₦airaland Forum

THE FEAR OF IGBOS BY THE MINORITIES HAS BEEN UNFOUNDED AS PROVEN BY THIS COLONIAL ERA REPORT.

THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF "1958"

1. “More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Igbo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Igbo and speak one language, though of course with certain differences of dialect. There are nearly five million of them and they are too many for the soil to support: they are vigorous and intelligent and have pushed outward in every direction, seeking a livelihood by trade or in service in the surrounding areas of the Eastern Region, in the Western Region, in the North and outside Nigeria. They are no more popular with their neighbours than is usual in the case of an energetic and expanding people whose neighbours have a more leisurely outlook on life.”

2. “Though there has been no great kingdom or indigenous culture in the Eastern Region, the coastal chiefs grew on their trade with the (European merchant) ships and they adopted customs, clothing and housing more advanced than those of the peoples of the interior on whom they had at first preyed for slaves. They came during the 19th Century to regard the people of the interior as backward and ignorant, and it was therefore a blow to their pride, as well as to their pockets, when the Ibos began to push outwards into the surrounding fringe of the country and particularly into the Calabar area, to take up land, to grow rich, to own houses and lorries and occupy posts in public services and in the services of large trading firms.”
“It was among the Igbos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”

3. “It is important to remember that of this (Ogoja) Province’s 1,082,000 inhabitants, 723,000 are Ibos, almost entirely in Abakaliki and Afikpo (Divisions), while the census classifies 350,000 as “Other Nigerian Tribes.”

4. The Rivers Province …includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema, both overwhelmingly Ijaw, and the Ogoni Division. The former Rivers Division also includes over 300,000 Ibos of whom 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 in Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt is a town of recent growth and of rapidly increasing importance; it is built on land that blonged originally to an outlying branch of the Ibo tribe, the Diobus, but is largely inhabited by the Ibos from the interior who have come to trade or seek employment….Of the total 747,000 in the Rivers province, 305,000 are Igbos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.”

5. “The strip to the south of the Igbo block, is physically, divided by a block of Igbo territory, tipped by the important Igbo town of Port Harcourt and tribally divided between the Ijaws and the Ogonis.”

6. “In the whole of this non-Igbo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over-run, commercially and politically, by the Igbos….. if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Igbo, are considered with the solid centre of Ibo population, there are 54 seats for the Ibo area and 30 for COR (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers) in (Eastern Regional House of Assembly).”

THE FEARS AND GRIEVANCES OF MINORITIES:
7. “It was suggested (by non-Igbo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”

8. “The allegation was put forward by counsel (to petitioners) that the Judiciary (when not European) was predominantly Igbo, with the implication that this caused fear among those who are not Ibos. But it was clearly stated in evidence by Dr. Udoma, the leader of UNIP, that no occasion could be adduced of the judiciary acting with partiality. The fact is that the legal profession is largely Igbos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Igbo preponderance among Judges and Magistrates. Further, it is the declared policy of Government that the Judiciary should be federal and this does not indicate a desire to control it. Again, the operation and composition of Public Service Commission here, as in the West, appeared to us in no way open to reproach.”

9. “In the Police, which in this region alone is wholly Federal, the number of Ibos in the higher appointments is not out of proportion to the Ibos in the region. The force is now federally controlled and although there are a large number of Ibos in the lower ranks, this is due to the fact that it has for long been a tradition among the Ibos to offer themselves for recruitment in this force in far greater numbers than any other tribe.”

10. “we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity. On the evidence before us, we conclude that the allegations of discriminations in the matter of scholarships are unjustified.”

11. “It was further suggested that loans by the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation, the Eastern Region Development Board, and the Eastern Region Development Corporation were made with some degree of preference to Ibos. It did appear that most of the loans made by these bodies were to Ibos, but that is not to say that this was necessarily improper. Ibos constitute two thirds of the population of the region and have a bigger share of financial and commercial responsibility than their numbers warrant.”

12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

13. “The question of land was repeatedly raised, it being resented by the Efiks and Ibibios that the Igbos should acquire land at all in their territory while the methods by which it was obtained were also questioned. There is no doubt that on the Igbo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Igbos are thrusting outwards where possible they acquire land and use it either for cultivation or building…..This is a matter which will require legislation sooner or later and it will be delicate to handle, but the economic process is in itself healthy and we had little sympathy with a witness who remarked that there is much undeveloped land in the district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Igbos… We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development and progress.

N/B: IKWERRE, ETCHE, EKPEYE, OPOPO, IBANI(BONNY),URATTA,OGBA, NDOKI ARE ALL INDIGINEOUS IGBO EXTRACTION IN RIVERS STATE(RIVERS IGBOS).BEFORE INDEPENDENCE THERE WAS NO IDENTITY CRISIS AMONG THEM.THIS IS WILLINKS COMMISSION REPORT TO QUEEN OF ENGLAND 1958.

Perkins2018:
Are you tired of your Yoruba Muslims vs Yoruba Christian stupidity?

The question is has any Igbo man contested since 1999 and was not voted for?

are you a Yoruba Muslim?

In 1999, Igbos voted for President Obasanjo from South West despite the painful loss of Alex Ekwueme to the latter at the primaries of the Peoples' Democratic Party in Jos. Chief Obasanjo got 3.2 million votes from the South East which is about 70 percent of the votes cast in the region in 1999.

