Throwback:


Very restless indeed with multiple threads trying to explain why you are not landlocked, or why the Eastern minorities should have never been given their freedom.

Even this topic is borne out of that your restlessness.

Dont play your projection game with me. You are literally accusing us of what you guys have been doing. Are you insane?

When we respond to your lies, thats not being restless thats setting the records straight with verifiable facts.

You yorubas have been working overtime because your propaganda is crumbling before your eyes.

Igbochief001:

Did adaka boro have the backing of his people ...which post was he holding before he declared Niger Delta republic

Who gave him the backing

Lol!

We have so many things to learn from the quality leadership of the First Republic.



Military rule and the exportation of oil starting from 1967/68 mark the beginning of the decline in quality leadership.

post=89770450:
Eastern Economy

Trade in palm produce was a dominant feature in the economy of Eastern Nigeria. Though not indigenous to the region, the palm tree provided fronds for roofing of houses in the villages, palm wine for drinking and palm kernels as source of foreign exchange income. After World War II, prices sought for palm produce skyrocked and by 1954, Palm produce generated an income of 54 million pounds. However, the prices stabilized by the middle of the 1950s. Employment in farming and agriculture was a significant source of income for many residents engaged in yam farming and fishery. In the 1960s, the government promoted rubber, cocoa and palm grove schemes to increase the output of cash crops. The government also established farm settlements at Ohaji, Igbariam, Boki, Ulonna, Erei, Uzo-Uwani and Egbema to encourage agriculture.
Trading of goods was also a major part of the regional economy. In 1954, imports to the region was about 25 million pounds a year which were brought into the country by a few European firms but distributed by thousands of traders within the region. The trade in imported goods such as dried fish, motor parts, textiles goes on along with the trade in local foodstuff.
In industry, the coal mines of Enugu managed by the Nigerian Coal Corporation and Nigersteel's rolling mill which used steel scraps to produce mild steel bars were one of the few coal mines and steel plants in operation in West Africa in 1963. During the NCNC led government, a cement factory was established at Nkalagu, Nigerian Breweries chose a stout factory at Aba, a Tobacco and glass making plant was located at Port Harcourt. Presidential Hotel Port Harcourt and Enugu was built.

Statutory corporations
[b]The task of managing the trade and income earned in palm oil kernels was given to the Eastern Nigeria Marketing Board and the Eastern Nigeria Finance Corporation. The Eastern Nigeria Marketing Board came into effect in 1954 and was given the responsibility to manage the region's cash or export crops. [/b]The board assigned grade to palm produce according to free fatty acid content and then assigns producer prices to each grade. The board conducts the purchase of palm oil and kernels that are to be exported through the use of licensed buying agents and engages in the evacuation of the produce to the ports for export. Most of the profits from the sales of export produce is transferred to the Eastern Nigeria Development Corporation. The development corporation was involved in producing quality palm oil kernels for the export markets through erection of pioneer oil mills and the development of other export crops such as cocoa, cashew nuts, rubber and coconut. Rice cultivation was also encouraged in Abakaliki and Ogoja

comos:


Liar. !

Which sent fort.?

Mid-westerners were given less than 48hrs to leave the west.

Who told you that?

post=89770210:

Did Ibibio, Annang, Oron, Ijaw and other minorities press to be separated from eastern region

Unlike the agitation in the Western region that was do or die. Oba Eweka started the struggle and when he died his son Oba Akenzua finished it forty years after.

How does this relate to the misinformation you are trying to propagate that the Yorubas were tyrannical against the non-Yorubas in the Western Region.



Seeking autonomy is part of the longing for freedom inherent in all human societies.

Both the Yorubas and non-Yorubas in the Western Region understood this fact and worked to respect it by working for amicable separation according to the laws.




In the Eastern Region, the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers Movement (COR) were not so fortunate and tolerated .
They had to wait till 1967 when Gen Gowon created their own States for them.

post=89770210:

Did Ibibio, Annang, Oron, Ijaw and other minorities press to be separated from eastern region

post=89770625:


Can you show us list of western cabinet members and their tribes in the 60s

Why should I show it to you?

