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Daily Post Nigeria
Daily Post Nigeria
NEWSCOVID-19 palliatives: Islamic group laments marginalisation of Igbo, religious sentiments

Published 4 hours ago on April 17, 2020By John Owen Nwachukwu

An Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has demanded transparency in the process leading to the identification of indigent Nigerians and vulnerable people within communities at grassroots level in the Federal Government’s disbursement of palliatives.


MURIC questioned the manner names of beneficiaries of relief packages were being collated.

This was revealed in a press statement signed by the director of the human rights group, Professor Ishaq Akintola, and made available to DAILY POST on Friday


“We need to monitor the modalities for selection of indigent Nigerians and vulnerable people within communities at the grassroots. Government should release the names of community leaders who supplied the names of beneficiaries. The parameters for collating names of beneficiaries should also be made public.

“Such yardsticks should be devoid of religious or partisan considerations. It is only when this is done that the system can be described as open.

“We demand transparency in the process. Already, there are allegations of marginalization of sections of Nigerian citizens and people of particular faith in the distribution of COVID-19 palliatives in some states. I think this should not be happening at a time when the whole of humanity faces this horrible monster.


“Exempli gratia, residents of Victory Estate, Iba in Iba Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ojo Local Government in Lagos State have alleged total marginalization in the distribution of relief materials.

“They complained that not a single pack was received by any of the residents in a heavily populated estate. Incidentally this is an area fully dominated by people of Igbo extraction. Is it ethnicity or partisan politics? The Lagos State Government needs to look into this.

“We have received damning reports from some states but we want to be mature in the way we handle the allegations. This is not the time for parochial approaches.


“We will not name names but state governments where people are being marginalized on the basis of religion should take the cue from this message otherwise they will be exposed. We should not allow the integrity of the process to be eroded by individuals who have selfish interests.

“Finally, we encourage states to set up the machinery for the registration of senior citizens (anyone who is 60 and above).

“This database can be used for the preparation of post-COVID-19 welfare packages for the elderly in each state. Such an arrangement will eject a heavy dose of humanity in our country. We must not be thinking of the present alone. We must plan for the future.”



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Sanwo-Olu also addressed the security challenges threatening the distribution of food products in the state and assured the members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) that “from today (Wednesday) there will be additional deployment/presence and patrol (24/7) of mobile policemen, the military and paramilitary personnel in Lagos State.

This is upsetting!

It appears the only solution we have for treating security challenge is the deployment of guns.

Are there no other means to tackle security issues in our urban society?

There is need to establish an early security warning system across Yorubaland.

Comment...

May his soul rest in peace!

DabuIIIT:
Yes now. It's not in your habits to read,we understand.

That's why the country is now a grand kwantiri cos of illiterate certificateless dullapos at the helms of affairs lolsssssss

Lzaa immhotep

See as you dey yab me. If i yab back now your brothers go say you are marginalized.

LegendHero:
I am not done with you yet. I will make sure I deal with you until you have no more thing to say.

Below is the unemployment figures directly from NBS for Q3 2018. The SW still feature the lowest unemployment rate in Nigeria. Now we are doing it for each individual states and the SW states beat the SE hands down.

Na jeje we kuku Dey on this thread, you came and started uploading stats. Now we will both start uploading stats until you beg me to stop.

So far so good: (remember Lagos no Dey o)
SW- lowest poverty rate
SW-lowest unemployment rate
SW- Highest Africa export earning for Nigeria by tribe.
SW- highest number of data and voice subscriber
SW- Higest IGR generating zone in Nigeria
SW- Highest number of SMEs

If you want to contest anyone of the above, directly engage me.

Source: https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/download/929

Cc: Metaphysical

Nowenuse are you seeing where Plateau stands in all these metrics? Even some core-North states have better standing than Plateau that you always shout about. What’s Plateau? A name of any person, animal, place or thing?

Beside Ugwu in Enugu what else do they have?

Zero cash crops!

That freak is counting yam they ship to African stores abroad in same category as cocoa traded on the floor of the international mercantile building at a competitive price with gold.

Punish him with the raw facts until he surrenders and agree yam and cocoa no dey same category.

