nairalandankrah: Why Nigerians hate Igbo, by Chinua Achebe Achebe
Nigeria’s foremost novelist Chinua Achebe wrote that Nigerians, especially of the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba stocks, do not like his Igbo ethnic group because of the southeast’s cultural advantage
He made this claim in his book, There was a Country, which has generated controversy for his onslaught on the role of Obafemi Awolowo as the federal commissioner of finance during the Nigeria civil war. He accused Awolowo of genocide and imposition of food blockade on Biafra, a claim that has drawn rebuttals and contradictions of emotional intensity from some southwest leaders and commentators.
He observed that the Igbo culture’s emphasis on change, individualism and competitiveness gave his ethnic group an edge over the Hausa/Fulani man who was hindered by a “wary religion” and the Yoruba man who was hampered by” traditional hierarchies.”
He therefore described the Igbo, who are predominantly Catholic, as “fearing no god or man, was “custom-made to grasp the opportunities, such as they were, of the white man’s dispensations. And the Igbo did so with both hands.”
He delved into history with his claim, asserting that the Igbo overcame the earlier Yoruba advantage within two decades earlier in the twentieth century.
“Although the Yoruba had a huge historical and geographical head start, the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between 1930 and 1950.”
He narrated the earlier advantage of Yoruba as contingent on their location on the coastline, but once the missionaries crossed the Niger, the Igbo took advantage of the opportunity and overtook the Yoruba.
‘The increase was so exponential in such a short time that within three short decades the Igbos had closed the gap and quickly moved ahead as the group with the highest literacy rate, the highest standard of living, and the greatest of citizens with postsecondary education in Nigeria,” he contended
He said Nigerian leadership should have taken advantage of the gbo talent and this failure was partly responsible for the failure of the Nigerian state, explaining further that competitive individualism and the adventurous spirit of the Igbo was a boon Nigerian leaders failed to recognize and harness for modernization
“Nigeria’s pathetic attempt to crush these idiosyncrasies rather than celebrate them is one of the fundamental reasons the country has not developed as it should and has emerged as a laughingstock,” he claimed.
He noted that the ousting of prominent Igbos from top offices was a ploy to achieve a simple and crude goal. He said what the Nigerians wanted was to “get the achievers out and replace them with less qualified individuals from the desired ethnic background so as to gain access to the resources of the state.”
Achebe, however, saved some criticisms for his kinsmen. He criticised them for what he described as “hubris, overweening pride and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or even worse that can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness
He added that “contemporary Igbo behavior(that) cab offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.
The truth is that you are all thieves so it's like thieves killing thieves. All the tiny dot in a circle is known for is armed robbery. Biafra is a Den of Thieves.
[quote author=Whiteangel1234 post=102727217]Bakassi Boys have taken over the security of Awka , Anambra State , so far many Cultists and Hoodlums have been caught and publicly executed and burn alive in the street
maximunimpact: An unorthodox vigilante group known as ‘Bakasi boys’ who engaged in jungle justice in Anambra state have resurfaced after two decades to crush cultists and other criminals has allegedly killed six suspects.
The vigilante group arrived in Awka, the state capital, on Saturday with their first six victims burnt on Monday.
No one seems to know who sent them or how they are to approach their duty, but they are not policemen.
Police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu said he had no information on them, but a senior officer confirmed that they arrived on Saturday.
The officer provided no further information.
“That’s the only thing I can tell you for now, let’s see how things work out in days and weeks to come,” he said.
“If they engage in jungle justice, nobody will talk, especially the lawyers and human rights groups, but when police engage in such, the whole world will tumble and that’s what the state deserves at this moment, ” the source said.
Awka has been terrorised by cultists without much resistance from police.
Yes Igbo properties were confiscated in Port Harcourt. Use your Google if you have one. Google "Abandoned properties " in Port Harcourt. I know you're probably 20 years old and you don't know what happened during the civil war, that's why you people are shouting Biafra up and down. I suggest you read about the civil war.
Graysons: With all due respect, i thought you are from Akwa ibom? Pls do not spread false information here, no properties was seize in old township (Town) in Port Harcourt! Thank you!
We will seize all your properties in PH again like we did before. Ask your father what we did to your properties in Port Harcourt. Your mumu people will never learn.
