You'll regret if we storm Lagos, IPOB warns Igbo attackers

Tony Okafor, Awka


The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned the traducers of the Igbo in Lagos to stop or face catastrophic consequences.

The separatists gave the warning on Thursday in a statement circulated by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful.

IPOB's reaction followed the molestations of the Igbo in various parts of Lagos during the February 25 and March 18 polls in the area.

In the Thursday's warning, IPOB vowed to confront henceforth any undue molestations of the Igbo in Lagos in any manner howsoever.

The secessionists, however warned Ndigbo to stop investing in Lagos, enjoying them to start making preparations for mass exit of Lagos, any time soon, stating that at the interim, they should form gallant groups to defend themselves from any physical harm.


The group's statement read in part, "The global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great indefatigable liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu condemns the numerous abductions and attacks on Ndigbo resident in Lagos by the notorious thugs and criminals led by MC Olomo, who is the leader of Lagos State Government political thugs.

"The anti-Igbo sentiments, threat, attacks, and abductions of Igbo traders, residents, and businesses threatening them to vacate Lagos is a threat to the entire Biafra nation.


"It is quite unfortunate that Yoruba political, traditional, and religious leaders are keeping quiet on the raging anti-Igbo sentiments in Lagos, Nigeria, which shows that they are on the same page to forcefully eject Ndigbo out of Lagos.

"The bigotry and parochialism that polititcians through their political thugs have recently demonstrated against Ndigbo has shown that the aged long bitterness can't be healed. One thing certain is that Ndigbo will vacate Lagos, and we don't expect any mediation to stop such exodus as it's bound to happen soon.

"At the interim, we encourage Ndigbo to form gallant groups to defend themselves from the tribal vagabonds and political thugs. The criminals and cultists recruited by the politicians are pushing the Igbos and expecting us to react and we must respond to them shortly.

"We are going to settle the problem with Igbo and Yoruba in a way people will marvel and nobody should blame us, Igbos have been monitoring these criminals. Those behind this devilish activities against Ndigbo must regret their actions soon. Every Biafran must prepare to leave Lagos and don't say we didn't inform you.

" Nevertheless, we are urging Ndigbo both men and women to prepare to vacate Lagos. Only a person who doesn't have a place would be annoyed when your host asked you to leave his or her house. We acknowledge that many of you have built many mansions and markets in Lagos.You have a choice of selling those properties, mortgage them, or lease them while you journey to your fatherland for your safety.


"We have existing markets in all parts of the Eastern Region that are enough to accommodate our people. The international markets in Ebonyi, Imo, Abia, Enugu, and Anambra States will accommodate all the dealerships ready to relocate to our region.

"These markets can be expanded while many new markets will be built. IPOB will stand behind every relocation and development of international markets in Biafra Land.

"Therefore, we urge the newly elected governors and House of Assembly Members in the Eastern Region to work with communites to make land available in every province for international markets and industrialization projects.

"Again, we have to be involved in making sure that our people bring back their motor spare parts and we expect other markets to relocate from Lagos to Igboland. We advise them to start it quickly. We are delighted that our people are realizing that Nigeria is not for them, and the thought of relocating their businesses back to the Eastern Region is long overdue.

"Those in Lagos should know that they are not in any way doing better than the businesses in the Eastern region. They should come back to avoid losing their precious lives and properties to the holigans working for political conspirators.

empty post with empty threats

WE MEEEUVE..

Ibusa no dey carry last

Ok

Afamed:
empty post with empty threats

Says people who lost ilorin..

Gettat

Lol 😂

Empty chestbeating. Na only for online them dey make mouth.

OyeofIkoTuN:


Says people who lost ilorin..

Gettat

Achalugo eehhh.

Empty treats from second class citizens

Fake news

Afamed:


Achalugo eehhh.

Oluwa Shanu wa

We are expecting you. We used over three million for pepper soup and suya in 1967, we may get more millions this year

LegendHero:
Lol 😂

Empty chestbeating. Na only for online them dey make mouth.

