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@^^ Awo was never against the Igbos. Doing what was expedient and necessary for your own survival during war time(s) does not equate or imply "hate/against" the Igbo. Only lazy immature minds who know nothing about "WAR" or its implications/consequences would think otherwise and want to hang their inherent prejudices/hang-ups on him or policy. It is very convenient to blame him for all manner of ineptitudes inherent in the Nigerian structure. Igbos are noted for bad decisions and pointing fingers at the wrong direction like most other Nigerians anyway . It is a national culture of "living in denial". It is as Nigerian as Pounded yam .

Ngwakwe: You said you have not been to Nigeria and have not touch Naira, who do you represent and what is the credibility of you information

Katsumoto: 1. Thats an ignorant statement (Awo and Akintola feud).

2. Yes Awo didn't want Nigeria but Awo's destiny should not be predicated by the whims and caprices of the Igbo. So you think Awo should have been waiting for the Igbos to change their minds about Nigeria? Do you think this is kindergarten?

3. Who said anything about Igbos being more intelligent? An Igbo man promulgated a decree to level the playing field in another region while another Igbo man (Ojukwu) naively announced to the world that the Igbo would export Igbo civil servants to the rest of the country. Where did you read that it was based on merit?

bashr8: you are not intelligent at all , igbos keep records of their own we dont keep records of how many northern christaians have been killed by muslim northerners, and how many yorubas, edos ,igala, southerners etc that have been killed in riots in the north. whos fault that yorubas dont care about their dead in order not to offend their northern masters. denial have always been in yoruba dna, keep licking northern a,ss even in military era they slaughtered all your leaders right there in yorubaland they set you up to kill yourselves in operation wettie and over ran your region yet you keep bowing to them , what a shamles set of people.

T9ksy: Its either you are a bold-faced liar or you just plain ignorant. Go back and read your

history books again. In 1945 and 1953 when the northerners went on the rampage in their region, they

slaughtered ibos like roaches. But still, slimy zik and his NCNC party were singing unitary system in 1956

and were prepared to delay their independence day till when the north is ready.









Culled from: The Genocide Papers, by:
Political Action Committee
Ekwe Nche Organization
P. O. Box 408250
Chicago, IL 60640 , U.S.A.
Phone: 773-206-9401

9ja voice: THIS ONE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE SOUTHEAST IS LOCATED.
HOW MANY YEARS AGO, DID WE IGBOS STOP MANY WIVES ACQUIRING.

MAN! YOU ARE AN HAUSA/FULANI MAN TRYING TO POSE AS AN IGBO.
YOUR GAME IS OVER.

NO IGBO MAN CAN TAKE LOAN AND USE IT FOR MARRIAGE.
NO NO NO, THAT IS FOR HAUSA/FULANI'S

naptu2: Renewed Clashes Claim 10 in Benue, Ebonyi

27 Jun 2012

Ten persons were feared dead in a renewed fighting between the bordering communities of Agila  in Ado local government area of Benue State and Ngwo in Ebonyi State.

The perennial land dispute between these two neighbouring communities which has defile resolution, erupted at the early hours of Tuesday with the Ngwo community allegedly deploying mercenaries into Agila and threatening to march into Agila main town. 

An eye-witness at the Benue end of the border said that the renewed fighting has forced inhabitants of Ai-Nedu clan in Agila to flee to Apa Agila for safety. According to him, farmers of Ai-Nedu community had gone to carry out their routine farming activities yesterday morning when they ran into an ambush of over 100 men who marched through Ogilolo community dressed in military camouflage and armed with sophisticated weapons.

“The farmers flee on sighting the men but the mercenaries caught up with one Oche Adayi, a father of four and beheaded him. From that point, they moved in further, shooting sporadically and killing any living thing within the area; as at now we can not ascertain the number of the dead because many people are still missing while some are believed to be trapped in the farms”.

“As at 30 minutes ago we were hearing sounds of gun shots coming from the besieged community near the Community Secondary School in Agila while people are still scampering for safety” he said.

When contacted on phone, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ado local government area, Mr. Benard Ochepa,  lamented the extent of the attack on his people.

“The attack was just overwhelming; it is sad that despite efforts by the state government to ensure that this crisis was brought to an end, the people we gave land to habit have now resorted to killing my people, it is sad indeed”.

“In fact the situation is even more painful when you realised that our people have been displaced from their places of abode and their communities made desolate,” Ochepa lamented.
The development yesterday prompted a forced cancellation of all official engagements organised by the Benue State Government.

As at the time of filing this report, the Benue State Security Council, chaired by the Deputy Governor, Chief Steven Lawani, had conveyed an emergency meeting to deliberate over the matter.

