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EvilMetahuman:
this stats shows SE is the second biggest parasite after boko haram ravaged north east.

Joke's on you.

Seriously you are a clown...So it didn't occur to you that the rubbish you posted will dramatically change when Igbos relocate to their region?

deji15:
When push comes to shove, Yorubas have proven to be more than capable of defending herself. So face your Biafra and the people threatening you.
You have done and still doing more than enough damage by killing Nigerians with your fake drugs and other criminal activities that you are well known for.
So, get your Biafra now .

How many human skulls have you harvested today?

I am indifferent...on this action.

All we have asked and continue to ask is to have autonomy in this or a new country...through democratic process like a
referedum. Nigeria has never worked, is not working and will not work....Let every region develop at their own pace...Is that too much to ask...?

MrEverest:
Dont mind those afonja kids clapping for these barbarians in the north. Instead of them to speak with one voice and force restructuring on these parasites yet they are here dancing like headless chickens. The N.Delta has seen the handwritting on the wall and are now standing with the Igbos, most of the Middle Belt, especially Benue/plateau axis has seen the evil these barbarian hordes embodies yet the yorubas continue to support them, even when those people equally hate them as much, if not more than they hate others & they've been showing it through their utterances and maltreatment of their son Osinbajo, who they are already scheming to remove by all means. Ignorance is indeed a disease!

They can only escape there in the north if they are like this guy...Otherwise they are doomed as well..

I see the way the Afonja are gloating about this impeding doom...They think they will escape it when it starts...

The only way they can escape it there in the north...is to lacerate their faces like this>>>>

Lanretoye:
no be by force to live together,if person no want you for him house,na to pack commot ...we obviously can't force ourselves on ourselves.

Correct...but it must be done in a democratic way...civil disobidence...by the manner of sit at home...is a form of demonstration of self determination..there was no violence...

HenryWilliams:
He who has ears let him hear
The North has spoken.
All igbos should leave the North for their own safety.
This should even be a boon for the IPOB peeps.
BTW.. While y'all at it..vacate the SW too.

In all your bullshit I never sen you ask your people in the SE to relocate...including your military and the killer herdsmen...Be rational first...If you check MASSOB have been asking them to move back to the east...

Aufbauh:
When Nnamdi Kanu was threatening violence against Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas, we were told by the IPOBians that there is no qualms about it.

How come there is panic in the East by mere ultimatum to ease their dream? Maybe they dont mean to go in the first place.

Summarily Biafra agitation is a joke taking too far.

In you dream...we even want it to be quickened...You have no idea...

"..Ibegbu, who described the statement as treasonable, urged the relevant security agencies to swing into action before Igbos resident in the north are wiped out..."

Like the security agencies swung into action when the Fulani herdsmen were kiling people across the country...Laughable!!!

smilingface:
exactly why I shake my head concerning how Yoruba's are celebrating this threat due to their hatred for igbos...they forget that when the times come hausa fulani will also deal with them because issue such this can easily turn religious with christains including muslem yorubas that hausa fulani considered to be fake will all feel the impact.

You don't know the Yorubas...They are not celebrating...in their hearts they are mourning...They are just pretending...No other tribes have more pretenders than the Yorubas...They know if Igbos leave...Lagos will become another Detroit...The abandoned buildings will become another brown roof Ibadan in no distant time....

So happy about this news...How I wish it will be true...

WE ARE GOING TO BE FREE FROM THE KILLER HERDSMEN

GeneralOjukwu:


You are already afraid about the number of NDIGBO who would become suya

Stop begging for Afonja support...unity beggar. All your IPOB nairaland antics have come home to roost.

No support when Aboki descends on you

The Yoruba professor and Ibadan traders used as suya by Boko boys are Igbos, abi? Continue deeping your afonja head...deeper in the sand...

simplycarro:
Odumakin is on his own, he is definitely not speaking for me.

Afonja mercenary spotted,

kogistar:
stop dragging SD https://www.nairaland.com/3845403/ssouth-not-part-biafra-iyc

Are Avengers Igbo? Why not stick to the main issue...We are talking about relocation here...not which region is Biafra...oil thief...

AmuDimkpa:
I tire o. I don't know why they are crying over people telling them to go back home. Same thing that happened in 1966/7 is still repeating itself. I think my people are seriously stupid.

I can only see one stupid person here..and that is you...Your people have not said they must remain there...They are saying that the movement should be reciprocal....All there people should also move back, with the killer herdsmen and militrary going with them...Is that too much for you to comprehend?

DONGOYARO1:
ibo boy, you hae just vomitted rubbish. The threat is targeted at ibos alone. All ibos are going back to iboland. And you need to stop deceiving yourself. You are an ibo.

