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gidgiddy:
And before all this, your Nigerian government was busy shooting and killing peaceful unarmed Biafran protesters?

Who are you fooling with these your ai generated images?

Salewa97:
The article is not about slavery but about slave trade.

So, the question is, which of the Igbo states are located in the Caribbean or South America?

Surinam
Dutch Guiana
French Guinea
The United States.

All black Americans are majorly Ibo.

This should explain the prevelance of baby factories and how sale of ones child is not seen as a taboo even in today's world because as early as the early 20th century, people were selling their own children for a cow or for money .

Slavery among the Igbo

Published Date
May 1, 2004

Resource Type

Archival Resource, Primary Source

Geographic

Africa
This is a Primary Source
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This resource was developed in 2004 as part of “Biafra, Nigeria, the West and the World” by David Trask.

The reminiscences in this reading reach back to events at the turn of the twentieth century or earlier. It raises a number of issues about how the traditional economy operated and the role of slavery within that world. It is also important to note which people were made slaves and which people were exempt from that possibility.
Nkwonto Nwuduaku, aged c. 60 in Urunnebo, Enugwu-Ukwu 16 October 1974

From: Elizabeth Isichei, Igbo Worlds An Anthology of Oral Histories and Historical Descriptions (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978) 30-34

Our people, especially my village, Urunnebo, are called Owaofia wapulu ezi, meaning people that travel into distant lands. This is because our people were long distance traders. They also went to different places to cleanse abominations, as well as to confer Ozo titles on people. My village Urunnebo migrated from Agukwu and we carried with us these traditions and customs, and have been exercising them until now. Thus, as I have said, we were long distance traders, and traded in various commodities like slaves, ufie, a red substance people rubbed on their skins, livestock, salt, iron implements, and, later, palm produce.

Our people traded extensively in slaves. It was a dangerous trade, but very profitable. It was dangerous, because you must be strong enough to overpower your victim. Secondly, you must be prepared to risk your life, wresting children from their parents, and so on. In fact, slaves were obtained in various ways – by kidnapping, through wars, through punishment for crimes and breach of taboos, for failure to pay debts. Parents even sold their children, for want of food.

My father told me that one occasion he followed his father on one of these expeditions that took them from Enugwu-Ukwu to Agbaja, and thence to Ubulu, and then to Eke Imoha in Abakaliki. When they came to Agbaja, one man wanted an .Ozo title to be conferred on him. He said that the members of his age grade were deriding him because he had not taken an .Ozo title. This man had to sell two of his children in exchange for the Ozo title. There was another episode when a man had so many children, and he had to ask them to buy one of his children in exchange for one cow.

But whatever the case was, these children were not told that they had been sold. Their parents would ask them to help their family friends convey their goods to market. These children were pampered until they got to Afo. Nkwuleto market, in Ubulu., where slaves were sold openly.

My father, continued that when they arrived with these children in this market, they were asked to look after a few worthless commodities. Then the slave dealers, mostly Aro people, would pretend that they were pricing those goods, when they were really surveying the children. They then came back to my father and grandfather, and a price was fixed—some items of European goods. My father said that after they had received these goods they disappeared, and that was the last he saw of these children.

In fact, the destination of our slave trade depended on the age of the slaves. For instance, kidnappers did not carry their victims far because of the fear that they might be caught, or that their victims might overpower them. In such cases, you know that the slave dealers must have tipped the kidnappers and would be waiting in a nearby place. But those who committed crimes, or breaches of taboos, were carried off by the agbridu people (law enforcement officers) and sold at Ifite Nibo market, near Awka.

Our people had no internal market for slaves. You know we belong to Umunri and it would be contrary to our tradition for slaves to be sold in our market. Yes, at times our people kept slaves for domestic purposes. In such a case the owner of the slave might sell one of the children of the slaves.

In olden days, our people traded in ufie (camwood). It was very important to our people. This ufie was got from a variety of trees, like aboshi, akpalata and even .ukpaka. What happened was that the dealers in this commodity often went about scraping the bark of these trees. Il the inner parts of these trees were scarlet, they were cut down and allowed to dry. These trees, now completely red, were cut into different sizes and brought to market. Ufie was a very costly commodity.

It was used as a sort of pomade, by both young girls and elderly women, before the coming of the Europeans, and even after they established their presence. Our people believed that it not only made the body smooth but also acted as a blood tonic.

