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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Nobody: 8:11am On Sep 23, 2016
Though the approach is not the very best, the struggle is right and purposeful.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by steppin: 8:16am On Sep 23, 2016
sweerychick:
my mum told me about her bitter experience of the war, she said she was barely 7yrs when the war started and her village was a stronghold of Biafra ( ohafia abia state) every morning the hide in the bush, till evening when the safely return back home, she said she remembered one time they all returned home only to discover that their house have been taken over by Nigerian soldiers. They were forced to work for the Hausa soldiers, she told me that some of the Hausa soldiers forcefully married some Igbo ladies while some raped and committed all manner of atrocities. I get scared and sad when she shares her war stories with me. That's why it really breaks my heart seeing all those IPOB protesters shot like animals, if they really had an idea about what Biafrans suffered, they would have a rethink. I just hope Nnamdi kanu will have a rethink about actualizing this Biafra agitation. Nevertheless I'm not against freedom of expression. Just hope it doesn't lead to anarchy kiss
Keep deceiving yourself. Better find something to do.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Bodexman(m): 8:19am On Sep 23, 2016
I thought it's only limited to their region or has it been extended to other regions? OP pls clarify this.
Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by OsuIbo: 8:19am On Sep 23, 2016
SirJeffry:
Though the approach is not the very best, the struggle is right and purposeful.
I beg to disagree with you. The sit-at-home approach is better than violent protest.

#IstandwithBiafra

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by attackgat: 8:19am On Sep 23, 2016
sweerychick:
my mum told me about her bitter experience of the war, she said she was barely 7yrs when the war started and her village was a stronghold of Biafra ( ohafia abia state) every morning the hide in the bush, till evening when the safely return back home, she said she remembered one time they all returned home only to discover that their house have been taken over by Nigerian soldiers. They were forced to work for the Hausa soldiers, she told me that some of the Hausa soldiers forcefully married some Igbo ladies while some raped and committed all manner of atrocities. I get scared and sad when she shares her war stories with me. That's why it really breaks my heart seeing all those IPOB protesters shot like animals, if they really had an idea about what Biafrans suffered, they would have a rethink. I just hope Nnamdi kanu will have a rethink about actualizing this Biafra agitation. Nevertheless I'm not against freedom of expression. Just hope it doesn't lead to anarchy kiss

This story is why you should have rejected the notion of 'one Nigeria'. How can someone call you "Brother" but will come to your land, take over everything, rape your women, forcibly marry some off and the person will tell you he is doing this because he wants to be "one" with you? This is the same way that Lord Lugard came to West Africa to create 'Nigeria'. It is the same way Nigeria has been kept together for 102 years. So the Biafran agitators are right to demand a separate existence from Nigeria just as their forefather were before Lugard came. It is a sorry story, I have heard many like it about war time attrocities. But it all points to the fact the freedom is one of the few things in life worth fighting for.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by modsfucker: 8:22am On Sep 23, 2016
Alcatraz003:


I understand your fears but freedom comes with a price. Sacrifice must be made to actualize Biafra else igbos will continue their present slavery as 2nd class citizens in Nigeria. I am sure you dont want to sire a child who is beneath his peers in his own country. The sad truth is that after the 1st biafram war, igbos lost their place at the top and that is the current status quo.

I am a yoruba and i honestly feel i am better than any igbo and i stand better chance of enjoying Nigeria more. The patience, tact and diplomacy of the Yoruba coupled with the genius of awolowo made this possible.

The story is not the same for the igbo man and if nothing is done, it will remain so for generations if Nigeria is not reconstituted.

In all i have said, the only point you should discern is that blood will be spilled to get your Biafra.

If a war breaks out again, Biafra will be actualized, this is 2016 and not 1967. The world is a global village now and world powers will intervene to free the igbos. This is how i see it.


Who bloods pill epp?
Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by ogawisdom(m): 8:22am On Sep 23, 2016
Abia state precisely aba shutdown
Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by EternalTruths: 8:25am On Sep 23, 2016
sweerychick:
my mum told me about her bitter experience of the war, she said she was barely 7yrs when the war started and her village was a stronghold of Biafra ( ohafia abia state) every morning the hide in the bush, till evening when the safely return back home, she said she remembered one time they all returned home only to discover that their house have been taken over by Nigerian soldiers. They were forced to work for the Hausa soldiers, she told me that some of the Hausa soldiers forcefully married some Igbo ladies while some raped and committed all manner of atrocities. I get scared and sad when she shares her war stories with me. That's why it really breaks my heart seeing all those IPOB protesters shot like animals, if they really had an idea about what Biafrans suffered, they would have a rethink. I just hope Nnamdi kanu will have a rethink about actualizing this Biafra agitation. Nevertheless I'm not against freedom of expression. Just hope it doesn't lead to anarchy kiss


Sometimes death is honourable than life.

