₦airaland Forum

I had thought that Ekwerenadu would have reeled out statistics of appointive and civil service positions in the country vis-à-vis other regions to show the world how marginalised the Igbo are in Nigeria. They shout marginalisation to high heavens without backing it with statistical facts and the gullible buys it wholesale.
Was Igbo marginalization in the first Republic the reason for truncating the democratically elected government by Igbo officers? Under Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's administration, the following positions were occupied by the South East:
1.President of the Fed.
2.Chief of Army Staff.
3.Chief of Naval Staff.
4.Inspector Gen.of police.
5.Chief of Defence Staff.
6.Minister of Internal Affairs.
7.Minister of External Affairs- a 22 yr old man - Mbu.
8. Minister of Education.
9.Parliament President.
10.Unilag VC.
11.U.I. VC
12.UNN VC
One was posted to ABU but Sir Ahmadu Bello rejected him.
This Balewa that conceded these positions to the. S/E was brutally murdered, along political leaders of all the Regions except Southeast, by the same Igbo military Officers under the guise of a military coup.
If it was a military coup:
a) why was the coup carried out exclusively by Igbo officers? Two days to the coup, Maj. Obasanjo, a very close friend of Maj Nzegwu, who personally killed Sir Ahmadu Bello, on his way back from a course in Britain, slept on the same bed with Nzegwu in Kaduna but he (Obasanjo) was not told of the impending coup. All the Officers and men ( including drivers) who executed the coup were all of Igbo stock except one Idoma driver.
b) Why 8 military Officers of northern extraction (including Brigadier Maimalari who was one of the first two Africans to be commissioned as officers - the other was a Ghanaian) and two Yoruba Officers were killed but not a single Igbo officer was touched? T.Y Danjuma and Gowon escaped by divine grace. Igbo had 37 military Officers then and the west had 8 but two were killed from the West in Kaduna.
Gen. Agui Ironsi promulgated the decree abolishing the Regional governments to form the centralised government this same Igbo are complaining about today and started posting Igbo civil servants to serve in the Western and northern regions in addition to over 70% of Igbo dominance in the Fed civil service.
The Igbo dominated P&T, the banking sector, trade and commerce to the extent that you dared not price a product without paying for it, in your own village market. In 1964, Gboloko market was once asked by my cousin, Mallam Umaru when an Igbo trader wanted to force him to pay for a product he priced. He is still alive in Odugbo. That is how domineering and draconian they became before the civil war.
Let us look at the positions held by Igbo in the immediate past administration in just one ministry - Ministry of Finance.
1.Okonjo Iwela - Finance & Coordinating Minister.
2.Emeka Eze, D.G.Due Process.
3.Bright Okogwu, D.G.Budget.
4.Aruma Oteh, D.G. SEC
5.Oscar Onyema, D.G.Nig. Stock Exchange.
6.Chike Obi, M.D.AMCON
7.Chinedu Onuoha, D.G PENCOM
8.Godwin Emefiele, Governor ,CBN
9.Uche Orji, M.D Sovereign Wealth
10.Evelyn Oputa, M.D. Bank of Industry
Capped by all powerful SGF under GEJ, Pius Anyim Pius.
Some of these appointees are still in their postions up till today.
Haba, and these people are still crying MARGINALIZATION? Was our first class professional Accountant, Nda Yakubu, not in Min. Of Finance? Why wasn't he given a D.G or M.D?
The truth is, these people CAN NOT BE SATISFIED.
Like somebody on this platform has suggested, there is no need for bloodshed. They should be allowed to leave peacefully, if they so desire.
All other ethnic groups in the north should remain calm and refuse to be drawn into unnecessary crises. I hope you saw a video clip where some miscreants were looking for Hausas in a commercial vehicle in Aba?(Check Naij. com.) Don't be deceived, anybody north of the Niger, Bassa-Nge, Igala, Idoma, Tiv, Bachama, Hausa or Fulani, Muslim or Christian, is HAUSA to an Igbo man. We should therefore be careful with our movements to the East for now.
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