₦airaland Forum

fiizznation:
Can you also explain to me the killings of our leaders in cold blood by your young officers in 1966?

I knew that was this lame stupid answer you were going to use to justify the genocide your people commited. The killing of your so called leaders has since been proved to have been done by people of many ethnicities and was far disproportionate to what you people did. If this is the way of your people, then why should we be in one country? Why are we together to kill each other? Another fact is that it wasn't even the 1966 that the genocide started. The 1945 Kano massacre and the 1953 Jos riots are all testament to this

honeychild:
People are hungry and frustrated, that's why they listen to him. I understand that. But making the aboki man selling water on your street the cause of your sufferings - or the Yoruba taxi driver plying his trade, that is just wrong. Our leaders are our enemies. Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, igbo yoruba - it doesn't matter where they are from. They have all been united in one common quest -the raping of Nigeria.

For Nnamdi Kanu to sit in the UK and exploit this frustration, using it to nurture and foment hatred for people from other tribes - who are just as hungry and frustrated as his people are - that's just plain evil.

Like I told my IPOD driver, the aboki man in Daura has not benefited any single thing from having Buhari in Aso rock, just as the villagers in Otuoke did not benefit anything from having Goodluck in power.

While he is out at the local mosque killing abokis, Goodluck and Buhari will have series of meetings in air conditioned hotels about what to do about the "unrest".

Now after all this you have written, wouldn't it make far more sense that the Igbo man is allowed to go his way than staying together to keep antagonising each other and carrying on with a union that does not work?

LeFreakSoChic:
Mandela did not try to dupe his people by soliciting for arms online and making hateful speeches. He did not ask to secede, he fought for freedom and racial equality. He did not ask his people to maim people from other tribes.
Now, who is oppressing you idiots in Nigeria? Is it not the Igbos that dominate the business sector of the country? How are you being segregated? Instead of you to hold your leaders accountable, you are throwing pebbles in the ocean and trying to look for it. You must be a bastard for the comparison.

This write up of yours is laughable. Mandela was once an ANC militant who solicited and recieved firearms to fight the White minority government oppressing his people. Just like Kanu, Mandela was fighting injustice and oppression. Now who is oppressing me as an Igbo man? It is the same people who killed 50,000 of my people in 1966 and over 3 million from 67-70, all to keep a British invention called Nigeria together. Kanu isn't the problem here, the problem is the system and people who tell me as an Igbo man that I have no right to decide my destiny. 200 years ago, these same people didn't know me, but since Lugard came a little over a hundred years ago in 1914, they now shout that we are one. When a system takes away the right of a people to choose their future, that's when people like Mandela and Kanu step in. Don't blame Kanu, blame the system that took away my right of choice as an Igbo man to decide my destiny

fiizznation:
Hmmm.. Interesting read. But the question still remains; why didn't you start writing this your lengthy articles when you were eating and dinning with the government. Did you just realized that fulanis are a threat to this nation after your benefactor lost his reelection bid? You call yourself an intellect but your write up says otherwise. Who told you Islam came to northern Nigeria about 200 and something years ago? And what do you even know about the diversity of Islam? What do you know about shia Muslims? Or you think every Muslim belong to a particular sect? What do you understand about the tarikas( khadiriyas and tijjaniyas), or the izalas and the rest of them since you claimed to know north more than the northerners?

I'm so sorry but what I read in this man's article is nothing but fear, fear and nothing but fear. The question to you Mr op is; what are you afraid of? Who are you afraid of and what is the reason behind your fear? I'm a Fulani man, and I still don't know or see any agenda by any Fulani person to recolonise some people again. If your article was solely written because of the dastardly acts of some foolish herdsmen, then you really need to get your warped mind out of your behind. There are hooligans and hoodlums in every tribe, our own hooligans are the herdsmen who kill at any little provocation. And these herdsmen are constantly been condemned by my people and our emirs.

You just mentioned kaita and attributed a statement to him that he made during the previous administration, so how are you any different from the kaitas of this world? Look fulanis are peaceful people and brave, one thing that doesn't flow in our veins in cowardice. Stop pushing your luck chief, I hope you will be able to stand on your two legs when the heat is turn on you.