We need intervention of an external force to help secure and mandate the interest and rights of Igbos in Nigeria.

I really feel sad reading the way this man talks. He is expressing pain and despair.

In this period everyone is at disadvantage and weak and powerless. People must not be treated inhumanely because of political difference. Federal Goverment must carry Ibo along in all the support and assistance. They must not be sidelined.

This guy sabi talk. I gave up! The thing too long. This na book.


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The opposition party says the government is not handling the COVID-19 crisis properly, unlike Jonathan’s government that handled the Ebola outbreak in an effective and efficient manner that the world applauded Jonathan

That could be true, but, even though this Buhari regime is a disaster, the 16 years of PDP didn’t actually move Nigeria forward. The PDP brought upon the land, the evil of imposition of candidates, mind boggling rigging, financial malfeasance or sleaze in a scale never before experienced in the land. PDP laid the foundation for the confusion in the land today. Dr. Alex Ekwueme told me that former President Obasanjo assured him that he would restructure Nigeria, but the fellow mischievously preferred a third term to salvaging Nigeria. Igbo political elite surrounded Jonathan for five years, they drank brandy with him into the wee hours, they failed to use the opportunity to address group interest, today Igboland has no international airport, no seaport, no rail services, nothing. The roads until recently were in a horrible condition. The PDP is extremely lucky that Buhari goofed, if not PDP would have been history.

recently were in a horrible condition. The PDP is extremely lucky that Buhari goofed, if not PDP would have been history.

How do you mean?

With all due respect, Buhari lacks the political sagacity needed to effectively run a heterogeneous, multi-cultural society like Nigeria. Probably, angered by the fact that Ohanaeze rebuffed his plea to meet with him during the 2014/2015, he angrily decided to teach the region a lesson. I suspect that both Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina, by their professional training, must have tried to get his permission to correct the grave mistake of 97%/5% formula and the import of the faux pas, on the psyche of a very over-sensitive people, he fought against during the war. A people that remembers vividly the role he played at Asaba and other war theatres. They also recall how he distributed the PTF intervention projects under Abacha. His media handlers managing his public image know that the unprovoked 95%/5% dichotomy will irreparably damage both his image and place in history. That no effort was made to clarify the statement and mitigate the damage done by the pronouncement, simply suggests that the man probably said he didn’t care. His image handlers could have easily played with words and said their principal couldn’t possibly say or mean to apply such divisive formula. But the whole world waited in vain. I suspect the man must have told them, “to hell with Nyamiri.” So those hurtful words stuck till this day. He unwittingly placed a wedge between Ndigbo and himself. And of course, PDP benefitted


Had he been smart enough to reach out to Ndigbo in his first term, he would have won them over. He also chose fear and coercion, as his style of governance, to the end that his close aides seem afraid to tell him any thing they perceive he may not want to hear.
His mistake were avoidable. He didn’t know Ndigbo do not worship man. He erroneously mistook the quite horrible and shameful boot licking culture of the Igbo contractor class, as the Igbo way of life, nobody told him that the genes of Ndigbo are completely different from those of the other ethnic nationalities that bow down and submit to eternal subjugation. He had to find out himself between 2015 and 2020, that Ndigbo worship no man. So within this period he erroneously assumed that Ndigbo would bow and worship, the PDP smartly latched onto Ndigbo in order to survive. That is the truth. Had Buhari wooed Ndigbo with appointments and projects and maybe set up a committee on restructuring Nigeria, in 2015, he would have swept Igboland and the PDP would have been blown into oblivion. Nobody could tell him, as all the people around him were scared of getting on the wrong side with him, by telling him what he obstinately didn’t want to hear. You see, because he comes from the cultural background where the rulers decide and the masses concur immediately, because they are too impoverished and helpless to argue, the completely egalitarian Igbo society is strange to him. He doesn’t understand egalitarianism, where the masses agree and the leadership simply concur with the wishes of the masses, if they hope to remain relevant.

