and IPOB can unite the people because IPOB is very powerful), they MUST start DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY from EVERY elected official in the South East.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Demand that they invest in INFRASTRUCTURES. Roads and transportation. Potable water. Drainage systems. Housing. Health. Education. Tax breaks for small businesses. Regional economic integration. *Constitute expert groups accross every field from within and the diaspora to develop and advice on the framework for regional development.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Instead of going to Abuja, the Governors should come together, put money together from their budget and start building a second Niger Bridge. Start dredging the River Niger at Onitsha. Start developing the dry port at Abia. Start NOW and make it mandatory that EVERY South East governor prioritize regional integration. Taxes and tarrifs for business MUST come down to encourage investors.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Computer Village in Lagos is full of Igbos.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*The governors and leadership should put their moneys together and build TECHNOLOGY TOWN in Aba. Follow up on Geometrics power project in Aba by Prof Barth Nnaji, with a view to completely electrifying Ala-Igbo.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Put their money together and elevate Enugu Airport to a level HIGHER than Lagos or Abuja airport.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Things like that. *Developing the Owerri Airport to a full international cargo airport and take advantage of the central location of Owerri in the South East.* Quality educational institutions are lacking in the East even though we constantly produce the highest number of applicants to universities. *Let us build more by collaboration with our foreign diaspora. They're the best in many parts of the world. Lets harness this advantage.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*We need a world class Stock Exchange in Ala-Igbo. We can achieve that without the Federal government, because we own trading. Encourage our diaspora to work with government to establish and run QUALITY WORLD CLASS HEALTH CARE institutions in Ala-Igbo.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*IPOB has already come up with a blueprint for an Igbo-wide democratic customary government, the people's government, very republican in nature, and this is good. THIS IS POWER.* Ironically, it might even be according to the Nigerian constitution. *If peacefully achieved, this can be the leverage with which to control the elected executive and legislative levels, if Nigeria stays together. And if Nigeria falls apart, then automatically we already have a framework state in operation.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> However, IPOB must win Igbo people over by championing their welfare with their own governors and officials. Threaten them with no re-election and criminal prosecution if they fail to serve their people. They must also encourage the training, standardization, integration and sharing of information by the different state security groups to stamp out crimes like robbery, kidnapping, human trafficking, etc. We are Igbo. We are in the communities and we know those who are into crime. People MUST start explaining their sources of wealth. *IPOB can utilize its huge following to ensure crime is wiped out and good governance is entrenched in the South East.* Then *IPOB* and possibly Nnamdi Kanu, would ever be remembered kindly by history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*If we are doing things like all these, Arewa will not need to issue quit notice - NDIGBO will come back in droves to build up Ala-Igbo.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Is it beyond the Igbo to venture into modern and very lucrative cattle rearing and be the leaders in all of Africa? Are we not known to come late into any venture and excel beyond those in it for centuries? *** *The governors in Ala-Igbo should AS A MATTER OF URGENCY introduce RANCHING across Ala-Igbo for prospective and enterprising *IGBO CATTLE FARMERS, after which they will enact, implement and execute ANTI OPEN-GRAZING LAWS in their States, then call on all indigenes and States security groups to participate in monitoring its implementation.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*This will empower all Igbos and we will rid ourselves of these Fulani Herdsmen in no time.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">* *This is priority. Every passing day is too much.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Ekiti State did it.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Benue State has done it.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*It's not impossible.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Why cannot the States of the South-East ALL do it as ONE?*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Anti Grazing Law.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">*This will shake the Nigerian Govt more than asking for referendum.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*IPOB has power. If they use it wisely they can bring about tremendous change in Ala-Igbo without a single blood shed. They are uniquely positioned by God at this period in time to use their massive following and break the individualistic Igbo trait to bring about change that will positively shape Igbo history for generations.* _If they misuse it by going the route of war, that didnt work decades ago, then it would be a great loss indeed._</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If Nigeria stays together, Ala-Igbo can become the most advanced region of Nigeria if we START NOW.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">If Nigeria breaks up, we have to be ready to survive on our own. *And at this moment, we are not yet ready. This is where we need to put our eyes into. Because the ball is already rolling.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*What we want is for people to come and start investing in Ala-Igbo, from all over the world. They will do this massively if they see the political will and infrastructures being laid down in Ala-Igbo.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">_If that happens, everybody will protect Igbo land._ *Biafra will grow from within.* Let Nnamdi Kanu, all Igbo leaders and thinkers read this and run with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">***I'm sending this to you so you can spread it to Ndigbo who are amongst your contacts so that this consciousness can spread and be built on. *Lets develop Ala-Igbo from within.*</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ka Chi Ukwu no n'Igwe n'edu anyi n'Uwa gozie okwu a ka o wee mee. *Yameenu.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peace Mass Transit (PMT) Limited, the leading mini-bus transport company in the country, has readied a total of 100 brand new buses for injection into its fleet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The buses are all products of newly established PMT Vehicle Assembly Plant, located within the Emene Industrial Layout headquarters of the company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PMT Executive Director in charge of operations,Enete Ifeanyi Henry Clinton disclosed that the new buses would be assigned to drivers and has already being deployed to all the PMT depots across the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More emphasis was placed on Calabar depot as the highly busy depot was given more buses from the newly injected 100 buses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peace Mass Transit has an active fleet of 4,000 buses with at least 2,000 on the road daily. It regularly freshens up the fleet to meet customer expectations and also maintain its market leadership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The launch of the 100 units of designer Peace Hiace is coming at a time most transport companies are closing down altogether, making losses and/or resorting to using of fairly used (Tokunbo) vehicles. There are no ‘’tokunbo’’ buses in the entire PMT fleet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PMT Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Samuel Maduka Onyishi, maintains he runs the company as a “ministry” and not strictly as a business, and would, always do what it takes to keep the company as an industry leader, at all times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The brand new buses we are injecting cost almost N 17 million per unit, but I have a pact with both God and our huge clientele to offer the best possible services at all, times,” he stated after inspecting the newly assembled buses on Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Customers are encouraged to book online through www.pmt.ng, or visit our website –peacegroup.ng</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chief Onyishi, Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) expressed gratitude to God and also to Nigerians who have trusted the brand (PMT) for over 20years. He urged them to keep their faith in the company and promised to always deliver beyond their expectations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Our customers deserve even more and no less,” he added. “We will never take their patronage for granted because they have brought us this far.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He reiterated that the introduction of the new buses was a “strategic fleet rejig” and in no way signified or suggested older vehicles had any maintenance issues or were about to be discarded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Our maintenance culture is top-notch and the team is manned by technicians and engineers some of whom were trained abroad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All PMT vehicle plying the highway, are regularly checked for maintenance, to avoid breakdown. All our vehicles run on strong quality tires which are replaced upon attainment of a certain mileage.’’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Special, distinguishing features of the new buses include, but not limited to EBS/ABS brake system combined, digital dashboard, factory-fitted speed limiter, on-board TV, and DVC player for customers’ non-stop pleasure.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">According to the Executive Director, Ifeanyi, ‘’Multiple charging points and luggage controls are being provided, with all the buses fully air-conditioned, which includes protective seat belts for all passengers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Free Wi-Fi services for passengers are still in the works..</span>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-44071560793945148342019-08-09T10:57:00.000+01:002019-08-09T10:57:39.874+01:00INSECURITY IN ENUGU STATE,CROWD RENTING & THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE:By Fr. Ike Odigbo Ph.D<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4m9TwYDiw9_wYOfHUinTuP_iqiFNujoVggL8nrSSgVxMsA-dP5AmFGiMWJCJrENMXTLUW2nG5miZWXMLXUIEahFbkite3txgQ9y1eePuoPBLxmaeW0mFAHCZRbyKaIATlpoKY7zSy3Q/s1600/download+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4m9TwYDiw9_wYOfHUinTuP_iqiFNujoVggL8nrSSgVxMsA-dP5AmFGiMWJCJrENMXTLUW2nG5miZWXMLXUIEahFbkite3txgQ9y1eePuoPBLxmaeW0mFAHCZRbyKaIATlpoKY7zSy3Q/s1600/download+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a><br />
