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StOla:
It has always been the habit of Igbos to pull statistics out of their ass, so I doubt if that surprises anyone these days.

If Igbos constitute 80% of importers and other tribes are to take their own share of what Igbo false statisticians have left as remainder for them, then I reckon that the big industries who do the bulk of importation should make do with just 0.01% of importation?

Concerning the complaints being made by these importers, I welcome it if made from purely economic perpectives, but to inject the notion that the policy was designed and implemented just so that Igbos should cry is what I would not condone.

Nigeria has economic challenges, and the government of the day would do what it must to surmount those challenges it inherited without regard to tribal sympathies.

The government should not always have to stop to ponder on whether the ever crying Igbos would like a policy or not. Policy implementation always have positive and negative consequences, Igbos should learn to stop "tribalising" the demerits.

It's easy for you to churn out this crap because it doesn't accept you or your people directly but be rest assured it's gonna come back to bite your sorry butt.

If you were very observant on what I posted you'll see I said "guess" and I used that figure because a cousin of mine who worked at NPA said a great percentage of the importers are Igbos. So pls keep your Igbo hatred to yourself and let it eat you up.

babyfaceafrica:
does it affect only them?....why are they the only one complaining?....e dey pain them as bubu enter abi?

Can you be truthful for one?

Which people are the highest numbers of importers? Be truthful for once.

Should the majority stakeholders in the importation business keep quiet in the face of harsh policies affecting business because of the minority in their midst, huh?

I can make a guess that the Igbos make up about 80% of importers, should they keep quiet because of 20% others are also being affected? Guy make you dey use your head.

Yhinkss:
Everybody hates you right? Are you the only traders or is it only on igbo traders. It is a policy to encourage local production so as to reduce dependency on foreign product which will benefit a lot of people especially the Ibos who are into a lot of production in Aba.
Its just that you have been brainwashed. Anything being done this hate ibo that hate ibos. You better change your reasoning

Just like they earmarked N3.6billion to purchase foreign cars thereby encouraging the likes of Innoson motors to continue their business in the process, right?

I'm sure you can come up with excuses and reasons why they have to purchase the cars from outside the country. Oya bring it on.

Rose2014:
You don't get it, do you? This shows how shallow u are in understanding the op


Pls next time allow smart people to quote me instead

OUCH!!!

That hurts
Are you saying that he is a dvllard?

Rose2014:
At d bold. Same way there's a refinery in Kaduna. And his robots will start educating us why Kano is the best place to clear the goods

Btw Any persecution of traders is a persecution of the masses cos if they suffer finish to get the goods, na consumers go hear am.

And those mpkis above talking trash are one way or the other consumers. When the prices of goods skyrocket they'll still blame the Igbos for selling their wares costly. They had better get ready to start importing.

I think the threat one alhaji made in his phone conversation with one kunle about how they'll economically shut the Igbos down is what is beginning to play out.

We'll overcome.

babyfaceafrica:
Igbo and complain is like bread and butter

You read everything in the OP and you think they have nothing to complain about? Isn't your hate for the Igbos becoming obvious?

The dollar restriction is affecting their business and you expect them not to complain, huh?

They import their goods into the country instead of clearing in Lagos they are asked to go all the way to Kano for it and you expect them not to complain.

Before you blame or castigate them, why not try putting yourself in their place.

Yeye.

chernest2002:
When are they going for the Fulani herdsmen please

You mean go against Bubu's brothers? Stop dreaming brother

I thought El-rufai wants to marry one of Bubu's daughters. El-rufai sorry no more wife for you.

Ikechu12781:
This is written by an OGONI MAN himself

http://www.magnusabe.com/

This is why I keep saying this hopeathand is a yoloba monkey residing in PH. Quote me any day. I'll bet my entire savings this fool is not from river state.

Anyway, go and tell ogoni that oyigbo is their land. Oyigbo people don't even need to slap you, the ogoni's will do it for them.

I'm sure they'll tell you that Magnus Abe is an impostor.

