₦airaland Forum

StOla:
Agreed!

But his grouse is that some produce much oil while some like Imo produce so little, yet have equal authority in the commission.

He wants the big boys to be separated from the small boys, especially when they are already from different political regions.

He is basically saying let the big boys have their league, and let the small boys have theirs separately. He is not interested in a new name that would accommodate all.

SE always saying SE/SS.

SS only know SS.

I hope those who chose to live in their own delusion of an assumed SE/SS togetherness get rehabilitated soon.

Now, he accepts the fact that majority should have their way. But while in the Eastern region, they all antagonise the Igbos as a majority. The saying that everyone loves injustice as long as they are the ones doing it.

Ibrahimmufutau:
These people worship money and shaytan and they paraded themselves as children of god sorry, children and messangers of demons. See their lives, they called themselves the most richest tribe in Nigeria, and they duped and maltreat their own kinsmen because of 'ego'. Imagine what they would do to other tribes. Fear of Igbos is beginning of wisdom. The root of their wealthes is evil and rotten.

Mad man

treatise:
LIES. The storyline of the complainant tilts toward hypnosis whereas it is ostensibly deal gone bad or blackmail. Why would a 42-year old be so puerile in his submissions

Na your type for exonerate Ekweremandu if what he did had happened here.

seborrhic:
All what I see is greed and ignorance.
A man promised you $20m to donate just a kidney and you believed him hook,line and sinker.
The only offence the man committed I feel is not getting written consent,otherwise this is a case of a victim that was manipulated because he was greedy.

This kind statements na wet in dey demarcate sane countries from insanes countries. If Ikweremadu's case had happened here, nothing for touch am.
P.s. As far as dem fit establish sey the boss' brother is using that young man's kidney without due process, he has committed a crime.

LeoDeKing:
Na una sabi.

After all, Nwoko Eric is a billionaire, so I wonder how come he offered his kidney because of billions.

Mad man

MrEverest:
News has been making the rounds that Alaba and Trade Fair markets were shut in Lagos. They claimed it was because the markets are filthy, so they had to shut it down. This is a clear example of how to call a dog a bad name so you can hang it. I know Alaba and Trade Fair markets very well. These markets are never dirty like other markets in Lagos. However, the road that leads to these markets are so terrible that I often enter bike each time I'm in Lagos and want to go to Alaba. This road despite how important it is, is left to decay and the reason is obvious. They want to stiffle activities at the markets and make life difficult for both traders there and their customers.

The other time, they collected huge amounts of money from traders only to demolish their shops few days later. Another Igbo man built a massive plaza in Lagos. They gave him go ahead order and certified his land documents only to demolish it after it was completed. There are numerous examples of how they're committing serious attrocities against Igbos in Lagos, but I will stop here.

Like they say, actions speak louder than words. These people are fighting against Igbos in Lagos. It has been happening for quite some time now but it's gotten out of hand since the 2023 election. They're currently inciting Yorubas against Igbos in Lagos. They create half truths and garnish it with lies just to promote hate against Igbos.

Igbos shouldn't keep calm while their nefarious activities and hate mongering continue to gain traction. This is time for Igbos to stop any form of investments in Lagos and start divesting as much as they can. Nigeria once chased away Ghanaians because they were accused of constituting nuisance in Nigeria. Today, Ghana is ahead of Nigeria in virtually everything good!

It's time for Igbos to start being intentional. We have the largest number of Christians in Nigeria. Yet yoruba churches are everywhere, including our region. Every Igbo person should boycott yoruba churches now. Personally, I will rather attend Orthodox Church or any other pentecostal church that isn't owned by yorubas. I used to attend Winners chapel, but I have stopped. You need to see the massive drums they use in carting away money every Sunday. Yoruba churches in Igboland are extorting billions from Igbos on a monthly basis. Same applies to their churches outside Igboland but whose members are significantly Igbos.