Have I doubted your list or claimed you did not have minority members in the Eastern cabinet?

You don't need to convince me a Yoruba, you should be convincing the Eastern minority tribes.

Help yourself out and do your own research?

Eastern region provincial parliament members

post=89770625:


Can you show us list of western cabinet members and their tribes in the 60s

I have it if you want it

I don't think we should post it here.
It should be their headache to sort out with the minorities of Midwestern region.
Our own nah to keep our hands clean in the East.

pazienza:


I have it if you want it

I don't think we should post it here.
It should be their headache to sort out with the minorities of Midwestern region.
Our own nah to keep our hands clean in the East.

Exactly!

Your mission is to convince the Eastern minorities that they were not marginalized.

pazienza:


I have it if you want it

I don't think we should post it here.
It should be their headache to sort out with the minorities of Midwestern region.
Our own nah to keep our hands clean in the East.

Depending on how things evolve from here, you might have no choice but to open another thread for comparison. For now, lets wait for the yorubas to respond

Throwback:


Exactly!

Your mission is to convince the Eastern minorities that they were not marginalized.

Exactly.

Op please create a post about Yoruba own please

nku5:


Unlike the agitation in the Western region that was do or die. Oba Eweka started the struggle and when he died his son Oba Akenzua finished it forty years after.

Did it ever result to an armed struggle like the NigerDelta Republic of the Ijaws that had to be quelled with military force?

Are you not still wailing till this very night over the independence of the Eastern minority?

Who even remembers that Delta and Edo were once part of the Western Region, when all parties have long moved on since the next day?

Nwanyiogwashi:
Op please create a post about Yoruba own please

Yes We Need to see the yoruba list. From there Nigerians on Niaraland can be the judge. Lets puts the facts out for all to see.

Gabkosh:
Who told you that?

Are you just knowing that he has to lie to win an argument?

horsepower102:


Yes We Need to see the yoruba list. From there Nigerians on Niaraland can be the judge. Lets puts the facts out for all to see.

Naso

horsepower102:


Yes We Need to see the yoruba list. From there Nigerians on Niaraland can be the judge. Lets puts the facts out for all to see.

What you do not realise is any similar titled list from the Western Region will exactly mirror what you have from the Eastern region, because such positions are by default representative of the different divisions/groupings that made up that region.

Hence, even those who claim Buhari is practising Fulanization, would not see such nepotism in his cabinet list, as it must reflect national inclusiveness.

But that does not stop nepotism or sectionalism in the appointments to agencies and departments.

So all these lists does not prove anything besides the ethnic composition of the region which is a reality.

Gabkosh:
Who told you that?

Go read this book. "Benin and the Midwest by Dr. A. Omoigui.

You can find it in www.edo-nation.net.

Scroll to content, you will find the book there.

post=89770210:

Did Ibibio, Annang, Oron, Ijaw and other minorities press to be separated from eastern region

Who pressed the FG to create more states to separate them from south east? The minorities


That was why they were tortured and killed in their droves. They support FG because he separated them from south east.

horsepower102:
Throwback and all the rest of yoruba propaganda machinery I challenge you to post the List of the western region Leadership and the Minority representation rations


LET ALL OF NAIRALAND SEE EVERYTHING. Let us compare and see WHO ARE THE LIARS and PROPAGANDISTS

Stop wasting your time on Yorubas whenever you are called out by your former minority tribes that now have their independence from you for good.

Any cabinet list even by a Fulanizing Buhari, would always reflect the divisional composition of that region or state.

So nothing new in showing a cabinet list reflecting that minorities represented their minority zones in the larger regional government.

Gabkosh:
Who told you that?

