By Pa Adio 'Mosanya (2013)

Political Disunity in Yoruba Land:

Before the advent of the Europeans, our forebear in Yorubaland had their way of life. Their politics centred around the appointment of Natural Rulers, to wit: Obas, Chiefs and Bales. More often than not, there existed two factions the one supporting the reigning Oba, Chief or Bale and the other opposed to them. In all their solicitude for the enthronement or dethronement of a particular ruler, truth and honour formed the basis of their actions, not monetary considerations.

Our politics of to-day festers and stinks because people care not a “pulled hen” to be honest. The egg that hatched into our present day politics is the Western Civilization. And education brought civilization.

The Sincerity of Our Forebear:

The age of our forefathers was that of sincerity and loyalty. Their loyalty was a matter of course. They were pagans and they worshipped what we call false gods, yet they were loyal and sincere to them and to themselves. Their prayers were acceptable to the true God who saw in them but a bundle of ignoramuses doing the right thing through the wrong way. No wonder they lived long felt happier in their nescient state. Their yea was yea: their no was no. never was it said that our Chiefs fought and shattered the “Iledi”, the Ogboni House, which is more or less the counter part of our House of Parliament. Their laws, which were not written, were justly executed to the last punctilio. They were not in the habit of twisting justice to please or displease anybody whether high or low.

Individualism - Another Chief Cause of Yoruba Degeneration:

Although we Yorubas are well endowed with fineness, egoism, the love of oneself above anything and institution or anybody else, is our war horse to decay. Here in our land; instances abound of people not seeing red in any bad thing until it seizes to benefit them. We all know what is called evil. But some are strong-willed enough to uphold it for selfish ends. I could remember when the Yorubas’ crisis reared its ugly head, some Yorubas from abroad, London, cabled home praying that our race is not wiped off as a result of treatment meted to Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

Those Yorubas, like T.O.S. Benson, who were taking shares of the transitory joys attendant on that Awolowo unmerited persecution, lampooned those who made the honest appeal from abroad, with all the venoms at their tongues. “The very suggestion,” said Lawyer T.O.S. Benson, named the ungrammatical, Yoruba defender of Awolowo’s persecution, “is irrational and thoughtless and examplifies a mentality which is a threat to the evolution of our great country.” Not quite two years after this shameful act, this “defender of good faith” lost party nomination for an impending election, and became zealots in the cause of Chief Awolowo, whose persecution they had earlier justified with feudal fidelity.

There is yet another instance of Yoruba men’s individualism, which is transparent in this episode. The Ibos backed Dr. Azikiwe to the hilt to see that he could attain the Prime-ministership of Nigeria. The Hausa aristocracy co-operatedwith the Sardauna, Sir Ahmadu Bello, enthrone his nominee, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, as Prime Minister. As such, they colluded, planted evidence to guarantee their leadership’s imprisonment. Awolowo was leader of opposition, and while he was on trial, the Yorubas planned to rob him of the leadership of opposition even before the Hausa or the Ibos had time to think of it!!!

An Ibo chap took loan from his clan and went overseas for higher studies. He passed his exams with distinctions and came back home. He had an immediate employment on a super scale basis. Although his salary was fabulous enough to ride a Mercedes Benz, he bought an ordinary Volkswagen. When questioned why he did not ride a car commensurate with his status, he confessed he would not change his Volkswagen until he balanced his loan.

Compare him to my own tribes-man, who was given similar loan for similar advancement, he got to overseas, passed his exams, got a super scale appointment. His first token of gratitude was to marry an expensive European lady, buy an expensive car. He ignored his loan. And when those who gave him the loan called on him to pay, he took them to court that the broke his “Fundamental Human Rights” by coming to ask for the payment of his debt. ) Individualism had made him “sting the bosom that warmed him into life”. “But it is a common proof by Shakespear’s Julius Caesar that lowliness is young ambition’s ladder; whereunto the climber upwards turned his face. But when he most attained his utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the sky, scorning the base degree by which he did ascend.” How true today is this saying concerning us Yorubas?

One of the most oft repeated anecdotes in Lagos that bears witness to our Yoruba individualism is that of a Yoruba intellectual who, in the colonial days would have become a governor. The story went on that this man had been earmarked for the gubernatorial office by the European Lords of the day. But then, they wanted to know what the public would feel about such a boon. And they started their investigations from the would-have been governor. To a question whether it was appropriate to appoint a black man as governor, he said “no”. He was alleged to opine that giving this boon to a black-man was like throwing the pearl before the pig; or giving the bread of a son to the dog. He depicted what he meant by buying about two pence “akara” (bean cake) and two pence “gari.” He then sent into the byways to assemble some poor people.

