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The point is that Eastern politicians were partly responsible for Awo serving his jail term in the East instead of the North.
In continuation of that spirit, Ojukwu ensured he was safe in the East and returned home safely.
The sense of betrayal stem from that feeling that he (Awo ) quickly forgot all those.

Reverends and pastors like this man should be encouraged by the wider Igbo to speak more and become more involved in this struggle. If all the thieving pastors of new generation churches in Igboland used their times to serve our HUMAN needs and speak truth to power, Igboland would become transformed overnight.

May God bless you father!

The OP is lazy. He almost killed a good news.

The first tone of Catholic Reverend Father Ben Ogu, Parish Priest of St. Paul’s Catholic Parish, Egbelu-Umuhu, Enyiogugu-Mbaise, Imo State, rang when he stormed the Enugu Prison to see the over 250 members and sympathizers of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who were seized by the police for going to Enugu to show solidarity to bedridden Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, last month.
The tone was clearly that of a pained clergy. “I have come all the way from Imo State to see my people who are held here. If I don’t come here, I believe I will run mental, because I cannot understand why people should be imprisoned because they went to honour their leader,” he declared. 

He was indeed, agitated, when he was tracked down to Owerri on the day of the Odenigbo Lecture, at Assumpta Cathedral, where he now unburdened himself.

Father, you acted spectacularly when members of MASSOB were incarcerated by coming to the Enugu prison, where you raised strong claims about the disparity of justice in Nigeria . What motivated you to do that?

It is my interest in the Igbo destiny and the circumstances of their detention that caused me to. These were simply the reasons for it. The way Moses had anxiety to save his people; the way Nelson Mandela had the same feeling for the South Africans, when they were in the state of Apartheid. That was simply my interest for doing what I did.

But for you to leave your parish, traversing over 200 kilometres, across Imo State to Enugu , it sounds like very deep commitment to the cause of MASSOB? 

Not MASSOB per se, but, sure, there is strong commitment to the Igbo cause. It does not actually matter what you leave behind or the territories you traversed for you to do what is very important to you and especially for others. Jesus Christ left Heaven, not actually dropping it but somehow relegating it, to come to humanity to save humanity. So it does not matter what somebody sacrifices to achieve a feat that is worth the while. Indeed, one of us must be ready to sacrifice something in order to do something for what has been left unachieved over time. 

In Leaving your station in Mbaise, Imo State, for Enugu Prisons didn’t it sound like confrontation with the authorities? In other words what arrangement did you make for your own personal safety? 

What authorities do you mean? Well, it was not confrontation in any way at all. I went to see my people; to see how they were being incarcerated for doing nothing; for shooting nobody. So, it wasn’t confrontation at all, at all. If at all, it was a confrontation to my own office, which I left to go there. So it was not confrontation with the government. I went to visit my people and ask them why they were being imprisoned. Just because they believed in some Igbo leaders? It was not enough to imprison them. So, that was why I went there not on confrontation with anybody at all.

When you visited the prisons you said if you did not come there to bare your mind, you could get mental problem, suggesting serious emotional involvement for yourself and others related to MASSOB. So, are you a MASSOBIAN? 
Well it depends on what you mean by MASSOBIAN. I am not a MASSOBIAN, in a way. If you look at it, I feel just like every other person feels patriotic about his people, about his land, about his own nations. That was my motivation. Not really in the sense of membership of MASSOB, the way people may look at it. It is just that, I think people have a right for self-determination. To relate with that right is defined by their own experiences.

Could this your Enugu Prison trip be your first encounter with MASSOB? 

That was my first time to go into their affairs. The actual reason for my making that move was that “in the North” people are throwing bombs and they have been killing all Nigerians and we have not heard that anybody is being prosecuted in the court. It then bothered me that some people coming together to honour their people were arrested and put in prison. So, that was the main thing that made me to take that step. However, I always identified with them in principle, spiritually, in the sense that they are talking of freedom, from their experiences in Nigerian and if I have the time I will say what the experience means. Not that I am a MASSOBIAN, in the sense of carrying flag around, talking of Biafra just in that sense, no!
   
Do you understand MASSOB’s mode of operation?

