WE ARE NOT TRYING TO DOMINATE YOU...WE ARE LIVING THE BEST WAY WE ARE WIRED.

How do a people who has never picked arm to fight their host community home and abroad or people living in their own enclave always accused of dominating or colonising? How?

We are not dominating you, we only traveled to your village, fill a need you probably did not see, render services you could not, sometimes start by sleeping in overpriced shops in the same village, few years down the line, buy small land, build one small hut, tried to just run our business and feed our kids while struggling with the evil policies of those who have hijacked governance since we were brushed aside decades ago....tell me, HOW ARE WE TRYING TO DOMINATE YOU?

Igbo boy finished his youth service in one village in zamfara as a young medical doctor, decides to stay back in that VILLAGE to help because there is need for medical services which everyone is running away from....he noticed that if he stay, while solving these needs, we can also make some money.....few years down the line, after years of suffering while trying to grow...it is either he is dominating or he did blood money.....
TELL ME, HOW ARE WE DOMINATING YOU?

Igbos has the greatest number of graduates that could not find their way into government pay job but instead of complaining about others DOMINATING, we can join spare parts business to survive....even after doing that, few years down the line, it is either it is blood money or we are trying to DOMINATE. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU DOMINATE A PEOPLE WITHOUT FIGHTING THEM, NEITHER DO YOU CONTROL GOVERNMENT THAT IS DEALING WITH EVERYONE.....HOW?

If we demand for better treatment so we can be proper Nigerians as you claim you want us, we are trying to DOMINATE.....if we say, ok, allow us to leave this union and go and suffer like you have predicated we will, you will say we are making troubles. HOW ARE WE REALLY TRYING TO DOMINATE YOU?

The lies of trying to DOMINATE fueled the bile why we were almost wiped out in 1966-1970...yet, after that near extinction, we are still accused of trying to DOMINATE....HOW?

Quota system and several other policies we believe was meant to stop us from DOMINATING have K.illed the fabrics of this nation...our kids are meant to score way beyond other kids in order to gain admission among their equals....even in the face of those injustice, WE ARE STILL TRYING TO DOMINATE...HOW?

You build market stalls, over price them because Igbos will pay, yet, when you are done enjoying the money used in buying or renting the stalls, you turn and accuse us of DOMINATING....how?

Tell me how we are DOMINATING or colonising you, you sold a land to us, we bought, build small house or shop....you use the money for survival, send your children to school or abroad...yet, few years down the line, we are either accuse of DOMINATING or buying up your place? How exactly can a people who are not known for fighting tribal wars DOMINATE YOU?

What instrument of force are Igbos using in this utopian DOMINATION?

To ki.ll a dog, give it a bad name.....to go after Igbos, first accuse them of DOMINATING.

The truth is that lots of people don't know why they loath Igbos, they try to find or create the reason...

Few years ago while Aisha Yesufu was trying to diagnose negative energy she obviously noticed against Igbos, she made a claim that IGBOS NOT INCLUDING OTHERS IN THEIR APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM IS WHY OTHERS DON'T LIKE THEM....how?

Apprenticeship program that was jeered at by others just few decades ago until now the world is noticing that it is a great tool for wealth redistribution and empowerment....and does not mean taking ourselves into slavery like many Nigerians accused us before.

Please, explain this to me like a nursery School child, HOW EXACTLY ARE IGBOS DOMINATING ANYONE?

I used to hear that music does not suffer language barrier....no, not in Nigeria. A Catholic preist in Lagos of all states has taken the Igbo paranoia of DOMINATING into the church of God.

Now tell me, instead of banning Igbo song why not encourage the learning of other songs in other languages? The priest ofcourse used the language that precedes every Igbo loathing enterprise..."THEY WANT TO DOMINATE".....

How does a people that comes into any space, respects the authority there, never causes any violence because violence is a minus to our businesses....how on Earth are this set of people trying to DOMINATE anyone?