Meanwhile, he had collected some colonial high officials in his house to come and watch the scene. Blithely from the word eat; the famished devoured the two pence “akara” and gari” like lions. The drank the gari so avidly and befouled their lips and jaws with it so much that the colonial officials could scare believe those hungry black men were human beings. And having been shown how the black man would treat a gubernatorial throne by the way poor ones feasted on akara and gari, the officials revealed that, had it not been as that intellectual had represented his people to them, the government could have appointed him as the governor. Thus, he dug his own official grave!

The richest people in every race have their poor relations. The peer and the beggar are often very near in blood relationship-offshoot of one and the same family. I once had a mentor who told me of the rueful plight of a rich man. This rich man excised himself from his poor relations.

One day, one single day, the wife of the rich man delivered twins. But the twins were together in one place and covered by a thin membrane. He did not know what it all meant. He thought it was all abnormal birth and he left the twins in a box. Although his relations were not far from his house, his attitude had banned them from the precincts of his house. Whereas, if he had not driven them away from him, immediately his wife delivered such twins, they could have rubbed the apparently abnormal creatures with palm oil and the cellophane bag which covered them could have melted and the bouncing twins could have been washed; and been alive. It was hours after the delivery and abandonment of the children who appeared abnormal to the rich man and his wife, that some visitor came to their house. And when the visitor was told that the rich man’s wife had delivered, he asked of the child’s where about, he was told of the abnormality. And when shown, the visitor burst into violent tears, marveling how the rich man could think the twins were abnormal. Then he called the wealthy man’s attention to his mistake that with rubbing with ordinary palm oil would have melted the membrane and saved the twins. Nor did the wealthy man have any other child till his last day on the earth. He died childless, thanks to his aloofness from his poor relations who could have helped him when occasion demanded their help.

In Yorubaland, our individualism causes us to do unkind things in a kind way: make us say bitter things in a sweet voice. We always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces. A woman in Yorubaland purported that she loved her husband’s heir. Often times she would roast pig, roast fowl, roast turkey and snails and give the heir. If the heir asked for water, she usually gave wine. She had the best appellations that any woman could give any pet child for this chap. Until fate exposed her wickedness, nobody suspected her of any sinister motive behind her oriental generosity towards the leading son of her husband. Her objective was to cripple him piecemeal. The roasted fowl and turkey, and pork and snails, were seasoned with deadly potion. The selfish woman was bent on clearing the eldest son out of the line of succession, so as to make her own son the heir to the throne! How many a brilliant chap had fallen victim to such devious plans!!!

Are We Sufficiently Enterprising?

Most of us Yorubas are very unenterprising. We are like a piece of overstretched elastic which has lost its resilience. We are more easily scared by small things. Our endurance is apt to be for a short duration. We care more for the immediate than the remote, no matter how promising. Worst of all, we always prefer to follow a line of the least resistance. It is this aspect of our race which enables some of our big ones to destroy the hopes of future generations in the indulgence of the present. The habit of “come thunder, come brimstone,” “I will enjoy today” has been allowed to take deep root among us. ) “Ma je ni, b’ola ko sunwon.” “Omo jaiye jaiye, ki la o jaiye fun.” We are born for pleasure, not for the turbulence or the inequalities of this world. What is a little toil if it conquers son much happiness? But in our own case, we think more of that small toil than the great happiness appurtenant to it.

Leadership:

“Separate unto Me Paul and Barnabas for the work where unto I have dedicated them.” To every soul in this world, there is a call from the throne of the Most High. And because the Almighty God had wished every man or woman to fulfill certain mission on this earth, He had made this one a teacher, another a doctor, that one an engineer, the one a lawyer, a chief justice, and that other one a labourer, minister of religion, a politician, a trader etc. And just as no one having put his hand on the plough, looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God, so is anyone who, having received his true call from God, abandons that call for another one. He will never do well in his self-appointment which has envy, covetousness, and greed or spite as its guiding principle. Such one will surely be a misfit, a square peg in a round hole.

