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ORIGIN OF BRITISH PROJECT OF DE-IGBONIZATION OF RIVERS IGBO AND
THE ROOT CAUSES OF IDENTITY DENIAL IN IKWERRE, OGBA AND MOST IGBO TRIBES IN RIVERS STATE~Written by Professor Chidi Osuagwu

1. The British project of De-Igbonization of Riverein Igbo/Plot of War against the Igbo has basis in Resources control and started actively after the Iva Valley/Enugu Coalmime Massacre of 1949. The British, after World War II, had a policy of using resources from the Colony to rebuild war devastated Britain. Coal, mined at Enugu and shipped to Britain was part of the grand plan. The 'rebellious' Igbo had other thoughts. The British were plundering the Igbo coal and paying pittance to the Igbo Coalminers. The Mners protested and the British massacred. The immortal Osadebe song "Onuigbo" memorialises the massacre. The Enugu massacre didn't end at Enugu. It led to a general strike, led by Michael Imoudu, in Nigeria. It reverbrated across the British empire, particularly, Africa and speed up the independence campaigns. The British marked out the Igbo for destruction, including War. This is the origin of the plot for the Biafra War, which was originally scheduled to take place before or by 1958. Sir Robert Stapledon, Governor of Eastern Nigeria pressed Britain to defer the War.
2. At the time, Britain already knew that some much bigger resource than coal existed in Eastern Nigeria...Petroleum. They moved fast to insulate it from Igbo control and influence. Independence, as Decreed by the United Nations after World War II, was unrushing and Britain moved fast. They sought to create Rivers Region as outlined below and failed. They moved HQ of Shell Petroleum from Owerrri to Port-Harcourt. They set out to, ferociously, deigbonise the Reverein Igbo, recruiting Local Hyenas to their cause. They used the pretext of the Biafra War they ploted and excucuted to destroy the Igbo and Igbo culture in their 'Rivers Region' as outlined below.
3 . Kay Williamson is well known to me (she was there when I took my PhD at the University of Port-Harcourt). She was a British agent recruited, from University of Ibadan to University of Port-Harcourt. Her sole mandate was to prove that Riverein Igbo dialects were Igboid languages and not Igbo dialects. She was executing all kinds of linguistic 'Bubuyaya', until Computer programming came up. With Language-markers she had programmed the computer to draw map of Igbo Language Area and Igboid Languages areas. When the computer, based on the Language-markers, could not identify Igboid languages, but classed her Igboids as regular dialects of Igbo, as known by linguists all along, she broke down and died. When she died the Ijaw buried her at Kaiama, their traditional headquarters, as National heroine. She was expanding their territory and diminishing the Igbo. Not minding that the majority of the people of Degema Division are of Igbo stock, not Izon, and yet the Igbo, in good faith, accept their Ijaw identity...not claiming them as part of Rivers Igbo. All parties mock the 'Igbo-Sampson-at-Gaza'!
4. Kay Williamson's career was in furtherance of a secret colonial office policy document to the Willink Commission of 1957/58. The British had wanted the Commission to create a Rivers Region for 900,000 Ijaw. In effect, de-Igbonizing the Igbo in the then Rivers Province.
5. The Willink Commission put a final seal on the identities of the peoples of the then Rivers Province by:
a. Noting that the number of 900,000 Ijaw claimed by the British Colonial Office memo was fictional. This is because an earlier working document on the population of Rivers Province earlier given to them, by the same colonial officials, had indicated that the Province had a total of 703,000 people. Of these 150,000 were Ogoni of Ogoni Division. 250,000 were Ijaw of Brass and Degema Divisions. 303,000 were Igbo of Ahoada and Port-Harcourt Divisions.
6. The above facts, embedded in the Willink Commission Report, put the final seal on the facts that the peoples of prewar Ahoada and Port-Harcourt Divisions are Igbo peoples and nothing else.
7. It is clear that the British, judging from their hatred and anti-Igbo policies since and the career of Kay Williamson, never gave up on their policy of De-Igbonization, and Ijawization, of Riverein Igbo at the expense of the Igbo Nation and British profit. It is also, clear, from their heroic treatment of Kay Williamson that the Ijaw are complicit, as default beneficiaries, of the genocidal British machinations against the Igbo.
8. "Phil, our gamble about identity has failed!" was a statement made before his friend, Phillip Nkwocha of Emeabiam, and myself by Senator Obi Wali in 1991. Shortly after that he died for agitating for Igweọcha/Port-Harcourt State. There are, apparently, some self-serving Riverein Igbo still gambling about their identity...and who will, ultimately, fail as Obi Wali lamented.
9. All the current campaign against the possible emergence of an Igbo of true Rivers State origin is part of the British planned De-Igbonization of Riverein Igbo for Petroleum's sake. The tragedy is that Igbo "Harlots-of-Jericho" have been recruited to be the money-chomping face of the evil campaign against the Great Igbo Spirit and Nation. History Will Laugh at Them!!!
10. It is noteworthy that some Ikwerre Igbo elite bought into the ruse for gain. They switched code from distinguishing themselves from being Ikwerre-Igbo (which the British themselves had grouped as part of the Oratta-Ikwerri sub-tribe of the Igbo) in constrast to the Isuama Igbo (a core Imo Basin Igbo from Isuawa in Enugu State to Isuowu in Etche, and including; Isu-ochi, Isu-ikwuato, Isu-Ngele, Isu-Njaba, Isu-Otuakwu, Isu-Obiangwu and from Isu-Ohazara to Ihiala) to contrasting themselves with Igbo. Regretting the error of playing the enemies game a prominent Ikwerre leader, Senator Obi Wali, said to his friend, Mazi Phillip Nkwocha, before me: "Phil, our gamble about identity has failed!" Today, based on what his father taught him, his son, Ihunwo Obiwali, is an Ikwerre-reintegrationist-into-Igbo-fold activist. But, many of those his father's generation took to the Whiteman's Communion have not recognised that the Church service is over. Gambling about identity is a serious affair. Go ask the African slave-time Diaspora.
Follow TheTribes

