Churchill Brains Amakodike: Went to Control today and saw group/numerous of hausa people entering owerri on top of a trailer, about 4 trailers that are with goods have more than 10 to 15 hausa boys on it. What is happening on this IMO state everyday troupes of hausa people will be imported, IMO state government should pls look into this matter o cos the population of hausa's in this state is increasing with big margin, go to Mbaise road they have occupied they entrance with their fake goods and the government is not doing anything about it rather the government is chasing IMO boys on Douglas and other areas, but hausa boys are being left freely to do what the like in our own land Just the other night I saw many hausa boys beating an igbo boy mercilessly @ nekede road cos the are many and can out number igbo boys around Pls state government should do something serious about this before it gets out of hand cos if a serious action is not taking about the importation of this hausa boy to owerri, very soon the will start to drag owerri with us.

Abagworo: Only Abia State has significant Hausa population in the East. Infact there are more Hausas in Umuchieze than the indigenes and we've never heard them complain but rather they tap into the increased business activities brought about by the high Hausa population.

Igbos should not in the process of naively falling for politics of tribalism forget that we are far more in other people's zone.

Abagworo: Only Abia State has significant Hausa population in the East. Infact there are more Hausas in Umuchieze than the indigenes and we've never heard them complain but rather they tap into the increased business activities brought about by the high Hausa population.

Igbos should not in the process of naively falling for politics of tribalism forget that we are far more in other people's zone.

asha 80: umuchieze in which local goverment?.......op please let us tap into whatever biz activities the hausa bring.....after al igbos are also much in other lands.

Though officially known as Umuchieze cattle market, most people prefer to call it Lokpanta cattle market. It is the largest cattle market East of the Niger. The cattle market which covers more than one square kilometer is a community of its own.

Perhaps, it is on the basis of the rising population of this community which has become a melting pot for people from almost all parts of the country that the leadership of the cattle market association, had since called on the Abia state government to create a political ward in the market to give the traders the opportunity to vote during general elections.

It is located on the ever-busy Enugu - Port-Harcourt Expressway. A first time visitor to the market may likely want to know why the market bears the names of two communities. The only plausible reason is that Lokpanta is more popular than Umuchieze because of the presence of quarry sites in the former community.

The cattle market has become a landmark in Umuchieze. For motorists and passengers travelling along the Enugu - Port-Harcourt Expressway, the sight of several trailers parked on either sides of the road, is an indication that one is approaching Lokponta or Umuchieze, depending on whether one is coming from Umuahia or Enugu.

The trailer drivers carry cattle, bags of beans and ground-nuts from the Northern parts of the country to Lokpanta, and on their way back to the North, they carry mainly palm oil which is used in cooking food and making soap. Indeed, palm oil was the mainstay of the economy of the defunct Eastern region, but with the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity, the produce was relegated to the background by successive administrations of the nine states carved out of the defunct region.

Umuchieze has equally become a rendezvous for petroleum products tanker drivers from the Northern states who either pass the night there or rest before taking off to their different destinations.

Alhaji Musa Bishara, chairman, Umuchieze Cattle Market Association, told LEADERSHIP SUNDAY that customers come from the states of Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Enugu and Imo to buy cattle, goats, rams and local chicken at relatively cheaper prices.

"The prices of the livestock we sell here are comparatively cheap because there are no restrictions placed on cattle traders who come from Sokoto, Katsina, Borno, and other parts of the country, and even from the neighbouring countries of Niger and Cameroun.

"On our main market days which are Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's, no fewer than one hundred trailer load of cattle are brought here for sale. Once they are brought here, they are handed over to the dealers who sell to smaller dealers as well as to retailers", he disclosed.

When LEADESHIP SUNDAY visited the market on Tuesday, many trailer drivers carrying livestock parked their trailers on both sides of the road, and waited endlessly to off-load their goods, and in the process caused a major traffic gridlock on the highway. "What you are seeing today, is symbolic of the volume of traffic recorded here on the market days", said Alhaji Bishara.

The cattle trade is dominated by traders from the Northern parts of the country, nevertheless, there are some Igbo men involved in the cattle trade either as dealers or retailers, a development which has continued to cement the bond of unity between cattle traders from the North and their counterparts in the East.

Besides trading in livestock, other ancillary businesses are carried out in the market. They include and are not limited to selling of hay and fodder in the market.