Another root cause of Yoruba reverse is that our fathers and brothers whom God had charged to be leaders in judicature and jurisprudence, leaders in engineering, in church organisations, dons and scholars had deemed it fit, out of sheer covetousness to relinquish or ignore their true fields for musty politics. Every “Cassius” every “Casca” and every “Cinna”, all conspirators had thought that they could be better than “Julius Caesar”. Yoruba professionals had thought in themselves that they, and not Chief Obafemi Awolowo, ought to lead the Yorubas. “But these past three years had exposed them as fake missioner. As God had not groomed them for the job, their actions had thrown rancor into the vessel of Yoruba peace. Brethren, how nice it is for brothers to stick to their true callings! Chief Obafemi Awolowo ruled the Yorubas Region in peace, plenty and splendor for almost ten years, because God sent him.

Destroying Our Leaders:

It goes without saying that we Yorubas are too fond of running our leaders down. The NCNC was founded by the Yorubas. Herbert Macaulay was the President and his assistant was an Ibo man. And after the death of Macaulay, the Ibo man succeeded him. Chief Awolowo founded and led the Action Group. His deputy was the late Chief Bode Thomas. May his soul rest in peace; Amen. When untimely death took Bode Thomas away from us, another Yorubaman became Awolowo’s deputy. It was then that the Nigerian Students and the Action Group members in London called on him. And he spoke thus, “Of course, we are carrying on with our plans here as Chief Bode Thomas would have wished.” I do not think Bode could have subjugated the Yorubaland to a thousand Fulani Lords. I don’t think Bode Thomas could have precipitated an emergency in Yorubaland. Chief Bode Thomas would never conspire to surrender Yoruba sovereignty to a swash-buckler. He would never have attempted to destroy the Egbe Omo Oduduwa. He would never have conspired to put the most acceptable Yoruba leader into jail. Yoruba Obas now shout “ranka de de,” “salama, salaama.” Ah! Hard fortune, Yoruba “Ares” and “Alajobis”, you have deserted your family repudiated your race, spat upon the religion of your fathers for so mean a reason as: “I am fighting for my daily bread.” ( )

Every age has its own hero, and the hero of peace is no less genuine and acclaimed than that of war. As we Yorubas are in the habit of ruining our leaders, every time a leader is betrayed and destroyed, each time the race suffers a set-back. Whereas, the Hausas and the Ibos have been consolidating the strength of their leadership, the Yorubas have been weakening theirs. Little wonder we tend to loose on all fronts. If only we could think more deeply, we would not fail to see that those who are trying to overthrow Obafemi Awolowo are not Yoruba redeemers but Yoruba exterminators.

Wouldst the Yorubas could read and re-read the remarks made on Chief Awolowo in the early fifties by the late NCNC Lawyer, Magnus Williams in Lagos, popularly known as Maggie. Maggie said, “Awolowo of the Western Region is the first in our generation, and though we may criticise his government when we honestly believe his government is going wrong , we cannot afford to overthrow him.” What a mature thinker and late lawyer Maggie was! How prosperous would Yorubaland have remained if her destroyers had cherished this Maggie idea! But men who are great lovers of themselves waste the public. Those cobwebs who belaboured themselves to overthrow Awolowo’s leadership have now realized too late though, that “One cannot become Zeus (god of thunder) simply by taking hold of his thunderbolt.”

The present day events in Yorubaland are figures of two ancient episodes. The imprisonment of Chief Obafemi Awolowo depicts the banishment of Oduduwa from Ife. Ife, the seat of our ancestor, made intrigues against Oduduwa; and Oduduwa went into exile. His sin was then that he was too popular – more popular than those who were more advanced in years than himself. After the Oduduwa exile, prosperity eluded Ife and the people consulted the Oracle. The Oracle directed that unless Oduduwa was sought for and begged to come back home to Ife, there would be no serenity, there would be no prosperity, famine would continue unabated, and all manners of ill-luck would permeate the whole land. The Ifes went to beg Oduduwa’s only friend to seek and implore him to come home, so that his fatherland might not perish. Oduduwa’s friend embarked on the journey to find him. He found him, implored him to come to Ife. Oduduwa for the love of fatherland, yielded. But the people of his new place of sojourn, mindful of the prosperity which his presence brought to their land, prayed Oduduwa not to go back. However, Oduduwa guaranteed the continuance of their prosperity even after his departure, and they reluctantly released him. He returned to Ife; and prosperity flooded the place again!!!

