₦airaland Forum

technicallyrich:
what is Niger delta.hope you know imo and abia state are Niger deltans and produces resources than cross River and ondo.
more over obigbo are indigenous igbos.
lastly you are not an ikwere man.
you are either a Yoruba mudslim or a bmc paid to distabilize as and se.

Look at this igbo clown.
Imo and Abia are Niger Deltans since when?
So being within the purview of a federal agency created for oil producing Niger Deltan states and surrounding oil producing states gives you the privilege of being a Niger Deltan? You are as foolish as Nnamdi Kanu I swear.

Pecuman:
I know that you are probably one of the 200 Laptops but for any S.S. that may read this.

The geography of S.E. and S.S. necessitates that if either wants to leave Nigeria, the other has to follow as well. Maybe you guys can leave like the U.K. and form your own "United Kingdom" of Biafra and Niger-Delta and each has their own Parliament and government like Scotland and England have in the UK. But neither of you can go at this alone, geography just doesn't allow it.

Nigeria would immediately crush either because your borders are not easily defensible, without extreme already existing Military fortifications, you will be easily crushed by the Nigerian Military, just look at the flat wet land that the border cuts through and unless you an stupid, you will see this.

There are other factors like Igbo communities and S.S. communities not being as easily deliniated from the other as the state border would suggest, leading to fights. The economic continuity of each S.E and S.S. sub regions highly overlap, from the Niger, Nin and Imo rivers to the locations of Arochuckwu, Port Harcourt and so on.

So if you want to secede, S.E. and S.S. have to agree with each other.

We do not share in your ridiculous insecurities.
Niger Delta is a sovereign country of its own and there is nothing you can do about it, or let's just say we are ready for the worst you can do about it. This is not 1967 when you brought your igbo-fulani to be fought in the Niger Delta.

Never again shall we be your pawns.

opuambe:
so the people of Okrika are tenants in port Harcourt ? No wonder wike touch ona hand small,

These animals will surely be dealt with. They have no idea what is coming at them.

Dede1:
Any Ijo in Igweocha (Port Harcourt) is a tenant. Ijo do not own an inch of land in Igweocha.

You igbos have no idea what this inbuilt arrogance and criminal instincts will cost you.

In your deranged mind Ijaw natives are tenants in our own land in Port Harcourt, while igbo migrants who only started migrating to port Harcourt to serve the white men (hence the origin of Igweocha) are the what?

Port Harcourt is not far from your Igboland caves, you are always welcomed to try take it.

What Wike is doing to you guys is child's play, trust me. You lots have proven to be basic animals with animalistic territorial urges, so uncivil and crude.

Rugaria:
Ijaws are natives to Portharcout but igbos are not? Your ogogoro drenched ancestors can pay for land and were ready to develop a city but weren't given the opportunity because they were not igbos? I bet 50 years from now some people from Lagos and Abuja might be caught claiming that the igbos swindled their forefathers to buy up their lands years back... lazy Interlopers pretending to be important. You might even be one deranged Afonja posing as ijaw.. how many streets in Lagos are named after Igbos? The Abuja airport is named after who? I bet if it was the pH airport, you will be foaming at the mouth as you moan about Igbo domination..

There goes the igbo migrant...always yapping trash.

I really don't care about your irrelevant rants. Let's focus on port Harcourt. Deranged migrant feeling important.

Dede1:
Any Ijo in Igweocha (Port Harcourt) is a tenant. Ijo do not own an inch of land in Igweocha.

The comment of a vile migrant.

Igweocha as a word means THE WHITE MAN'S HILL. It's origin and use has to do with the coming of the white men specifically the British and the beginning of colonialism in the early 1900s.

We do not acknowledge the evil act of Igbo migrants renaming our towns. Your caveman urge to posses what is not yours has led you to great danger and will lead to a greater danger. And it is disgusting to us the real natives of Port Harcourt.

We shall always crush all your attempts to posses what is not yours...anytime...cheers!

It baffles me the length these desperate igbos had to go to stake territorial claim on the Niger Delta.

Which biafran identity is this clown talking about?

He thinks he is clever by manipulating the involvement of Ijaw mercenary Frank Opigo in biafra.

Rugaria:
Recovered from who? You sell your property and collect enough cash, you then waste the income on ogogoro and when the cash runs out, you start looking for allies to help you "recover" your property! Was the said property snatched from you?

The Ijaw natives of Port Harcourt did not sell those lands to igbo migrants. It was the igbo-controlled Eastern region government that sold them to igbos only with no single plot sold to the Ijaw natives of Port Harcourt.

