THE IGBOS OF AFRICA, THEIR WARS, THEIR WOES, THEIR TRIUMPHS.

"I have not come to praise Caesar but to bury him" ~~Mark Anthony In Julius Ceaser.

I am neither Mark Anthony nor a Roman citizen. I am a proud Son of the Igbo race. So, unlike Mark Anthony, I am here to praise the sheer Resilience, Resourcefulness, Ingenuity and the Never-Say-Die spirit of the Igbo man.

That the Igbos are the most resilient, the most resourceful and most ingenious black people on the surface of the earth is a fact which even Lucifer himself would not dare dispute. Records in public spaces support this assertion.
The Igbo man is one person who could be killed and buried and right there in the grave, he would either be looking for a way to play a fast one on Mr. Death and come back to life or he would be looking for business opportunities right there in the grave. Whatever happens, one thing is certain: he would never just resign himself to death and remain lifeless in the grave.
Such is the Indomitability of the Igbos.

And sadly, this uncommon Resilience, Resourcefulness and sheer Ingenuity have drawn the ire of their Nigerian neighbours and made them object of hate-induced envy, murder, state-inflicted genocide and economic and financial terrorism and litany of years of institutionalized marginalization spanning decades. But what seems to defy logic here is that the more the Igbos are hated and all manner of demonic policies invented to keep them perpetually down, the more they keep making mockery of the usual line "The Sky Is Your Limit", for with the Igbos, it would seem, the sky is nothing but the starting point rather than the limit.

There is one other fact about the Igbos; They don't do well in captivity. And it is for this reason that they would always employ all manner of resistance against tyranny and oppression. Suicidal resistance if need be but trust me, they would never live in servitude. No king no matter how powerful is above being questioned in Igbo land. Even their gods are known to have been "dis-goded" and stripped of their god status whenever they appeared to be getting too demanding. "Arusi wakaria anya, egosi ya osisi ejiri pia ya" is a favourite saying among the Igbos.
Such is how far the Igbos are willing to go to ensure that not even their own gods enslave them.

In Nigeria, the Igbos have been subjected to all manner of death (be it physical, emotional, financial and economic) on number-less occasion but like the mythical bird known as the Phoenix, they always rise from the dead and become even better than they were before their hate-induced death in the hand of the Nigerian state.

As far back as 1945 in the North central Nigerian city of Jos and 1953 in the city of Kano, long before independence, the Igbos were subjected to two major pogroms by their Northern neighbours. Hundreds of thousands of them were slaughtered. Millions more were displaced. Yet, they refused to remain dead.Not even the ethnic cleansing they suffered after the 1966 coup was able to keep them down. A coup was carried out by soldiers from Igbo, Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, Tiv and Esan ethnic groups but it was tagged an Igbo coup even when the same coup was foiled by two brave Igbo sons in Lagos and Kano. Characteristically, the blood of hundreds of thousands of Igbo soldiers and civilians was again used to appease the vampirism god of the Nigerian state.But like Klaus Mikaelson, the Igbos yet conquered mortality and survived the ethnic cleansing.
Even when the combined firepower of world powers such as Britain and Russian aided by Nigeria and Egypt were bombing them during the Biafran war from all corners while outgunned, outnumbered and blockaded from both land, sea and air, they not only resisted for a whole 30 months, they equally did the unimaginable within those period and under the harshest of conditions.Here, their ingenuity came to the fore as they were able to refine their oil from a variety of non fossil fuel, manufacture surface to air missile which they also adopted to surface to surface missiles and converted passenger planes to fighter jets and weaponized them. They would go on to construct the Uli Airstrip and repair it each time it was bombed by the enemy forces. And with nothing other than the sheer patriotism of their men and women and the desire to defend their right to life, they were able to hold off the aforementioned 4 countries even under constant bombardments from both land, air and sea and full blockade from all angle for a whole 30 months. They broke those technological barriers and achieved those near impossible feats as far back as almost 5 decades ago under the harshest condition known to man.Today, almost 50 years after, the Nigerian state is still romancing the idea of producing pencil by the year 2018.

