₦airaland Forum

^^^ it seems credible - it is part of vulcan capital investment which is part owned by the "second" founder of Microsoft. (bill gates partner)


So they have the resources, the access to money and i believe access to sound technical expertise to build and manage the refinery.

obiagu could you help provide content for igboland forum please. join hands lets build that platform.

SO much to igboness -- i believe there is a forum specifically name IGBOLAND FORUM -

why wouldnt we discuss igbo affairs there and concertrate on Nigerian affairs here.

RE: Eze ndi igbo i hereby move a motion to have this parliament relocate to igboland forum.

Thank you.

Nice points, but i dont subscribe to STATE OF ORIGIN - what will happen to Igbos , for example, born and breed in Lagos ?

ok, igbos have stroong culture roots hence most know their father's origin, but how about midbelt minority?

a hanny man- one of 200 ethic group in adamawa, born in lagos- not just him, but his father as well, who is now a second generation lagosian who cant even pronounce his tribe ?

Agiliti: This kain maidugri sef. If you dey live, koboko haram wan flog you enter ground, as you don enter ground, rain wan carry you come back

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

4. after confiscating Igbo bank accounts and giving everyone [size=28pt]N20[/size]…The fiction of abandoned property was embellished and maintained until 1996 when Abacha skillfully carved out Ijaw die-hards and the most ardent enforcers of abandoned property into Bayelsa State. It soon dawned on these Ijaws that actually, they owned nothing… my view is that this should have been called “Stolen Properties” instead of “Abandoned properties,” said an observer.

WHY


5.More were yet to crop-up from this issue, as many Nigerians were saying that the next aim of abandoned property was to award Port Harcourt to Ijaw henchmen as war booty and edge the Igbo people into the fictionalized enclave called East Central State with no access to the sea. The Ijaws accepted their task with unbridled zeal and this had two consequences

[size=18pt](a) destruction of the port in Port Harcourt and the migration of Igbo import-export business to Lagos, Cotonou and other ports in West Africa

(b) the destruction of the real estate sector in Port Harcourt and the flight of capital to elsewhere.[/size]


WHY


6. The scholars have further said that the Hausa-Fulani, while hiding their real intensions for the war, [size=18pt]co-opted the Yoruba[/size] in the project. Both these groups set about poisoning the minds of some Eastern Nigeria minority groups especially the Ijaw with phantoms of Igbo “oppression” and “domination” so much so that both the Eyo Ita incident and Udo Udoma’s COR movement issue became ready ‘examples’ adduced as representative of Igbo ‘domination’ of Eastern Region minorities with the potential to spread to other parts of Nigeria, if not checked by collective effort. The unsuspecting Ijaw, Efik, Ogoni amongst others, swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker.



WHY

1. Ojukwu’s death has refreshed the memories of Ndiigbo on the evil of ‘Abandoned Property.” General Yakubu Gowon was it who led the Nigerian soldiers against the Biafrans. The war took millions of lives of Ndiigbo and impoverished them during and after the war. It was [size=18pt]Chief Obafemi Awolowo[/size] who advised Gowon in 1967 to diminish the powers of Ndiigbo. His heinous advise was that Gowon should divide the old Eastern region by creating two states out from it. But this was [size=18pt]Awolowo[/size] who was released from the Calabar prisons and taken to his Ikene home by Ojukwu’s aids. Awolowo gave this ill advise shortly after his release from the prison. It was his advise that born Rivers and south eastern states. These states were used as an easy access by the Nigerian state to humiliate Biafrans.

WHY


2. One phenomenon that has kept the Nigerian state aghast about Ndiigbo is their skyrocketing socio-economic status, even when deprived much of Nigeria’s political positions. Ndiigbo are surmounting all odds in the Nigerian state without rehabilitative assistance from any quarters, locally and internationally. Upon their hard earned property seize in Rivers State, they are not leaving anything to weigh their entrepreneurial spirit down. The memory of the roles [size=18pt]Awolowo played against Ndiigbo[/size] during the war has only deterred a progressive and prosperous Southern Nigeria and Nigeria, but people are just pretending.

WHY ?

3. A lot of people feared that Amaechi, Ikwerre, may not move fast enough to repeal the land grabbed by the indigenes in Rivers State, because “… abandoned property was to prevent Igbo people from participating in the buying of indigenized companies in the 1970s. Remember that part of the abandoned property “law” was that Igbo landed assets in Port Harcourt could not be used as collaterals for bank loans.

WHY

edicolove: This is really a sad thread. I have lived a bit in Ghana and have Ghanian friends and can tell you that both countries have their pros and cons. Both countries need each other. But most importantly, I want to put the following straight:

1. Doing business in a foreign land is not necessarily a function of the fact that your country is not well developed. The world is a global village. In fact, british business men have been making investments in foreign lands since the 16th century. People will continue to migrate for many reasons. Even when Nigeria attain 24hrs electricity, people will still migrate to other countries and setup businesses. These immigrants should be treated with respect. As improved as Ghana is, there are still many Ghanians living and working in Nigeria and they aint thinking of going back to Ghana even with better conditions there.

