alj harem: What are the IG, commissioners, President, gov etc doing about this security issue ?

The problem is that when an Igbo person gets to a place buys a land, he/she considers it as her own land but in reality it is a lease land. This is what makes people angry at Igbos. When you live in a place for 20 years and don't think it is necessary to become a full indigene without bring the Igbo culture to the new land, then you are seen as an invading alien rather than a settler in Nigeria context.

alj harem:

No I am not blaming Igbos for it, I agreed with eduson that it is unfair and inhuman but my sister I would not deceive you it is what it is ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD.

People inculding Igbos don't like when aliens come to their land acquire lots of properties and bring more people in. People don't like it does not mean it is Igbos fault. It is just like that

Classicalman: You see the average thinking of an Hausa-fulani man? So if i stay in a place for 30years i am still considered an outsider because i refuse to convert to islam? Yet your arab brothers migrate and live in europe and are accorded full citizenship status?

franchizy: Why are the igbos raising false Alarm. Islam is a religion of peace, and the Boko Haram sects ve sook for dialogue to stop d killing of innocent people. Now the wicked igbos ve come up with a rumour to make the ceasefire not to happen cos they know dat there sons are the Boko Haram who claim to be muslims. Allah will punish dis igbos one by one.

damoobaba:
Bro,its even worse with Igbo people,you hardly hear of other tribes settling down i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ their region because they are not accomodating at all,very hostile.even when they settle among other tribes,they want to claim ownership of the area after some time,yet when the same treatment íڪ metted on them somewhere else else,they come out to cry wolf.Ethnic bigots.imagine igbos telling Fashola before 2011 elections that they wouldn't vote him unless he makes an agreement with them that he will have more Igbos i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ his cabinet if he gets elected.Lagos na their village?

GotNoBrainsYo:

Every Life is valuable. If one Yoruba child or One NUpe child was killed senselessly,
using these barbaric methods, I"ll stand up for him too.
I don't understand humans who feel so un-concerned about life just because the death is suffered by someone of a different ethnicity.
Are we all human or are we not? This nonchalant attitude towards human life is appalling.

franchizy: Why are the igbos raising false Alarm. Islam is a religion of peace, and the Boko Haram sects ve sook for dialogue to stop d killing of innocent people. Now the wicked igbos ve come up with a rumour to make the ceasefire not to happen cos they know dat there sons are the Boko Haram who claim to be muslims. Allah will punish dis igbos one by one.

saxywale:
What she probably meant was grown up children, most likely men in their twenties.

Gozzzy:
Ol' boy na naija we dey.... No be america..

alj harem: @ Those Igbos insulting me, all I can do is pity you all as it shows you are not thinking at all with brains ( Sorry for the insult)

Now listen and thiiinnnnnnkkkkkk !!!! Does it make sense I mean any sense for me to go an live in an unstable place ? Does it even as an indigene ? NO Now you as a non-indigene think it is alright to live there and hope for protect. IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN.

STRANGERS ARE ATTACKED FIRST IN ANY LAND BEFORE THE INDIGENES. STRANGERS ARE FAULTED FIRST

I repeat myself only if you listen to me. I have not been around on Nairaland for sometime now because I travelled and I KNOW THE MENTALITY OF SOUTH-SOUTHERNERS on Igbos. If South-southerners feel that way then think of how The SW and North would feel ?

I am a friend of the Igbos even though we have our differences on the biafra issue. I can NEVER EVER MIS-ADVICE THE IGBOS. It is not a matter of Alj harem but of matter of wisdom here. My state of origin has the LARGEST NUMBER OF NON-INDIGENES IN AFRICA (Lagos). I know what lagosians (Yoruba and bini) think of Igbos and I know there limitations. Spent sometime in the north and Know what they think of Igbos and limitations. Same with the south-south.

Trust me all these groups don't hate igbos as some of you would think. Boko haram is a different case, it give some people the opportunity to carry out there evil intent. Boko haram is not a Muslim thing but I AM STARTING TO THINK IT IS POLITICAL.