It was also used for burial purposes, especially in burying titled men and elders. The body of the deceased was rubbed with ufie before burial, and after the burial, umu ada (his daughters) as well as his wives would continue to wear ufie for iu ili na ato (two native months). It was also rubbed in by nursing mothers, and any woman who wanted to perform the izu afia nwa (when a mother would come to the market to let people know she had a new child). The woman would rub on this ufie and come out on Nkwo day, and people would give her gifts. It was also used by wrestlers. As I said earlier, people believed that it gave them blood and strengthened their bones. Hence, before a big wrestling match, our young men would indulge in rubbing this ufie all over the body until the wrestling match was over.

Thus from all its uses, you will see that ufie was a costly material. It was sold at Ubulu, Eke Imoha, and other markets in Abakaliki Our people often bought it, and sold it to our neighbouring towns.

Our people traded in various types of livestock. The most important of these were horses and cows. Both were used for funeral obsequies. Horses were very rare and costly. The horses were bought from Agbaja and Ubulu. The people of these areas told us that horses were imported from Akpete. and Igala. Our people did not trade regularly in horses, except when somebody died. For that reason whenever an .Ozo man or wealthy man was seriously sick, his people often travelled to Agbaja to buy these beasts beforehand. On the other hand, if a wealthy man, or an elder, or an .Ozo man died, he was not buried until his people bought a horse. In view of this, whenever our people saw horses being driven into the town, they often reminded them that some important personality must have died, and they would start asking questions. But this does not mean that horses were not sold to other towns – our people often sold horses to other Umunri towns, as well as to Nimo, Abagana, Ukpo, Aba, Isu and other neighbouring areas.

Our people do not eat horse meat. Not only is it rare and costly, but mainly because it was associated with the dead. However, trade in horses brought a lot of wealth to our people.

Cows are also very important. They were mostly used for taking Ozo titles and for burial purposes. A man’s wealth was measured by the number of cow skulls he displayed in his obu. Cows were mostly bought at Eke Imoha in Abakaliki. These cows are the local breed, and not the so-called efi awusa (zebu cattle). We sold these cows to neighbouring towns. …

The ritual cleansing of abominations, and the conferring of Ozo titles in other parts of Igboland was the most important aspect of our economy, before the coming of white men. You small children may not understand the importance of Umunri, or the impact our people made on Igboland. As I said earlier, my own village migrated from Agukwu to Enugwu-Ukwu and we became part and parcel of Enugwu-Ukwu. We are direct descendants of Nri, and therefore had the right to cleanse abominations, and confer titles on people. Agukwu, we could carry out the ceremony. …

In fact this cleansing of abominations brought a lot of wealth to us, and brought us into contact with different parts of Igboland. For instance if the abomination was committed in any Umunri town except Agukwu, we went there, and the offenders would bring all the items necessary for the ceremonies, depending upon the gravity of the offence.

For instance, if a boy had sexual intercourse with his sister, it was an abomination. In such a case, the items included a she-goat that had borne offspring, fowls, three yams and so on. The people concerned did not touch these things. They often handed them over to the man who would perform the ikpu alu (ritual cleansing). After the ceremony, the men would take some of the items, and would also be paid in kind. Thus, in one trip to any Umunri town, our people were often laden with livestock, and other essential commodities, and this made them very rich. Their areas of operation on this ipu ije (journey of cleansing) as they called it, included Isu, Mgbakwu, Ebenebe, Nkanu, Agbaja and Abakaliki areas. In fact most of the wealthy men in our town, especially in my village, grew rich as a result of this kind of occupation. …



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Now. Sccarrr, obviously you are paid to be jobless.

Seun, a foreigner decoded the fact that the person behind these monikers uses AI to generate fake news about IGBOs and it's sent to frontpage and given traction to thrive by the usual suspect.

Why will multiple monikers be a feature of this platform and the person involved is not banned as stated in your rule book?

Seun, it's not easy balancing activities on your platform but the buck stops at your desk and you need reign in your moderators to do their jobs

Thank you

Faking the fact that it is fake news .

God help you.

They are now faking agbo and cloning peoples online business?

God ohh.

otrasane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNqLQXdmoI?si=DQL_ZouNckKg11Wb


A new report reveals that concerns within the Trump administration over Nigeria’s allegedly unreliable identity and security data played a key role in the US travel ban decision, raising fresh questions about data integrity, border security, and the diplomatic fallout between Washington and Abuja.

Time to get Nigeria to adopt digital ID system being pushed by Bill Gates , Larry Ellison of Oracle and that homosexual Jew , Peter Theil of Plantir.