<b style="background-color: #ea9999;">Insecurity in Enugu State, Crowd Renting and The Conspiracy of Silence</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On thursday 1st August 2019 Fr. Paul Offu was murdered in Awgu area of Enugu State, an event which sparked off series of events of unprecedented proportion. Fellow priests took to the streets in solidarity to protest the high level of insecurity of lives and properties in Enugu State. Earlier in March Fr. Clement Ugwu was murdered in his parish in Ezeagu. Another priest Fr. Paulinus Ilo was ferociously attacked by gunmen. He is still in hospital. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is not just about priests. Scores of men and women are being daily hunted and killed. We all get updates on social media from victims and eyewitnesses of the deplorable condition of security in Enugu. Just a day after Fr. Paul was killed news went round of the kidnap of the traditional ruler of Umuobom community in Agbogugu, the same axis where the priest was killed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On August 8 2019, news and pictures flooded the internet of Traditional Rulers in Enugu giving a resounding vote of confidence on Enugu State Governor Mr Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. It is only one week since Fr. Paul Offu was killed and hasn't yet been laid to rest when the so-called royal fathers are displaying this show of shame. It is a conspiracy of silence by those who should rise to speak for their people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truth is that anybody who pretends that there is peace and security in Enugu is telling a huge lie. People are living on edge. Of the entire five States of the South East, Enugu is now the most insecure. No day passes without news of people being killed, robbed, kidnapped, hunted and raped. The governor knows this. The traditional rulers know this. They are merely on a shoddy game of face-saving. They are living in denial. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The action of these traditional rulers is a correct reflection of the shape of Nigerian politics. Rather than rise up to solve social problem, politicians spend vast amount of human and financial resources to cover it up. They fail in their duty. Then they buy-out those who would speak out and then the problem incubates and grows to out of proportion. It is the same attitude in education, health, roads and now security. But because security is very sensitive, it is the most inflamable of all, because it is about life and death. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a shame that Governor Ugwuanyi prefers image laundering than rising to his duty. He has this irritating habit of renting crowds to sing his praise. Of course he knows, that everybody knows, that it is quite easy to assemble all the royal fathers in a giffy. Its very simple. Just dole out cash and get then to violate their oaths and compromise their integrity, men who should be honest and upright. But that has been his tactics in the last four years: with teachers, civil servants, pensioners. Traditional rulers are in the payroll of government, so naturally they lose their independence. Hunger and abuse have made our people, usually honourable, to lose their shame. He who pays the piper they say dictates the tune.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-F-HN5wUgjxV-vnHxBIWYP0vZex0VAvikKmOofm1GUHmUn93sD4SXbyxNXMm6AhTnb9E6U2OqAagdnqaCG8D9fsJ-VRepFGgwX4l55FgSoTuOH1qhvvoKNDyoOUuwFc1ULsIZY6t-_I/s1600/download+%25287%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="337" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-F-HN5wUgjxV-vnHxBIWYP0vZex0VAvikKmOofm1GUHmUn93sD4SXbyxNXMm6AhTnb9E6U2OqAagdnqaCG8D9fsJ-VRepFGgwX4l55FgSoTuOH1qhvvoKNDyoOUuwFc1ULsIZY6t-_I/s320/download+%25287%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These traditional rulers are also under strict </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">instructions by the governor not to 'disturb' the peace of fulani herdsmen who live in the bushes of Enugu State. They are to restrain their people from any possible confrontation with the fulani. Whoever fails to live up to this will be deposed. In other words, the traditional rulers are indirectly selling out their own people while pretending to defend them. News is everywhere of their dealings with fulani men. But that's</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> a story for another day. Its the character of Nigerian politicians, the traditional rulers and town union executives now also have the virus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyone who thinks what am saying here, that traditional rulers are under firm control of the governor, is fictitious should recall what happened in Nenwe months back. Nenwe youths mustered the courage to drive away fulani people and their cattle. The video was trending online. The next day, the traditional ruler of Nenwe in a press briefing at which the governor himself and representatives of the fulani cattle rearers were present, publicly denounced the action of Nenwe Youths. Governor himself spoke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The impression being created is that everything is ok. But nothing is farther from the truth. Had it been that the Nenwe example was not denounced and criminalized, that is, the eviction of troublesome fulani, it would have been a worthy template for other communities. But here we are, back to square one. But its good for the governor to know that indeed things are not ok. People of Enugu State and those who live and do business within it are in danger and the evidence is there for anyone to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is arguable that next to Benue, Enugu has borne more of the brunt of fulani herdsmen attack. While all the states that are facing this insecurity problem are adopting a combative approach, Enugu is living in denial. Anti open-grazing law should have been passed. Same with anti-kidnapping law. Regular denunciation of herdsmen antics in strong terms and outright rejection of Ruga or related fulani gimmicks should be coming from the governor. He should copy Dave Umahi or Yesom Wike. He should speak out because it weakens the enemy and makes his own citizens strong and confident. Now, we are a laughing stock. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gossip is making the round that the governor is intentionally towing the line of political correctness due to personal reasons. He wants to continue to the senate after his governorship, to complete his political round-trip. He doesn't want the harassment of EFCC when he leaves office. His personal ambitions is not my problem, but the insecurity in Enugu. The way he is going, with rising insecurity in the land, I doubt if he will complete this second term. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This write up is not a general assessment of the governor. It is strictly on security. The people want to be safe. Or at least they want to see the governor, the chief security officer, doing something tangible. Crowd renting does not solve problem. It worsens it by creating false hope. Its like dressing and bandaging an infected wound. What you get is puss and gangrene. When there is no security there is no peace and there is no rest. We as priests are on the side of the people and we live up to our duty when we remind the governor to do his job. But if the people can't get peace, why should the governor expect to have it?</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">1. The Igbo man is that man that will leave his Father's land.... Come to your Father's land and turn you into his tenant.... Peacefully ooooo<br /><br />2. The Igbo man doesn't like so much noise, if you're not taking money.... You're making noise... He believes in "Ego n'ebi okwu"...<br /><br />3. The Igbo man goes to Obodo oyibo. He doesn't know anybody there. Give him 6 months, he will start sending cars back home.<br /><br />4. The Igbo man can wear slippers, use Nokia torch phones and may even be riding ladies machine but the figures that is in his bank account will be enough to write a full maths textbook.<br /><br />5. The Igbo man gets rich. Go to the village, pick village boys, train them in business, settle them, the boys become rich, goes to the village do the same thing..... It is not magic..<br /><br />6. The Igbo man, where you see nothing, he sees market. You're looking at an evil forest, he's looking is an estate, you're looking at a village girl, he's seeing a sales girl. You're looking at shit, he's seeing manure.<br /><br />7. The Igbo man is not a ritualist. He's the man that kept going when others turned back. He's the man that enters a country where they say nobody survives. He's not risk taker, he's Risk itself!!<br /><br />8. The Igbo man loves 'Njakili' (healthy jests) no matter how rich you're, if your mouth is not sharp, you will always be a subject of Laughter among your peers especially in "ime affia" or Umunna meeting"<br /><br />9. The Igbo man believes in Training his children properly with good morals no matter how wealthy he is.... He will still nurture you to stand up for yourself because he understands he won't be here forever.<br /><br />10. The Igbo man is not lazy.... He toils day and night in order for his children not to go through what he went through...<br /><br />11. The Igbo man wakes up with money in his mind.... That's why they don't greet "Good morning".... They greet "Money nwannem"</span><span style="font-size: large;">12. The Igbo man Prefers a Customer to a girlfriend..... He can walk away from any girlfriend because a particular customer came to the shop... </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZPay6D9BvDGeonbADuhAHBNCGbwiYVVP-o3ABIi-DSjGM6_kKdY7Z6823AeiN6WJC9poYfDOuwhTwTPR6_8MLEeYIiUOxWr868PWQ3KfgHKtxxi5LPIoHDq_eeG8gTQxFQhsLs4R_wk/s1600/download+%252812%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="320" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZPay6D9BvDGeonbADuhAHBNCGbwiYVVP-o3ABIi-DSjGM6_kKdY7Z6823AeiN6WJC9poYfDOuwhTwTPR6_8MLEeYIiUOxWr868PWQ3KfgHKtxxi5LPIoHDq_eeG8gTQxFQhsLs4R_wk/s640/download+%252812%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><br />13. The Igbo man knows how to do "Uto Nwanne" They love and appreciate themselves in diaspora.... That's why an Igbo can stand and spray a friend 2million naira.... Because they believe that "ihe imere nwanne gi but nga jidere m"<br /><br />14. The Igbo man speaks Oral igbo..... If igbo man sings praises to you as his wife in dialect, you will melt and melt again<br /><br />15. The Igbo man believes in "Iru uno" (going back home) .... No matter how busy an Igbo man is, he must take his family back home at times.<br /><br />16. The Igbo man believes in "biri kam biri"... Live and let live... He obeys the rules of your land. Just allow him do his business, make his money and go... He can even marry your daughter just to have his way.. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />17. The Igbo man, when he enters an occasion, he doesn't need your food or drinks to be happy... He only needs the MC to recognize him and hail him by his titles, ife emebe!<br /><br />18. Finally Any country you enter and you don't see The Igbo man..... Just know that you're no longer on earth, you are at underworld... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">God bless igbo indigenes..</span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/copied?epa=HASHTAG" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;">#copied</a><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">LIKE the PAGE if you have NOT done that already - </span></span><br />
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UNMASKING THE RUGA PROJECT OF OBIJACKSON IN OKIJA, ANAMBRA STATE.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have closely followed up and painstakingly watched the movements of Obijackson a Son of Okija Community and the Chairman of NestOil for couple of months now, and we can confidently confirm to you that this man is an Agent of Federal Government assigned a duty by the Fulani Cabal to;</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. <b>Acquire massive lands from Communities in disguise for Ruga</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2. Build and handover to the Terrorist Fulani Herdsmen for settlement around Southeastern States</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Without fear or favor, we wish to make it known that Obijackson in the past months, has acquired massive hectares of lands running into thousands. This lands are inside Southeast Forest areas and forcefully taken without the consent of the Communities.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">His first place of conquest was Ubahu Ofe mmiri, Okija.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next was Ogheregbu Okija. In this Community he forcefully took over 500 hectares of land and the Building plan shows that he is going to build over 650 structures with Schools from tertiary to University level, Hospitals, Banks, Markets, Civic centers, Police station etc with great road network and every basic amenities provided. The Express road connecting to this settlement has already kicked off with work going on very speedily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In trying to achieve this, he destroyed farms and cash crops belonging to land owners. Under the supervision of Obijackson, old women and youths are molested because they tried to challenge the encroachment and destruction of their farms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A close look at this project, one needs no soothsayer to affirm that this is exactly the structure of RUGA as published by Shehu Garba, President Buhari's Spokesperson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the past days, Obijackson has moved into Umuhu Community and there is a fight amongst the people, some sensing that he has ulterior motive while others simply don't care.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Obijackson moves around all these areas with armed military men harassing and intimidating the owners of the Land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Questions that are begging for answers are</span>;</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Whose Children is Obijackson building schools inside the forest areas for?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Who is he expecting to use Civic centers built inside the forest area?