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Anambra, Anambra, Anambra!!! What a SHAME! Look at this dirty, rat infested hellhole you call a 'city'.....there is no place in Imo State like this.

cckris:
There's no picture above, or below.

My friend, stop being a slacker!! Click the link...

What happened to Anambra :oWhere are the renowned chest beaters:

Reports reaching our newsroom say Azu, Ogbunike village in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State has fallen under attack by Fulani herdsmen killing and maiming many.

Other villagers, reports say, are on the run for their dear lives. Calls put through from our newsroom to the police to confirm this incident are unanswered but our source said the invaders armed with sophisticated weapons had unleashed terror and mayhem on the unsuspecting community dwellers sparking a bloodbath before the arrival of policemen.

At the beginning of the episode, the village dwellers who were able to escape made several calls to the police but did not see them all the while the attack lasted.

Above is the picture of some of the victims:

There is a report coming direct from a right source that Azu Ogbunike village in Oyi local government area is under attack by Boko Haram /Hausa Fulani herdsmen as many has been killed and villages on the run now..Where Is The Bastard Called Sylvester Ude?

http://www.onyipeters.com/breaking-news-fulani-herdsmen-attack-anambra-community-feared-dead/#comment-8893

ZKOSOSO:
I need real food and lucozade boost to read this TEXTBOOK!!

It's a shame but it seems that the Nigerian of today revels in his stupidity and crass ignorance.

ericuzor:
Herdsmen hack Anambra farmer, 2 others to death
By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu On 16/04/2016 05:52:23 AM

There is tension in Umudi­um village in Umumbo community, Ayamelum Local Government Area, over the alleged killing of 45-year old Mr Ekwunife Echim Okolo by Fula­ni herdsmen in the area.
The traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Simeon Chidubem, who disclosed this ugly incident in his palace at Umumbo, maintained that there is no day a case of attack, moles­tation of underage children, men, women and sexual abuse by the Fulani herdsmen is not reported in his kingdom.
He noted that the herds­men who attacked the young man at his farm were roaming round farms without their cattle searching for the villagers to at­tack, hack or kill with their so­phisticated guns and other dan­gerous weapons.
Igwe Chidubem, who stated that another victim is now re­ceiving treatment at Iyienu Hos­pital, Nkpor, noted that the case has been reported to the Divi­sional Police Officer in charge of Anaku Police divisional head­quarters.
He recalled that the same Fu­lani herdsmen, in February this year, killed one Mr Nwogbo Oka­for at his farm, alongside anoth­er unidentified person who was also allegedly killed by the Fula­ni herdsmen while a lot of others were reported missing.
He said that the communi­ty has before now, written, “Save our soul letter” to the Anambra State Commissioner of Police in Awka, bringing to his notice the wanton attack, hacking and kill­ing of people of the community as well as the deliberate destruc­tion of their farm produce such as rice, cassava, yam, okuru and maize by the Fulani herdsmen in the area.
The traditional ruler who said that the community would always toe the path of peace, appealed to the police and other security agencies in the state to urgently come to the aid of the community and rescue them from the men­ace of the Fulani herdsmen. He commended the effort of the po­lice and the Department of State Security at Anaku since the inci­dent started in the area.
Governor Willie Obiano, worried over the situation, had called on the security agencies in the state to protect the innocent farmers, appealing to herdsmen through the Hausa Community in the state to live cordially with their hosts.

Source : http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/04/Herdsmen-hack-Anambra-farmer-2-others-to-death/

Hahahaha!!!!! What happened to the big mouth Anambra man? Chest beating idiots...

chinology:
You are really dumb, I know it pained you that I touched your useless Abia state..

Leave Imo state and focus on your state, we can do a better job here. Abia state girls are cursed that one can sleep with them on the street. But the same education has made us to rule you i.diats for donkey years as the face of Igbos. Ask any outsider who they know, they will tell you Zik, Ojukwu etc..

But your girls have been crying that we are wicked that we don't marry them? Why is that?

Why are your girls still crying over this till today, tell me why.

