How the Igbos Came Out Of the War of Genocide and Belligerence with nothing to emerge the Richest Tribe in Nigeria.

Between 1966 and 1970, the Igbos of Nigeria were at the receiving end of one of the most heinous man’s inhumanity to man in human history. Apart from Hitler’s Second World War of 1939 to 1945, no war has claimed as much casualty as the Biafra civil War since the history of man. The War that was estimated to have claimed about five million lives had the Igbos as recipients of more than 80% of the casualty figure. Wars had been fought before and after the Nigeria / Biafra civil war both locally and internationally, But why the Biafra War will continue to dominate discourse is the manner which the war was prosecuted and the policies initiated by the Nigeria State during and after the war to keep the Igbos perpetually defeated and never to rise again to challenge or assert their right and how the Igbos refused to be crushed, rather they bounced back with pomp and pageantry to become the envy of their supposed conquerors.

The war was waged at all fronts with an evil intent to annihilate and subjugate the Igbos to nothing. While Yakubu Gowon, a Northern Army General was leading the onslaught with the most sophisticated lethal military hardware from Soviet Russia and Great Britain from the front. Awolowo, a leader of the Yorubas and federal minister of finance and vice chairman of the federal executive military council was using hunger through his economic blockade as weapon to finish off whatever that is remaining of the Igbos that could not die by the bombs and bullets. Awolowo, at the behest of his principal – Gowon, introduced economic blockade against the Igbos and justified it as a veritable instrument of warfare. After 3 years of resistance, three years of dearth, 3 years of death, 3 years of kwashiorkor scenery, three years of mixture of joy of freedom from oppression and unprovoked mayhem by strange people and pang of hunger and wide scale dearth, the Igbos could not stomach to carry on the war of freedom and they yielded. Their leader, General Ojukwu left the scene having exhausted all resources available at his disposal, both human and material. The war was over at least from the point of shooting and killing by soldiers, as the economic aspect of the war led by Awolowo aimed at crippling the Igbo’s entrepreneurial domineering spirit still continued till date. The economic war has been more like a baton in a relay race in which one administration hands over the baton of harsh economic measures against the Igbos to another administration whether it is a civilian or military to continue the State policies of exclusion and divide and rule.

As much as many people have tried to justified the pogrom against the Igbos that resulted to the war as a reaction to the Nzeogwu’s coup that claimed the lives of Sardauna of Sokoto, Tafawa Balewa, Akintola and many more and ended the first the Balewa / Azikiwe regime, but the truth remains that the war was borne out of envy aimed at crushing the Igbos and relegate them to the background of activities in Nigeria where they will only be taking orders and not issuing. Gowon admitted this in an interview in January 2020 that “The fear of Domination is what caused the war”

At the beginning of the war, Awolowo being the Federal minister of finance, Changed the country’s currency. This change of currency was targeted to frustrate the Igbos from using the little money at their disposal to access Forex for either weapon or food from international community. In an interview after the war, Ojukwu admitted that two things that defeated Biafra during the war, one was the currency change the other was hunger occasioned by the draconian economic blockade imposed on the East by Gowon and Awolowo.

At the end of war in 1970, Awolowo announced that every Igbo man with identifiable account deposit in any Nigeria bank prior to the outbreak of hostility would be issued £20 in exchange of whatever amount they had in their accounts prior to the war. This simply implies that the Igbos came out of the war to be integrated into Nigeria with nothing to compete with. But they carried on with resilience that saw them through the war era. By 1972 Yakubu Gowon and Awolowo initiated and carried out a national indigenization policy. This was a program in which, foreign company operating in Nigeria were mandated through the policy of the State to sell certain percentages of their company’s worth to Nigerians. Recall, the Igbos just came out of the war two years earlier, and had no means to participate in the indigenization program. The Northerners especially the Hausa Fulani stock, due to their deficiency in education and conservative mindset could not participate in the program as much. Awolowo rallied every Yoruba man to key into the program. The campaign was massive in the West; they were sensitized in Churches, Mosques, and market places. They had the means, and their leader was the initiator and head of the indigenization program. This is how the Yorubas bought 80% of the corporate organizations in Nigeria meant for all Nigerians. There was a lore in the 1970’s, 1980’s and early 2000’s that there are two powers in Nigeria. The political power and economic powers, and that while the Hausa Fulani controls the polical power, the Yoruba controls the economic power. By implications, the Igbos controls nothing.

The Igbo however carried on with the struggle of survival, they were in every hamlet in all rural villages in Nigeria scavenging for survival in the farm, market, cottage industries and any field humans can find existence possible. Those of them with the enough fund traveled abroad to continue the struggle of survival. Going back to school was not practically possible since survival is the first law of nature. The East central State had the least number of children in school. There was a massive unplanned, unsolicited, unprecedented mentorship program in Igbo land then tagged “onye aghala nwanne ya” which translates; let no one leaves his brother behind. As the name implies, they developed love for themselves and became more united. They would mentor themselves on different lines of business and trades. Those of them that were well established would go to the villages in Igbo land, negotiate with the parents and guidance of unemployed youths and out of school children to groom and mentor them for a specified number of years, usually 6 or 7 years at the end of which, they establish them to start their own. Those apprentices of 70’s are the Ubas, ibetos, Innocenes and many more captains of industries in Igbo land today. This is the secret of how the Igbos regained their number one position and dominated every sector of business, trade, industry and transportation in Nigeria till date.