We get to church of any denomination or ministry, try to make ourselves visible, work, offer our time, offer our money....in the midst of this, all some people see is attempt to DOMINATE....how?

This country should make up their minds about Igbos.....they seem to be saying, we don't really want you out of our way but we want to control the h.ell out of your destiny....place a limit to your aspiration, dictate how much you can grow?

...but I have a good news for you my people, it won't work....we will sprout from every Conner of the earth....we won't let a coming generation of Igbos to grow on bended knees, we will not cower, we will not bow.

Block us in governance, we will sprout in commerce, even if you eventually block commerce, our chi will open up several other avenues.

EVEN in the midst of our internally generated challenges and our faults which every human race and individuals posseses, we are the least of those attempting to hurt you, we only do what is done in every modern society... compete, seek growth, try to improve on our circumstances, do whatever we found doing with all our hearts, chase success, want to render services in your neighborhood and get paid for it.

HOW IS THIS A PROBLEM? HOW IS THIS DOMINATING?

It is more honourable to kill a dog if you so desire....but giving a dog bad name just to attempt ki.lling the dog is lowest of all lows.

HOW DOES A PEOPLE DOMINATE OTHERS WITHOUT WEAPONS OR GOVERNING POWER?

NB: For the Igbos that does not wish to offend friends, not speaking up on this danger of having next generation of Igbos grow to walk on egg shells and self guilt and condemnation.... ochestrated by others who want to dictate how they will breath and be defined....don't worry, we will do this work for your children and grandchildren and it will be on record that you were sleeping when the reputation of future Igbos were getting redefined.

To friends who think we are sensitive rather that speaking to those who make us their punching bag always....we won't be gentle while sediments of profiling is heaped on even the generation unborn, it seem harmless now but we know that these constant profiling is a time bomb waiting to happen, it is a piling up of seemingly harmless profiling which will sediment decades from now and form the Igbo perception.

It will be utter irresponsibility that while we have several platforms now to counter both official and unofficial profiling, unlike our fathers, we sacrifice it on the alter of pleasing you, our friends.

Remember, Igbos loving money stuck on Igbos but we know those that has the highest number of billionaire army generals in the world and those their political leaders are more billionairs than anyone without them having a product or services in the market place.....this is while growing massive poverty.....yet, they are modest when it comes to Money and Igbos mainly struggling from one Conner of the earth to another are the money lovers.......that is the power of unchallenged lies and profiling.

The truth is, reverend father Anelu's outburst has very little or nothing to do with Igbo songs. Even from the amateur video alone, it was clear the good Priest spoke from a place of deep-seated long held animus he's been harbouring towards the Igbos.

As a former Catechism teacher and alter boy in the Catholic church, I know for a fact that a Parish Priest or even an officiating Priest can effortlessly get the choir to make whatever changes he wants in their choice of songs even without the congregation knowing about it. If he didn't like a particular song, he could simply pass his instruction through the catechist or the head of the choir and it will be implemented without any noise. A Priest has almost unlimited latitude in a church service he is conducting and knowing the very high level of discipline and organizational structure in the Catholic church, it is almost impossible to believe that the choir would have disobeyed the Priest had he used the proper channel to ask them to add more songs from other tribes. No. Very unlikely.

But clearly, the reverend gentleman appeared to have unfinished business with the Igbos.

I mean, if it was about just Igbo songs, why did he go as far as claiming he was almost stopped from celebrating mass in English in one Igbo town (Awo Omama) and that if he were to try celebrating mass in Yoruba language in Igbo town like Ekwuluobia, that the Igbo people there would stone him? And then we went on about how the church should not be a place where some people would seek to dominate others and how Igbos dominated the Benin diocese with an Igbo bishop.

These are not the kind of thing you say if your only problem is with the songs. No. Something else is biting you about the people in whose language the songs were being sang.