On the other hand, the assault to Yoruba tradition, the replacement of Yoruba leadership with Fulani overlordship, is a figure of Afonja who refused to serve the then paramount Yoruba ruler, the Alaafin of Oyo. Afonja went to the Fulani Chieftain, received his military aid, warred against his own kinsmen, and consequently subjugated Ilorinand its environs to the foreigners. Nowadays in place of one Kakanfo Afonja, Yorubas have many Afonja incarnates. Wickedly backed and financed by those whose religion forbids wickedness, they seek to poison that which the whole world admires. Fulani and feudal bondage they call liberty, and virtue and the preservation of the Yoruba glory they stigmatized as pride and arrogance!

Yet, taking all in all, our failings in Yorubaland can be minimized. Untoward conditions can be ameliorated. If Yoruba be weak and disintegrated, where will strength come from? We are the salt of Nigeria, nobody can dispute that. Our diplomacy ought to amplify our chances of success as a race, rather than lead us to selfishness, which often pushes many a renowned race into ruin and oblivion. “Little sins are the eggs of great sorrow.” Selfishness leads to corruption, and corruption debases the standard of public virtue. If selfishness begins with the governing class, no doubt about it, woe to the race that it governed! I believe that we Yorubas can compose our difficulties in a way that they will not undermine our race. We can overcome what such evil passion has made us, because of money, prefer outsiders to our tribesmen. We must not continue to destroy our age-long institutions known to be very helpful to our race because they do not now promote our immediate individual selfish designs.

Yoruba as Tools:

Of all the aspect of failings as a race, one particular aspect confounds me most. The readiness with which we accept to be used as an instrument of oppression to our tribe is a second to none in Africa. Chew upon these, dear reader, that: when Lagos, a Yoruba city, was pressed to be separated from Yoruba Region (Western Region), a Yoruba man Kola Baluje from Otan Aiyegbaju played the tool in London. Compare this action to that of the Ikwerre people of Eastern Nigeria who opposed the suggestion that Port-Harcourt be change to Zik City in Eastern Region.

The excision of that part of Western Region, now known as Mid-West, from the smallest of the Three Regions of Nigeria, showed the Yorubas as the tools. Conversely, the Yorubas also played the tools that made it impossible to merge Ilorin and Kabba with their kith and kin, the Western Yorubas. ( )

Yorubas are wont to brag that they would extend Lagos boundary to reduce further the remaining small fractions of their land. “Omo Ina ni a nran si ina.” Those who played the tools of Yoruba sinkage in 1962 are Yorubas. They were the Alfa, they were the Omega. How I wish some Hausa men or Ibo men were made liquidators of Yoruba land. Had it gone that way, perhaps my people would have repented (“ronu”) more quickly.

And worse still a Yoruba man had the gut to stab the Vice Chancellor of the Lagos University, Dr. S.O. Biobaku. Who should shield Dr. Biobaku, if not a Yoruba man? How long shall we be used as tools by other people.

Yoruba stabbed Chief Obafemi Awolowo at the back, politically. By our actions we have out-heroded King Herod, out-Neroed, Emperior Nero of Rome who ordered his mother to be beheaded because of the barren Silana, his queen. May God stop us from being instrumental to the destruction of our fatherland; Amen. “Ki Olorun ma je ki esu se wa ni opa ti won fi npa ejo o – Amin”

Ode to Yoruba Courage:

Nothing is truer of this our generation than this wise saying: “the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; the good things which belong to adversity are admired.” “Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia sunt.” It was a noble thing to have seen the progress, prosperity of Yorubaland during the premiership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Every true Yoruba man felt the spiritual satisfaction that “our masquerade was dancing very well.” “Bi egungun eni ba njore,ori a ya ni.” Those who were not Yorubas were wishing that their own leaders could, like Awolowo, pilot their fatherland to so much greatness.

And when intrigues and perfidy gained an inroad into Yorubaland, turning our milk into gall, translating our accord into discord, the courage of Chief Awolowo was revealed by adversity and admired by Yorubas and non-Yorubas, Africans and Europeans. Who could have thought that my race which was wont to be erroneously credited with all taints of cowardice; could produce an Obafemi Awolowo, who is courage personified?

It is a good point for great pride that Yorubas’ Awolowo performed prodigies of valour even in the face of menace and disaster. All his known qualities of leadership such as honesty, courage, insight, quickness to apprehension, bold and ready speech, and power of influencing others; were called in question, and that personification of all our ancient heroes rose uniquely to the occasion. Courageous Awo is certainly an example to the intrepid. By his endurance, he has created an epidemic of nobleness. No wonder people followed him, and the shout of “release Awo! Release Awo!!” resounded throughout the length and breadth of Nigeria every day.