I'm an Igbo man. Could you explain the 50,000 of my people who were massacred in cold blood all over the North in 1966 by the northern oligarchy that is controlled by the Hausa/Fulani Caliphate of Sokoto?

Where exactly is this?

If this is true, if this fight has actually spilled into neigbouring Ogun state from Lagos then there is fire on the Mountain

tinsel:
The state will always have her way. You cannot fight the government especially in Africa and expect to win.
I really don't know what Nnamdi Kanu was thinking by coming back to Nigeria. Whoever advised him to embark on this journey must be examined.
Buhari, is tough and I see Nnamdi Kanu spending most of his life in jail, and Biafra will not be achieved in my time and next generation. This is a hard fact.

You may not believe this story I'm about to tell you but it actually happend and is verifiable. In the 1960's a young South-African outspoken militant came to Nigeria to solicit help for his fight against white minority rule in his country. He wanted,arms,cash and any help that could be provided to him. He later returned to fight the government and was arrested,tried and sent to life in jail. He became a rallying point for the call for emancipation and after over 20 years in jail, was released, white minority rule fell and he became the first indigenous president of his country and one of the most respected Africans to have ever lived. His name was Nelson Mandela

[b] I borrowed this write up from someone who wrote in at another social News site. I felt it made interesting reading

Buhari’s ‘Go-and-Die’ Biafra Comments On Al Jazeera Calls For An Urgent Referendum

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Buhari's interview at Al Jazeera, especially where he was asked how he would deal with the Biafra question. First of all, I will say that from his response, and body language, it is obvious that he doesn’t care for the lives that have been lost, and may have been in support of the order to use deadly force on unarmed protesters. When your president, who took a solemn oath to protect and defend you, shows no interest in your life, and may indeed be colluding in killing his own citizens, then it may be a time to review your citizenship of that country. I listened to Mr Buhari, and while I have previously never been a supporter of the agitation for Biafra; when I see a president who doesn’t care if his citizens live or die, where there are those who are happy to see their fellow citizens shot and killed for doing nothing more than protest, when I think back that in every part of the country that Igbos live, they are the scapegoat of any trigger point, being killed and their property destroyed for things they have little or nothing to do with them, when I think how they are told time and time again that they will never rise to hold the highest office in their own country and indeed have never held that office in many decades, then we indeed have to reflect on our membership of this nation.

It has always been clear that their are ethnic bigots who have issues with people of different tribes and ethnicity, it is also clear that there are people who have a dislike, even hatred for the Igbos, for whatever their reasons are, however to hate someone, is quite different to killing someone. You can hate anyone you like, that’s your business, but you have no right to kill anybody, least of all using the very power of state that was meant to protect people. Mr Buhari in his interview while showing an astonishing level of disregard for the lives of his citizens made a very good point; there is no need to protest. The Igbos should organise themselves, join a political party on mass, and use it to negotiate our peaceful separation from the Nigerian state. Yes, that’s what we should do.

When people don’t want you, when they abuse you, when they exploit you, they kill you, tell you that you cannot be anything in your own country, surely these same people will not have a problem if we leave peacefully. I am not calling for war, no one wants violence, but we cannot continue in this way, especially now Nigeria has a president who doesn’t care if we live or die.

Now not everybody wants Biafra, I am not convinced myself. Which is why we should have a referendum within the Igbo nation, to decide if we want to leave Nigeria or not. If that referendum should show that Igbos want to leave, then we should be allowed to leave peacefully. Other nations do it, we won’t be the first, we won’t be the last. If it’s the oil that is the problem, then they can keep it by all means, especially if the Niger Delta want to remain part of Nigeria. They can crave the map around Igbo land. We won’t be the first sovereign nation that is surrounded by another. I know this is a controversial statement, but I make it because my conscience will not allow me to keep quiet. I am neither politician or social crusader.