An unbiased mind would interpret the coded message the good Father was passing to non-Igbos in the church thus;

"look, these Igbo people want to dominate you by singing their Igbo song in your place even when they would not allow other people do the same in their own place, do not allow them"

This is a clear case of incitement targeted at a particular ethnic group from the most unlikely place, the holy alter of the Catholic church.
Thank God for the timely intervention of the Catholic archbishop of Lagos, His Grace, Alfred Martins.

As much as we try to pretend about it, fact remains, IGBOPHOBIA is real. Living in denial won't cut it.

And for those who think Ndigbo are over-reacting, I will advice them to wait till they go through series of pogroms, nearly forced into extinction in a genocide, striped of all they had and made to watch in abject penury while other people were buying national assets in the name of indigenization and perpetually condemned to numberless police checkpoints as the only Federal Presence in their region, when they go through all of the above, then we can revisit the conversation about how best to react in a situation like the one under review.

Built2last:


The truth is, reverend father Anelu's outburst has very little or nothing to do with Igbo songs. Even from the amateur video alone, it was clear the good Priest spoke from a place of deep-seated long held animus he's been harbouring towards the Igbos.

As a former Catechism teacher and alter boy in the Catholic church, I know for a fact that a Parish Priest or even an officiating Priest can effortlessly get the choir to make whatever changes he wants in their choice of songs even without the congregation knowing about it. If he didn't like a particular song, he could simply pass his instruction through the catechist or the head of the choir and it will be implemented without any noise. A Priest has almost unlimited latitude in a church service he is conducting and knowing the very high level of discipline and organizational structure in the Catholic church, it is almost impossible to believe that the choir would have disobeyed the Priest had he used the proper channel to ask them to add more songs from other tribes. No. Very unlikely.

But clearly, the reverend gentleman appeared to have unfinished business with the Igbos.

I mean, if it was about just Igbo songs, why did he go as far as claiming he was almost stopped from celebrating mass in English in one Igbo town (Awo Omama) and that if he were to try celebrating mass in Yoruba language in Igbo town like Ekwuluobia, that the Igbo people there would stone him? And then we went on about how the church should not be a place where some people would seek to dominate others and how Igbos dominated the Benin diocese with an Igbo bishop.

These are not the kind of thing you say if your only problem is with the songs. No. Something else is biting you about the people in whose language the songs were being sang.

An unbiased mind would interpret the coded message the good Father was passing to non-Igbos in the church thus;

"look, these Igbo people want to dominate you by singing their Igbo song in your place even when they would not allow other people do the same in their own place, do not allow them"

This is a clear case of incitement targeted at a particular ethnic group from the most unlikely place, the holy alter of the Catholic church.
Thank God for the timely intervention of the Catholic archbishop of Lagos, His Grace, Alfred Martins.

As much as we try to pretend about it, fact remains, IGBOPHOBIA is real. Living in denial won't cut it.

And for those who think Ndigbo are over-reacting, I will advice them to wait till they go through series of pogroms, nearly forced into extinction in a genocide, striped of all they had and made to watch in abject penury while other people were buying national assets in the name of indigenization and perpetually condemned to numberless police checkpoints as the only Federal Presence in their region, when they go through all of the above, then we can revisit the conversation about how best to react in a situation like the one under review.

Kudos ezigbo mmadu.these bingos will not see this your thread because they cannot withstand the bitter truth.if you have a facebook page, abeg be posting such article and i will be sharing .we need to tell the world about our experience.let me have your face book handle abeg .i am already following .dont ever stop writing .

The one that pains me the most is that quota system
How can my kids write an exam and score 90% not get admission but another persons child wrote the same exact exam scoring 20% and gets their name on the merit list?

And then some people still hope that Nigeria will become great?