Igbos should also get more intentional in using markets in the East as hub for goods distribution and services. In this age of internet and connectivity. Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi can easily replace Lagos. Even if it comes at added costs, then push it to the consumer/end user. The market unions are there for a reason and they can easily implement this, if they're determined. Lagos is now a hostile territory. With the increased hunger and frustration in the land, coupled with the incitements, it's only a matter of time before it snowballs into something deadly. They're currently promoting hateful agendas against Igbos in their WhatsApp and Facebook groups. We should never allow 1966 to happen again and take us unawares. We should be well prepared for any eventuality.

Thank you brother. I share in your sentiments. Igbos must think home and prepare for every possible scenario. I can't emphasize it enough, Igbos must think home. I am not even Igbo but an Ijaw, but I have seen the hate from all Nigerians, including my own ijaws against you guys. Like the Israelites, you live among enemies. And so, you must be fully prepared.

Princessstee:
So you mean once one person from an ethnic group believes in something, the rests are automatically in.

Ojukwe is land grabber and a thief, common sense should tell him that he needs to do referendum for those innocent people who are not speaking same language as him if at all he is a responsible man.

Did anybody conduct referendum before Nigeria was created? Ojukwu had discussions with several people drawn from several ethnic groups before Biafra was declared. An Ijaw man suggested the name Biafra.
You bloody scar faced yorubas are a treacherous lots.

Politics is all masonic scripts. They are everywhere. And there are no left nor right.

plaindealer:
Your own opinion, not fact, besides, CSU and US universities care less what you print on Paper, they are ceremonial perpers which means nothing, all they care about are the school transcripts which you cannot say are forged.

Even if he wrote what he sent to INCE on toilet paper without the school's knowledge, it means nothing as long as he duly graduated and the school as far as we know claimed he graduated with proof in a court of law.




This is your own fabricated opinion and self-imposed headache, you don't need any school authorization to reprint your own legally earned certificates with signatures, vendors print certificates every second of the day all over the place with signatures.

Or do you mean when schools like CSU send their students to vendors or outside sources for their replacement certificates, it means they are asking the students to go and forge their certificates?

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Because US universities including CSU allow their students to source their replacements from vendors or even Oluwole in Nigeria because it's a meaningless ceremonial paper, they don't care where you get it from.


Again, stop acting as if it's by force to sound ignorant and uneducated.

You cannot forge what you earned legitimately it's impossible and this is even common sense, but you people act as if God skips the parts of your brains with common sense.

One time, I wanted to travel with my home theatre to school from home, but I couldn't because I had misplaced it. And I was trying to avoid police wahala for road. I could have easily forged the receipt since I bought it instead of going back to the store where I got it from.
But if I had forged it and along the line I was flagged down by the police and I entered up arrested for alleged stolen property. Will the forged receipt help my case if the store testifies that the particular receipt wasn't from them?

AntiZikist:
Nigeria will survive and thrive .


Bad belle people.

ofcourse, you are thriving running the poverty capital of the world.

AntiZikist:
Ohu stop claiming Izon

Your past posts here exposes you for the Ohu that you are.

Stop impersonating .
By the way , I didn't read your crap beyond first sentence.

Ari sense fa, malu kpo ebi ni idengi nimi.

Roboto11:
You are the idiot.

Your candidates have always been failures and you can never, I repeat never foist your failures upon us the majority.

Keep winning elections but losing good governance. Keep making the country the poverty capital of the world. Dey play.

Roboto11:
Your preferred candidates were deemed worse.

The joy of democracy.

The joke is on you, guy. Democracy is dangerous when idiots make the government. Democracy doesn't create development if the leaders and citizens like you are bereft of ideas.
It is very obvious that your candidates have successfully run the country to the ground.

AntiZikist:
Ohu claiming Izon


The very first people to seek for seccesion from Nigeria were Ijaws .

Fool.

And where has that landed us? We had far more control on our oil resources, over thirty percent derivation. But today, what do you have? If you had sense, you would know that Adaka Boro put us in a greater mess and sold us to the Yorubas and north. You don't know what one Nigeria that Adaka Boro fought to uphold has done to you because you are an idiot.
Shouting ijaws first seek for secession means nothing. You are a fucking coward whose resources are being plundered, but your cowardic is only fixated on Igbo hate.

Roboto11:
My candidate would always win.