For now, I don’t understand them very much in that I can’t really say what their operations are; that is, I do not understand them in the sense that I am sure those involved are doing any real thing beyond carrying flags around, entering buses in group, going to different places, etc. I have not understood them beyond that. But also, I understand them in the sense that somebody must shout to be liberated. Somebody must speak out for his voice to be heard. If there is nobody to do that, anybody that is ready to do that, we listen to him and, of course, we cannot actually ignore it, if somebody rises, who does it to the extent of being intellectual about it, involving others and educating people on the circumstances. Igbo are the greatest people you can talk of, in terms of potentialities. They can always survive on their own. The South South, also can; whether they go it alone or with the Igbo. So what I am saying is that instead of talking about it as a situation of this and that, let us know that Nigeria, as it is now, doesn’t seem to be conducive, as a nation, unless a situation will come when those who are in Nigeria will feel that they are Nigerians.

What we have now is a situation where a few in positions of authority are enjoying the fruit of Nigeria when all of us are answering Nigeria. Otherwise, you are creating a situation where people will simply believe that they have to stay apart and survive apart, and love each other. Whether you are in Nigeria or not in Nigeria, let us exist as true humanity, as people who have rights; who are given justice. People who are treated as human beings, not where people exist physically without the full sense of humanity; and few people are enjoying Nigeria, in the name of one Nigeria. So, it will even be just for people to be on their own if they cannot survive together. There is no beating about the bush about it. If people must remain one Nigeria, there must be something in it for them. That should be wonderful. But the way it is now, where some people are slaves and some people are masters, the greater majority of Nigerians are just people who eat from the gutter. You see the governors; you see the office holders, just about one percent of Nigerians enjoying Nigeria but 95 are just feeling Nigeria just because they are here physically.
So, it looks like if people exist in smaller communities, they could take care of themselves. You can see that there must be a revolution to change the structure of Nigeria, where people will be treated as citizens, not as slaves in the name of one-Nigeria.

When you meet some people, they tell you that nobody has any reason to quarrel about the composition of Nigeria and they justify their position on the fact that every state receives its own federation account allocation, which leaves the individual governments with the resources to move its people forward. So, where is the blame to the central government? 

It is not true. Probably, it is also true that the governors in different states are not doing well, especially in Igbo land. I have to say it. We thank God that a change has come to Imo State. Otherwise, our people have always been shortchanged by their governors. But you cannot forget that it is not by the monthly federation allocation that development is funded in various areas of Nigeria. Location of industries and other institutions that move the society forward is important. Take a look at what were cited in other areas and see if the Igbo areas have been well treated. It is just a matter of people voicing revenue sharing as if it is the only incident of development. Why should the majority of a major ethnic group move out of its place to make a living? If you are an Igbo man, if you do not go to Lagos, Kano, Abuja etc, you are likely certain you will not make a success of your life. Yes, the governors have not been doing well but it doesn’t stop there.

So, what is the way out?

The people must begin to see themselves, as they did in the past, as one people, one vision, one destiny, to achieve liberation. They must see themselves as people of one ancestry, one language, one people. And begin to feel and understand what they suffer together and feel their joy together.
   
But Father, is it possible that the Igbo or South East can achieve any meaningful emancipation in isolation of the South-South, which used to be with them?   

Well, for you to achieve emancipation, you cannot be tied to a person who may not be willing or who sees it differently. If you can’t achieve emancipation with another person, you can emancipate your self. But I think today that the people of the South-South are being persecuted because they tended to stand separately. The Igbo are being persecuted also because they are separated from those who are their brothers. Therefore, collectively, two people are where they are, going through difficulties because they have refused to come together, out of false propaganda and false incitement, can achieve emancipation separately or collectively. But then, I think both of them can liberate themselves collectively. And when I say liberation or emancipation, it does not necessary mean secession or Biafra. It is up to them to explore their brotherhood or get buried or drown in their needless enmity. They can only achieve oneness by having the right thinking, the right attitude; having the consciousness of what you are and what is happening to you, so that you can rise beyond or above the box you have fixed yourself into in the community.

But what is the sense in liberation into an entity that is landlocked?

