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Prof Corruption: Are we not living in Nigeria again? Hausa Fulani has shown times without number that if you don't dominate the politics, you don't dominate anything.
Nonsense! It takes just a policy to reverse anything. We used policy to defeat them on the war front how much more when there is no raging war.


Fasola has even started deporting some of them

Hahahah! The Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba politicians have failed in that respect. You should be looking for a new Nigerian order to help you decimate the Igbo.

As for your deportation jibe, even Yorubas were deported from part of Yorubaland. Shame that you guys play the ostrich with the freedom of fellow Yoruba. That is not what I would do.

Elombah Perspective
‎"By independence in 1960, Igbo people dominated commerce and the public sector in a land where the three biggest ethnic groups (the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo) were jostling for supremacy" - Chinua Achebe

AND FORTY YEARS LATER AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, IGBO OWNS 65% OF CHOICE LAND IN ABUJA ACCORDING TO EL-RUFAI, AND 50% OF CHOICE PROPERTIES IN LAGOS, THE SAME COULD BE SAID OF IGBO PROPERTIES IN PORT-HARCOURT.

Igbos do not compete with anybody they just do what comes to them naturally, it the NATURALLY LAZY & ENVIOU Yorubas not even Hausa that wants to compete with the Igbos, and are always jealous of Igbos. Awo was jealous of the Pan-African Status of Zik, and the fact that kings, Presidents, and even the Queen of England respects Zik, but to Zik he was just another Igbo man doing what comes to THEM naturally, which is, "NATION BUILDING."

By AriseNigeria, a comment on VANGUARDNGR.COM

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Awo was a war villain and a selfish monkey. Achebe is on point on his description of Awo. As for Gowon, he is a lost cause not worth commenting about.

Are Igbos really breeding like rats than do Yorubas and Hausa/Fulani?

Good to see that Igbos are buying up Nigeria. As you do so, ensure that you make as much profit as you can before the bubble burst because you will end up having to forfeit all those investments at some point. Also, make sure you have a fall back plan in terms of investing something back home.

I have always known that Igbos are by far the richest Nigerians in terms of middle and upper middle classes. Few Yorubas and Hausas are super rich but the rest of them (90%) are impoverished.

https://www./igboville/permalink/404800009574842/

Elombah Perspective 6:58pm Oct 5

This is what Yoruba guy, Tola Charles said online today:

"To me, the Igbos may have embarked on their own silent revenge war on the rest of us, except that only the Hausa-Fulani have been checkmating them consistently by creating unrests in the North by which a cycle of 'start and settle' is ever revolving to ensure that they do not have that strong foothold. But here in the Southwest, the Igbos have dominated nearly all aspect of our lives.... in my brother Adejuwon's Ijebuland, they are buying landed /land properties and have become lanlords, same in Lagos, in Ibadan, even my own Oyo town the cradle of Yoruba, they are dominating everything. Festac town now 75% owned by Igbos. A travel from Mile 2 to Agbara Industrial estate along Badagry road will keep you thinking whether you are in Onitsha or what. And they are breeding like rats. I think we may have unknowingly been under the siege of the Igbos in Yorubaland."

sheyguy: I hope you are not confusing the unhinderred mass rigging of the last presidential polls in SE for 'Unity' or 'Cohension' of the SE politically. Carry on with your blind campaign against ACN in the hope that Lagos state changes its stance on Destitutes. . . It will only serve to show your desperation and powerlessness at the end.

Not only does ACN rig, they also do not conduct primaries to begin with. Tinubu sits in his house and appoint whomsoever he wishes, including his wife, into positions. How about that? Did ACN not kill Funso Williams?

dayokanu: 90% of Yorubas in Nigeria reside in their region.

Bloody lie

Yorubas in the North alone are in millions. Yorubas in PH and other oil-bearing states are in 100s of 1000s, if not 1000000s. Yorubas alone in Enugu and Imo are in 100s of 1000s, let alone those in Abia and Anambra. I will be dedicating several threads on this topic.

We now need a census that includes ethnicity data so we know how many people living anywhere belong to a different ethnicity.

Dudu Negro, Aigbofa, Lagcity, Bluetooth, Ileke Idi, Desola, Buffny, Odua Soja, etc

All of you are from Yoruba states other than Lagos. Make sure you are watching your back when you walk in Lagos streets. LASTMA does not discriminate between Igbo, hausa and Yoruba. They do not care about non-lagos Yoruba either. They kidnap you, detain you and deport you to Okitipupa via idi iroko. Lagos does not consider you Yoruba enough not to be deported.