Don't you want them to leave Lagos again?

apache22b:
I just pity Peter Obi and his Obidient's urchins because this journey of reclaiming their stolen Manhood will be Completely Futile as a result of our Careless and corrupt judiciary and judicial system...


Bola Ahmed Tinubu smh

Overcome your fears. Attempt new things. Pursue your goals based on your convictions. You may win or you may lose. Either way you are better for trying. He who gave up without trying at all is a coward.
Obi is not a coward. He is not afraid of failure. He is not arrogant because of success. No matter the outcome of the judicial process, Mr Obi is not perturbed. And as long as Nigeria exists, he has earned the respect of many Nigerians of good will.
So stop worrying about Mr Peter Gregory Obi. Worry about your own affairs

These ones want to fight for their brother, Chinedu.

He showed them support, so they want to reciprocate.

Let them try it.

Emma powerful indeed.
Why do ipob people have funny names like powerful,
Peter Obi ,chest beat chinedu etc.

Lool

Coming from a terrorist group.

LeHero:
Wow IPOB terrorist eventually get the recognition they wanted.

This speak volume considering it is from the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) a report published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

President Bola Ahmad Tinubu should make sure he crush IPOB completely starting from May 2023.

Below is the full 95 page report.

https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GTI-2023-web.pdf

Them Don start woo

Ojukwu beat his chest more than that.

Just to chestbeat na im igbos sabi

Shinedu brothers are hallucinating and foaming from the mouth.

This seems like fake news.

Anyway, I prefer Simon Ekpa's people dealing with this situation, as he acts like agbero himself

We look forward to this ;

Nevertheless, we are urging Ndigbo both men and women to prepare to vacate Lagos. Only a person who doesn't have a place would be annoyed when your host asked you to leave his or her house. We acknowledge that many of you have built many mansions and markets in Lagos.You have a choice of selling those properties, mortgage them, or lease them while you journey to your fatherland for your safety

OyeofIkoTuN:


Says people who lost ilorin..

Gettat

So u r foolishly supporting this meance abi.. okay

LegendHero:
Lol 😂

Empty chestbeating. Na only for online them dey make mouth.

If dey born your people well make them repeat what happened on 18th in next election in Lagos state

StreetFight:
We are expecting you. We used over three million for pepper soup and suya in 1967, we may get more millions this year

This is just you admitting what can't be denied any longer, having seen the handwriting on the wall.

Kanu has gotten biafra~ obj

Talk is cheap. The most peaceful way to resolve it is the law of reciprocity by collaboration. Igbo should not cheat Yoruba and Yoruba should not cheat Igbos.



LAGOS GUBER & PLIGHT OF IGBOS: Law Of Reciprocity Is The Solution

Background

For weeks leading to the elections till now, I notice a profound tension and apprehension from the majority section of Igbo who do not respect and appreciate the warm reception they enjoy in Lagos. Please note that a minority of Igbo in Lagos are not part of the unappreciative tendencies fuelling the hostility the Yoruba now have against the Igbo in Lagos.

Since 1999, Lagos state government from under Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (1999-2007) till date has been giving free education , free health and employment to our Igbo visitors in Lagos like the Yoruba natives since we are all Nigerians.

This is no longer sustainable without reciprocity before it is too late as real danger looms.

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Hero or Villian?
If Asiwaju Tinubu is blamed for creating the root cause of this socio-political problem then he should be part of those to fix it. Fix it as soon as possible before a 'native warrior' character in the mould of then young Gani Adams, who was barely able to communicate in English, rise up among the Yoruba youths and do it violently like we experienced in the 90s that forced Igbo to flee Lagos in fear and the Idi Araba Hausa/OPC wars . That will be bloody option hanging like sword of Damocles over our heads. Hence, I want us to use reciprocity to solve the problem.