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Who intends to use the Banks and Police stations located inside this forest areas?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Why is Obijackson providing every basic amenities for this new town inside the Forest, when he has not provided one for his Community that lacks every basic social amenities?</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We appeal to every sensible Igbo man in places of authority to take this matter up and stop Obijackson before he settles the Terrorists into Ala-Igbo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Udo diri ndi choro udo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">#NoToRuga</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">#NoToFulani</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">#EndNigeriaNow</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Copied from.BiafraTV</span>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-73005307446445544042019-07-15T22:18:00.000+01:002019-07-15T22:21:14.031+01:00TINUBU SUGGESTS FOSARANTI KILLERS COULD BE IGBO KIDNAPPERS & NOT HERDSMEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nnamdi Kanu blasts Tinubu...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You cannot sacrifice the blood of your brethren on the shrine of your greed, conceit and unbridled 2023 presidential political ambition. You are a disgrace to the noble Yoruba ancestry. You allow your self-centred avarice and ego to stifle the aspirations and destiny of your people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">I must remind you today that your Fulani masters will never do for you what you are slavishly doing for them. You know in your heart of hearts that murderous Fulani herdsmen are culpable in the brutal murder of a Yoruba daughter and that Igbos had no hand in the Ore Highway Massacre</span>. An influential Yoruba newspaper (PUNCH) reported that nearby villagers, who are Yorubas, informed police that the killer Fulani herdsmen have their base in a nearby forest. These are eye witness account from Yoruba people living in the surrounding areas where the tragic incident occurred. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Or are you saying the villagers can no longer distinguish between a gun wielding Fulani terrorist and an Igbo man?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your unguarded utterances only succeeded in doing more harm to the Fosaranti family, insulting the memory of their daughter and will be seen for what it is, an affront to the dignity of the Yoruba race. <span style="background-color: yellow;">You are a Fulani Lackey!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reacting further, Kanu said; The fate of Afonja and loss of Illorin a Yoruba territory to the Fulani conquistadors in years gone by should have taught you and your likes a bitter historical lesson but it seems you are hell-bent on repeating the mistakes of the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You are devoid of shame, honour and dignity which are the hallmarks of a true statesman. The Fulani that you serve so foolishly will never shed one drop of Fulani blood for an indimi like you. They will never concede “their” Presidency to a lewd unequal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To them you are another camouflage muslim, a filthy infidel from the south, a contaminated version of Islam not worthy to be seen or regarded as an equal. Have you ever wondered why no Yoruba Muslim including yourself can never be allowed to lead a Jummat prayer in any mosque in the north?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because you, along with other Yoruba Muslim are not and can never be considered equal to your Fulani counterparts. Is it not a shame that Yorubas like yourself submit to the authority of the Sultan of Sokoto as the supreme leader of Muslims in Nigeria in perpetuity, yet no Yoruba man will ever occupy that throne. So you see, you will remain their slave forever and ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Quislings like you in the service of Fulani Caliphate abound in Igboland too, but we continue to expose, ridicule and sanction them because we are ever conscious of the consequences of their actions on present and future generations. The Fulani killing machine you serve so slavishly will continue to Taqiyya you and dangle the fruit of a false presidential promise like a receding mirage. Your hatred for Igbo people will precipitate the downfall of the Yoruba race unless you are stopped. Mark my word!!!</b></span>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-32885401253263772812019-07-10T13:03:00.000+01:002019-07-10T13:03:09.006+01:00BRING BACK IGBO 'RUGAs' NOW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Bring Back Igbo "Rugas" Now by Aniedobe</span><br />
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My grandfather, 1895 to 1985, worked as interpreter for ndiocha at Nkwere Farm Settlement in Anambra State in the 1940s. It is now defunct.<br />
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My father worked as an Electrical Engineer at Nkalagu Cement Factory but as a kid who grew up in Nkwere farm settlement, the farm settlement mentality never left him. He was full time civil servant and part time farmer.<br />
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He cultivated everything we ate from melon to okra to vegetables to corn to yam. We had a poultry of over 1000 birds. We sold okuko and eggs. We also raised ewu Igbo. At some point, we had over 200 goats. He was a one man farm settlement.<br />
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Our house at Nkalagu was paradisaical. We were surrounded by the best species of cashew, mango, guava, sugar cane, oloma. We had a mini plaintain plantation. Banana was everywhere. And our house was lined by hibiscus flowers.<br />
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My father couldn't have done it without Ezilo farm settlement about 20 miles from Nkalagu.<br />
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Like Nkwere farm settlement, Ezilo farm settlement was an agricultural settlement complete with farms, poultry, ehi Igbo, ewu, vegetables, fruit trees, and worker's quarters. Just like my grandfather lived and raised his kids at Nkwere farm settlement, farm workers also lived with their families at Ezilo farm settlements.<br />
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Anyone could stop by to buy goats and ehi or yam or whatever they had to sellat the farm settlements.<br />
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But their mission was even greater than that. Working with the Departments of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicines in the University of Nigeria, the farm settlements were a repetoir of best practices and reservoir of best cultivars and species.<br />
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We got our guava and mangoes and cashews seedlings and Popo and other fruits from the farm settlements. My father trusted their brand as the best.<br />
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A worker from there visited and administered antibiotics to our chicken in the poultry. He helped us set it up and mentored to us in the poultry business.<br />
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Whenever my father had any questions, he went to Ezilo farm settlement to get expert advice.<br />
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For instance, there was a time when our goats shrank in number due to high mortality. Disease was wiping them out. No apparent reason. Emma, a farm settlement worker came to our rescue. Too much inbreeding he stated Emma brought nkpi from farm settlement and our goat population revived. From then on, we began to hire nkpi from the farm settlement for genetic diversity.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">What happened to these brilliant concepts called farm settlements? </b><br />
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They all died. Too much politics. State creations displaced many trained workers and replaced them with state indigenes who didn't know their left from their right. Crude oil killed the rest. It was easier to collect rent from the center than to grow a viable economy. So those farm settlements died.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">During Okpara regime and even Ukpabi Asika regime, civil servants were encouraged to farm. Food was abundant. Ehi Igbo was available. Farm settlements were very much part of the local economy. Ndigbo were food sufficient.</span><br />
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And then things fell apart.<br />
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Today ndi Fulani are trying to Rugarize us all because we killed our own Rugas.<br />
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It is time to bring back Igbo Rugas. Farming is big business. Let's learn our lessons and get right back into it. Every local government in Igboland should have a farm settlement starting from yesterday. In addition to raising our own ehi, ewu and okuko, a trillion naira business by the way, vegetable oil from aku is one of the highest prized vegetable oils. Cassava flour in America is priced like gold. We were once the fastest growing economy in the world. Today, we live in fear of losing our homelands all because we can't stop eating ehi Fulani and start feeding ourselves.<br />
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AniedobeIGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-38801121992513130512019-07-09T16:29:00.000+01:002019-07-09T16:29:04.472+01:00THE IGBO NATION INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT AGENDA.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>OHANEZE NDI IGBO SHOULD<span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span>BECOME MORE FOCUSED AND PRAGMATIC IN DRIVING THE IGBO NATION INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT AGENDA</b>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is over a year now since Ohaneze Ndi Igbo announced the establishment of a committee and secretariat led by the irrepressible Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Mao Ohuabunwa to help drive the Igbo upnation <span style="background-color: lime;">integrated economic development master plan. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, since the inauguration of that committee and secretariat, we are yet hear or read much from them about their Igbo nation regional economic integration programs and agenda. We are yet to see any properly articulated concrete, time-lined and measurable projects design, structuring, funding and implementation strategy in the various sectors they listed on the day of their inauguration.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have not seen or read again any further arrangements, strategy or tactical initiatives to ensure the infrastructure, political and socioeconomic integration plans for the Igbo nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It <span style="background-color: yellow;">will be in the best interests of the Igbo nation for Ohaneze Ndi Igbo to maintain a 24/7 functional and fully funded secretariat that is staffed/ manned by top notch / highly</span> knowledgeable development economists and professionals versed in designing, structuring and funding variant models of PPP projects/infrastructure development initiatives for Ala Igbo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This secretariat working with the Soludo led committee will develop a medium to long term multi-sectorial infrastructure and economic development partnership blue print for the states that have significant Igbo population under robust and properly defined PPP arrangements. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The blueprint shall contain holistically/comprehensively what we plan to do, how to do it, when to do it, what resources required to do it, how to source for those resources, stakeholders to be involved and responsibilities and integrated partnership roles expected from our state governors. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ohaneze Ndi Igbo must design very transparent and accountable ways of funding this secretariat and her other activities. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For instance, <span style="background-color: yellow;">how do link up the whole of the Igbo nation from Asaba to Igwe Ocha via Onitsha-Awka-enugu Abakiliki-okigwe-umuahia-aba and via Onitsha-owerri –mbaise-obowo to Umuahia. Via Owerri to Igwe Ocha by Rail?. How do we ring-fence Ala Igbo via well planned/laid out rail infrastructure development master plan that is PPP driven.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we develop new roads or expand the existing road networks across the Igbo nation to become world class?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we deepen the exploration and processing of the natural resources that the Igbo nation is blessed with, eg. Coal, Lead, Oil and Gas, Gypsum, barite, clay, limestone etc.? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we bring the consular presence of the US, UK, EU, China, etc into Enugu and Owerri? It does not make sense for my aged mum to travel to Lagos or Abuja for her visa and immigration needs, when she can secure such services in Owerri or Enugu. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How do we create truly international sea and air gateways in and out of the Igbo nation?</b> It does not make sense for my aged mum to fly to Lagos before she can get a British airways or Air Peace flight to the UK or US or Dubai. It does not make much sense. When should we have this implemented and how and what resources/partnerships do we need? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: lime;">How do create industrial hubs and clusters in Ala Igbo to ensure that we become the integrated, commercial, trading, manufact</span>uring</b></i> and industrial hub for sub-Sahara Africa , following the signing of the Africa Free Trade Agreement, AFTA by Nigeria? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we support our entrepreneurial brothers, who practically imports every consumable and hardware items into Nigeria to get their global suppliers and vendors from Europe, America and Asia to set up factories for the manufacturing of those same commodities in Ala Igbo under robust MPPP arrangements? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What enabling business and investor friendly arrangements do we put in place in Ala Igbo?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we support the vision of buy and patronize Igbo nation manufactured products first before others, just like the Jews? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we make the Igbo nation the Health, Education and Entertainment Tourism Capital of Africa? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we develop other critical sectors like Power, ICT hubs, Housing in Ala Igbo in very integrated and holistic sense?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How and what do we do to protect Ala Igbo from enemies within and external. Ensure and make Ala Igbo the most secure region in Africa?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do create and develop a leadership selection/succession culture in Ala Igbo that puts the best, most selfless, most creative , most passionate and honest amongst us into leadership positions to help us drive the Igbo renaissance ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we restore to its full glory the long fading Igbo culture and tradition of industry, hard work, enterprise and loathe for evil and stealing. It used to be the most shameful thing in Ala Igbo to be tagged “Nwanne Onye Oshi” or “Nwanne onye aka na akpa or nnapu”, not to talk of being the thief yourself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we restore our lost glories as the greatest and most progressive/enterprising ethnic nation created by CHUKWU OKIKE ABIAMA.? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, led by Dr Nnia Nwodo must never drop the ball. This is the time to rise up and galvanize our people. Sustained enlightenment, consultations, reach out, reconciliations, and practical works are needed now. He must drive the vessel with utmost focus, consistency and uncompromising boldness. This is not the time to park the car to take a nap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are facing very tough existential threats today, just akin to what we faced between 1966 to 1970. That Ohaneze Secretariat must work and work for 24/7, churning out ideas and pursuing it to execution working with all stakeholders within and without. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">God Bless Ala Igbo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OBIARAERI, Nnaemeka Onyeka</span>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-90300822195690120512019-07-09T10:51:00.001+01:002019-07-09T10:51:40.793+01:00THE END OF FULANI & THEIR LOW NUTRITIONAL VALUE CATTLE IN 5 YEARS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN EVERY CHALLENGE: THE RESULT OF RUGA IS THAT BUHARI HAS PUSHED IGBOS INTO CATTLE BUSINESS , NOW NO MORE CATTLE BUSINESS FOR THE FULANIS. </b><br />
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Bye Bye to Fulani Cows in South East and South South. Now is the era of Computerized Cattle Ranching with Israel Top Agricultural Innovation here in Igbo Land <br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">If you push Igbo youths towards cattle rearing business,forget it, the market price of cattle will crash within 24 months. Better don't turn their attention towards dat side. So dat ur Fulani brothers will be making the small profit they are enjoying currently. You never imagine how many brands of cow u will have Wen Igbo business men mean the business. Be making </span>noise until you start seeing Ogbuawa Cattle Nnewi, Cutix Cattle Nnewi, Chikason Cattle Lagos , Innoson cattle Nnewi, Orange cattle Akokwa. Oga ndi Oga cattle Abbatete, Holy Ghost Cattle Enugu, Ebube Cattle Ukeh, Top Rank Cows, Bolton White Ehiii. Ellington Cows. Ibro cattle, Oshanga cattle, Osumenyi Cows, Ifeanyi Ubah Cows , ObiJackson Cattle Okija, Overdo Cows Aguleri, Arthur Eze Cattle Ukpo , Osadebe Cows Atani , Chijioke Cows, Nwamaobi Onyenze Cattle Ogidi, Umu Obiligbo Cow Nteje, manobi Cow Neni, Phyno Cows, Flavour Cows, Charlie Loz Cattle Awka Etiti , Emeka Morrocow Cattle, Mama Ada Cattle, Nwanyi Awka Cattle , Enyiukwu Cows, Efab cattle and some u haven't imagine . Don't push them biko. For d sake of your Fulani children's children but now you have awaken their consciousness toward that direction. Federal Government of Nigeria should be ready to release 100Billon to the Igbos for modern cattle ranching business. Mpiawa azu Special , No wasting time<br />
#Lets teach Buhari and his brothers how to do cattle business. <br />
No cattle Route<br />
No cattle colony alias RUGA<br />
No destruction<br />
No Fighting<br />
No Farmers clashing<br />
No Herdsmen and villager clash <br />
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Igbos lets demand our own 100Billon for cattle business.IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-87381028615725700452019-07-08T08:01:00.001+01:002019-07-08T08:01:27.789+01:00BOYCOTT FULANI BEEF .DON'T PAY FOR THEIR BULLETS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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*NATIONAL COWMEAT BOYCOTT PROJECT*<br />
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There was a united outcry against RUGA; and it was suspended. So, who says the people cannot unite for a cause?<br />
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Now, let's take this united action to the next level, to achieve a bigger success.<br />
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The date is *JULY 21*.<br />
From this day, all lovers of life; all who are worried about the killings of innocent Nigerians by the heartless Fulani herdsmen, will team up to embark on the project to break the backbone of these arrogant people who have more regard for their cows than human lives.<br />
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We will cripple their cow business and prove to them that humans own the land, not cows.<br />
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All forms of cow meat will be boycotted:<br />
beef,<br />
suya,<br />
cowleg,<br />
cowtail,<br />
ponmo or cowskin, etc.<br />
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Please, for ourselves and our generations unborn, consider this action a national call and a service to humanity.<br />
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Share this as widely as possible, for maximum participation and impact.IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-76863537831908603112019-07-06T09:51:00.001+01:002019-07-06T09:51:33.799+01:00Beyond Ruga: Fulani's War on Nigeria <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS72lD3aiIbxlFYVkiH8PoAbLZBRFAGzuSmMko3rJfaXrBWq2Ky2kSysLHvv8QtPCVrnsfq5jIDk0_uKCMwYgGostgrXDwWuFZgptpMB_SSibIhotSP9YZCjX2ZcHYczHU-PX-mSULlJ4/s1600/download+%252819%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS72lD3aiIbxlFYVkiH8PoAbLZBRFAGzuSmMko3rJfaXrBWq2Ky2kSysLHvv8QtPCVrnsfq5jIDk0_uKCMwYgGostgrXDwWuFZgptpMB_SSibIhotSP9YZCjX2ZcHYczHU-PX-mSULlJ4/s1600/download+%252819%2529.jpg" /></a> <b><span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-size: x-large;">Beyond Ruga: Fulani's War on Nigeria </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How many of you know that the civil war in Central African Republic started because the Fulani's who were less than 6% of the population did a coup to seize power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The president then began installing Fulanis in top govt positions. All business, economic, military positions were held by Fulanis. Churches were attacked and ransacked. Lands were taken and grabbed by the Fulani's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Then the indigenes planned and strategised. One solemn night, they attacked. Killing hundreds of soldiers guarding the president with Dane guns and matchetes</span>. Some accounts say they butchered the soldiers like cows and goats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The president fled the country and a civil war broke. <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Over 80% of the Fulanis have fled CAR.</span> Those that remained, their cows were slaughtered and their lands given to the rightful people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the question is, what is happening to the remaining 80% that were driven out of CAR? Remember that the CAR civil war broke out in 2013 and the expulsion of Fulanis began in 2014. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're good in basic maths you'll realise when Fulani herdsmen started killing in Nigeria was in 2015 right. Good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also remember that<span style="background-color: #93c47d;"> El Rufai</span> said that the people killing weren't Nigerians. Remember? He was right. They aren't. They're Fulani nomads and they're looking for land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Nigeria is the perfect place for them to conquer</span>. The south is divided and their Nigerian brethren have already conquered the North. T<b>he only reason they couldn't conquer CAR was because they country was united against the Fulani from the onset. Although new powers are looking to gain control in the country.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If Nigerians will learn from history, no Fulani man should be allowed to rule this country. And even if by chance they rule, they must never be given the powers that have been given to PMB. <b>PMB govt resembles the strategy deployed by the Fulani in CAR. Where the Fulani will head all important govt agencies.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those who fail to learn from history, are already doomed to repeat it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, on Thursday described as irresponsible the 30-day ultimatum, a Coalition of Northern group gave the Federal Government to rescind its decision to suspend the RUGA policy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nwodo called on the Igbo to be ready to defend themselves against any threat from any quarter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nwodo in a statement said, “My attention has been drawn to a broadcast by Abdul Azeez Suleman, speaking for a coalition of northern groups in which he had the audacity to give the Federal Government an ultimatum of 30 days to rescind its decision on the suspension of its RUGA settlements policy.“Abdul went further to threaten the expulsion of southerners resident in the North at the expiration of his ultimatum if the Federal Government does not rescind its suspension decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“This irresponsible, unlawful and provocative outburst reminds me of the northern youths’ notice to quit the North to southerners two years ago.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While describing the RUGA policy as an Islamisation and a Fulanisation policy, Nwodo said that Ohanaeze would resist it.He added, “The threat to evict law-abiding Nigerians from their places of abode in northern Nigeria is treasonable and obviously like the gun-trotting herdsmen will go unnoticed by our federally-controlled law enforcement agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Let Abdul, the Federal Government and others like them, take notice that Ohanaeze has no objections to all Igbo in the North returning home so long as all northerners in the South-East would leave the South-East and we dismantle the federal structure imposed on us by the military and return to autonomous federating units.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The nepotism exhibited by this Federal Government, her duplicity of standards in law enforcement, her undisguised Fulanisation policy is repugnant to the rule of law and good governance. We will no longer tolerate any further threats from these northern war mongers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“After all, who should be the aggrieved under the circumstance? The millipede that has been marched is whimpering, but the person that marched it is complaining that his foot has been soiled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The southern Nigerian people that are bearing the yoke of oppression from cattle herders are trying their best to co-exist with their aggressors, yet it is the aggressors that are threatening further mayhem. This cannot be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I call on all Igbo to be ready to defend themselves. Enough of these threats!”</span></div>