To be liberated is not being land locked. Any community, no matter where it is, God knows where it is there. The land locking is not the issue. The issue is freedom, ability to develop yourself and be a better member of good humanity. So wherever you are, you can liberate yourself with the number you are and what you have; so that has nothing to do with whether you are on your own or with other people. So, against what some people claim, the problem of the Igbo man is not a matter of being land locked or not. There are many countries in the World or Africa that are quite smaller than Igbo land, quite, quite smaller than Igbo land; quite, quite smaller and they have access to sea and they are surviving, their people prosperous.

If you are asked to take a good look at MASSOB: structure, membership and leadership, can you recommend how it can be of greater effect?

I doubt if I know much about the membership and leadership. But I will urge them to commence work on how to get the Igbo to show love to one another, be less interested in what the individual gains, what money he gains. But in leadership, one can be groomed, one can come by itself naturally. But what is important is the mission and what impact it makes; what improvement in the lives of the people; what hope it gives.
   
But what is your take on the struggle or, has any struggle commenced?
 
I am not against their struggle. I am not against their method. But I can note that they are putting themselves in serous physical risks. Many of them are being killed because if the Igbo man speaks, they take it seriously; so, they should be very cautious. Let them translate what they are doing with greater consciousness of love and watch out.

You said that your concern is not secession. What should be the design and desire of MASSOB? 

Well, again, I will say let us talk less about MASSOB and session. It is not the main issue because the reason I went to Enugu was not because they were MASSOB people, but because they are Igbo people; they are oppressed humanity. So, I am not really in to discuss MASSOB but liberation of humanity, the Igbo in particular.

If then, you say this, what should be the end result of the liberation struggle you talk about? Is it to produce the Igbo president of Nigeria or 50/100 percent derivation, etc?

Now, let me tell you; what is happening in Nigeria is that people are just squeezed together and they are not getting the benefit of staying together. So, I will not say that the fire in them should quench. No, it should not quench. On the issue of secession, some people do not realise that already, it is cooking up in Nigeria. It is there, but those who sit on the nation’s wealth do not seem to see it. The Yoruba are a great people. They can be on their own if you leave them. In fact, they will be greater than Nigeria if you leave them on their own. The Igbo man, in spite of what their shortcomings are, remain, as you can say, the greats, in terms of the potentialities. They can also survive on their own. The South-South also can, whether they do it alone or with the Igbo.

I am not really particular about this secession, but let us all know that Nigeria, as it is now, doesn’t seem to be conducive as a nation, unless a situation will come when those who are in Nigeria will begin to enjoy the benefit of their own country, enjoying the fruit of Nigeria, as should be due to citizens of a rich country. Otherwise, maybe it will be better for people to stay apart and relate as friends within humanity. Stay apart and love one another as members of the humanity. As people, who have right, who have justice, people who are treated as human beings. Not where people are dehumanised economically. Not where there are two different rules for the same people.

One politician said once that we live by the protection of one another. Does that not nullify the attraction of separation?

In a way he maybe right but that does not remove the culture of unfairness as meted to the Igbo. Yes, some governments in Igbo land are disasters. For instance, some of the Igbo states are the worst governed. Go to Abia State, you will see that it is like a place where mad people live. The successive governments have refused to do something. None has ever cared for what is happening in Aba. It is like a place where you gather mad men. Even the people there have given up hope. The governments are not interested in making Aba a habitable place. My question for the governors of Igbo states is: are they ever interested in the welfare of their people? They should act to make the place conducive for business. Let them make the region a free trade zone. It is only when they provide the incentives that people will come and invest. They should stop taxing people on lands so that businessman will use what they have to go to the rural areas to invest, so that people will feel the impact of new values. While it may be true that the Federal Government is probably doing what it is supposed to do, it is also true that the state governments, being in closer touch with the people, must act positively as nearer authorities. The Igbo governors are challenged to work for their people and liberate them, by giving them what would open the ways for them.

But considering the structure of Nigeria, with almost a one-party arrangement, do you think the governors can actually do much?