"These set of traders are important in the market because their services are indispensible and they make good living from them," said Alhaji Bishara.

Mrs. Veronica Nwoga, sells slaughter knives, ropes and canes, She believes that those who do not understand the market regard her business as unimportant, but she admits that she makes a lot of money from it.

She said: "Every cow retailer needs a rope to tow his cow and when you consider the number of cows that are sold in this market, it will give you an idea of the amount of money those of us that sell these small things make in a good day. The same is applicable to the slaughter knives and the canes. I buy the ropes from Aba, while the jack knives are brought by traders from the North.

"With the proceeds from the trade, I have been able to build a house in Umuahia, train my children in the university while my sons have got married as well as my daughters", she said. She has been in this business for eight years. She came to Lokponta on January 6, 2004, following the relocation of the cattle market from Okigwe to Lokponta.

Abagworo: The writer should be arrested ASAP as PDP has been known to play this kind of politics.

Abagworo: The only reason I'm being suspicious of this kind of insinuation is that it might have political undertone and there might be plots to create political instability by first creating an atmosphere of resentment against Hausas and finally planting a bomb and claiming boko haram has invaded Owerri. The writer should be arrested ASAP as PDP has been known to play this kind of politics.

Afam4eva: Are Hausas not Nigerians? They have the right to live anywhere they choose to. It's not your business. Go get a job.

Asabeq: Op you need a doctor!!or did you smoke elephant grass in place of Igboh? Where in 9ja even in the remote places will you not find an Igbo man. You are just a useless tribalist and trouble maker. Rubbish post

donphilopus: I love the comments I'm seeing! If you check the number of Igbos in other part of the country, the OP won't spew this trash! They used to say, anywhere you go, and you do not see an Igbo man and Egbira man there, better run from there.

gratiaeo:
Though as much as they have right to live anywhere they choose we will not underrate their violence nature. There are practical difference between Igbo travelers and Hausas which you know

berem: You think its only the hausas that have monopoly to violence? Is there any part of this country or in diaspora an Igbo man has migrated to that you haven't heard of crimes committed by an Igbo man? Just as an Igbo man is business oriented,so is the hausa man.

Abagworo: The only reason I'm being suspicious of this kind of insinuation is that it might have political undertone and there might be plots to create political instability by first creating an atmosphere of resentment against Hausas and finally planting a bomb and claiming boko haram has invaded Owerri. The writer should be arrested ASAP as PDP has been known to play this kind of politics.

Afam4eva: Are Hausas not Nigerians? They have the right to live anywhere they choose to. It's not your business. Go get a job.

berem: So what if Hausas flood Imo state? Are Igbos of Imo origin not still migrating to the north despite the boko haram crises? Senseless post!

IKEMBA NNEWI: Berem i'm beginning to doubt the authenticity of your Igboness, kam gwaziegi nke bu eziokwu. Inasmuch as i aint against you standing up for the ''truth'', there are certain things you type on this forum that depicts not the true trait of an 'Ada orlu' that you claim to be. Udo diri gi

Controversy:


I hope you will still say the same thing when they start unleashing mayhem in the state with their cow

Controversy:


I hope you will still say the same thing when they start unleashing mayhem in the state with their cow

berem: You think its only the hausas that have monopoly to violence? Is there any part of this country or in diaspora an Igbo man has migrated to that you haven't heard of crimes committed by an Igbo man? Just as an Igbo man is business oriented,so is the hausa man.

asha 80: umuchieze in which local goverment?.......op please let us tap into whatever biz activities the hausa bring.....after al igbos are also much in other lands.

Controversy:
I hope you will still say the same thing when they start unleashing mayhem in the state with their cow

gratiaeo:
I have not heard where a group of Igbo people overrun a village in the night killing/maiming, rapping woman, burning down houses destroying live stocks etc. Mind you i was second person to condemn op. Its not all about Igbo even Yorubas awakening now, Hausas Fulani are like cancer.........

Theben:
When they unleash mayhem, the government should take the blame for not providing adequate security. Not all Hausas are Boko Haramists and not all are violent.

The Hausas did not react to the influx of the igbos into their land with statements like "they are criminals, they are kidnappers".

Whoever commits a crime should be prosecuted. The individual should take the blame and not the tribe.

berem: Could you please stick to the topic before you turn the thread to a bashing thread against me? Daalu!