Why should we support that monkey? A coward who ran away while 2 million of his people died of hunger. Notice how Biafran leaders always run away while their people are being killed. The South South owes Biafran idiots nothing. We have our own lives to live.
Former Minister of Transport and Elder statesman, Chief Ebenezer Babatope has said that the people of the South-South never supported Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, military governor of the defunct Eastern Region which broke away as The Republic of Biafra in 1966 during the Nigerian civil war fought between 1966 to 1970.
Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent on Monday, Babatope said even if the people of the South-South region which was made up of minority tribes of the South-East have sympathy for Ojukwu, they did not show commitment to the cause of Biafra.
He said, “The South-South did not support Ojukwu during the Biafra civil war. The minority tribes of the South-East are the South-South people. The South-South is made up of minority tribes in the South-East like Calabar, Ogoja, Rivers and so on. They never committed themselves to the Biafran war”.
“Ojukwu himself knew that the South-South people were not committed to the cause of Biafra. It was very apparent that the other part of the country that began war against Ojukwu used the South-South territories as stepping stones to get the Biafrans”.
“In fact, I remember very well that this famous musician, Cardinal Rex Lawson did a record and if you listen to it, it was non-committal record even though he did the record as if he was supporting Biafra”.
This is how you know that a tribe is foolish. Only a fool will go and build his house on his enemy's land. Mumu Biafrans. Of course all your properties will be burnt or confiscated. Idiots.
Ofodirinwa: Now that I have your attention, here are 3 reasons why the seizing of properties is and has always been economic suicide for those that attempt it. You will notice that throughout history's biggest wars wars (WWI, WWII for example) there are no examples of seizing of private property even during or after an occupation. But this is not because of love or friendlessness, rather, logic.
1. Property Value: Property is only as valuable as what people are willing to pay for it. There are huts in choice locations that are worth more than mansions in desolate or isolated locations. Why. Because property is only as valueable as what people are willing to pay for it. So lets say we have a city where 30% of the property is owned by Igbos. That 30% is removed from their homes and the homes are distributed for free. Why will you, with free houses and mansions are being offered up, go and buy or build a home? Why would you rent? What will happen is those selling their own will no longer be able to sell them until the free homes are occupied. Once they are occupied, they can only sell them at a severely decreased rate (30% lower than market value = not a profit). Remember, no city in the world is growing by more than 30% annually, especially cities that evict 30% of their population the year before. This means it will take years for the free houses to be filled. 2-3 years if you give them to any and everyone 10-15 if you're being selective and matching to income. 10-15 years where an entire city cannot sell property, find renters, markets lose 30% of their customer base for a decade, and nobody is building homes will be a slum by the time you're done with the project. If you chose 2-3 years, they will also turn the place into a slum because if someone was homeless the year before, they will not have what it takes for basic maintenance (retouching, repainting, plumbing, facility repairs, sewage, water, reroofing, gen, keeping the home modern) Go to old Port Harcourt if you don't believe me.
2. Property Incentive: Those who did not build or buy a home, cannot afford to keep and maintain it. The person waiting for a free home will not have what it takes to maintain a mansion. If they had the money to build or even maintain a mansion, why would have one, or they would not be waiting for a free home because they will likely have something. Unless the cities of Nigeria are teaming with homeless people who are also well employed, handing rich homes to poor people out of ethnic sentiment will make poor people and poor homes. Go to old Port Harcourt if you don't believe this basic economic principle. I used 30% in the last estimate but the truth is in come cities, especially choice locations, 50-70% Igbo ownership is not abnormal. Take Lagos and Festac or VI for example. If you don't believe me, look at old PH.
3. It doesn't matter: There is nobody who built 1 mansion who cannot build 2. Property is the result of your income. If you have the ability to produce the income to build a home and the home is taken, you can produce another one. Many look at the rapid recovery of Igbo cities after the Biafran war as some sort of miracle but it's basic economic logic. A person with a 5 story in Onitsha, if he loses the building, can quickly build another one. Everything it took for said Igbo person to build their home is still intact. 90% of Igbo ppl with mansions outside of the east have a mansion in their village that they already call home.
South East does not need a referendum to leave Nigeria because South East will always be in Nigeria. TINY DOT IN A CIRCLE WITH NOWHERE TO GO. How do you leave Nigeria when you're surrounded by Nigeria? Where are you going to?
