How Much Respect Do You Show Igbos? By Ena Ofugara

I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo. However, as a stdent 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 Indegenization decree of 1972 and 1977. I reminded how the banks gave people of other tribes, predominantly Hausas and Yorubas loans to by 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, 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 a hundred 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 not 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.

Let us lok at how Dangote made his money. He Dagote (a great man and pride to Nigeria) has an uncle called Dantata who owned huge chunks of the groundnut pyramids of the 50's and 60's. He gave Dangte a loan and Dangote paid it back in record time. CLAP CLAP. The add that Dangote has had his "brothers" in government, from IBB to Abacha and Abdulsalaam. 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 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 Cali 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 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 land with it....lands worth billions today were taken from Igbos and each and everyIgbo 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 twoards 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 that FOR NOW, we and such a great people are compatriots.

Igbo Kwenu

Nice topic op

okay

INTROVERT:
okay

Hehe introkini again

Tell them o. Especially ndi onu mmanu.

i badoo them

Igbos out of necessity had to become hustlers so as to survive, but the light which was with them pre 1967 never got erased from their DNA. That's why though they can do anything to make money, the urge to become tops in their field bears utmost priority. Igbos are great....

Time shall tell.

Giving d igbos 20 naira max was d greatest mistake the north n yoruba ever made.

They didn't know that wen u push a man against d wall, they will fight back wit everytin they have.

Igbos were disadvantages, thus this made dem work so hard and as at 2015, their geopolitical zone is the most developed in nigeria.



Indeed, they buried us, but they didn't know we were seeds.

INTROVERT:
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Kk

Hard work is the key to Igbos success.

We are tired of Nigeria.

Useles and yeye article. Was the ibos the only people that have fought war in this world.Germany and Japan were nearly reduced to ashes in the second world war but, came back stronger after more than two decades later to be one of the world economy super power.what about the jews etc.This is another ego massaging article for the ibos.nonsense

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Did Ibos who had no money in the account not also get the 20 Naira?

The house in Ikoyi were those seized by the FG from Ojukwu and it was used as JAMB office not WAEC.
All those houses were returned to him and i can't recall he insisted the ordinary Ibos he led to war and lost properties mainly in the South-south and have documents to prove it got anything back. He simply collected his own and cleaned mouth, he has been collecting his pension while many boys he urged to war are still living with horrific injuries, i bet he even visits them in the colonies were they were all abandoned while he was enjoying the rest of his life with a beauty queen.

Maybe you should address how you treat yourselves in your enclave before you attempt to control how others treat you.

omoelesa:
Useles and yeye article.It is only the ibos that have fought war in this world.Germany and Japan were nearly reduced to ashes in the second world war but, came back stronger after more than two decades later to be one of the world economy super power.what about the jews etc.This is another ego massaging article for the ibos.nonsense

Which one did your ancestors fought oooooooo

Fulani took Ilorin from you without any single match shouting.

Women of Dahomey Amazon conquered you even when they were suffering from painful menstrual flows.

When Hausas attakck you in Lagos you come to Punch, Twitter and Facebook to whine but you see Igbo containers making inroad you take placards and started picketing on the streets.

Ovamboland:
Did Ibos who had no money in the account not also get the 20 Naira?

The house in Ikoyi were those seized by the FG from Ojukwu and it was used as JAMB office not WAEC.
All those houses were returned to him and i can't recall he insisted the ordinary Ibos he led to war and lost properties mainly in the South-south and have documents to prove it got anything back. He simply collected his own and cleaned mouth, he has been collecting his pension while many boys he urged to war are still living with horrific injuries, i bet he even visits them in the colonies were they were all abandoned while he was enjoying the rest of his life with a beauty queen.

Maybe you should address how you treat yourselves in your enclave before you attempt to control how others treat you.

Cry me a river, you inherited and confiscated properties today Ibadan is the begging capital of the world

Second class citizens trying to be relevant.

AnambraDota:


Cry me a river, you inherited and confiscated properties today Ibadan is the begging capital of the world

Wailing wailer, tell what properties your people have in Ibadan that is of interest to any Yoruba man to warrant seizure. Tell me any part of Yorubaland any flat head owned property was seized. Many of your runaway people came back to collect their accumulated rents for the almost 3 years it was abandoned as testified by your people. Yet your so-called brothers and allies in SS, port harcourt in particular are still collecting and pocketing rent till today from houses built by Ibos.

May your rabid hatred be healed so you can recognize your real enemies and friends

Houses of Easterners in the West of Nigeria fared better, as most owners of Eastern origin having left it while fleeing where able to regain them, even Ìgbò street names in many cases remained unchanged. A case was even reported, where a Yòrùbá caretaker collected rent on behalf of the Ìgbò landlord, and remitted same without let to the owner when he returned after the war.

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chuna1985:
Giving d igbos 20 naira max was d greatest mistake the north n yoruba ever made.