Trump is by far the most evil man to ever be POTUS.

Remember he is responsible for Operation Warp Speed that gave billions to Big Pharma to roll out their covid vaccines and under his watch he approved emergency authorization for the vaccines and began mandating it.

Now that he is back, he is funding the incoming AI driven global surveliance technocracy.

He is throwing money on huge AI data centres which is being overseen by another homosexual Jew in the form of Sam Altman of OpenAi.

The neural network of this total global surveillance state will be powered by over 90,000 SpaceX 5G satellites that will cover the entirety of the planet providing realtime updates on every individual that will get Bill Gates chip.

Trump is evil as can be.

He is not only a commited zionist who wants to see the third temple rebuilt but you enslaved under their soon to be revealed Jewish moshiac .

Irony1:
Before you start saying rubbish. This is from NBS. Landmass and all that rubbish makes no sense after all India has mass migration but you are not bettwr than them. China too has mass migration but in terms of GDP you are not better.

The indices that matter and justify wealth are GDP and per capita income and Anambra is far better than Oyo. So leave your hatred and accept the truth, i know it is a bitter pill to swallow, bit the soooner you stop focusing on how better you are than igbos and focus on how rapid the SW is decaying, the better for you.

That stat probably came from that witch , Ngozi Iweala who was desperate to attract FDI to the SE.

This witch convened several economic summits on behalf of the SE but nothing came out of it.

And if we go by that faked GDP generated by Ngozi, how come SE has the lowest FDI and also the region being turned down by both local and foreign banks ?

SE debt profile is one of the lowest not out of prudency but because no bank will lend to them due to their high dependence solely on federal handouts and no guarrantteed internal revenue stream .

Irony1:
South east is least productive abi, but yet Anambra has a higher GDP than Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti. Make it make sense.

How can Anmbra have a higher GDP?

This is a fallacious lie that must end henceforth.

Ogun and Oyo each individually have more industrial and agricultural outputs than the entire SE combined.

What production is going on in Anambra?

Also, infrastructure, land, available natural reources are also factored in GDP computation.

In terms of land mass and arable land, natural water resources and proven mineral deposits, Niger state is far richer than all of the SE.

Even by just consideration net migration , SE has a net negative migration .

Why are the population of the SE running away from their region if its so productive ?

Every indices points to SE being the region with the least wealth generation and poorest with no job prospects.

That's why you all are scattered across the polity.

Your population would have never recovered after the civil war if Nigerians refused you to settle back and thrive in their midsts.

Be grateful for once .

Kukutente23:
I don't know what this thread shows other than poor reasoning ability of the Cable crew

The amount recieved and the amount contributed does not match so what is responsible for the mismatch if you are considering regions with Lagos and Rivers excluded?

The mismatch shows that there is a factor not being considered in this analysis

It shows clearly that SE gets more than it contributes and that SW without Lagos still managed to generate twice as much as the SE but got far less than what it contributed and even far less than what SE was given.

Hence , showing that SE is being sustained by the FG at the expense of other regions notably the SW and SS.

Considering if agricultural outputs are taxed, then the north which is largely agrarian would have contributed far more than the SE

The comparative analysis shows that SE is the least productive region since VAT is collected at points of production.

So that being said, SE has the least production and so highest unemployment rate. This is why the SE has a net negative migration which as seen it as the least likely place for other Nigerians to settle in and why most of the population of the SE are running away from their home states as there are no employment opportunities there.

Emyogalanya:
who killed over 3m of it's citizens 58 years ago

Ojukwu and his insane Enugu clique that included individuals like Achebe who served as Chief propagandist are responsible for the 3 million deaths due to hunger.

You expect aid to freely flow from your war enemies territories via its ports without being subjected to inspection .


Search NL for ''Robert Goldstein'' .

He was the one who weaponised the avoidable deaths so as to garner support globally for Biafra and call for a truce.

The CIA declassified files on the civil war also shows how Enugu stubbornly refused Nigerian forces from inspecting aid passing through her ports and territories to Biafra .

And which country survives on food aid?

Even if Nigeria allowed unhindered food aid (which Intel showed were being diverted to Biafran troops and not the starving children ), the famine would have still continued and more would have died because no country can survive just on food aid.

Robert Goldstein will later denounce Ojukwu as the architect of the famine deaths and apologise to Gowon for blaming him for the famine.