When contacted the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer for Benue State, Mr. Ejike Alaribe ASP, who said the police recorded one death in the fighting, added that the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Christopher Katso, personally directed the Area Commander in charge of Otukpo to move to the troubled community to ensure that peace was restored in the communities immediately.

He added that Benue State Police Command was also working in concert with  its counterpart in Ebonyi state to ensure that calm returned to the areas.
“We have drafted more men to the area, and i can assure you that calm has returned to the area”, Alaribe said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/renewed-clashes-claim-10-in-benue-ebonyi/118814/

illicit: its like u dont understand the arts of war, awo was a minister under a millitary govt, if he provide food for the biafrans which were actually nigerians, ojukwus soldiers hijacked this food and nourish themselves with it, okay if 2 million ibos died of hunger, is any one of them from ojukwus household? Thinka bout this and know where to direct ur blames.

Katsumoto: 1. Igbo civil servants were already serving but does that mean they couldn't send more? To achieve that purpose, Ironsi removed the compulsory Hausa language test for the civil service in the North. I don't really get your point; are you stating that Ojuwku didn't state that the Igbos would start exporting civil servants to other regions?

2. Not that I admit that Awo tried to cut deals with both Zik and Bello but that was negotiation to strengthen one's hand. After all, even if both agree to deal with him, he can only deal with one and not both

3. You don't know my people, so leave that out of it. It is your opinion that you think the Igbo caught up with the Yoruba. Not worth debating over. In any case, the prize for the Igbo was the North and the West, which was why Ironsi abolished tests in Hausa.

4. Igbos didn't have to prostrate to anyone. They were being killed in the North, all they had to do was go home until Nigeria's future could be sorted out through diplomatic means. Going to war was not the answer especially as they weren't prepared. You do know it's possible for one to stay in one's home if there is danger outside. What was the straw that made Ojukwu declare secession? What many of you don't understand is that Ojukwu went to war because he realised he could have been replaced by Gowon had he accepted Gowon's decree 8 of 1967.

5. Awo was not a saint but he damn was the best administrator of that generation or any generation for that matter. His records remain unmatched despite successive governments having budgets that dwarf what he had to work with. If you are in doubt, you can read what Lennon-Boyd wrote about all three regions in 1957, which was a precursor to the Willinks report of 1960.

Nightshift: Even if we have more financial facilities from Igbo state governments, we don't have enough arable land to equal their production capacity. Besides, how many Ndigbo are willing to work in the farm this days? Are we going to import Somalis to work in our farms? Ever heard about comparative advantage?

Ileke-IdI:
hmmm.

But if the Igbo/Yoruba traders (who came to buy), then why has food scarcity hit KID since KD owns the farms/ food product.
It would make sense to say that food scarcity hit Southern states.

Confusion is a . . . .

dayokanu: How many people were wasted by Adekunle? Some of your people said its about 3million?

Black Scorpion just turned those Igbos into shooting practice whether you moved or not.

The rest na Hunger kill them while their men were hiding under wrapper and taking off to Abidjan

T9ksy: Colonizers ko! Vulcanizer ni!!

Na whose land una go colonize na? You lot are centuries too late for that nonsense jo.

Even in nigeria, no one is going to sit back and watch you guys colonize his ancestral land.

But i know your flat obdurate heads will not let you listen to voice of reason just as in the case of the civil war

when your ex-warlord was warned not to go to war but he refused until when sh.it hits the fan then he remembered

there's another alternative called "peace".

country resorts, my a.r.se. Your region is a shi.th.ole and you lot just don't wanna go back there hence

you will rather come down to the SW or SS whenever you are chased away from the north than your "country resorts"

Country resorts ke? I laugh in kidnappers' den.

T9ksy: Trust me, they are everywhere............like sand.

In Cameroun, they are treated as immigrants after the pepper the ibos showed them before they attained their self-rule.

After the 2nd WW, southern Cameroun was adminstered from nigeria and ibos moved in droves to the region. In no time

they started their usual marginalisation of the indigenes, plus chest-beating and sheer dispect for the locals hence

South cameroun opted to join their brothers up north than be joined with nigeria knowing fully well what fate awaits them

in nigeria.

dayokanu: Where were the men of Arochukwu when Adekunle came to town?