They can do at least something meaningful for the people to open the way. Agreed, in the unitary system we are running, everything is at present concentrated in Abuja . It is odd. If you want to get passport, they tell you to go to Abuja. If it’s driver’s licence, you have to go to Abuja; almost everything, you go to Abuja or you go to Lagos. You have people running around all the roads for simple things that should be decentralised to give people the right kind of access. I am challenging the Igbo governors to spare a thought for the common people. Let them see that we should develop our land because it is our land and it is where our children start from.

Father, are you likely to go beyond this concern to setting up an organization, such as an NGO to follow further on your interest in developing people’s consciousness?

If I have the opportunity of what it takes to do that, I will certainly do that, especially to give the Igbo man a real orientation in the light of the unitary system we are running. Everything cannot be concentrated in Abuja. The Igbo need a lot to come to terms with themselves. This is a race that has lost all it takes to survive as a group. We now have a race that has lost the consciousness of its language, its values, its roots; its journey in the world. I read one magazine where Dr. Fredrick Fasehun was asking one of his Igbo friends if there were still anybody remaining in his land, the Igbo land. His friend laughed but he told him that it was not a matter for laughing, because it seemed to him that every person left in Igbo land had come down to Lagos, that everybody who could contribute to the development of Igbo land, had relocate to Lagos.

Posted by: PhysicsQED

Why exactly did Ojukwu wait until Gowon said it was okay before he did anything? What is it exactly that you and Dede1 are seeing in that situation that I'm missing? Because I don't see the merit of that argument.

You avoided the key point we are raising, and that is that if Ojukwu had wanted, he could have ensured that Awo never made it back to Yorubaland in one piece, and there is nothing Gowon could have done about that  because Gowon was NOT in control of Eastern Nigeria in August 1966. Gowon only gained control of Eastern Nigeria in January 1970. The point is simple enough.

The spirit of Igbo can never be caged. 72% of the 11 "internationally acclaimed" Nigerians are we.
We are only warming up.

I really don't know what to say when smart folks like PhysicsQED is not giving any credit to Ojukwu for Awo's safe return to Yorubaland. I wonder what would have happened if Ojukwu had transferred Awo to Enugu prison or simply changed the guards at Calabar prison which was very much within his power as governor of eastern region.
Dede1 repeatedly points this out, but his point was ignored. I'm laughing because, history is supposed to be approached with utmost honesty, else nothing is learned.

Let me help you egift, and all those Igbos who were born and raised outside Igbo land get it into your skulls; you are from Igboland. FULLSTOP. That's all. End of story.

Posted by: houvest

Between 1920 and 1948 The Jews had two organisations in their fight for statehood. The pacifist Zionist movement led by David Ben Gurion and the militant underground Haganah and both groups  combined to achieve statehood for Israel. Ndigbo can learn this approach from their jewish friends and get Massob a militant brother movement in face of the BM nonsense and the upswing in mil-itancy from other ethnic groups.

I have always maintained that because of how things are in Nigeria, Ndigbo need a powerful foreign ally NOW, and none (as far as I can see) is better than Israel. We need to reach out to Israel. They can do a lot for us (if we establish that strategic link). This is necessary because of our history in Nigeria. No other group in Nigeria shares such history, so our agitation will always be treated differently by the Nigerian powers that be. That is why they are gunning down unarmed MASSOB members.
Our struggle (from 1966) till date is actually an INTERNATIONAL struggle. The day we understand that is the beginning of our emancipation.

Posted by: Okija_juju

It was the likes of you that led the Igbos into war without any training whatsoever, with little (inferior) arms and ammunitions, with no real strategy or plan, watched them suffer and die at the mercy of the better equipped Nigerian Army while your uncle Ojukwu and his cronies were hiding in a fortified bunker in Umuahia, enjoying food, electricity and water. When the war came to a head, he fled the country only to be pardoned and he came home to a heroes reception, took the most beautiful girl (his best friends daughter) as a wife and has taken no responsibility or apologised for the lives lost in that useless war. YES!! I wish he suffers terribly before he dies in agony and pain. I pray his soul is rejected in heaven and he burns in the hottest part of hell.

LOL. I only know of ONE Nairalander who said the bolded words often. The goat's name was Bilymuse!
So, hello Bilymuse! You metamorphosed, but a tadpole can only become a toad or frog. Nothing more.