Let me make it clear for you, one of our girls is worth 10 of yours. We can't afford our men either marry cheap prostitutes from your state who litter every corner of the street looking for any man that passes by.


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HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Look at you getting all emotional. Talking about Anambra men refusing to marry Imo women. I just pity your parents. It seems like your mother gave birth to you by sh*tting you out and brought you up by dragging you naked through the gutter. You have no class, no honor. Anambrans are not worthy to lick the boots of my people. You are all low class no matter what your station is in life. No sophistication, no integrity, no honor. You all behave like n*ggers, especially when you touch small money. I spit and curse your entire kindred for the next ten generations.

chinology:
I know you are from Abia the scum of the Igbo nation and worst state in Nigeria in every ramification. Your own case is even worse because as soon as I hear that someone is from Abia, I usually liken the person to a pig, backwardness and curse just like the pix below but that is the truth. You are not an exception. Because you dodged it when you mentioned Imo/Abia.

There is this common saying in Igbo-land that Anambrans do not marry outside their states, it is because we do not consider you people worthy enough to marry into our homes. Our girls are not prostitutes like your people. We produce the most marriageable girls who understand the tenets of marriage. We have the most enlightened women gender.

Above all Anambra is the reason the world celebrate the Igbos as we produced the best and brightest and most educated from Zik to Ojukwu to Achebe to Soludo to Chimamanda to Akunyili to Chike Obi to Kenneth Dike etc etc, even this board cannot contain it. We are the best..

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Hahaha!!! I seem to have touched a raw nerve. You are so typical. Have you even achieved anything for yourself? It is very childish to sing the praises of other people. Dumbass.

On the contrary, I have found that women from Anambra are loose and easily swayed by money. Many of them are runs girls in most of the institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. No matter how much education you people acquire you still behave like traders in a market!! No need to worry, my friend. No Imo/Abia person wants to marry a disgraceful, uncouth, illiterate and obnoxious anam-ewu person. We just can't stand you people.

chinology:
Yes, it is simple. The only way you can maintain yourself in isolation is to stop mentioning Anambra nor it's people on this thread or elsewhere on this board. Focus on your state here and leave us out of your woes for we are not responsible. But I will continue to engage this thread so far as you lots do not want to stay focused here.

The same thing applies in real life, focus on yourself and leave us out because we have on our own long decided amongst ourselves that we rather befriend your girls than marry them. That is covert but it is happening everywhere you look and we are very serious about that. That is a major effort in detaching you guys from us. We shall want you people to do the same too because we have gone far with it. We see it as taboo whenever our son brings your daughter to our state. We discourage any such effort and make sure it doesn't take place.


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Hahaha!!!! How do you go from mentioning your piece of cr*p state to dating Imo women!!!! You have an unhealthy obsession with Imo women, chino. I don't blame you, though....they are beautiful!!

Regarding marriage, trust me when I say this, the worst nightmare of any parent from Imo/Abia/Ebonyi is the possibility of having someone from Anambra as an inlaw. We see you people as trash. Low class illiterates. Now isn't that ironic?!

chinology:
Ok let us reason. I came into this thread this morning and saw people from Imo state complaining that Anambra is the reason Imo state is owing over 10months salary arrears. While the other was equally complaining that Anambra is the reason Imo state is broke. Why the persistent fixation on Anambra even when they should focus on their thread peacefully.

Just like you have said, I have been saying it for the past 5yrs that we have nothing in common and that is the reason you hear common phrase from Anambra dudes like 'mama m si' meaning my mom said each time it comes to marriage to Imo peeps. We are not the same people and I am more than comfortable with that as I have nothing that will ever take me outside my state to that state. Let us all respect that!

**You people should stop mentioning Anambra and it's people on this thread or I will continue to be here..


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This is the most sensible thing you have said all day. But I still wonder why you would concern yourself with people you have nothing in common with. This is very strange. I can NEVER spend a fraction of the time you spend bashing Imolites following up on issues concerning Ashantis, Hutus or Zulus. The interest is just not there. You, on the other hand, seem to be defined by your rabid hatred for Imo State people. A psychologist can better analyse and thus explain this phenomenon.