---aboki, how would you know rthe difference between an Igbo and other tribes from former eastern Nigeria...At least you would know a Yoruba with their tribal marks...

vayne:
based on what statistics? You people are so easily brainwashed with anything you read online,this generation of igbos are different,the east is 50x now more accomodating than it used to be,come down and find out!everyone thinks home now thats why we no longer build big houses outside igboland,just bussiness...thats why you see so many highrise buildings in the east,things have changed!

You are correct. My group has more than 100 flats in the east...built under 4 years....Those would have been built in Lagos...
Don't mind them. They will not believe you...but it is true.

MediumStout:
How do u know I'm yoruba? I'm from Ado ekiti. Proudly oduduwa

By their fruit you will know them...I can smell an afonja from a 1000 mile...Of all the 250 tribes in Nigeria, none wants Igbos of the SE to suffer
and be suppressed like the Yorubas...I don't know why...We are not in competition...If you have your MMIA it will not harm you if SE has an international airport...If you have the 3rd mainland bridge, it will not harm you if we have 2nd Niger Bridge, etc, etc...But you are hurt and in pains when Igbo appear to receive anything from the central government, WHY?...and yet you are incensed whne they want to go away and have their own country...Why, Why why....

"..If restructuring will not be possible, then let those who believe Igbo people will die if granted Biafra join hands in granting them independence. Allow them to “go and die”....or become the toast of the African continent within the lifetime of most of us!" Ochereome Nnanna

[b][/b]MAY 30th 2017 has gone down as a date that the Igbo people showed, with total accord, that they are dead serious about their quest for freedom. The sit-at-home call by the pro-Biafra groups, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, was observed by Ndi Igbo all over the country, with the South East totally locked down. Streets and highways were empty of commercial or vehicular activities, except for the vehicles of law-enforcement agencies which patrolled to maintain law and order. The skies over major cities such as Aba, Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri and Umuahia were patrolled by military jets and helicopters.

Unlike other times when the pro-Biafra groups called for mass actions through peaceful street protests which led to loss of lives as a result of shootings by the army and police, no one was in sight to be shot. Already, the initial mockery that greeted the Biafra independence campaign about two years ago is giving way to a new template for reality check. When IPOB called its first protests just before its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested in December 2015, former President Olusegun Obasanjo mocked the protesting youth, saying they were “looking for money”. Others said they were unemployed youth given money by some politicians to carry out the protests for undisclosed political gains. In other words they were rented crowds.

Already, Obasanjo has changed tones, saying that if the Presidency is given to the Igbo in 2019, the Biafra issue will disappear. The last we heard from him was that the youth should be “begged” to drop their agitations. Even to the mockers and doubters, it is obvious that if a referendum is allowed today, the “Biafrexit” yes will be overwhelming. Those of us who are still holding out the faint hope that Nigeria can still be amended to correct the inequity flaws that retard it and make its citizens unhappy won’t be able to do much. We have become a miserable minority. Unless care is taken and soon, if the masses begin to respond in this manner to calls for boycotts of the civic activities that make us all Nigerians, such as elections, the forth-coming census and what not, overwhelming pressure might force that referendum to take place. As I said, the result is likely to be an overwhelming “Yes”. What are the scenarios that will likely take shape thereafter? Number one scenario, if the Nigerian State succumbs to a referendum, it is likely to be restricted to the people of the South East.

Nigerian is unlikely to concede the former Eastern Region (which is the definitive geo-polity frequently portrayed as Biafra by its promoters) as the breakaway enclave. It will not give up the oil and gas resources that feed its treasury with free rent. It is also unlikely that the non-South Easterners will sign to be included in the Biafra. So, it is far safer for the Biafra activists to scale down their geo-political boundaries to a landlocked South East. That being so, I dare say that being landlocked is not the end of the world. Switzerland, Austria, Botswana and Rwanda are landlocked, yet they are either developed or rapidly developing countries within their continents.

Those who are predicting doom for a landlocked Biafra could be seriously mistaken. During the war, when the population of the defunct Biafra was largely on the run, there was no fuel scarcity. Biafran scientists created machines and technologies to fight the war and keep the system running. A peaceful, landlocked Biafra, with the sheer power of the Igbo creative might unleashed, can only take-off like a rocket, though the initial stages will be very trying. Biafra might become the first African country to export the type of technologies that we currently buy from Europe, America and Asia to African countries within ten years.