Fast forward to 2008, the global economic meltdown came and badly affected the macro economy of the world such that many corporations went bankrupt; those that survived could not pay their shareholders the mouthwatering dividends they used to. This is how the Yorubas lost their grip on the economic power. The global economy power pendulum swings to the micro sector that is dominated by the Igbos in Nigeria, the Chinese and the Americans at the global stage. From 2008 and 2020 the Igbos have staged a dramatic comeback to be a race of firsts in every sector, the education they couldn’t acquire in the 70’s, their children are setting the pace now. From 2008 till date, the South East have the highest number of children in primary and post primary school level, the highest number of university applicants and highest number of graduates. In 2002, Audu Ogbeh, the then national chairman of PDP in a lecture to the Northern elders forum, in highlighting the pace the Igbos have set in education and why the North need to brace up to bridge the gap or be slaves to the more educated Igbos forever, said “that statistics from J.A.M.B office shows that University applicants from Imo State alone is more than fifty percent of the applicants of the 19 northern states put together”. Just last year, the NYSC Director General said that fifty five percent of serving youth corps members nationwide were from the South East zone alone. This is an eloquent testimony that education is expensive and only the rich can afford it.

Onitsha in Anambra State has the highest concentration of high rise buildings in Nigeria. Nnewi is a town built from the scratch in to an industrial hub by her indigenes without any Government’s fund. Today, Nnewi boasts of big industrial concerns as Chikason group, Ogbuawa, Ibeto group of companies, Innocene, curtix electrical, and many more too numerous to mention. According to Forbes’s magazine, Anambra State has the highest number of millionaires in Nigeria and the southeast has the least poverty rate in the country. Today, Igbo land is the most evenly developed in Nigeria of all lands.

After the war they engaged in drug trafficking, baby factory, scam both local and international, production of fake and inferior goods and services, fake drugs and others

Humility is priceless.....Truly rich people are humble and focused....stop causing yourselves unnecessary attention.....it's like announcing to everyone including kidnappers and robbers that you have money.

Learn from the wise and stop sharing stupid post

liketerm:
After the war they engaged in drug trafficking, baby factory, scam both local and international, production of fake and inferior goods and services, fake drugs and others

Pained Afonja urchin..... your people that have been mining human skulls from the days of oduduwa till date


What have you guys achieved?

liketerm:
After the war they engaged in drug trafficking, baby factory, scam both local and international, production of fake and inferior goods and services, fake drugs and others

Something the Yoruba people were doing before during and after the war... till date.
Only this time they’ve include rituals and be heading for money to it
Guess Nigerians can comfortably state that Yoruba lead in all crimes listed by you while igbos comes distant fourth.
It’s been always always Yoruba people. From independence... maybe you go through dailies of 60’70”80”90”2000’s
And til date .

Lawalatm:
Humility is priceless.....Truly rich people are humble and focused....stop causing yourselves unnecessary attention.....it's like announcing to everyone including kidnappers and robbers that you have money.

Learn from the wise and stop sharing stupid post

Oga won’t you be happy if you’re successful in your business ..
What do we call Yoruba people hyping ADenuga... otedola Tinubu.. and Forbes ..

Yoruba sing praises of individuals ... not Yoruba ..
Igbos praise igbos nation and hype themselves knowing is not easy .. from where they’re coming from and where they’re now.

Awolowo said that the conquered old eastern region must not smell power for 100 years.. IBB IS ALIVE.

Today GEJ IS A FORMER PRESIDENT FROM SAME OLD BIAFRA
IGBOS PEOPLE HE WISHED TO STARVE TO DEATH QUOTING ALL IS FAIR IN WAR .. have grown
.. growth in every sense of development and economy ..
today aside Lagos .. tell me one Yoruba capital that is more developed than ONITSHA CITY OR ABA ASABA NNEWI ... these are cities not capital.
With all their presidency and Vice President powers .. that only pass as bragging right.

And Yoruba man will come to call igbos chest beaters and names

I get am before no be property... Walai if Na Yoruba achieve this feat ... they world no go hear for them..

I’m ashame for igbo wey no get pride . Only if you know how this people envy you. And wish to keep you shut. .. via subtle intimidation..

Calling igbo chest beaters is out of pain and hatred. Because they will never achieve the igboman feat.. even dashing them 1million years of presidency.

Fact!

liketerm:
After the war they engaged in drug trafficking, baby factory, scam both local and international, production of fake and inferior goods and services, fake drugs and others

You are not smart at all.

Again ? You guys always adding salt to yoruba's wound. Stop this and allow them enjoy their temporary happiness that soon vanish as soon as we leave the zoo for them

Hardy men..