Nobody explained to him that for over 1800 years Ndigbo were governed by the “ama-ala“, Greek model democracy. Where the town crier goes round the village with his gong sounding an invitation to the village square. Where all males above 18 years old are entitled to speak. The elderly and titled men sit in front, whereas every adult male, who doesn’t have a record of misbehaviour or history of mental illness, is actually entitled to raise his hand at the “ama-ala” meeting and air his opinion. Where every decision is put to the vote and consensus rules. All these hard facts were lost on him. He judged the mighty Igbo nation through his experience as Petroleum Minister, Military Governor and military Head of State, especially, the hustling ranka dede prostration of the Igbo political class and misjudged.

He thought Ndigbo flow with the behaviour of the political class, who constitute less than 1% of Igbo population. He wrongly assumed that 45 million Ndigbo would bow down and worship. He only succeeded in making them enemies for life and also strengthened the crumbling PDP. That’s the truth, I am on ground here. Ndigbo identified with PDP, because very credible leaders shaped it. Men like Alex Ekwueme and co. Courageous leaders who through the G34, stood up to Abacha. The PDP sidelined these great men and ran amock. I repeat the PDP is still relevant today simply because Buhari mishandled Ndigbo. Period.


Is there any hope with the APC then?

The PDP gave us bad dreams. The APC brought nightmares. More than half of the APC people jumped from the PDP. We are in trouble. They are all the same. The entire political class are a direct product of the military. The military ruled us with their civilian accomplices and collaborators, these guys simply metamorphosed into the Nigerian political class, whose dreams, desires and aspirations are totally different with that of the hapless masses. The citizens crave for jobs, infrastructure, security, a growing economy and justice. The politician is occupied with how to win the next election, acquire property overseas, live the good life and of course, continue to fool the people. None of them worries about the condition of the masses or the future of the country. They only pretend they care, when it’s convenient. If they truly cared, they will not delay the restructuring of Nigeria, a day longer. The country is crumbling and I bet you, they are all busy husbanding resources in preparation for the next elections. They are so self centered. They are like a band of predators terrorizing the land, and we are like grass- eating gazelles at their mercy.

Nseobong Okon-Ekong interacts with Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, President of Igbo Youth Movement on what he perceives as the underlining politics of COVID-19 palliatives and other issues that define the relationship between the government at the centre and the various states, particularly Eastern Nigeria
How are you coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in the East?

My dear brother, there’s nothing inspiring going on. It’s like we’re all standing still, marking time. Nobody I know is excited, fulfilled, confident or happy with the situation in the country. The East cannot be different. Nobody is sure where exactly we are headed. This is not the best of times. The COVID-19 holiday affords all the opportunity for soul searching and self examination. But the plight of the starving, less privileged and the vulnerable, is disturbing.

But the government is distributing food stuff and making cash payments to the very poor around the country to alleviate their suffering.

So we see on television and newspapers. Here in the East, there is no such thing as cash payments and free food from the central government. What we have here is commendable efforts to stem the hunger and hardship experienced by daily income earners, by churches, corporate institutions, individuals and a few politicians. But those are clearly inadequate. The hardship is real.The suffering is real. The volume of aid getting to these groups of people is inadequate. We are yet to see any kind of help from the central government.

Government is playing games with Eastern Nigeria as usual. Nothing stops them from distributing the aid or whatever through the 774 local government areas, if they are sincere. That way, it would get to every region. But they obviously don’t want to do that. They seem to be concentrating in the North, especially the North-east and North-west. Our people feel sidelined as usual. No town or village in Igboland can claim to feel the impact of the Federal Government palliative. We only here of that in the news. I challenge the people in charge to come out and show us beneficiaries here in the East. If anything is going on here, it must be very infinitesimal that nobody feels the impact. As always, we are deliberately sidelined.

The same people sidelining our region are wondering why the youths of this region want out of Nigeria like yesterday. The government released billions, wealthy nations, foreign bodies, individuals and organisations donated billions, just yesterday EU gave 50 million Euros and Igboland is missing out as the largesse is shared in certain regions to the exclusion of others. They are only aiding the recruitment drive of the seccesion agitators. This is sad and disturbing.

Are the governors in Eastern Nigeria aware of this lopsided distribution and if so, what are they doing to correct the anomalies?