2. Yes, there are many Nigerians in Ghana who are into criminal activities but there are also many law abiding Nigerians there. It is wrong to pass blanket judgement on all Nigerians in Ghana. Nigerians are about the most accomodating people I have seen

3. It is sad that Nigerians are amongst the most unpatriotic people in the world. When Ghana was so bad that you practically needed a bag of money to buy a loaf of bread, you would not see any Ghanian talk down on their country. Never!!! Just reading thru the thread and seeing how Nigerians insult and talk down on their country is the proof of why Nigeria will take a long time to move forward. The way people like shymmex and co talk down on Nigeria, you just know they cannot contribute one thing to Nigeria's growth. Those who develop don't have the time to critisize. A ghanian will never insult his/her country. Not because their country is doing well but because that's their mindset. And it is that mindset that is turning their country around. All the people insulting Nigeria on this thread do not contribute anything to her growth. They are asking the FG to develop the country. They are selfish and wicked. I lived in Ghana a bit. The country is being developed by every Ghanian, not their government, every Ghanian contributes their lot. I will give you an example.

My brother took a taxi in accra some years back. He bought ice cream and after eating the ice cream, he threw the paper pack out the window while the taxi was driving.along. That day, what happened made me to understand why Ghana was doing better than Nigeria. The street practically stood still. The taxi driver stopped and asked my brother to get down. The whole street in unison, insulted the living daylight out of my brother. There was no police or lastma or kai. It was just normal Ghanian citizens standing up for their country and demanding a certain standard. They didn't need the government to come from the state house to do it. Here in Nigeria, no one cares. Instead of taking a stand, they will prefer to come on Nairaland to insult the government and their country. Instead of sending information to government about BH, they will rather come here to tell us how incompetent the government is. They are wicked, selfish and lazy.

4. Ghanians are scared of one thing and it is hard to blame them. [size=18pt]Nigerians go to a place and try to run it over. Nigerians are too loud. A Nigerian cannot make money and just live a normal life. He would want to show off unnecessarily. This is the same reason Nigerians are having problems in SA and places like Lybia, Gambia, Kenya, etc. [/size]

But I can tell you that both countries need each other. Ghana export to Nigeria is massive and would impact on their economy is we severe ties. Alomo bitters and Burger alone are posting huge revenues for Ghana because of Nigerian market. Ghana schools are practically running on Nigerian cash. Its an old mutual relationship that must not crumble!

and when did it become a crime to be loud ?

did they steal the money ? is it not their hard work ?

why envy, lazy dullard !

On October 15, I was at Nnewi and Awka both in Anambra State where President Goodluck Jonathan commissioned two privately owned multi-billion naira projects.

In Nnewi, he commissioned Nigeria’s first private vehicle manufacturing plant owned by Chief Innocent Chukwuma, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Innoson Group of Companies and in Awka, he commissioned an infusion plant owned by Dr Ifeanyi Okoye, the Chairman, Juhel Pharmacy Limited which is the biggest in Africa and the first of its kind in the West African Sub-region.

At the events, I had watched Jonathan very closely to see the expression on his face and my humble conclusion was that he was overwhelmed by what he saw on the ground. Speaking while commissioning Innoson Vehicles, he had said: “…coming here gives me joy because Innosen Vehicle Manufacturing plant is not just assembling parts that are imported but, from all indications, it is only the engine that the company brings in from their partner in China and every other thing is built here. Even abroad, no particular company produces everything whether aircraft, automobile or even turbines”.

Early this year, I was on the entourage of the Minister of Works, Senator Mohammed Sanusi Dagash, when he was on a working visit to both Lagos and Ogun states. During the visit, he inspected the facilities of Capital Oil Limited, owned by Ifeanyi Uba. He visited the Capital Oil depot and Capital Oil Truck Park where he declared open a restaurant. Seeing the Capital Oil facilities, which have the highest fuel storage capacity in the country, as well as the truck park, said to be the biggest in Africa for its capacity to accommodate more than 1,000 trailers at a time, the Minister lacked appropriate words to express his feelings.

Again, sometime in 2002, I was present when the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, commissioned the Auto Spare Parts and Machinery Dealers Association (ASPMDA) Complex and Balogun Business Association Complex both in Lagos International Trade Fair Complex respectively. I also saw the wonder on their faces then. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, not known for making ‘quotable quotes’, the only one that could be attributed to him in recent times being the one he made at Owerri the day Gov. Ikedi Ohakim defected to the Peoples Democratic Party when he said : “this is a promise made, promise kept and promise fulfilled”, had on the day of the commissioning of ASPMDA, said “People are talking about privatization, this is privatization itself.”

Having been privileged to witness all that, I can sincerely say that I am not a mind reader to know whether the wonder on the faces of the people mentioned above during the commissioning of the various Igbo self help efforts were that of love or hate. However, I can bet on the sincerity of the Works Minister, Senator Mohammed Sanusi Dagash for one thing. The way he expressed his disappointment over the poor handling of the Onitsha-Owerri road, which was awarded to two traditional rulers in the South East as far back as 2002, and till date the road project is still ongoing. Few years ago, he had, out of anger, taken one side of the road and given it to Julius Berger and the part has been completed, leaving the other side to the traditional rulers who are no doubt well connected to the powers that be at Abuja. If the Works Minister had his way, he would have revoked the contract for the other side a long time ago. That is a case of somebody who means well for a people and that is why I say that I can bet for his sincerity on the gigantic strides being made by Igbo sons and daughters because there is no way we can know what is going on in somebody’s mind except through his action or inaction.

