-Lagos Is Safe For Igbo Says ACN
Published On Wednesday, July 31

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has lashed out at those who are playing cheap and dirty politics by the decision of the Lagos State government to move some homeless, indigent citizens to their home states for rehabilitation.

The party said that no sane government would be blackmailed into allowing homeless Nigerians to continue to inflict security and environmental problems on its state just to please those that readily play lousy and retrogressive politics with issues for their selfish and ulterior interests.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party said it is particularly irked by the
decision of some professional chance takers and political opportunists to take advantage of the recent movement of some indigent, homeless and social miscreants to Onitsha for the purpose of re-connecting with their families when they have no tangible business in Lagos.

The party said there should be an end to opportunistic politics and cheap ethnic and tribal politics as are being played out over the issue. The party said that transporting indigent, homeless miscreants to their home states is not a new idea and not limited to Igbos.

“We expect that the opposition in Lagos and its array of frustrated politicians in Lagos will certainly seek to play politics with the decision of the Lagos State government to move some people that have no tangible business staying in Lagos to their home states. We expected that the professional ethnic agitators who have wasted public offices in Igboland, pillaging resources that would have served the interests of the people are now cashing further from the plights of their vicious approach to governance on this issue. We however want to state that it is a shame to the opposition that it is seeking cheap political capital from the plight of the hapless victims of its free loading approach to governance and has drawn the support of ethnic irredentists whose failure on governance left the Igbo people so poor that they have become homeless refugees in Lagos and other parts of the country. It is a huge irony that the PDP, which has purloined the country in fourteen years of vicious corrupt governance, is the one now seeking to make political capital from the plight of its victims and says so much of the dominant politics of deception, corruption and greed which had hallmarked the
unfortunate PDP governance of the country since 1999.

“To put the records straight, the Lagos State government, with its commitment to the interests of Lagosians and in its effort to build a functional modern mega city, had long embarked on the decision to pick up the many derelicts, the homeless, beggars and social miscreants that inhabit all parts of Lagos.”


Clean them up, find means of livelihood for those that are employable and send those it cannot manage to their respective states. We are all aware that this scheme has seen the practical reduction in the number of the beggars, street urchins and social miscreants that used to constitute real danger to life in Lagos and has seen such people moved back to various states, mainly in the North.

[size=20][b]“We should note also that other states in the South, including South West states have received such people and the Lagos State Government has been careful to ensure that the number of people involved in such periodic movements are minimal and are only people who do not have where to stay in Lagos, who don’t have any real engagement in Lagos and who constitute nuisance to other Lagosians. We also put the nation on notice that before the latest movement of some people to Onitsha, we notified the Anambra State government, which neither responded nor took action on our complaint. We also want the public to note that the Lagos State government was involved in similar deal with the Akwa Ibom State Government when some indigent Lagosians were moved back from Akwa Ibom State to Lagos. We want Nigerians to note that such movements are common with nearly all states in Nigeria and is becoming an issue just because selfish politicians and ethnic reapers
who were prominent in the despoliation of the country see it as new and worth cashing in on.”
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ACN added: “We want to throw a frontal challenge to the PDP and the ethnic chance takers now making undue issue over the present case to let Nigerians know any one of those sent back to their states who has a home, job or business in Lagos. We want them to go
further to tell us any of those deported with any fixed address or legitimate means of livelihood. We are peeved that selfish politicians and their ethnic soulmates who have relentlessly pursued the pauperization of Nigerians even in their home states are the ones seeking cheap political ends from the plight of their victims and this is condemnable.

[b]“Lagos ACN wants to let Nigerians know that Igbos constitute over 45 per cent of the population of Lagos and they dominate key sectors of the Lagos economy. Is there any case where any of the millions of Igbo with one legitimate business or the other in Lagos is involved in the recent movement? Igbos find Lagos a safe haven for their legitimate productive activities and the present government has sustained good and cordial efforts to ensure this prevails. We want to state that Lagos hosts the largest population of Igbo in any single state outside Igboland, how is it that the movement of about 60 Igbo miscreants to their home state has now become an issue political and ethnic reapers want to cash in to destroy this priceless
relationship?

“We want to warn Ndigbo and Lagosians to beware of the leaven of the PDP and their ethnic collaborators who have spared nothing to deepen poverty and want in Nigeria and always turn round to cash in on the fate of the victims of these deadly politics. We want to assure Ndigbo in Lagos that nothing will be done to hurt and injure their interests and equally let those whose stay in Lagos constitutes threat to others that the Lagos State government will do everything within its rights to protect the lives, interests and well being of the over 20 million Lagosians who are law abiding and find legitimate reasons to stay in Lagos.”[/b]

bashy_demy: Wowww Finally ACN voice out ooo. S[b]o Akwa Ibom state have done the same to Lagos states indigine before[/b], SO why the noise then so its not new at all.. More to be deported soon.

