In his secession movement, late Isaac Adaka Boro declared a NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC for his Ijaw ethnic group that inhabits the southern tips of the Niger Delta region. From all indication, Isaac Adaka Boro perceived the Igbos and the Nigeriann society as persecuting his Ijaw peoples. In his definition of Igbos, the Ikweres of River state are included. Of course, that is natural. Ikwere tribe is one of the numerous tribes that constitute what is ethnologicaly defined as Igbo or Igboid.

The movement of Adaka Boro before his life was cuit short by the Nigerian forces in that war, was a true African renaissance movement. An Ijoid nation as envisioned by Boro is bound to protect the language of the Ijaw nation unlike the Ojukwu Biafra that is multi-ethnic, Adaka Boro’s Niger Delta was a homogeneous Ijaw nation. The people falsely including themselves into this Niger Delta today are many and that includes some Igbo tribes in today’s Rivers State mostly lead by some Ikwere youths fighting so hard b ut vainly to convince the rest of ‘Rivers’state that they are no longer the Igbo they are but ‘Rivers men and women. This is not entirely bad as every people have the right to say what and who they want to be. But at same time, it will be foolish for anyone to call Michael Jackson white when EVERY EVIDENCE indicates he is a negro.

The Niger Delta republic by Adaka Boro is much unaware of places called Cross River, Akwaibom, Edo and Urhobolands. Adaka Boro was definitive about his Niger Delta. If I was superstitious, I would have seen suprize and anger registerd on the face of his ghost seeing the way Igbos and Edo people are claiming and even trying to hijack the noble Ijaw nation he birthed. Tellingly, Isaac Adaka Boro have evry reason to avoid the Ikwere people in his Niger Delta. Whichever way one decides to look at it, whether they rename themselves Iwhuruohna or anything avilable to de-Igbonize themselves, one continues to see the Igbo in their language, cultures and traditional settings. Moreover, as Mr Irondi will inform us below, the Ikwere people openly and proudly identified themselves to be Igbo when it pays to be Igbo. Their Chiefs proudly attach Igbo to their names and everything they do.

The following link leads to Privy Council decision on Port Harcourt and the representatives of Ikwerre, Diobu or Port Harcourt and other Division with then Owerri Province.

niversity of California Press

Berkeley and Los Angelis California

University of California Press Ltd

London, England

Copyright @ 1974 by the Regents of University of California

ISBN: 0-520-02451-6

Library of Congress Card Number : 73-76115

Printed in United States of America

The following are from the above references. They clearly indicate that Ikwerre Chiefs, Ezes, Legislatures and Municipal councilors from time immemorial claim Igbo as their tribe. These Ikwerre Legislators, Parliamentarians and Municipal Councilors maintained that they are Igbo as the records indicate. I challenge Mr. Emeka Okala and Dr. M, D. Amadi to produce records with similar information in support of their claims.

In 1922/23 Port Harcourt in Ikwerre land became the Capital of Owerri province — Page 269

Appendix 2 Page 246

Port-Harcourt Parliamentarians from 1945 – 1966

Appendix 3 Page 247

Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1955 —- 1958

[b]D.D.”Diobu” Nsiegbe Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division

J.W. Ogbondah Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division

Appendix 4 Pages 248—250

Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1958 — 1961

E Aguma: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division

M.W. Dickson: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division

G.P.A. Nwagwu: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division

J. A. Otuonye: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division

R. O. Owuru Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division

Appendix 5 Pages 251 – 253

Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1961 – 1964

S.W. Atako: Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division

R. Chikere Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division

E. Chukwu Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division

Chief Joseph Wobo Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division[/b]



Additional information can be extracted from the sources indicated above. The people have maintained that they are Igbo even when they were in Ricers Province.

