How Much Respect Do You Show Igbos?
I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo. However, as a
stdent of history, I wish to show just what these great people
came/come against and yet thrive.
Okay, the incessant killings in the North will be glossed over
so as to make this article not overly long. The civil war will
also not be discussed.
However, post civil war, as I explained in my post MINORITY
REPORT: THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED AGAINST YOU, the rich in
Nigeria have major roots in the Indegenization decree of
1972 and 1977. I reminded how the banks gave people of
other tribes, predominantly Hausas and Yorubas loans to by
up companies owned by foreigners. Now imagine the
Federal government forced Chevron to sell 51 percent of its
shares and that Access Bank will give you loans to buy the
shares. How rich will you be in a year? 5 Years? That is how
many Yorubas and Hausas got to own UAC, all those Dunlop,
Leventis, Cadbury etc.
Now while this was ongoing, Gowon told the Nigerian banks
to give TOPS twenty naira to any Igbo man that had money
in the bank before the war. That is, if you had 5 naira before
the war, you will be given the 5 naira. But if you had a
hundred naira, you get just twenty naira in full fulfilment of
the banks duty to give you your money.
Ask yourselves “why would the banks give Igbos only twenty
naira? Did the banks collapse? So why pay less than you
were given?
So while the banks were giving loans to Hausa and Yorubas
to buy Oyibo companies they did not build, Igbos were being
cheated out of their rightful moneys.
Now not also that these people lost Houses and business
across the land. It is safe to say that as at 1970/71. the
richest Igbo had 20 naira that may be the equivalent of
maybe one million.
Let us look at how Dangote made his money. The said
Dangote has an uncle called Dantata who owned huge
chunks of the groundnut pyramids of the 50’s and 60’s. He
gave Dangote a loan and Dangote paid it back in record
time. CLAP CLAP hahahha... The record is that Dangote has
had his “brothers” in government, from IBB to Abacha and
Abdulsalaam. When they now agreed to democracy, he was
rich enough to have funded Obasanjo and so government
policies, be it monopoly afforded him for rice, sugar flour
and of course a large share of subsidy etc ensures he is the
wealthiest Nigerian.
However, for the Igbo man, where will he see an uncle that
will loan him money? The richest man in their family has
how much as at then? So while Fani Kayode can inherit
property of his father and grandfather and great grand
father, a Chidi Cali cannot inherit anything from his
grandfather who had business in Kano or even Port
Harcourt. Neighbours have made his dad’s storey building
theirs, and even someone as educated as Saro Wiwa lived in
an Igbo war emigrant house as his. (a sore point of the Niger
Delta and Igbo Unity) WAEC building was Ojukwu’s dad’s
building and like that building, thousands and the land with
it….lands worth billions today were taken from Igbos and
each and everyIgbo had tops 20 naira, destroyed homeland,
stolen and destroyed wealth away from the east. ALso his
brother is never president that will give him oil block or fuel
lifting. Of 33, only one Igbo man and because he was in
Obasanjo’s good graces.
YET LOOK HOW PROUD THEY STAND TODAY!!! Look what they
have achieved for themselves….FIRST GENERATION
WEALTH…top second generation. From being unable to send
their first sons to school so he could help look after the
shop, to producing first class brains in all departments of
modern learning.
So today, as you accuse Igbos of wanting their Biafra or of
Baby Factory, or liking money and ready to do anything for
money, remember that just forty years ago, while the banks
were dashing your uncles loans to buy all the companies of
Nigeria, it stole from the Igbos. Know that appointments
have not favoured them. Note that they remain persecuted
and many speak such ill and hate twoards a people forced
by need to survive to be extra-aggressive towards their
sustenance. Maybe if you took their history into
consideration, you will not be so critical of them, but instead
say “what a resilient people” and give God the glory that FOR
NOW, we and such a great people are compatriots.

I will say It again, even if they take everything that we have, we will still be rich, we will still be successful and we will buy up every land in Naija, from Lekki to Asokoro. and lets assume they take all the properties Igbos have today, in less than 30 years we will get more money and own more houses than them even in their land