Scarpon: if lagosian were once deported so ??

kettykin: Why are they beginning to panic now that the clouds are beginning to gather

alj harem:

My friend, let me be honest with you and this IS THE REAL TRUTH.

Lagosians are not panicking.

Lagosians are tired of igbos constituting as nuisance in our state

Lagosians are at their happiest during Christmas and new year when you all go to your villages

Lagosians have no problem with others especially Calabar people but have a lot with Igbos.

That is the truth from an indigene of Lagos. If you think I am lying push this Ladipo issue further and watch what will happen.

PointB:

Lagos should try secession if they are tired of being in Nigeria. Even that will not guarantee an Igbo free country for them. Basically anyone who is tired of seeing Igbos in Lagos State, including you, should take rat poison or jump in front of the Lagos-Kano train! Like we care!

alj harem:

My friend, let me be honest with you and this IS THE REAL TRUTH.

Lagosians are not panicking.

Lagosians are tired of igbos constituting as nuisance in our state

Lagosians are at their happiest during Christmas and new year when you all go to your villages

Lagosians have no problem with others especially Calabar people but have a lot with Igbos.

That is the truth from an indigene of Lagos. If you think I am lying push this Ladipo issue further and watch what will happen.

solomon111: In other words,ACN the regional party does not care about National unity except retaliation.
No problem,the dice is cast.
We will see who will back down when yorubas are purged from the Niger-delta and the oil industry just like the militants wanted.

rosebowl01: LOL. These people ONLY and always use Niger Delta as a bargaining chip. What happened to your own state/region? I thought you all said there's so much oil for strategic reserve there? You have a place you call home, yet you refuse to go there. You don't even want to use your land and it's resources as a bargain i.e. we will remove all Yorubas from Niger Delta South East lol. History shows that Yorubas try to avoid living around you people anyways.

solomon111: In other words,ACN the regional party does not care about National unity except retaliation.
No problem,the dice is cast.
We will see who will back down when yorubas are purged from the Niger-delta and the oil industry just like the militants wanted.

solomon111: I am a Niger-deltan,mr man.
Don't quote me again.

dayokanu:

How come when anything involves the South East the first thing they throw forward is Niger Delta? Is it that you lots are too cowardly to fight your own battles?

If Lagos wanted to reunite Niger Delta they know the way to Warri or Port Harcourt

Once again nothing concerns Niger Delta with this, This is purely Ibos who were removed

Anyway Lagos has a perfect relationship with the Niger Delta, You saw Fashola and Oshiomole Parleying, you saw Fashola and Amaechi, Even when Akwa ibom deported lagosians it was done with mutual understanding unlike for some people

solomon111: what is this nonsense you are yapping?
When did amaechi "a drowning man"=Niger delta?
Btw,what is the Niger-delta?
Is the niger-delta not a collection of oil producing states which includes SE and SS states?
You think if there is a mass purge of yorubas in the IMO state oil industry for example, it will not spread accross the niger-delta?
Keep deluding yourself.
And if this story is true,it means the SS themselves are not averse to the deportation of yorubas.
So i urge ACN to stop this madness in their own interest.
Don't start what you can't finish.
#yoruba ronu.

dayokanu:

Yorubas in Imo go ahead and deport them and let Yorubas too deport Imolites in Yoruba states

Simple

solomon111: what is this nonsense you are yapping?
When did amaechi "a drowning man"=Niger delta?
Btw,what is the Niger-delta?
Is the niger-delta not a collection of oil producing states which includes SE and SS states?
You think if there is a mass purge of yorubas in the IMO state oil industry for example, it will not spread accross the niger-delta?
Keep deluding yourself.
And if this story is true,it means the SS themselves are not averse to the deportation of yorubas.
So i urge ACN to stop this madness in their own interest.
Don't start what you can't finish.
#yoruba ronu.

alj harem: Edwin Clark is a leader in the ND and yet hate Igbos. WHY ?

St_Black:

so ND is only oil-roducing states in SS and SE except Ondo?....Nwanne, when Fashola was parking illegal human beigns last time, U complained . But tell me, is that padlock that that held ur mouth that powerful u couldnt talk when the same was done in Akwa Ibom?....
oy tell me

dayokanu:

Yorubas in Imo go ahead and deport them and let Yorubas too deport Imolites in Yoruba states

Simple

bashy_demy: Wowww Finally ACN voice out ooo. So Akwa Ibom state have done the same to Lagos states indigine before, SO why the noise then so its not new at all.. More to be deported soon.

solomon111: Edwin clark hates igbos?
You must be high on gworo.

solomon111: So the tiny ondo state oil industry can take the thousands of yorubas in the SE/SS oil industry.
Go and sit down.

solomon111: unfortunately for you,it will not be restricted to imo state.