Source: Chuks James/ politics section/Igberenews






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OJUcrook:
There is nothing new here. Masked witnesses were permitted at the Oputa Panel in the late 90's

The Oputa panel was not a law court. They can put up the panels if they want to shield the witnesses. At least, the prosecution will have no excuse to commense with this trial so it can have a logical conclusion. I'm happy that this trial is been followed by the national media so that when Kanu and his legal team destroys the prosecution, we will all be there to see it. This case is just baseless but it serves the point of showing the dictator called Buhari that he is not above the law or law courts

honeychild:
This is exactly what I mean when I keep saying that these online banter and radio talk is not "just talk". At the height of Nnamdi Kanu's vitriolic broadcasts last year, I was within an inch of firing my igbo driver. As things stand I can't imagine what will make me spend a night in my husband's village or welcome any of his "brothers" from village (apart from his immediate family). I sincerely fear for my safety when I am around igbos. What sort of legacy is this that we are leaving for the coming generation?

The underlying problem here is not Nnamdi Kanu. Anyone with Wifi,a good laptop, the right software and a good headphone can set up an Internet radio channel and start broadcasting to anyone who cares to listen while pouring vitriol on any set of people. The question you should try to ask and seek an answer to is why people cared to listen to him.

flokii:
how I wish I can gather all these miscreants and put them in a cage..

That's exactly what Lugard said when he arrived in west Africa. The result was Nigeria.

I have never been a fan of PDP or APC. Both parties are just as bad as each other, with APC proving to be increasingly worse by the day. The only difference between both parties is who is in power and who is not.

oyinkinola:
In the old days, people rely much on customary reign and their lives and properties were well protected, they resolved their 98% of their problems traditionally, even nowadays the constitution is never against the customary rule and regulations, every community has their own rule and regulation to protect them against any aggresors. But how yoruba and Igbo abandoned the tradition and rely fully on far away government for their resque, they look up for political set of government to solve their room problems.
while Hausa/Fulani hold on, on tradition, value the customary rule and regulation to bring zaria and rule their region with it, yoruba and igbo render their customary rule and regulation ineffective and their oba and obi valueless for the political set up of government!
I think yoruba and Igbo must blame themselves on any problem they were confronting in this country today.

In the old days................... There was no Nigeria

Ovamboland:
Then what exactly do you want? You vote people who can't present your wants in the national assembly, your legislators are the most strident supporters of unitary system you agree limits your potentials in a united Nigeria. When time comes to reduce central powers, your reps vote against it, they are never in the forefront of agitation for state police, removal of railway, power, seaports, airports from exclusive list.
I see you all as mere jokers and confused people

What we want? I remember that Buhari asked that same question in his first media chat. It is a funny question because even Buhari knows what Igbos want, he was one of those who as a young officer fought in the 60's so that Igbos wouldn't have it.

We Igbos don't need the presidency, what good will it do us? What good has it done others who have held it in the past? We Igbos should be concentrating on far more important things that the presidency

NuhuIbrahim:
Sometimes I read newspapers and online news I do see my Ibo brothers complaining bitterly about our dear president that he is not working and I wonder why. In the first instance, did the East actually voted for PMB? if no then why complaining? I urge them to stop complaining because there did not vote for him and they should allow us to do the complain because we voted for him.

Us in the east did not vote for Buhari. We simply did not believe in the man. However, as long as we are still part of 'one Nigeria', we have the right to complain if the government of the day is perceived to be unjust and unfair. There no such thing as a Government for those who voted Buhari and another for those who did not vote him although that's what we see Buhari practicing. It is highly worrisome that Buhari has become a symbol of division in Nigeria. This was the same thing he did in 80's that made his fellow northerners overthrow him in a palace coup. We are watching this absurd theatre of destruction being perpetrated by APC. At least, I can go to bed at night and sleep well knowing that I and my fellow Igbos did not vote for this man to be president.

Buhari is an analogue politician in a digital age. The world has since moved on from people like him. I have no doubt in my mind the Buhari administration will be the worst civilian administration in Nigerias history.

Economic stagnation, abysmal human rights record, increased extrer-judicial killings of people from IPOB to shittes, disregard of laws and court orders, worst budget in history, no clear cut vision, northernisation of government, open contempt of the constitution etc


Nigerians are in for a rough ride courtesy of APC

Sunky200:
what a blessed race


rich culture

great people

But still cannot survive without 'one Nigeria'? I don't take a people who have no sense of self determination seriously. A measure of greatness is the ability to stand alone.

