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Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Adiola(f): 6:29am On Jun 04, 2017 |
honeychild:and in your own foolery you couldn't differentiate between adeola and adiola most times I wonder the type of material used in creating you people certainly not sand cos the thinking capacity of your type is lower than a cattle |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by obong(m): 6:30am On Jun 04, 2017 |
EzeUche:well I'm full ibibio and you're dead wrong |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by obong(m): 6:40am On Jun 04, 2017 |
martyns303:dont mind him. ND fought to escape the yoke of the Igbo controlled eastern region and the federal government as far back as the 50s. And recently MEND has fought too. We just don't want biafra and will never be biafra |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by successmatters(m): 6:44am On Jun 04, 2017 |
honeychild: That's a dangerous mix there. It explains a lot about the confusion in this tribe. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Arda1000(m): 6:49am On Jun 04, 2017 |
martyns303:answer it if you think it's a senseless question |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by successmatters(m): 6:50am On Jun 04, 2017 |
Amberon11: That is why Nigerian government is fighting tooth and nails to ban the teaching of History. Too many mass killings of civilians of the Niger Delta. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Ballmer: 6:54am On Jun 04, 2017 |
mekaboy: Leave the NigerDelta wealth alone. It is none of your father's business. Let it create wealth in whatever planet but let Igbo leave ND wealth alone. Stop being the unity beggar you accuse others of. Leave NigerDelta alone. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by honeychild(f): 7:00am On Jun 04, 2017 |
successmatters: Like I said, we are "sophisticated" enough to keep things in their proper places. To less cerebral peoples it seems an impossible feat. Not our fault if you cannot comprehend. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Ballmer: 7:00am On Jun 04, 2017 |
successmatters: The quote above is enough for Igbo to go to hell. The NigerDelta as clearly shown they'd rather deal with the aboki far away than deal with their marauding Igbo neighbours that is hell belt on confiscating both their land n wealth. They wear the shoe and knows only Igbo's pinches them. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by successmatters(m): 7:04am On Jun 04, 2017 |
Ballmer: They have nothing to worry about, it will be a mistake of unmeasurable proportions to allow the Minorities who are as destabilized as water to join Biafra. Let them stay on their own. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Ballmer: 7:08am On Jun 04, 2017 |
successmatters: He does not need to open any thread to condemn the Hausa Fulani rape because it is obvious who the immediate threat is and that is the Igbos. How many thread have you opened to condemn the long throat of your Igbo clan over the NigerDelta oil ? How many thread have you opened to preserve the identity of the NigerDelta ? How much did the Igbo support Sato Wiwa's fight or NigerDelta initiatives ? Stop screaming like a rabid dog all over the thread let the Igbo desist from their dubious ways n leave the NigerDelta alone to themselves. The Igbo's can go away or go to hell with the 5 igbotic States in their enclave. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by successmatters(m): 7:12am On Jun 04, 2017 |
Ballmer: According to you, you could enjoy someone raping your people, but instead prepare to have a quarrel with your neighbor who has never hurt you before, while the rape continues? May God save you. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Ballmer: 7:17am On Jun 04, 2017 |
successmatters: I hope you are not deranged ? Did you read the part where your Igbo fore fathers forcefully stole their land and now gunning to confiscate their wealth too. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by menxer: 7:18am On Jun 04, 2017 |
Adiola: I know reality can be a bit confusing... Keep looking, now you have seen the IP, soon you will see the shape of the device linked to the IP, then the hand holding the device, punching the keypad..... To the mind forming the words. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by mekaboy(m): 7:52am On Jun 04, 2017 |
I don't know why all this noise about ND and oil. The Igbos have oil and lots more, untapped, but still doing better without oil. How much more when Nigeria is restructured and we manage our resources with transparency? |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by successmatters(m): 7:56am On Jun 04, 2017 |
Ballmer: What I read was his subtle attempts to downplay the current and steady raping of Urhobo and south south women and girls, and crying about an imaginary alleged attempts to steal their land. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by martyns303(m): 8:07am On Jun 04, 2017 |