I recall that some Lagos indigenes and notable Yoruba leaders including late Dr Fredrick Fasheun, founder of Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, protested then that the Yoruba who mostly suffered from the pre-1999 broken down Lagos ruined by bomb blasts, filth etc under poor management of successive military governments were not being prioritized in terms of rewards, economic opportunities and welfare needs but these leaders eventually yielded to Asiwaju's pleas that the benefits will go round and the Yoruba natives should exercise patience.
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Today some of those who opposed the all- comers approach of Asiwaju Tinubu leading a subnational government believe that he was the one who shrank the chances for the natives. They blame Asiwaju for giving 'too much' of Lagos oppprtunities to the Igbo and giving less part of the opportunities to them who suffered most. They are angry today that Asiwaju Tinubu sacrificed their yearnings and future for his future presidential ambition. Some of those disappointed Yoruba are tendencies behind clamour for Yoruba nation. They no longer trust Tinubu and Nigeria.

Curiously, most of the Igbo who directly benefited from the free provisions made by Asiwaju Tinubu-led government and still benefitting from these policies sustained by subsequent Lagos governments turned out to be unappreciative and hate Asiwaju most.

They hate Asiwaju Tinubu. They hate his wife. They hate his children and they hate everything about him.

The kind of hate is unprecedented to the point the tension today is the fall out of it.

All the good gestures and liberal policies initiated by Asiwaju Tinubu have been retained by successful governors but are still not appreciated by majority of Igbo in Lagos who have daily influx into Lagos because they have heard of opportunities in Lagos. The competition is now getting more intense and the Lagos state government appear to be pretending that the problem is not real.

Every four years, these Igbo residents in Lagos deliberately gather to promote the politics of lies, hate and bigotry against the dorminant political interest of their Yoruba host. The 2023 the candidate they are backing lost again calls for a foresight on how to stop these deep hate for the Yoruba politics the Igbo in Lagos play.

What solution do I propose?

Law Of Reciprocity

Law Of Reciprocity Is The Solution.

Let me explain.

Reading comments here and on social media, my conclusion is that anyone who attacks, insults , curses the Yoruba and notable Yoruba leaders is the one these majority of Igbo love.

From Rufai Oseni, former radio broadcaster and now Tv host on Arise Tv, is a Television station with a huge Igbo viewership , now to Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor, LP Gubernatorial candidate, who for years openly supported the proscribed IPOB group (linked to the coordinated arson in Lagos in 2020) and reportedly use derogatory words to insult and mock Yoruba and notable Yoruba leaders including Pastor Enoch.A. Adeboye, General Overseer, RCCG worldwide


Other Igbo folks online and offline are openly boasting that their main reason for suppporting LP is because Mr Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor, is one of them , raised to speak Igbo fluently like them and has an Igbo political godfather, Mr Peter Obi, former Anambra state Governor.

The Yoruba are livid and feel completely disrespected. A notable Yoruba leader, Ayo Fayose, former Governer of Ekiti state; described it as insensitive to the Yoruba for a party to present a candidate who can not speak Yoruba to govern a Yoruba state.

What he did not say openly is that the choice of a Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor who can not speak Yoruba is deliberate political mischief. Chinedu Rhodes-Vivor was selected by Igbo who do not speak or understand Yoruba as reward to him for being anti Yoruba and proscribed IPOB of Igbo extraction many believed worked for Mr Obi in the election votes from Igboland were allegedly rigged massively.

Igbo Insensitivity and Arrogance In Lagos.

The insensitive Igbo who derisively regard Lagos as a no man's land can not arrogantly claim to be the host of the Yoruba in their own land and enjoy the benefit of an entitled visitor in Lagos without the Yoruba having a single reciprocity from.the states of origin of these Igbo who mock and insult daily. It is a recipe for serious resentment of Igbo and anarchy by the Yoruba Lagos.

It is fair to adopt reciprocity as a Lagos state and Southwest policy so that all these bigotry and hatred these Igbo show for the Yoruba will reduce if not stop.