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IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-86266541289004459582019-06-26T19:52:00.000+01:002019-06-26T19:52:33.362+01:00FULANI INVADERS HERE AT LAST?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMIHan4CCZumm7Qs3zzZtkzCTmFMryaOBbaSes5lHRXdlUIvTrx_40voNYhclzmwbcgUQQD-jcS7OqmiT_9vxOIaOrGnCpZqTccT8h8BNx9tt1hR8gzvaIodYA1zYKW8NyF4TsmWm-2g/s1600/Fulani-Herdsmen-wielding-guns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="640" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMIHan4CCZumm7Qs3zzZtkzCTmFMryaOBbaSes5lHRXdlUIvTrx_40voNYhclzmwbcgUQQD-jcS7OqmiT_9vxOIaOrGnCpZqTccT8h8BNx9tt1hR8gzvaIodYA1zYKW8NyF4TsmWm-2g/s320/Fulani-Herdsmen-wielding-guns.jpg" width="320" /></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">**FULANI INVADERS HERE AT LAST?** (A write-up from Fr. David Ihenacho, Ahiara Diocese. This was copied from his facebook page where he posted it) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the last couple of weeks, there have been insinuations and conflicting signals about what the notorious Fulani herdsmen might be up to in the Southeast region of Nigeria. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, there was the leader of the so-called Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) announcing to the whole world that the <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Southeast region of Nigeria would soon boil and perhaps burn as well because of their stubbornness and refusal to turn over their farm lands to the invading Fulani herdsmen for the grazing of their cattle.</span> Of course, there was the predictable immediate denial of the truth of the announcement by the already embedded members of the herdsmen in the region.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Second, it was reported on June 21, 2019, that a meeting in Enugu featuring Southeast Chambers of Commerce with the Governors Forum of Southeast Zone also featured the representatives of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association who came up with the "brilliant" idea that the youths of the <span style="background-color: #f6b26b;">Fulani herdsmen should be given a vigilante role in the Southeast zone to complement those of the local vigilantes </span>of the different communities of the zone. Again, predictable so, the Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo scoffed at the childish suggestion. John Nnia Nwodo, the leader of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo lambasted the suggestion with vehemence saying that such a move would be resisted to the last. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Third, it was reported also in the social media on June 21and 22, 2019, although without any authentic verification by the mainstream media, that some military-like landings were being sighted in the forest of Enugwu Ukwu in Enugu State. P<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">ictures of military helicopters with some military combat exercises were presented as evidence of the allegation</span>. No serious reaction has so far been given about this latest serious revelation. It appears that a great majority of the Igbo people are sleepwalking while the security of their entire zone is being imperilled every day. The reality of the moment is there are indications and insinuations everywhere suggesting that some Fulani danger men might be planning something nefarious against the Southeast region, home to ethnic Igbos who are predominantly Christians. <span style="background-color: yellow;">All these announcements, suggestions and all what not cannot be wished away completely.</span> Rather they must be taken very seriously. Such should lead any conscious Igbo man or woman worth the sort to think critically about what could be done right now to prevent any outbreak of hostilities between the invading Fulani herdsmen and the home-dwelling Igbos of the Southeast Nigeria. <b>The truth of the matter is the invaders are already embedded in the Southeast region. It turns out that the long-held rumour that all the "megards", shoe-shiners, quack tailors, jewelry and embroidery sellers who have been in Southeast and plying their trades among us for quite a long time now may in fact be Fulani invaders bidding their time and waiting for some sort of a signal from their high command somewhere in Nigeria to attack us</b>. <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">But if this has any possibility of being true what can the south easterners do to protect themselves? </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjFnuUtv4ANP9wbP5thg1tAImjIkRguD-EL3q3iayc7SCAf0568CJHRlyuiBeU2HyH2AbdlvVDzK7tx3vvRrb2HjY_PWf0vJu6xfJgd1SyuCk0_DCzONeLZ2KZx7FH-32tJnJJZcuxT9A/s1600/download+%252814%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjFnuUtv4ANP9wbP5thg1tAImjIkRguD-EL3q3iayc7SCAf0568CJHRlyuiBeU2HyH2AbdlvVDzK7tx3vvRrb2HjY_PWf0vJu6xfJgd1SyuCk0_DCzONeLZ2KZx7FH-32tJnJJZcuxT9A/s1600/download+%252814%2529.jpg" /></a>First, I will not subscribe to the suggestion that anybody, be he or she a Nigerian or a non-Nigerian, plying his or her trade anywhere in Nigeria or elsewhere should be expelled or molested in any way. Nobody's human rights should be infringed upon under any pretences whatsoever. That is to say, let the Fulani "traders" in our midst stay and pursue whatever they call their trades or professions unmolested. But what is needed for people's safety and security is for the general public in the Southeast to know that these harmlessly-looking people may not be all genuine and harmless after all, that, some of them may be harbouring some terrible motives that could be detrimental to the safety and security of innocent people. So, every community should and must keep a wary eye on every one of them. Also, all those who depend on them for their personal security should have a rethink. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Second, the Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, the Ala Igbo Foundation, Southeast Governors' Forum, IPOB, MASSOB, WORLD IGBO CONGRESS and all other <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqd996FLVfV_kGFeqJFmPJAGyT-Zfvpv3Q_C-sNifOl0lrWFdOiGUZ4SRLgApaYeJzy1yySGEkt2yn0T6NdWOx1ZCIiSfo3aG0PijILjkbZeLFvj4eCSqruvKaDQ9kZCZsT8-mNEfKD3o/s1600/2340985_lowerniger_jpeg606afd504bd8c2142d44c279e5ed5bb4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="508" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqd996FLVfV_kGFeqJFmPJAGyT-Zfvpv3Q_C-sNifOl0lrWFdOiGUZ4SRLgApaYeJzy1yySGEkt2yn0T6NdWOx1ZCIiSfo3aG0PijILjkbZeLFvj4eCSqruvKaDQ9kZCZsT8-mNEfKD3o/s400/2340985_lowerniger_jpeg606afd504bd8c2142d44c279e5ed5bb4.jpg" width="400" /></a>sociopolitical and sociocultural organizations in Igbo land and <b>all other Igbo-affiliated groups must come together in a big conference at the end of which they must announce to the whole world their resolve to remain a nonviolent people. </b>They must also demand the Nigerian government to take a firm control of the invading Fulani Herdsmen in the Southeast region. The large Igbo conference must make it abundantly clear to the world and to the government of Nigeria that the Igbos do not want any war with anybody, that they must be left alone to live free in their God-given homeland. They must make a serious plea to nations who may have some sympathy for the survival of the Igbo people in Nigeria to prevail on the Nigerian government to check the attacks to the Fulani herdsmen. Such nations should be able to warn the Nigerian government that any attack on the Igbos will be treated as an attack on freedom loving civilized world.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Third, <span style="background-color: yellow;">the Igbos must make some contingency plans about their self-defense.</span> <b>It is no longer to be taken for granted that the Southeast will not be attacked.</b> The truth is the invaders may be already in our midst. They have finished their espionage. They are now waiting for the command to begin their attacks. Those who are asking to be given a vigilante role in our communities are already in our midst and they know the terrain and have in fact mastered the routes to our homes. So, it will be childish for any of us to think that the Fulani soldiers are still very far away from us. In fact they are already here with us. </span></li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAI9br7hm3GxqJmI07b5_Hey44dymrVUdcTjMFVkJKL07BgRpm6npA2x8XU69arV1OXx_jjVKkriZjNk4ra1A2uO1Q_Qg_KfgkM9IdwD4uwkyADfP9KXWWCAq2z87nx0cqlvsI3NCISWY/s1600/download+%252815%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAI9br7hm3GxqJmI07b5_Hey44dymrVUdcTjMFVkJKL07BgRpm6npA2x8XU69arV1OXx_jjVKkriZjNk4ra1A2uO1Q_Qg_KfgkM9IdwD4uwkyADfP9KXWWCAq2z87nx0cqlvsI3NCISWY/s1600/download+%252815%2529.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think what could save Igbo communities is what saved the American communities during the American war of </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">revolution around the middle of the 18th century. </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">What saved them was community militia.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> As the British attacked with their well trained army rural America responded with their community militias. The militias contributed immensely to the defeat of the invading British soldiers. The same could apply to the Southeast. If the nearly three to five thousand autonomous communities in the Southeast were to raise and maintain strong vigilante or militia formations there is hardly any way the Fulani herdsmen invaders will have the better of us. And this is the way the South easterners could begin to arrange for their security and defense against what is appearing very certain to happen at some point in our near future. As the Fulani invaders appear to strengthen and consolidate their presence in the Southeast, let the Igbos think security first. The danger against their safety and existence in Nigeria is more real than ever before. Let them recollect and remind themselves of What </span><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okoko Ndem</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> said at the end of his newscast during the civil war: </span><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">ONYE NDI IRO GBARA GBURUGBURU NA-ECHE NDU YA NCHE MGBE NIILE.</b>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-2690326709471059532019-06-20T15:04:00.005+01:002019-06-20T15:04:41.108+01:00MY GALLANT BIAFRANS (history)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHbbD5tVlazfVoICQEQ5DNHi05s4jcdKj5xYXMTNn6alnESpIXnVRLy8x7EpQwnBhOCatmeEWbGcbFd32EN7d6OhwZ1nC08Db6fvtf_TjFsFQQFpOdJtltT4JjzKC4RNacuQgJdw3ixMg/s1600/WhatsApp+Image+2019-06-20+at+09.05.40.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHbbD5tVlazfVoICQEQ5DNHi05s4jcdKj5xYXMTNn6alnESpIXnVRLy8x7EpQwnBhOCatmeEWbGcbFd32EN7d6OhwZ1nC08Db6fvtf_TjFsFQQFpOdJtltT4JjzKC4RNacuQgJdw3ixMg/s400/WhatsApp+Image+2019-06-20+at+09.05.40.jpeg" width="400" /></a> <u style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>A FORMER MERCENARY WHO FOUGHT ON THE BIAFRAN SIDE DURING THE CIVIL WAR GAVE THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF HIS EXPERIENCE: </i></span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Nigeria's a typical West African mess of a country, only bigger and meaner. It's divided up the usual way: the coastal tribes are Christianized from sucking up to the European colonists. <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">The further inland you go, the drier, hungrier and more Islamic it gets</span>. The Brits grabbed the Nigerian coastline from the Portuguese when they realized there was money to be made, and turned the two big coastal tribes, the Ibo and the Yoruba, into their overseers on the Nigerian plantations. T<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">hat left a lot of the inland Muslim tribes, the Hausa-Fulani people of the Sahel, permanently pissed off, sharpening their knives and biding their time.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_znaKguqMJ5_Ucu4Wln-_s4c9XIQ_ZORPyi28ctVekjrjE7aSA8Ei702OcKZcgLvy9RH6goFRNDRcR6ndW7jLEMJSy6uhW8NE95tgMvu2Ph0nvANPDpT20ZDYSb9CtWyNmobm9yLJDzI/s1600/WhatsApp+Image+2019-06-20+at+09.05.33.