But one common thing with all the people mentioned except Senator Dagash is that they just, commissioned the projects and goes their way without talking about the infrastructure like road and power supply that would sustain the project that they had commissioned.

On the part of the former president Olusegun Obasanjo, the type of economic warfare, which he launched against Ndigbo immediately after the commissioning of the Auto Spare Parts Complex in 2002, was beyond imagination. It seemed as if the thought that was going on in his mind was [size=18pt]how could a people that were reduced to point zero during the war and given only 20 pounds after the civil war would have risen so fast to be making giant strides.[/size] Therefore, the only option was to cripple them economically and that was probably why his administration began to bring out policies to destroy businesses where Igbo hold sway and also to starve them of enabling infrastructure like good road network and power supply that would enable them to continue to make more giant strides as well as deprive them of federal government presence.

That was evidenced when the contract for the second bridge across the River Niger came up. Federal government had awarded contracts for the construction and rehabilitation of many bridges across the country but the Igbo were told by the Obasanjo administration that if they needed a second bridge across the Niger, they should construct it by themselves. The thinking could be that after all, the Igbo have got used to doing things for themselves.

Since then this policy has come to stay and that is why presidents in the country go to the other parts of the country to lay foundation of projects but only go the South East to commission privately owned projects and they never see anything wrong with this.

Why I commend the ‘can do’ spirit of the Igbo, the people at the centre should at least try to search their conscience. They should ask themselves why there is no federal presence in the South East as is in the other parts of the country.

Federal government should in good spirit begin to appreciate the nationalistic spirit of the Igbo. It is only the Igbo that can go to another part of the country, fill up swamps or reclaim lands and build houses or set up companies.

It is the Igbo that can go to the other parts of the country and build multi-billion naira projects as evidenced by Capital Oil’s investments in Lagos and other parts of the country as well as what the Igbo did at the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex.

These are signs of self-integration into the entity called Nigeria.
Since the end of the civil war, the Nigerian state has been playing politics with the re-integration of Igbo, but Igbo has through their investments in the other parts of the country shown commitment to one Nigeria.

Therefore, I feel that the Federal Government should appreciate this by making its presence felt in the South East.


http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17822:the-metamorphosis-of-20-pounds&catid=95:opinion&Itemid=143

omoghana22: WAOOOOOOOOOO DOES NIGERIAN HAVE ALL THESE IN GHANA? THAT MEANS GHANA IS DESTINATION FOR BUSINESS BETTER THAN NIGERIA...AND DO YOU THINK THEY WILL GAMBLE FOR THEIR BUSINESS WITH YOUR LAWLESS COUNTRY? WHERE DOING BUSINESS IS 10 TIMES EXPENSIVE? SOMEONE LIKE YOU IS WORKING UNDER PERSON...... OR A SALARY EARNER..... IF I CALLED YOU A FOOL NOW THEY WILL SAY I DONT HV RESPECT BUT I THINK YOU ARE A F__________L

what makes me a fool? they might be doing business in Ghana , just like Americans do business in haiti. that doesnt mean Haiti's business climate or revenue is in any way better,. The business are there to provide a service that is lacking. and to make a little profit.

WAYS NIGERIA CAN HIT BACK AT GHANA WITHIN THE FRAME WORK OF ECOWAS

1, DIS-ACCREDIT ALL GHANAIAN UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATES STARTING FROM NEXT YEARS- to give Nigerians already in their program of study time to find alternative university in Nigeria or elsewhere. - that way in no time the universities will go bankrupt. Nigerians constitute by far the large source of revenue of EVERY Ghanaian university.

2, REMOVE THE SUBSIDIZES ON NIGERIAN CRUDE AND GAS SUPPLY TO GHANA.

3. BAN EVERY NOLLYWOOD/ GOLLYWOOD PARTNERSHIP- SUCH THAT GHAINIAN ACTORS AND ACTRESS BECOME PERSONA NON- GRATA IN OUR FILM LOCATIONS. REMEMBER GHANAINAS ARE RIDING ON OUR COAT TAIL IN THE DEPARTMENT. TIME TO BRUSH THEM OFF , FAST FAST!

4. ENCOURAGE NIGERIANS TO DIVEST THEIR BUSINESSES FROM GHANA -
Ekenedilichukwu has a large vehicle assembly and repair station in Ghana - time to bring that investment and jobs back home.

5. ENCOURAGE YAHOO YAHOO BOYS TO FRONT WITH GHANA INSTEAD OF NIGERIA, SUCH THAT THE REPUTATION OF SMALL GHANA CAN BE RUBBISHED AND BASTARDIZE BEYOND REDEMPTION FOR 20 YEARS. ( LOL! )

6. BAN ALL BUSINESS AND AGENCIES FROM HAVING BUSINESS MEETINGS AT GHANA- THAT WAY IN NO TIME THEIR HOTELS WILL TURN TO YAM BARN - 75% OF GHANAIAN HOTEL ACTIVITIES ARE PATRONIZED/ OCCUPIED BY NIGERIANS.

7. DISCOURAGE OUR ARTISTS FROM INCLUDING GHANA IN THEIR TOUR PLANS- SOON, GHANA WILL BECOME SO BORING THAT WEALTHY GHANIANS WOULD MIGRATE LEAVING BEHIND A CESSPOOL OF BOREDOM, "AZONTO- (their Not-funny dance)" POVERTY AND FRUSTRATION

8. DISCOURAGE NIGERIANS FROM DATING GHANAIAN GIRLS - NO MORE ARISTO MONEY, THEY GIRLS WILL DIE OF POVERTY AND NAIVETY. (na naija dey open their eyes. and yansh)

9.

