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[b]The Igbos need to learn how to respect others, particularly their hosts.

Remembered the time I was serving in Sokoto, there was this barber Chidi whom we corp members often charge and barb at his saloon,

He and his brothers were born and bred in Sokoto, he has never been to his home state, Abia, even his uncle died in Sokoto (while I was there)

I asked him why he did not want to settle in the east, he said "cost of living high there and opportunities no plenty like Sokoto"

Yet every evening we charged our devices at his place, he, his brothers and the other Igbo corp members often tagged the Hausas as ANIMALS,

Even in the lodge, they (IGBO corp members) often make mockery of the Hausa corp members and tagged we the Yorubas as Cowards,

In the lodge, Igbos were always reluctant to pay utility bills and some maintenance fees yet we collected the same N19,800 and 4k state allowance,

I don't just just know why they derive pleasure in insulting others who host them

My service year revealed the personality and thinking of an AVERAGE IGBO MAN to me.

I just want them to leave this country and have their Biafra.

We Yorubas will be waching in HD as they engage in boundary disputes with the SS & North.[/b]

The member representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has condemned the inclusion of Urhobo ethnic nationality as part of Biafra, noting that such an action is a blunt disrespect to the Urhobo Nation.

Omo-Agege in a statement on Wednesday stressed that Urhobo people would never be part of Biafra as they preferred to remain and work for the indivisibility of Nigeria.

The senator, who is a former Secretary to the Delta State Government, pointed out that “while Article 1 (2) of the United Nations Charter recognises the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples such act obviously does not grant any group the right to arbitrarily usurp the self-determination right of others.”

Omo-Agege said, “With the deluge of concerns being raised by my people, it has become necessary to state with absolute clarity as the senator for the Urhobo Nation in the 8th Senate of our Federal Republic of Nigeria that the Urhobo Nation has never been, is not and does not wish to be part of Biafra.

“MASSOB, IPOB or whatever ethnic-leaning group may have the right to agitate for self-determination for the people they represent. But that right would be encroaching and trampling severely and irresponsibly on the rights of other ethnic groups if, without consultations or any consensus whatsoever, they (MASSOB, IPOB or whatever ethnic-leaning group) decide to forcefully include others in their self-determination agenda.

“The Urhobo Nation totally rejects such unforgivable disrespect that touches on our very existence. Indeed, the unilateral inclusion of the Urhobo Nation in the flag or map of Biafra is an abhorrent and condemnable threat to our people. It is an unacceptable attempt to suppress our own right to self-determination. We will never tolerate it and it must stop forthwith.”

While admitting that there are imperfections in the present structure in the country which urgently need redress, he said the Urhobo people would continue to work towards addressing the various challenges and the unity of the country rather than allow it to break into pieces.

“We are cautioning against this trend of arbitrariness and disregard for the rights of others because we know that such a ‘conquest mentality’ has never promoted sustainable peace in human history. The Urhobo Nation believes in the unity of the Nigeria federation.”

“Our preference, as a major strategic partner in our Federation, is to work hard to correct its imperfections, not to break it up into bits and pieces. I will continue to work with my great and highly respected colleagues of Ndigbo extraction and other parts of our country in the National Assembly to perfect our Union, not break it.

[b]In all, this is our simple and firm position:We are Urhobo and Nigerians, not Biafrans,”[/b]the statement further added.

http://punchng.com/urhobo-as-part-of-biafra-disrespectful-says-omo-agege/

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THE Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has said that the South-South region is not part of Biafra and called on the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra to stop claiming that states in the region are among the territories of Biafra.

The IYC, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mr. Henry Iyalla, in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, decried a statement credited to one of MASSOB’s leaders, Solomon Chukwu, claiming that the South-South region was part of the Biafran territory.



Explaining that Chukwu’s statement was published in some national dailies on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, the IYC pointed out that the Ijaw and Niger Delta struggle for self-determination predated the agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra.

“The attention of the Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has been drawn to a statement credited to one MASSOB leader, Solomon Chukwu, published in some newspapers of Tuesday June 6, 2017, declaring that the South-South region is included in the territory of Biafra which MASSOB, IPOB and other self-determination movements are agitating for.

“This comment has been made by other Biafra leaders in different fora. For the records, the IYC wishes to state as follows; that the Ijaw and Niger Delta people identify with the Biafran struggle for self-determination.

“However, we wish to state clearly that the Ijaw and Niger Delta struggle for self-determination predates the Biafran agitations. It is on record that even before the Biafra declaration of independence in 1967, Major Jasper Adaka Boro, during a 12-day revolution, declared a Niger Delta Republic in 1966.

“This was before the advent and struggle for the actualisation of Biafra. The Ijaw and Niger Delta people had always maintained separate and distinct identity from our Igbo brothers of the South-East,” the statement read in part.

The IYC insisted that the Ijaw areas were not ‘part and parcel’ of the territory of Biafra.

“We will collaborate with our South-East, Middle Belt and any other minority groups in the quest for self-determination based on mutual respect and common understanding.

“In the coming days, we will start the constructive engagement on these terms,” the IYC statement further read.
http://punchng.com/ssouth-not-part-of-biafra-iyc-tells-massob/

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