Fa - fa - faa - fowl

Just allow an Igbo president to rule this country and see an amazing transformation

ebuka440:
Just allow an Igbo president to rule this country and see an amazing transformation

No no no

An Igbo presidency will be the last one Nigeria experiences because the country would be divided even before ministers are appointed

Tell me why ibos want political power in Lagos. Only ibos among the 300+ tribes we have in Nigeria choose to label Lagos no man land. Only ibos claim Lagos state. Bayelsans don't express deep seated hate for Yoruba's the way ibos do. And the go to excuse is that Tinubu is responsible for this calamity of a president..Yes but so too is Amaechi Onu and Saraki. Interestingly None of the aforementioned politicians receive so much hate and then you begin to wonder could it be that there is more to this hate.

Alright, Nwanne, please listen. Many of our people have been in the same exact situation you are now. You feel the frustration and you think you can be reasonable with Nigerians. Truth is, you can't. You'll get frustrated. Save your energy. Let's follow one another and like the brother suggested earlier, perhaps make a Group on fb or join one already created. Share it and Let's connect there.

You will not get answers from NL. You'll soon come to the conclusion that Biafra is our way out.
If you want to understand why they behave like this to us, read Forsyth's book about Biafra. They committed great evil against us. Our people cut down like chicken before, during and after the war. The hostility and hate you're witnessing now is akin to the one the White Americans showed and continue to show blacks there. Guilty conscience. [b]They fear that if we are given an inch, we'll do to them what they did to us. [/b]They don't understand that igbos are not like that and we believe in" live and let live". Udo diri gi nwanna!

Conner44:


No no no

An Igbo presidency will be the last one Nigeria experiences because the country would be divided even before ministers are appointed

So you're afraid of divide, but not been marginalized huh.

Built2last:



And for those who think Ndigbo are over-reacting, I will advice them to wait till they go through series of pogroms, nearly forced into extinction in a genocide, striped of all they had and made to watch in abject penury while other people were buying national assets in the name of indigenization and perpetually condemned to numberless police checkpoints as the only Federal Presence in their region, when they go through all of the above, then we can revisit the conversation about how best to react in a situation like the one under review.

Self induced
Whose fault?...only ibos should take the blame for what is happening.... but you people dont want to accept your errors.

With ibos holding strategic positions in the begining of the republic,(an iboman is was even the president) its plausible to assume that the only reason ibos could still plan a coup is an attempt at dominating other tribes...if you were not ibo you would also come to this conclusion....or how else will you explain that no single ibo leader was killed in the coup.....(some clown tried to insult our intelligence by saying it was so because ibo leaders were not corrupt that was why the coupists didnt kill any of them).
As if that was not enough....in the present dispensation....ibos have been in the corridor of power with pdp all of 16 years but woke up the ghost of biafra ans began a campaign of hatred against all their neighbours because GEJ lost a democratic elections. Nobody questioned the ibos while they were colluding with northerners to ensure pdp ruled for 16 years but ibos have been calling anyone who supports apc fulani slaves and terorist sympathisers....and then you wonder why other Nigerians see you the way they do....put yourself in their shoes, you would think exactly the same way other Nigerians think about ibos.

Ibos might be good traders and importers(the lazy option for people who are unable to manufacture goods) but its clear you are terrible politicians....central political power is far from you with this your attitide....a tiv man....an igala man or jukun man will likely becaome president before an iboman ever near that seat when theres a new generation of ibos that know how to play national politics.

Until then as yourself this question....why does the ibos hate all their neighbours?....then you will know why other tribes hate you tooo.....( before you ask me why Nigeria dont want you to go since they hate you...i will beg you to start a strong campaign that will ensure most ibos leave every nook and cranny of Nigeria back to iboland....then other Nigerians will really know that you are serious and would gladly grant you biafra.....anything short of this shows the whole biafra thing is a charade intended to intimidate other tribes that has failed woefulky

Injera:
Tell me why ibos want political power in Lagos. Only ibos among the 300+ tribes we have in Nigeria choose to label Lagos no man land. Only ibos claim Lagos state. Bayelsans don't express deep seated hate for Yoruba's the way ibos do. And the go to excuse is that Tinubu is responsible for this calamity of a president..Yes but so too is Amaechi Onu and Saraki. Interestingly None of the aforementioned politicians receive so much hate and then you begin to wonder could it be that there is more to this hate.

