c.fours:
I'm glad they are not fleeing to Lagos. we are overcrowded as it is.
but for real though, what is so wrong with the SE region that they don't want to move back there?

c.fours:
^ lol rotfl

let me go and check the statistics of how many Americans are fleeing their country due to "hot competition"
if things are good for you, it is others that will be flocking to you. not vice versa.

and let's just assume there is so called hot competition in iboland. for people to prefer to live in boko haram areas than live in the east should say something about the state of that region. it means, folks will rather die in the north than move back to the east!
orishirishi

achi4u: Nothing is wrong with the SE except "hot compitition" unlike other parts of the country where alot people are still very timid and primitive.

Kidnapped ex-lawmaker killed in Imo…after family pays N5m ransom



March 20, 2013 | 12:08 am

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BY CHIDI NKWOPARA
OWERRI—The corpse of a two-time lawmaker and former majority leader of Imo State House of Assembly, Mr. Dan Nwagwu, who was kidnapped last January, has been dumped along the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway.

This sordid tale came barely seven days after the lifeless body of an Oguta-born hotelier, Mr. Emeka Aseme, was similarly dumped at Umunoha by his abductors and eventual killers.

Vanguard investigations revealed that while the relations of Aseme doled out about N2.5 million as ransom to save their bread winner, the Nwagwu family coughed out about N5 million.

In the two instances, nothing was heard from the kidnappers after collecting the ransom until the corpses of the victims were dumped.

Vanguard recalls that the former lawmaker, a native of Umungwa, Obowo local council area of ImoState, was kidnapped in his Umuahia, AbiaState base, by a yet-to-be identified group.

Some citizens, who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity, were affirmed that the security situation in ImoState was getting out of hand.

“The issue is no longer that people are being kidnapped by hoodlums. We are worried that we get kidnapped, pay the demanded ransom and yet get killed. This is what makes the whole thing messier”, a man lamented.

Answering another question, the man said the list of those killed by their abductors is getting longer by the day and pleaded with government and the security agencies to help salvage the situation

Adejoro74:
Like your folks trouping from SW, with all its milk and honey, to London to beg for social safety net and deprive citizens of their dues. What does Lagos govt offer those Igbos? Nothing. Instead they take from them and close their bizs at will. Also I guess yorubas do not live in the North and East and SS. You are an ugly baboon, like Obj/Tinubu/Fasola.

achi4u: Why cameroun?,why not escape to EAST your father land with your families?
We have alot of space for returnees,so why runing to another "unsave" zone?

please return home.

Yeske!:
^^You haven't answered my question yet.

Gamji007:
They'd rather be bombed by boko haram than to end up in Ezu river.

They just can't go back to the east. Mehn, it shows how terrible that area is.

c.fours:
I'm glad they are not fleeing to Lagos. we are overcrowded as it is.
but for real though, what is so wrong with the SE region that they don't want to move back there?

c.fours:
Igbos living in North flee to Cameroon for safety from Boko Haram violence
February 9, 2012 ·
FOTOKOL (AFP) – Nigerians have fled in droves to neighbouring Cameroon to escape violence claimed by the Islamist Boko Haram group and revenge attacks by Christians.
“Everybody is insecure in Nigeria. The fear is all-pervading,” said a Christian priest, speaking on condition of anonymity, in Fotokol, a Cameroonian border town where dozens have taken shelter in the last few weeks.
It is located about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the bastion of the shadowy Boko Haram sect which has been blamed for a slew of terror attacks that have sowed panic in Africa’s most populous nation.
Boko Haram has claimed to be fighting for an Islamic state in the north, but its demands have varied.
“Many Nigerians like myself have fled their villages in the south. We feel secure in Cameroon,” the priest said in Fotokol.
“That is why I am sheltered here,” he added.
He has rented a house which is about 10 minutes by motorcycle to the nearest town in Nigeria, Gamboru Ngala, where he heads the local Catholic church.
It is difficult to gauge the exact number of Nigerians who have fled to Cameroon as they cross the border illegally, but there are easily dozens sheltered here since the attacks and tit-for-tat ripostes by Christians.
Mahamat Tujani, a Muslim trader from Maiduguri, fled to Kousseri near Fotokol.
“I abandoned my business and my family to seek refuge at the home of my cousin,” a Cameroonian, he said. “I escaped out of fear.”
He hoped to return home soon, he said, “but if the killings continue, I will bring over my family members here.”
Boko Haram has been blamed for scores of bomb attacks in Nigeria’s Muslim-dominated north. It claimed responsibility for January 20 coordinated bombings and shootings in Nigeria’s second-largest city of Kano that left at least 185 people dead — Boko Haram’s deadliest attack yet.
The August suicide bombing of UN headquarters in the capital Abuja which killed at least 25 people was also attributed to the group.
“When you scent danger, you must escape,” the priest said.
“Even in the Gospel, the Lord says the moment you sense danger, you must escape. If you don’t it’s suicide,” he said.
The priest said two Christians from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group were killed in Mobi in Adamawa state about three weeks ago.
“When the other Igbos went to reclaim their bodies the Boko Haram struck and killed 29 others,” he said.
Sectarian violence has been rising since elections in July last year. He urged both Christians and Muslims to “return to God.”
The priest said Muslims were also targeted by Boko Haram. Between January 28 and 30, three people — including a Muslim — were killed in Gamboru Ngala, Nigerian and Cameroonian police and medical sources said.
The priest was following an Africa Cup of Nations match on television at a bar, along with six other compatriots. In another room, eight other Nigerians sat, drinking
Moderator please remove this from fp is not never true and please you people should stop stereotyping the north we are not as bad your bastards think we are. I pray that Allah SBNT expose all those elites behind this evil in the north and my ibo brothers we do not hate you people though few hausa/fulani hate Christians but not entire north.
http://naija247news..com/2012/02/igbos-living-in-north-flee-to-cameroon.html

Al_Qaadir:
You are a youruba bastard and may the cause of Almighty Allah be upon your generation. Haba! what is wrong with you with the ibo people? Are youruba people better than any tribe in Nigerian? Don't make me to hate yorubas because if i do i will go after their life OK.
Your eviness of ibo will send you early grave and i know how many yoruba are here in the north and when the war start ibos will never be the tagert but you yorubas.
Let me tell you this now that ibos are not targeted in the north but christian OK and if nigerian divide today no northerner man will go against the ibo because we know the implication it might cause to our economy but you stupid and mothanfuckers yourubas will be flush out from our zone.
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Due to its relative peace and calm, Enugu is the preferred destination of about 80 per cent of the returnees.

Mr. Bryan Okeke, another returnee from Maiduguri, Borno State, said, “Enugu State is not just the safest place in South-East, it is even the safest place in the entire southern part of Nigeria.” Okeke says

“Aside Calabar in Cross River, Enugu city, the capital of Enugu State, is the neatest city in the entire South of Nigeria. Its beauty is not negotiable,”

vizboy: I still dont understand why every thead in the political section has to turn to an e tribal war

@op
you are free to go where ever you feel safe. If they say cameroun is safer for them they are free to stay there

c.fours:


if you are looking for a link, open your eyes and you will see it in the original post.
if you are asking what parts of cameroon the ibos are fleeing into then my answer is: read the article.