10.

WAYS NIGERIA CAN HIT BACK AT GHANA WITHIN THE FRAME WORK OF ECOWAS

1, DIS-ACCREDIT ALL GHANAIAN UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATES STARTING FROM NEXT YEARS- to give Nigerians already in their program of study time to find alternative university in Nigeria or elsewhere.

2, REMOVE THE SUBSIDIZES ON NIGERIAN CRUDE AND GAS SUPPLY TO GHANA.

3. BAN EVERY NOLLYWOOD/ GOLLYWOOD PARTNERSHIP- SUCH THAT GHAINIAN ACTORS AND ACTRESS BECOME PERSONA NON- GRATA IN OUR FILM LOCATIONS. REMEMBER GHANAINAS ARE RIDING ON OUR COAT TAIL IN THE DEPARTMENT. TIME TO BRUSH THEM OFF , FAST FAST!

4. ENCOURAGE NIGERIANS TO DIVEST THEIR BUSINESSES FROM GHANA -
Ekenedilichukwu has a large vehicle assembly and repair station in Ghana - time to bring that investment and jobs back home.

5. ENCOURAGE YAHOO YAHOO BOYS TO FRONT WITH GHANA INSTEAD OF NIGERIA, SUCH THAT THE REPUTATION OF SMALL GHANA CAN BE RUBBISHED AND BASTARDIZE BEYOND REDEMPTION FOR 20 YEARS. ( LOL! )

6. BAN ALL BUSINESS AND AGENCIES FROM HAVING BUSINESS MEETINGS AT GHANA- THAT WAY IN NO TIME THEIR HOTELS WILL TURN TO YAM BARN - 75% OF GHANAIAN HOTEL ACTIVITIES ARE PATRONIZED/ OCCUPIED BY NIGERIANS.

7. ENCOURAGE OUR ARTIST FROM INCLUDING GHANA IN THEIR TOUR PLANS- SOON, GHANA WILL BECOME SO BORED THAT WEALTH GHANIANS WHO EMIGRATE LEAVING BEHIND A CESSPOOL OF BOREDOM, "ASONSO- (their Not-funny dance)" POVERTY AND FRUSTRATION

8. DISCOURAGE NIGERIANS FROM DATING GHANAIAN GIRLS - NO MORE ARISTO MONEY, THEY GIRLS WILL DIE OF POVERTY AND NAIVETY. (na naija dey open their eyes. and yansh)

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10.

Ghana, should look reflect on what happened to Gabon in the early 90s when the country purged Nigerians from the country, to find common toilet roll what like getting fuel in obasanjo first time, let alone buying other essential items.

alj harem: Awolowo is dead, time to move on.

Lets hope we as a people don't go through any form of war again.

My Igbo brothers, it is time to move on. I know it is hard but please, lets move on.

^^bro are u saying we shd not understand what went wrong- what caused 2 million infants to die ?

who betrayed us ?

what made him do what he did? - just imagine N20 ... to every Igboman who had money in the bank, of which were millions of them.

is betrayal genetically bestowed upon him , or were there factors that made him do it?

we need answers.. ASAP

^^^ SMH

Awolowo is the chief cause of treachery on Nigeria.
Look at the Niger delta and see how he, with the support of abokis , pillage and destroyed a was foremost shipping route of west Africa - don't forget before oduduwa began thinking of falling from the sky - jaja of Opobo was running things in portharcourt -exporting palm oil to Liverpool , several merchants were plying the route portharcourt - worldwide .

Tell me what is portharcourt seaport today? Awolowo with the jihadist abokis moved the seaport to Lagos to frustrate the Igbos - increasing shipping cost and longer freight time. Mumu Ijaws that were handed power in Rivers didn't see the effect removing/ hampering such lucrative trade wud hv on the state.
Being more per-occupy to spite the Igbos arranged to the arrangement .

It's a shame becos it's not even majority Ijaws that think this way, just the few - edwin Clark types .


Ijaws can b forgiven BUT AWOLOWO ! AWOLOWO !!! Till death does him apart!

we need to learn about the past, take lessons from it to avoid re-occurance of the past crimes

Awolowo [size=18pt]deceived and betrayed[/size] the Niger deltas, made ijaws destroy portharcourt seaport to bring hardship on Igbo while sametime bringing prosperity to yoruba land at the expense of Rivers state.

Why do you think most Anambrains rarely invest in Rivers state ? becos of Abandon properties saga- (remb Anambrains are the richest , and hence their reluctance to invest in Niger-delta is a lost on Niger delta.

remember Calabar's Tinapa- why is it lying fallow? if a few onitsha importer decides to relocate their business do u not think the lot of Tinapa would change ?

Igbos in Rivers state/niger deltas are mostly from Imo state.

Its hard to believe that Kobo is a Nigerian woman, a Nigerian, with just level of maturity, organization and doggedness.

with the bad news emanating from this country everyday having a few people like your person gives the masses hope.

^^^ hope that is not in bad taste ? cos i am only a messenger.