They didn't know that wen u push a man against d wall, they will fight back wit everytin they have.

Igbos were disadvantages, thus this made dem work so hard and as at 2015, their geopolitical zone is the most developed in nigeria.

nonsense

op they still gat respect
this gat me cracking
https://instagram.com/p/5uVF3zFL6V/

found this this morning
https://www.nairaland.com/2494632/new-guy-block-jidenna-classicman

Ovamboland:
Did Ibos who had no money in the account not also get the 20 Naira?

The house in Ikoyi were those seized by the FG from Ojukwu and it was used as JAMB office not WAEC.
All those houses were returned to him and i can't recall he insisted the ordinary Ibos he led to war and lost properties mainly in the South-south and have documents to prove it got anything back. He simply collected his own and cleaned mouth, he has been collecting his pension while many boys he urged to war are still living with horrific injuries, i bet he even visits them in the colonies were they were all abandoned while he was enjoying the rest of his life with a beauty queen.

Maybe you should address how you treat yourselves in your enclave before you attempt to control how others treat you.

nonsense,these gorrilla ibo love to lie and claim what did not belong to them.

AnambraDota:


Which one did your ancestors fought oooooooo

Fulani took Ilorin from you without any single match shouting.

Women of Dahomey Amazon conquered you even when they were suffering from painful menstrual flows.

When Hausas attakck you in Lagos you come to Punch, Twitter and Facebook to whine but you see Igbo containers making inroad you take placards and started picketing on the streets.

The only knowing war the ibos fought was the biafra war.The ibo succesfuly lost the war and ever since then they have been losing.Have u heard of the great Oyo empire streching from the hintherland of the nupes to the atlantic ocean of lagos.Through building of that great empire a whole lot of wars were fought.does the ibos have such history?The only knowing history of the ibos is dancing round pot of boiling humans.Wory ur self more about the ikeweres who have always denied u, their by making ur region lanlock for ever.nonsense

Thank you OP. The suppressers of truth will soon get tired.

So you ibos want me to respect una but will come to my region & call it no man's land. Una no serious

disumusa:
nonsense

Kai, Musa wetin nah

omoelesa:
Useles and yeye article.It is only the ibos that have fought war in this world.Germany and Japan were nearly reduced to ashes in the second world war but, came back stronger after more than two decades later to be one of the world economy super power.what about the jews etc.This is another ego massaging article for the ibos.nonsense

After the Fulani tribe defeated your sorry ass tribe in Ilorin and installed an emir, why haven't you lot come back stronger?

Harrisonn:
How Much Respect Do You Show Igbos? By Ena Ofugara

I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo. However, as a stdent 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 Indegenization decree of 1972 and 1977. I reminded how the banks gave people of other tribes, predominantly Hausas and Yorubas loans to by 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, 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 a hundred 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 not 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.

Let us lok at how Dangote made his money. He Dagote (a great man and pride to Nigeria) has an uncle called Dantata who owned huge chunks of the groundnut pyramids of the 50's and 60's. He gave Dangte a loan and Dangote paid it back in record time. CLAP CLAP. The add that Dangote has had his "brothers" in government, from IBB to Abacha and Abdulsalaam. 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 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 Cali 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 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 land with it....lands worth billions today were taken from Igbos and each and everyIgbo 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 twoards 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 that FOR NOW, we and such a great people are compatriots.

Igbo Kwenu

Thou shall not chestbeat, thou shall not lies, thou shall not pull out figure from you yellow bombom







In a Capitalist State Like Ours, Wealthy Firms With Healthy Cash Flow Control The Economy Not Petty Traders.

"I have investigated all the 20 top Nigerian companies listed below as compiled by authoritative Forbes business magazine and none of them is based in Igbo land or controlled by the so called ‘Igbo business men’.

Impressively, 20 Nigerian companies made it to the list of Top 25 companies in West Africa. They include:

• Dangote Cement
• Zenith Bank PLC
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
• Nigerian Breweries Plc
• First Bank Plc
• Guaranty Trust Bank Plc
• United Bank for Africa
• Guinness Nigeria
• Nestlé Nigeria
• Access Bank
• Flour Mills Nigeria
• Union Bank of Nigeria
• Stanbic IBTC
• First City Monument Bank
• Lafarge Cement WAPCO
• Total Nigeria
• Unilever Nigeria
• PZ Cussions
• UACN
• Cadbury Nigeria Plc

According to Forbes, Nigeria has 20 of the best 25 companies in West Africa.

It is only a fool who will believe Igbo postulation that it is street trader’s and hawkers that controls an economy. If that hypothesis is valid, then the Indians and Pakistanis in Britain can also claim that they [are] in charge of British economy because over 70% of petty street trading in Britain is in the hand of the Asians. However, we all know that actual British economy is firmly in the hands of the Britons. The same is factual for Germany and France where Turkish and North African Algerians are their own local version of Igbo. The only difference is that these other 'gypsies’' are more knowledgeable of who they are in their host countriy's economy, unlike ignorant Igbo petty street traders in Yoruba land."