Now, how are we going to go about the necessary task of delinking Anambra people from anything to do with Imo, Abia and Ebonyi? This is what we should concentrate on because god knows me and my people can not STAND you people.

Pope22:
Just this morning, my friend from enugu state was telling me his own exprience from one imo girl who believes she has eaten a mugu not knowing that tomorrow could be another day.

"One imo girl misused her school fees and her school is about to close the portal, which means an extra year for her cus she is in her final year. She came to this dude and out pity and because of the way she used to cry and plead, this my friend helped her out without asking for anything even when her fellow imo guys were aware and never agreed to help their sister out, they all denied they dnt have money, some even warned the guy not to mind the girl (their sister o).

Meanwhile, before now..when the guy hasnt given the girl the money, she used to call this guy, appeared so friendly, she would call the guy in the morning to ask how he is doing, how was ur nite, etc. But after the guy gave her the money, to even pick the guy's calls let alone calling or flashing the guy as she used to do are now things of the past. Is this right or reasonable? If what I said here is a lie, let God judge me"

And your point is what?

doncharlso:
ur reasoning baffles me. in the latest rating of the most civilized state imo state is stil rated ahead of anambra. what u guys are doin is natural anyway; in life pple that are deficient in anythin are always arrogant by attacking pple they feel are better of, it is a way to make up 4 their short-comings to avoid intimidation. this xplains why deaf and dumb ppl are alwayz aggressive. so bloody homo-sapien it is not our fault that we are favoured and more sophisticated than u guys, it is God ooo, evn oil producing state we de dere; can u beat that? jealousy go kill una.

Brother, don't mind them. They are just envious of Imo people because we are decent, exposed and sophisticated Igbos. I have always said it that the arrogance of anambra people is due to inferiority complex...nothing more and nothing less.

Pope22:
My dear, leave that dude, he obviously has a lot of issues to take care of starting from his personality, his ways of understanding things, anger management syndrome, choice of words, etc. He has shown the world what he is and that's why I feel ashamed that someone at his age stil behaves this way. He is not arguing here, he is simply fighting and attacking irresponsibly, a disgrace to imo people. I made it clear that I don't hate imo people, I said I hate their character and he is here disgracing himself.

My friend, shut up and sit down. Bloody anambra fool.

Pope22:
Reading your words, I feel ashamed. I see the words of someone who is deeply angered and who is so pained that he believes using harsh words will make him feel better or make the truth sayer feel bad. I simply shake my head in sympathy. Its like the only words you are farmiliar with when you are angry are "fool" and "silly"

You should feel ashamed, regardless of my words. Do you realise that Imo, Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu people all dislike you anambra people? How does that feel? If Biafra becomes a reality, which I hope it does not, you people will fully realise the benefits of playing politics wisely. You will then know the value of building alliances. Carry on with your stinking mentality and attitudes.

Pope22:
Well, is better we trade, hustle and be independent than doing what imo people in this link:

https://www.nairaland.com/2365125/picture-suspected-child-traffickers-nabbed

We wil stil do the trading and business and employ you in our companies and factories and pay you monthly even with your degree.

I knw u will say we employ u because we can't do the job, Nah....not that. We employ you cus we don't want them to die of hunger since they can't do anything or hustle for themselves outside their degree. We anambrarians..even with our degree; we dnt wait for job, we create jobs for oursleves and for lazy ones like u or have u seen any young or fresh anambra graduate who is hungry? We don't sit around, we are always in the hustling mood. There is no family in anambra that u won't find a rich person even its one.