The only option we Ijaws had then from the igbo kingdom of Eastern region then was some miserable plot inside Igboland. Some of us who could not fight the system bought, yet after the war could not retrieve same from igbos, nobody is talking about this because we choose not to shout and sing about it like igbos.

The end result of the great igbo act of wickedness was that our streets were all named after igbo mogrants.How would you feel if migrants did this to igbos in any part of igbo land?

We have recovered our territory forcefully taken from us, and we have no apology to give for taking back what rightfully belongs to us...cheers!

Abandoned property or RECOVERED TERRITORY?

pazienza:
WILLINK REPORT 1958 THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM A THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO “ENQUIRE INTO THE FEARS OF MINORITIES AND THE MEANS OF ALLAYING THEM”, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958”
January 4, 2014 News 727 Views

THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND.

1. “More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Ibo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Ibo 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 Ibos, 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 Ibos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.”

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

6. “In the whole of this non-Ibo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over-run, commercially and politically, by the Ibos….. if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Ibo, 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-Ibo 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 Ibo, 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 Ibos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Ibo 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 Ibos 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 Ibo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Ibos ate 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 district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Ibos….We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development.”

14. “A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.”

THE PROPOSAL FOR NEW STATES

15. “The Ogoja state proposed to us would include former Ogoja province, whose population of slightly more than One million include more than 700,000 Ibos…the main intention would be separation from the central body of Ibo population, but in which they will still be linked together with as a minority with their Ibo neighbours in Abakaliki and Afikpo…A majority of evidence we heard from Ogoja was direct that they preferred the present situation to any association with Calabar and that they were at least as much afraid of domination by Efiks and Ibibios as by Ibos.”

16. “The (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers or COR) state proposed would consist of Calabar, Rivers and Ogoja provinces excluding the two Ibo Divisions of Abakaliki and Afikpo. The population of this area is 2,649,000 and the following would be the five largest tribes:

Ibibio 717,000
Annang 435,000
Ibo 428,000
Ijaw 251,000
Ogoni 156,000

As already explained, the small but important Efik tribe of 71,000…The (COR) area is far from homogenous , and many of the other tribes expressed at least as much fear of the Efiks and Ibibios as of the Ibo. It would leave the Ibos of the Ibo Plateau surrounded by a state whose reason for existence was hostility to themselves: the Ibos are an expanding people…”

17. “The area claimed for Rivers state consists of the whole of the Rivers province, that is: The Division of Brass, Degema, Ogoni, Port Harcourt and Ahoada, together with the Western Ijaw Division from the western region, and two small sections in the Eastern Region from outside the Rivers Province, Opodo and Andoni being one, Ndoki the other.”

18. “Port Harcourt is an Ibo town and it is growing rapidly and the indigenous branch of the Ibos who are original inhabitants are already out-numbered by Ibos from the hinterland.”

19. “The people of Ahoada, a Division of which a pan runs down to meet Port Harcourt, appear at one time to have favoured the idea of a Rivers state, but have changed their views and before us expressed themselves as strongly against it. Comparatively few of them live in the low-lying swampy country of the coastal strip and they have voted for the NCNC consistently, they said themselves that a main factor in their change of front had been the inclusion if the Western Ijaws in the proposed state. So long, they said, as the Rivers state was to consist of the River Province only, the Ibos would have been the most numerous tribe within it: but the inclusion of the Western Ijaw Division put them at a numerical disadvantage beside the Ijaws and they therefore preferred to stay out. Whether or not this was a line of reasoning that really had a wide appeal, the fact remain that before us they were opposed to the idea of the state. This is not surprising because their problems are different from those of the ijaws.”

20. “To include within a River state Ahoada and Port Harcourt, would, we believe, create a problem as acute as that with which we were asked to deal at present and and would be sharply resented by the Ibos of the central plateau.”

It must feel really good to be fully supported by the British against the anguish and the miserable state of the people of the Niger Delta in the defunct Eastern region.

You see, Eastern region was a British creation just like Nigeria and the would do everything to preserve the status quo of their creation by rubbishing anything to the contrary. You igbos also felt the bite of this British wickedness.

I just wonder why you couldn't see the wickedness being perpetrated by the British in this report in favour of igbos against Niger Deltans with all these obvious bias.

Juliusmalema:
Slaves living fine and the master living in creeks, zinc houses littered with different breeds of movement. Shanties and ghettos everywhere.

That kind of slave and master is most welcome..

You really are brainless.
Please don't quote me again.

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Juliusmalema:
Ijaw man You should be telling that to Dokubo and edi abali to remove Igbos from his mouth.