Has Lagos declared war on other Yoruba states?
indigenes of Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun have been deported from Lagos to these states. wetin dey happen?

How we were arrested and deported to Onitsha -Victims

Saturday, September 29, 2012


How we were arrested -Victims

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From EMMA UZOR, Onitsha

At the Onitsha South Local Government secretariat annex, some of the inmates told a pathetic story of their arrest and "deportation" to Onitsha. Some of them said they were arrested while doing their normal business, kept in prison and later brought to Onitsha. Others are destitute persons.

For Marianna Asonye, a native of Eziama, Orlu council area of Imo State, life is a mixture of sanity and insanity. She was busy reading Holy Bible aloud when our reporter visited. She could not, however, account for her three children, who she claimed are currently residing in London. Marianna, who is in her late 30s, said she went to Lagos after her education in search of greener pastures, but was afflicted by madness. According to her, she was immediately admitted in the Lagos State Rehabilitation and Social Welfare Centre in 1999 till the day she escaped.

She narrated her story: "My name is Marianna Asonye, I hail from Eziama village, Orlu council area of Imo State, I stopped at Class 3 in Nifor Secondary School in the present Edo State in 1983 and in 1987. I went to Holy Bible Acknowledgement and after that I went to Lagos. Then in 1999, I was admitted in the Lagos State Rehabilitation and Social Welfare Centre. I was there and during riot, rioters forced the home open and I escaped together with other inmates.

I have four children and three of them are living in London, a boy and two girls." Obinna Efobi, 36, from Ogidiana, in Idemili North council area, Anambra State, left Anambra State for Lagos in 2005. He was clamped into prison for being homeless. According to him, he was picked where he was sleeping in the open and taken to prison, where he stayed for more than two years. "I am Obinna Efobi. I am 36 years old and I hail from Ogidiana, in Ogidi community, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. We were brought here from Lagos.

I travelled to Lagos in 2005 for survival. I was living in a make-shift house, which was later burnt by angry youths during a riot. I was a barrow pusher, but one day, rioters destroyed our houses and everything inside. We became homeless and some of us started sleeping under the bridges until one day, when the police arrested me. "I was detained in prison for more than two years until last week when they brought us out. We were 1, 500 in number. They grouped us according to our geopolitical zones. Those of us from South East were put in nine buses and brought to Onitsha. When they crossed Onitsha Bridgehead, two buses dropped some of us.

The other buses continued to Upper Iweka, where they offloaded the rest. "It was while we were there that security men came and evacuated us and brought us here. I have been making efforts to get my people. The first person I sent did not come back. I sent another person, who called my sister. My sister came here and told me that my parents had died. "When I left for Lagos, my parents were all alive, though my father was bedridden.

He was suffering from stroke. My mother was our bread winner and that was why I left for Lagos to know if I could meet up and it turned out like this." When asked if he could still recognise his home in Ogidiani and how they were being taken care of by the Anambra State government, he said: "I will still recognise my home in Ogidiana if I am asked to go home.

They are feeding us three times a day, but I want to ask the state government to help me because as it stands now, my mother, who was my last hope, is no more and I am like a hopeless man now. Another thing is that when I was inside the prison, I noticed that my eyes were having problem. I started having something that closes my eyes each day and if you look inside my eyes, you will see some spots and my left eye is not working again.

As we are talking, am not using the left eye to see. I am not even seeing you as you are standing. All these things were what I met in Lagos." Mr. Edward Adeniyi is from Lagos State, but among those taken to Onitsha. He told Saturday Sun: "I am Mr. Edward Adeniyi from Western Avenue (Ojuelegba), Lagos. I am a Loto agent until I was arrested and sent to the prison after which I found myself in Onitsha, in the East. I was arrested in May, around Mile 2. I was coming from Maza Maza, where I went to sell Loto printout.

I was working with Premier Loto." Osondu Agwu, from Ebonyi State told Saturday Sun: "I am from Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. I lived in Lagos because that was where I have been living since. I was doing business before my business crashed; what happened was that some time in March this year, on Saturday to be precise, I was walking down the Ijora bridge.

I saw a vehicle parked on top of the bridge. When I got closer to the vehicle, I saw some group of persons. They called for my attention and I gave them attention. They asked me to enter the bus and I asked why I should do so. They bundled me into the vehicle. There were two mobile policemen with rifles. "When we were going, I thought they were taking me to a police station. They drove all the way to Ikorodu, into a compound and ordered us to come down.