My dear, you are a silly fool!! 'Hustle', 'trade', independent'. You are so stupid. You people do not hustle, trade or exist independently more so than Orlu people so keep your empty boasts to yourself!! What ever you have, we have more and plus we are more educated and intelligent than you! You guys are just jealous of Imo people - end of story. You hate us because we are more united, our families are closer together, we are enlightened, educated, staunch and hardworking. No Imo person falls for the lies and bullcrap that comes from a typical anambra idiot. So take your fake Igbo backside and stay in your disorganised and crime infested hellhole. Onye beribe

natas22:
Bro you are a million times wrong go to AGOH in lag majority are imo and they are into drugs and prostitution

I have to be honest, I absolutely despise anambra people. Their mentality is an absolute disgrace and shame to true Igbo people. Like someone said earlier it would be preferable if anambra, like ikwerre, broke off from the rest of Igbos so that Ndigbo can grow and evolve into a proper, respected ethnic nationality. I feel no love, kinship or affiliation with them and see them as a separate and different people all together. They are oftentimes jealous of Imo/Abia people because we are more exposed, sophisticated and polished than them. Plus we are by far more intelligent than them and they know it! All they know is primitive acquisition of money, however, money cannot cover up the fact that you are crude, filthy minded and crass. Imo people have over taken you idiots in education and politics and we will soon emerge as the TRUE and acceptable face of Ndigbo.

Like I said and just to reiterate ----I despise anambra people.

obitee69:
I agree with the OP. 'Most' Imo girls are greedy but their advantages are dem sabi knack well ..I don't ever take dem seriously. I don't tink I can marry them. They wouldd never advise you to invest. They always want you to flex money. Also, Imo girls always want to be with Anambra boys because we are hardworking. You know most Imo men are very lazy andd their wives are usually hardworking and the breadwinners.

Hahahaha!!! Listen to this illiterate fool. Listen here: Imo people have scant regard for you ijekebe people. We are not and have never been the same. How dare you call Imo people lazy? Because most of us are not into trading? So to you being an illiterate trader is a sign of being hard working? Fool. Let me tell you this: no Imo State person - both man and woman - considers people from Anambra as a potential spouse. You guys should take you hard working behinds and concentrate on marrying yourselves. Useless, degenerative criminals. *spit*

Battery1:
Bro, leave dat fool alone, he has spiritual problem.

My friend shut up there. Foolish non entity like you

Battery1:
I tot u hv sometin reasonable to say. U make no sense here. Whether u like it or not, imo pple na cunny cunny pple. Pple dey fear una like say una be disease.

We are just too smart for you people!! Maybe you guys should start going to school and stop trading!!!

Jack7777:
Kwusinu this nonsense. . . Kedu ihe nemedu this op? Although ndi ALA BU OTU can be a pain in the ass sometimes. But not all of them. . .

Have you heard an OMATA trader speak? Now that is a pain in the a*se! You people just hate Imo people because you can not deceive us with your fantastic lies. Bunch of criminals

Battery1:
We can see hw diplomatic u are in ur sentence here and hw polished u are in ur choice of words. U dnt even knwd meanin of being diplomatic or polished. U are d greatest fool I hv eva seen in my life. Look at hw u are messin up and disgracin ur pple here, some1 is polite wit u and u are stil showin ur retarded sense of humour; imo blood flows in ur vains plenty and is turnin u into a CLOWN!! Its only God dat knws wat u drank or smoked dis nite dat is turnin ur eyes around and makin u behave like an imo guy. U once insulted anambra people in one of ur posts, why is this one hittin on u so hard? True they say pains a lot.

My friend keep quiet!! I treat you people the way you treat Imo people - with NO respect. You anambra people are a disgrace. You say all sorts of nonsense about Imo people, e.g., Imo women are loose...but the funny thing is if you investigate the places of origin of most of the easy women of virtue in let's say Owerri, you will find out that they are mostly from your place. You people should watch your step and mind your mouths. You attack Imo people I will unleash upon you a lethal rebuttal. Bunch of fake Igbos....

Pope22:
Please, you shouldn't address me as "foo.l", I never called anybody that or said imo people are fools, I only said I hate the character of imo people.

My friend go and sit down!!! You don't like their character The anambra character is the reason why Nigerians HATE Igbos. Imo people are the best Igbo people you can meet...highly educated, diplomatic and polished. If you don't like Imo people just keep it moving and look for a wife in anambra or Enugu. Anam-Ewu like you...