7.historians would say that [size=18pt]Ken Saro Wiwa[/size] was allegedly among the Rivers State indigenes who led other like minds from the state to Gowon. The outcome of their meeting was an accord with the Gowon-led government that should the war end in favour of Nigeria, the state would take over all that Ndiigbo left behind in River State.


8. However, [size=18pt]Awolowo[/size], while the war was going on was given the Federal Commissioner for Finance, a gift from Gowon for denouncing his earlier stand to declare the Odu-Dua Republic. His stand on this republic was hinged on the prospect, should the easterners declare the Biafra republic.



While the Yoruba people respected Awolowo, Ndiigbo venerated the commands and the wishes of Ojukwu for their undying patriotism to their different regions. Ndiigbo were fighting to live, while [size=18pt]Awolowo[/size] had announced a total naturalization of all the companies Ndiigbo had so much interests in, especially on the Nigerian side. His International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiation of fund was to fund the war in favour of Nigeria – his pay master. He didn’t stop there, he channeled some of the percentage of this fund into the National Bank. This bank was solely owned by the westerners. As a result of this, Yoruba people had direct access to loans for the purchase of the share interests taken away from Ndiigbo till date.

4. after confiscating Igbo bank accounts and giving everyone [size=28pt]N20[/size]…The fiction of abandoned property was embellished and maintained until 1996 when Abacha skillfully carved out Ijaw die-hards and the most ardent enforcers of abandoned property into Bayelsa State. It soon dawned on these Ijaws that actually, they owned nothing… my view is that this should have been called “Stolen Properties” instead of “Abandoned properties,” said an observer.




5.More were yet to crop-up from this issue, as many Nigerians were saying that the next aim of abandoned property was to award Port Harcourt to Ijaw henchmen as war booty and edge the Igbo people into the fictionalized enclave called East Central State with no access to the sea. The Ijaws accepted their task with unbridled zeal and this had two consequences

[size=18pt](a) destruction of the port in Port Harcourt and the migration of Igbo import-export business to Lagos, Cotonou and other ports in West Africa

(b) the destruction of the real estate sector in Port Harcourt and the flight of capital to elsewhere.[/size]



6. The scholars have further said that the Hausa-Fulani, while hiding their real intensions for the war, co-opted the Yoruba in the project. Both these groups set about poisoning the minds of some Eastern Nigeria minority groups especially the Ijaw with phantoms of Igbo “oppression” and “domination” so much so that both the Eyo Ita incident and Udo Udoma’s COR movement issue became ready ‘examples’ adduced as representative of Igbo ‘domination’ of Eastern Region minorities with the potential to spread to other parts of Nigeria, if not checked by collective effort. The unsuspecting Ijaw, Efik, Ogoni amongst others, swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker.

1. Ojukwu’s death has refreshed the memories of Ndiigbo on the evil of ‘Abandoned Property.” General Yakubu Gowon was it who led the Nigerian soldiers against the Biafrans. The war took millions of lives of Ndiigbo and impoverished them during and after the war. It was [size=18pt]Chief Obafemi Awolowo[/size] who advised Gowon in 1967 to diminish the powers of Ndiigbo. His heinous advise was that Gowon should divide the old Eastern region by creating two states out from it. But this was [size=18pt]Awolowo[/size] who was released from the Calabar prisons and taken to his Ikene home by Ojukwu’s aids. Awolowo gave this ill advise shortly after his release from the prison. It was his advise that born Rivers and south eastern states. These states were used as an easy access by the Nigerian state to humiliate Biafrans.



2. One phenomenon that has kept the Nigerian state aghast about Ndiigbo is their skyrocketing socio-economic status, even when deprived much of Nigeria’s political positions. Ndiigbo are surmounting all odds in the Nigerian state without rehabilitative assistance from any quarters, locally and internationally. Upon their hard earned property seize in Rivers State, they are not leaving anything to weigh their entrepreneurial spirit down. The memory of the roles [size=18pt]Awolowo played against Ndiigbo[/size] during the war has only deterred a progressive and prosperous Southern Nigeria and Nigeria, but people are just pretending.



3. A lot of people feared that Amaechi, Ikwerre, may not move fast enough to repeal the land grabbed by the indigenes in Rivers State, because “… abandoned property was to prevent Igbo people from participating in the buying of indigenized companies in the 1970s. Remember that part of the abandoned property “law” was that Igbo landed assets in Port Harcourt could not be used as collaterals for bank loans.

Pandemonium broke loose. People were running helter-skelter, wailing. Those who could not wail were shouting. Commentaries upon commentaries were all over the media. The cyber cafes were flooded. Everybody wanted first-hand news. General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu is dead. Nigeria and Nigerians stood still.

He died early hours of Saturday, November 26, 2011, at Hammersfield Hospital London. His family and close associates confirmed this. He was ill about a year now and had been receiving treatment. His death has been unfolding many in the Pandora’s Box. People like Generals Yakubu Gowon and Olusegun Obasanjo have refused to briddle their tongues since Ojukwu died. They are now exhuming what was supposed to be left for history. Gowon, like Obasanjo, because they saw theirselves in positions they never expected all their life, by their prosecution of Ndi’Igbo in and after the 60s, they would not allow Ndi’Igbo to wipe away the tears on their (Ndi’Igbo) eyes, before they started to make derogatory statements against the dead. In his statement on his master, General Ojukwu, all Obasanjo could recall was that he requested Ojukwu to apologize to the nation for coming up with the Biafran state, “but that Ojukwu refused”, while Gowon is blaming Ojukwu for leading Biafrans to the war. It is a pity that Obasanjo have not realized that he had egocentric interest; never really cared about anybody, including his Yoruba race. While Ndi’Igbo are trying to stop taking Gowon serious, Obasanjo is goofing. Ndi’Igbo will never stop to remember Ojukwu for what he stood for, the sacrifice he made in the name of freedom for Ndi’Igbo and Nigeria in general. Gowon and Obasanjo have refused to remember those men and women who sacrificed so much in the name of Biafra and Nigeria. Maybe, the “the Sword of Damocles” is now hanging on Gowon and Obasanjo’s heads and they are making mentally subnormal utterances.