successmatters: What is all this neighbor neighbor nonsense, did we tell you we are looking for neighbors? Neighbors that have never supported us, that watched while we burn, neighbors that were killing us. What kind of evil neighbor is that? The man in Abia and the man in Owerri have something in common, they speak same dialect (or close enough), share the same culture, of the same tribe. Please what is the relationship between the man in Bayelsa and the man in Abia or Owerri? Don't come here and form familiarity. You said the man up North is "raping" us, is he not raping you too? What have you done? Why are u leaving ur own rape and is concerned with ours? The man up north is taking our oil and we are resisting it, but u want to take both our oil, land, culture and identity. You are trying to steal our very soul. You want us to form an alliance with you to fight a common enemy to achieve your selfish interest. When you urself is not a friend of ours. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by EzeUche(m): 9:16am On Jun 04, 2017 |
obong: Is that so? If I am to believe you are Ibibio and not Yoruba, what would make an Ibibio hate the Igbo? Plenty of Ibibio reside in Abia, and Aba is their second home. Ibibio and Igbo have intermarried with Igbos in Abia. 2 Likes |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by bennymark(m): 10:03am On Jun 04, 2017 |
mekaboy: go and read Nigerian history, you were born Nigerian no matter what you claim now. oil blocks where shared by IBB in the 1980s after the war |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by tutudesz: 10:04am On Jun 04, 2017 |
martyns303:Because they are selfish and land grabbers, who want to be the masters over the great people of south south. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by tutudesz: 10:07am On Jun 04, 2017 |
mekaboy:So tell your brothers to stop including Niger Delta in your dream country |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by tutudesz: 10:14am On Jun 04, 2017 |
EzeUche:Cultist! The Chief Idiot of Biafra! you ran away from the other trend to this one why? Or are afraid? sorry I forgot you cowards down east. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by pazienza(m): 10:35am On Jun 04, 2017 |
martyns303: 1. Did you know that Biafra was divided into autonomous provinces with the minorities having about half of the total provinces in Biafra? They only got two states( Rivers and South Eastern states) in Nigeria. 2. Do you know that right before Gowon and his bunch of Arewa-Oduanistanis startered chanting One Nigeria, the North was chanting "Araba" meaning disintegration! They wanted out of Nigeria until the British intimitated them of the crude oil deposits in the East and they all started chanting One Nigeria. In other words, Arewa-Oduanistanis started chanting One Nigeria because of oil. Do you also know that Biafra was declared after deliberation by Eastern consultative assembly (ECA)which had members from all ethnicities in the Eastern region, Frank Opigo,an Ijaw member of the ECA representing yenegoa, it was who suggested that the new republic be named Biafra. 3. Do you know that an independent commission called Willink report set up to investigate alleged accusations of Igbo domination of Eastern minorities found all the accusations to be false and lacking in substance. Do you know that honest minorities like Mbu also agreed that at no point did Ndiigbo marginalize or dominate her minorities neighbors. 4. Did you know that there is no evidence whatsoever of this falsehood ever happening. All land the Igbo acquired from minorities area were acquired by paying going fees for them. This very fact was reiterated by El rufai when he was FCT minister that Ndiigbo had acquired majority of the lands in Abuja, by buying the lands off those who the government originally allocated the lands to. Every sincere Nigerian knows that the Igbos pay the best for lands and they always seek out Igbos when they are in need and want to sell their lands to raise money. 5. Did you know that Biafra was open to UN supervised plebiscite in minorities areas in Biafra to determine where the allegiance of Eastern minorities lie, a request Gowon rejected. Did you know that Eastern minorities were killed likewise the Igbos in the North, as the North dont care if they were Igbos or not. Did you also know that Nigerian army shot at minorities in PH areas, and indeed did starve Igbo children and minorities children into kwashiokor through their starvation policy. 6. Did you know that minorities especially Ijaws took over Igbo property in Rivers out of envy, greed jealousy and lack of foresight, as they and everyone knew those Igbo individual s that owned those property acquired them out of sheer hardwork and bought them out of their hard earned money either from the Ikwerre native owners or from the Eastern region government. Are you aware that the aim of the FG was to.make sure that a permanent rift continues to exist between the Eastern minorities and Igbos to ensure free flow of oil, as no where else in Nigeria was abandoned property policy was OFFICIALLY adopted by the FG, it was your greed and coverteous nature that made you fall for the gimmick. 7. See No 6. 8. Those lands where acquired from native Ikwerre land owners after fair price had been.paid for them. With no C of O and with the Ikwerre themselves trying to curry favour from the Ijaws who Nigeria made the new keeper s of the Rivers state, it was hard for those lands to be reclaimed. Those who bought from the government with a C of O majority of them succeeded in reclaiming theirs, while some didn't. The price Ikwerres paid is that the Ijaws through acquisition of those property and lands through the Abandoned property saga now have a foot print on PH and are never going to let go. Igbos lost temporary but Ikwerres lost permanently. 9. Rivers people ( Ijaws) owe Igbos apology and not the other way round, but we are not going to dwell on it. Those houses are now old and dilapidated while Igbos had moved on an.acquired lands all over Nigeria and the globe and had built magnificent edifices and mansions on them. Chukwu has been faithful to his people. 4 Likes |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by martyns303(m): 10:54am On Jun 04, 2017 |