Those guys hard and rugged like desert animals..

And the Igbos will become the poorest group again if they allow a terrorist organization like Ipob and their captured hunchback leader to lead them into another unprepared war.

TotoGame:



Pained Afonja urchin..... your people that have been mining human skulls from the days of oduduwa till date


What have you guys achieved?

Empty barrels make the most noise
As usual this thread will end in another round of painful humiliation for you
You wake up everyday finding new ways to salve the deep and painful inferiority complex you have with new and empty boasts about how rich you are without a shred of evidence

Yet you cannot stay in your homelands and remain

Africas largest group of refugees

oilyngbati:
And the Igbos will become the poorest group again if they allow a terrorist organization like Ipob and their captured hunchback leader to lead them into another unprepared war.

They are the poorest still

Their region is the dirtiest in the world and richer only than North East Nigeria

I hate this sorts of thread with everything in me. This constant desire to be or seen to be superior is childish and nothing more.

You call attention to yourself and cry when targeted.

Any fool can wake up and say we are the this we are the that


WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE

The two dirtiest places in the Milky way are Aba and Onitsha

Tyche:
I hate this sorts of thread with everything in me. This constant desire to be or seen to be superior is childish and nothing more.

You call attention to yourself and cry when targeted.

it is more than childish

It is a form of collective Post traumatic stress disorder
They have not recovered and they have unresolved psychological issues which they manage by compensating for with these empty boasts

uBuNiT:
Again ? You guys always adding salt to yoruba's wound. Stop this and allow them enjoy their temporary happiness that soon vanish as soon as we leave the zoo for them

On your way out, don’t drown whilst trying to cross the River Niger bridge.

Lawalatm:
Humility is priceless.....Truly rich people are humble and focused....stop causing yourselves unnecessary attention.....it's like announcing to everyone including kidnappers and robbers that you have money.

Learn from the wise and stop sharing stupid post

Bragging has always been part of igbo culture ...we bragged with yam , children , farmland , money ..it's our culture respect it

The largest sector in the Nigeria Economy is Agriculture
The Eegboes are not significant producers of food in Nigeria
People are quietly making money growing and selling tomatoes and pepper cows and goats , rice and yam EVERYDAY > Noiselessly and you are here boasting vainly
They do not control the oil and Gas industry
They do not control IT or Telecomms
They do not control Manufacturing
They do not control the Stock Market or the Capital Market
They do not control the Banks
They do not control construction
They do not control insurance
They do not control education
Yet they are "THE RICHEST IN NIGERIA"


From which sector exactly

They do control

The Chest beating Industry

mrvitalis:

Bragging has always been part of igbo culture ...we bragged with yam , children , farmland , money ..it's our culture respect it

Empty bragging is madness

Yes brag if you have something to brag about right now you are just making noise

aribisala0:
Empty bragging is madness

Yes brag if you have something to brag about right now you are just making noise

Igbos don't brag with nothing oga

liketerm:
After the war they engaged in drug trafficking, baby factory, scam both local and international, production of fake and inferior goods and services, fake drugs and others

mrvitalis:

Igbos don't brag with nothing oga

They do
That is what they are known for
Empty boasting and chest beating

aribisala0:
They do
That is what they are known for
Empty boasting and chest beating

LMAO u no well

aribisala0:
They are the poorest still

Their region is the dirtiest in the world and richer only than North East Nigeria

LMAO. This one is even snoring in his wet dream.

mrvitalis:

LMAO u no well

Seriously

Who else will tell you they developed Singapore, Johannesburg, Accra, Bangkok, ?
One of them told us that Orji Uzor Kanu was very rich before he became governor and the CBN could not cope. They BEGGED him to take his money abroad because they had no room. So he went to the World bank which could only take half and the other half went to the IMF

Imagine grown men telling such ridiculous stories with a straight face

Developer of the universe

You now come up with this ridiculous narrative as if making money is like Nollywood Magic

"They gave us only twenty pounds and look at us now we own Amazon"

As if it is a story of Jesus feeding 5000 people with 5 loaves of bread.

Is that how people make money ?
Is it magic?

Who exactly are these "richest" Eegboes in Nigeria?

Tell us the banks they own or their companies listed on the Stock Market?

aribisala0:
Seriously

Who else will tell you they developed Singapore, Johannesburg, Accra, Bangkok, ?
One of them told us that Orji Uzor Kanu was very rich before he became governor and the CBN could not cope. They BEGGED him to take his money abroad because they had no room. So he went to the World bank which could only take half and the other half went to the IMF

Imagine grown men telling such ridiculous stories with a straight face

U hatred of igbo would not let u know see truth and sacasim

mrvitalis:

U hatred of igbo would not let u know see truth and sacasim

Another victimhood statement.
Everybody who calls out your bullshit "hates" you?

You are not important or relevant enough to deserve my hatred

aribisala0:
Any fool can wake up and say we are the this we are the that


WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE

The two dirtiest places in the Milky way are Aba and Onitsha

more dirty than ogun and Lagos??