The problem with people like you is that you want a submissive Igbo. You want Igbo that won't fight back injustice and backbiting.

I'm happy to disappoint you, despite our modesty at times, we will continue to give back to people in their coins. You insult Igbo people any opportunity you have, when they respond accordingly, you cry that Igbo people are this and that.

Remove the plank from your eyes young man.

Op, the reason why they hate the Igbo so much is simply because Igbo people hate injustice and will always stand for equity and fairness...it is engraved in the DNA of every sons and daughters of igboland to selflessly fight injustice no matter the consequences.


They don't know it's the Igbo that is keeping this country as United as a Nation, No any other tribe believes in national unity and cohesion like the Igbo. If the Igbo leaves... Nigeria is history, forget the fake romance they claim to spite the Igbos.
I leave in abuja, a so called northern state, average northerners from Kano, Sokoto, jigawa e.t.c will always run back to their villages to build whenever they save enough money here.
The average igbo man here will get a bigger shop, buy a bigger land here.
The country is United in the hatred for Igbos.
The most senseless comment that baffles me on this forum is when I hear people say Igbos can never be president of Nigeria; in their own country?

They hate Igbos cos Igbos rejected and warned about the calamity that was coming in the form of Buhari in 2015, they were too myopic to see, today are they not all paying the price?
Igbos are still warning today about a bigger calamity they are dressing up for 2023, will they listen?...I doubt it.

When you are blessed always expect envy and jealousy from your lazy neighbors..it has been so since the days of Esau and Jacob.

Conner44:


No no no

An Igbo presidency will be the last one Nigeria experiences because the country would be divided even before ministers are appointed

yes,we want a president that will divide this country!

Injera:
Tell me why ibos want political power in Lagos. Only ibos among the 300+ tribes we have in Nigeria choose to label Lagos no man land. Only ibos claim Lagos state. Bayelsans don't express deep seated hate for Yoruba's the way ibos do. And the go to excuse is that Tinubu is responsible for this calamity of a president..Yes but so too is Amaechi Onu and Saraki. Interestingly None of the aforementioned politicians receive so much hate and then you begin to wonder could it be that there is more to this hate.

So this is all your reaction to this post? What is holding you is stronger than you.

ebuka440:
Just allow an Igbo president to rule this country and see an amazing transformation

Transform your tiny Region, before we will allow you rule this Country. The East is the least developed Region in this Country.

uthlaw:
yes,we want a president that will divide this country!

Nigeria will never devide and the North will not give Biafran their independence

OGA YORUBAS ARE HATEFUL TOWARDS THE IGBOS, MY OWN PASTOR'S WIFE CLEARLY STATED BEFORE THE CONGRGETION THAT SHE HATES IGBOS WITH PASSION, NOW DO YOU SEE WHAT YORUBAS ARE??

Injera:
Tell me why ibos want political power in Lagos. Only ibos among the 300+ tribes we have in Nigeria choose to label Lagos no man land. Only ibos claim Lagos state. Bayelsans don't express deep seated hate for Yoruba's the way ibos do. And the go to excuse is that Tinubu is responsible for this calamity of a president..Yes but so too is Amaechi Onu and Saraki. Interestingly None of the aforementioned politicians receive so much hate and then you begin to wonder could it be that there is more to this hate.

When you're blessed, it's normal to be hated. Have you wondered why Americans and Isreal are hated? Same rope ties the Igbos!

Biafra is our only hope

Growing up in the north made me hide my igbo identity as a kid until we relocated to the east then I saw my foolishness. My northern friend opened my eyes when he told me the chicken theory, that me as a Christian was like a chicken to be slaughtered at anytime SMH

TBH, we were meant to be good neighbors and not brothers, one nigeria is a scam.

