₦airaland Forum

obailala:
My thinking is this, the myriad of problems facing Nigeria are very well known to all. Like you rightly mentioned, politicians in Nigeria are criminals and these criminal politicians are not restricted to any tribe or religion, they cut across the entire divide and I believe this dearth of patriotic leadership is the biggest problem. So in view of this, what I do not understand is how someone starts a movement preaching more hate along tribal lines as the solution to the problems. How on earth can dividing the country into a million parts solve these problems you've just highlighted?... Why do Africans always think that further division is a solution to a problem even when from history, it is a known fact that division only leads to further division?

To then compound it all, it is the tribe with the widest economic spread that is calling for this further division; it is a known fact that if there's a division in Nigeria today especially in the way the separatists are calling for it, the biggest economic and social losers would be Igbos but I just wonder why the principal agitators seem to ignore this fact. Sometimes it drives me to believe these main agitators are just never-do-well 'bad-belles' who want to pull all their 'doing-fine' brothers down. We have not sorted our leadership problems in the grassroot (States govts, LGAs and representatives), but someone thinks a division is an automatic panacea for all our problems?

@Obailala, I like your write up(I like people who criticize and give reasons for their criticism) but our opinion differs here because i am of the opinion that we will do better as a divided nation,my reasons are as follows:

Our present country has been designed to favour some regions in terms of employment(Quota system)making the other region to be a conquered territory and this alone cripples patriotism and morale of people from that region.

Our present country has made policies that indirectly made the operations and activities of the seaports/airports in the marginalized region to be less attractive compared to the other regions that rapour with the so called super region(Hausa/Fulani).

We will do better as a divided nation because competition among the separated country will come up especially between the old eastern region and old western region and these competition will lead to more developments in the two different countries.

We will do better as a separate countries because we can easily hold our representatives accountable and tell them to their face whatever they are doing wrong(Okorocha speech at chattam House a case study), but if we remain one the corrupt leaders will be jumping all this atrocious act easily because once their tenure elapse they can easily settle in Abuja or leave the country because they know once they go back home that his people doesn't tolerate rubbish(Especially south eastern region, Ezeife of Old Anambra state can attest to this because of what happened to him by his kindreds because he couldn't construct a single road in his village while he was constructing other village roads when their administration were cut short by the military) but as a multi ethnic group made politicians to escape prosecution easily because they can easily instigate their people that he wasn't permitted to work because of other tribe attitude in his ministry/department/portfolio/designate.

As a divided country, i think people will be closer to the government because the area square metre to be governed will be minimized and it will make everybody to easily identify with the federal/state/local govt to sort out the various problems they have(Eg someone from PH can go to Enugu for an occassion/appointment and still return back to PH that same day)been facing as a citizen of that country.

Industries will be promoted more as a divided country because tribalism will be relegated or minimized to the lowest level,if not outrightly eliminated and the government will always promote policies that will favors his people because they have same belief(Eg Igbos are egaliterian in nature while the northerners are oligarch in nature).

As a divided country, ministries(Embassies and federal government structures/offices)will be nearer to the people which will reduce the amount people spent on going to either lagos or Abuja for their visas to travel outside the country.

Lastly, but not the list to be continued later is that as a separate country hidden good talents will begin to emanate/come out because now tribalism is not longer the cankerwarm that will make their God given talents not to be hidden is gone,both the quota,nepotism et al will be gone and when this has taken place you will observe that inventions will begin and technologies will also improve.

So the summary of what am saying is that TRIBALISM has really eaten deep that no remedy can salvage the situation.

walegee:
Freedom of/from what exactly?

Some questions are better not answered because the originators are bigoted tribalist no matter what. hope that has answered your question.

focus7:
God don't bless criminals like Kanu that is why he's punishing him.

Tell me one thing that made him to be criminal as you claimed, please check your dictionary for the meaning of criminals.

@Ukomko, am not surprise from the kind of media report the Nigeria media dishes out because they are compromised and always hide the truth and turn it upside down just for the highest bidder.

AntiWailer:
No longer an iPAD. ?

Meanwhile eediots without any other Nationality are deluded they can travel around the world including jupiter with a Biafran Passport.

So he want to start the havoc and fly back to his country while touts continue the fight ?

He go do una like film.

Too many people no get sense i swear.

I think you are the idiot here because i can't really comprehend a single point for all the trash you have written above and for you to comment so fast i think you belong to the paid zombies.

God bless Nnamdi kanu.

Perfectly said, God bless you Nnamdi Kanu.

God bless lovers of freedom.

ijbeauty:
E bami kira fun mama mi
orisha bi iya oo ko si laiye

Ijbeauty, you didn't tell us you are a yoruba lady.

Nairaland, help me tell IJbeauty that i love her despite she is a yoruba woman.

ogmaskman:
I am set for the debate now.

I will start by introducing myself.
I am delta by tribe. I grew up in warri.
I am married to an igbo woman from ebonyi state.
My business partner is from enugu state and my best friend is from Abia state. He is from the ngwa region (he likes being addressed as such)

Just to drop a hint of who I am so u can appreciate my point of view.

My point is ipob does not represent the entire igbo nation. They lack organisation and cohesion. Many of them are oblivious of the reason for the struggle.

OGMASKMAN, i couldn't reply you earlier because i was banned till April 25th but i have to open up this for the time being,have you seen why i told you that everything about this nation is wron..., why i was banned simply because i said what i believed in and its not suppose to be so which will even make you think am scared and running away from your debate.

Anyway am from Ikwerre in Rivers state, am married to an Edo lady and am also working too which has brought me in contact with the yoruba(Osun) and Hausa/Gbagyi(kaduna)people. and i have always share my view with them.

Bia... is not about War and the initiator/director of IP.B used his strict approach for his voice to be heard, because Nigeria doesn't listen to anything peaceful rather violence(Niger Delta militants and Boko Haram a case study).

Then coming to your question, YES IPOB doesn't represent the entire igbo(Biafra is a multi ethnic nation with similar culture) opinion because in every family its members can't believe in the same opinion,they must always have their different views its always a matter of those with positive opinion to convince those with the negative by telling them the reason why they should think positively. and also dont forget we must also have a saboteur in every dealings. let me stop here to continue later.

Then my question goes thus, CAN you tell me one thing we have achieved since we became the so called ONE NIGERIA.