They hid under the wrappers of women

Some fled to Abidjan

What a tribe of cowards

Mr. Globe:
normally this your meeting should have been an avenue to celebrate the success of your propaganda on nairaland but am sorry it wont be working again. You need to re stragize and still meet me here.. We are going nowhere. Peter obi is a theif and fraud. El rufai attacked the fraud not anambra. Thats the fact of the matter

Mr. Globe:
Lol.. Bro dont mind these paid sycophants sounding as stoopid as ever. Trying to use anambra state to cover thr fraud peter obi. The same sycophants jumping around my posts without denying my statements or addressing it with facts. Every true son of Anambra state hates the Fraud peter obi. I bet these rats can put up this argument in any place in Anambra even in Peter Obis village.. Peter obi has taken us back into darkness. Awka is the worst capital in the east without any facelift, dirty, no good and beautified dual carraiges, no good hospital or quality schools, not liveable. Nnewi is disorganized, onitsha too. The masses are on the streets feeding from hand to mouth more than any other state in the east while the fraud peter obi is building his malls and mansions in abuja, trapping state funds at fidelity bank, building his scam miller factory and grand malt in ph and governing the state from enugu. Normally I wouldnt bother replying them but since I have learnt they live on propaganda, i will not allow them succeed here on nairaland which I run

chino11: Bashr nwanne mu kedu ije. Biko rapu Globe hes got beef to sort out.

Biko make a stop anytime @ Awka so that we can sit over a bottle of Henny.

You have always shown your unbiased analysis of how things are. I live and work in Awka with my family, I know that Awka is serene, quiet and hospitable city meant for civil and student classes and much more less of traders like Onitsha and Nnewi; either middle class if you like. As I write this piece Onitsha boys weekenders are trooping into the city for weekend jolly just as always to catch their fun before they return to their base tomorrow evening.

I don't know why people will come online only to make fool of themselves. Why not Elrufai compare his cave Katsina to Anambra. Even the entire NW/NE cannot be compared to Anambra.

ZUBY77: I have never seen a bigger slowpoke than you.
So you can compare Lagos with Anambra?
Do you really know what COMPARE means ?

rhymz: Mr Globe
If you must argue please do so from an objective standpoint regardless of your political inclination.
Most of the Igbos that support El Rufai's falsehood are political opponents of Peter Obi that are ready to do anything to rubbish his government no matter what he has or has not done.
Even Fashola gets thesame treatments from Yorubas in the PDP. They peddle all manner of falsehood and exaggerate his mistakes. We all saw how his detractors exploited the Sacked Doctors issues and stuff like that.
I care less about defending Obi's administration but I will not agree or condemn wholeheartedly the developments in Anambra state or allow myself to be indirectly used as an agent of divisive politics through spreading of falsehood or outright distortion of facts.
I have been to Kano and Kaduna( the pride states of the north) and now I am in Sokoto, none of these northern state can boast of being better than Anambra state in any ramification even with their past and present heavy FG patronage, FACT!!!
Like I have said before, El Rufai's intent goes beyond innocently critiquing the Government of Peter Obi, it was a direct and deliberate attack on the people of Anambra and in a way, a subtle attack on the entire southeast people, trying to paint a grotesque image of the subregion using Anambra as a launchpad all in preparation for 2015.
There is no sincerity of purpose in his intent, it is all politics and divisive machination to cause confusion. If you understand Obi's position and influence in APGA as an Igbo political party and as an Igbo leader, you will understand why he had to pick on Obi.
Obi might not have done well in all rammifications but I dare say, his performance in Anambra towers higher above the performances of Kano and kaduna state governors. If El rufai wants to genuinely write on mispriorities, the north is a perfect case study. The government system here does not support the people here in anyway, it is all politics and no substance. They have no programs here to educate their people about backward cultures and traditions that put them in the vicious cycle of poverty. A 15yr old girl in the North has no formal education and is already one of the many wives of a poverty stricken man with no sustainable means of survival. The people of the north care little about education, most of the professional establishments here are manned by Yorubas, Igbos and niger-deltans. He should pressure the governments here to be sincere and help their people. Hausa breed childrien here en mass without any plans for them and yet Mr El Rufia wants to pontificate about misprioities to a state that has way more wealth and development than people from his state. Talk of lip service and insincerity of purpose at its highest order.

Mr. Globe:
Chino peter obi lives in enugu, he is a neighbor to a friend. So awka is getting a face lift? Do you know where they call abakaliki street? Do you know how the road is? Do you know how dusty, unkempt and neglected awka looks, even though its the seat of power, the tiny roads blocked by rickety houses with heaps of dirts. No infrastructure at all. Now as a businessman, will you invest in awka or enugu or asaba or owerri? Where will you invest in? And have you visited these other capitals to see how planned and government presence they enjoy. Take you propaganda somewhere else, even a blind man can see obi is a failure and fraud