Since Gowon and Obasanjo have refused to allow the sleeping dog to lie, one issue their statements have made Ndi’Igbo and Ngerians to recall to is the issue of ‘Abandoned Property.’ This phraseology was given after the Nigeria/Biafra civil war – 1967-1970. Ndiigbo who are majority Biafrans left their property in the old Rivers State created in 1967, and fled for safety of their lives during this war. After the war they came back to Rivers State to start up a new life, they were deprived of their property. Rivers men and women claimed Ndiigbo property worth Millions of Pounds unlawfully and characterized it “Abandoned Property” with the connivance of the Nigerian state.

The Nigeria/Biafra war didn’t just come up. It was after the Northerners gruesomely murdered Ndiigbo, in what was called retaliation of some Northern elites, who were killed during the January 15, 1966 coup. This coup was adjudged as a pointer that Ndiigbo wanted to “dominate” all spheres of life in Nigeria. But the fact was that the coupists never consulted any of the known prominent Igbo leaders. The North characterized it as “Igbo-inspired Coup.” Hence, they killed Ndiigbo in the North. Ndiigbo mutilated bodies were ferried down their land amidst tears. Ojukwu was among notable Igbo sons and daughters who stood up and cried and called the entire world to come and see the pogrom that was committed against Igbo. The Northerners wanted to break out of Nigeria. Hence they saw anybody who was not from the North as an enemy.

The Northerners circulated falsehood as necessary motivation for executing the civil war. They said that General JTU Aguiyi Ironsi’s military regime was tending towards unitary form and if not stopped, would be detrimental to the heterogeneous composition of Nigeria. As a result, some scholars have asked that if unitary government was against Nigeria’s corporate interest between January 15, 1966 and July 28, 1966, how come after the July 29, 1966 revenge coup, unitary system of government was consolidated and perpetuated within Nigeria even till present-day? What changed after July 29, 1966? They have asked that could it be that some sections of Nigeria were entitled to impose and operate a unitary form of government on other sections of Nigeria, while some other sections are not entitled to do the same. The scholars have further said that the Hausa-Fulani, while hiding their real intensions for the war, co-opted the Yoruba in the project. Both these groups set about poisoning the minds of some Eastern Nigeria minority groups especially the Ijaw with phantoms of Igbo “oppression” and “domination” so much so that both the Eyo Ita incident and Udo Udoma’s COR movement issue became ready ‘examples’ adduced as representative of Igbo ‘domination’ of Eastern Region minorities with the potential to spread to other parts of Nigeria, if not checked by collective effort. The unsuspecting Ijaw, Efik, Ogoni amongst others, swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker.

Ojukwu’s death has refreshed the memories of Ndiigbo on the evil of ‘Abandoned Property.” General Yakubu Gowon was it who led the Nigerian soldiers against the Biafrans. The war took millions of lives of Ndiigbo and impoverished them during and after the war. It was Chief Obafemi Awolowo who advised Gowon in 1967 to diminish the powers of Ndiigbo. His heinous advise was that Gowon should divide the old Eastern region by creating two states out from it. But this was Awolowo who was released from the Calabar prisons and taken to his Ikene home by Ojukwu’s aids. Awolowo gave this ill advise shortly after his release from the prison. It was his advise that born Rivers and south eastern states. These states were used as an easy access by the Nigerian state to humiliate Biafrans.

Shortly Rivers State was carved out from the old eastern region, Biafra’s main base in Calabar and Port Harcourt fell to the capture of the Nigerian soldiers with the aid of some people characterized as saboteurs. The Igbo victims fled Port Harcourt when the city was captured by the Third Marine Commando Division in May 1968. Olusegun Obasanjo was the General Officer Commanding Third Commando Division in 1969, with headquarters in Port Harcourt, and was seen as one of the hands guiding the then Rivers State governor, Lt-Commander Alfred Diete-Spiff. When this was achieved by the Nigerian soldiers, historians would say that Ken Saro Wiwa was allegedly among the Rivers State indigenes who led other like minds from the state to Gowon. The outcome of their meeting was an accord with the Gowon-led government that should the war end in favour of Nigeria, the state would take over all that Ndiigbo left behind in River State.

In 1970 the war ended, Gowon pronounced his Kangaroo statement: “No victor, No vanquished”. While this lasted, because an agreement is an agreement, Ndiigbo property they worked hard to institute in Rivers State was sharply coveted by the Rivers indigenes and was immediately given the name – Abandoned Property. Ndiigbo were hand-twisted over their property. However, Awolowo, while the war was going on was given the Federal Commissioner for Finance, a gift from Gowon for denouncing his earlier stand to declare the Odu-Dua Republic. His stand on this republic was hinged on the prospect, should the easterners declare the Biafra republic.