Who told you the North is common enemy? Let's not fool ourselves here. We Igbos know how the Yorubas have colluded with the North to to undermine Igbo interests since 1966 to date. We also know that should push come to shove, the Yorubas will run into the arms of the northerners to continue their political subjugation of Nigeria. The Igbos and Yorubas at each other's throat is only natural, we don't like each other

Patode:
Please, I would like the substantive trial to commence. If what I saw on youtube on his speech at the World Igbo Congress is correct, then he has a case to answer. You don't go to a public forum and threaten your Country as well as ask for Guns and Bullets, and think you do not have to answer for it.

Under his freedom of free speech, he has no case to answer. It is not possible to jail a person by what they say, you only jail a person by what they do

bittertruthz:
WISH YOU GUYS THE BEST IN THE FIGHT.

IM NOT AGAINST BIAFRA BUT I WORRY ABOUT POOR MOTHERS LOSING THEIR CHILDREN ON THIS ISSUE. NO PROMINENT IGBO CHILD OR FAMILY MEMBER OF KANU THAT HAS BEEN INJURED NOT TO TALK OF KILLED.
IS ALWAYS THE POOR STUBBORN CHILDREN THAT DIES.

But who are the people doing the killings?

So these people think that Law courts are places where 'Eyo Maquerades' come to perform?

Okorohausa is a disgrace to all Igbos! How can this man who doesn't even speak Igbo well be able to present anything in Igbo? Okorohausa is a northern spy in Igbo land and his paternity is highly questionable

PhockPhockMan:
The trial judge, Mr. Tsoho, who noted that events had taken a different turn from what was expected, added that if the parties to the matter felt threatened, the case might as well be handed over to the celestial order to resolve.

Lawyers in the house, abeg Wetin be celestial order?




Lalasticlala, obinoscopy

It means that only when Osoffa rises from the dead can the case be resolved. This case might be thrown out of court today

Ever defiant to the end! The indomitable Nnamdi Kanu!

PhockPhockMan:
UPDATE.


COURT CASE UPDATE: FG INSISTS ON SECRET TRIAL


The federal government is making mockery of herself and her judiciary and the world is watching. Recall that the court ruled previously that the trial shall be open trial and it is shameful that they have come again to say we need secret trial.
People are starting to get fed up at the shameful trial of Nnamdi Kanu on the side of the federal government. The judge is listening to the argument as it unfolds, the prosecution council said that the witnesses are afraid and face received unconfirmed threats. Nobody knows the witnesses and it is yet to know how masquerades can be threatened.

This is quite shameful. If the witnesses cannot come foward because they fear for their lives then the prosecution should discontinue the trial. How can the prosecution say it is going bring in "masked people" to come and testify? You might as well bring Rochas Okorocha, put a mask on him and tell him to come testify. The trial is turning into a big joke

Nothing can be done about the Fulani menace, absolutely nothing. How anyone fight a people that are now brandishing AK 47's openly? Is it Catapult that you going to use to fight them? As long as Nigeria remains one, the Fulani will carry on their attacks. It's a tragedy

abiolert:
self determination is a principle of international law and its is best achieved with a non violent means. I think it's a matter of choice Sir .

Have you heard about Biafran agitators killing anybody? On the contrary, they have been largely peaceful despite being illegally detained,tortured and shot at. On the reverse, Buharis very own people are commiting muder,rape,kidnapping etc on a daily basis.

The Aljazeera interview finally exposed Buhari to the world as the charlatant he truly is. If Obama was confronted with video evidence of his security forces shooting at unarmef Americans, he would be jumping to see it. If David Cameron was told that the British forces shot at unarmed Brits, he would demand to see the video. But because Buhari is a highly divisive,uncivilised analogue leader of a bygone era, he declined to watch the crimes being committed by his army. Who is going to take such a man seriously? Even when he was asked why he can't invite the Biafran secessionists for dialogue, he proved once again how bereft he is of leadership qualities by asking 'why should we invite them for dialogue?' . Buhari, by that interview showed that he has no problem with killing his own people and doesn't care about anyone who has a contrary opinion to his. This man called Buhari is not the sort of person that any country that is aspiring to move forward should have as a leader. I have doubt in my mind that Buharis tenure in office will one of the worst in Africa

So how is he a Nigerian?

americanigga:
For sometime now I have been living in great fear- That this country Nigeria may experience war one more time and that is very soon. 