Pope22:
Am not saying this because am from Anambra state but because of what I have exprienced from some girls I have done things with in the past and what some of my friends have also exprienced too. As am seriously searching for a true soul-mate and a lover, I pray not to have or fall in love with a girl from Imo state. I have dated some girls, mainly Igbos but the one that gave me toughest time was from Imo state, 3 of my friends have also said same thing.

Even the males from Imo state are the worst people you can ever do something with such as business, living together as room-mates, keeping as friends, etc. These people can "rack" sense like mad; they always claim or try to show "sense" in everything and this kind of attitude has been transfered to their girls. They will always like to cheat you in every little thing, they will always pretend not to have even when they have unless everybody brings out. They will pretend to be good or freindly when they need something from you and when they get it, they walk away; this is Imo people for you and according to them, they call it "wiseness and wisdom"

They say Anambra girls like money, its better someone pretends to be good or friendly when she wants something from you and stil be that which she pretends to be after getting that from you than changing after getting what he or she wants; this is Imo girls for you and according to them, they call it "sense and smartness"

You can hardly predict them even when they are laughing, dont take it as "true laugh".
My friend came to me this morning lamenting and regreting why he has an Imo guy as a room-mate and as a close friend, he was telling me how the guy has been "racking" sense for him for long and he kept enduring and tolerating but this time, its choking him and he has to speak out. Exactly same thing a female friend of mine complained about her female friend she is living with. Personally, I have also exprienced same thing both from their females and males.

My question is..
Why are they like this?
And my prayer is...
God please, dont give me an Imo girl as a girl friend or as a wife.

Give me a girl from any state apart from Imo..even if its from North or West, I will gladly accept her but not from Imo state because I dont have strength or know how to "rack" sense.

Please I don't hate Imo people or anybody from there, I only hate their character!

Look at this stupid anambra fool!! As if Imo people like anambra people or even want to have anything to do with you guys! Absolute nonsense. Look let me tell you the truth. Imo people absolutely HATE anambra people and do not regard you guys as our kin folk. It is a shame that we are even considered as belonging to the same ethnic group, but what to do? No Imo family would want their son or daughter to pick a spouse from across the border!! You are all regarded as a bunch of uncouth, illiterate, under educated morons that value money more than life itself.

Dr. Adeniran Abraham Ariyo MD called for the massacre of Igbos in Nigeria the way Nigerians are being killed in South Africa.

Dr. Abraham Ariyo wrote on Facebook:

“You see how they (the Igbos) are being slaughtered in South Africa. That’s what’s going to happen to them in Lagos…When are they (the Igbos) not going to be slaughtered in Abuja?…God might have put a curse on them (the Igbos)…We will continue to bus them (the Igbos) to Onitsha.” – Dr. Abraham Ariyo

Dr. Adeniran Ariyo is a cardiologist in Dallas, Texas and is affiliated with Dallas Regional Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of Ibadan and has been in practice for 27 years. He is one of 10 doctors at Dallas Regional Medical Center who specialize in Cardiovascular Diseases.

Following general outcry on social media, Dr Ariyo has gone into hiding. He has removed all his pictures on Facebook and deleted his post.

But unfortunately for him, his words had already been print screened by sharp eyed Nigerians outraged by his callous statements.

Elombah.com learnt his Texas employers has been inundated with complaints following below mobilisation on facebook:

URGENT APPEAL TO STOP A GENOCIDAL XENOPHOBE

My Igbo brothers and indeed anyone that looks remotely like an Igboman, it’s only a tree that hears they want to cut him down and it will just stand there!

As Dr. Adeniran Abraham Ariyo has spewed unimaginable hate speech against us, we have to do something, the RIGHT thing. We cannot responsd to hate speech with hate speech, no we can’t, we are above such pettiness. There is a better more productive way to help authorities involved take care of such horrendous risk to human existence.