The Opobo/Nkoro people are mainly farmers and fishermen.They are of Igbo extraction. They speak Igbo language mixed with pidgin and Igbani. Just like the neighbouring Bonny, founded by Ndokis of Azuogu, slaves from the hinterlan transformed the demography of the area when the Transatlantic Slave Trade was abolished. Ijaws who came in as porters also settled there and the Igbo language was adopted. Although, there are no indigenous Ijaw communities there, most Ijaw migrants and porters have fully been integrated into the original indigenous Igbo communities.

Hmmm... I'm shocked

Oyigbo is a town and Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. It is a satellite of Port Harcourt, lying a few kilometers to the northeast of the city. Sir Precious Oforji was elected Chairman of the Oyigbo LGA in 2008. HRH EZE MIKE NWAJI was installed the traditional of Oyigbo since 1998 to date. Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) operates an oil well in the LGA.
The Oyigbo people are of Igbo extraction.

Even Andoni has a touch of Igbo in their language.

Chaiii this Magnus Abe must be a criminal, he must be jailed

Truckpusher pls report asap. We need to jail this man.

Rose2014 are you sawing what I'm seen

Rose2014:
Thanks for the advice oga m I have

Thanks too

Rose2014:
Lol it's about time we begin to accept the truth. 56 years later, we've only succeeded in moving backwards

John 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. -

GBAMEST! Let me say it like you.

Rose2014:
You don join IK in his vexation too?

Nne their mischievousness is just to much to be ignored. Just negodi.

I saw what you posted on that double agent of the underworld. Perhaps they've given him the protection he was seeking. Pls rest your case on him, it's not worth it.

Ikechu12781:
I've died and gone to heaven laughing. Rose don't worry, God will punish you for killing me with laughter. Aniofia LOL.
Being serious, I'm happy someone sees what I see. I don't tell am. Nigeria no be third world country. Its an insult to other third world country. In fact that zoogeria needs it's own category.

Hahahaha... The way you guys are going about murdering Nigeria, all I can say is DIARIS GOD oooo....

madenigga:
Someone saying Igbo land starts and ends in Southeast is the same as the person saying ijaw land starts and ends in Bayelsa.
Its only this new generation dat doesn't know the actions and drama dat played following the creation of Rivers state, the people involved, the people who protested.
Ijaws u people know u are not true Rivers sons at heart, u people want to create a new state oil Rivers and Bayelsa because of selfish reasons, get ur state 1st then we wud discuss.

I like this. I can see how they've avoided this your post. If they want to continue with their "no-Igbos-in-SS" then it will also make sense to say there are no Ijaws in Rivers and Delta.

THERE ARE NO IJAWS IN RIVERS AND DELTA STATES. IJAW STARTS AND ENDS IN BAYELSA.

Any person in Rivers claiming Ijaw is an impostor. Again I repeat, there are no Ijaws in Rivers and Delta States, Ijaw starts and ends in Bayelsa. Every group in Rivers and Delta are distinct groups.

Ndi ara.

Truckpusher I hope I'm speaking your mind.

Cc: Rose2014

Is this thread still alive? Hahahaha... Those "no-Igbos-in-SS" don enter one chance.

Omalicha'm ke ije?

Rose2014:
True but una analyses pain pass

But which one pain pass? This one or that of Igbo community in Jigawa?

Rose2014:
Between two of una, I no know who wicked pass Can't stop chuckling at work

Nwanyi oma'm I didn't say that ooo, those were the words of FFK

dearpreye:
Where would PMB have heard or read about Benjamin Franklin? Personal development isn't his forte.

Bro you follow dey add salt and pepper to injury

Rose2014:
There is an Igbo speaking community in Jigawa

Shey you don dey look for trouble now abi

dearpreye:
You're too informed to be taking such a stance as you're doing. There's nothing more embarrassing for the SS to be given an insulting 13% of its own resources.

Why haven't our SS agitation worked? It's a question of time but I can assure you that you don't have what it takes to do it with the Igbos if it comes to that. The Biafra agitation, INC or any other group MUST coalesce to form bigger umbrella. That's my major reason for supporting the Biafra agitation. I have no stake in this nation.

Whenever we see we will seek to continue enlightening ourselves but you need to drop that land grabbing accusation you keep leveling against the Igbos. It breaks my soul.