Stop lying to yourselves and understand that ojukwu was by far the most evil thing to happen to ibos

In the wake of the Ukraine war, several Russian oligarchs were murdered and their assets seized and confiscated by the west.

What they don't tell you is that these Russian oligarchs were Jewish and held Israeli citizenship .

The case of Abrahomovic is a good example on how the ongoing silent war between the Zionists and internationalist has seen to many assassinations between the two factions.

Abrahamovic fled to Israel from his London base to avoid being assasniated by the internationalist faction. All his assets had been confiscated on the other of the internationalist faction.

Wagner Group's owner and founder was paid a hefty sum and guarrantted citizenship in the US if he turned his army and overthrew the Chabad mafia in Moscow.

Israel is allied to Russia when it comes to the war in Ukraine and has voted in support of Russia or abstained .

Now how is it possible that Russian athletes or any one for that matter be they Russian or not who expresses support for Russia is quickly cancelled or sanctioned but Israel which is supposedly an ally to the US who started this war in Ukraine gets to vote in the UN in support of Russia?

How come Putin pulled the plug on Assad and has welcomed to Russia the illegitimate jihadist terrorist ruling Syria?

Both Trump and Putin have been playing along the Chabad script an that's why Trump has proposed a peace deal to Ukraine which is under the internationalist through their puppet zelensky who has since rejected the deal.

For the goal set for Zelensky is to depopulate Ukraine of its Slavic Christian population to make room for all Jews to return to their ancestral and real home in Khazaria.

This is what Zelensky meant by ''to the last Ukrainian''.

Victoria Newman , who ocestrated the maidan revolt that toppled, the pro Russian and democratically elected govt of Ukraine in 2014 under Obama alongside Anthony Blinken who served as Biden's Secretary of State ,are originally second genereration Ukrainian Jews whose parents fled the USSR during the Stalin purge of Jews.


The duo are just a few of highly placed Jews in the corridors of power in the US and are the internationalist wing.

It goes deeper but I will stop here for now.

odejimioflagos:
I dont believe Epstein files will affect Trump. The guy is a master at dodging scandals.

Also, why would he resign to placate Democrats? That makes no sense.

Both the GOP and DNC are controlled by two competiting factions of world Jewry.

The GOP is under the thumb of the Chabad Zionists who use their control on the GOP to sustain Israel's existence and fight its wars in the ME.

The DNC are under the control of the internationalist branch whose goal is to usher in a global one world govt with Jewish cooperations dividing the planet amongst themselves akin to the corporate order that exited prior to colonialism. For example , Rothschild held the charter for the Royal Niger Company and that's why colonial flag of Nigeria had a star of remphan on a red background. Even colonial coins had a star of remphan on it.

Now the goals of these two groups differ but have on goal : complete Jewish domination.

Trump wanting an end to the war in Ukraine is because, just like Putin and his oligarch circles, Trump is also Chabad and a flaming Zionist.

Do you know Israel is allied with Russia in the war in Ukraine?

Do you know that Putin refused to assist Iran in the 12 day war between Iran and Israel claiming that Israel has more Russian speakers and dual citizens of Russia (about 70% of the Israeli apartheid state population).

So DNC want an end to Israel and that's why DNC politician on the far left are the most vocal and critical of Israel's genocidal war in Ukraine.

Satanyahu has offered a branch of peace to the DNC that he would get Trump to resign in exchange that further investigation that will lead to Israel's Mossad operating a clandestine honey pot blackmailing operation is dropped.

Satanyahu will throw Trump to the crowd as long as he can placate the Democrats who are set to reclaim both floors of Congress in 2026 midterms and the WH in 2028 as long as he can get a commitment that the DNC WH will not hand him over to the ICC.

Most of you here are very low critical thinkers.

zoghys:
Sincerely you sound ridiculous. Am never a Trump fan and will never be, but thinking he will be magnanimous enough to resign is asking too much.

Nixon only spied on journalists and was forced to resign or face impeachment for breeching privacy laws and authorizing spying on US citizens.

Trump is facing much more severe allegations stemming from actuall obstruction of justice and interfering with an ongoing criminal investigation. Remember Epstein did not kill himself.

He was probably murdered by Trump who was POTUS when Epstein was first arrested or Trump assisted in having Epstein flee to Israel where he is living quietly.

Trump is shitting himself now and might end up bowling his brains out in the Oval office


Read the redacted DoJ preliminary investigation on Trump allegedly confessing to Epstein on phone that he raped the girl Epstein p1mped to him


That girl will later be found dead with a shotgun wound to the head which Local law enforcement agents quickly ruled a suicide.