I expect you journalists to investigate and bring this inequity to the attention of the authorities. This inequity and inequality are stuff revolutions are made of. You don’t need a soothsayer to note that, just a little spark could lead to riots and mayhem. The little aide available is not being fairly shared across the country. That is unfair. That is wrong. Every discerning person can see that the seeds for a revolution are being sown by the people applying this dichotomy. They are actually saying to some regions “go to hell, you don’t belong here.”


Our governors should note that the angry people of this region are unhappy with the state of affairs in the land, especially with the one-sided style of distribution of the so-called palliative. Our people are clearly disappointed.

Why can’t the governors seize the moment and carry out their own palliative measures?

I don’t want to talk about our governors. I don’t agree with their style and I also don’t want to breach my code of conduct, which is: not to attack any governor, as that would distract me. The people know wether the governors are standing up for them or not. When I and Prof. Ben Nwabueze escorted Nnamdi Kanu to a meeting with the South-east governors, two and half years ago, I realised that the overbearing influence of the central government, makes it difficult for the South-east governors to be their own man. I painfully saw why the central government is very interested in whoever emerges as governor in Igboland. Ndigbo are in big trouble my dear brother. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State is good at trying to avoid any kind of fight. He struggles to be a nice guy. Governor Umahi of Ebonyi State, even though he is performing wonders in Ebonyi, with very impressive infrastructure development, is totally committed to the politics of pleasing the master and remaining in the good books of the owners of Nigeria. Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State decided from day one to fight his benefactor, thereby concentrating on survival in office. He has never stood up to identify with Ndigbo aspiration. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State doesn’t have any achievements you can put your finger on. He too is busy battling for survival. The Supreme Court governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma is the one that will split Igboland. Sad but true. Because even though, nobody is thinking about it now. In nine months, he will produce the next Ohanaeze leader, you won’t expect him to nominate a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) sympathiser. That would negate why he was forcefully made governor at this time. You also won’t expect Ndigbo to flow with his Ohanaeze nominee, who will definitely be an All Progressives Congress (APC) sympathiser. the last nine months of the present President of Ohaneze, Okwesileze Nwodo, may actually be the last days of a united Ohanaeze. So Ndigbo are going through difficult times and its not over yet. The younger generation are not proud of our governors, they are nobody’s heroes, except of course the (otinkpu) praise singers and cheerleaders. The owners of Nigeria will never, for obvious reasons, allow strong willed, independent minded guys to emerge as governors in Igboland. We are a conquered people, held down in bondage and monitored aggressively. All our political leaders are compliant actors. This subject is a taboo. A no go area.Never to be discussed. But interestingly, the angry youths are discovering a lot of things, which informs their agitation. The people who share and distribute the palliatives know that they are not fully carrying the South-east along. They may cleverly organise a roadshow somewhere in Igboland for photo or propaganda purposes, but nobody is fooled. The intensely provocative dichotomy, makes it difficult to preach one Nigeria in this region. These are clearly some of the reasons the agitation has remained very popular, in fact, reality on ground, points to the fact that every thing is being done to hold Ndigbo down perpetually as slaves in Nigeria, but for the awareness and agitation by the younger generation, who tell me all the time, that they believe, there is a deliberate agenda to hold them down as slaves for one thousand years.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/04/16/igbos-are-a-conquered-people-held-in-bondage-and-monitored-aggressively/amp/

Salvador1:
olodo

But una no be olodo when you go flood other people land.

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chuksmad:
this metaphysical or metachemical, your comment on this naira land forum shows you are very dull and must be a kid

chuksmad:
this metaphysical or metachemical, your comment on this naira land forum shows you are very dull and must be a kid

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Ibo muslim Amaka!

valirex:
I have said it before and I will say it again I like how you think

Thanks bro!

tommy589:
I am going to use this someday and acknowledge you as the writer

Thanks. With pleasure...

Many people dont understand life.

Look at Oluomo, we call him motor park tout....but the guy is taking picture with Governors in US. The same US that Atiku, with all his wealth, cannot enter. Imagine that!

Where is Abiola money today?
Glory be to God! There are certain limits i dont cross when it comes people. Money is one of them. Food is another.

agadez007:
Everything The Igboman does is bad and Evil to the Average Nigerian
If he had said Nigerians,Your people will say He is biafran and shouldn't speak for You
If he had said South,Your people would still shout Iboman wants to claim Niger delta Oyel and Natural resources

now he is speaking for his people,You are still angry



Wetin they do una,Do una well?