After the Biafran war, all manner of economic, financial and administrative policies were invented to keep the Igbos perpetually on the ground:
First, their properties were seized and shared as spoils of war with the tag, "Abandoned properties". Then came the state-sponsored financial terrorism of seizing all their monies in the bank to ensure that those who survived the genocide during the war would die of penury. Regardless of how much millions and billions you had in the bank before the war, as long as you are Igbo, you'd be given just £20. So, when the rest of the country were getting interest-free loan to buy up national assets, the Nigerian state made sure the Igbos wouldn't have enough to even put food on their table and this is a people who are coming straight from a 30 month civil war with nothing but their battered and traumatized lives. Even their jobs were taken from them.So basically, the Nigerian state robbed the Igbos of their lives, their monies, their jobs and their properties. And left them with nothing. And what was their offence? They sought to save themselves from annihilation by declaring "Biafra" when it was beyond argument that the Gowon-led Lagos based govt was neither ready nor willing to protect them from hate-induced killing which started as far back as 1945 in Jos, fifteen years before we even gained independence and 20years before the first coup which mischief makers have tried to use to justify the senseless killings.

Today, decades after the war, the Nigerian state is still carrying out an open war against the Igbos with every instrumentality of the state. Even when members of two terror groups from other parts of the country are being released from detention and even protected with special army task force, Igbo sons and daughters who are neither armed nor violent are being killed and maimed and bathed with acid right inside a church by Nigerian soldiers just for daring to remember their fallen heros who gave their lives during the Biafran war. The demonic path that led to the war is the same path the Nigerian state is still treading today.

But remember, I said I was here to praise the Igbos. So, let's not dwell on the criminality of the Nigerian state.
Perhaps, one thing that appears to have defied explanation is how these same Igbos who have been subjected to all these demonic treatment have still managed to remain top in all spheres of national life. Quite frankly, I do not have a satisfactory answer to this. But certainly, the answer is in you as an Igbo man/woman. Despite not having had access to political powers for 50 years, their region remains far better developed than that of those who have ruled the country all through those period. And despite being dispossessed of their lives, their monies, their jobs and their properties, they are today the biggest owners of landed properties in the country, they are among the wealthiest with chains of businesses scattered all over the country and beyond. In sports, they hold the No1 position. Even in education, their children always come first. WAEC, NECO and JAMB results confirm this.

Now, ask yourself, how did the Igbos overcome the agonies of the Biafran war, the state-sponsored killings, institutionalized marginalization and other devilish policies of the Nigerian state designed to keep them permanently down, to become the very nucleus as well as the mitochondrion of the Cell called Nigeria which they are today??Surely, you can figure this out, can't you?When a man is in accord with his Chi, even the curses from his enemies turn to Blessings for him.

Being born an Igbo is the proudest feeling I could ever have. We Will Never Apologize For Being Igbo!! We shall never give a damn to hate comments or actions. EVIDENTLY THE CROWD YOU SEE IN THIS THREAD WAS RENTED.

NgeneUkwenu:
No problem, You are all forgiven.....Go and Sin No More...

However, We Are Going To Retain The Onikuje of Kuje Prison, in our Zoo Cage, Till He Obtains His APC Membership Card, and Thereafter Bows To President Buhari With Two Sticks Of Nigerian Flag......

Lol...

....back at kuje prison

wtfCode:
They're not igbos abeg.
Bribery and corruption done kill us all.

Noise making always,where was emma sorrowful when your brothers were staging a rally in support for pmb.
You guys have a very big problem,deal with it.

Caseless:
'Onikuje of kuje prison', i don laugh tire. See the time wey this guy de make me laugh.

bro this guy naa "I go die and basket mouth" in one.

NgeneUkwenu:


http://pulse.ng/local/buhari-we-are-sorry-our-elders-misled-us-ndigbo-tells-president-id6400244.html

Lol...they not igbos..pls pay them their promised 5k ooo

Okay go and sin no more flatinooooos

If buhari truly want to know if those hungry politically mobilized youths are real he should visit Aba or Onitsha let him testify for himself period.

Can we all now see who the real aboooki slaves are

O ma se o!

An average Igbo student that I know is apolitical, let alone pledging allegiance to a politician, of all things...a politician? if ah hear

NgeneUkwenu:


http://pulse.ng/local/buhari-we-are-sorry-our-elders-misled-us-ndigbo-tells-president-id6400244.html

good, igbo bu ike.

wtfCode:
They're not igbos abeg.
Bribery and corruption done kill us all.