Trump is a rapist pedophile and murderer.

trutharena:
I just hope they dont go after him when he leaves office. That would be a real witch hunt.

He is contemplating resigning so as to avoid an impeachment circus that will most likely end with him getting arrested and investigated for his deeds on Epstein Island.

The best thing for him is to abuse his powers as POTUS and pardon his own ass for every sh1t he must have done since the day he was born.

Also, note there is a much bigger war going on that you are not aware.

The Internationalist Jews vs The Zionist Jews.

Putin is backing the Zionists an that's why Netanyahu is the only US allied country that is allied to Russia against Ukraine.

Putin is Chabad just as Trump is as well.

The internationalist Jews want to create an atheistic communist one world order but instead of governments , Jewish copoeratiins will own countries just as they did with the Royal Niger Company .
The internationalist want to replace the UN with the WEF and have Khazaria aka Ukraine as the the new and exclusive Jewish capital.

Trump ended his support for Ukraine so as to channel dwindling US arms stockpile wasted on Ukraine to Israel.

The internationalist Jews want Israel and Zionism to be over and will prefer all Jews key into Heavenly Jerusalem Project.

The Biden WH was filled to the brim with these godless communits Jews like Victoria Newman, Anthony Bliken who are all originally Ukrainian Jews whose parents were kicked out from Ukraine by Stalin during the purge of Jews . They have been holding a burning desire to avenge Russia and retake back their real.homeland of Khazaria.

Salewa97:
Trump's resignation would be a huge relief for the Democrats.

The conspiracy theories about Trump and Epstein are just too much.

The Zionist handlers, who are they?

His Jewish donors and Satanyahu who has all the black mail material.

Trump is screwed .

The same people who got the NY AG to file 39 cases of fraud against Trump which ended with a conviction are the same ones who waved their wand and had every case and conviction disappear.

Trump has so much kompromart on him that he makes the drunk and degenerate gambler, Churchill look like a spoilt teenage brat.

AMINDA:
Trump is a master salesman. Now the views from the show will be unprecedented.

Which politician will go on his own personally owned SM and post with his own official handle asking his followers who are majorly his supporters and who voted for him, to give him a feedback if thy want him to resign and return to a career as a reality star?

This isn't a gimmick or some PR stunt.

As POTUS, he grabs the attention for free and any event he attends is freely covered by the media.

Streetinvestor2:
When Buhari called u lazy youths. I was not surprised. Instead to face the hunger and poverty created by your failed president .
Your work is to be opening rubbish topics with free data

Cope.

Your Biafra lobby ends with Zion Don's admin.

Trump did not invade Nigeria over some bs christian genocide false allegation you tried claiming was official state policy under Tinubu citing Muslim Muslim ticket.

Trump will not come down and hand you your old Eastern region with PH as the capital. If you want it so bad, you wiok have to invade and occupy the entire SS and declare your useless Biafra.

Also, Trump resigning will deal a hefty blow to Satanyahu and his genocidal terrorist Likud party allies.

Satanyahu will not be protected forever from the ICC when Trump resigns and the Democrats led by the equally evil internationalist Jews who hate Israel finally regain the US .

I don't know which is worse: Zionist Jews inspired by religious superstition to reclaim Palestine and then give God and Christ the middle finger or the international communist Jews pushing for a technocratic survelliance and corporate one world govt .

Anyways, you lost and will continue to lose.

HgAkpobomeEr:
Trump is not going anywhere.

He posted that he is considering resigning to become an MC and return to reality TV.

Which POTUS will post such rubbish?

Trump is just giving himself some rope by posting this so that when he resigns out of the blue, he will say he had been contemplating doing so for months prior.

Claims he wants to return to being a reality TV star and concentrate on being a master of ceremonies.

BS!

I predicted here that when the Epstein files drop, it will be so damaging and embarrassing to Zion Don that he will have no choice but to pardon himself and resign.

Despite , Trump's DoJ doing everything to redact every document, photograph and video of Trump and his pedo buddies and also dumping the released files without a catalogue or search feature (the DoJ dumped all the files as one large downloadable file), sleuths have been peering into the files and have seen highly compromising docs linking Trump to raping young girls on Epstein Island.

But this is not really why Trump is being forced by his Zionist handlers to resign.

They will sacrifice Trump resigning so as to placate the Democrats and end further inquiry into the links of Epstein running a honey pot blackmail operation on behalf of Mossad targetting powerful US elite and politicians.