Meaningless long rants. We can't all sleep with our heads facing the same direction. Pa Adio should come out, contest elections and become a leader. Everyone can write an interesting piece, not all can be that leader we all desire.

Make i book space. I go read am tomorrow

Worst of all, we always prefer to follow a line of the least resistance.

the man knows his people wella. nice summary

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and the TRuth stand

speak it!

let them know!

Most of us Yorubas are very unenterprising.

Hehehe! Na lie motor park agberoism is an enterprise

We are more easily scared by small things.

Like the fear of Igbo people

We care more for the immediate than the remote, no matter how promising.

Like owambe party

Pa adio is a truthful and honest Yoruba man...

This promises to be a fantastic week, starting with an interesting monday, which has this thread as the appetizing sauce. Make I book space for front seat. I don't see from far.

"Yoruba Obas now shout “ranka de de,” “salama, salaama.” Ah! Hard fortune, Yoruba “Ares” and “Alajobis”, you have deserted your family repudiated your race, spat upon the religion of your fathers for so mean a reason as: “I am fighting for my daily bread.”-Pa Adio

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Slavery is encoded in their genes...bwhahahahaha..

What an interesting read. That man knows his people very well.

The ending was more of a fairytale... he should have just stuck in uplifting awo without including anybody else. Nobody, absolutely noone, wished their leaders were like awo. A beg. Overall though, interesting article.

He said it all.


It's for them to heed.

They were pagans and they worshipped what we call false gods, yet they were loyal and sincere to them and to themselves. Their prayers were acceptable to the true God who saw in them but a bundle of ignoramuses doing the right thing through the wrong way.

The writer is definitely not an omoluabi and not made of the same stuffs of budding revolutionaries.
He should tell us Which one is the true God and which one is the right way?
The god of bloodsucking jihadist or the god of blood-sucking crusaders?
Until these 2 religions are discarded, the suffering shall continue.
Imagine Ooni ,someone who is suppose to be the chief priest of odu ifa ,is a Prisoner of Christianity while the alaafin who is suppose to be the custodian has been imprisoned by Islam.
The custodians of these two power hungry religions in Saudi Arabia, Rome and elsewhere ,are known to be not only corrupt, but also ungodly
Can someone tell me why anyone would leave a congregation of over 50 million believers around the world (and growing fast) for religions that is probably responsible for most of our woes?
Go and YouTube and see waiting for the Ooni and alaafin to wake up to their spiritual responsibilities. I cannot wait yo see the back of his Ooni.
My preference would be for a dethronement.

Best comment from him

Most of us Yorubas are very unenterprising. We are like a piece of overstretched elastic which has lost its resilience. We are more easily scared by small things. Our endurance is apt to be for a short duration. We care more for the immediate than the remote, no matter how promising. Worst of all, we always prefer to follow a line of the least resistance. It is this aspect of our race which enables some of our big ones to destroy the hopes of future generations in the indulgence of the present.

I agree 100% but if we say it now, his people would whin and tell us story of how they are the "most sophisticated" "most educated" "ondo is most blah blah blah". The best fighters blah blah blah.
Good thing it is one of their own saying the God honest truth about them

theSpark: He said it all.


It's for them to heed.

Will they heed?..they are busy pokenosing and ma.stu.rbati.ng about what Okeke and Okafor are doing.
While their raffia houses burn...

Walahi Yoruba peeps are too flamboyant and easily comfortable.

My friend had a shop at Ogba, one Yoruba family saw that the guys business was moving well. They rented the empty shop beside the building, stock it with durable and non-durable, hired a security man that will be opening door for customers, built the place Walmartlike but people still ignore them to patronize that my friend.
The woman did not learn the trade, the husband was a government worker, the kids are in school, they just jumped into the business bc they saw someone was making it.
After one year the rent expired, they closed the shop, started using some of the goods and sold some auction.
One yorobaman in our church here spent 150K on his child's naming ceremony, 2months later we were asked to make some donations that a brother was having accomodation problem, guess who the clown was?