So stop looking at the issue from one side

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Tallesty1(m): 8:27am On Sep 23, 2016
sweerychick:
I'm not an illiterate, but obeying an order that is subject to treason is the height of illiteracy kiss..
Please do us a favor and keep quiet on threads like this.


You just shared a story your mother told you about Biafra war but have you listened to the story of an Enugu woman who was a victim of the herdsmen massacre?
Some of them are currently mad.

What was their crime?

Have you listened to stories of thousands of igbo families that lost their loved ones and properties in the north?

Fact is, we get killed whether we fight or not and in my opinion, it's better to get killed while fighting for your freedom than to stay at home like a coward and still get killed in the end.

When they killed us in the north, folks like you blamed us for going to North but they now come down south now to kill us.

To add salt to our injury, the same bigot who was so angry when some Fulanis where killed somewhere in South west opened his outdated and poorly arranged teeth to tell the world that our killers are not Nigerians.

But they automatically become Nigerians when we turn around to kill them.

You don't understand a lot of things and that's the sole reason I am begging you to keep quiet on threads like this.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by modsfucker: 8:29am On Sep 23, 2016
Scapegoat tongue

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by SAHACO(m): 8:34am On Sep 23, 2016
sweerychick:
my mum told me about her bitter experience of the war, she said she was barely 7yrs when the war started and her village was a stronghold of Biafra ( ohafia abia state) every morning the hide in the bush, till evening when the safely return back home, she said she remembered one time they all returned home only to discover that their house have been taken over by Nigerian soldiers. They were forced to work for the Hausa soldiers, she told me that some of the Hausa soldiers forcefully married some Igbo ladies while some raped and committed all manner of atrocities. I get scared and sad when she shares her war stories with me. That's why it really breaks my heart seeing all those IPOB protesters shot like animals, if they really had an idea about what Biafrans suffered, they would have a rethink. I just hope Nnamdi kanu will have a rethink about actualizing this Biafra agitation. Nevertheless I'm not against freedom of expression. Just hope it doesn't lead to anarchy kiss

Your one nigeria is base on fear not equality sounds good to the parasite of nigeria.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Emancipation: 8:35am On Sep 23, 2016
attackgat:


This story is why you should have rejected the notion of 'one Nigeria'. How can someone call you "Brother" but will come to your land, take over everything, rape your women, forcibly marry some off and the person will tell you he is doing this because he wants to be "one" with you? This is the same way that Lord Lugard came to West Africa to create 'Nigeria'. It is the same way Nigeria has been kept together for 102 years. So the Biafran agitators are right to demand a separate existence from Nigeria just as their forefather were before Lugard came. It is a sorry story, I have heard many like it about war time attrocities. But it all points to the fact the freedom is one of the few things in life worth fighting for.

EXACTLY

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by modsfucker: 8:38am On Sep 23, 2016
Yoruba needs Odua, Igbos need Biafra... Does that mean it's only Hausas that are holding the country together? Are they this powerful?
Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by holocron: 8:41am On Sep 23, 2016
Alcatraz003:


This is the folly of the whole struggle. How can you clamour for freedom from the oppressor and still flood his land?

Igbos need to thoroughly evaluate this and find a lasting solution to their migration problem. The singular move of moving back to the east by all igbos will aid the biafran struggle by at least 50%. Anything short of this will only embolden the oppressing tribes to see igbos as court jesters.

A lot of people are watching with keen interest how the igbos will pull this off.

You don't just get it, do you? Suprising! The clamour is not against any people, tribe, ethnic group, or country. It is against the system. The neocolonial system that has imprisoned the Africans in sham, unviable, psedo nation states.

It is this bondage that every single ethnic group in Nigeria is clamouring about, begging God for liberation. What is the various pan tribal groups all about? From OPC to Afenifere, MEND (MOVEMENT FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF NIGER DELTA), MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), AREWA, BOKO HARAM, etc Every single one is crying for liberation from oppression! So who is oppressing who? It is not any particular person or region. It is the system.

