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adelaja70: Ask the monkey lookin Ibos on Nairaland,u hear he-goat?

Another Okija: And for the last time I am telling you that until Anambra and Enugu say they cant produce the President before you start talking About Imo, Abia and Ebonyi... Delta State is least on the food chain..

Another Okija: Maybe Sullivan Chime for vice, but I dont believe that 2015 is our year..

alj harem: I don't have time for all this rubbish, I am waiting for real edo people not some Imo or anambra okoro man. I would not let Andre and co drag Igbos into this.

Again I stated clearly that Yorubas are not claiming Edo people. We do not claim, Yes we share history together and they were part of the first empire. Now it is completly upto them to chose. Again we the yorubas don't have such complexes to be claiming, it is not for us.

All we are doing here is sharing history not claiming edos are yoruba.

Maybe some of you need to get reading glasses.

abouzaid: @Gree-die, polish their english for what? So that their chinese customers will give them more credit or for their hausa,edo,warri and yoruba customers will pay higher for their goods? Listen, i have met many igbos living in the north who can converse in igbo with out putting a single word of english, can u do it? Then go and polish ur igbo

oduasolja: Elechi Amadi speaks of ordeal
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Celebrated novelist, Captain Elechi Amadi, abducted Monday night by armed youths at his residence in Aluu community, on the outskirts of Port Harcourt but released after spending 23 hours in captivity yesterday narrated his harrowing experience in the hands of his abductors saying it was the worst night in his entire life.

74 year old Amadi, who spoke with newsmen after he regained his freedom said he was blind folded


Captain Elechi Amadi
for the entire period he was in the hands of his kidnappers and was made to sleep on a wet ground while a N300 million ransom was demanded from him.

He said they eventually released him when they realised that he had no money. He therefore advised the government at all levels to take the issue of youth empowerment very seriously in order to ensure a secured future for the upcoming generation.

Elechi Amadi’s testimony on his ordeals runs thus:We thank God you came out to tell the story yourself. Some were not really that lucky. Like we had a case of a ninety year old man who was taken hostage and later died in their custody. And they dumped the corpse in Choba. What was your experience like?

I can describe it as the worst night I have ever spent in my life. It all started with three heavily armed men who stormed my residence on Monday night. I thought they were my brothers because some of my brothers had held a meeting with me thirty minutes before so when we heard a knock on the door I thought it was one of them. Apparently, the person was fluent in Ikwerre. So when we said who is that, he spoke in Ikwerre. So my wife opened the door.

And then three armed men with rifles came in. They said we should sit down. They demanded for money.

And I said I don’t have. And they flared up: “Come on, you must have money!”. They marched me to my bedroom. I had to give them the money I had kept for school fees of the children. And I told them that was all I had but they insisted I should bring dollars. I told them I don't have dollars. They finally said I should follow them.

I did not really know what to do. Apparently they were in a hurry to get away. We came out and quickly I examined the options opened to me. If I had been alone at home without my wife, I would have made a dash for it. But I feared that if I dared them even if I escaped they could shoot my wife.

So I decided to go quietly with them. As soon as I got into their waiting vehicle they blind folded my eyes. They tied a black cloth across my eyes. And for the next twenty-four hours I was with them that blindfold was there. We ended up in a swampy area. I was told to sleep on a swampy ground.

That is why I say it is the worst night I have ever spent. It was a wet and marshy ground. Two guards and I slept on the ground while the others went to mount sentries at different positions.

The wet floor was what bothered me health wise because I could get pneumonia easily. And you know it is harmattan now more so the night is cold.

At about 4am I started shivering I knew it was a very dangerous situation because if I develop pneumonia they would not treat me. May be that is what killed the old man you were talking about. The cold was what worried me most.

I told myself this was not a place one should spend two or three nights. Anyway, I got to talk to them.

They were threatening violence at first. When you are in that kind of state you don’t keep silent because you don’t know the mind set of your kidnappers. So I now opened a dialogue with them. I told them that as young men they were not supposed to be here, they should be out working.

And they said “ah, where can we work? The government will not give us jobs. Even the Okada we use to ply has been stopped, so where do we get jobs. We don’t like to come and sleep on the cold floor to earn money”.

I told them there are other ways. They could be rehabilitated etc. They said they were not interested in all that grammar that they were here for money, plain and simple.

And that I should give them three hundred million naira.

I said ah, if it is money, they had got the wrong man. “ You came to my house last night, what type of house is it, an ordinary bungalow, not walled round, no big cars, no security gate and barb wires”, they said they saw all that.

If I had the money I told them they would have seen security gate and barb wires on high fence because it is when you have money you want to secure things. They said it is true. At the end they said they would release me the following day, that I was truly the wrong man. And truly the evening of the following day they did.

They also had heard that the governor was in my house that morning. They now said I should tell the governor to give me money for my release. I told them since they had my handset I can’t reach the governor because his number was there.