As regards the name Ikwerre emanating from the people in a chorus “Ekwelam” we have agreed when Sir F.D. Laggard, the then Governor of Southern Nigeria asked the people a question, if they have agreed for their land to be used for the sea port and railway terminal through an Igbo interpreter is ludicrous and the greatest fabrication of the century. There was no Igbo interpreter or other Ikwerres from Isiokpo, Igruta, Elele or any other Ikwerre towns or villages that was associated with the negotiations for acquiring land for development of Port Harcourt that resulted in HAGROVE AGREEMENT of 1912, but Diobu people who are the owners of the land. The records indicated that Chief Daniel Kalio, the head of Okirika chiefs and and his assistant chief Samson Adoki were the interpreters. Chief Kalio was the chief negotiator for the colonist. He was paid three thousand for his services. The lands acquired for the terminal and seaport were Diobu farm lands of Iguocha and Obomotu. Iguocha and Obomotu are Ikwerre Ibo names.. The negotiations took place at chief Wobo and chief Atako compounds respectively.

In Sir Lugar’s dispatch No. 103, paragraph 10 to the secretary of state for the colonies he said, Inter alia:

“I have already taken steps to acquire the land before fictitious claims and artificial inflations should have increased the difficulty of acquisition. The occupiers belong to a single village named Diobu ——“

It did not mention Ikwerre but Diobu, even though Diobu is in Ikwerre a southern Igbo ethnic group. An Ikwerre man from Isiokpo, Iguruta, Choba etc, has nothing to do with land in Diobu. Land tenure in Igbo land including Ikwerre is based on family, linage, and village.

In another dispatch to the Secretary of State for the colonies dated August 1913, Lord Lugard stated that Iguocha and Obomotu are the lands on which the seaport and the terminal shall be built. He added that Iguocha and Obomotu are Ikwerre Ibo Names.

The Willinkson Commission of 1958

As it relates to Port Harcourt and ethic make up of Rivers Province, the Commission Stated in Chapter 5 of its report as follows:

“The Rivers Province was a recent formation and was designed to meet local standing complains of the people ———. It includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema both overwhelming Ijaw and Ogoni Division inhabited, almost entirely by a tribe of the same name. The former Rivers province also including 300, 000 Ibos of which 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 Port Harcourt towns. Port Harcourt town is a town of recent growth and rapidly increasing importance. It is built on land originally belonging to outlaying branch of the Ibo tribe.”

Dr M.D. Amadi’s article sent on June 12, 2013, to Mr. Emeka Okala the Clearing House for None =Ikwerre Igbo for publication touched on several issues that do not relate to the subject matter in question. However, efforts shall be geared to addressing relevant topics of Ikwerrre being an integral part of Igbo land with very few exceptions. I shall also attach my earlier comments on this matter with the hope that the question thereto shall be addressed.

It is untrue that the hinterland Igbo calls Ikwerre people Di – ali and the Ikwerres call the Igbo Isuama. Di-ali is a southern Igbo word. It has several synonymous with Di-ala, and nwadiala. They all mean indigenous, free born, not a stranger, etc. An Ikwerre is di-ali in Ikwerre land; an Ngwa, Umuahia, and owerri are di- ala in their place or ethnic group respectively.

Isuoma means stranger, none indigenous. It is derogatorily used on migrant or seasonal laborers by Owerri, Ikwerre, Etche and Ngwa people. The Ngwa and Asa people interchange that word with Nwa-Ohuhu. “Mbara” is how Ikwerre people end their music. I have not heard Ikwerre people called that name. People may make fun of it. The use of those words whether derogatory or not abound. How about Nwanmoghi, for Ibibio, Anang, and Effik, Nyamiri, koboko and okoro for the Igbo. These are mere display of ethnocentrism. Their use is very insignificant to be linked to Ikwerre not being Igbo. You guys need to be well travelled in Nigeria and other parts of Igbo land in particular.

Your charge of Biafra not defending Port Harcourt is very disappointing and makes your reader wonder if you have ever read any material on wars let alone Nigeria-Biafra war. Did Enugu, Onitsha, Aba, Ikot-ekpene not over run by the federal troops. This is my first time of hearing that a country at war will purposely refuse to defend any part of her territory and in the case of Biafra, to not defend a city as viable as Port Harcourt. The first planned industrial layout in West Africa planned by the former Eastern Region government under the premiership Dr. M.I. Okpara.