That is why the wise ones have never ceased the call for restructuring based on a sovereign national conference to reconstitute the country in the best form it can be for the welfare of its people.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by samuelUMOH(m): 8:45am On Sep 23, 2016
SirJeffry:
Though the approach is not the very best, the struggle is right and purposeful.
Struggle is right approach absolutely wrong .After the sit at home what NEXT ?Let all the Igbo business men outside Eastern Nigeria return home and established their businesses there ,until then the struggle and agitation is a fluke .

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by holocron: 9:00am On Sep 23, 2016
modsfucker:
Yoruba needs Odua, Igbos need Biafra... Does that mean it's only Hausas that are holding the country together? Are they this powerful?

Somehow, yes. This country was entrusted to the Hausa-Fulani Oligarchy by the erstwhile colonial power to be its proxy, and guarantee its continued functioning as a colony. They reared and brainwashed the children of the oligarchy for this purpose, and in return they pledge to Prop up their power, rule, and priviledges.

For this reason, the Western powers will always support the northern oligarchy to hold power in Nigeria against all other comers. They know that southerners in power will likely succumb to the masses pressure to restructure the country. The Northern Oligarchy will NEVER restructure this country because their POWER is based on the existing chaos and irregularities.

The elite of the north are now caught in a dilemma. The way they operate the country does not mean well for the Nigerian masses including their own subjects, who are even worse off. Their subjects demand of them dividends of their rulership and they can not deliver, instead they try to use ethnicity and religion to pull the wool over the masses eyes. When the masses hold them to account over the same religion they are found wanting. That is the tragedy of boko haram.

You told me that the reason for the wretched state of things is lack of sharia, Ok can we set things aright by full implementation? and then you baulk!

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by victorvezx(m): 9:01am On Sep 23, 2016
PhilemonObende:


The Igbo man knows that Biafra will benefit him more than nigeria, that's why he is going to Sit at home like I have done.
The Igbo man have also learnt that POLITICS IS EVERYTHING.
According to Great Kanu, you can make all the money in world, but with one stroke of the pen from a fulani man in a change of policy, you'll lose everything to politics.

People are becoming conscious bro, that you choose remain blind is no fault of anyone.

Even your Buhari knows that the inevitable break up nigeria is beyond his control as a mortal flesh. Somewhere in everyone's subconscious we all know nigeria won't last forever but those who want to deceive themselves have the permission to carry on. grin
Actually, u are the one deceiving urself, by believing Biafra will come. Keep living in delusion and denial even when u know it's not possible, u are free

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Ajibel(m): 9:07am On Sep 23, 2016
Igbos and non Igbos living only in S.E are the ones who would obey the sit at home protest. I don't expect Igbos in other parts of the region in the North, SW and likely SS to do same.

Here in my area in Lagos which is dominated by Igbos is already bustling with activities.

I teased Oga sunny, the guy who owns a supermarket where I buy things about it today and he just laughed and hissed saying "Wetin concern me?"

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Nobody: 9:09am On Sep 23, 2016
modsfucker:
Since the announcement by IPOB calling on all Igbos to embark on a sit at home protest on 23rd September, 2016, I took it upon myself to go round the city of Abuja to assess the level of compliance.

To my greatest dismay, people of Igbo extraction have all poured into the streets going about their businesses as though the order was not given. I was also opportuned to see some Igbo shop owners having their shops opened for the days business.

What is the level of compliance in your area?

Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by BiafranPrince: 9:15am On Sep 23, 2016
Ajibel:

I teased Oga sunny, the guy who owns a supermarket where I buy things about it today and he just laughed and hissed saying "Wetin concern me?"

"All commercial activities in Biafraland will be shut down in support of Nnamdi Kanu who would be appearing in court on 23rd September".

How does that concern people outside Biafraland.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by pointblank247(m): 9:22am On Sep 23, 2016
there is full compliance here in the easth. even public schools did not open. abuja no concern us.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Nobody: 9:34am On Sep 23, 2016
Hunger dey.
Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Nobody: 9:39am On Sep 23, 2016
If Biafra agitation no yield a positive result under buhari,it will surely come to pass in the next dispensation.
Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Olabestonic001(m): 9:42am On Sep 23, 2016
Alcatraz003:


I understand your fears but freedom comes with a price. Sacrifice must be made to actualize Biafra else igbos will continue their present slavery as 2nd class citizens in Nigeria. I am sure you dont want to sire a child who is beneath his peers in his own country. The sad truth is that after the 1st biafram war, igbos lost their place at the top and that is the current status quo.