After successfully supporting dullard Buhari twice, and again this calamity called Tinubu, it is obvious that ari sense sei fa.

AntiZikist:
My final solution is that every Nigerian should be committed to seeing to Biafra restoration but not in the form envisaged by the Zionist IPOB.

I suggest that they be granted leave to have their ethno-religious Judaic state within their current Gowon drawn boundaries.

The events occurring in Palestine has shown that a significant segment from the SE have keyed nto the mass genocide of fellow humans over their racial and religious affiliations.

This is a clear indicator and reminder of their ambitions from 1966.

Fulani expansionism began and ended with the dissatrous Uthman Don Fodio wannabe Buhari presidency.

We can not afford to replace Fulani jihadism with Ibo Zionism for lest we in the Niger Delta end up in future as the new Gaza .

I implore every Nigerian to support Biafra within the contained limits because from social media expressions , I foresee something worse for Nigeria .

Stupid man. I am an Ijaw. There is nothing like Niger Delta. Speak for your tribe and stop deluding yourself with Niger Delta bullshit that small Adaka Boro deluded himself because of greed and youthful madness

spearman:
Many will say same about Ibos. More so for the reputational damage criminally inclined Ibos are inflicting on Africa.

Yorubas and the north have successfully run Nigeria to the ground and made it the poverty capital of the world. Sophisticated indeed! Tueh!!

Usmanovic95:
How does who I cast my vote for affect your well-being and your cost and standard living?

You are brazenly wishing doom on your country just to give validation for your action.

Continue!

Oya, wish your own na. Shey all the wishes you Yorubas and northerners are wishing never suppose make this country great? Shey na wishes una dey carry develop una country? Dey play.

TemplarLandry:
No Bible-believing Christian Will Be Against Israel.

Israelites are God's own people. God refers to them as “my people”, and by extension, all Christians are spiritually Israelis. You thought God was bluffing when He told Abraham to leave his occultic father's house in Southeastern Turkey (Haran) to a land He would show him? God also promised Abraham and his descendants the current location of Israel 'promised land'. Go read Joshua 1:3-8.

The Covenant goes from Abraham to Isaac, from Isaac to Jacob (Israel) who gave birth to 12 sons (the 12 tribes of Israel) and a daughter named Dinah...Jacob (Israel) had 13 children. This is how the Covenant has been flowing from generation to generation. Let's take note that Adonai only recognizes ISAAC and not Ishmael as Abraham's descendant>> Genesis 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

This whole terrrorism and perversion introduced by people of the other religion was as a result of Abraham and his wife's error. But I strongly believe they were ignorantly acting God's script. That error gave birth to Ishmael-the father of Arabs. Now this error is at war with everything God established. How would a sane person deliberately blow themself up, also killing others in the process? They would take the lives of people and yell “Arahu Hackbah”. These wicked humans are blood-sucking demons.

Genesis 16:12 (NIV) He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.
Up till today, the rebellious seeds of Ishmael are always in contention with the descendants of Isaac, claiming the Promised Land is their inheritance. They would be the first to aggress Israel and celebrate prematurely but when Israel retaliates, it's always lethal and they start playing victims, and their apologists follow up by staging bogus solidarity rallies around the world.

Is it not strange to you that Biblical Hebrews migrated in one group to Egypt and spent 400 years there in slavery and they never lost their heritage? Even after World War II, look how they quickly regrouped from all over the world after the formation of the State of Israel. Don't tell me that was ordinary. Best and richest jewelers-Jews, best scientists in the world-Jews, most rich people on earth-Jews. These people are gifted and blessed. The Covenant of God is eternally activated for them.

In 1945, for Harakiri-stubborn Japan to be contained, it took a Jew's idea. During World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter encouraging President Franklin Roosevelt to pursue the development of the atomic bomb, because he was worried that the Germans would invent one first. And boom Little Boy and Fat Man did the job. That's what made United States the world's superpower up till today. Nuclear weapons are now mere bargaining chips, also for deterrence; under the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D).

