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The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Pigin1: 8:39am On Dec 29, 2015
However, as a student 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 buy 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 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. He
Dagote (a great man and pride to
Nigeria) has an
uncle called Dantata who owned
huge chunks of
the groundnut pyramids of the
50’s and 60’s. He
gave Dangte a loan and Dangote
paid it back in
record time. CLAP CLAP. The add
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 to ensure he is the
wealthiest
Nigerian. (note many had same
opportunity but
did not use it. We kowtow to
Dangote’s
investment capabilities)
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 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 every Igbo 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 oil lifters, only one
Igbo man and
because he was in Obasanjo’s
good graces. Do
we talk of how Igbo civil servants
were displaced
in the federal civil service even
after 3Rs were
declared after the war?
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 towards 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. from blessed kc

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Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by funlord(m): 8:40am On Dec 29, 2015
undecided
Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by agarawu23(m): 8:42am On Dec 29, 2015
shocked

All this just to us you are not an Igbo?
Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Ufranklin92(m): 8:46am On Dec 29, 2015
mumu,who come need you na
Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Chommieblaq(f): 8:51am On Dec 29, 2015
Sentiment apart, an average igbo doesn't depend on anyone, govt or parent.

They are hardworking people!!!

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Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by WIZGUY69(m): 9:17am On Dec 29, 2015
grin. Please op.
is this a poem, drama or rubbish? chose one.

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Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Nature8(m): 9:18am On Dec 29, 2015
Chommieblaq:
Sentiment apart, an average igbo doesn't depend on anyone, govt or parent.

They are hardworking people!!!



Thanks for telling them cos they don't know..

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Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Herald47: 9:46am On Dec 29, 2015
The igbos were given 20 pounds not withstanding the amount they had already but today they can boast of two individuals(uzor kalu and tony elumelu)in forbes richest list and other outstanding billionaires like ibeto,ifeanyi uba,andy uba,stan ekeh,tony ezenna,cosmos maduka,innoson,emeka offor,eric umeofia,pascal dozie,arthur eze,obijackson,ngozi ekeoma e.t.c,who said God has not been good to us?

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Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Herald47: 9:49am On Dec 29, 2015
WIZGUY69:
grin. Please op.

is this a poem, drama or rubbish? chose one.
an oil souper like u will hardly understand due to excess intake of oil.
Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by bigfrancis21: 8:14am On Dec 30, 2015
agarawu23:
shocked

All this just to us you are not an Igbo?

The OP made a great point. I think he/she meant to let readers know in advance that he/she isn't Igbo though the post may sound pro-Igbo.

However, I think the title could be modified to something better such as The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer. It surely sounds better. Anyone reading the thread's title would initially assume it is one of those aggressive anti-Igbo posts by certain people from the Niger Delta about how other Nigerians tag them as Igbo and how they are not Igbo but a, b or c etc. For me, that's what I had initially thought when I first read the title of the thread.

cc Pigin1, modify your thread title accordingly.
Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Pigin1: 8:33am On Dec 30, 2015
bigfrancis21:


The OP made a great point. I think he/she meant to let readers know in advance that he/she isn't Igbo though the post may sound pro-Igbo.

However, I think the title could be modified to something better such as The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer. It surely sounds better. Anyone reading the thread's title would initially assume it is one of those aggressive anti-Igbo posts by certain people from the Niger Delta about how other Nigerians tag them as Igbo and how they are not Igbo but a, b or c etc. For me, that's what I had initially thought when I first read the title of the thread.

cc Pigin1, modify your thread title accordingly.
Thanks!!!
Re: The Travails of the Igbo - by an Urhobo Writer!! by Nobody: 12:58pm On Dec 30, 2015
Waouh very interesting. I'm not a nigerian, and I find this information very insightful.

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