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We’re Not Northerners- Middle-belt Youths by jason123: 11:02am On Dec 09, 2011
By Dapo Akinrefon & Charles Kumolu

United Middle-Belt Youth Congress, UMYC, has demanded a separate identity for the people of the region to differentiate them from the Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri peoples of the far North.

Leading a delegation of executive officers of the congress on a courtesy call to Vanguard’s corporate office in Lagos, the group’s President, Mr. Abuka Onalo, said the people of the Middle-Belt were now remorseful of their roles in past actions of spearhea-ding Northern interests that did not benefit their people.

He particularly regretted the role of the Middle-Belt in the Nigerian civil war, saying the people of the region would not repeat the mistake.

He said: “We want the Middle-Belt people to be recognised and be referred to as Middle-Belt region. We want to be part of a new Nigeria where the Middle-Belt will be a federating unit.

We likened our argument to the issue of true federalism. Since the South-South has been officially re-grouped as the Niger Delta region, we from the Middle-Belt should be grouped as the Middle-Belt region.

“We have never been subdued. We contributed in establishing the Federal Republic of Nigeria; we know what we suffered after the Civil War. There should be no reason why the nation cannot give us our own identity
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In canvassing for identity, we are careful so that we do not destabilise what we helped in creating.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/were-not-northerners-middle-belt-youths/
Re: We’re Not Northerners- Middle-belt Youths by jason123: 11:44am On Dec 09, 2011
The great divide:









Re: We’re Not Northerners- Middle-belt Youths by WilyWily4: 1:19pm On Dec 10, 2011
Yessssoooooo Middle Belters are not Northerners, They are Brukutu Block Head Drinkers (BBHD)

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