Any Iraeli Prime Minister who wants to sabotage God's plan for Israel will likely be given the 1995 Yitzhak Rabin treatment. He was the Israeli Prime Minister who ceded Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ to Palestinians in 1995, this unpatriotic move angered Israelis, he was unapologetically assassinated in broad day light by a 25 years old Israeli named Yigal Amir, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Amir. He's in prison doing life.

These Palestinians were the same uncircumcised Philistines who waged war against Israelites during Biblical days. Their champion was Goliath, God used David to end him. Scriptures can never be broken; the words of God can never fail. Does it not surprise you that even though Israel is surrounded by hostile Arab nations, none of them can subdue it? Check for yourself what God says in Joshua 1:5-6.

Every action has a reaction, at 6:30 a.m on Saturday, October 7, 2023, the terrorist group acronymed HAMAS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas launched Land-Air-Sea Warfare (LASW) against Israel. Now with retaliatory bombardments by Israel, they wish they hadn't attacked Israel. Right now, Israel is giving them overkill. On top of that, Israel has cut off fuel, power, food and water supply to them; total blockade.

Who are these uncircumcised Philistines? Jehovah specially prepared a portion of the earth flowing with milk and honey for His people, because the Ishmaelites' forefathers at some time in the past strayed into the Promised Land, these Palestinians are claiming ownership of the lands which God promised Abraham and his descendants. I put it to you authoritatively, the State of Israel is God's divine agenda, no force can stop Israel. The words of God can never be broken.

How can you be a lover of God and despise the people of Israel? Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Open your Holy Bible and read the whole Book of Joshua.

𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚,
𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒚,
𝑶𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓 9, 2023.

Foolish hypocrite

obrian888:
whoever wrote this piece should go and buy sense, sincerely you are boasting with G.O's in Yoruba land? that a better percentage of them are criminals, like the G.O's in Ibo land too? you are talking about industries in Yoruba land? are you in Nigeria at all? are YORUBAS the owners of the industries you mentioned? Dunlop and co, or you were just employees working for your daily bread, Yorubas have not produce anything and can never, because they are very lazy. to think that you are making more progress than the Ibos shows how myopic and unintelligent you are, Google is your friend, go and check most successful Nigerians all over the world, and you will be shocked with the outcome. for your information i am from Delta, and not Ibo in delta, i am original Warri indigene, i hate this war between the two tribes online, because these two tribes including your Fulani miscreants are the problem of Nigeria, especially the yorubas who fight this needless war online, some Igbos and Yorubas are busy doing great things together and fools like you are online with your 100mb making useless noise, you better get out of Naira land before i ask God to punish you, idiota.

Don't mind the oblongated headed idiot. Of all the things to brag about, na G.O, him dey use brag. Yoruba and the north have successfully plunged this country to the ground over the past 53yrs, and have made the country the poverty capital of the world. But na to dick measure with the igbos dem sabi instead of competing with China, Singapore, Dubai, e.t.c.

WealthyNigerian:
Even though Truth is too bitter, but the Truth is always the Truth and it is the fact that an Igbo Mod has been grossly abusing his NL Mod Exalted Position. I and others that have fallen Victim for posting what he thinks Exposed Igbo Deceitfulness join you to Demand that the Satanic Mod must not only be Demoted and DeModed, he must be completely Eliminated from Nairaland! Click to view all my Posts and you will see how he
also deleted all the Wonderful Pro-Yoruba Topics that I created just because People started commenting under that Igbos just hate Yorubas because despite their several Generations' frantic efforts, they have forever found it impossible to achieve the Greatnesses that Yorubas naturally Achieve Worldwide because Greatness is in Yoruba Blood! Azikwe wished he achieved what Awolowo Achieved! The Western World confirmed that till today, no other African Leader has been able to Achieve Industrial, Technological and Infrastructural Development for his People within the Shortest Time as the Great Obafemi Awolowo did. European News Papers of that Time were busy discussing the Extra-Ordinary African Man that was already bringing Advance Developments, which was not even yet in many European Countries then, unto his African People and Region. I have a picture that shows when all the Nigerian Leaders visited UK together, it's so pathetic that all the pictures showed Azikwe couldn't take his eyes off Awolowo while Awo, Tafawa Balewa and others were focused on the Queen and UK Prime Minister that were addressing them. The destruction and relegation of Oluwa Glass Industry, Oduwa Textile Industry, Dunlup Tyer Factory and many other Yoruba Industries was carefully planned by Azikwe and he pushed the Northern cabals that he went into bed with because of his Hatred for Yorubas Greatness, to use Federal Manipulations to achieve the destructions. The forced Stagnation of Yoruba Land and mental manipulations experienced since then was their orchestration but Our GOD ALMIGHTY with us pass the enemies of we Yorubas!