They searched us and removed everything in our pockets and marched us into a hall." Uduaka Asuquo from Akwa Ibom State said she was, until her arrest, a commuter operator and office assistant in Ikoyi, Lagos. According to her: "I was arrested and taken to a place I did not know and I could not contact any of my family members. I was a computer operator in Ikoyi, Lagos and one day, I went out to buy something in my street. It was on environmental sanitation day. I saw a vehicle parked.

The officers bundled me into the vehicle and drove away. They took me to Ikorodu. They dumped me where they kept mad people and beggars and after that, they arranged 16 vehicles that brought us down here. My village is Isenyon, but my parents are living at Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State." Mr. Francis Agwu from Ebonyi State also told a pathetic story: "I live at No 1 Ogbudunmi Iwaya Close, Lagos.

I was just living there until one Sunday. I went to buy something in my street when I was arrested. All the people I sent messages to after I was arrested didn't respond and I found myself here in Onitsha. I want the government to help me and send me back to Lagos because my room is still locked as we are talking."

...Tales of 'deportations'

The current controversy between Lagos and Anambra state governments over the dumping of some persons removed from the streets of Lagos in Onitsha may be coming as a rude shock to the latter, but this will not surprise government officials in Ogun, Oyo, Kaduna and Kano, as they had equally been made to swallow a similar bitter pills in the past.

Records show that the foundation for the deportation of unwanted non-indigenes from Lagos was laid in 2003 when the state began an aggressive policy of ridding the streets of persons tagged as beggars, destitute persons, insane and the like, as a means of enhancing the aesthetics of the environment and security. Ogun and Oyo states were the first to have a taste of this policy then. Since then, it has become an annual ritual for the Lagos State government to send persons labelled under any of these categories to the next designated state within the country. Besides, the number of deportees keeps increasing year in, year out. The figure, however, hit an alarming rate in 2009 when the state government deported about 160 persons tagged destitute persons from the northern part of the country.

They were dumped on the outskirts of the Kaduna metropolis. Like in the previous attempts, the northern deportees were secretly dumped at around 7pm at Abuja Junction, along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway, close to the Federal Cooperative College, Kaduna. The group included men, women and children, mostly crippled, deaf, blind, lepers and others with serious disabilities. The Kaduna State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development then, Dr. Maryamu Laka Madami, had disclosed that the state government was making arrangements to transport them to Kano and other northern states they were originally from. The Kaduna State government only mulled an action against the Lagos State government but that appeared to be the end of the controversy then. In 2010, it was again the turn of Ogun State to receive another batch of deportees from Lagos. Officials of the Ogun State government had protested then that it was embarrassing and unfortunate that Lagos State government officials took about 70 destitute persons from the streets of Lagos and dumped them in Abeokuta on May 11 of the same year without finding out their states of origin.

The destitute persons were said to have been taken in six buses, around 2.30am and were dumped at Ita Oshin end of Abeokuta North Local Government Area. The chairman of the local government, Alhaji Abeeb Ajayi, who received them, had expressed sadness at the development. Some of the destitute persons were said to have been picked up from the streets, kept in the rehabilitation camp in Majidun, Lagos, for some months before they were transferred to the Ogun State capital. While most of them admitted that they were from Ogun State, a sizable number of them claimed they were from Ondo, Bayelsa and Rivers states.

A livid Ogun State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development then, Mrs. Tomi Soboyejo, was reported to have said: "It is unacceptable for Lagos to continue to dump destitute persons here; it is unfortunate. This is the third time this type of incident will happen; the second time they brought over 100 destitute persons. "The first time, they brought 40 of them and dumped them on the premises of the State High Court, Isabo. How do you justify this? Ogun State is the only neighbour of Lagos; the other is just the Atlantic Ocean.

If they have not dumped these people here, they might have dumped them in the Atlantic Ocean." Records also show that in 2011 alone, over 3,105 beggars and lunatics were deported to their states of origin by the Lagos State government with Oyo State government having the largest share of the figure. This was said to have angered the then government of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, but the protestation also fizzled out like those in the past.

Hey Dudu Monkey,

Am waiting for your response here. Please address the challenge I posed you here https://www.nairaland.com/newpost?topic=1062486.

Also,

You lied about Arthur Nzeribe and failed to supply he link. You are so, so shameless. You deserve an award for lies.

Hey Dudu Monkey,

Am waiting for your response here. Please address the challenge I posed you.

Dudu_Negro: Ordinarily when you see this report it has a touch of fact but when examined cloaely you soon see the dynamics and the length iyanmiris have gone to concoct a falsehood propaganda.

