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Amb1045:
#Leaked: "I was embarrassed when I threw some cash to Oba indigenes but they ran away leaving the money untouched"-- Kanayo laments effect of ritualist's roles in movies after show of wealth at Obi Cubana mother's burial

Kanayo O. Kanaya is a popular Nollywood actor who became very famous due to how perfect he portrays ritualist roles.
The new barrister prior to his appearance at Obi Cubana mother's burial which took place on Saturday, 17th of July 2021, had shown off his bundles of cash he would take to the ceremonial ground to spray the famous business mogul and those around according to a viral video he released through his official instagram handle.

It would be recalled that while on the ceremonial ground, as the Nollywood Icon was busy spraying Obi Cubana, the famous business mogul was also busy seen making some signs of crucifix (cross) on himself which connotes the sanctification of oneself from evil or demonic attack. This was made known according to another viral video that recently popped up online.

As reactions are still ongoing, another chat of Kanayo, the Nollywood actor has just surfaced online where he was bitterly lamenting about his experience before his appearance at the ceremonial ground. According to the chat, the popular celebrity said he threw some cash on the air to some indigenes of Oba as a show of love while he was on his way to the event ground but he later observed that instead of the the indigenes to rush the money thrown to them, "they all ran away leaving the money untouched". The famous celebrity in the same chat later concluded that in as much as it is embarrassing and annoying, it is just a sacrifice he has to face for the love of his passion and job.

Remember that Oba is a community in Onitsha area of Anambra State, Nigeria.

aribisala0:
It is plain but it is just a fantastic wish
Explain the basis. What is it based on?
You can claim Ibos own Amazon and Intel
That is plain

but just plain foolishness

aribisala0:
Top it how? Explain
That is just what you want to believe
I am not a villager
Not everyone comes from a village

aribisala0:
That is your opinion .It has no evidential basis
Ibos are this Ibos are that we have heard all that nonsense before

Who ask you your biography?
Food is the number one thing that people buy in this country and it is not led by Ibos

aribisala0:
Not sure where you got the notion that Ibos top trade/apprenticeship system or how you define that
Last time I checked selling cows is trade. Ditto tomato onions and other agricultural produce., petrol, sugar, timber cocoa etc
I do not see them topping sales of food which is the most sold thing in Nigeria, neither FOREX, gold, cars,, textiles, and on and on.

They have their niche and so do others. To talk of TOP you need to have figures.
From all indications Food is TOP traded category

Success means different things to both of us .You keep yours I Keep mine


Dat one no dey tear shirt

Yankee101:
Data says you're not correct

Yankee101:
I bet you were the type that was caught with their hand in the pot and still said it wasn't me

aribisala0:
There is no success there that is my opinion not an argument.
I hope you do not see every different perspective as "argument"
I I think they are the opposite of successful
What is happening is they have no competition because no one else has been interested in that job
The same applies to the trading/apprenticeship system.
In my view there is no successful group in Nigeria when compared to global 21st century reality

Yankee101:
These statistics are real. They are funded internationally, in some cases, with oversight

aribisala0:
You just said something new about the civil war twenty pounds etc . and I said you have a right to tell that story f it makes you feel good
That has nothing to do with what you have been saying previously. That is a new narrative. I do not want to get into civil war , twenty pounds etc

If an argument exists it is in your own mind
The fact that you have a right to tell a story does not mean others don't too
Everyone has a right to tell stories
We remember differently

You have said so many things

I cannot agree with everything you say

That apprenticeship is responsible for Igbo success is your opinion personally are you a spokesperson for all Igbo? That is a different matter and in my experience is not borne out by any evidence

Yankee101:
Lol. I showed you evidence that your premise is faulty, now you say that all formal Nigerian statistics are wrong

aribisala0:
No one can deny you the right to tell your own story in a way that makes you feel good about yourselves.

Yankee101:
I do statistics not assumptions. Let me put up some tables for you to see.

The most educated state in the West is Lagos
The most educated state in the East is Anambra
The most educated state in the North is Kaduna
The most educated state in the middle belt is Kogi


Now if you look at the table, the most educated states have the least poverty in their region. Simple

Education correlates directly with poverty reduction

aribisala0:
There is no argument
I have said everything I need to say using data I paid for
If you do not like the length of my response I have no apology for that. My comment is for the consumption of the Forum
The point at which I came in it was not refferring to those living outside.
That is not true
Let us agree to disagree.
I[b] do not think the apprenticeship system is responsible for any "sucess" . I also do not believe any group in Nigeria is successful[/b]

aribisala0:
Before I continue let me assure you that I come in peace
Actually you do need data
Let us assume that what you say is true which I do not admit
[s]Is that the case in the SE . In Imo state? In Ebonyi state?[/s]
The simple truth is that 7 out 10 has no basis
If everybody in Imo state is a trader who is the buyer?
Igbos are in Ogun state farming , in Lagos riding Okada, acting as clearing and forwarding agents as mechanics, tailors lawyers, engineers and so on .
You are now conflating "business" with "trading" which was where we started.