They did not want to give me for fear that I could use the phone to make security calls. So I said I can’t connect the governor since they had my phone. In the end they found they had the wrong man. Time was not on their side too, they knew the police were now zeroing in on them.

What were their ages?

Between eighteen and twenty five; at most thirty. In fact one of the boys who was sleeping on the floor with me said Sir; you are the author of The Concubine. And I said yes. I asked if he attended a secondary school, and he said he did. He mentioned one school and said he is from Ahoada. And I told him I was there as a Vice principal some time ago. I just said this to make them relax. He later said he attended earlier schools in Ikwerre area. I kept them talking to relax. They were threatening at a point when they did not see money.

Where could they be from?

I am sure they were drawn from different areas. Whether an Ikwerre man was there I can’t tell. But whoever led them knows Aluu, my community very well, because the road they took me through in the community would not have been known by a non-indigene or somebody who is not very familiar with the area.

Were you given any food?

They gave me food at about 2 p.m. I had become very thirsty; I had to ask them for water. They kept saying they would bring, that they had sent a boat. In the end they brought bottled water and rice. I’m sure it was from a quick service restaurant (general laughter). I was very grateful for the water because it was really what I needed. I could not see the rice because I was still blindfolded. As I ate it was spilling all over.

Was it served with chicken or fish?

Yes (another general laughter)! I am sure it was the money I gave them. I managed to have the meal. Again if I had not eaten that food I would not have been able to do the five mile trek I did that night when I was released.

Where did they drop you?

Inside the bush. Around a disused oil location. So it must be in this Aluu general area. After they removed the folder from my eyes the youngman disappeared. I started trekking. I took the first bush path, it took me to an oil well, I stopped turned back, and headed to another bush path. I came back again.

It was the third one I took that I had to trek about five miles. I continued till I saw a flame, so I said that it must be a flow station with people working, that when I get there I will meet some people. By the time I got there I found my friend Sampson Agbaru and others who had been combing the area for me. So that was it oh.

Can you capture what the place you were kept looked like?

The environment was marshy; this was the kind of place they first took me to. In the morning they took me to a jungle.

You are reportedly asthmatic; did you suffer any crisis during your captivity?

Fortunately I did not. The marshy ground and the cold night are standard situation for asthmatic attacks. I thank God I did not suffer any.

Having been a ‘guest’ of militants in the creeks, what advice do you have for government as it relates to their struggle?

The boys said they were out for money. They want jobs. So I will say government should create jobs for the masses either by massive industrialisation or massive agricultural projects. There is urgent need to get the youths employed. I empathise with their situation this probably was why they released me.

Did you pray while you were in their custody?

(General laughter again). I confess I’m not the praying type. But what happens when I am in that type of situation is that my brain goes into overdrive. I think very fast. But I still prayed silently that God should get me out of the situation.

I am sure you were a bit stable while with them because of your military back ground. Tell us, were you just a teacher in the military school as many think or you went beyond teaching?

Certainly, my military background helped me to stabilize. Any 74 years old man blind folded and put in a jungle would break down with the cold. But my military life assisted me. I was used to living in the bush as part of our training.

I had two sides of me. First I was at the military school, Zaria.

We were recruited as young science graduates to train the boys at the military school so that the nation can have a crop of young officers with good education and with science background.

I did maths and physics. So for three years I was a lecturer. It had two parts, the classroom work and during long holidays we packed to the bush for military exercise.

So when I left in 1966, in 1967 the war broke out. And when 3rd Marine Commandos came here saw me they were very happy.

Adekunle , Col Eni etc they said old boy this war was not ended yet that I had to come and pick up the rifle again. I had to really do. I fought with the 3rd Marine Commandos. First under Adekunle and later under Col Obasanjo. Infact when he (Obasanjo) came here the first officer he saw was me.

He knew I knew the terrain. Already I was attached to the 14 Brigade, 3rd Marine Commandos on the Etche front.

He called me for break fast meeting where I briefed him on the situation. We fought here until the end of the war. I was a combatant officer.

Is there any appeal you want to make maybe arising from your experience in the den of militants?

We thank God they have released me. My advice is that government should quickly find jobs for the youths to empower them.

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Ndi Yoruba: chai.

I cant believe the ever enterprisingly boastful nairaland ibus are nowhere to be found.
They have tucked their tails between their legs and stayed away.
Yet in the not too distant future, they will be boasting about how they own 90% of Lagos with yorubas as their tenants.
Is it that most nairaland ibus immediately become possessed by the spirit of daf.tness and megalomania as soon as they log into this forum?
Na wa o. Raw facts are on ground now,the page is crawling.
I have always told yorubas to serve you NL ibus fresh facts wherever arguments like this arose and watch you guys 'cho'.
So much for nairaland ibus.You guys cant make me hate the real Igbos.Never!

Mynd_44: the OP is salivating

Areosapien: Coming from a dejected retaard like you, I find this a compliment.