First take a look at the story heading...



Who is EMMA UZOR ?

Go on google and search and read up on him. Emma Uzor is a ibo sympathiser and his story is a fake. The Adeniyi person is a fake. How can Adeniyi ride from Lagos to Onitsha and not bring his issue of misidentity to the attention of the driver?

Will the driver believe him just like you have believed him now? You are so shameless. See what LASTMA is doing in Lagos. Do they give anyone arrested/caught any room for explanation?

Koruji:
We are talking about the deportation of a Lagosian to Onitsha. Can you comment on that? Is this Lagosian a freeloader too, in his own home state? Pray, tell, does Lagos feed anyone in Lagos?

How about the deportation of Yoruba indigenes from Lagos? Are they also free loaders?

Can you define who the freeloaders are and with what they are loaded freely in Lagos?

sheyguy: Anybody can call himself Adeniyi Jones or whatever . . . Lagos is easy to claim because of the ease of learning Yoruba Language and ultimately blending in. . . What do you expect easterners who can't trace their family or even town to resort to? They simply claim Lagos! . . . Or those who falsely claimed Ogun and Oyo but can't bare the pain and shame any longer . . . Ehn?

So you are willing to let your brother wrongly deported to die in Onitsha

Ileke-IdI:
We're not talking about one person, or twenty people. We're talking about thousands of people fired for being "non-indigenous" and who were "indirectly" forced to seek employment in another state. Sounds pretty much like indirect deportation to me.

At the last count 1000s have been deported from Lagos to other states.

Aigbofa: In your warped logic, it is o.k to deprive some people their livelihood and render them destitute because of their state of origin than encourage real destitutes to seek better opportunities elsewhere than under the bridges of Lagos.

I am not justifying anything, am only calling Dudu to order because he is equating sacking with deportation and telling all sorts of lies to justify what Lagos is doing. Lagos is also sacking people. It sacked doctors recently. In reality though, how does it sound that half of Abia workforce was made up of non-indigines, leaving indigenes to roam about jobless, with some turning to criminality? Yet, everything in Nigeria is based on state of origin and indigenship. Show me how many states in Nigeria employ non-indigenes into the state service.

Ileke-IdI:
When you fire a whole population of Non-abians. . . .exactly how is it different from deportation? Most of these ppl went back to their state of origin to find jobs.

What becomes their way of life, their revenue source etc?

I guess one "sin" is bigger than the other. Focus your aggression on Igboland where it's a "Real vs Fake Igbo" fight everyday.

The federal government, banks, universities and other establishments fire people everyday You will also call that deportation?

Dudu Negro: Abia didn't deport non-indigenes, it sacked non-indigenes from its state (not federal, not private) service

You have been telling these lies and it is time to call you out. I challenge you to provide the evidence that Abia deported non-Abians from Abia state.
Abia may have sacked non-indigenes from Abia and they gave their reasons for doing so: lots of Abians are unemployed and need to be catered for. Those people who were sacked were not deported by Abia Govt. Some left on their own for greener pastures elsewhere, many are still in Abia engaged in other things.

Many Nigerian states employ only indigenes into the state service, so Abia has even tried to employ non-indigenes. You cannot find an Igbo man working in Osun, Ekiti, Oyo, Ondo and Ogun states civil service. In Lagos you will have to look hard to see.

Those people Lagos is deporting are not depending on Lagos for their daily survival, as there is no social safety net in any state (not even Lagos) in Nigeria. It is everybody to themselves and God for all. Some of them were arrested while going about their businesses, other are sick, mentally and physically. None of them was arrested while committing a crime, otherwise it is the duty of the police to prosecute such ones.

Ileke-IdI:
small small, Ekiti will start deporting them too.

Are you also going to do it like Fasola, deporting an Ekiti man to Zamfara?

Ileke-IdI:
Yet when Yorubas were being deported from Lagos, you glorified Fashola.

Don't be an iddiot, my dear. But if you must be, don't be a hypocritical one.

Something tells me that you're angry because you think Fashola wants to deport non-Yorubas. tsk tsk.

If the law allows him, Fasola can deport whoever he wants. But he must do it not sloppily, like deporting a Lagos man to Onitsha.
Hey! Yorubas elsewhere in Nigeria should be gearing up too to be deported. It is a good sign of the end of Nigeria.

Aigbofa: Seriously, we shouldn't be too hard on these migrant workers from the east, agriculture is labor intensive and we need them as long as they are properly documented.

