Abagworo:
[s]Many crisis that have ravaged parts of the world were triggered by either propaganda, outright falsehood and/or deliberate manipulative incitement. This is usually achieved using the perceived weakness of the baits or sacrificial lambs without minding the collateral damage.

I as an Igbo man that lived most of my life among Igbos and various ethno-religious groups of the lower Niger know our weaknesses and I am very much afraid that the plans of using Igbos as a suicidal bait is becoming reality. The Igbo man I know is a peaceful and focused independent man who values success in whatever is his endeavour. We have never been appointment beggars nor jobless protesters.

What is happening today is that a political party which lost its grip in national politics is trying to use Ndigbo as a bait for Nigerian destruction but Igbos should understand that these people mean no well for us. They know very well that we stand to lose everything if crisis breaks down in Nigeria. Imagine one cluster bomb at Onitsha market or destruction of all the sweat of Awada landlords because a party lost power.

Ndigbo should henceforth declare their stance against those trying to destroy us. Elders and youths of Igboland should protect our markets and businesses from these miscreants known as IPOB. Traders in our 2 major cities of Onitsha and Aba have not been able to make sales for the past month thereby increasing hardship in our land.

The Biafran war was a war of survival and nation building which ended at least 10 years before most Nigerians living today were born. We Igbos have long acceoted Nigeria as our country and contributed a lot to its integration through immigration, marriage, business and investments.



To be continued.....[/s]

Afam4eva:
Abagworo should have just said "I am a Buhari supporter" instead of writing an epistle. If what you wrote had come from someone else, I would have considered. But when a partisan person accuses someone else of being partisan, i usually ignore.

luvinhubby:
op the stupidity behind this your thread is linking IPOB protest to a political party and the politicizing of this protests by the government in Abuja is the reason that led to the poorly thought out arrest of Mr. Kanu which triggered the response.

Deltagiant:
Abagworo, the agitation for Biafra preceded Buhari's adminstration.

Radio Biafra preceded Buhari's adminstration.

IPOB's protests and agitation for Biafra have largely been peaceful

No one is using Ndigbo, the people have rather woken up to the realities facing them in Nigeria. And there's no better way of showing their gievances than the course of action they've chosen. So, please let them be. While they want to pursue their livelihood, their dignity is equally important to them.

Sweetguy25:
The Biafran protests are necessary. They remind us that Nigeria was built on a wrong foundation and it has to be addressed.

Abagworo:


If 50 thousand Igbos are killed across the North tonight what will IPOB do? Please my brother those who lost have lost and we gained nothing from them. For me and my family we are in safe haven and can easily leave if war starts but I'm only worried about the helpless innocent ones who are not part of the IPOB politics.

SkyBound:
OP, you must be very stupiid for your subtle threath to Igboland! So they will use cluster bombs on main market? And Awada? But wont use it on Boko Haram? Yeye de smell! Rathet than use diplomacy and call the IPOB leaders to the table, you think you can theathen? Where has that led Nigeria to in the fight against Boko Haram?

Though for now I am neutral to this Biafran issue and an Igbo man for that matter, let them try and throw one bomb in Igboland. You will see how sympathethic I will become to the Biafran cause.

Mark my words, I will wear a vest! You can infer whatever you want to infer from my last comment!

Abagworo:


If you are intelligent you will realise that Boko Haram is a terrorist group without ethnic or regional support but IPOB is presenting itself as an Igbo secessionist movement thereby making it a war between Igbos and the rest of Nigeria. Why burn mosques if its peaceful mivement? Do you think that if Kanuris declared war on Nigeria it would last this long?

SeverusSnape:


Rochas paid sycophant.
What are you saying?

Afam4eva:

Isn't bokoharam parading itself as an Islamic movement. Maybe the government should start killing Muslims because of that. You should be ashamed of yourself for bringing politics ib to this matter. It's because of Igbos like yourself that we are where we are in the first place.

liberty300:
Dude, stop attaching biafran struggle with politics. This struggle started during GEJ's time but he tactically handled it.

When the yorubas started their campaign of hate against igbos. What did you folks say?

Abagworo:


Maiduguri and Northeast people are not in support of Boko Haram and are even fighting it alongside our army as civilian JTF. IPOB is presented as a unanimous decision of Ndigbo hence we cannot compare. For example here in Rivers State the natives say "make these Igbo people carry there matter go their land" . Already it is seen by Rivers people as an Igbo affair instead of seeing IPOB as miscreants or terrorists with base in Igboland.

During militancy here in South-South the militants were not part of the people hence the war was difficult for the military who needed to protect the majority innocent populace.