pazienza: 1. Please keep Rivers State out of your mention, Rivers State was created for the indegenous people of Rivers. 2. We have no business with either of the 3 major tribes shouting disintegration, we ourselves want the same thing. 3. Lies, go to the first page of this thread and read the report, the massacre in calabar still remains in our hearts. 4. How do a report in Abuja affects me down in the ND? The ND was once part of the eastern region and the igbos being a majority did as they pleased. Come down to PH and I will show u 100s of houses that were abandoned properties, evidence of the Igbo property grabbing culture. Do not attempt to distort history. We have not forgotten. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Nobody: 10:56am On Jun 04, 2017 |
pazienza:Great job. These people can go to any length to tarnish our image. IPOB is doing a great job lately... but if these people are bent on not joining Biafra, we should ditch them for goodness sake. We can try our best to get our Igbo speaking brothers in ND to join us. This will make more sense to me than anything else. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Nobody: 11:00am On Jun 04, 2017 |
martyns303:Speak for your tribe. ND is a collection of various ethnic group. I don't think that Indi Etche, Egbema, Ndoki, Omuma or even the Ikwerres made you their spokeman. If you are an Ijaw, fine. You can go ahead and convince them not to join Biafra, but you should also accord the Igbos in ND the right to choose their political destiny. Inugo. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by martyns303(m): 11:15am On Jun 04, 2017 |
mekuzi09: See ur level of ignorance? All those tribes u mentioned are people with Igbo origin found ONLY in parts of Rivers State. And here is the interesting part, they want nothing with Biafra, stop confusing urself. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by pazienza(m): 11:16am On Jun 04, 2017 |
[BIAFRA’S PROVINCES & ADMINISTRATORS Aba Mr. Moses Onwuma* Abakaliki Mr. Samuel Mgbada Annang Chief Ekukinam Bassey Awka Mr. Paul Nwokedi Calabar Prof. Eyo Bassey Ndem Degema Mr. S. N. Dikibo Eket Mr. S. J. Edoho Enugu Mr. Christian Chukwuma Onoh Nsukka Mr. Frank Onyeke Ogoja Mr. Frank Ugbut Oji River Dr. Godwin A. Odenigwe Okigwe Mr. Sam I. Mbakwe Onitsha Mr. R. I. Iweka Opobo Dr. S. J. Cookey Orlu Mr. R. I. Uzoma Owerri Mr. Duke Njiribeakor Port Harcourt Mr. Emmanuel Aguma Umuahia Mr. Simeon Ojukwu Uyo Chief J. Udo-Affiah Yenegoa Chief Frank Opigo ==== Minorities got about 9 provinces in Biafra, Gowon only offered 2 to them. Groups like Ogoja who were fighting for separate state were subjected under Efik-Ibibio-Annang , by Gowon. Biafa not only offered Ogoja freedom from Igbo, it offered her same from Efik-Ibibio-Annang and also offered Annang freedom from Ibibio. Gowon knew that a plebiscite in Biafra would have failed him. Groups got better deals in Biafra, the Ijaws and Efiks might have liked the Rivers state South Eastern( Cross Rivers ) arrangement, but other Eastern minorities wouldn't have. 1 Like |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Nobody: 11:32am On Jun 04, 2017 |
martyns303:Keep quiet. Have you conducted a poll to determine their decision? Limit your rant to your ethnic group Mr Man. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by Nobody: 11:34am On Jun 04, 2017 |
pazienza:Don't mind them. Hates and Igbophobia usually blind them from facts and reality. |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by pazienza(m): 11:41am On Jun 04, 2017 |
The 1958 Willink's Commission Report that explains Eastern minorities' rift with the Igbo THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO “ENQUIRE INTO THE FEARS OF MINORITIES AND THE MEANS OF ALLAYING THEM”, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958” THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND. 1. “More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Ibo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Ibo and speak one language, though of course with certain differences of dialect. There are nearly five million of them and they are too many for the soil to support: they are vigorous and intelligent and have pushed outward in every direction, seeking a livelihood by trade or in service in the surrounding areas of the Eastern Region, in the Western Region, in the North and outside Nigeria. They are no more popular with their neighbours than is usual in the case of an energetic and expanding people whose neighbours have a more leisurely outlook on life.” 2. “Though there has been no great kingdom or indigenous culture in the Eastern Region, the coastal chiefs grew on their trade with the (European merchant) ships and they adopted customs, clothing and housing more advanced than those of the peoples of the interior on whom they had at first preyed for slaves. They came during the 19th Century to regard the people of the interior as backward and ignorant, and it was therefore a blow to their pride, as well as to their pockets, when the Ibos began to push outwards into the surrounding fringe of the country and particularly into the Calabar area, to take up land, to grow rich, to own houses and lorries and occupy posts in public services and in the services of large trading firms.” “It was among the Ibos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.” 