The years 1961 and 1962 moved with dizzying speed. At the Midwest regional conference of the AG, Chief Awolowo kept up his oft repeated statement that he would work for the simultaneous creation of the Midwest, COR and Middle Belt States. In the Midwest, however, his comments were regarded with skepticism, all the more so considering what was regarded as his preference for a balkanized version of the Midwest. In any case, in March 1961, the NCNC – urged by Chief Okotie-Eboh - formally opposed the exclusion of Akoko-Edo and Warri from the Midwest minority area. When Chief Awolowo was confronted with the commitment the Western regional House of Assembly had made to creation the entire Midwest back in 1955 by approving the Sowole motion, he replied that he was no longer bound by that motion because the country was under colonial rule at the time [Federal Parliamentary debates, April 4, 1961]. The comment merely served to confirm suspicions that he did not support the creation of the Midwest – under any circumstances – even though he challenged Balewa to create the Midwest before the end of May 1962.
Meanwhile, back in the Midwest, the NCNC and Action Group were locking horns in increasingly aggressive confrontation between party thugs regarding the alleged misuse by the AG of customary courts and tax assessments to harass political opponents, particularly in Ishan division, where the pro-Midwestern Prince Shaka Momodu was active, but just as much elsewhere West African Pilot, August 30, 1961. In the near crisis atmosphere that this created in the Midwest, Michael Okpara and the NCNC wanted the Balewa government to declare a state of emergency in the West, but Balewa resisted the temptation, seeing as it had other problems on its hands such as the controversy over the Anglo-Nigerian defence pact and the Congo controversy. Balewa also wanted to reach out to the Action Group during this period. During this period newspaper articles written by AG loyalists appeared in which various ethnic groups of the proposed Midwest were warned of “Benin domination.” In the smear campaign, designed to derail Midwest unity, rumors were spread about how certain posts were going to be dominated by “Benin.”

MinorityOpinion:


Who pressed the FG to create more states to separate them from south east? The minorities


They was why they were tortured and killed in their droves. They support FG because he separated them from south east.

Liar!

pazienza:


I have it if you want it

I don't think we should post it here.
It should be their headache to sort out with the minorities of Midwestern region.
Our own nah to keep our hands clean in the East.

please create a thread for it please

Igbochief001:

Did adaka boro have the backing of his people ...which post was he holding before he declared Niger Delta republic

Who gave him the backing

What recognized role or which recognized constituency is giving Nnamdi Kanu the backing to ask for anything in a democracy?

Was Ironsi's government or Ojukwu's military governorship of the Eastern region backed by any law?

So why couldn't Adaka Boro lead his people who had already been deprived of democratic representation and voice when Parliament had already been dissolved by an illegal military government that was appointed by no one?

You now see why intelligent minds like mine consider Kanu an aimless noisemaker in a era of democracy and constitutional representation.

No be today west started their smear campaign, it's heridity from their ancestors, same thing they're doing to Igbos today, they did it to Benin people during western regional government.


In western region
During this period newspaper articles written by AG loyalists appeared in which various ethnic groups of the proposed Midwest were warned of “Benin domination.” In the smear campaign, designed to derail Midwest unity, rumors were spread about how certain posts were going to be dominated by “Benin.”

oyatz:
Bros, check it sir.


You are gradually going overboard by this your unwanted display of victims mentality and delusion of persecution of the Igbos by the Yorubas.



Yorubas were never part of the Eastern Region and nothing concern them with Eastern Regional Cabinet.

Nonsense as usual. Present day Delta and Edo States were once in the Western region so how many of the minorities did you guys give reasonable posts? As you can see, Igbos gave minorities key portfolios which is in line with our Egbe bere, Ugo bere equity mantra.

Also, check out how Igbos ensured that no part of the East, whether minority or not was not left out in terms of scorlaships as well as projects distribution even when they were not under any compulsion to do so. Now contrast that to what took place in the West where Awolowo cheated the minorities with reckless abandon. He taxed them heavily yet all his projects were in afonja land.

SMH, Lies can travel for long but truth will always overtake it!

pazienza:


Liar!

Why did the minorities turn on ibo soldiers in bloody fury when the FG forces arrived?