I have listened to a few vexed Yoruba and I heard why some stayed away from voting for Asiwaju is because they are angry with him, they believed he traded off the reciprocity in order to advance his personal political interest so they are demanding that if LASG give certain privileges to Igbo in Lagos there should be commensurate privilege given to Yoruba in Igboland too. Until this is done, the Yoruba will not stop feeling cheated and the bigotry and hatred caused by lack of gratitude on the part of some Igbo will not stop.

The Yoruba can be a Commissioner in Igboland too. A Femi should be able to move around to campaign to be Abia state governor like Mr Chinedu in Lagos too and you do not need to kill a fellow Igbo for celebrating the victory of a non-Igbo in Igboland.

Nobody does that to Igbo in Yorubaland. So reciprocity is a fair and just demand.

For 8 years, Mr El Rufai, Governor of Kaduna state kept Yoruba in his cabinet and extended free govt services to non Hausa. Such a state and its indigenes resident in Lagos are qualified for reciprocity in Lagos while states that are hostile to Yoruba and in fact, states without appointment for Yoruba should not recieve political appointments in Lagos .

States with indigenes in Lagos that do not hire and provide free heathcare and free education to Yoruba in their states too should not qualify for benefits of reciprocity. This should extend into streets naming, award of contracts, allocation of shops and hackney permits. These are finite oppprtunities and you must first give it the natives and whatever is left should meet the condition that the Igbo state give same opportunity to Yoruba in Igboland before we give it to Igbo in Yorubaland.

Only in Igbo states do we not have other tribes in their states exco,ministries etc. It is not a balanced relationship and I see reason in the complaint of the Yoruba who feel cheated.

Since democracy returned in 1999, Lagos has given a lot yet not even a single state in Igboland has ever appointed a Yoruba into their exco. It has to stop and reciprocity will stop it. Even property acquisition, especially a finite resource like land, should henceforth be scrutinized and rationed to demand reciprocity from the states of origin of the Igbo resident applicant and justice served.

Benefits

The benefits are too numerous and sustainable.

Jobs will be more abundant to the Yoruba natives at home and away from home.

This reciprocity policy will help provide jobs and social benefits to all Yoruba in other states especially if this policy of reciprocity is adopted by all the southwest states.

It will equally help draw mostly talents and less of lazy or criminal elements to the Southwest from the South East which in turn will help improve the economy of Yoruba states and Yoruba living outside SW, especially in Igboland.

The Yoruba need the jobs here at home too and those resident in Igboland should benefit from jobs in Igboland so that the same privileges the Igbo benefit here in Yorubaland their govts are giving with reciprocity to the Yoruba.

Our economy in SW will grow in leaps and bounds with the policy reciprocity.

The State Executive councils and state Houses of Assembly in the South West should fornulate an effecrive strategy and laws to domesticate the policy of reciprocity in their states like they did with the Amotekun law.

A more radical variant of this pragmatic policy was adopted and implemented by the Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Ibrahim Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto-led Northern Nigeria government in the 1st republic . It was very effective to quickly help Northern Nigeria ramp up human capacity and infrastructural development before the Premier's life was terminated violently on January 15, 1966.

Conclusion

Yoruba should not cheat Igbo and Igbo should not cheat Yoruba. Enough of this politics of lies, hate and bigotry every 4 years.

Reciprocity is the way out.

Dem never born you well.

Election taming na just testing of microphone

Nonsense

If IPOB and esn begin function for Lagos .. same Yoruba people go cry go heaven ..

Olumo head go play for road and e go too brutal..
No one has the monopoly of violence .. no one has the monopoly to activate it .. and carry it out

One thing is sure ..

Olumo head will be the first to go down .. before others


Nigeria need peace ..

Hankim:




If dey born your people well make them repeat what happened on 18th in next election in Lagos state

Lol 😂

Why do you need a repeat before you can show your bravery? Shouldn’t you have shown the bravery last Saturday?

Baba Shukudi dey cry behind close door. Baba hold his door tight coz he’s scared of ordinary street boys.

If boys come show you full shege, baba Shukudi fit get heart attack and die throway.

Na only online una dey make mouth, no one should take you guys serious.