slivertongue:
all of you making tribal threads having one thing in common - poor historiography .

why not endeavour ur energies to market the good in ur tribes. am sure ur neither Igbo or the minorities u claim to speak for

Seerade029:
OP, pls, change it from capital letter to small and bolded.

Sunshineg5:
Were igbos marketing their own tribe yesterday when they started attacking Awolowo's legacy and old western region?

slivertongue:


you have finally revealed ur intension. all the tribal threads can't add or remove from the tribes u all attack. dem no no say una dey exist. Worst is that tribal thread presentations are whacked. SW under Awo is ur business not theirs and versa

Tyrant28:
My friend legendhero told me something a long time ago, he said "always verify anything an eboe man tells you"

Sunshineg5:
if it was verifiable, they would have been putting in our faces a long time ago.

It's not in the nature of igbos to hide achievement or progress.

I know all the houses in Nnewi today without ever being to the city before because the Anambrafirstson of a boy has litred Nairaland with pictures of the city.

Sunshineg5:
What was your intention yesterday?
My intention has been revealed in the caption of this topic
You don't need to be a secret agent to find out

slivertongue:


God forbid I can't descend so low to fight for tribe or religion.
so count me out of your brouhaha.

ur take negates ur premise

Note: This write up is not to promote tribalism.

Sunshineg5:
Were igbos marketing their own tribe yesterday when they started attacking Awolowo's legacy and old western region?

Sunshineg5:
Busting lies is not tribalism

You jumping up and down on a trend that lied about the Yorubas yesterday is full tribalism.

Sunshineg5:
if it was verifiable, they would have been putting in our faces a long time ago.

It's not in the nature of igbos to hide achievement or progress.

I know all the houses in Nnewi today without ever being to the city before because the Anambrafirstson of a boy has litred Nairaland with pictures of the city.

Sunshineg5:
if it was verifiable, they would have been putting in our faces a long time ago.

It's not in the nature of igbos to hide achievement or progress.

I know all the houses in Nnewi today without ever being to the city before because the Anambrafirstson of a boy has litred Nairaland with pictures of the city.

Sunshineg5:
Note: This write up is not to promote tribalism

So during the late hours of yesterday in a heated conversation in a Topic created by ethnic supremacists in an attempt to rewrite history to favour their narratives, A well known moniker who goes by the alias of Anambra First Son claimed that the Eastern region under igbo administration had developed minority tribes more than other regions during the first republic of Nigeria.

Well! under cross examination by this writer, his claims were busted as mere myths.

Here are some of the claims busted as lies so far, others would come shortly.

Obudu cattle ranch

Rice mills in cross River

Platations etc..

Obudu cattle ranch resort

1) [b]A quick check of the history of the famous Obudu cattle ranch resort shows that the Ranch was established in the year 1951 by British business men even before Nigeria was separated into three regions in 1954.So how could Eastern region government have developed something that existed before them?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obudu_Mountain_Resort

Rice factory in Cross River

2) [b]According to the governor of Cross river state, his state had no rice mill until 2017.Hence, before they had a rice mill, the rice cultivated in Cross river area were taken to Abakaliki for processing. He even went on to allege that most of the rice called Abaliki rice were all gotten from Cross river state.

https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/ben-ayade-cross-river-to-complete-ogoja-rice-mill-before-december/brtc4bz

Plantations of cash crops

4) Plantations of cash crops had been on since the colonial periods, I honestly feel it's a new low for any region to claim plantation as an achievement of some sort. Every region emphasized its development around plantation of cash crops in the first republic

4) [b]it also worth noting that the only two factories eventually sited in amongst the minorities in the East like the old Cement Factory in Cross river and Glass factory in Portacult were sited there only after MINORITIES IN THE WEST HAD LEFT TO FORM THEIR OWN REGION

So What happened from 1954 to 1963? [b]Why did the igbo led East first set up a cement industry in Ebonyi in 1962 before Cross river?[/b]Your guess is as good as mine!



Despite the shorter life of the Western region when compared to the Eastern region, The largest wood processing Factory in Africa was set up in Sapele by UAC during this time.

In addition, Awolowo left them a legacy that positioned Edo and Delta states as those with the highest level of literacy in the South South today, even as most Yorubas admit today that Awolowo might have treated the minorities better.

Stay tuned for the next episode of myth busters Nairaland edition.

MinorityOpinion:

aworatak:
The only thing that caught my attention in this garbage you posted was the bolded part.
It is important to clear the air on this falsehood you just posted before you pass it on to your gullible generations
The Nigerian Cement Factory(Nigercem) Nkalagu was set up by the colonial government around 1957/58. In 1961, the administration of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa decided to sell off the Federal Government's majority stake in NIGERCEM NKALAGU. Plans have been concluded by the Federal government to sell it's stake to a British consortium. However the Eastern Nigerian government headed by Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara convinced the Balewa administration to sell it's stake to the government of eastern Nigeria. For those that followed the privatisation process of Nigercem around 2004, the percentage of ownership were as follows:
The five south eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo States controlled a 51% stake in Nigercem while the Federal government held an 11% state in the company. The Federal government later sold it's 11%stake to the Ebonyi state government.
Cc Igboid, , Horsepower.

MinorityOpinion:
My south south brothers. If truely the Ibos are not wicked. Why did they move old Eastern capital from calabar to enugu?

At the same time, built the second capital in umuahia?

Was that not marginalisation?

Sunshineg5:
You think lies would save you here

Check history of Nkalagu cement factory posted on your Eastern Nigeria Wikipedia page. I came prepared


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Region,_Nigeria

Sunshineg5:
Were igbos marketing their own tribe yesterday when they started attacking Awolowo's legacy and old western region?

Sunshineg5:
You think lies would save you here

Check history of Nkalagu cement factory posted on your Eastern Nigeria Wikipedia page. I came prepared


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Region,_Nigeria

aworatak:

It is obvious that you are an empty vessel when it comes to history. So you are relying on Wikipedia which any tom, dick, Harry and drunkard has access to. My advice to you is to carry out a research on your own to avoid making a great mockery of yourself.

Juliusmalema:


Awolowo is a tribalist and died disgracefully.

Sunshineg5:
It obvious you don't know how to argue

At least bring out any Source to support your fairy tale you posted earlier.

Even a separate source by Lafrage claims that the cement factory was established after the one in Ewekoro in 1959, So how could colonial masters have set up the cement factory in 1957?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_Africa

Moneywomen17:
Na today ibo don they lie. They say things with no proof. That’s why I don’t take them on their word.

aworatak:

Again with your reference to Wikipedia which is not a credible source of information. It is obvious that I am arguing with an indomie generation pikin.