Here is the link to lay a complaint to Texas Medical Board, the organization with jurisdictional powers over the hate-speech doctor. Let us tell them the VERY POTENT RISK this man is to the life of humans. Also ask them to investigate all incidents, accidents and near miss involving him since he started practicing with a view to determining the true position of things and deter others with such Nazi-tendencies from doing like him.

http://www.tmb.state.tx.us/page/place-a-complaint

If you have some chips, follow up your complaint with a call to same Texas Medical Board through these numbers:

+1 800-201-9353

+1 972 223 0550

When you are done with a strong worded complaint to the board above, head over to the Genocide Prevention agency below and send a passionate SOS to them. Tell them the hate-speech doctor needs be reminded IN THE STRONGEST TERMS POSSIBLE that human life is sacred.

http://www.genocideprevention.eu/

I implore anyone with regards to human life to help us out on this.

Please do this for yourself, your Igbo partner, fiance, boyfriend, girlfriend, family friend. Let all humans with blood running in their vein help us tell this man and his likes that GENOCIDE IS EVIL! ?#?SayNoToXenophobia?

A campaign was also launched on CHANGE.ORG stating:

Investigate a Dallas-based cardiologist, Dr. Adeniran Abraham Ariyo who called for xenophobic attack against Igbos the way foreigners were violently attacked in South Africa.

So far 137 persons have signed the petition.


http://www.quicknews-africa.net/texas-based-doctor-calls-for-igbo-massacre-goes-into-hiding/#comments

ruggedboy01:
op is from the land of ofenmu

My friend, shattap! You tribalistic bigot. I am sure you are from Anambra. Boastful and jealous set of people. Look at mud huts in your state!! Igbos from other states do not boast or brag, especially Imolites, and their state is a lot more development, planned and clean than your hell hole. Anambra Anam-ewu!!!!

Nzam is just too primitive. There are mud huts everywhere. Strangely enough, Anambra people always brag and boast, which is ironic...

One wonders why these noise makers have such big mouths. Anambra, look at your shame:



Nzam: Anambra’s most neglected community
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By Our Reporter on February 9, 2014 National




• Pregnant mothers deliver at home
• Hospital, electricity, pipe borne water and good roads rare
• Bicycle a major source of transportation

FROM ALOYSIUS ATTAH, ONITSHA

In this age of globalization and technological innovations, some communities still exist as in the Stone Age era where all the modern amenities of life are absent and citizens rely on nature and human natural instincts to survive.

Nzam Community, the headquarters of Anambra West Local Government, Anambra State fits into the above description. A recent trip to the community by the reporter confirms the lyrics of the song by Afro beat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti that some people are “suffering and smiling.” A land so blessed with rich agricultural produce but yet wallows under the throes of underdevelopment and government neglect.

In Nzam, most children have never seen electric light since they were born, while access to clean water, hospitals or accessible roads is like a luxury often dreamt of by the people but yet to feel it.

A turbulent two and half hours sail through the River Niger by boat from the Niger Bridge Head brought the reporter to the precincts of the community. On berthing and anchoring at the bank of the river, one is confronted with weary villagers loading and offloading agricultural products behind mud houses and thatched roofs.

A narrow swampy road from the river bank leads to the community accessed by trekking or boarding of commercial cycle a major preoccupation of the youths in the area who have lost interest in farming.

Though there were few electric poles fixed on the narrow road which connects the local police post and an empty Health Post, the first response one gets on asking where to charge one’s phone battery through the public power source is a jolt on the real situation.

“My brother, maybe you are in a dream land,” the Okada rider said. “Ever since I grew to maturity, I’ve never seen electric light from NEPA here. These electric poles you see now are just fancy decorations on the road because that is where it ends. We have no light and our people only travel to Onitsha by boat to get the diesel, which we use to power our rice milling plants. There is no telephone network too as you may have noticed that your phone has lost service as you alighted from the boat. We are like people living in another planet and what they do is to visit us with empty promises whenever election time is approaching. That is all we see or get from them,” he lamented.

At the market square, though it was a work day and schools were in session, many children were seen playing by the heap of sand beside the community rice grinding mill. Farmers coming back from their rice farm all conveyed the yet-to-be-parboiled rice on bicycles. The local government secretariat, which was accessed by the reporter on a motorcycle through another narrow path with streams and locally made bridges, was like a ghost place.