While the Yoruba people respected Awolowo, Ndiigbo venerated the commands and the wishes of Ojukwu for their undying patriotism to their different regions. Ndiigbo were fighting to live, while Awolowo had announced a total naturalization of all the companies Ndiigbo had so much interests in, especially on the Nigerian side. His International Monetary Fund (IMF) negotiation of fund was to fund the war in favour of Nigeria – his pay master. He didn’t stop there, he channeled some of the percentage of this fund into the National Bank. This bank was solely owned by the westerners. As a result of this, Yoruba people had direct access to loans for the purchase of the share interests taken away from Ndiigbo till date. Conversely, through these rigorous adventures orchestrated against Ndiigbo by Awolowo, Ndiigbo did not lose even a pin in the entire Yoruba land after the war, but they did in Rivers State that was supposed to be their brothers and sisters.

Although Ndiigbo didn’t lose property in the Yoruba-land after the war, but one of their own, who took the helm-of-affairs as the military president of Nigeria in 1976 took Ndiigbo less than a beast. This person was Chief Obasanjo. It happened after the death of Murtala Mohammed. The representations of Ndiigbo in the federal level were next to nothing. Courtesy of Obasanjo. A lot of people said that it was the hatred culminating from the Yoruba-race since during the war that made Obasanjo to hand power over to Alhaji Shehu Shagari in 1979, even when Shagari, it was clear in many quarters, did not win the election with the two-third(2/3) majority, as stipulated in the Nigerian electoral rules. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe – Igbo – was allegedly robbed in that election.

Going down memory lane of how Ndiigbo have been unjustly humiliated in the Nigerian state since forty years the war ended is a crying shame. In 1999, Dr. Alex Ekwueme emerged as the most preferred candidate in the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primaries, but the same machinery that have been in use against Ndiigbo was used to float him out of the race in favour of the same Obasanjo. It was this same skimming out anything Igbo that converted Igbo businessmen into street hustlers, following “The harsh post-war economic policy” that was meted out against Ndiigbo. The distinguished President of the Senate, David Bonaventure Mark, allegedly chaired and rationalized the properties of Ndiigbo in the Old Rivers State. A “Statesman” like Chief Edwin Clarke has been manipulated severally as a major beneficiary of the abandoned property, no matter how he has tried to exonerate himself from this situation.

Anytime Chief Clarke was brought into this issue of Abandoned Property, he sings lullaby to Ndiigbo, claiming that the statement is a blatant falsehood deliberately calculated to tarnish his reputation and to incite his very ‘good Ndiigbo’ friends to hate him. He would categorically state that he did not acquire any abandoned property in Port Harcourt and that he does not own even a kitchen or any property in Port Harcourt at anytime before or after the Civil War to this day. “It is indeed, a deliberate falsehood and malicious assassination of my character,” he would say. But what Clarke has refused to tell the world was that he moved to re-install Ijaw hegemony in Rivers State, even though that he comes from Delta State, in what many Nigerians have described as, “by all means necessary.” This followed his full support of Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State since 2007 the later was clamoured to have been imposed on Rivers people as governor, a man many have said was declared winner of an election in the court of law and installed as governor in an election, he did not contest.

One phenomenon that has kept the Nigerian state aghast about Ndiigbo is their skyrocketing socio-economic status, even when deprived much of Nigeria’s political positions. Ndiigbo are surmounting all odds in the Nigerian state without rehabilitative assistance from any quarters, locally and internationally. Upon their hard earned property seize in Rivers State, they are not leaving anything to weigh their entrepreneurial spirit down. The memory of the roles Awolowo played against Ndiigbo during the war has only deterred a progressive and prosperous Southern Nigeria and Nigeria, but people are just pretending.

In the later months of 2007, Ojukwu visited Rivers State. The issue of abandoned property unofficially characterized his visit. Many Nigerians were of the view that the Rivers State government might re-open the issue. From virtually all quarters indications were prominent that Ojukwu’s visit was to impress on Amaechi the need for a retroactive abrogation of the Abandoned Property Edict. There were also feelers that the federal government might be uncomfortable with the alleged move. This information was hinged on the fact that it could further heat-up the already militantly over-heated Rivers State. The issue was that Ojukwu seldom visits a serving state governor, so why Amaechi?

A lot of people feared that Amaechi, Ikwerre, may not move fast enough to repeal the land grabbed by the indigenes in Rivers State, because “… abandoned property was to prevent Igbo people from participating in the buying of indigenized companies in the 1970s. Remember that part of the abandoned property “law” was that Igbo landed assets in Port Harcourt could not be used as collaterals for bank loans. That was a master stroke after confiscating Igbo bank accounts and giving everyone N20…The fiction of abandoned property was embellished and maintained until 1996 when Abacha skillfully carved out Ijaw die-hards and the most ardent enforcers of abandoned property into Bayelsa State. It soon dawned on these Ijaws that actually, they owned nothing… my view is that this should have been called “Stolen Properties” instead of “Abandoned properties,” said an observer.

Not even Spiff helped Ndiigbo to attain their “stolen property” back by the indigenous Rivers people. He was even alleged to have plotted with Obasanjo and the Federal Government to further hold unto the decision against Ndiigbo takeover of their property back. There has been doubt by many Nigerians over the speculation that absolutely nothing is to be gained from the purported review of the Abandoned Property. They allay their claims that the point was that the Rivers people kicked the Igbo nation in the stomach, while it laid prostrate on the ground, adding that such a review would have made sense in the 1970s, when Spiff was in office.