U DON'T NEED TO SAY MUCH, COS D TRUE IGBOS NO DEMSELVES. N WE WILL NEVA BETRAY D IGBO IDEOLOGY, NO MATTER D CAMPAIGN OF D FG.

NgeneUkwenu:
No problem, You are all forgiven.....Go and Sin No More...

However, We Are Going To Retain The Onikuje of Kuje Prison, in our Zoo Cage, Till He Obtains His APC Membership Card, and Thereafter Bows To President Buhari With Two Sticks Of Nigerian Flag......

you sound like a very good administrator, hope you are doing good

Caseless:
bros, in war, all things count. It's a psychological war and we are using this to our advantage.

No advantage here. Just optimism

NgeneUkwenu:


http://pulse.ng/local/buhari-we-are-sorry-our-elders-misled-us-ndigbo-tells-president-id6400244.html

this is so nice.thank God u guys are able to think and reason logically at last.

chrysso83:

Cos u think u will claim property dat doesnt belong to u abi? U are on a loooòoooong thing. Afo anu!

asshole ... u have no idea what i mean pls keep ur dirty mouth shut!!!

NgeneUkwenu:
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Bla bla bla! Nye m efe biko!

correct.

Biafra Ko Biafra Ni.. Awon Jatijati

Staged miscreants

wtfCode:

You should be ashamed of yourself hiding under igbo moniker.
No matter how lowkey an Afonja plays his game, he'll still reveal his true identity.
Igbo matter go give u heart attack one day.

for yhu pple dat ah talking about igbo, yhu don't know anything yet but by de tym dat yhu will no something. Yhu will do even worst dan dhis idiot. N for all igbo pple n other christians tumps up more grees to ya elbow.

Igbos please don't sell your rights for anything. I'm a Deltan and fully in support of Biafra.

blaqoracle:
this is why i said igbos dont have the capacity withstand any conflict. less than two years of recession, they have submitted and surrendered.

Usu

Say no to drug and corruption.

Apc still learning they should do there home work very well. This is China made

NgeneUkwenu:


http://pulse.ng/local/buhari-we-are-sorry-our-elders-misled-us-ndigbo-tells-president-id6400244.html

APC PMB likes propaganda shall

wtfCode:
They're not igbos abeg.
Bribery and corruption done kill us all.

not all Igbos support ur misguided chant for Biafra.

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sweerychick:
What kind of stupid and idiotic thread is this? So a bunch of useless rented crowd that can sell their conscience just for money is now the mouth piece of Igbo people what an insult .. this mischievous OP that has nothing important to do other than looking for silly news items about igbos, IPOB and PMB should just find a useful hand work. Rather than bringing up stupid topics and being both first and second to comment all because of your useless obsession about igbos and IPOB..

And that's how my cousin came back that day wearing a Polo and cap captioned 'I stand with Buhari' in Awka and I asked him how it happened. He said they paid them 1k each for the work done. Such a shame

Caseless:
I said it. The true igbo sons and daughters are begining to show to speak up. These are our brothers indeed!

u are only deceiving ur self

Caseless:
it takes less than 1k to mobilize yoots from that side. All ipod pay to get them on the street is a bottle of beer that costs less than #200.
Protests and issuing of ultimatum from that region are made in aba, so they're cheap and don't last.

U sound like a misguided follow. lemme forgive ur ignorance

Caseless:
it takes less than 1k to mobilize yoots from that side. All ipod pay to get them on the street is a bottle of beer that costs less than #200.
Protests and issuing of ultimatum from that region are made in aba, so they're cheap and don't last.

ipob is shame

U made me smile 2dai...lol

NgeneUkwenu:
No problem, You are all forgiven.....Go and Sin No More...

However, We Are Going To Retain The Onikuje of Kuje Prison, in our Zoo Cage, Till He Obtains His APC Membership Card, and Thereafter Bows To President Buhari With Two Sticks Of Nigerian Flag......

Biafra has just been buried, RIP to Biafra.
Long live PMB
Long live Nigeria.