Zion Don will resign before the summer of 2026.

You heard it here first.

shortgun:

Stop making a fool of yourself on this forum. Go and get proper education first.

The CESPS figures from the NBS you are fighting with are incident counts they are not crime rates. They are not the same, conflating the two exposes your illiteracy

You even don't understand your own 10 million example as it relates to the NBS statistics.
Wether 10 people generate and share 10 million or 20 people share 10 million. The total is still 10 million.

In the same way, the CESPS data report total crime incidents by region, not crime rates. Population size does not alter the fact that one region recorded fewer incidents in absolute terms.

In statistics rates answer a different question entirely. Stop confusing yourself!

Total Resident Population ÷ Incidence Reports = Crime rate.

You are the one who needs a proper education


Now divide SE resident population by Incidence report of crimes and you will see that SE had a 30% rate which translates to 1 in 3 people in the SE are prone to be victims of a violent crime.

Do that for the NE and see it drop to 15% which is 1 in 6 people being prone to being victims.

At 30% compared to 15%, SE had a 100% higher rate of crime prevalence than the Boko NE.

So that says that SE is the most crime ridden zone.

Meteng:
There are no igbo communities in Cross River and Akwa Ibom. Some communities share boundaries with igbo communities in “igbo “ states and by reasons of interaction , are able to speak the igbo language. It may interest you to know that the igbos in those communities speak and understand the ibibio language. Does that make the igbos there ibibio?

Most of present Abia was once Effik land.

The Effik king of those lands had taken an IBO woman as one of his wives and she bore him a son and some ibos were allowed to settle in the kingdom.

When the king passed away, a power tussle emerged amongst his sons. The one born by the ibo woman who wasn't in line of succeeding his father conspired with his mother's people to bring ibos from iboland to fight for him.

The ibos were successful and had the authentic heir killed but they refused to hand power to the prince born by the ibo woman and seized power for themselves.

This is where Ekpe and Nsidibi came to be known as part of ibo culture when it was never but rather Effik 100%.

The Aro cult that sprang up served the Ekpe juju and were part of the inherited Ekpe confraternity.

This is why I keep saying that everything Ibos claim as their culture was appropriated from the Binis, Izon, Effik and Igala people.

franchasofficia:
That is the price of losing war.


You can see how Russia have been taking Ukraine land and those Ukrainian regions are even preferring to join Russia because Russia is the winning side currently, that's what happened to Southeast.


Igbos lost the war in 1970, so Igbo communities were scattered and most of them at the boundary like the communities you mentioned preferred to be in SouthSouth or Middlebelt to avoid persecution by Nigerian government being controlled by Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas after the war. Senator Ned Nwoko revealed this too that it was same reason his Igbo community in Delta preferred to be associated with Niger Delta than Southeast, that it saved them from political and career persecution by Nigerian government.


Time will settle these things, Igbos are great people and we will rise above our past mistakes and challenges, just a matter of time

The ikweres suffered as much as the other non ibo tribes under Biafra occupation in your hands.

The Asaba ibos saw firsthand your barbarity on non IBO Midwesterners during the brief occupation of the Midwest and had a rethink of your agenda and remembered the warnings they got about you from their parents this is despite Asaba ibos fully supporting and assisting the invasion and occupation of the Midwest.

But what broke the camel's back was how Ojukwu summoned their chiefs to rewrite their history from Benin origins to Nri in Anambra.

Asaba ibos repented very quick from their folly and other non IBO Midwesterners forgave them knowing that their elders has tried warning them not to in any way take the word and actions of the naive IBO Midwesterners who initially and openly supported Biafra and ojukwu.

When Ojukwu then appointed a core IBO man (Okonkwo) to be HoS of the declared Republic of Benin, that's when they then knew ibos were only after their land and resources.

Your biafran forces were carrying out a genocide ordered by Ojukwu on minority people and when the Nigerian forces liberated them and did not kill all of them as Enugu had been propagandizing but rather returned life to nornal, that is when they knew everything about Ojukwu, Enugu and Biafra was an ethnic expansionist and genocidal attempt to wipe out minorities and steal their lands and resources.

BeardedMeat:
Stampede over food where people died also happened in kogi, Lagos and Abuja. Kogi is still the poorest state and the weakest link.

You guys are now fighting kogi people now because the iglas in Enugu want to be with their own people in kogi?

See how its only other peoples land you guys are interested in.

Anioma people go see shege for una hand and curse Ned in future.