₦airaland Forum

ThickSharon123:
If you people have all these Ibani-Ijaw, Kalabari-Ijaw. Yoruba or Apoi Ijaw, and all these varying languages. What would you people offer? Do you people have a business plan. How would you be able to communicate lingusitically? And won't the so-called Igbo slaves that your great great great grandmother and grandfather did buy, won't they still be discriminated by the original Ijaw people as they are doing now.





That's one, please.

Secondly, do you have a business plan (business plan for the economy is major for me) and constitution for democracy? Or you people would still live in the monarchial system being that all of you love monarchy. So in essence, the King of Kalabari would be subservient to the king in the Bayelsa because he's originally Ijaw.

So, these are my questions, and please don't insult me, if you do I'll give you back to back when I'm ready. So talk like a sane person. And give me answers, perhaps others who would be reading this post would understand. Thank you.

ThickSharon123:
If you people have all these Ibani-Ijaw, Kalabari-Ijaw. Yoruba or Apoi Ijaw, and all these varying languages. What would you people offer? Do you people have a business plan. How would you be able to communicate lingusitically? And won't the so-called Igbo slaves that your great great great grandmother and grandfather did buy, won't they still be discriminated by the original Ijaw people as they are doing now.



That's one, please.

Secondly, do you have a business plan (business plan for the economy is major for me) and constitution for democracy? Or you people would still live in the monarchial system being that all of you love monarchy. So in essence, the King of Kalabari would be subservient to the king in the Bayelsa because he's originally Ijaw.

So, these are my questions, and please don't insult me, if you do I'll give you back to back when I'm ready. So talk like a sane person. And give me answers, perhaps others who would be reading this post would understand. Thank you.

ThickSharon123:
If you people have all these Ibani-Ijaw, Kalabari-Ijaw. Yoruba or Apoi Ijaw, and all these varying languages. What would you people offer? Do you people have a business plan. How would you be able to communicate lingusitically? And won't the so-called Igbo slaves that your great great great grandmother and grandfather did buy, won't they still be discriminated by the original Ijaw people as they are doing now.



That's one, please.

Secondly, do you have a business plan (business plan for the economy is major for me) and constitution for democracy? Or you people would still live in the monarchial system being that all of you love monarchy. So in essence, the King of Kalabari would be subservient to the king in the Bayelsa because he's originally Ijaw.

So, these are my questions, and please don't insult me, if you do I'll give you back to back when I'm ready. So talk like a sane person. And give me answers, perhaps others who would be reading this post would understand. Thank you.

Bastardlyrich:
Here comes the self acclaimed 22years old boy general dicktari
We are not mates and moreover a brave ijaw man like me cannot spend my time replying a Yorobad fake Muslim cowward like you.
Your work is propagandaa.
We will vote fulaniiss so that they will invade and send all of you permanently to Benin republic.
Remember you people are the weakkestt tribe in Nigeria

Bastardlyrich:
Continue dreaming.
Who takes asari seriously.
Someone that has been bribed.
Mind you asari is biologically Igbo just like king Jaja of opobo.
Infact most ijaws have Igbo blood in them either from mother or extended family.
We ijaws have moved on from the odi masacre.
Ijaws and ss/se have moved on from the betraying of 2015.
Wish you dey near me.
I for don knk that your cowarrdlly head with someethingg.

donborg:
Warped logic for the agitators of Niger delta republic.
Have an Igbo man or Itsekiri man or Urhobo man become President before? No
If the oil belongs to the Ijaw, GEJ would have taken all the oil Wells and given it to the Ijaws instead of the meagre N40,000 payments to you sea militants in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equitorial guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Togo.

Landlord97:
. Psycho, you are a useless demented fool to call bonny and Opobo ijaws, you and your ditari are beneath me not to talk about the larger Igbo nation you are most useless thing I have seen go get a work rather than being useless about dragging people and land THAT CAN NEVER BE YOURS

DitariDisciple2:
If other Niger Deltans tribes, are more than Ijaws, why Wike and so many others are crying that Ijaws are marginalising and oppressing other Niger delta tribes.
If no be population wetin we dey use.