Same reason why Chinu Achebe died harbouring bitter Hatred against Yorubas because the internationally Celebrated Great Wole Shoyinka Won the Nobel Laurette that chinu used all his entire life to chase. Almost 37 Years ago, their G.O.s started Churches just as Yorubas G.O.s started Churches to the Glory of ALMIGHTY that Specially Created Yorubas for HIS Own Glory. Non of theirs ever grew international like the Ones Yoruba started, All the 5 Greatest International Churches from Africa that now has Hundreds of Millions of Members in America, all over Europe Asia, and all over the World are the ones owned by Yorubas, etc. I read when some Igbo Celebrities with cancerous Hatred for unmatchable Yoruba Greatness started abusing Igbos for attending the Yoruba G.O.s Churches. Even this NairalLand that is African's Greatest Forum is being Owned by Yoruba Oluwa Seun Oshewa, yet we have noticed how the Igbo Mod has been frantically trying to use his tiny Authority given to him on NL against Yoruba People, that is after all their several pirated Copied Forums they Created and tried to pull Members from Nairaland failed woefully, they also wickedly Hacked Nairaland with FG IT Tools during Jonathan Era out of sheer Cancerous Envy for NL unmatchable Success as Africans' very best with Members from all over Africa and the World! Many of us remember the Terrible Experience, if not for GOD that helped Oluwaseun to have a Backup which he later relaunched.

Sincerely, I really pity them too, look at how glotting salivating Obi so oobitterly gunned for Presidency only for Tinubu to so Masterfully Snatch it from his eyes, Anthony Joshua and Isreal Adesanya sits on the Worldwide Throne as Strongest Men in the whole World, all these and more are what Igbos wish they achieve but can not. So the self-appointed Yoruba enemies are being eaten up from within by bitter Cancerous Envy for Yorubas!!! Yorubas are the True African Lights that makes all Africans and Black Americans Proud Worldwide Proud of being Africans!

It is on record that Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world, a situation that you yorubas helped make. There is nothing sophisticated about you guys when in over 53 years of post civil war that you and the north have perpetually ruled, the country has always been backward. Stop dick measuring with the igbos. Dick measure yourselves with Dubai, Singapore, US, e.t.c.

Righteousness2:
When they say Peace and Safety, sudden Destruction cometh..

They don't know or understand what is at play. South Africa is likely one of the ten horns that will briefly rule with the Antichrist.

ijustdey:
https://punchng.com/cash-transfer-fg-disqualifies-nigerians-without-nin-bvn-cbn-begins-payment/?amp

These are the systems being put in place for the mark of the Antichrist beast. They will delibrately impoverish the people and then serve them little bread with the condition that you receive the mark of the beast. All of these digital identification, government wellfarism, are mechanisms to achieve their aim of global authoritarianism.
Only those who have eyes will see what the entire world is heading to.

Kewtt:
neckpressing

Hunger pressing now v

Roboto11:
You lost in 2019 and 2023.

But you succeeded in making it the poverty capital of the world. You are a joke.

APCNig:
Not in this country

Yoruba and their northerner brothers don run this country to the ground–and made it the poverty capital of the world. Na only power una sabi grab, nothing dey the head.

Guyman01:
Nigeria is now in a situation where under Buhari northerners controlled and ran down the economy, now Yorubas are doing the same, I don't know if this is what Yorubas meant by advising Igbos to build political bridges by embracing nepotism

FFK has told us about their devilish secret plan. The North and South west are now in a union to control the rest of the country. When it gets to the north, it's their turn to be nepotic and plunder the resources of the country, and when it gets to the south west, it would be their turn to be nepotic and plunder our common patrimony. That is their new bond.