3. “It is important to remember that of this (Ogoja) Province’s 1,082,000 inhabitants, 723,000 are Ibos, almost entirely in Abakaliki and Afikpo (Divisions), while the census classifies 350,000 as “Other Nigerian Tribes.” 4. The Rivers Province …includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema, both overwhelmingly Ijaw, and the Ogoni Division. The former Rivers Division also includes over 300,000 Ibos of whom 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 in Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt is a town of recent growth and of rapidly increasing importance; it is built on land that blonged originally to an outlying branch of the Ibo tribe, the Diobus, but is largely inhabited by the Ibos from the interior who have come to trade or seek employment….Of the total 747,000 in the Rivers province, 305,000 are Ibos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.” 5. “The strip to the south of the Ibo block, is physically, divided by a block of Ibo territory, tipped by the important Ibo town of Port Harcourt and tribally divided between the Ijaws and the Ogonis.” 6. “In the whole of this non-Ibo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over- run, commercially and politically, by the Ibos….. if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Ibo, are considered with the solid centre of Ibo population, there are 54 seats for the Ibo area and 30 for COR (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers) in (Eastern Regional House of Assembly).” 1 Like |
Re: Remembering History: Biafra And The Niger Delta by pazienza(m): 11:44am On Jun 04, 2017 |
THE FEARS AND GRIEVANCES OF MINORITIES 7. “It was suggested (by non-Ibo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.” 8. “The allegation was put forward by counsel (to petitioners) that the Judiciary (when not European) was predominantly Ibo, with the implication that this caused fear among those who are not Ibos. But it was clearly stated in evidence by Dr. Udoma, the leader of UNIP, that no occasion could be adduced of the judiciary acting with partiality. The fact is that the legal profession is largely Ibos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Ibo preponderance among Judges and Magistrates. Further, it is the declared policy of Government that the Judiciary should be federal and this does not indicate a desire to control it. Again, the operation and composition of Public Service Commission here, as in the West, appeared to us in no way open to reproach.” 9. “In the Police, which in this region alone is wholly Federal, the number of Ibos in the higher appointments is not out of proportion to the Ibos in the region. The force is now federally controlled and although there are a large number of Ibos in the lower ranks, this is due to the fact that it has for long been a tradition among the Ibos to offer themselves for recruitment in this force in far greater numbers than any other tribe.” 10. “we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity. On the evidence before us, we conclude that the allegations of discriminations in the matter of scholarships are unjustified.” 11. “It was further suggested that loans by the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation, the Eastern Region Development Board, and the Eastern Region Development Corporation were made with some degree of preference to Ibos. It did appear that most of the loans made by these bodies were to Ibos, but that is not to say that this was necessarily improper. Ibos constitute two thirds of the population of the region and have a bigger share of financial and commercial responsibility than their numbers warrant.” 12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.” 13. “The question of land was repeatedly raised, it being resented by the Efiks and Ibibios that the Ibos should acquire land at all in their territory while the methods by which it was obtained were also questioned. There is no doubt that on the Ibo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Ibos ate thrusting outwards where possible they acquire land and use it either for cultivation or building…..This is a matter which will require legislation sooner or later and it will be delicate to handle, but the economic process is in itself healthy and we had little sympathy with a witness who remarked that there is much undeveloped land in district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Ibos….We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development....” 14. “A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.” 1 Like |
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