People should always remember that it is not natural resources that make a country great but its human resources of which the Igbo boast one of the most premium qualities in Africa. Even at that, the resources (oil, gas, coal, limestone and others) are there in enough quantities to serve the needs of the republic. On the other hand, Biafra could run into an initial face-off between factions such as IPOB and MASSOB for supremacy. MASSOB might claim it restarted the struggle that won the independence while IPOB which is far more radical could claim to be the group that won the independence. If this is not sorted out amicably, Biafra could face the South Sudan scenario between President Salva Kiir and his estranged Deputy, Riek Machar, though the South Sudan conflict is mostly ethnic-based as opposed to the fact that Biafra will be a country of a homogenous ethnic stock.

Another scenario is that Igbo property left behind in Nigeria will probably be confiscated. States can make laws to appropriate them. That is a sacrifice the Igbos who own property in Nigeria outside the South East must be prepared to make. You cannot eat your cake and have it. Nigerians will likely tell you that “out is out”, as the Europeans are telling Britain after Brexit. Igbos who refuse to relocate to their country will be dehumanised as unwanted foreigners. Ndi Igbo, faced with the South East as Biafra, must be ready to start life afresh from the scratch, with the firm determination never to repeat the mistakes that makes Nigeria unworkable. The break away of Biafra will likely lead to a break-up of the rest of this otherwise blessed nation.

With a leg of the Tripod gone, the rest of the superstructure cannot stand for long. With the Igbo people gone to their own country, it is unlikely that the Yoruba people will like to live under the servitude of the North. They will become a very vulnerable junior partner to Arewa, a situation they are unlikely to live with for long. They will also want to go and form their own country. They already have fantastic natural geopolitical advantages which they will simply leverage on and move on with their lives. But will the North also allow them to go in peace? The Ijaw nation, in particular, is likely to assert its independence.

The North will, like Biafra, become landlocked. If Biafra goes, there is no way the rest of the country will continue happily ever after. Nigeria is like an intricately knitted fabric. Cut the thread at any point and the rest will come undone. At this point, we probably have the last opportunity to sort out the problems militating against genuine unity in our country.

Time is running out on Nigeria as we know it. Already, the hearts of majority of Igbo people have left Nigeria. It will take some earth-shaking measures to bring them back. It has nothing to do with giving them an “Igbo president”. If, for instance, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in a most unlikely scenario, picks any of such individuals as Chris Ngige, Ogbonnaya Onu, Rochas or Okorocha Ken Nnamani to stand as a figurehead president, they will call Sokoto, Katsina or Kaduna every morning to take instructions for their daily work. It will make no difference for the Igbo or Nigeria.

There is no alternative to restructuring Nigeria to allow the federating units the freedom to develop at their respective paces within the overall Nigerian commonwealth. The Nigerian people need freedom. That is the irreducible minimum for real change. If restructuring will not be possible, then let those who believe Igbo people will die if granted Biafra join hands in granting them independence. Allow them to “go and die” and see if they will actually die or become the toast of the African continent within the lifetime of most of us!

Ochereome Nnanna

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/likely-scenarios-biafra-goes/

MAY 30th 2017 has gone down as a date that the Igbo people showed, with total accord, that they are dead serious about their quest for freedom. The sit-at-home call by the pro-Biafra groups, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, was observed by Ndi Igbo all over the country, with the South East totally locked down. Streets and highways were empty of commercial or vehicular activities, except for the vehicles of law-enforcement agencies which patrolled to maintain law and order. The skies over major cities such as Aba, Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri and Umuahia were patrolled by military jets and helicopters.

Unlike other times when the pro-Biafra groups called for mass actions through peaceful street protests which led to loss of lives as a result of shootings by the army and police, no one was in sight to be shot. Already, the initial mockery that greeted the Biafra independence campaign about two years ago is giving way to a new template for reality check. When IPOB called its first protests just before its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested in December 2015, former President Olusegun Obasanjo mocked the protesting youth, saying they were “looking for money”. Others said they were unemployed youth given money by some politicians to carry out the protests for undisclosed political gains. In other words they were rented crowds.

Already, Obasanjo has changed tones, saying that if the Presidency is given to the Igbo in 2019, the Biafra issue will disappear. The last we heard from him was that the youth should be “begged” to drop their agitations. Even to the mockers and doubters, it is obvious that if a referendum is allowed today, the “Biafrexit” yes will be overwhelming. Those of us who are still holding out the faint hope that Nigeria can still be amended to correct the inequity flaws that retard it and make its citizens unhappy won’t be able to do much. We have become a miserable minority. Unless care is taken and soon, if the masses begin to respond in this manner to calls for boycotts of the civic activities that make us all Nigerians, such as elections, the forth-coming census and what not, overwhelming pressure might force that referendum to take place. As I said, the result is likely to be an overwhelming “Yes”. What are the scenarios that will likely take shape thereafter? Number one scenario, if the Nigerian State succumbs to a referendum, it is likely to be restricted to the people of the South East.