Moreover, If you are ashamed of calling ijaw and hiding under non existing microcosm shows how cheap you guys are.


You called Igbos as an ethnicity and boom next you called Niger delta?

you no get tribe or are you ashamed of calling ijaw?

You should rather mind your ijaw business ijaw man and stop dragging others without their consent.

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If you don't understand simple English, don't quote me again.

wingmanIII:
Are you more naijadelta than Asari dokubo? Who know you?

Just in case you are wondering, the answer is YES, I am more Niger Deltan than Asari.

I do not trace my ancestry to Abam in Abia state like him.

And in case you don't know, Asari who at the height of his clash with Nnamdi Kanu called igbos Ijaw slaves is himself the descendants of an Igbo slave in Ijawland.

Juliusmalema:
Noise makers from Dokubo to tompolo to avengers to reformed avengers to money enter pocket.

Use Ijaw straight. Niger Delta is not a tribe

Igbo man, can you just focus on your biafra?
Whether Niger Delta is a tribe or not is not bothering any Niger Deltan, it shouldn't bother you an outsider either.

Asari Dokubo is already digging his grave in Niger Delta Republic.

When he is repatriated to biafra to join his igbo masters, then he will understand that no matter how hard you work for the igbo interest against the interest of the Niger Delta, igbos can never accept you as one of them.

Whoever knows Asari personally should let him know that his Afonjaism in the Niger Delta is duely noted and documented.

I do not know who Asari thinks he is fooling.
No sane Niger Deltan would agitate for Biafra.

We are already preparing for our own protests for issues that concerns our region.

In my opinion, we should maintain the current six regions with some adjustments.

These should be added to Middle belt : Kaduna South, southern bauchi, southern gombe, southern borno, and less Islamic parts of Adamawa & Taraba. While the more Islamic parts of Niger and Kwara north should go to the North West.

The Okun Yoruba of Kogi West and Kwara central and South should join the South West.

But it will not be possible for Itsekiri to join the SW as they do not have a direct boundary with Yoruba. The entire Delta-Ondo boundary is occupied by Ijaws and across the border into Ondo state is the Ijaw-owned Ese-Odo local government area.

Itsekiris can only be part of SW if Edo agrees to join SW.

For the SS, ANIOMA region especially, the Ndokwa/Ukwani & Ika will never agree to join the SE, that leaves Aniocha & Oshimili to join the SE. The Ndoni, Egbema, Asa, Etchie and Omuma of northern rivers should join the SE too.

Otherwise, the SS is okay as there is no clamour from any quarters to split the Niger Delta into two or three, except a particular region that is trying hard to apply divide and conquer on the unity and solidarity of the South South.

So Itsekiris can still feel what hegemony is?

Igboid:
There is nothing Edoid, not even one, about Ekpeye.
Other than the irrational Bini migration stories, Ekpeye is Igboid.

Perhaps you meant to say the Engenni, who occupy Ahoada West LGA with Ekpeye people.
Because we all know the Engenni( Burna boy is from this ethnic group) are Edoid language speakers and have history of migration from Bini.

Engenni is Ijaw, they had settlers who escaped war in ancient Benin kingdom. It doesn't mean Engenni was founded by bini migrants.

jimyjames:
can you tell me the ethnic groups that rejected Biafra to be in Niger Delta Republic?

Why don't you wait and find out

ejanla077:
Ijawcitizen is a Yoruba Muslim. Be guided

I am glad I knocked you real hard, you are now hallucinating, haunted by Yoruba ghosts.

Sir Nsiba
I greet you
You are really dealing with them, you are doing well

Proeast2:
You're obviously a kid who knows nothing about international politics and conflicts. I will advice you to go and read up on international conflicts in places like Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. Also read about conflicts in the Middle East.

Biafra will be a homogeneous country made up of one people, one religion and one culture. Niger Delta on the other hand, will be made up of several ethnicities, different cultures and religion, which is a recipe for disaster. All Biafra will do, if we want to reduce Niger Delta to its knees will be to fight a proxy war with them. We will look at any tribe that is feeling disgruntled and has the capacity to challenge the central government, then we will arm them and provide cover for them to begin a rebellion against the central government. We may arm the Ikwerre or the Ogoni etc. and viola they will keep P.H busy. This is exactly what has been happening in those places I told you read up on.