They are not the same thing
Lawyers, doctors, accountants Taxi drivers, bus drivers are all business people if they are self employed.
So can we stick to "trading" as it relates to "apprenticeship"

Not every trader has apprentices. Some are family business e.g frying dodo, yam akara plantain

By a similar token many Hausa men in the south are traders too whether it is Forex, cigarettes, Suya, gold, etc

My point is let us avoid lazy stereotypes and assertions and speak with facts and figures

Anyone can wake up and say 7 in 10 this 9 in 10 that . It has no basis and no meaning

The "evidence" you are citing suggests what researchers call "Confirmation Bias"
= the tendency to see things that confirm your views and disregard those that do not
That is why data is important.

In my experience most are not traders. I am not saying that is how absolute reality is just that individual observation is not necessarily reality

Our people say

That which is facing us is backing another person

Often the way you see yourself is very different from how people see you

Yankee101:
Now compare poverty rates of Jos, Plateau State and the core North and you'll get my point

Jos is more educated, jos has less poverty than the core north

Yankee101:
Lol. The minimum education he still allows himself to get in primary school gives him an edge over the almajiri boy who did not attend any arithmetic or English class in his life

aribisala0:
So the average Igbo man is a trader?

Do you have data to prove this?

Are there no Igbo doctors lawyers etc?

what evidence is there that traders are in the majority?
If not how do we conclude that the "average" Igbo man is a trader?



Are there no artisans? Is the artisan apprenticeship of the Igbos the same as that of traders?

Yankee101:
You're missing the point. It's why is poverty prevalent in the North rather than the south. It's education, simple.

Not trading. You no get hausa traders all around you in the abbattoires, with small shops etc? No be education empower Equiano to know his rights?

Yankee101:
Hausas too have the apprenticeship system in kano. The kano man started trading with the Arabs by land before the igbo trade begun when Europeans arrived. So again it's the education that makes the difference not trading. Don't forget Dantata became the richest man in West Africa via trading

Yankee101:
You don't know what studying integrated science, social studies, maths and English in primary school does to the brain

Innosson has at least primary education. There's very much non attendance in hausa land. Almajiri goes to only Islamic school to learn by rote what he dosen't understand

rosinkkit:
You can breach their unity, if you had financial superiority, by buying off their major players, like they do yours today.

Money talks. Bullshit walks.

Yankee101:
Nope. That's not the reason. The simple reason is education

Yankee101:
Ojukwu's assets were in Zaria. Soho hotel etc. They're still standing

rosinkkit:
No need to argue too much with you. My point remains valid. Dominance ALWAYS has to do with 'riches'. ''Strength in unity'' can only get you so far.

rosinkkit:
You're wrong. While the British did play a big part in enthroning northern dominance, the north has MAINTAINED and strengthened that dominance through close patronage within their elite circles as well as elite expansion and consolidation.

Plus their millionaire/billionaire class is NOT ''a handful'' by any stretch of the imagination, or they wouldn't be dominating YOUR elite.

Alhaji X has 100 million dollars in his account. He will share 50 million dollars with his ten brothers. Each one will have 5 million dollars.

Suddenly a family of one millionaire becomes a family of 11 millionaires, ten of whom you've never heard of. These are the type who pull up in a Ferrari at a club and everyone is wondering who the fck is that? Just some .......unknown relative of a northern big shot.

Chief Okonkwo has 100 million dollars in his account. He will share less than 1 million dollars with his ten brothers.

A family of one millionaire REMAINS a family of one millionaire. The rest just getting by.

Which family will dominate the other after a few years? After a few decades?

The ONLY thing preventing the north from capitalising on this advantage as I said earlier, is religion. The South lacks that religious burden, so if they adopted the northern way of elite expansion through empowering your closest, they could easily gain the political influence that will give them the power to transform their regions.

Right now, individual selfishness and extreme individualism, even in business, is stopping them.

Idamond:
las las na blood money all of us dey use daily

rosinkkit:
Where do you think that ''northern domination'' comes from? It comes from them having a bigger base and foundation of wealthy elite than you do. You must expand your elite to expand your political dominance. How do you expand your elite? By sharing your millions of dollars with your family and close kinsmen - empowering them to be as powerful as YOU - rather than banking it in London and pretending to them that that you are broke and struggling, like these Igbo millionaires do.

rosinkkit:
When the richest of your society extend their wealth to family and community in a substantive way, it makes you a stronger unit politically. We are not referring to ordinary earners transferring a few thousand naira to their apprentices here.

rosinkkit:
Stop confusing the two paradigms. We are talking of generational wealth transfer within billionaire families, not the Igbo apprenticeship system practiced by commoners.