I agree with Dr. M.D. Amadi that certain topic injected into this discussion has no relevance here. Post civil war abandoned property issue is one of them. The Ikwerres had no hand in the abandoned property scan of depriving people the sweet of their labour. Diobu people are by no standard backward. As early as 1927 Chief Wobo had dragged the Attorney General of Nigeria to court over the ownership of some parts of Port Harcourt. The case climbed the judicial ladder to the Privy Council. Diobu chiefs wouldn’t have remained passive while the hinterland Igbos who helped developed the city built houses without the permission of the owners of the land.

It should be noted that in the Southern areas it was considered abomination to sell land. In southern Igbo townships of Port Harcourt, Aba, and Owerri, there were two types of tenants; the customary and conventional tenants. The customary tenants were the first to acquire their property from the indigenous people after satisfying the traditional requirements prescribed by the local land tenure system. There were no deeds to be conveyed and no western survey system but the natives showing the tenant the boundaries of the land given to him or her. No documented evidence of the allocation of the property.

The second badge involved conveyance of deeds and are the conventional tenant who actually bought theirs when things had change. The government had acquired and surveyed the township. The custom of not selling land had been relaxed. This group surveyed and obtained the necessary documentation associated with real estate recordation and conveyance of deed. These two classes of tenants are still obtainable at Ogbor Hill, Ngwa Road and Over Rail/Ama Ogbonna areas of Aba Ngwa, and Owerri.

“The Rivers Province was a recent formation and was designed to meet local standing complains of the people ———. It includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema both overwhelming Ijaw and Ogoni Division inhabited, almost entirely by a tribe of the same name. The former Rivers province also including 300, 000 Ibos of which 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 Port Harcourt towns. Port Harcourt town is a town of recent growth and rapidly increasing importance. It is built on land originally belonging to outlaying branch of the Ibo tribe.”

In Port Harcourt the abandoned property was a carefully planned and executed scheme by the Ijaw group who had wanted to get a foothold or a piece of Port Harcourt. They carefully targeted the customary tenants. Some of the Ijews themselves occupying the waterfronts are customary tenants of Diobu also. At the cessation of hostilities in 1970, they refused to vacate the building they occupied when the owners ran out of Port Harcourt for safety. They successfully got the government of the day to support them and demanded that the returnees present documents of purchase of their property to reclaim them. The customary tenants had no documents in the first place. Their host communities, landlords and neighbors know them, but, none of these were part of the requirements when they obtained their property from their landlords. The conventional tenants who had their documents reclaimed theirs. The question is where these property owners not paying taxes on their property? Why didn’t the Government on their end, use their tax records to determine who owns which property? The Ikwerres had no hand in Abandoned Property saga rather they distinguished themselves in handling the situation and used diplomacy to avert massacre, the Asaba style.

Vincent Erondu


http://www.aekwe.com/2017/06/why-adaka-boro-did-not-include-ikweres-in-his-niger-delta-republic-by-chinwendu-carlos-vincent-erondu/

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DocHMD, I sight you..... If only Igboid speaking group will come together as one, then the evil machinery employed against since the end of the civil war will fail. They have divided us and weaken us. IPOB should seek for reunification of all Igboid group asp.

Why have nairaland banned me from football section? Is it because I broke the likes record? Is totally unfair. You guys have to do something about it

mekuzi09:
DocHMD, I sight you..... If only Igboid speaking group will come together as one, then the evil machinery employed against since the end of the civil war will fail. They have divided us and weaken us. IPOB should seek for reunification of all Igboid group asp.

The Igbo/Igboid nation from Igbanke to Anioma to Enugu to Obigbo have never been more united since after the civil.

Anti-Igbo propaganda is been torn to shreds daily while the children of lucifer continue to fight for it subsistence albeit unsuccesfully.

A bit lengthy but I read it all, why do people identify with a particular place? Why don't they trace their origin back? Why can a man from Bayelsa insist he is Bayelsan even tho Bayelsa used to be part of Rivers State? Why do African Americans identify as Americans when most of them can actually trace their roots back to a specific country in Africa?

The entire human population are immigrants, when sailors found the new colony called America, native Americans where there, but today they are all Americans. The Kalabari people of Rivers State immigrated from Calabar. The urhobo people were said to have immigrated from Sudan, why don't they relocate to their roots?