It’s normal for humans to hate their superiors ..

The rest is just noiseless excuse ..

No one will hate a cursed tribe .. is only Blessings that brings envy and jealousy.

I hate flatheadss with great passion I swear

Denoh68:
OGA YORUBAS ARE HATEFUL TOWARDS THE IGBOS, MY OWN PASTOR'S WIFE CLEARLY STATED BEFORE THE CONGRGETION THAT SHE HATES IGBOS WITH PASSION, NOW DO YOU SEE WHAT YORUBAS ARE??

I didn't read the OP epistle but your pastors wife don't speak for all yorubas.
Most of the Ladies I've liked are majorly Igbo. I've worked in an Igbo only environment in Lagos. If I should go by your logic I'll say igbos are filled with hatred.
I've come across more igbos making derogatory statement about Yoruba's while I grew up. It was so disappointing, even people who I look up to.
But it doesn't change my perspective about igbos. My primary and secondary sch in Lagos was owned by urobo I later finished my as in a sch owned by Enugu person.
The biggest evil word my mum will say about igbos is that I need to be careful when visiting Alaba market that igbos are dubious in business.
Bad parenting cause a lot bulshit. I remember going to one of my friends house in Lagos here, even as a Lagos native this my friend told me to get out of his compound "you this Yoruba man, una no wan give us Biafra" I felt insulted. I don't even understand what the guy meant.
Many people just plant hatred in their childrens memory.
Now this is Lagos we rule my community and this same family still live in my area. I know they hate Yoruba with passion already because the statement I heard several years back.
God bless st john nursery and primary sch at ojo Lagos. All my Igbo friend from st john are the normal igbos we do talk about.
Now those stack Biafra should stop painting igbos bad in the eyes of others.

Denoh68:
OGA YORUBAS ARE HATEFUL TOWARDS THE IGBOS, MY OWN PASTOR'S WIFE CLEARLY STATED BEFORE THE CONGRGETION THAT SHE HATES IGBOS WITH PASSION, NOW DO YOU SEE WHAT YORUBAS ARE??

tollyboy5:

I didn't read the OP epistle but your pastors wife don't speak for all yorubas.
Most of the Ladies I've liked are majorly Igbo. I've worked in an Igbo only environment in Lagos. If I should go by your logic I'll say igbos are filled with hatred.
I've come across more igbos making derogatory statement about Yoruba's while I grew up. It was so disappointing, even people who I look up to.
But it doesn't change my perspective about igbos. My primary and secondary sch in Lagos was owned by urobo I later finished my as in a sch owned by Enugu person.
The biggest evil word my mum will say about igbos is that I need to be careful when visiting Alaba market that igbos are dubious in business.
Bad parenting cause a lot bulshit. I remember going to one of my friends house in Lagos here, even as a Lagos native this my friend told me to get out of his compound "you this Yoruba man, una no wan give us Biafra" I felt insulted. I don't even understand what the guy meant.
Many people just plant hatred in their childrens memory.
Now this is Lagos we rule my community and this same family still live in my area. I know they hate Yoruba with passion already because the statement I heard several years back.
God bless st john nursery and primary sch at ojo Lagos. All my Igbo friend from st john are the normal igbos we do talk about.
Now those stack Biafra should stop painting igbos bad in the eyes of others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3yR-NMSvg

ebuka440:
Just allow an Igbo president to rule this country and see an amazing transformation

i guess u are talking about d amazing transformation that makes south east d poverty capital of d south

uthlaw:
why because you northerners knows you are useless and can't stand alone....I pity ur generation to come!

The North is the only thing standing between you and your imaginary Biafra. We own most of your State Government treasuries. Over 95% of your leaders are our puppets.

No let me expose una here. The small respect wey una get go just finish

shortIGBOman:


Nigeria will never decide and the North will not give Biafran their independence

Who's waiting for the north?

Muna4real:


Who's waiting for the north?

IGBO People