One Yoruba woman here was attacking her igbo friend with some kinda ethnic slur that they are stingy and miser. Saying imagine that their landlord(igboman) and his wife wash their cloths instead of calling a washer to do it. Yet the igboman landlord is a businessman, his wife works with an insurance coy but this Yoruba gossipper is a housewife while her husband works with Guiness.
Everything is by hired labour, she cant take the kids to school bc school bus will come and pick them because she is looking for who will give her "Lekki Wives",

Imagine people that were enriched and trained with stolen funds and who did not suffer any natural or human calamity likr genocide, war or holocaust are living in the worst slums in Nigeria from Lagos to Abeokuta to Ibadam to Oshogbo to Abuja to Onitsha to PHC

AkinEgba:

Hehehe! Na lie motor park agberoism is an enterprise



Like the fear of Igbo people



Like owambe party

oduastates: They were pagans and they worshipped what we call false gods, yet they were loyal and sincere to them and to themselves. Their prayers were acceptable to the true God who saw in them but a bundle of ignoramuses doing the right thing through the wrong way.
The writer is definitely not an omoluabi and not made of the same stuffs of budding revolutionaries.
He should tell us Which one is the true God and which one is the right way?
The god of bloodsucking jihadist or the god of blood-sucking crusaders?
Until these 2 religions are discarded, the suffering shall continue.
Imagine Ooni ,someone who is suppose to be the chief priest of odu ifa ,is a Prisoner of Christianity while the alaafin who is suppose to be the custodian has been imprisoned by Islam.
The custodians of these two power hungry religions in Saudi Arabia, Rome and elsewhere ,are known to be not only corrupt, but also ungodly
Can someone tell me why anyone would leave a congregation of over 50 million believers around the world (and growing fast) for religions that is probably responsible for most of our woes?
Go and YouTube and see waiting for the Ooni and alaafin to wake up to their spiritual responsibilities. I cannot wait yo see the back of his Ooni.
My preference would be for a dethronement.

I am Alagemo and i endorse this message.

oduastates: They were pagans and they worshipped what we call false gods, yet they were loyal and sincere to them and to themselves. Their prayers were acceptable to the true God who saw in them but a bundle of ignoramuses doing the right thing through the wrong way.

The writer is definitely not an omoluabi and not made of the same stuffs of budding revolutionaries.
He should tell us Which one is the true God and which one is the right way?
The god of bloodsucking jihadist or the god of blood-sucking crusaders?
Until these 2 religions are discarded, the suffering shall continue.
Imagine Ooni ,someone who is suppose to be the chief priest of odu ifa ,is a Prisoner of Christianity while the alaafin who is suppose to be the custodian has been imprisoned by Islam.
The custodians of these two power hungry religions in Saudi Arabia, Rome and elsewhere ,are known to be not only corrupt, but also ungodly
Can someone tell me why anyone would leave a congregation of over 50 million believers around the world (and growing fast) for religions that is probably responsible for most of our woes?
Go and YouTube and see waiting for the Ooni and alaafin to wake up to their spiritual responsibilities. I cannot wait yo see the back of his Ooni.
My preference would be for a dethronement.

What Ifa religion are you talking about? Your fetish religion and custom that allow Yoruba Obas and chiefs to cannibalize human meat during coronation ceremonies and oro festivities.. Abegi park well.

Even your islamic alfas are semi-traditionalists that pound human heads for charms. Dispute that..

For a long time, Ibos have lied several times and the young Ibos miseducated that all they got after the civil war was 20 pounds, each, in cash! The truth has been out there for a long time only that like Goebbels theory of propaganda, repeat a big lie all the time for a long time and people will believe it. So far, here is the summary of monies and benefits Ibos got after a war they are 100% responsible for and should have born the total cost of financing it on both sides:

1. All the allocations for the eastern states, saved for them since the beginning of the war to the end: millions of pounds

2. After the war 990,000 per month, the same that was given to other states

3. Take off / sustenance grant for the ACB (the ibo bank now gone belly up because they did not run it properly and profitably): 3.5 million pounds. Same for Bank of Eastern Nigeria. But Ibos and their elites siphoned this monies and bankrupted these entities.

4. 20 pounds extra for each ibo whether he had money before or not. Note, Ibos withdrew All their monies in Nigeria before they all moved to Biafra, liars would have you believe that if you are breaking away in a war to a new country, you go to that country empty handed while leaving your cash in an enemy country, when you know your odds of survival are close to 0. Ibos withdrew their money and all banks know that, banks that are business enterprises and their job is not to give you money because you lost yours in a wild gamble. 20 pounds of then is probably worth around N 2 M today in value.