Why would any reasonable body not to talk of an Igbo man lose his life for a piece of lease land ? It makes no sense. With life there is hope so they say. Majority of the people talking here are in dispora and don't understand

Now I am not saying only stay in your region but PLEASE don't invest your money in any state that you are not grantee your safety and that of your family. Even Northerners are leaving the north and moving to Abuja and environs.

Why would I use Nairaland jokes and comments to cloud my reasoning ? Do you think I enjoy reading stories about avoidable deaths ? It is very sad and that is why I am trying to sensitise the Nigerians people on the issues on ground and how to relate with indigenes.

It is not only in Nigeria this happen but all over the whole. All we can do is pray this animosity to each other stop soon.

alj harem:

Ok YES IT IS TRUE and I am aware if it. The question is would you be allowed to buy Land at the first place. NO

If you have been following me, you would observe I have not been on Nairaland for sometime. Reason being a family friend of mine went to Onitsha (The largest market in Africa) and saw a vacancy advert for a shop to rent. Do you know that as soon as he got there they told him that they have just rented the shop out, removed the vacacy advert and when my family friend left he placed it back there.

Now that is evil, tribalistic and very disheartening. This man is an Indigene of Lagos state and has bini ancestry. He told me that he has never felt so bad before in his life. Unlike Port harcourt and other South-south states that are still welcoming.

damoobaba:
Bro,its even worse with Igbo people,you hardly hear of other tribes settling down i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ their region because they are not accomodating at all,very hostile.even when they settle among other tribes,they want to claim ownership of the area after some time,yet when the same treatment íڪ metted on them somewhere else else,they come out to cry wolf.Ethnic bigots.imagine igbos telling Fashola before 2011 elections that they wouldn't vote him unless he makes an agreement with them that he will have more Igbos i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ his cabinet if he gets elected.Lagos na their village?

nku5: You don't know jack shyte about igbo people oga. Except for the bigoted statements you overhear and swallow because it makes you feel good. There are plenty of yorubas that have living peacefully in my VILLAGE for decades. They even throw big parties every year.

Do you peopl really believe the cyanide that comes out of u? where did you hear that IGBOS came out in one voice to blackmail Fashola politically. I remember one or two opportunists igbos trying to make small names for themselves but how does that translate to a general agenda.

bittyend:

Bro bro, are Igbos Jews or Gypsies?

I need an answer.

CuntDestroyer:

they are better than you for starters

pazienza:

Shut up, stop opening your foul mouth anyhow. Those hausa people in lokpanta have been in okigwe for ages before they were relocated to lokpanta,nobody is hostile to them,rather we expect them to help in developing that part of Abia state, stop spreading your falsehood about igbos being hostile to settlers. An average igboman is too busy trying to make money,he doesn't care about who is a settler or who is not,all he cares about is business opportunities.

bittyend:

Bro bro, are Igbos Jews or Gypsies?

I need an answer.

gbosaa:


Lagos was a former capital city,built and developed with resources from delta delta.
Abuja,the new capital city wouldnt have been like it is today without oil money from south south and that accounts hugely for large influx of not only igbos but people from different parts of the country.Igbos have been crying marginalisation for years and the only visible presence of fed govt in the south east happens to be breweries for alcohols.If not for sharia and religious reasons in the north,all the breweries would,ve been located in the north as well like the kaduna state where you have the following...Nigeria Defence Academy,Defence Industries Corporation,Aviation sch..etc..No one is making noise or complaining,if it had been igbos,the whole country would be accusing them of greed and tribalism.most federal roads in the south east or leading there are not motorable,same with the niger bridge which people have been crying for ages for either repair or a second one but no one cares.Bring the resources to the south east.Invest just 30% of what fed govt spent to develope either lagos or Abuja and see how many igbos would troupe out of their zones.Of course that will not happen but if they save and invest in either lagos and abuja,someone would remind him that he is not an indigene of that state.If he builds a good house for himself and family outside his state of origin,he becomes public enemy no.1 cos so called indigenes will now see him as an expansionist.