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="381" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_znaKguqMJ5_Ucu4Wln-_s4c9XIQ_ZORPyi28ctVekjrjE7aSA8Ei702OcKZcgLvy9RH6goFRNDRcR6ndW7jLEMJSy6uhW8NE95tgMvu2Ph0nvANPDpT20ZDYSb9CtWyNmobm9yLJDzI/s200/WhatsApp+Image+2019-06-20+at+09.05.33.jpeg" width="134" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"<b>The Hausa-Fulani got their chance in 1963, when the last Brit in Nigeria hopped on a plane, yelling back to the Natives 'Congratulations, chaps! You're independent!</b>' As soon as the Brits bugged out, the tribal massacres got going. Muslims in the north hacked to death every Ibo they could find. They hated these smartasses from the coast -- and now the Redcoats weren't there to stop them from taking revenge. 30,000 Ibos were killed in a few days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The massacres kind of soured the Ibo on the idea of Nigeria as one big happy inter-tribal family. In 1967 an Ibo General in the Nigerian Army declared that the Ibo region was now an independent country, 'Biafra.' The Nigerian Army, a big, sleazy outfit, begged to differ and invaded the Ibo region in SE Nigeria. The Army had 250,000 men. <i><b>The Biafra/Ibo army had maybe a tenth that many, but they were brave and smart -- the Ibo had always been the brains of Nigeria. </b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">"Every time it was a question of real battle on anything like equal terms, the Biafran rebels won. </span>They stopped the government troops cold, then grabbed tactical surprise by staging a long-range raid into Western Nigeria. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"A risky advance like that by untrained civilian recruits (which is what most of the Ibo fighters were) is really impressive. <span style="background-color: lime;">But sad to say, courage doesn't count for much in West African warfare. It's ruthlessness that wins these wars, and the Nigerian junta had it. </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0U8DPk5qVper9uQq1AbAM4cWNTHsb71GpufkFXktlrJaAxhuSi7-uWMuUBIMDvzWeCVjzaxrtw_aWj0lrwH7fzg541y3PH-fTvcFrAtL3CRUNeVrODpeEfKIdJptpJq6MEx3ccOyaYo/s1600/download+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0U8DPk5qVper9uQq1AbAM4cWNTHsb71GpufkFXktlrJaAxhuSi7-uWMuUBIMDvzWeCVjzaxrtw_aWj0lrwH7fzg541y3PH-fTvcFrAtL3CRUNeVrODpeEfKIdJptpJq6MEx3ccOyaYo/s1600/download+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Instead of facing the Ibo army man to man, the Nigerian troops grabbed the coastline around the Niger River delta, this miserable maze of fever swamp was the supply route the Ibo needed. They stopped all food shipments heading for Ibo territory and sat back to let the Ibo starve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Biafrans were still winning every battle and losing the war like Lee in 1865 -- starved out, strangled from behind. They realized they needed to open the supply route and decided to take back the Niger delta. And they got some help from outside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The best example, one of the few real heroes you'll get in this sleazy world, was a Swede, believe it or not. <b>A Swedish aristocrat, no less. Count Carl Gustav von Rosen volunteered to do close air support for the Biafran army, </b>hosing down government troops and raiding their bases, flying tiny civilian prop planes like little Swedish Cessnas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Is that glorious or what? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The mismatch in the air war was total. The Nigerian AF had MiG-17 fighters and Il-28 bombers, DC 3 transports converted to bombers and a few choppers. Those Ilyushin and MiG designs were the high point of Soviet military aviation. Don't kid yourself -- the Soviets built some great planes. The Il-28 was a big, fast bomber with a bombload of 16,000 pounds and a three-man crew, including a tail gunner manning twin 23mm cannon. You wouldn't want to tailgate one of these. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The MiG-17 was even better. It might have been the best fighter in the world when it went into service in 1953, and even in the mid-sixties it was good enough to win against our Phantom F-4s in dogfights over North Vietnam. US pilots were way more scared of the MiG-17 than the follow-on model, the MiG-21. The slick moves and big cannon of the MiG-17 were one big reason the USAF stopped thinking of fighters as manned SAMs -- all speed and no finesse -- and went back to planes with nose cannon, maneuverability and started teaching air combat at Top Gun schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Up against all this big international hardware, the Biafrans had...nothing. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqN8PyC2co_j7s1ZfJr89iIx0pnu2j5pDTpI6rBoC6RePUW8oflhoTpq2NlsmFu4dTrfJ9Dfg5Htr2ZMFc5hWMoowc5kZ-JUN3IfGohhtMukQGcqy03OyxVtBt21oml24boRXdjcRXDY0/s1600/fgbfhbfbh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="589" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqN8PyC2co_j7s1ZfJr89iIx0pnu2j5pDTpI6rBoC6RePUW8oflhoTpq2NlsmFu4dTrfJ9Dfg5Htr2ZMFc5hWMoowc5kZ-JUN3IfGohhtMukQGcqy03OyxVtBt21oml24boRXdjcRXDY0/s400/fgbfhbfbh.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then this crazy Swede von Rosen came up with the kind of idea that would only work in Africa. Since he couldn't get the Biafrans any jet aircraft, he'd just buy some prop-driven trainers and refit them for combat. Von Rosen is such a great character he almost makes me reconsider hating Swedes. He was a throwback to when the Swedish pikemen turned the tide of the Thirty Years War. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Von Rosen specialized in noble lost causes. Way back in 1938, when he was just a kid, he volunteered to fly for the Finns in their ultra-cool, hopeless fight against the Red Army. The Finns had no bombers so von Rosen just grabbed a civilian airliner, loaded it up with bombs and dropped them on the Reds from the passenger doors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> " 'Welcome, Comrade passengers! Coffee, tea or 500 pounds of HE?' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Thirty years later, in August 1968, von Rosen was working as a civilian pilot delivering aircraft to Africa. He ran into some priests who were trying to find somebody brave enough to fly medical supplies past the blockade into Biafra. The mercs they'd hired called it off as too dangerous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Von Rosen volunteered to fly a DC 7 into Biafra with the supplies. The Biafrans were so grateful, and were fighting so bravely against all the odds, that von Rosen warmed to them like he had to the Finns. The Biafrans needed help to deal with the Nigerian AF, which was fighting a nasty war even by African standards. <b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">In the whole war, there's not one case of the Nigerian AF attacking a military target. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"That would've been dangerous -- and not nearly as much fun as bombing refugee camps, strafing hospitals, and napalming fleeing civilians. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Von Rosen tried to find the Ibo some modern military jets, but nobody wanted to sell to the Biafrans for fear of upsetting the Nigerian government, a much bigger customer.</b> So von Rosen started thinking about small prop-driven aircraft. There's a long history of using slow prop planes in bush warfare. Even the USAF, which has a major hard-on for afterburners and chrome, was forced to adopt a slow, armored CAS plane, the A-10. They hated it at first but it proved itself in both Gulf Wars, when fancy toys like the Army's dog of an AH, the Apache, left the field with its tail between its legs. In Nam, the classic jungle air war, we used two planes that were slow as molasses but did the job. One of the best and ugliest was the A-1 Skyraider, a chunky WW II style plugger. The USAF hated it and was always trying to twist combat reports to make the F-4 look good and the Skyraider look bad, but pilots agreed: you were better off going in low and slow in a Skyraider than zooming by in an F-4. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Even the Skyraider was like an SR-71 compared to the little putt-putt plane von Rosen built his force around: the MFI-9, a tiny prop-driven Swedish trainer that looks like those ultralights people build in their garages. This plane could park in subcompact spaces at the Stockholm mall. It had a maximum payload of 500 pounds -- me plus a couple of medium sized dogs. Lucky those Swedes are so skinny. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Von Rosen bought five of these little 'Fleas' down the coast in Gabon, slapped on a coat of green VW paint to make them look military, and installed wing pods for unguided 68mm unguided anti-armor rockets. <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Then he and his pilots -- three Swedes and three Ibo -- flew them back to Biafra and into combat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"They blew the Hell out of the Nigerian AF and army. These little Fleas were impossible to bring down. Not a single one was knocked out of the sky, although they'd buzz home riddled with holes. </b>They flew three missions a day and their list of targets destroyed included Nigerian airfields, power plants, and troop concentrations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Fleas turned their weaknesses into advantages in true guerrilla style. They were so slow that they had to fly real low -- which made them almost impossible to hit in the jungle, since you never saw them till they were on top of you. The low speed made for better aim: almost half the 400 68mm rockets they fired hit their targets, which is an amazing score for unguided AS munitions. (There used to be a joke in the USAF that if it wasn't for the law of gravity, unguided AS rockets couldn't even hit the ground.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Biafran AF managed to destroy three MiG-17s and an Il-28 on the ground. Killing enemy planes on the ground may not be as glorious as shooting them down in a dogfight, but they're just as destroyed. The Fleas also took out a couple of helicopters, an airport tower, a Canberra bomber and a half-dozen supply trucks. And they blew away at least 500 Nigerian troops. It was one of the few really glorious exploits you get in war these days. Why they haven't made a movie of it, I don't know. Guess they think we'd rather see tennis pros fall in love or some shit like that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Von Rosen's Fleas weren't enough to turn the tide of the war. The rest of the world turned their backs on the Ibo, let the Nigerians starve them into submission. The USSR sold the Nigerians every plane, tank and gun they could cram into their shopping cart, and the British loaned their pilots to fly as Nigerian AF mercs, bombing Biafran civvies and blowing up convoys bringing food and meds to the Ibo villages. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCtuy_dNvkOC_E5nLK9HQe0ZXIUYbTZE7EC9OOf6UXS5qbTtPHmOrzfP5Unli3lMPQumI-ooEHwWX4-eBhIQkVu7CRNZ6UQbTUuEKFz4_h_iv5MmJnmlHd5mZ0_H0G1RE_BR9Y3fPP7s/s1600/WhatsApp+Image+2019-06-20+at+09.05.38.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="720" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCtuy_dNvkOC_E5nLK9HQe0ZXIUYbTZE7EC9OOf6UXS5qbTtPHmOrzfP5Unli3lMPQumI-ooEHwWX4-eBhIQkVu7CRNZ6UQbTUuEKFz4_h_iv5MmJnmlHd5mZ0_H0G1RE_BR9Y3fPP7s/s320/WhatsApp+Image+2019-06-20+at+09.05.38.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The famine in Biafra was the first time we saw pictures of African kids with skeleton arms and legs and big balloon bellies looking up at the camera. It was easy to get shots like that in Biafra, because the whole country was starving. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"A year into the war, the Ibo had nothing left. No food, no ammo, not even fuel, which is ironic when they were sitting on the big Niger delta oilfields. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Even the bravest troops can't fight when they're dying of starvation.</b> So in 1969 the Nigerian Army sent 120,000 men pushing through the center of Biafra, dividing the Ibo zone in half. It was like Sherman's march to the sea -- it broke the Biafrans' backs. Early in 1970 Biafra surrendered. Nobody knows how many people died. The low guess is a million, the high ones maybe<span style="background-color: #e06666;"> three millions. Almost all were Ibo civilians. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"The Nigerians punished the Ibo for their uppity behavior by freezing them out of the loot they got from oil revenues and other graft, the one industry in Nigeria. For 30 years the Ibo have been watching the oil pumped out of their land to buy more Mercedes for a bunch of sleazy generals and politicians. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">They've got a right to be pissed off --</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> but the Biafra war showed them that in Africa, right ain't got much to do with it.</span></b></i> Like the greatest Swede of 'em all used to say, 'God is on the side of the big battalions.' "</span><br />