5. This is besides the millions that Biafra soldiers looted from central bank of Nigeria in the east, millions of pounds which was transferred abroad to buy weapons. Some of those monies was rendered useless by Nigeria's master stroke tacticians but in effect Ibos took control of the money and it should be credited along with all they from the war. For more details in this read the brothers war by John St. de Joore

https://www.nairaland.com/1837325/event-break-war-how-middle/12#25174495

Details:
During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to the Iboland- South Eastern states they call it, at that time..east central state, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….was librated I handed over the money to them- millions. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the executive council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the executive council at that time the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the executive council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention - 990,000 almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course- South eastern state, North central state, Kwara and so on.

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as commissioner for finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the ministry of economic planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

Sloan: For a long time, Ibos have lied several times and the young Ibos miseducated that all they got after the civil war was 20 pounds, each, in cash! The truth has been out there for a long time only that like Goebbels theory of propaganda, repeat a big lie all the time for a long time and people will believe it. So far, here is the summary of monies and benefits Ibos got after a war they are 100% responsible for and should have born the total cost of financing it on both sides:

1. All the allocations for the eastern states, saved for them since the beginning of the war to the end: millions of pounds

2. After the war 990,000 per month, the same that was given to other states

3. Take off / sustenance grant for the ACB (the ibo bank now gone belly up because they did not run it properly and profitably): 3.5 million pounds. Same for Bank of Eastern Nigeria. But Ibos and their elites siphoned this monies and bankrupted these entities.

4. 20 pounds extra for each ibo whether he had money before or not. Note, Ibos withdrew All their monies in Nigeria before they all moved to Biafra, liars would have you believe that if you are breaking away in a war to a new country, you go to that country empty handed while leaving your cash in an enemy country, when you know your odds of survival are close to 0. Ibos withdrew their money and all banks know that, banks that are business enterprises and their job is not to give you money because you lost yours in a wild gamble. 20 pounds of then is probably worth around N 2 M today in value.

5. This is besides the millions that Biafra soldiers looted from central bank of Nigeria in the east, millions of pounds which was transferred abroad to buy weapons. Some of those monies was rendered useless by Nigeria's master stroke tacticians but in effect Ibos took control of the money and it should be credited along with all they from the war. For more details in this read the brothers war by John St. de Joore

https://www.nairaland.com/1837325/event-break-war-how-middle/12#25174495

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During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to the Iboland- South Eastern states they call it, at that time..east central state, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….was librated I handed over the money to them- millions. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the executive council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the executive council at that time the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the executive council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention - 990,000 almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course- South eastern state, North central state, Kwara and so on.

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as commissioner for finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the ministry of economic planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

Oga stop derailing this wonderful epistle. You can start a thread on this ur issue. Thanks

Mr sloan opening a different thread for your lamentations will be excellent.

Let's listen to Pa adio's voice of wisdom.

Thank you.

" A woman in
Yorubaland purported that she
loved her husband’s heir. Often
times she would roast pig, roast
fowl, roast turkey and snails and
give the heir. If the heir asked for
water, she usually gave wine. She
had the best appellations that any
woman could give any pet child for
this chap. Until fate exposed her
wickedness, nobody suspected her
of any sinister motive behind her
oriental generosity towards the
leading son of her husband. Her
objective was to cripple him
piecemeal. The roasted fowl and
turkey, and pork and snails, were
seasoned with deadly potion. The
selfish woman was bent on
clearing the eldest son out of the
line of succession, so as to make
her own son the heir to the
throne! How many a brilliant chap
had fallen victim to such devious
plans!!!"- Pa adio

Where is Dr. Osuji?
Is she dead?

Ibos dancing Kukere on this thread like coackroaches.

Una well done ooo!

dozzybaba: " A woman in
Yorubaland purported that she
loved her husband’s heir. Often
times she would roast pig, roast
fowl, roast turkey and snails and
give the heir. If the heir asked for
water, she usually gave wine. She
had the best appellations that any
woman could give any pet child for
this chap. Until fate exposed her
wickedness, nobody suspected her
of any sinister motive behind her
oriental generosity towards the
leading son of her husband. Her
objective was to cripple him
piecemeal. The roasted fowl and
turkey, and pork and snails, were
seasoned with deadly potion. The
selfish woman was bent on
clearing the eldest son out of the
line of succession, so as to make
her own son the heir to the
throne! How many a brilliant chap
had fallen victim to such devious
plans!!!"- Pa adio

Ibos do this as well.

@topic: Delusional old man, thou some truth in there.

tit: Where is Dr. Osuji?
Is she dead?