MakotoShishio: We also consider the sudden contraption by a certain section that calls itself "northern Igbo" as a more latent, disagreeable and unacceptable threat to the North.
The Coalition of Northern Groups has stated that despite the fact that the South-East region has produced key persons in the Nigerian federal government, the region should not be denied a referendum to allow it determine its exit peacefully and without bloodshed.
The CNG in a release on Monday noted that in order to avoid the recurrence of any terrible and planned mass killings, untold sufferings and atrocities, “we insist on a referendum to take place across the country to agree on an immediate and permanent exit of the Igbo from Nigeria.
The CNG spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, stated this in a release titled, “Igbo leaders fake, unreasonable; we insist on referendum for Biafra.”
The coalition said, “In the light of the frantic efforts being made by some sections of the leadership of the Igbo to disown the current violent agitations for a separate state of Biafra, we, the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) insist they should not be believed and only a referendum for Igbo exit can provide final guarantee for a peaceful Nigeria.
“It is important for Nigeria to see through this hypocritical desperation by the Igbo leaders to buy time to restrategise for a deadlier onslaught for Biafra as an afterthought following the exposure of the extent of their complicity in the sponsored Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) secession project.
“With the level of commitment of the Igbo public to the point of young men killing their parents who dared oppose Kanu's activities, the rest of the country cannot be expected to accept to continue as a nation with the Igbo on the apparent weakness of the assurances of a handful of Igbo leaders.
“We also consider the sudden contraption by a certain section that calls itself "northern Igbo" as a more latent, disagreeable and unacceptable threat to the North and its people than their brethren that fight us from their South Eastern enclave.
“This is because their presence within the deep hinterland of the North and the permanent nature of that presence, accord them undue advantage over the trusting indeginous northerners who are steadily weakened by a carefully orchestrated, widespread drug war and clandestine spread of arms by these settlers.”
The CNG stated that contrary to the Igbo leaders' claims of marginalisation, records showed the region produced the first post-independence president of Nigeria, and also had the first military Head of State in the person of Aguiyi Ironsi.
The CNG said, “Whereas even in most of the countries that we look up to as epitomes of democracy today, the vanquished in a civil war are always oppressed, marginalised and don’t enjoy the privileges of equal citizenship for decades afterwards, Nigeria was able to assimilate the Igbo nation back into the Nigerian entity after the civil war faster than most nations.
“All Igbos must leave the territory of Nigeria and assemble in their designated enclave for the purpose of the referendum during which period no further contacts should be experienced between them and the rest of Nigeria so as not to lead to any interference in the process.
“The Federal Government of Nigeria shall also have no hand whatsoever in the process, and shall not be called upon to participate or render any assistance whatsoever from the beginning to the end of the referendum.
"Should there be any need, the participation of other regional, continental and international organisations can be requested to determine the way and manner such a referendum is to be held.”
vasel15: When are we going to talk about 28 people that were killed at Nnamdi Kanu's House unprovoked, I mean most times I get angry at Nigerians, we are wicked people and we hate each other, what did Ipob do to the Nigerian army? Did they carry weapons? Who gave the order for the army to kill Nnamdi Kanu? Yes we know they wanted to kill Kanu and they killed 28 people instead including a dog this shows how heartless these people are. Fulani army from niger, they kill like rabid dogs, no looking back, I call them the civilian killing machine.
In Nigeria we are programmed to support the oppressor instead of the oppressed, this is why nobody talks about it, you can't keep killing unarmed people and expect them to fold their arms so the coming of UGM is actually natural and they would have free volunteers willing to extract justice since the Nigerian state can not give them justice, I say today if you come to my house and kill 28 people, I would form a group greater than Taliban to fight back because I am fighting for justice I did no wrong when you killed my people I never carried arms and what gave you the right to kill them? I would ask the ICC as well, why did the Nigerian army aka civilian people kill 28 unarmed people and none of them are in jail now?.
To eradicate a problem we just first get to the root of the matter, the Nigerian government started by killing innocent people and we have video evidence to prove it and I ask when are we going to talk about the 28 innocent people killed at Nnamdi Kanu House when Buhari with the blessings of the Eastern governors sent the army to eliminate Kanu.
Politics › Re: Why Nigerians hate Igbo, by Chinua Achebe by Ekpeitit(m): 10:40am On Jun 15, 2021
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