Why are u so interested in the people of Ikwerre finding their roots when they have openly identified with a different region? Why are u trying to coarse and arm tie them?

martyns303:
A bit lengthy but I read it all, why do people identify with a particular place? Why don't they trace their origin back? Why can a man from Bayelsa insist he is Bayelsan even tho Bayelsa used to be part of Rivers State? Why do African Americans identify as Americans when most of them can actually trace their roots back to a specific country in Africa?

The entire human population are immigrants, when sailors found the new colony called America, native Americans where there, but today they are all Americans. The Kalabari people of Rivers State immigrated from Calabar. The urhobo people were said to have immigrated from Sudan, why don't they relocate to their roots?

Why are u so interested in the people of Ikwerre finding their roots when they have openly identified with a different region? Why are u trying to coarse and arm tie them?

No, we are not. We only feel concern when they try to turn history upside down to suit their narrative.

mekuzi09:

No, we are not. We only feel concern when they try to turn history upside down to suit their narrative.

They are free to twist their history, let's face ours

Nice write-up, but I can categorically state that Ikwerre is a distinct entity from IGBO. Yes, we have similarities but our differences have set us apart. Biafran Unity Beggars aka BUGs should leave us alone. We don't want to associate, we like the way we are as Ikwerre. It doesn't matter if the world thinks otherwise.

We already know we own all of PH, I repeat, all of PH. Tonyebarcanista (still crying from Real Madrid's win of Champions league) and his Okrika gang would learn the hard way in due course. No need for Okrikans to front fake documents when we can all go to the UK and retrieve whatever from their National archives.

HopeAtHand:
Nice write-up, but I can categorically state that Ikwerre is a distinct entity from IGBO. Yes, we have similarities but our differences have set us apart. Biafran Unity Beggars aka BUGs should leave us alone. We don't want to associate, we like the way we are as Ikwerre. It doesn't matter if the world thinks otherwise.

We already know we own all of PH, I repeat, all of PH. Tonyebarcanista (still crying from Real Madrid's win of Champions league) and his Okrika gang would learn the hard way in due course. No need for Okrikans to front fake documents when we can all go to the UK and retrieve whatever from their National archives.

But that was not the status quo before the war. BUGs, lol, so you no wan join your nwene to a new nation flowing with milk and honey Don't forget, one man one vote.

HopeAtHand:
Nice write-up, but I can categorically state that Ikwerre is a distinct entity from IGBO. Yes, we have similarities but our differences have set us apart. Biafran Unity Beggars aka BUGs should leave us alone. We don't want to associate, we like the way we are as Ikwerre. It doesn't matter if the world thinks otherwise.

What makes you Ikwerre think you are so distinct from the Igbos?

Most Igbos from Imo and Abia can understand your dialect clearly.

What makes you more distinct than the Aro Igbo who still consider themselves Igbo, even though we are a hybrid of Igbo, Ibibio and Ekoi

The Ezza don't claim to be distinct even though most Igbo clans cannot understand them.

The problem or nightmare you fools have is Port Harcourt/Rivers State.

No matter all the history articles you fools dig up and change the facts jus to give yourself orgasm, the state is not for grabs.

Biafra died with Ojukwu the coward who ran away and never looked back.

I repeat, he was a coward.

RobbStark:
The problem or nightmare you fools have is Port Harcourt/Rivers State.

No matter all the history articles you fools dig up and change the facts jus to give yourself orgasm, the state is not for grabs.

Biafra died with Ojukwu the coward who ran away and never looked back.

I repeat, he was a coward.

We have problem with Ugly Afonja dat have no use in life apart from attach himself to Igbos like a parasite by force.

EzeUche:


What makes you Ikwerre think you are so distinct from the Igbos?

Most Igbos from Imo and Abia can understand your dialect clearly.

What makes you more distinct than the Aro Igbo who still consider themselves Igbo, even though we are a hybrid of Igbo, Ibibio and Ekoi

The Ezza don't claim to be distinct even though most Igbo clans cannot understand them.