Since this is a public forum, allow me to also say that whatever benefits (even if only in brag rights or swag) you or your family have obtained from the Nigerian system as a result of whatever modicum of respect being accorded Igbo because of Ojukwu's heroic actions, may they turn to curses and disfranchisement! Amen.

Just know that you will always meet us Igbo sons anytime you come here to spew trash.

@Okija_juju
So, at least, begin by picking up a book about the events of the past in Nigeria and read profusely. You would become wiser when next you comment on Igbo issues.

As for what we need to do to get what we want, you should begin by listening to and respecting our leaders, and not trying to prove to those who don't care anyway that you are more patriotic than them. That is the single biggest Igbo mistake from the early 50s till date.

Posted by: Okija_juju

Anyone who dosent share your opinions is an "efulefu" abi?! I laff in Arochukwu,
So please, lets bring some sanity back to this discuss, what is the solution to the cries of marginalization, genocide (I still wonder if the people screaming this know what it means sef) and e.t.c. Infact what is it that the Igbos want exactly and what you do say is the solution, Please articulate your points clearly so we can both understand each other and maybe disagree to agree;

You don't have to share my opinions. For the record I still maintain that you are not Igbo, or at least a badly raised one. There are many of your type these days.
I don't think there is any Igbo who does not know (deep down his heart) that Ojukwu was not perfect. Heck, he was only 32 years when he stood between Ndigbo and outright enslavement or annihilation. Even I never understood these until I started reading books, accounts of what happened in 1966 and the period BEFORE the civil war.
Funnily enough, the 1966 circumstance is exactly repeatable in current Nigeria because all the issues are still very much there.
By attacking Ojukwu who implemented the wishes of the people of Biafra, you are attacking the messenger.
He was a soldier and he did his job the best way he knew.
Only a fool points to his father's house with his left hand. 

Posted by: Obiagu1

I will award $1,000 to anyone that could correctly define the character, alj_harem. He's still an enigma to me.

LOL. He is actually quite easy to understand. He can be summarized thus: HE IS A CLUELESS DESPERATE ONE NIGERIANIST.

Like other one Nigerianists, he wants the country to stay one even if thousands die every year.
No great nation anywhere in the world kills her own people for dissension. Those who do so are pretenders to the throne; just like Nigeria.
He has not the faintest idea of what needs to happen before Nigeria can be one. A lot of his ilk don't know either.
All they know is that they would kill whoever wants to escape the Nigerian dungeon.

Posted by: alj_harem

Now, mocking of the dead was started by Igbos who mocked Awolowo's death by lying on the internet that he commited suicide etc like a poisoned rat

Stop lying my friend.
That is what Igbos say when Yoruba insult Ojukwu and mock the dead children in Biafra. Not the other way round.

Even if they mock dead politicians and thieves, what has that got to do with mocking dead children and pregnant women who never saw politics for one day?
Dude, you just like lying, that's all.

Posted by: alj_harem

so do not act as if hausa is bad and Igbo is good

we are all the same but have few bad eggs in our mist

this is the message I am trying to past across to you

The bolded is the other mistake you make.
You (and many Yoruba people here) think that this is about being "good" or "bad".
This is about fundamental difference in mindset and value system.
I have seen y'all mocking the death of innocent children in Biafra many times too.

So, I don't care about being "good". I am different from you.

Posted by: alj_harem

I see your point but it is a very wrong point.

Now tell me which person on earth would not feel pain and mourn for days if his family member dies ?

tell me, and really i don't want to enter this biafra discussion

No you don't see my point.
I am yet to see an Igbo person that would kill a pregnant woman and cut out her foetus.
Or kill a baby girl and cut her brains out.

IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN in Igboland. IT HAPPENS in the North.

Posted by: alj_harem

I am not trying to tell you that killing is right, all i am saying is people do die and it not done based on ethnicity

that is the point

I have two information to share with you here.

The first is that throughout the civil war, Biafra never fielded more than 40,000 soldiers at one time (I wait for someone to prove me wrong), while Nigeria fielded hundreds of thousands at each time.
So, the Biafrans made sure that before one Biafran soldier died, about 10 Nigerians must have been killed. That is how Biafra was able to fight for almost three years. 'Biafra has a different view on life.