Which reminds me... Weren't you the same FL Gators girl who got exposed on the forum for sending nak'ed pictures of herself to guys on Nairaland?

Talk about sadness and desperation

bittyend: Sure you did loooooooooooool!! And you had to surrender, and dump your biaFAIL pounds, and flag for the Nigerian naira, and flag...

Whatever happened to biaFAIL passport loooooooool..

I'm still trying to acquire a biaFAIL passport, that's why I'm trying to wife up an ibo chic looooooooooooooool..


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bittyend: Sure you did loooooooooooool!! And you had to surrender, and dump your biaFAIL pounds, and flag for the Nigerian naira, and flag...

Whatever happened to biaFAIL passport loooooooool..

I'm still trying to acquire a biaFAIL passport, that's why I'm trying to wife up an ibo chic looooooooooooooool..


[img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/238373_800px-Biafran_one_pound_note_back_side_jpg527d69b39cdb3483ead11e38dde0cd90[/img]surrendering does not mean you have given up , no matter how long it takes nigeria will eventually split, though its funy a yoruba man mocking biafra the same time caling for regional government or odua nation , it must be in the soup.

ndu_chucks: Every sensible Nigerian should put all efforts towards unseating PDP in 2015. Sentiments should be set aside in furtherance of this goal.

bittyend: How many yoruba were in the Nigerian army in 1966? Less than a thousand!!

You guys had almost the same number as the Northerners, why did your cowardly soldier allow the pogrom, when you could match them number for number??

Ibos are cowards!!

bittyend: Fulani masters??

We don't need to be the president of the cesspit to achieve our aims and objectives.. All we want is regional integration, and maintaining our hold on the most strategic parts of the Nigerian economy..

But definitely not in support of an ibotic president lol.

bittyend: You want to know who a coward is, yeah?

A coward leaves his people, and run in a skirt at night.. I call that OJUKWU-ISM!!

A coward starts a war he can't finish, and ends up begging for mercy.. I call that BIAFRA-ISM

Let me school, if the civil war had been between YORUBA and NIgeria, best believe we will fight till the last man.. When we go in, we go harrrrrdddddd!

Yoruba don't fight without planning, we're cultured and sophisticated people... Ibos on the other hand are uncultured, that's why you guys are aggressive, uncouth, and you have failed to evolve..

bittyend: Ojukwu didn't see shyte, he only saw himself lording over Nigeria...

I think you guys need to ask yourselves why you're so greedy.. If you had declared your biaFAIL, and stayed in your God given homeland, you may have been successful (I doubt this because the northerners make the average ibo man tremble with fear) . But nah, you had to take your biaFAIL feet to colonise other parts of Nigeria.

If the biaFAIL situation ever happens again, I'll definitely fight against invaders to rid my region off unwanted people, period...

alj harem: Look you cannot be insulting and lying against any group in Nigeria and somehow hope to get their votes. LOL that would only happen in your dreams not real life.

2015 Igbos don't even SW vote to win so I don't see the problem here. You have the population in Kwara, Ekiti etc to win it yourselves.

All this lies hate and propaganda against the yorubas just cause you lot are tribalistic to even think straight or the future of your generations would do no one any good.

1. GEJ should do federalism so that Niger-deltans can have their oil and the SW can rule themselves

2. If he can, he should do constant electricity. If no, he should still do the SNC

that is all, all this bigoted insults and hate against the North, Igbos and Yoruba would stop. It is easy really !!!

Nchara: Can you define for me what many means here? Jmaine himself confirmed there was a general voter apathy in the SW, no? Of course a few voted for him in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Ekiti. He lost to Ribadu in Osun and won in Ondo (Mimiko). Otherwise, the preponderance of Yoruba - if they mostly voted for him - in this forum will not be calling GEJ names unwarrantedly.

alj harem: Dude don't waste your time because I know Jmaine is a "diehard GEJ fan" so I was just pulling his legs. Don't sweat it.

All I know is SW rather form an alliance with the North than the tribalistic Igbos down south. Fact !!!

190: Bashiru do u have money 2 follow up

Charles. E:
Elrufai Urges Pastor Adeboye to Retire

Foot in Mouth suffering controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir Elrufai, has given Ann unusual birthday gift to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye. The controversial minister is asking Pastor Adeboye to resign in a post on his twitter profile.

As usual, NaijaPundit brings you the post unedited below.

Many are wondering what business Elrufai who is not a member of the RCCG has with the retirement or non retirement of Adeboye.

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/elrufai-urges-pastor-adeboye-to-retire

dasparrow: Pastor Adeboye is already 70? My goodness, he looks great for his age. I guess when you have money and are not suffering in the real sense of the word, you get to age gracefully. As for Mallam Elrufai, he seemingly just wants to steer trouble. Pastor Adeboye will retire when he is good and ready I guess.

odumchi: I'd like to hear you guys' reactions and thoughts to the topics I raised within this letter and what you think their reaction will be. Thanks in advance.