Napata77:
CAN YOU SEE THEM?

KAI!

OH LAWD......

HOW ARE THEY YOUR BROTHERS?

YOU DON'T SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE AS THEM.

TOTALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGE!

SO HOW ARE THEY YOUR BROTHERS?

OLE BURUKU

WELL SHA...... I TRUST THE SOUTH-SOUTH PEOPLE TO SEE THROUGH YOUR DECEIT AND PERFIDY!

Igbo are our brothers because they are the only ones who got our back. Without them, you would have enslaved us both economically, politically and religious wise.

anonymous1759:
Ondo has oil and 13% is given to them in case of Biafra none will be given to S/S they’ll just draw one Nonsensical Map And carve out the oil fields and kill the people if they dare speak up.

You guys are already drawing imaginary Maps upanddan how can you carve a state bigger than your entire 5 region and claim you own it .🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽🐽 we know your gimmicks that’s why you get aggressive when you get busted.

The south south oil producing communities received far better oil derivation payments during the eastern region government. Your lies are clear in our eyes. We would have been far developed if we had gone with the Igbos or got our separate country. You demonic Yorubas and northerners brought us into this misery of living in the poverty capital of the world. You have run the country to the ground.

Napata77:
In a ‘Biafra’ The South South Will Be the Palestinians

The Igbos will oppress you and crush you to seize those oil fields and render you 5th class citizens of 'Biafra'.

The same way they are supporting the brutalisation of the Palestinians by their ‘zionist brothers’ in Israel is the same way they will brutalise and oppress you.

When you resist, they will do what Israel did last week. They will DELIBERATELY allow your militants to enter Igboland and kill people, and then they will use that as justification to bomb the crap out of you, bomb your hospitals and mass murder your civilians.

Their real ambition is the SAME as the Israelis, which is to perform ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

They will provide ‘evidence’ that you are sitting on their land. And they will push you further and further into a tiny confinement, just like Gaza, and following your resistance (ie your ‘’terrorism’'), they will fence you in with barbed wire high-tech fencing surrounded by Igbo troops, just like it happens in Gaza.

DO NOT EVER agree to join them to form a nation, even though right now they call you their ‘’brothers’’ because of your oil and gas, which is ALL they really want in their ‘Biafra’ agitation.

You see how heartless they are in supporting Israeli war crimes?

Israel bombed a hospital yesterday, slaughtering 800 innocent people including children, babies, nurses, doctors, the elderly, women, all innocent.

These Igbos APPLAUDED the massacre of innocents.

THEY ARE OF THE SAME SPIRIT AS THE ISRAELIS.

If you are not Igbo, you are nothing to them.

See how they behave as a minority with 18% of Nigeria's population.

You can imagine what they would be like as a majority in a 'Biafra'.

They will FINISH you.

Do not EVER join them to form a nation.

You will live to regret it.

Yoruba lying demon.
As a southerner myself, I curse you Yoruba demons for your deception and treachery. South South would have been like Dubai if we had ended up as a separate country or as part of Biafra. We had far better oil derivation formula when we were in the Eastern region as compared to what we receive now. We would have been even in a far better bargaining position with the Igbos as a people because they are more humane than you treacherous lying beings. But your lying demonic Lagos and Ibandan news media deceived our people into a union that is nothing but a hopeless dying, poverty infested federation.
I know that you guys hate and jealous us and wish you had what we have. Something you would have not shared with anyone else if you had it.
I am really angry that my people are yet to know their true enemies, which are the Yorubas. They sabotaged our development. With what we have, we could have fared really well if we were not deceived by you demons to hate the Igbos. God knows that we would have been far ahead in life if not for your wickedness in connivance with the north.
We would have been living far better lives with our abundant resources, and not this fearmongering nonsense you fed our people with against the Igbos.
We have the Sea, the oil and gas, the land for farming and industry, every good blessings to be progressive. But your wickedness sabotaged our growth.
Don't think that some of us do not know you for what you are, a treacherous and evil people. A time will come when enough persons will truly awake to your wicked schemes against us in this evil unproductive union.