The generality of Ikwerre do not speak one clear language. There is multiciplity of clan dialects that sometimes require steady attention for other Ikwerres, in order to achieve full comprehension. So because you marginally understand Diobu doesn't mean u understand Rumuekpe or Ndele or Ibaa or Rumuji or Egbeda or Emohua or Ogbakss . I know Ikwerre LGA clans languages are easier for Igbos especially the communities closer to the boundary. Ikwerre becomes almost unintelligible for Igbos that want to grasp the different Emohua clans languages.

The truth remains that we Ikwerres do not consider ourselves Igbos because of our ancestral origins, which states clearly where we come from. That alone has relegated whatever similarities we have with Igbos as we consider those similarities as borrowed and therefore fake. And therefore null and void.

We didn't go to lenghts to ensure Nigeria and her Constitution recognised us as a distinct entity from Igbos simply because we want to catch fun, we did that out of conviction that we aren't the same people. We see no common destiny. And we are absolutely satisfied with our identity and are assured we can achieved greatness and relevance without any attachment. We have accepted that and we shall preserve same, regardless of whatever.

Igbos recognising the need to move forward and stop wishing on what was in former Eastern Region is certainly way to go. We have treated and over treated this topic on NL and elsewhere. We should rest it for good as nothing good will come out of it.

Let me call my witnesses. CC: Afam4Eva, Abagworo( he is keeping malice with me), Pazienza.

They will come for you.
Just wait....

HopeAtHand:


The generality of Ikwerre do not speak one clear language. There is multiciplity of clan dialects that sometimes require steady attention for other Ikwerres in order to achieve full comprehension. So because you marginally understand Diobu doesn't mean u understand Rumuekpe or Ndele or Ibaa or Rumuji or Egbeda or Emohua or Ogbakss . I know Ikwerre LGA clans languages are easier for Igbos especially the communities closer to the boundary. Ikwerre becomes almost unintelligible for Igbos that want to grasp the diff. Emohua clans languages.

The truth remains that we Ikwerres do not consider ourselves Igbos because of our ancestral origins, which states clearly where we come from. That alone has relegated whatever similarities we have with Igbos as we consider those similarities as borrowed and therefore fake. And therefore null and void.

We didn't go to lenghts to ensure Nigeria and her Constitution recognised us as a distinct entity from Igbos simply because we want to catch fun, we did that out of conviction that we aren't the same people. We see no common destiny. And we are absolutely satisfied with our identity and are assured we can achieved greatness and relevance without any attachment. We have accepted that and we shall preserve same, regardless of whatever.

Igbos recognising the need to move forward and stop wishing on what was in former Eastern Region is certainly way to go. We have treated and over treated this topic on NL and elsewhere. We should rest it for good as nothing good will come out of it.

Base on your postulation, its clear that Ikwerre cannot be from the same stock. Obio and Aparra can trace their origin to Igboland. So is Isiokpo and most part of Igwuruta/ Omogwa, Alo, etc. who trace their origin to Okpo Nwagidi. Alo, that is very close to Choba, speaks more like Igbos...Bros, a small fraction of Emohua may trace their origin to Ahaouda/Ekpeye who we can rightly say migrated from Benin. The rest na story story story.

mekuzi09:

But that was not the status quo before the war. BUGs, lol, so you no wan join your nwene to a new nation flowing with milk and honey Don't forget, one man one vote.

We don't want your milk and honey. Thank you.

mekuzi09:

Base on your postulation, its clear that Ikwerre cannot be from the same stock. Obio and Aparra can trace their origin to Igboland. So is Isiokpo and most part of Igwuruta/ Omogwa, Alo, etc. who trace their origin to Okpo Nwagidi. Alo, that is very close to Choba, speaks more like Igbos...Bros, a small fraction of Emohua may trace their origin to Ahaouda/Ekpeye who we can rightly say migrated from Benin. The rest na story story story.

Surely Ikwerre does not have a common history, but to avoid ambiguity, the standard version is the version of Iwnrohna and his Akalaka brothers. Mehn, you guys should hear Ibaa, Rumuekpe, Obelle, Ndele, Egbeda, Emohua and other clans in Emohua LGA speak and you will wonder what people are speaking. Those languages are the Ikwerremans Ikwerre language. Conc, unadulterated Ikwerre. Not the Igbonised thing they speak in Ikwerre LGA. No wonder Uche Okwukwu is confused. His community is so close to Igboland, he seems trapped in a loop.