The sign post bearing the inscription “Anambra West Local Government Headquarters, Nzam” was swallowed by grasses that it becomes difficult to view the signpost from afar. The secretariat, though deserted had some nice buildings. The old secretariat complex commissioned on 18th February 1999 was built by the military administration of Uwakwe Ukaegbu in Anambra. On enquiry about the state of affairs in the local council, a staffer who pleaded anonymity alleged that the members of the transition council of the local government reside in Onitsha and only visit once in month when their entitlements is released by the state government. He said they immediately return to Onitsha in their speedboat after sharing the booty for the month.



‘Our local government is the worst in Anambra’

An executive member of the town union, Kenneth Nwabunwanne in a chat with Sunday Sun described their local government area as the worst in Anambra State.

“During the flood crisis in 2012, our community was ravaged beyond proportion and we are yet to recover from the immense destruction. But before the flood disaster, we were living as the dregs of the society here. We have a health center but nothing is inside so it is more like a monument. When people fall sick, we are at the mercy of patent medicine shops while there is no hospital or qualified doctors to handle emergencies. We have no road and because of that, we are cut off from the rest of Anambra communities. There is no trade connection between us and others because of lack of access roads while those who can access this place through the river are very much limited. Our needs are numerous that we don’t know where to begin itemizing them but all I can say is that this place is the worst local government in Anambra State.”

Elizabeth Maduneme, a mother of five voiced the pains of mothers in the community thus: “Just last week, we lost a woman during childbirth, infant and child mortality is very high here because of absence of medical facilities. The woman had complications after delivery at home and before we could make arrangements to convey her to Onitsha, she died. We don’t have roads, water and light. All of us are basically farmers here and we cultivate yam, rice and cassava in large quantities but we don’t get encouragement from any quarter. During the rainy season it is bye – bye to Onitsha unless you can use boats but if not, we are cut off completely,” she lamented.

A community and its unique culture

Nzam community is the Ijam and Igala speaking part of Anambra State. It is made up of seven villages, comprising of Etakolo, Odobo, Udda, Urubi, Enekpa , Ndiokpoliba and Echa.

Despite suffering from government neglect, the people are a happy people steeped in various cultural and traditional festivities and are happy for that. An elder in the community, Chife Amekwe told Sunday Sun the historical origin of the community and its cultural activities.

“The natives of Nzam were the descendants of General Ajida, a notable warrior of Idah origin in Kogi State. Ajida is the father of Field Marshal Ogbe who was married to Iyida Ogbe and Iyida had five children-Nzam, Anam, Anaku , Oloshi and Okpanam. Ogbe and his family lived around Ankpa in Igala Kingdom. When the Apa and Jukun warriors invaded the Igala communities, Field Marshal Ogbe along with many others retreated with their families through the present Ibaji jungle moving Southwards along the course of the River Niger. As they journeyed through their way, various children of Ogbe for one reason or the other settled themselves at their present locations. This movement from the Igala Kingdom explains the fact that there are Odobo , Enekpa, Igah , Iyano towns in both Ibaji local government area of Kogi State and also in Nzam town in Anambra West Local Governent Area of Anambra State.

“Between January and June, we have festivals like Ugwolegwu, Edo onu Ananwulu and Enachune. In the month of January we call on the earth goddess to bless the children and bless our crops. The Ugwolegwu festival has to do with masquerades. It is more of masquerade feasts celebrated with different soups and rich fish sauces.

Enachune is the Iwa ji yam festival. We do it religiously because without that, the yam will purge us if we don’t mark the festival. The new yam festival proper takes place in August and we call it Uchuero. By December, we mark the Eka ceremony which is more of thanksgiving to God for life and bountiful harvest,” he said.



‘Only Peter Obi administration remembered us but we want more’

While the people of Nzam regret the seeming underdevelopment and deprivation of the area, many of the residents who spoke to Sunday Sun said that the entire local government area was like a totally forgotten enclave before the Peter Obi administration. A list of projects done by the Obi administration for the local council obtained at the local government secretariat by the reporter included “Umueze Mmiata Anam road under construction, Iyiora Anam health center, new bridges at Utolu, Oroma etiti Anam and egonwa bridge at Nzam, solar powered borehole at the local government secretariat, Nzam and completed Magistrate Court at Umueze Anam among others.