The Igbos are not part of the leadership since the civil war ended. The victors like the Hausa-Fulani,Yoruba,North central and southern minorities are to blame for the current state of the country

babasolution:
My point is the major tribes made the system so,it wasn't like this under Gowon until Obasanjo, shagari and BUHARI ( hausa-fulani) made it so

lomprico:
If no be Mariam babangida whey come from asaba, na warri suppose be the capital of delta state

we are one people

I breastfeed, i am submissive and finally i can snore.

Kimjongun:
They trade with Russia and China, they said China is a low income country so investing their brings more ROI, but how about Africa the poorest continent with the largest resources needed to sustain their industries? They neglected us and trade with china. We have gas,oil etc they don't buy from us, they prefer Russia. They throw aids at us for political support and to secure resources. Now their is trouble they are shouting we should support them against Russia and China.

He no go better for any politician that decide to support these people. The only way we can support them is they should bring their business here, buy our gas, show their readiness to buy from us buy assisting to build the trans Sahara gas pipeline, if they can do that we will support them.

They are even rejecting our agric exports

You are truly informed Sir

The Arabs started the African slave trade 500 years before the Europeans keyed into it. Infact the Europeans copied the template from the Arabs. More Africans perished at the transsaharan slave route than anywhere in the world. Infact Arabs castrate their African male slaves and use the women as sex slaves. In summary the Europeans were more humane than the Arabs.quote author=Realists post=110562491]

Arabs never enslaved more than 500 million of your ancestors using ships to load them like sardines.[/quote]

Stop lying
THE HUMAN COST:

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U.S. contractors: 3,846.

Afghan national military and police: 66,000.

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Taliban and other opposition fighters: 51,191.

Aid workers: 444.

Journalists: 72.

BSdetector:
They don't because it's useless...... nobody concerns themselves with useless stuff, plus Igbo and Swahili shouldn't be in the same sentence......Yoruba is a tribe on the rise, our destiny is to rule Africa.

First collect Ilorin from the Fulani's�

Igboid:
We are working on it.
In Igboland republic, we will put last nail on the coffin of that ugly part of our history.
And mind you,Osu caste was practiced in about 1/3 of Igboland.
The largest Igbo clan of Ngwa has no Osus. The Aros have no Osus.
The entire Ebonyi know nothing about Osus. The Ndoki and Asa clans have no Osu caste system.
So it's more of a regional than a centralized practice in Igboland.
Nevertheless, we would snuff it out in Alaigbo republic.

Many communities in Enugu don't practice the Osu caste system

Skylin69:
I'm from enugu born in anambra after my secondary school I traveled to imo. I'm currently in imo state now
I've noticed that ebonyians are most discriminated by follow igbo states
And abia state igbos are mostly what they have in common! Most of my enugu, anambra and imo state friends don't have problem marrying an abian. They see ebonyians as less igbos
But see abians as if they're what they have in common why!!
Is it because abia is in the middle of them or what?? [color=#990000][/color]

Afo ojo

I agree with you, sharing sexcapades has always being my most successful card




I have used dis to draw lust frm them.[/quote]

My blue eyes

godkiller:
Jokers, both the senator and Buhari.

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God bless Nigeria.

Am interested sir, my phone number is 07060665206

Good sir, did these things you stated above truly happened to Christians in their mist? Especially to ndi Igbo.

chizzy2u@gmail.com

stonemasonn:
The Igbos are great and intelligent people in fact Igbo man can turn sand into gold anywhere in Africa, but their main problem is clannishness, and you know this breeds distrust and suspicion among their hosts. The Igbos should learn to be more liberal and open when they are outside Igboland especially where they seem to be progressing more than their host, I said this will avert unwarranted suspicion leading to hatred and jealousy....further to pogrom etc. my 2cent.

i your point is interesting and genuinely given. But the igbos intermarry with the host communities and open up the place economically.There is no integration greater than that.

mimzy007:
Go with that of the principal, if it was on the site but not on the form it's not anyone's fault. Most of the guidlines were on the site, you can't be penalized for that.

mimzy God bless u for your time in answering our annoying question. A magistrate signed my attestation form without passport but gave me his driving licence and his magistrate identity card. will I be penalized ?

mimzy007:
NAF replied someone's mail saying there will be no text messaging as they have already passed across the message on their site. Screening still begins 1st of May. In fact the Notice on the site says it all, it is left you people to interpret well or misinterpret.

mimzy please I want to ask u an important question. I was given an expired Driving licence by the principal that signed my attestation form.will it be a problem?

viqueta:
sorry guys have not been online, now am ready to send the question, just quote this comment with ur email address so that i can send it to a large number of people rather than sending it batch by batch

please send to my email PQ chizzy2u@gmail. com

please uncle mikedimeji,is it the same person that sign your accreditation form ,that must be the person that will give and sign your letter of attestation of good character

I think Christopher is saying the right thing.some of these Igbo girls born in Lagos have this unrealistic standard for there men and are sometimes feminist. they also have this spirit of entitlement without having the request qualification for such entitlements.

I hope they also add drones for stealth surveillance and deadly bombardment of enemy positions

we should come together to fight this boko haram menace.it is very sad that the northern elders are not fighting this fight with any ounce of seriousness.