Big bro I still got that wine. Let me know when you are ready. Good day.

Rose2014:
The guy is not making any sense at all.
His argument is dead on arrival

By the way, my grandma told me there are Igbo communities in Jigawa

I refuse to laugh

Rose2014:
There are Igbos in SS so what is this one talking about?



'Who is Minister of State for Petroleum, is he not Igbo? Who's Gov of Central Bank? Is he not Igbo? Who's Minister of Labour, Science and technology?
''What do the Igbos want?" - Buhari during the presidential media chat



When it comes to killing during riot in the north, they're all Igbos. When they do drugs and the name sounds Igbo, they're all Igbos. If it's about baby factory and the name sound Igbo, they're Igbos. During the lopsided appointments, they're all classified as Igbos but once oil is involved, they're SS
You can see now that all he's talking about is oil and SS

Even Truckpusher the Obi of SS won't be spared because during riot in the north he's an Igbo.

Is it possible to talk about SS and not mention oil?

Just in case you do not know who Benjamin Franklin was permit me to point out the fact that he is a man that is reverred by the American people and much of the civilised world up until today and he is the individual whose face appears on the one hundred U.S. dollar bills that are used till today.

This FFK guy is wicked, did he just call Bubu olode who don't know who Benjamin Franklin is?

DiademSh07:
At least, the militants got enriched through the FG and not by exploiting their peoples' pocket.
Not saying the militants are any different though but that doesn't negate the fact that ibo people are too gullible!

I really shouldn't be responding to you but let me oblige you.

Where else do you expect them to get the money from? If they try it on the people you no know say na extinction things on the people. These are ordinary hardworking Igbos who shook their body and over N500million fell out. How many... Let me not go further.

I wouldn't say the Igbos are gullible. They just believe in the cause and they are willing to fund it no matter how much it requires. It was just unfortunate that the leader, Uwazuruike, is a thief, a scam and a sellout. He's been kicked out for a new leader, who is willing to lay down his life, to take over. So relax ore.

Truckpusher:
Lmao

E get any ethnic group wey gree buy am ?

Ok sha ! Those Niger Delta impostors will buy from us .
Lego ! Omo, make we enter Ikoku and mile 3 market , Udmaster and Candy.rain will surely buy one each.

Haba guy, just see as you dey happy like say you win lottery. So all these na because say we make you eat your words on the existence of Igbos in your SS. Na wa ooo.

I'll pick up your passport on the condition that you get your degraded region cleaned up. At least make I see where I go fit establish my company/business. Iwotago? Trucking Trucker

Truckpusher:
Udmaster and Candy.rain , come see what your great Igbo nation is doing to their own people o.


Igbo kwenu !!

Igbos scamming Igbos since Adams.

Shits happens and we all know that Uwazuruike is a scam, a sell out and a mistake that should never have been allowed to happen hence he was dethroned from being the leader of MASSOB.

Honestly don't you think he (Uwazuruike) is still a learner when compared to the Niger Delta militants who used the genuine fight of their people to enrich themselves, huh? At least the Igbos know that Uwazuruike is a thief and he's been shown the door. How many of you guys can stand up to the militants who enriched themselves with the collective benefits of their struggle?

Try remove that log in your eyes before thinking of removing the speck in mine and stop masturbating around.

DiademSh07:
You are really dull! Where did I infer that there's no ibos in SS?
Heck! There are Yoruba communities in Ugbodu, delta state, not to mention our Itsekiri brothers yet no Yoruba dey die on top SS mata as opposed to you ibos with your constant attache by force!
Abeg free me this early morning!

You have been drumming support for those that have been saying there are no Igbos in SS. Don't that translate to you saying the same?

Abeg shift go one side make I see the breakfast wey I dey eat. Abi shey you wan join me?

Buhari is Lord of the Flies - FFK

Rose2014:
The title of the thread is clear

Dear pls ignore that dimwit from henceforth. He's had enough of your attention which I know is what he has been craving for.

DiademSh07:
SS be your papa land? Why can't I have opinion on the region if Ibo can have theirs?.
Land grabber!

This guy e just be like say you drink gum. But honestly what is your problem and that of others from SW that you can't just stay out of what don't concern you?