Jonathan Nwafee in a reflection on the development regretted that most of the projects executed by the Obi administration in Anambra West were sited outside Nzam, away from the local government headquarters. He lauded Obi for the developmental strides but expressed optimism that with the conclusion of the governorship and council polls in the state, the governor-elect, Chief Willie Obiano and the new Local Government Chairman in the area, Mr. Simon Mbanefo Okafor would give the area a new sense of belonging in Anambra State.

IbileIfe:
[size=14pt]Any forced act of sex is RAPE, no matter how you want to make silly excuses that no girl or woman agrees to have sex without persuasion.
Any boy or man who has forced any girl or woman to have sex with him is a RAPIST and should be seen as one and not allowed to escape from paying for his heinous crime.
We must expose and disgrace these brutes in every community in the society to deter others from committing same crimes.

The National Assembly in Nigeria is about to pass a bill to deal with rape.
“Any man convicted of rape is liable to life imprisonment. Persons convicted of gang-raping any victim shall be liable, jointly and severally, to a minimum of 20 years imprisonment without an option of fine; where the offender is less than 14 years, he shall be liable to a maximum of 14 years imprisonment and a minimum of 12 years, without an option of fine.”

But to me, life imprisonment is not enough. I want castration with life imprisonment and capital punishment for severe cases of rape where the victims are maimed or murdered.

Read more reports on RAPE CASES IN NIGERIA.
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My friend, shatttap if you don't know what to say.

ikennaj44:
I am posting this for the love I have for my 99.9% Christian people in SE zone. beware of islam, islam seeks the death of all non-Muslims, I have red quran and hadith, I know the degree of hatred Allah and Muhammad incited against non-Muslims, I have red so many hadith, and no Muslim can play (Taqiyya) and (kitman) before me on his bid to deceive me. Muhammad himself was a terrorist and he commanded all his followers to imitate him, Muhammad's sayings and lifestyle is called sunnah. Muhammad divided the people of this world into two, Muslims ummah and the kaffirs. Muslims ummah are overall Muslims and kaffirs are non-Muslims which Muhammad described as enemy of islam that Muslims Must fight to convert into islam, who refused to convert must be killed. the quran called non-Muslims the worst of creature. in quran all Muslims are commanded to fight in the caused of Allah, quran incites hatred against non-Muslims and warn them(Muslims) not to take non-Muslims as friends, for this Muslims live in community and alienates even their host state/country as enemy of islam because they are non-Muslims. in a certain hadith number Muhammad stated that the end of the world will not come until Muslims conquer the world and islamize it. under strict sharia law non-Muslims don't even have right to life. I must state categorically that a Muslims can not call him/herself a true Muslim without been a radical Muslim, thus prophet Muhammad commanded all Muslims to be harsh to non-Muslims. Muslims who shy away from jihad are called hypocrisy in quran and will be punish by Allah hereafter because they are not true Muslim(they are enjoying the life of the world instead of fighting for Allah).

now let me say this, in the event that igbos start converting to islam, this indoctrinated igbos according to the tenet of islam will first of all identify themselves as Muslim ummah before identifying themselves as igbos, this Is enormity and segregation against other igbos, they are seeing themselves as believers while the rest igbos are unbelievers, but God forbid, igbos won't convert. are you a Christian who sympathises with islam/Muslims, note that islam did not mean well for you. if Muslims attack me here, I will expose more about islam. this essay is for informational purposes and not to make you hate Muslims, though they are good people without islam. safeguard your communities against their infiltration it is not a crime.

Ikennaj44, you sound like a half literate Anambra trader. Polish up your drafting and comprehensive skills and come again.

andromida:
But why did the men marry such women? and if the women are so evil why not divorce them?

Seeing as a woman can break a man he should do his due diligence to marry a woman who is good for him and become the kind of man who can command respect from his wife so that the children can learn how to respect themselves and others.

My dear, shut up if you have nothing meaningful to contribute.