Thats from a clergyman. Not from a spare parts trader.

Does he go to church to pray for Ibomem...or for humanity?

Adaogwashi1:
How is one million boys doing in south west





I still remain Ada ogwashi

Whoo

Covidodo:
Ugwu
Baba said vegetables

LegendHero:
Hahahahaha lol. They can manufacture fake of anything.

One of them uploaded a picture of exports and still went to lie that Imo was the highest in Cashew. Na him upload the pics himself ooo.

Walahi these guys are something else.

Lol.

The whole world know Yorubaland is a cashew depot in West Africa. Maybe he meant to say Ugwu.

Take them to Anambra to go chill.

Afterall Ibo migrate everywhere under the constitution.

Covidodo:
Stop being clever by help . What is your tribe in the phantom Middle belt ?

Yorubas are people who originated from Ile Ife and that fact is clear and established .

I'm asking for the umpteenth time , what's your tribe ? Or are you too ashamed to say it ?

Leemao . I finished from UI 2 years ago . I didn't finish many years ago . The ELDS and quota system still holds till tomorrow .

Lemme burst your bubble bro..
Adamawa , Gombe and your Eldorado Plateau states are 3 of the top 6 poorest states in Nigeria according to the NBS

I wish you all the best in your quest to partitioning the middle belt along religious lines

What has the fact that TY Danjuma buys weapons for militias got to do with his multi billion dollar investments in the ND ??
Are you dyslexic or what ?

So you are even comparing the few houses owned by the NigerDeltans with oil wells ?? Haba nah !!

I'm sure 100% of the NigerDeltans would be willing to let go of any their properties in the length and breadth of Nigeria if that would give them autonomy over their God's given oil.

I can't wait to have 2 land locked Islamic republic of Arewa side by side with Christian republic of Middle Belt

That's would be potential world's biggest open refugee camp in the history of mankind

Me sef don ask am tire!

He no fit share. He knows how we will deal with him if he dared admit to his true tribe.

Children of deficit civilization trying to compete with Yoruba.

LegendHero:
Stop deviating. It’s not an issue of landmass. You can’t give what you don’t have!

There are lot of states with bigger landmass in the North that don’t generate anything in agriculture so your premises of a small land is not acceptable.

Ogun and Ondo beats anambra in Agricultural GDP.

To even pepper you more: I will share you the most of internet data and voice subscription for Q4 2019.

The SW beats your SE states in the both voice and internet subscription. Lagos is not a factor here before you shout, I am using each individual SW states.

Source: https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/download/1080

Yoruba no be your mate:

Very Good!!

They sabi forge results.

The table you just shared now they will copy it, modify the numbers to their advantage. Few months later they will repost it. At first glance you will agree with their advvantage....until you go verify. Na dat time you go see their evil hands at work.

I stopped trusting any data from Ibo since 1500bc!

Barbilius:
Never seem more confused and condemned race like theirs. When it suits their narrative na dem get Lagos, they own 90%of all properties and population, suddenly, as covid19 sets in, their population in Lagos suddenly depleted, now Yorubas are the majority. Heck, some of them even call SW Corona virus ravaged, I do truly hope the virus wipes out every of their tribesmen resident in the west. Murdafuckers!!!!

I endorse this message!

To Yorubas,
Dont trust any number or table or data shared here by anyone until you have verified its authenticity independently by yourself.

Nowenuse:
Which one is your tribe in the SW? Are u Ijebu, Egba, Awori, Remo, Igbomina, Igbolo or Ilorin Emirate ?

Yoruba.
SW region.


Name your tribe and region.

Governors must exempt Iboman from lockdown and allow them to go about their business.

Mmmtcchheewww.....

Even clergymen are not immune from the nonsense in that SE.

...not easy for Iboman to stay isolated.

I guess Yoruba and Hausa love isolation.

Anambralstson:
This is Wike's full speech, some evil minds are twisting his speech
Lalasticlala

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2077187185758795&id=672482079562653

Facebook is not a news media. Bring the speech from a reputable news media, not from social media.