@ALHAJI HARAM,

IF I MAY ASK,WHAT THE HELL WITH YOU PEOPLE.

Boko Haram ceasefire: It’s plot to kill more Igbo –Returnees

•Returnees recall horror tales •‘I saw family of 4 wiped out’
•‘I saw a pregnant woman disemboweled, her baby’s head cut off’
•‘I’ll never go back to the North’

The he recent ceasefire by the Boko Haram Islamic sect is nothing but a plot to kill more Igbos, according to a returnee. One of the returnees, who spoke with Sunday Sun, Mrs. Blessing Aniekwe, from Mbaitolu in Imo State, dismissed the possibility of returning to Kano, where she was living with her family before they were evacuated.

According to Mrs. Aniekwe, a widow and petty trader in one of the markets in Kano, the security of Ndigbo at a time became a very expensive thing as the hoodlums were going round different compounds, killing and maiming defenseless Ndigbo, including women and children, adding that nothing will ever make her return to the North. “It is only a person that did not witness what happened in Kano that can say he or she would return there because of a mere proposal of ceasefire. You don’t know these people, they hate Ndigbo a lot, it may be a plot to lure us back and finish us.”

Mrs. Aniekwe, who painted a picture of an Igbo family of four that was wiped out in a day by the Almajirais, who concealed a bomb in a cellophane bag and put it under the vehicle of the deceased who had prepared to leave Kano for the East, said she will not weep for any person killed in any part of the North by members of the Boko Haram. “If I tell you what I saw in Kano, I am sure it will spark off riot here in Onitsha, because at a time, we noticed that even your newspaper began to douse the tension because, if you paper had reported the whole thing as it happened, my brother, there will be no peace in Nigeria.

And you people have started again to ask if we are willing to go back there, anybody that wants to go is free to do so, but I will not cry for any Igbo killed in the North.” Also reacting, another returnee, Mrs. Pricilla Nekwa, also from Mbaitolu, Imo State, called on the Igbo leadership to help some women and children trapped in different parts of Kano and other parts of the North to come home instead of talking about going back. “When we heard about the free bus, many of us trooped out from different locations to board this luxury bus, but because of the number, it could not accommodate everybody at that time, even as I had to drop two of my children, but I later brought them home.

So, it is no longer an issue of returning to Kano.” Yet another returnee, Mrs. Elizabeth Echeta, said: “I am from Owerri, I lived at No. 2, Stadium Road, which is very close to Bombai, the place they threw the first bomb. I was sick on that day and remained indoors until I heard the sound of explosion and people living in the compound started running for help, but what they, Hausa people, did was to wait for anybody to come out and they slaughtered him. Many people were slaughtered that day. Even Almajirais, who loved to watch Ndigbo being killed, were also affected by that bomb.

“I have been living there for more than 20 years and I watched them slaughter a pregnant woman. They opened her womb, removed the baby and cut the baby’s head and killed the woman on the spot. So, my experience in Kano is that of horror and I don’t always like to recount it, please. I am like a useless person here, because I am stranded and confused and many of our people are still stranded in Kano. via DAILYSUN

damoobaba:
Bro,its even worse with Igbo people,you hardly hear of other tribes settling down i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ their region because they are not accomodating at all,very hostile.even when they settle among other tribes,they want to claim ownership of the area after some time,yet when the same treatment íڪ metted on them somewhere else else,they come out to cry wolf.Ethnic bigots.imagine igbos telling Fashola before 2011 elections that they wouldn't vote him unless he makes an agreement with them that he will have more Igbos i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ his cabinet if he gets elected.Lagos na their village?

damoobaba:
Bro,its even worse with Igbo people,you hardly hear of other tribes settling down i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ their region because they are not accomodating at all,very hostile.even when they settle among other tribes,they want to claim ownership of the area after some time,yet when the same treatment íڪ metted on them somewhere else else,they come out to cry wolf.Ethnic bigots.imagine igbos telling Fashola before 2011 elections that they wouldn't vote him unless he makes an agreement with them that he will have more Igbos i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̅ his cabinet if he gets elected.Lagos na their village?