I am a yoruba and i honestly feel i am better than any igbo and i stand better chance of enjoying Nigeria more. The patience, tact and diplomacy of the Yoruba coupled with the genius of awolowo made this possible.

The story is not the same for the igbo man and if nothing is done, it will remain so for generations if Nigeria is not reconstituted.

In all i have said, the only point you should discern is that blood will be spilled to get your Biafra.

If a war breaks out again, Biafra will be actualized, this is 2016 and not 1967. The world is a global village now and world powers will intervene to free the igbos. This is how i see it.

Isn't your reasoning flawed? Seriously, you're better than Ifeanyi Ubah and the likes? Like you believe because you're Yoruba you're better than Ezekwezili? Are you kidding me?
Honestly, you are either a bigot or just plain foolish. I'm a Yoruba man, my wife is Igbo (thoroughly Igboid), her boss is Hausa. Honestly, its a bad brain to think you're better than anyone just because you're from a particular tribe.
Her Hausa boss is one of the best brains in his field in Nigeria. You need to meet him and wonder how Nairaland had affected your reasoning.
Truth is; people are superior in their brain due to their individuality and not by their tribes.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by DavSagacity(m): 9:44am On Sep 23, 2016
Emancipation:
So abuja is now part of Biafran territory?
i wonder Oooo.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Ajibel(m): 9:47am On Sep 23, 2016
BiafranPrince:


"All commercial activities in Biafraland will be shut down in support of Nnamdi Kanu who would be appearing in court on 23rd September".

How does that concern people outside Biafraland.

Well, maybe I read differently because my secondary school friend who is a Probiafran posted on his FB that all Biafrans nationwide should get involved in the struggle by staying at home. He went ahead and boasted in one of his comments that if all Biafrans in Lagos should abide by this, Lagos economy would be shut down.







I laughed for the next 30 minutes grin

Nnamdi Kanu don do my friend bad thing oo. I wept at the end.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by Ajibel(m): 9:49am On Sep 23, 2016
BiafranPrince:


"All commercial activities in Biafraland will be shut down in support of Nnamdi Kanu who would be appearing in court on 23rd September".

How does that concern people outside Biafraland.

But bro, dont you think it'll have sent a very strong message to we all if all Biafrans outside Biafraland sit at home in protest?

E for make sense ooo.
Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by southernbelle(f): 10:37am On Sep 23, 2016
sweerychick:
my mum told me about her bitter experience of the war, she said she was barely 7yrs when the war started and her village was a stronghold of Biafra ( ohafia abia state) every morning the hide in the bush, till evening when the safely return back home, she said she remembered one time they all returned home only to discover that their house have been taken over by Nigerian soldiers. They were forced to work for the Hausa soldiers, she told me that some of the Hausa soldiers forcefully married some Igbo ladies while some raped and committed all manner of atrocities. I get scared and sad when she shares her war stories with me. That's why it really breaks my heart seeing all those IPOB protesters shot like animals, if they really had an idea about what Biafrans suffered, they would have a rethink. I just hope Nnamdi kanu will have a rethink about actualizing this Biafra agitation. Nevertheless I'm not against freedom of expression. Just hope it doesn't lead to anarchy kiss

I've heard a lot of stories about the war and they are all scary. My dear, nobody prays for war. War is not beautiful and we shouldn't encourage it to happen in our time for any reason whatsoever.

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Re: Abuja: Igbos Flout Biafra Sit-At-Home Order by izombie(m): 10:45am On Sep 23, 2016
Alcatraz003:


This is the folly of the whole struggle. How can you clamour for freedom from the oppressor and still flood his land?

Igbos need to thoroughly evaluate this and find a lasting solution to their migration problem. The singular move of moving back to the east by all igbos will aid the biafran struggle by at least 50%. Anything short of this will only embolden the oppressing tribes to see igbos as court jesters.

A lot of people are watching with keen interest how the igbos will pull this off.
but we are still one nigeria so igbos have the right to go to and conduct businesses anywhere in nigeria. If you don't like it, lets divide nigeria.

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