What are you going to do about the Lagos man deported to Onitsha? Has he been sacrificed by the Yorubas to please Ogun, Sango or Ifa?

Ileke-IdI:
Save your aggression for Orji Kalu who fired non-Abian workers from public service.

Were you this passionate then?

My dear, you have a complex issue when it comes to Yoruba. Unless you were also deported, that would explain your zealous posts on this topic.

Hey you can fire anybody from service, for any number of reasons. Firing people is a world wide affair. But you cannot deport people from their places of residence in their own country and then you do it so sloppily by deporting them to states other than theirs. Don't be an iddiioott.

The worst of all, he has deported his fellow Lagosian. The man dey craze?

jmaine: OP, give this "Fashola Deportation" topic a rest now . .E be like say dem bin follow deport you join ! . . .Cos your zest on this topic is shocking and unbelievable

Don't be a jackass. Deportee with access to the internet? Hahahahaha!!!
But seriously, Fasola does not deserve a break. It is unheard of that people are deported in their own country and the earlier he is called to order, the better for the nation. Soon everyone will be deporting non-indigenes. Yorubas should not think they are in any way immune. There are Yorubas in the East, SS and North. Besides, bad as the deportation thing is, what is the rationale behind deporting someone to a state other than their own?

Fasola also dumped non- Ogun-and Oyo indigenes in Ogun and Oyo States

.Tales of 'deportations'

The current controversy between Lagos and Anambra state governments over the dumping of some persons removed from the streets of Lagos in Onitsha may be coming as a rude shock to the latter, but this will not surprise government officials in Ogun, Oyo, Kaduna and Kano, as they had equally been made to swallow a similar bitter pills in the past.

Records show that the foundation for the deportation of unwanted non-indigenes from Lagos was laid in 2003 when the state began an aggressive policy of ridding the streets of persons tagged as beggars, destitute persons, insane and the like, as a means of enhancing the aesthetics of the environment and security. Ogun and Oyo states were the first to have a taste of this policy then. Since then, it has become an annual ritual for the Lagos State government to send persons labelled under any of these categories to the next designated state within the country. Besides, the number of deportees keeps increasing year in, year out. The figure, however, hit an alarming rate in 2009 when the state government deported about 160 persons tagged destitute persons from the northern part of the country.

They were dumped on the outskirts of the Kaduna metropolis. Like in the previous attempts, the northern deportees were secretly dumped at around 7pm at Abuja Junction, along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway, close to the Federal Cooperative College, Kaduna. The group included men, women and children, mostly crippled, deaf, blind, lepers and others with serious disabilities. The Kaduna State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development then, Dr. Maryamu Laka Madami, had disclosed that the state government was making arrangements to transport them to Kano and other northern states they were originally from. The Kaduna State government only mulled an action against the Lagos State government but that appeared to be the end of the controversy then. In 2010, it was again the turn of Ogun State to receive another batch of deportees from Lagos. Officials of the Ogun State government had protested then that it was embarrassing and unfortunate that Lagos State government officials took about 70 destitute persons from the streets of Lagos and dumped them in Abeokuta on May 11 of the same year without finding out their states of origin.

The destitute persons were said to have been taken in six buses, around 2.30am and were dumped at Ita Oshin end of Abeokuta North Local Government Area. The chairman of the local government, Alhaji Abeeb Ajayi, who received them, had expressed sadness at the development. Some of the destitute persons were said to have been picked up from the streets, kept in the rehabilitation camp in Majidun, Lagos, for some months before they were transferred to the Ogun State capital. While most of them admitted that they were from Ogun State, a sizable number of them claimed they were from Ondo, Bayelsa and Rivers states.

A livid Ogun State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development then, Mrs. Tomi Soboyejo, was reported to have said: "It is unacceptable for Lagos to continue to dump destitute persons here; it is unfortunate. This is the third time this type of incident will happen; the second time they brought over 100 destitute persons. "The first time, they brought 40 of them and dumped them on the premises of the State High Court, Isabo. How do you justify this? Ogun State is the only neighbour of Lagos; the other is just the Atlantic Ocean.

If they have not dumped these people here, they might have dumped them in the Atlantic Ocean." Records also show that in 2011 alone, over 3,105 beggars and lunatics were deported to their states of origin by the Lagos State government with Oyo State government having the largest share of the figure. This was said to have angered the then government of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, but the protestation also fizzled out like those in the past.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/sep/29/508.html

Fearful, Cowardly Fashola Denies Deporting People To Onitsha