Landlord97:
is disheartening that the ijaw Landgrabbers are doing all their dubious activities to take over bonny and Opobo igbo, but history would remember them as failures in their destructive attempts

Ekealterego:
Nawao. This crisis still persists.

IYC/INC are part of the people fuelling the crisis. They are holding on to Finima so strongly as their only claim to owning Bonny. I pity the Grand Bonny (Igbo speaking Bonny) for singing and simping for the Ijaws for so long. Now, their thrown is being threatened.
The IYC and INC have been trying all they could to eradicate the Igbo language for long, even physically threatening them to stop speaking the language. As this did not work, they have resorted to the cheap divide and rule tactics.

Asari himself is a confused and deceitful man. Asari the other day accepted fully that many parts of Okirika were Igbos. In fact, he said when he was little, the areas of Okirika he visited spoke Igbo exclusively as their native tongue. My point is, that he accepts the truth when he serves his agenda and denies it when it doesn't.

9Pluto:
The Finima part of Bonny local government area has been embroiled in some leadership tussle recently which has unfortunately resulted in some form of bloodshed. While a section of the Brown(Omuso Brown) house has made their claims and installed their so called Amadabo of Finima, another section sought the counsel of the Hart House, got the recognition of His Majesty, The Amanyanabo of Bonny and also capped their own Chief recently. In both cases, supporters of each block have been making reference to one single entity—history. The question is; if both parties are referencing history (a series of past events that happened at a time), why are their claims different from one another?
Well, the simple answer is that Bonny history as well as the history of a vast majority of the riverine people in Rivers State has been continuously falsified. This is despite the fact that they were among some of the earliest southerners in Nigeria to come in contact with Europeans and have most of their history well documented than most other parts of Nigeria. Unfortunately, most people including the youths only go to school routinely but do not read or ask critical questions or conduct their own research.
Parts of the narratives I have listened to about the Finima crisis was from no other person but Asari Dokubo(Ediabali himself). In his account in support of the Amadabo group, he made a lot of claims which include the following:
He questioned King Pepple’s authority over Finima
He practically questioned the Manilla Pepples’s identity in Bonny, claiming they are strangers in Bonny who met Bonny Aborigines
Though I am interested in knowing where these strangers came from, however, I will leave this for the Pepple family to address as there is more than enough historical record on Bonny and its indigenous people devoid of recent Nigerian authored fabrications.
He also talked about Bonny people chasing away some earlier Amanyanabo until Europeans intervened
Truth is no Amanyanabo has ever been deposed in Bonny. Except for maybe the current Kings father who was forced into fleeing Bonny when Isaac Adaka Boro attacked his palace during the civil war, none of the other Kings who abdicated his throne was an Amanyanabo including the Great Jaja of Opobo. Amanyanabo is a recent traditional title.
He claimed Kalabari and Bonny has similar tradition and to a lesser extent Okrika and Nembe
I do not know to what extent he wants to take his claim about Kalabari and Bonny having similar tradition, however Kalabari and Bonny people both have different origin. Truth is Bonny people are of mixed origin and are not people of a single ethnicity. According to Captain Hugh Crow of Liverpool in his memoirs, they were originally a mix of majority Ngwa and Ndoki Igbos(King Pepple, Halliday, Asimini, Hart etc) and Brass people. This is why the igbo language, culture and tradition(masquerades, music, musical instruments, body marks also known as uri) continue to persist in Bonny till tomorrow. Bonny natives were traditionally known to have two short perpendicular tribal marks beside their eyes which is typical of the igbo tribal mark.
Of course, there have been later migrants from both Arochukwu people and parts of Kalabari(who are mostly found in Finima).
He claimed Finima was in existence before Manilla Pepple’s house
Well, most early European accounts of Bonny did not record the existence of Finima community despite the fact that they were already trading with the Pepple’s around the 18th century(1701-1800). This is a significant pointer that Finima community was not in existence during the reign of Opubo the great. In case Asari or any other person would want to come up with all those false narratives about 1500’s, the truth is, Bonny was not in existence then.