Nigerian is unlikely to concede the former Eastern Region (which is the definitive geo-polity frequently portrayed as Biafra by its promoters) as the breakaway enclave. It will not give up the oil and gas resources that feed its treasury with free rent. It is also unlikely that the non-South Easterners will sign to be included in the Biafra. So, it is far safer for the Biafra activists to scale down their geo-political boundaries to a landlocked South East. That being so, I dare say that being landlocked is not the end of the world. Switzerland, Austria, Botswana and Rwanda are landlocked, yet they are either developed or rapidly developing countries within their continents.

Those who are predicting doom for a landlocked Biafra could be seriously mistaken. During the war, when the population of the defunct Biafra was largely on the run, there was no fuel scarcity. Biafran scientists created machines and technologies to fight the war and keep the system running. A peaceful, landlocked Biafra, with the sheer power of the Igbo creative might unleashed, can only take-off like a rocket, though the initial stages will be very trying. Biafra might become the first African country to export the type of technologies that we currently buy from Europe, America and Asia to African countries within ten years.

People should always remember that it is not natural resources that make a country great but its human resources of which the Igbo boast one of the most premium qualities in Africa. Even at that, the resources (oil, gas, coal, limestone and others) are there in enough quantities to serve the needs of the republic. On the other hand, Biafra could run into an initial face-off between factions such as IPOB and MASSOB for supremacy. MASSOB might claim it restarted the struggle that won the independence while IPOB which is far more radical could claim to be the group that won the independence. If this is not sorted out amicably, Biafra could face the South Sudan scenario between President Salva Kiir and his estranged Deputy, Riek Machar, though the South Sudan conflict is mostly ethnic-based as opposed to the fact that Biafra will be a country of a homogenous ethnic stock.

Another scenario is that Igbo property left behind in Nigeria will probably be confiscated. States can make laws to appropriate them. That is a sacrifice the Igbos who own property in Nigeria outside the South East must be prepared to make. You cannot eat your cake and have it. Nigerians will likely tell you that “out is out”, as the Europeans are telling Britain after Brexit. Igbos who refuse to relocate to their country will be dehumanised as unwanted foreigners. Ndi Igbo, faced with the South East as Biafra, must be ready to start life afresh from the scratch, with the firm determination never to repeat the mistakes that makes Nigeria unworkable. The break away of Biafra will likely lead to a break-up of the rest of this otherwise blessed nation.

With a leg of the Tripod gone, the rest of the superstructure cannot stand for long. With the Igbo people gone to their own country, it is unlikely that the Yoruba people will like to live under the servitude of the North. They will become a very vulnerable junior partner to Arewa, a situation they are unlikely to live with for long. They will also want to go and form their own country. They already have fantastic natural geopolitical advantages which they will simply leverage on and move on with their lives. But will the North also allow them to go in peace? The Ijaw nation, in particular, is likely to assert its independence.

The North will, like Biafra, become landlocked. If Biafra goes, there is no way the rest of the country will continue happily ever after. Nigeria is like an intricately knitted fabric. Cut the thread at any point and the rest will come undone. At this point, we probably have the last opportunity to sort out the problems militating against genuine unity in our country.

Time is running out on Nigeria as we know it. Already, the hearts of majority of Igbo people have left Nigeria. It will take some earth-shaking measures to bring them back. It has nothing to do with giving them an “Igbo president”. If, for instance, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in a most unlikely scenario, picks any of such individuals as Chris Ngige, Ogbonnaya Onu, Rochas or Okorocha Ken Nnamani to stand as a figurehead president, they will call Sokoto, Katsina or Kaduna every morning to take instructions for their daily work. It will make no difference for the Igbo or Nigeria.

There is no alternative to restructuring Nigeria to allow the federating units the freedom to develop at their respective paces within the overall Nigerian commonwealth. The Nigerian people need freedom. That is the irreducible minimum for real change. If restructuring will not be possible, then let those who believe Igbo people will die if granted Biafra join hands in granting them independence. Allow them to “go and die” and see if they will actually die or become the toast of the African continent within the lifetime of most of us!

Ochereome Nnanna

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/likely-scenarios-biafra-goes/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/likely-scenarios-biafra-goes/

Mazeltovscotty:
because Biafa is a land of rising clowns

...and you are so frightened of the rising clowns...how about that?

A well written and thought provoking piece. Well done...