In 2003, President Obasanjo secured 4.5 million votes about 68 percent of the votes the region in while Ikemba Nnewi Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (an undisputed Igbo leader) got about 22 percent of the votes.

In 2007, Ndigbo voted for Late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who is from the North West and with a running mate with the South South region. Ndigbo voted against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari irrespective of the fact that he had an Igbo man as his Vice-Presidential candidate.

In the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections, Ndigbo voted for President Goodluck Jonathan who is from the South South region. President Jonathan secured over 90 percent of the votes in the South East region in each of those elections. Ndigbo did not vote for General Buhari.

In 2019, Ndigbo voted for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who is from the North East region.

To drive the point home the North West after voting Obasanjo with about 63 percent of the votes cast in the region in 1999 shifted to General Buhari in 2003 with 62 percent and have consistently voted for Northerners since 2007.

No Southerner since 1999 has scored, on average, more than 30 percent of the votes cast in the North East and North West regions of Nigeria.

The electoral results show that the South East is ethnically blind when it comes to voting. This voting pattern is the ultimate proof of the cosmopolitan ethos of Ndigbo. They will vote against an Igbo Vice President if he is co-yoked with a president who is anti-market, anti-merit, and divisive.
They will vote for a Northerner and a devout Muslim if they believe he is a man of character and a unifier. In Presidential elections, South East votes have been cast on a largely ideological basis in support of inclusion, rule of law, freedom, democracy and open markets.

The 2019 elections have also shown that Ndigbo will always vote in line with their conviction irrespective of threats or attacks. It is time for the country to take note of these salient points, drop their unfounded distrust of Ndigbo, and fight to enthrone the politics of live-and-let-live.

Excerpt from the Book review A POLITICAL HISTORY OF MODERN NIGERIA: WORDS AND THOUGHTS OF MBAZULIKE AMECHI Volumes 1 & 2 by Osita Chidoka

Biafra for Jesus Christ!

Nnamdi kanu is really a great man. He even won media personality of the year award in Isreal. God bless Nnamdi kanu. Buhari is dead and buried in Saudi Arabia, jubril must be expose.

Osaze007:
I like how awolowo permanently ensured igbos don’t forget him that £20 put you in forever severe pains

that's the reason Igbo's conquered Lagos and relegated Yoruba's to Ibadan, the home of brown roof.

Oh land of the rising sun, we love and Cherish!

I must kiss the holy feet of Nnamdi kanu!
The crown Prince of biafra
God bless Nnamdi KANU
God Bless uche mefor
The ohamadike of our time
We are waiting in earnest when you finally crush the head of king of aso rock! Then we will sing chukwuokike abiama praise and dance into the kingdom of God on earth which is biafra

Awolowo and adekunle aka black scorpion murdered 3.5 million biafran women and children. Biafra is our only hope.

God bless Biafra, God bless Nnamdi kanu, jubril the Sudanese impostor must be exposed.

Sudan sentences 29 to death for teacher's killing in custody
Sudanese people react as they gather in front of a court in Omdurman, near the capital Khartoum, Sudan, 30 December 2019, during the trial of a group of intelligence agents who are accused of the death of a school teacher while in custody.
A Sudanese court has sentenced 29 intelligence officers to death for the torture and killing of a teacher.
Ahmad al-Khair, 36, died in custody in February following his arrest for taking part in protests against then President Omar al-Bashir's government.
These are the first sentences handed down over the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the months before Bashir was toppled in April.
The prosecution said the death sentences were a just punishment.
After the sentencing, the judge asked al-Khair's brother, Sa'd, whether he wanted the 29 men to be pardoned – but he said he wanted them to be executed instead.
A lawyer for the defence said he would appeal.
The court found that Ahmad Al-Khair was beaten and tortured to death by the officers at a detention centre in the eastern state of Kassala.
Under the former President Bashir, Sudan enforced the death penalty, and two people were executed in 2018.
Ahmad Al-Khair's case drew widespread attention in Sudan, and his killing fuelled the protests against the 75-year-old Bashir. A huge crowd rallied outside the court in Omdurman, the twin city of the capital, Khartoum, to hear the verdict.
At least 170 people were killed during the months-long crackdown against the protest movement. Bashir was eventually overthrown by the military, 30 years after he took power in a coup.
Earlier this month, he was sentenced to two years for corruption. The court ruled that he should serve the sentence in a correctional facility, as he was too old to be in prison.
The corruption case was linked to a $25 million (£19 million) cash payment he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Bashir also faces other charges – including some related to the 1989 coup that brought him to power, along with genocide and the killing of protesters.
Bashir claimed the payments were made as part of Sudan's strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, and were "not used for private interests but as donations".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50945224?iorg_service_id_internal=624173547714020%3BAfofo2lWZsJcId1H

Igbo amaka!

Kemz77:
Watch this and you will be shocked beyond belief on how Yorubas were created. Ever wondered why Yoruba Muslims support Fulani to the detriment of Yoruba race? Watch this and you be shocked to your bone marrow that most Yoruba Muslims are not real Yorubas (real Oduduwa blood like Ijebu, Egba, Abeokuta); these are agents among Yorubas doing the bidding of Fulani.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llporKrPsbU

your correct, Yoruba Muslim's domination and suppression oduduwa people is highly regrettable. I call on oduduwa people to resist this Yoruba Muslim's subjugation.