Like I said earlier, most parts of the riverine communities (Okrika, Kalabari, Andoni etc) of the current Rivers State are heterogenous in origin. Before the arrival of ijaws east of the Niger delta, some of the most documented people on the east coast were, the Igbos(including the Breetche/mgburuichi), Efiks, Ibibios, Mongs, Quaws, Ottam, Brass and Apias. However, some of this people have been supplanted today. It is on record that a significant section of Okrika(Nwa creek/Wakirike) were igbo who originated from the Afam. Some of them like Asari himself confirmed, still speak the igbo language and in the recent past was ruled by King Ohakwe. The same thing applies to the heterogenous origin of Kalabari(New Calabar). This were originally efik/ibibiod people who later mixed up with igbos and ijaws of which the Ediabali lineage was one of the most influential.
However, what is worrisome in most of these places is the ijaws penchant of falsifying history or records and claiming that most of these localities are exclusively ijaws despite obvious linguistic and cultural differences. Some ijaw revisionists have continued to claim ijaw is the 4th largest ethnic group in Nigeria ahead of the Efik/Ibibio and Tiv. Meanwhile, it is on record in Awolowo’s speech in 1967 that while the Efik/Ibibio had a population of about 2.5 million people, Ijaws were a mere seven hundred thousand (700,000) people.
Yet several recalcitrant elements from this group have continued to make false claims including recent claims that Ijaws are indigenous to Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Akwa-Ibom and Cross-River Sate. Some have even included Ogoja in an as shown in the picture below. One funny thing is that if the so called ijaw groups assemble today, they are going to communicate in English language because a Okrika man would not understand a Gbaramaturu man, a Bonny man would not understand an Ogbia man etc yet ijaws continue to lump people of entirely different origins together under the false ijaw claim. To solve the language confusion, they are proposing the replacement of indigenous languages in some localities while suggesting the formation of a new language by borrowing words from the different groups in the delta to form a new language. The first of such a dubious project in Nigeria.
This is a wake up call to Niger Delta communities in general and Bonny people in particular. The youths most especially need to read and properly research their identity so they would not be conferred a false identity due to false narratives. It is not enough to go to be literate, as one has to be capable of critical thinking and start questioning several false narratives being peddled around in the name of history to avoid the illusory truth effect…in psychology, a situation where you hear the same falsehood over and over again till you begin to believe it.

DitariDisciple2:
So why was Wike and others crying that Ijaw was marginalising and oppressing other Niger delta tribes?
If no be size, wetin we dey use?

Mumu grow up.

DitariDisciple2:
So why was Wike and others crying that Ijaw was marginalising other Niger delta tribes?
If no be size, wetin we dey use?

Mumu grow up.

DissTroy:
Dude, Ijaw is the 5th largest ethnic group in Nigeria while Ibibio is the 4th largest ethnic group. Do your research.

And don't bring in the spread of the Ijaws in Ondo, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Delta States as they are tiny communities outside of Bayelsa. Tiny especially in Ondo and Delta States. And Bayelsa itself is very small, in population and landmass.

Check the population censuses and communities/ LGAs marked as Ijaw juxtaposed against the ones marked as Ibibio. I could go on with this. This is a debate I have had several times.

But that's just an offshoot of the issue being discussed here; focusing on the trunk - why Igbos think non-Igbos (who have either married into the tribe or lived in their areas for countless years and adopted the language, traditions, and culture) do not deserve to take up representative and/or elective positions in Igboland yet hypocritically arrogate or visibly crave (even arrogantly feel entitled to) such powers or positions to themselves in non-Igbo territories - is the crux of the matter here.

EastisBae:
Ebele has a different meaning in ijaw. Azikiwe was only an adopted name.

DissTroy:
You tribalistic prick! You're Igbo, right, Izzou?

How come you don't raise sentiments such as this when governors in the South West (Yorubas) and South South (particularly Akwa Ibom and Rivers State) appoint Igbos who are non-indigenes and not even married to indigenes as Special Assistants?

In Ogun State, as far back as 2002 under Gbenga Daniel, Igbos were being appointed as SAs and SSAs, and nobody had issues. The story is the same in Lagos State, and the most recent popular case being Joe Igbokwe who is wholly Igbo.