If the nuts in your head are all intact you should have noticed by now that those saying there are no Igbos in SS have eaten their word. Can't you do the same, eat the humble pie and bug off? Shuooo! Na by force to align with you ni?

By Femi Fani-Kayode

Mr. President, you will recall that I wrote you an open letter on December 28th, 2015 which I sincerely hope that you found most gratifying, illuminating and helpful. That was two days before your Presidential media chat which took place on December 30th. I hereby humbly crave your indulgence to add an addendum to that open letter. That is what this contribution represents.

I hope and pray that this second letter, which will be the last, will further enlighten you and impart a little more wise counsel to you that will result in assisting you to properly appreciate the complexities of our times.

Mr. President it is pertinent to note that approximately two hundred and sixty five years ago one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, Mr. Benjamin Franklin, said “rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”. I am sure that you will agree with me when I say that he was absolutely right.

Just in case you do not know who Benjamin Franklin was permit me to point out the fact that he is a man that is reverred by the American people and much of the civilised world up until today and he is the individual whose face appears on the one hundred U.S. dollar bills that are used till today.

He was a great statesman, diplomat, politician and intellectual and most important of all he was a deeply courageous man who was motivated by his deepest convictions and his christian values and who was prepared to risk life and liberty and stand up to tyranny.

I guess most Nigerian leaders have much to learn from him especially at times like this. Yet thankfully all is not lost and at least a few of our politicians are beginning to find their voice and speak out against the evil in the land. Permit me to share one example with you.

A few days ago Chief Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of our great party the PDP, exposed the fact that there was an orchestrated attempt by your government to intimidate, silence and utterly decimate and crush the opposition.

In open defiance to what can best be described as this insidious and sinister agenda he told the world that ”President Buhari is not God and we will not worship him”. Whether he knows it or not Metuh has not only spoken for the PDP but also for the overwhelming majority of the Nigerian people.

Permit me to add the following words to his timely contribution. Woe unto those that tremble before men of power and that worship false gods. Destruction and perdition awaits those who bow before Baal, who exalt the servants of Belial, who kiss the ring of the Baphomet, who say ”Buhari is God” and who crawl at the feet of the Lord of the Flies.

Mr. President the point is simple and clear: you are not God and even though we respect your office we will never bow before you, we will never worship you, we will not relent in our efforts to oppose you and, regardless of your constant threats and wicked intentions, we have absolutely no fear of you.

This is because our fate and destiny and the future of our beloved country lies in the hands of the Living God and not in the hands of any misguided and tyrannical dictator. Injustice, persecution and tyranny last only for a season.

At the appointed time the Lord will step in and He will deliver and vindicate the falsely accused and the righteous captive. He will also avenge the spilling of innocent blood and He will fight the cause of the martyrs.

With this in mind and regardless of the dangerous counsel of the hardliners and extremists that surround you, I urge you to please take note of the following: Sheik Ibrahim El Zakzaky, Colonel Sambo Dasuki and Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, who are all political prisoners, must NOT die under mysterious circumstances whilst they are in your custody.

No matter what your advisers and those in your inner circle tell you if, God forbid, this were to happen the fall-out and consequences for your reputation and your administration would be too much to bear.

This brings me to another issue which is a cause for grave concern. Your stated resolve not to obey court orders and to deny Nigerians their right to bail after the courts have given it to them is not only an affront and gratuitous insult to the Judiciary but it is also a violation of the constitution.

I say this because, unlike military dictatorships, democracy enjoys and derives its power and legitimacy from the inviolable and sacred principle of ”separation of powers”.

What this means is that the Executive arm of Government, which by the grace of God you head today, is distinct and separate from the Legislature and the Judiciary.

As head of the Executive and President of the Federal Republic, you have absolutely no power or right to interfere in the processes of the Legislature (which is the National Assembly) or the Judiciary. Both have their own rules, regulations and leadership and the constitution guides them and guarantees them total and complete independence from you.

As a matter of fact they are charged by the laws of our land and the constitution to act as a check and balance on you as President and to ensure that you do not abuse your power or subject your people to tyranny.