Personally, I think this Ikwerre issue had been overflogged.

Ikwerre are dispensable, why exactly some Igbos continue to make them more relevant they are is still what I'm wondering about.

We let them be, cos this business of Unity begging to me is embarrassing, I don't know how Arewa-Oduanistanis do that continuously, damn.

Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Austria, etc are all German speaking people, yet they are not part of Germany, yet their absence had not stopped Germans from becoming the largest Economy in Europe.

Ndiigbo in SE, Enu ani, Egbema, Oyigbo, Isobo, and Umuezekoha clan in Benue has all it takes to be the Germany of West Africa, while the likes of Ikwerre, Ogba, Ekpeye, etc can be our Luxembourg.

I'm done dissipating otherwise useful effort on this Ikwerre issue. Leave the Ikwerres to sort themselves out with their new found Ijaw brothers in Rivers state. Ndiigbo have bigger fish to fry.


#Operation Noah's Ark.

pazienza:
Personally, I think this Ikwerre issue had been overflogged.

Ikwerre are dispensable, why exactly some Igbos continue to make them more relevant they are is still what I'm wondering about.

We let them be, cos this business of Unity begging to me is embarrassing, I don't know how Arewa-Oduanistanis do that continuously, damn.

Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Austria, etc are all German speaking people, yet they are not part of Germany, yet their absence had not stopped Germans from becoming the largest Economy in Europe.

Ndiigbo in SE, Enu ani, Egbema, Oyigbo, Isobo, and Umuezekoha clan in Benue has all it takes to be the Germany of West Africa, while the likes of Ikwerre, Ogba, Ekpeye, etc can be our Luxembourg.

I'm done dissipating otherwise useful effort on this Ikwerre issue. Leave the Ikwerres to sort themselves out with their new found Ijaw brothers in Rivers state. Ndiigbo have bigger fish to fry.


#Operation Noah's Ark.

A sage has spoken.

@pazienza, don't forget that their are prominent Ikwerre sons that are for the unity of Indi'gbo. Should we ditch these voices because of HopeAtHand and his likes?

You guys should please forget this Ikwerre nonsense, Aba Ngwa alone beats them hook, line and sinker. The Igbo nation is greater than these idiots who hate us but we go on defending.

pazienza:
Personally, I think this Ikwerre issue had been overflogged.

Ikwerre are dispensable, why exactly some Igbos continue to make them more relevant they are is still what I'm wondering about.

We let them be, cos this business of Unity begging to me is embarrassing, I don't know how Arewa-Oduanistanis do that continuously, damn.

Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Austria, etc are all German speaking people, yet they are not part of Germany, yet their absence had not stopped Germans from becoming the largest Economy in Europe.

Ndiigbo in SE, Enu ani, Egbema, Oyigbo, Isobo, and Umuezekoha clan in Benue has all it takes to be the Germany of West Africa, while the likes of Ikwerre, Ogba, Ekpeye, etc can be our Luxembourg.

I'm done dissipating otherwise useful effort on this Ikwerre issue. Leave the Ikwerres to sort themselves out with their new found Ijaw brothers in Rivers state. Ndiigbo have bigger fish to fry.


#Operation Noah's Ark.

I prefer Austria ...or maybe Luxembourg can pass. How d hell can you equate Biafra to Germany . Pazienza where do usually sleep when you dream dreams.

On a more serious note, I understand it's difficult to see an Okechukwu, Chibuike, Uche, Emeka, Emenike etc and don't feel your brother consciousness aroused. But Igbos have to understand that not all Okechukwu is IGBO. Damn, not all George or Frank or Harry is English. Not all Mark is German. These things occur. Please advise your IPOB members vis-a-vis Igbos to let go. Ikwerre is Ikwerre, Eastern region is gone for good. Let the memories go with it. Hanging on to bygones is Childishness 101. Na wah.

You guys should please forget this Ikwerre nonsense, Aba Ngwa alone beats them hook, line and sinker. The Igbo nation is greater than these idiots who hate us but we go on defending.