More were yet to crop-up from this issue, as many Nigerians were saying that the next aim of abandoned property was to award Port Harcourt to Ijaw henchmen as war booty and edge the Igbo people into the fictionalized enclave called East Central State with no access to the sea. The Ijaws accepted their task with unbridled zeal and this had two consequences (a) destruction of the port in Port Harcourt and the migration of Igbo import-export business to Lagos, Cotonou and other ports in West Africa (b) the destruction of the real estate sector in Port Harcourt and the flight of capital to elsewhere.

Nigerians have gone further to say that the Igbo nation has learned a valuable lesson from the abandoned property saga and moved on. Despite the suffering of individual property owners, the overall outcome has been positive. Ndiigbo have learnt to think home always. Alternative growth points have been created everywhere in Igboland – Asaba, Onitsha, Nnewi, Aba, Awka, Owerri, Umuahia etc. Igbo trading network in West and central Africa has diversified away from Port Harcourt, as its focus and has been strengthened rather than weakened. Abandoned property has also enabled the Igbo to be more realistic about the distribution of infrastructure in their country. Today, Owerri with its 5-star hotels, universities, wide streets, housing estates and Airport exists side-by-side with Port Harcourt. And Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AKIA) Enugu, will complement Port Harcourt international airport and Owerri, to give people more choice in the region. Abandoned property has thankfully re-oriented young Igbo away from unhealthy fixation with Port Harcourt and diversified development thinking in Igbo region.

There is a school of thought that says that those who owned abandoned property are mostly dead or have moved on. Any so-called review now is not for their benefit- more to sooth the conscience of those reviewing it that is apparently haunted by their treachery. Review or no review, Igbo people have moved on. This is one piece of theater that should be pointedly ignored by every worthwhile Igbo. But other people are of the opinion that even though that the owners of the abandoned property may have died, their wards can inherit the property. The late elder statesman Sam Mbakwe, former Governor of the old Imo State, is praised to have tried to handle the collective cases of the Igbo landlords in Port Harcourt, even though that there was rare significant outcome. The question now is why majority of the abandoned property on the Ikwerre land went not to the Ikwerre people but to those from the Riverine areas of Rivers State.

Majority of the people are asking for curtail of degrees of mutual suspicion and antagonism amongst all the groups involved in the war in one way or the other. According to them, the issues from the war have so poisoned the political atmosphere in Nigeria, corroding any traces of future political unity between and amongst the ethnic nationalities, which constitute Southern Nigeria. They are asking for the abrogation of the over past decades Igbo and Yoruba, for selfish and self-serving considerations, refused to bury their differences and chart a mutually beneficial political and economic course for Nigeria. They pray and believe that the death of Ojukwu will bring about the long sought peace.

Nigerians in many quarters have confirmed that Ojukwu is a General of the Peoples Army of The Republic of Biafra & General of the Army of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, son of the Richest Black Man of his time and also an Oxford Graduate, he was never and will never be a tribal warlord as Biafra is not a tribe, like Gowon and Obasanjo have painted her to to be. Gowon and Obasanjo should remember that Ojukwu joined NPN (Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba party), not NPP (Igbo party), when he contested for the senate. He was born in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria in November 4, 1933. He started his early life as a hero and died a hero. The Old Boys of CMS Grammar School, Lagos, King’s College, Lagos, Epsom College, Surrey, England, and Lincoln College, Oxford University, England where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters degree in History, would be crying more than. He joined the civil service in the then Eastern Nigeria, upon his return to Nigeria in 1956; he enlisted in the Nigeria in 1957, and was posted to Nigerian Army depot, Zaria, as one of the graduates that joined the military during that period, though as a recruit. He had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and appointed Quartermaster General, Nigeria Army, by 1964. He was everything good until his death at 78. While Nigerians would be morning him greatly, he would be deeply missed by the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), a political party he was its national leader. His death to Ndiigbo is like they are now abandoned property. But what can they say other than “Ojukwu farewell”.

dayokanu: Thats why in war you should take the benjamin Adekunle approach. Kill every opponent

Yorubas would say Oju afoofotan, ija lon da sile. If you want to make somene blind, dont do it partially cos it would cause war in the future

Defeat your opponents totally so there wont be a doubt about it.

no victor, No Vanquish My asss

^^
u dont care abt how many people dies? ok, anyway do you know what this is ?

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do you know of its efficacy ?

i will like to know ur response, Traitors

katsumoto, please watch ur tongue and give respect to whom respect is due

If it took three years of combined strengths of the

Hausa,
Fulani,
Kanuri,
Nupe,
Tiv,
Bachama,
Angas,
Birom,
Jukun,
Idoma,
Igala,
Yoruba,
Ijo(western),
Urhobo,
Edo,
Itsekiri,
Ishan,
Ejegam,
unknown Nigerian minority ethnicities,
Britain,
USSR,
Australia,
Canada,
Egypt,
Niger,
Chad,
Cameroon
and Arab League of Nations (of 9 countries) to subdue [size=18pt]Biafra[/size], ur black a.ss doesnt stand a chance in hell?

^^^^ sorry but i dont get u.