Probably somewhere still whining because his adopted father and people refuse to claim him as their son.

Oga mi you know Yorubas wela.

From that Ogba canal try and look inside the canal and see where Yorubas are living like illegal immigrants.
The look from that canal normally give me goosepimple, the same is at Fardock Estate where my inlaw is staying, Yorubas lined up the collaspsing canal with makeshift structures.
My inlaw told me that those people i saw living on the edge of those canals are the people that sold all the lands around.

I wonder what they do withh the money, your residing in canals, slums and shanties while the visitors are living in highbrow areas.

If they discovered your business is moving they will set up beside you without going through mentoring or apprenticeship, they will hire whitecollar and well dressed guards, install airconditioner, put glasses and marbles yet they will not see any customer.
They hate it when you price thier goods, they cant beg you to come and buy and when you actually bought they will start cursing you because they have no change and are not willing to go and look for one.

The business a yorobawoman opnened will be serviced with what the husband earns from his work, they doesnt know how to run business, they just want instant and immediate result, quick action is their watchword.

I visited my cousin at his shop in Mandillas last year, i was surprise to see yorobass floricking around, some have became fluent in Igbo.
I asked my cousin how they are faring, the guy started laffing and told me not to take them serious, he showed me one shop that 3 Yorubas have stayed there and ran away, he showed me some other shops owned by Yorubas that are under lock and key because they cant cope.

Just to sell and spoil the mkt my guy said a Yoruba trader will think he is doing well by gaining N50 when he sold a cloth of N1700 but dont reason that from there he will eat, pay teefare, pay shop rentage, house rent, hosuehold needs blah blah from N50.

Infact the guy told me how Yorubas are doing in Mandillas and LWKMD

The most hilarious thing is that they dnt learn the trade or serve anybody, once they think your making it they will jump in and rush out, tommorrow she will turn agboseller or agegebread hawker

OkijaAmaka: Walahi Yoruba peeps are too flamboyant and easily comfortable.

My friend had a shop at Ogba, one Yoruba family saw that the guys business was moving well. They rented the empty shop beside the building, stock it with durable and non-durable, hired a security man that will be opening door for customers, built the place Walmartlike but people still ignore them to patronize that my friend.
The woman did not learn the trade, the husband was a government worker, the kids are in school, they just jumped into the business bc they saw someone was making it.
After one year the rent expired, they closed the shop, started using some of the goods and sold some auction.
One yorobaman in our church here spent 150K on his child's naming ceremony, 2months later we were asked to make some donations that a brother was having accomodation problem, guess who the clown was?

One Yoruba woman here was attacking her igbo friend with some kinda ethnic slur that they are stingy and miser. Saying imagine that their landlord(igboman) and his wife wash their cloths instead of calling a washer to do it. Yet the igboman landlord is a businessman, his wife works with an insurance coy but this Yoruba gossipper is a housewife while her husband works with Guiness.
Everything is by hired labour, she cant take the kids to school bc school bus will come and pick them because she is looking for who will give her "Lekki Wives",

Imagine people that were enriched and trained with stolen funds and who did not suffer any natural or human calamity likr genocide, war or holocaust are living in the worst slums in Nigeria from Lagos to Abeokuta to Ibadam to Oshogbo to Abuja to Onitsha to PHC

dozzybaba:
Pa adio is a truthful and honest Yoruba man...

" They were pagans and they worshipped
what we call false gods, yet they were
loyal and sincere to them and to
themselves. Their prayers were acceptable
to the true God who saw in them but a
bundle of ignoramuses doing the right
thing through the wrong way."

anybody who makes this kinda statement is a bastard. Useless moronic fellow that man is

He should tell us that the same Europeans he is attacking in his speech aren't the ones that brought his idol and stupid religion
He called Yoruba ancestors ignoramus...his pastor is a mad man and an ignoramus

dozzybaba:


What Ifa religion are you talking about? Your fetish religion and custom that allow Yoruba Obas and chiefs to cannibalize human meat during coronation ceremonies and oro festivities.. Abegi park well.

Even your islamic alfas are semi-traditionalists that pound human heads for charms. Dispute that..

You are mad! Christians and ur Jesus are mad too

Its sad to announce that My Grandfather, Pa Adio Jacob Adebayo Mosanya passed away friday morning, 17th of march 2017. He was aged 88 years. May his soul rest in peace. You are our true icon Grandpa. We love you dearly!!