Una wehdone o

mekuzi09:
@pazienza, don't forget that their are prominent Ikwerre sons that are for the unity of Indi'gbo. Should we ditch these voices because of HopeAtHand and his likes?

There were also white people who identified with Martin Luther King Jnr black movement. So?

Biafra should be an ideology that all freedom loving people in Africa regardless of their tribe can identity with Individually, we mustnt drag the ethnic groups of those individuals along.

Ikwerre individuals can identity with Ndiigbo and become part of us, after all, rumour had it that Hitler was of Austrian origin, yet he became German.

What I noticed is that IPOB Igbos have many non Igbo friends from these minority ethnicities as members of IPOB and as close friends.
So they erroneously mistake the voice of those few Igbophilic minorities in their midst as the voice of the majority of the people of the ethnic groups those minorities belong to.

This is akin to Yorubas who mistake the voice of the few one Nigerian loving Igbos they have as friends as the true voice of Igbo people back home.

We all should know better.

TonyeBarcanista:
Una wehdone o

this one don tire for fight

Yyeske:
You guys should please forget this Ikwerre nonsense, Aba Ngwa alone beats them hook, line and sinker. The Igbo nation is greater than these idiots who hate us but we go on defending.

Mister Man, Ikwerres do not hate Igbos. Saying we are different from you doesn't translate to hate. If anything, you're the one exhibiting hate simply because we don't want to tag along. Everyone and every tribe has its God given freedom to be whatever they want to be. It's an inelienable right recognised worldover. Even if of same origins, People evolve overtime especially with certain distance created. Stop parading like a dunce. IPOB is just one huge gang of unlettered nonentities, except maybe Nnamdi KANU.

HopeAtHand:


I prefer Austria ...or maybe Luxembourg can pass. How d hell can you equate Biafra to Germany . Pazienza where do usually sleep when you dream dreams.

On a more serious note, I understand it's difficult to see an Okechukwu, Chibuike, Uche, Emeka, Emenike etc and don't feel your brother consciousness aroused. But Igbos have to understand that not all Okechukwu is IGBO. Damn, not all George or Frank or Harry is English. Not all Mark is German. These things occur. Please advise your IPOB members vis-a-vis Igbos to let go. Ikwerre is Ikwerre, Eastern region is gone for good. Let the memories go with it. Hanging on to bygones is Childishness 101. Na wah.

Ikwerre of just three and half local government is too small to be an Austria, and definitely won't be peaceful enough to attain Luxembourg height, considering that you still have hanging issues to resolve with you Ijaw brothers over PH( a potential new Jerusalem, if you know what I mean).

Biafra is already on the German path. Innoson can become our very own Mercedes, once we have a government in place with vision and great ideas to bring our dreams to life.
Aba boys capabilities are limitless, a full government priority, personnel training, and working environment improvement and it's going to explode into a big time industrial zone competing with the best the world have to offer.

Our human resources are top notch and can compete with the best all over the world. I cant wait to see them
brainstorming on issues with a dedicated and people oriented Biafran government.

There is no ceiling for Biafra capabilities.

pazienza:


There were also white people who identified with Martin Luther King Jnr black movement. So?

Biafra should be an ideology that all freedom loving people in Africa regardless of their tribe can identity with Individually, we mustnt drag the ethnic groups of those individuals alike.

Ikwerre individuals can identity with Ndiigbo and become part of us, after all, rumour had it that Hitler was of Austrian origin, yet he became German.

What I noticed is that IPOB Igbos have many non Igbo friends from these minority ethnicities as members of IPOB and as close friends.
So they erroneously mistake the voice of those few Igbophilic minorities in their midst as the voice of the majority of the people of the ethnic groups those minorities belong to.

This is akin to Yorubas who mistake the voice of the few one Nigerian loving Igbos they have as friends as the true voice of Igbo people back home.

We all should know better.

You do have a point, but lets watch out the turn of events....

TonyeBarcanista:
Una wehdone o

You too well done oh. This una new APDA sef, e get as e be. See as Sheriff pursue una comot for una house. And Person like Wike dey d house. Wike wey no be anoda person. That kain man like Wike. Smh.