In Akwa Ibom State, under Godswill Akpabio (2007 to 2015) (who is married to an Igbo woman, Uloma Akpabio), SSAs and SAs who were Igbos were appointed and even Igbos drafted into our civil service. We were okay with it as they had lived in the state for donkey years and even speak the language, even though they married Igbos too and had Igbo names.

Tribalistic folks like you who chestbeat on the internet is why we kicked all of them out of these positions and got them removed from the civil service because Igbo States refuse to reciprocate the gestures and goodwill.

Arc. Victor Attah (1999 - 2007) who was Akwa Ibom State governor and Obasanjo's friend until the sharing formula for oil states fallout, was married to a white woman who couldn't even speak the language and wasn't one-tenth as immersed in the culture like the said Nwanyiocha is but was never treated less than the wife of the governor and was given the full powers as women leader of Akwa Ibom State.

A non-Igbo even aspiring to be course representative in any university in Igboland would have his or her life threatened, and worse if you aspire for a key position in any of the SUGs.

Continue breaking bridges instead of mending the ones your forebears broke with other tribes in Nigeria.

You should ask yourself why an Ibibio man (the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria) or Ijaw man (of the fifth largest) is always three times as likely to be fingeréd to rule this country or benefit from the socio-politico-economics than the Igbo who's amongst the three largest ethnic group.

You should ask yourself why every president is likely to take other tribes as key allies (including Jonathan and Buhari) but somehow skips over the Igbos.

You should ask yourself why Asari Dokubo or Boy Loaf who have committed more atrocities than Nnamdi Kanu would ever think of are walking free why the later is in chains.

Continue fanning the embers of hatred and discrimination then cry foul when others treat you the same way. We would keep watching.

DitariDisciple2:
Exposed ! Exposed !

IPOB intelligence unit hereby inform the public the evil plans being carried out in the coastal area of Biafra by enemies of Biafra restoration.

Asari Dokubo has sealed his contract with Nigeria government and south East politicans in recruiting Ijaw youths to fight Biafra agitators in Biafra hinterland precisely IPOB nd ESN.

Presently , they have opened two camps in Bayelsa and one in Igweocha , some of the youths they approached refused the offer while some of them accepted the proposed salary of #150,000 Naira monthly .

They will merge these Ijaw militant youths with Nigeria military with JTF military uniform and other security personals to make sure they kill those agitating for the restoration of Biafra .

IPOB worldwide should take preventive measures very quickly to avert this murderous and evil plans in Biafra .

Share widely

DitariDisciple2:
Ijaw Republic or nothing else.
Take it or die.
We Ijaws are not fools.
One Nigeria and u are already seriously claiming Ibani Ijaw lands.
One country with u canibals what will it turn to.
Two captain can't rule one ship.
Ibos are Ijaw slaves and can't rule Ijaws.
Never!!

owobokiri:
Stop what?
And who's "you guys" in this situation?
Is there any part of that press release that's not about "letting them be"?
So what are you confused about?

eagleu:
Ijaw 'nationalists ' like Adaka Boro doing Fulanis bidding since 1960s, because of oil.
Our oyel is soon going to drown you and your corrupt Fulani enablers.
Go to PH, and enjoy the black sooths that will soon suffocate the life out of your oyel .

owobokiri:
Typical Afonja inbred claiming ijaw/Niger Delta..
I watch as serious folks respond to you as if you are what you claim to be.
They don't know you're one ogbomosho mutant, posting hate from a dingy brown roofed wet hole in Odualand..
Very treacherous bunch of parasitic interlopers..

On IPOB.
I think this is why I miss Kanu. He wouldn't have dabblled into this lazy topic this way. It's obvious that the fulani government is trying their hands on devide and rule and the imposed leadership of the jaw congress are willing puns as usual.
The best approach would have been to avoid them. Ignore the rabble rousers. Let them wail..

Could be that Mefor decided to drop this message because of the desperate antics of the fulani imposed leadership of the INC. Apart from this, there is no reason for this disclaimer! Some people only talk up their quest for freedom once IPOB starts talking. If IPOB stops talking, they stop talking too..