Nigerians have made the Forbes list of richest people in the world the reason been that Forbes estimates the wealth of individuals and rank them based on the value of shares they have in quoted companies (companies listed on the stock exchange).

The few Nigerians that have the list are Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola.

The list of top 21 Richest Nigerian billionaires has been based on:

The value of their shares held in quoted companies, the size and market share of their companies, the number of companies they own and its assumed value, the market value of their company’s brand and the impact of their companies on the Nigerian economy.

Despite the harsh terrain and business challenges involved with starting a business in Nigeria; the successful entrepreneurs listed below held their ground and fought their way to the top.

In a country with a population of over 160 million inhabitants and millions of businesses; these 20 entrepreneurs diligently carved their names in the sands of time.

Check out the list below.

1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world

2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom

3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas

4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group

5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group

6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee

7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone

8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank

9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria

10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group

11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group

12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group

13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.

14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group

15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,

16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group

17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies

18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas

19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer

20. Fola Adeola – GTBank

21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars
Before I finish this essay I will examine an absurd claim that the igbo often make which reflects an inferiority complex, a deep case self-delusion and which borders on the sociopathic. Wherever they settle they often boast that they control all the money that is there and that they have more businesses than anyone else. They often suggest that they have more business acumen and that they are more successful at business than any other tribe in Nigeria yet this is not true.

These strange stories that Igbos are more industrious than the Yoruba people, where do they come from? Is it because Yoruba people think big and never settle for profits from petty trading? The Igbos have not excelled more than Yoruba people in any kind of business at an advanced level, with the exception of the long haul coach and bus business. In the transportation business generally how many igbo people own the largest private airport on the African continent like Wale Babalakin. Tell me the Igbos that are mega industrialists like Folawiyo, Okoya, Adedoyin, Akindele and Awosika. Of the 10 leading banks in Nigeria, 8 of them used to have yoruba people as shareholders with the controlling interest, until Sanusi Lamido Sanusi launched his campaign. Today, four are still owned by Yoruba people and only one by an Igbo. Telecoms, one Ijebu businessman built a massive telecoms company single handedly. No Igbo man can boast of such. The first four leading oil distributors are Yoruba. Of the 10 leading Nigerian businessmen, 6 are Yoruba. The highest indigenous employers of labour are Yoruba people. Look at all the companies in Ikeja- they were all invited by the Western Region Government in the First Republic. If Igbos leave Lagos today, these companies will still hold high in their elegant skyscrapers. Igbos can’t hold Lagos or anywhere in the country hostage. The stereotype claim is that the Yoruba are the agberos of Lagos but you will be surprised to know that many Igbos in Lagos are actively involved in the transport business, some of them also play omo oni le with their Yoruba friends and some of them are street beggars as well. They would have denied this if Fashola had not deported them.

Many Igbo people are on the payroll of Yoruba businessmen. If you go to their region, you will see GTB, Oando, FCMB, GLO, Con Oil, Nicon Insurance, Sahara Oil, Bicourtney all owned by Yorubas. How many Igbo companies provide mass employment in comparison? If you take away all the companies owned by Yoruba businessmen what is left? The truth, hurtful as it can be, is that the leading industrialists and entrepreneurs are Yoruba people and they built Lagos with their mega business skills. This was what attracted Igbos- the tribe of wanderers and gypsys. Igbos cannot even boast of business skills when they speak with successful businessmen in the Midwest. The Midwest can boast of companies like Zenith bank, UBA, Ibru and co. and Etisalat, They can boast of Arik Air and Aerocontractors. A man from the Midwest by the name of Festus Okotie Eboh tackled your most respected Nnamdi Azikiwe and shook his power-base as the financier of the NCNC party. I don’t share the view that Igbos have superior business skills. The business men many of us admire are entrepreneurs like Wale Tinubu, Fola Adeola, Segun Agbaje, Subonmi Balogun, Kayode Odukoya, Deinde Fernandez, Tope Sonubi, Tunde Fagbemi, Kase Lawal, Harry Akande and Mike Adenuga and not the glorified petty traders and trouble makers. What the Igbos are doing is psychological warfare. If their lies are not checked and set straight they will have a negative effect on the psyche of future generations of the Yoruba. A lot of blacks in America are suffering from the lies white historians have perpetrated. For a long time blacks were made to feel inferior to their white counterparts. We can not allow the Igbos to continue with their lies against the Yorubas unabated. We have a responsibility as patriotic Yorubas to set the record straight. If it means being tagged a tribalist, that is fine. -Destructive Ways of the Ignorant...




Abegii jare
Make una shut una akpu mouth and let us rest for akpu sake