If Niger Delta were to be made up by one ethnicity like Biafra, it would have posed a serious threat but with the way it is, forget it, they will always be at Biafra's mercy

How you imagined that any ethnic group that rejected igbo's biafra to be in Niger Delta Republic will fall back into Igbo hands to be used as igbo proxies beats my imagination but confirms to me how deluded and frustrated you are....you are not thinking straight anymore

horsepower102:
Don’t worry keep hiding behind Fulani. The Igbos are not ready for a war or a fight but if your madness gets out of hand we will squash you like a bug.

You think ambush on civilians going about their daily business is bravery.

Just organize your people to try nonsense against igbos and we see how that will turn out.

You think war is hiding in the swamps and ambushing or kidnapping oil workers.

I pray you guys get too confident. We will cure your madness.

Just because igbos are tolerant towards you guys all these years doesn’t mean that they will allow you to poke your fingers into their eyes.

Face Fulani already poking fingers into your eyes. More than 1000 igbos already massacred by Fulani, the best you did was organize a public wailing ceremony.

Every right thinking person knows Niger Delta Republic will beat igbos hands down in an open war. I am done arguing with you.

horsepower102:
I pray you guys will attack and that’s the day we will colonize you. I pray to God you guys team up against us. You think a tribe that fought against the whole nation supported by world powers is scared of you guys.

I pray you guys get too confident and attack igbos, then when you will know there is different levels of madness.

CHEST BEATERS AT IT AGAIN
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbo_massacre

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/20-killed-as-fulani-herdsmen-invade-enugu-community/%3famp=1

Fulani is already doing the job for us from the north of Igboland and chestbeaters like you have not lifted a finger yet you want to fight us

jimyjames:
no vessel has passed through Nigeria cause the river Niger hasn't been dredged and no country is interested in bringing vessels through the river Niger yet, but before any of these countries do whatsoever with the Niger river all the countries must be involved

And what makes you think Niger Delta Republic will be interested in such discussions with biafra when the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the dredging of River Niger states that it is suicidal to the people of the Niger Delta?

GallantDuke:
I am telling you so that you won't pass this distorted history of yours to your future generation

Your history is correct while mind (Your victims account) is false.

Clap for yourself.

Time will tell.

jimyjames:
the river Niger cuts across different countries it belongs to no one, just as we don't have the right to block the river Niger from flowing down to the sea, you have no right to stop us from passing to the sea, river Niger doesn't start and end in Niger Delta, passes through different countries so, it's not really and internal water

The river Niger started from Mali, thru Burkina Faso and Niger republic. Have you seen any vessel passing thru Nigeria into these countries in line with your claim of river Niger being an "international waterway"?

GallantDuke:
I am still stupefied how you were able to twist history to suit your selfish interest. You are absolutely right when you said that we didn't stage the war in Kano or any other part of the North but what you should bear in mind is that the war was declared by the Nigerian govt against the secessionists and they came to force us back into the republic so the Biafran soldiers fought gallantly to defend their land so there is no how they would have taken the battle to the North when the federal armies were at their neck;they have to defend their territory

Hisss

Who are you telling this rubbish to?
Me or your children?

If you like, pass this same nonsense to your children. We will always be here with the real truth.

GallantDuke:
Nobody is fighting you guys. We fought with a whole nation and we were not defeated so who are you guys to scare us?

My point is this "we can be good neighbors" without fighting

Let me give you another vital information in case no one has told you before.

The biafra war you fought was an igbo war against the Niger Delta. All the bullets igbos shot outside Igboland was in the Niger Delta.

You declared war 3 DAYS after our long clamored removal from eastern region came to fruition.

You did not embark on any military expedition into Kano, Sokoto or Plateux where Gowon came from

but invaded Midwest (Niger Delta territory)which chose to be NEUTRAL and declared our Governor David Ejoor who was clearly sympathetic to igbos DEAD OR ALIVE for no crime whatsoever against the igbos.

You developed cold feet when you got to Ore because your overall biafran military ambition was not to fight Nigeria but subdue Niger Delta.

When Enugu your capital fell to federal forces, you igbos were still at Bonny and Our coastal territories shipping your people oversees and selling crude oil to France for weapons. You fought harder against federal forces for the continuation of igbo rule in Niger Delta territory than you did for the defence of Enugu your capital.

While, our people were permanently under house arrest and no one allowed to move to be tagged saboteur and shot in cold blood. Our foods were forcefully take away, our crops forcefully harvested, thereby inducing hunger and starvation on our people.

Our people had to risk their lives escaping igbo induced hunger and starvation from our own lands into western Nigeria for safety at the risk of igbo bullets.

I am not talking about the looting, rape, tortures, forceful conscription of our ablebodied men and all the war crimes against our people.
Tell me which war you fought with Nigeria you bloody hypocrite!