Mr. President I watched you on your media chat the other day and I am constrained to tell you that you not only abused your power but that you also crossed the line with some of the things that you said. For example you have no right to tell the courts how to administer justice and who and who not to grant bail. Again you have no business to tell the legislature which laws to pass and how to run their affairs.

Again you have no right and neither do you have the power to pronounce any Nigerian citizen guilty of any crime unless and until a duly constituted court of law has done so. You cannot be the prosecutor, judge and jury in any criminal proceeding and this is especially so when you initiated those proceedings and you are the accuser.

To attempt to do so is not only unacceptable and irresponsible but it is also heartless and unkind. The fact that most of our senior and respected lawyers have refused to tell you this simply because they are scared of you or because they are looking for patronage from your government does not mean that what you are doing is lawful or acceptable. What you are doing is morally and legally reprehensible and it is unacceptable in any democratic and civilized society.

In the same vein you have no right to try to stop members of the opposition or the general public from criticizing you or condemning your obvious failings. Mr. President criticism, opposition and dissent are the lifeblood of democracy and without accommodating and tolerating them you cannot claim to be a democrat.

You have no right to attempt to cower or intimidate the fourth estate of the realm, which is the media, or attempt to pervert and corrupt the Nigerian public with daily doses of lies, falsehood, deceit and propaganda which is being duly and dutifully administered by your Minister of Information and your numerous media aides.

All these things give me and millions of your other subjects concern yet it doesn’t stop there. Perhaps the most disturbing example of your sheer insensitivity was your reaction to the question about Igbo marginalization during the media chat. In response to that question you asked “who is marginalizing who” and went further to ask “what do the Igbo want?”

Mr. President I wish to remind you that it is an incontrovertible fact that in just seven months your government has succeeded in marginalizing the Igbo more than any other Federal Government in living memory and certainly since the civil war.

This is a record that you ought not to be proud of. What the Igbo want is fairness, equal rights, equal representation, equity and respect. They also believe that they have the right to determine their own future and make their own choices.

Mr. President I do not believe that this is too much for them to ask given the fact that they have contributed, perhaps more than most, to national development and integration in the last forty five years?

It is not too much to ask given the fact that no less than three million of their people, including one million innocent children, were slaughtered during our civil war in the name of keeping Nigeria one?

I have no doubt that you will remember this very well Mr. President given the fact that you were one of those that prosecuted that war and fought in it.

You will also remember the brutal mass murder and the war crimes and crimes against humanity that were perpetrated against the unarmed and defenseless Igbo civilian population of Asaba in 1968 when over one thousand of them were rounded up, taken to the town square and shot to death for no just cause.

The soldiers that carried out that unspeakable act of cowardice, brutality and barbarity were under the command of your professional colleague, the late Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed. Mr. President that was a dark, shameful and ignoble chapter in our history which still cries out for justice and reparations.

Needless to say the pain of such horrendous events and numerous others that the Igbo have been subjected to by the Nigerian state and those that control it over the last fifty five years still haunts them.

The truth is that regardless of the obvious contempt that you have for them the Igbo will continue to insist on justice, fairness and on having their rights respected in our country.

If you refuse to address their numerous and legitimate grievances and you refuse to treat them with the understanding, sensitivity and compassion that they deserve, the agitation for self-determination, secession and the yearning for the establishment of a new nation called Biafra will wax stronger and stronger until it reaches dangerous and irresistible proportions.

That is what you are toying with Mr. President and if that were to happen be rest assured that the Yoruba would take a cue from it and so would the people of the Niger Delta. It would effectively signify the beginning of the balkanisation of Nigeria.

Whether you and those with your world view like to hear it or not, that is the bitter truth. May the Ancient of Days grant you the wisdom, knowledge and understanding to accept it and to do something about it. May the Lord of the Universe give you the foresight and the insight to appreciate the fact that Nigeria cannot survive a second civil war.

Mr. President I sincerely hope that you do not take offence at my admonitions and counsel. I speak only out of concern for the fortunes of your administration, your reputation and out of love for my country. God bless Nigeria.

Femi Fani-Kayode was former Aviation Minister.

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I don't believe this. Did Tinubu preview their work before they went ahead to publish it? I can smell SACK