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<br />IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-7619002667521341952019-06-13T20:00:00.002+01:002019-06-13T20:00:14.756+01:00NIGERIA; A free fall..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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*A Peep Through The Veil*<br />
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First of all, I would want to congratulate the malevolent schemers who have succeeded in scheming the Igbo nation out of the country Nigeria.<br />
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I am congratulating them because they have succeeded in doing what is virtually impossible in sane climes.<br />
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They have succeeded in strangling separation of powers and would in no time shoot the rule of law, point blank in the middle of the eyes.<br />
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It is great to know that you completed your mission albeit without much resistance from those who are at risk and should have known better.<br />
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It is expedient to note that the final nail was hammered into the casket of Igbo involvement in governance in Nigeria today as the cycle is fully completed.<br />
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As the country Nigeria stands today, there is no Igbo man in the Executive ranks, non in the Judiciary, non in the Security and non in the legislature.<br />
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Hurray! (This is the reaction of those who are about to commit self destruction)<br />
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It has become very obvious to even a blind man that the Igbo is not wanted in the affairs of governance in Nigeria, and for those who have been very watchful as these schemes played out, we are neither surprised nor perturbed.<br />
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The time for introspection is NOW!<br />
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This is the time for the Igbo nation to go back to their drawing board and get things fixed.<br />
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I am sure some people might be thinking that we as a people should have aligned with the wobbling and fumbling government for crumbs falling off their blood stained tables, but please keep that thought to yourself.<br />
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The Igbo nation does not condone abomination, and the way the affairs of government has been carried out since 2015 is the most correct definition of abomination.<br />
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People have been slaughtered from every part of this country without one successful arrest and prosecution by those who claim to have been put into office to protect the citizens.<br />
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Appointments have been made without recourse to common sense and good conscience.<br />
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The economy has gone into reverse mode with Nigeria being hailed as the poverty capital of the world, if not that of the universe.<br />
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Unemployment has gone through the roof with jobless citizens still screaming support for those that have practically impaled them.<br />
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Investing in Nigeria is now akin to fetching water with a basket.<br />
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Unfortunately, in the face of all these humans are not bothered about the impending doom but are unified in the quest to muscle out a people that are not a threat to them, while embracing and entrenching those that have as their main goal the annihilation and annexation of their common patrimony.<br />
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What a shame!<br />
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As the NEXT LEVEL of impunity, unhindered massacres, unquestioned rape, arson and terror is enthroned, let me tell you for free that it is going to be a tough time, just like Buhari promised all of you who are dancing shoki for the supposed success of their mundane agenda.<br />
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As we recoil to ask deep questions of ourselves, let it be known that Nigeria has descended finally into the abyss of tyranny.<br />
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If you are still not alive to the current situation in Nigeria, please kindly scream for urgent help.<br />
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And for those other regions that would be gloating over the lot of the Igbo nation in the country Nigeria, I am deeply sorry for all of you.<br />
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We are proud to be who we are!<br />
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We do not stand with evil, and we are ready and willing to bear the consequences of such a noble stand.<br />
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When the roll call of those who have separated themselves from the plague shall be made, we shall stand tall and with broad smiles on our faces, tell the world that, "yes, we stand by our principles."<br />
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Finally, let those who make reference to themselves as leaders in Igbo land know today that the time for them to connect with the people is now or never!<br />
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*- Nze Ugo-Akpe Onwuka (Oyi II)*IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-6158069931919159402019-06-13T19:40:00.001+01:002019-06-13T19:40:18.956+01:00KEEP RANTING ABOUT THE SOUTH EAST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okenyi Kenechi wrote:<br />
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"A region that survived bombardment from both UK, Russian and Arab military forces for 3 years, survived Buhari’s disastrous 4 years, will not stop surviving because of political positions.<br />
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Let your ignorance not swallow you.<br />
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In Nigeria's poverty index, South-East is the lowest with 26% while Buhari’s North West is the highest with 75%, Ahmed Lawan's North East, 72%.<br />
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These figures are what should form the core of every political discourse in Nigeria but no, ignorant folks are talking about South-East not getting any position?<br />
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My town with no Senator is peaceful. You can sleep with your doors open. Can people in Buhari’s Daura do same? 46 days after a high-ranking Chief and Buhari’s ADC's in-law was kidnapped in Daura, there is no words about him. Can Ahmed Lawan sleep in his home with his doors open? Can the people in his state?<br />
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The Igbo apprentice system has created more billionaires in the last five decades than politics has for the North.<br />
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You won't survive more than me.<br />
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Like I wrote before, Isn't insecurity taking over the North despite having all the posts including security chiefs?<br />
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Political positions in a dysfunctional system only benefit the few and not the masses.<br />
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Keep ranting about the South-East."IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-65999089860078449242019-06-13T19:24:00.001+01:002019-06-13T19:24:59.444+01:00No lamentations..No mockery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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National Assembly Election and the South East.<br />
There is out there either needless lamentation for the South East or mockery because of the elections in the National Assembly yesterday. The South East does not deserve and absolutely rejects both lamentation and mockery arising from the occupation of offices in the fourth series of the Fourth Republic.<br />
Records in Nigeria show that while occupation of political office by sons of the soil is useful, it is often more symbolic than anything else. If it translated to regional prosperity, Northern Nigeria would by now be the top ranked in Nigeria. We all know that poverty and all the negative indices hold sway in the North despite holding office three times more than any region.<br />
The South East chose with clear eyes its political leaning. It should live with its choice. Life is a game. You win this round and lose the next. The call on the South East is to focus inwards and build on Its strengths. The call is for citizen engagement with the political and governance process at home to ensure better utilisation of the resources of the region. The call is to build the Human Capital of the region and benchmark against the global best. The call is to achieve poverty rates that are uniformly under 15% max. Ebonyi records poverty rate of 57%, similar to Northern states while the other states in the region range from 12 to 27%.<br />
Young people in the region should be thinking creativity and innovation. Build on STEM. Build our communities. Pay attention to the centre for your entitlements but build strength internally.<br />
No lamentation. No mockery. The sun shall rise even brighter.IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-90811722822743867442019-04-04T13:34:00.000+01:002019-04-04T13:34:31.155+01:00TRIBALISM WORSE THAN RACISM....The Nigerian case<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQqSS8UiLcpUMyDArHELZec281hH7KWNgyUoUcL5wzLs2ec_TSehPHyvi0H_BFec2FAGniy7mQzYuEEBb_JSqS1pTqnDVecsp1z1A-RBMn3RSMt_mTfEmp8hynySSBnbUqfmD5-Vq_bI/s1600/FB_IMG_1554276064550.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQqSS8UiLcpUMyDArHELZec281hH7KWNgyUoUcL5wzLs2ec_TSehPHyvi0H_BFec2FAGniy7mQzYuEEBb_JSqS1pTqnDVecsp1z1A-RBMn3RSMt_mTfEmp8hynySSBnbUqfmD5-Vq_bI/s1600/FB_IMG_1554276064550.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">In just concluded World Tech Festival in Monastir Tunisia 🇹🇳, four Nigerian school boys have clinched the bronze medal. Namely: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) Ugwuishi Meshack Ogonna </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2) Chuka- Umeora Onyedika Anthony </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3) Nwachukwu Chukwualuka Daniel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4) Machi Chukwuagozie Dominic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They held off stiff and fierce competition from 40 other countries like Canada 🇨🇦, China 🇨🇳, South Korea 🇰🇷, Turkey 🇹🇷, Tunisia 🇹🇳, Bosnia 🇧🇦 Etc.
The bronze boys achieved this feat with their device called <span style="background-color: yellow;">“Adaptable Alternative Power Supply for Sub-Saharan Africa”</span>
I haven’t seen most Nigerians sharing and celebrating these remarkable feat by these kids. <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">I don’t see many Nigerians telling the whole world they’re Igbos and listing their names</span>. But they were busy to share and tell the world the other boys who robbed a store in UAE 🇦🇪, are Igbos. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">When Five girls from Regina Pacies Secondary School Onitsha,</span> Amanbra state, who represented Nigeria and Africa at the World Technovation Challenge in the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, US won the Gold Medal in the contest last year. Majority of Nigerians didn’t share, celebrate or tell us they’re Igbos and listing their names as; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 1) Promise Nnalue, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2) Jessica Osita, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 3) Nwabuaku Ossai, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 4)Adaeze Onuigbo </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 5) Vivian Okoye. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Golden girls won the Challenge with a mobile application called the FD-Detector which they developed to help tackle the Challenge of fake pharmaceutical products in Nigeria. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">When you tell the world that the five Nigerian UAE armed robbers are of Igbo extraction, also tell them that the five Silicon Valley world Technovation champions are also Igbo</span>s. Tell them the four Monastir 2019 African Science and Technology Competition Bronze medalists are also Igbos.