My fear is often times intensified anytime I visit nairaland and see the diatribes that has encapsulated every conversation between the Igbos and the yorubas.
All you see is great hatred between the two tribes. While the Igbos and Yorubas are bussy insulting and betraying one another, the Hausas are mobilising and soaring very high politically.

After critical study of the situation I realised that the Hausas are not that educated, they are disadvantageous in terms of knowledge but they have WISDOM, while the southerners are very rich with knowledge because of western education but they lack sufficient wisdom.

Look at the Igbos for example, calling for the state of Biafra at a time they should be thinking of how to form political alliance with the Yorubas to take over power. The question is do they (Igbos) have the political and financial wherewithal to fight for an  independent nation. What has changed in the East from 1967 - 1970 when they tried to break up from Nigeria till date. Do they have the financial autonomy? Do they have backup for food supply? Do they have sufficient weapon? Do they have sincere backup from the Western nation or UN? These are some of the things they must consider first.

Other things they should consider is the lives of their people and their investment allover the country especially in Lagos. Like the place I used to live in Okeafa in Isolo Lagos, virtually all the gigantic buildings are owned by Igbo business men. All these will be a big lost if they decide to go to war.

One other thing I noticed is that when the Hausas or Muslims people are agitated they attack and kill non Hausas or non Muslims, to be more precise they kill Sotherners,( examples: most of the havoc in the North by bokoharam, recent disput in mile 12, even the fallout of the 2011 elections when Buhari lost to Jonathan). But when Southerners are agitated they attack and kill fellow southerners.To buttress this I tell you a short storry about the war, that my father told me.

My dad told me that during the war 1967 -1970, he was living in a federal government institution in the south south area of Nigerian. The institution was  made up of people of various tribes, ranging from The Calabars, The Urobos The Ijaws, The Itsekiris, The Igbos, The Benins, Yorubas, and some few Hausas. Just before the war some Igbos out of fear flew to the East, their homeland, but some out of ignorance stayed behind, thinking because they all knew each other in the community nothing would happen to them. When the war started, a deadly, blood thirsty, killing squad emanated, comprising of: the Calabas, The Urhobos, Benins, Yorubas, the IJaws, Itsekiris, and other tribes I can't mention all of them. They started going from one Igbo man's house to the other to check if they were still around. Those Igbos that stayed behind with their families were slaughtered, beheaded,  others were burnt alive, buried alive, their property looted.Some Igbos started running into the forest with their families. Some of them stayed in the forest throughout the war. Many died of Hunger, some were eaten by deadly animals, some had to kill their children for meal.
All these just because of one man, Odumegwu Ojukwu. Ojukwu was not a bad man, he only miscalculated just the way Nnamdi Kanu has miscalculated.

 Ojukwu allowed sentiment and anger to overhaul his sense of reasoning. He did not consider the life of his people. When he saw the reality on ground he took off abandoning his people. But it was too late, 2million Igbos had already lost their lives. Nobody was arrested for war crime. If the Igbos decide to fight for an independent nation, history will only repeat itself.
 
I watched a news of recent where the Americans donated various weapons to the Nigerian Government inspite of accusations of war crime against the Nigerian military in the North East, this is thesame American the Igbos are relying on. The Western countries are after their interest they will only support you if they have something to benefit. The federal government off recent displayed various weapons: Bomb detectors,  Armored cars, war jets. 

I want to use this opportunity to plead with the biafra hopeful, to forget about biafra, forget Nnamdi Kanu and form strategic, political alliance with the Yorubas or even the Northerners, just the way Azikiwe used to do it. They should think about how to start participating in mainstream politics, not isolating themselves, just because of an individual that has lost the election. Those who have ears let them hear.

This long write up of yours wasn't necessary. The important thing you should note is that the Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba man lived in west Africa for thousands of years without being together, the heavens did not fall down. But since Lord Lugard came to make us 'one Nigeria' not only have all heaven fallen, millions have been lost. There's an Igbo adage that says that ' a time comes when a person counts their teeth with their tongue' which translates that there is a point when everyone stops being silly. Stop living in a fools paradise

Ola14:
To keep Nigeria one...............a task that must be done

When that task has to be at the cost of millions of lives, that's when intelligent people ask why.