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The Igbo's So Far So Good by goziedave(m): 4:51am On May 11, 2017 |
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T APPRECIATE WHERE
IGBOS WERE COMING FROM:
By Ena Ofugara from Urhobo.
How Much Respect Do You Show Igbos?
I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo.
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 Indigenisation decree of 1972 and
1977. I reminded people 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, Awolowo/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 one million 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 note 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
naira.
Let us look at how Dangote made his money. He
Dagote (a great man and pride to Nigeria) had 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
a record time. CLAP, CLAP. Then add that
Dangote has had his "brothers" in government,
from Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Abdulsalami
to Yar'Adua. 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. Note that 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 Kalu 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 Ken 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 lands 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,
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 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.
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Re: The Igbo's So Far So Good by Henry22(m): 5:53am On May 11, 2017 |
I am ibo if you don't like me go and die |
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