Many acclaimed educated, religious, exposed, enlightened and conscious Nigerians are low key tribal bigots. No matter your hate speech igbos are the best.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZcsPLGpQ9-ign7wZ-6B_eYO7L50VwlzP-tD4ZlYG5Bl4VkMKIXGFhbxUKlClAQcrBb2dTeK1g3nON0YbKumL5QZ1zFYJ9AmgDAmJ3sjcBrlFwbb6a5i31hyGTxaAXQziWoR7jsEGYsU/s1600/FB_IMG_1554276084070.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="681" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZcsPLGpQ9-ign7wZ-6B_eYO7L50VwlzP-tD4ZlYG5Bl4VkMKIXGFhbxUKlClAQcrBb2dTeK1g3nON0YbKumL5QZ1zFYJ9AmgDAmJ3sjcBrlFwbb6a5i31hyGTxaAXQziWoR7jsEGYsU/s400/FB_IMG_1554276084070.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">https://www.agvictor.com/2019/04/03/anambra-students-win-bronze-at-world-tech-festival-in-tunisia/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.agvictor.com/2019/04/03/anambra-students-win-bronze-at-world-tech-festival-in-tunisia/">Ref</a></span>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-83175053039940726972019-03-25T01:29:00.000+01:002019-03-25T01:29:18.064+01:00IGBO DOMINATION?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpS0I0IIw12n35W5muAQKIulbeP89t8UO9YYeN_y7n5Hj-Infn1LejtiCi2Vo_pQnV9b48VY758ryjGBSlpwCw7W9wnMLR-syfH9pVigdsnbX_jtKQ5F7i2y9Ptbsdug5hFQFlNCVfXVA/s1600/IMG-20170816-WA0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpS0I0IIw12n35W5muAQKIulbeP89t8UO9YYeN_y7n5Hj-Infn1LejtiCi2Vo_pQnV9b48VY758ryjGBSlpwCw7W9wnMLR-syfH9pVigdsnbX_jtKQ5F7i2y9Ptbsdug5hFQFlNCVfXVA/s320/IMG-20170816-WA0005.jpg" width="320" height="214" data-original-width="640" data-original-height="428" /></a></div>Igbos are such a strange people in this world. Those who don’t understand them get many things mixed up about them.
The only people apart from their neighbors here in Africa whose culture is similar to theirs and who seem to understand and like them are the Jews because they are the only ones that share similar life style with the Igbos of Africa.
Someone might want to ask why am I writing about the Igbo as if I am Igbo myself. No I am not Igbo, I am Ijaw. My ethnic group share borders with Igbos on many fronts and we share a lot in common together in terms of culture and a few words in languages but that’s not what gave me the right to write about them. I studied in a federal university at the heart of Igboland for five years. Most of my friends in school were Igbos and I lived outside school in an Igbo community with local Igbos.
Igbos are culturally business people, they survive by buying and selling. They believe that success comes from constant monetary exchange so they live that way and develop a system of training the younger generation from taking over from them through their mastership and apprenticeship system.
They are also very passionate people. They put their all into whatever they do. They put all their eggs in one basket until they have success in that quest.
Igbos don’t give a little chance to evil to mature and grow into something that cannot be controlled. This is the reason those who planned the first coup and only revolution in Nigeria were mostly Igbos.
A single individual Igbo might be very good at telling lies but the Igbo community eschewed lies. The reason individuals tell lies in Igboland is because of their business culture.
Most business men are not sincere or else they won’t make much gain that’s why Ijaws rarely do petty business and succeed because we don’t know how to differentiate business life from real life and so we relax too much and feel so reluctant in business but that’s not the Igbo. An Igbo would rather cheat you in business instead of to have losses, his boss that trained him taught him so.
Because most Igbo individuals are business people and may sometimes want to bring business life of insincerity into societal life, the Igbo community has more checks on the human excesses in the society than any other society I am aware of. An average Igbo detest insincere life in the society. They can ignore insincerity in business but not in the community because they understand that business is for gain while the society is for life and love for without love life will be lost.
An Igbo man is an independent man. They don’t like to take what is not theirs so they work very hard to get their own. The Igbo society hates oppression so if you can prove how an Igbo has oppressed or is oppressing you or a group of people to the Igbo society, that person becomes an enemy of the whole Igbo community. If such person is an Igbo, he will be excommunicated and treated with disdain but if he is not he will be resisted whether those he is oppressing are Igbos or not.
Most of these qualities of the Igbo can be found in most other ethnic nations in Biafra but the difference is that none of them have the business culture of the Igbo society. That business culture is what makes the neighbors of the Igbo to find it hard to understand them nor trust them.
Igbos are a very focused people, they hate distractions and they don’t tolerate it because they believe time is money. If an average Igbo see you as a distraction he will ignore you no matter how much he loved you and move forward. If you disagree with his ideology he will do everything to kick you out of his way and only come back to listen to what you have to say after he has succeeded. So if you don’t understand him you will think he ignored you because he doesn’t care, no he did because he hates wasting time.
This attitude is what has caused the most trouble among the Igbos and their neighbors in Biafra. While Ijaws, Ibibios, Urhobos, Efiks, Ogonis etc want to be heard the Igbo wants results. It’s easier for Ijaws to gather other tribes in Biafra like we have done over time in the struggle for freedom of the coast otherwise called Niger delta struggle. Ijaws don’t care giving the whole year listening to what others have a say on a matter but Igbo is an impatient tribe.
This is why I marvel that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu never rushed into arm struggle and is patiently waiting and taking time to convince every single individual in Biafra to understand the Biafran cause. I see in him the speed of the Igbo, the patience of Ijaw and the maturity to sustain a struggle without gain which is only found outside Africa.
Most Africans have lazy minds, sorry I must tell the truth. By lazy minds I mean they don’t think hard enough and they don’t have the patience to sustain a good ideology and maintain it over time irrespective of the temptations. Nnamdi Kanu is different. This is why you see most people falling out of the struggle and entertaining new ideologies, some for gain and many can’t just remain in the ideology they believe in.
Now back to the Igbo.
An Igbo is fulfilled when he is on his own (independence) and you are on your own and everyone is happy. He doesn’t enjoy fighting to keep you in bondage under him except you let him. He can only fight you with all his life when you attempt to deny him his right or try to oppress him.
So the fear of Igbo dominating others are not real only except the structures are not well placed.
It is normal for every large tribe to dominate in a unitary system where everyone pretend to be one when they’re not. This is why a unitary system won’t work in Biafra but a confederation. Only a confederation will work because like the Igbo all Biafrans love their independence and that’s why Nnamdi Kanu has proposed to have a government system that promotes individual nation independence and collective alliance to form a central government United in military and foreign affairs. This system is the only system that can work in Biafra and the resistance that has caused the strife now and during the Nigeria Biafra war was because BIAFRA was operating a unitary system that made other nations felt like the central government was all about Igbo and they were subjects. They resisted being subjects to their brothers, became loyal to the invaders because they thought if the invaders frees them from their brothers they all can then stand as equals in the supposed Nigerian union not knowing that the invaders see things from a different angle. At the end, the invaders proved that they all were grouped to be conquered. So helping them conquer your strong brother because you felt oppressed was the worse that happened to the coastal Biafran nations.
Igbos don’t have a history of oppression because they don’t have it in them to oppress. They believe all men are equal and deserves the right to be on his own. This is why Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has proposed to have one of the best systems in the world, a little advancement of what our forefathers practiced before Britain came.
What I expect from other Biafran nations is to insist that Biafra is exactly the way Mazi Nnamdi Kanu envisions it to be because what we all need right now is ourselves. We need the Igbo, Ijaw, Ogoni, Ibibio, Urhobo, Efik, Igede etc to be able to survive and break free from the oppression of Nigeria.
Some Igbos and most people from the coast wants Igbo to fight alone and for Igbo territories alone so after they become independent they can then bring others on board. I laugh, I pity my brothers in the coast. If now when Igbo is here it is difficult to break free is it when you have become tinier and more easy to crush that the blood thirsty oppressors will then let you go? If at all the Igbo succeed in saving you it will take them much more than it would take them to free you now because at that time it’s now interfering into other nation’s sovereignty. Same reason it’s not so easy for Israel to just jump in to help BIAFRA now. Certain diplomatic arrangements has to be done.
On the other hand, Nigeria wouldn’t want to let go their only source of livelihood, the oil in your land. So the next time you resist BIAFRA think over it again.<b></b>IGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304570212046015893.post-55555705754597789192019-03-04T01:09:00.000+01:002019-03-04T01:09:43.566+01:00THE IGBOS IN NIGERIA....We hate poverty of any sort<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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👉I really don't understand Nigeria; you hate Igbos so much, but give them their own country so that they can leave you alone. No way.<br />
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👉Give them regional autonomy so that they can manage their own resources and develop their own land with those resources. No way.<br />
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👉Okay, open seaports and international airports so they can bring in goods and travel for business as they are business inclined. No way.<br />
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👉Okay, give them good road networks and power supply so that they can do business within their region. No way.<br />
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👉You want them to remain chained to a poverty inclined country that they didn't create, that they didn't chose to belong to, where their resources are stolen and used everywhere but their own region, and expect them to be happy with such arrangement? You go to the point of murdering those who want to ask you for a referendum to democratically chose their fate.<br />
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👉Then those Igbos who are happy with this arrangement....what is wrong with you? Am sorry, it's a valid question, what is actually your problem?<br />
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👉There is nothing more fundamental than a desire to be free, there is nothing more fundamental than a desire for prosperity. Nigeria gives the Igboman neither....so what reason should any Igboman want to be tied to a country like Nigeria. When he knows that his true country, Biafra, the country that existed before the British came, is there waiting to be actualised?<br />
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👉We have to change our thoughts, this cannot go on, we cannot continue this way, and we will not continue this way.<br />
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By Ukonu ObasiIGBO WATCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12741912593696238455noreply@blogger.com0