Secondly, if an Igbo man dies, he is MOURNED for many days and his family never forgets him.
If aboki dies today, he is thrown inside the earth within 24 hours and everybody continues as if nothing happened.

If we have Biafra tomorrow, we may not have more than 100 thousand soldiers at one time; but we will make sure that they are trained and equipped enough to be able to defeat an army of 1 million.


That is a fundamental difference. We are not the same.  

Posted by: jason123

No, they don't. For example, you can't tell the difference between an Akoko Edo man and an Ondo Yoruba man. The Yorubas cannot tell the difference between an Itsekiri man and a Edo man or Uhrobo. The Hausa cannot tell the difference between an Ufot and an Emeka. Its like that in Nigeria.

Likewise, the Ijaw cannot tell the difference between a Hausa man, a Yoruba, Edo muslim and an Igala man.

Frankly, it ain't my business. Wait until an Ijaw comes along here. But I wouldn't underestimate their ability to screen out folks; afterall even aboki did a great job separating Igbos from Yorubas and other southerners during their bloodbath against Igbos in the north.

Posted by: alj_harem

Onlytruth, you have started with this bigotry again

what attack ?

if you know the amount of hausas killed in the north daily, you would not be talking like this

what of yoruba people that die ?

Think of it as a nation where we have touts that kill people and not as a northern thing

In the south, people die from One CHANCE everyday all in the name of money

what do we say about that ?

Do we say it is a southern thing ? certainly not

Do not try to separate a section as violent be look at it as a whole entity ie A NATION with bad eggs

You see, this is THE PROBLEM with Nigeria.
We are DIFFERENT people with different mindset, values, spirit etc.
You expect an Igbo person to handle the issue of a family member's death just like a Yoruba or Hausa? You see?
They day you understand how wrong you are about this issue is the day of your enlightenment.
As for now, you HAVE NO CLUE.

Posted by: alj_harem

No one is demanding free land

Leave the ijaw matters for Ijaws. How would an ijaw man know the difference between a fulani to a hausa to yoruba to an edo muslim etc

You think is by name

Gani fahewmi son is Mohammed so how would they tell the difference ?

what of igala, tiv, idoma, berom etc. Are they all Abokis as you say it ?

EXACTLY. The Ijaw will handle their own business, just like we are handling ours. You don't see me speaking for them.
I only relayed what they stated themselves.

You think they don't know who is who? Just wait and watch.

Posted by: alj_harem

Listen, [b]I said you rarely find people of 2-3 generations in the SE [/b]that does not mean they are not there

read my post again

The SE is a region that bear the brunt of most attacks in the North.
And when our people return, you expect them to shake aboki's hand and say thank you for killing us in your land.

Have you counted the number of riots that happened in the north in the last 40 years since the end of civil war?
Let me tell you, if Igbos are as smart as I hope they'll get one day, there will not be a single aboki anywhere in Igboland, just like I do not want a single Igbo in the North. Simple. 

Posted by: jason123

@Onlytruth and Alj harem

Most people that I have met (especially Yorubas, some Ssoutherners and Northerners) do not want to go to the SE because of the SE stereotype not Eastern region. I have met Yorubas and Hausas who have stayed in the SS for many years, especially in Port harcourt, Benin city and Warri; some in Calabar.

Not to be "tribal" but I think its the fear of some of the things they have heard.

The population of Hausa in Igboland is mind boggling. It is part of what we have to live with as Nigerians.
As for Yoruba, they are there as well, just not contributing much, and they are expecting FREE land, when Igboman don't even get that in Igboland. Every land we own in ANY part of Nigeria is paid for.  
As for SS, aboki and his Yoruba brothers are there stealing oil.
The Ijaw just woke up yesterday to start telling aboki to leave.
Just wait, it ain't time yet to compare notes.

Posted by: alj_harem

also they would not be crying marginzation in delta, [size=14pt]enugu[/size] etc states. But of course yorubas and hausas are not noticed because they blend well and don't make noise all over the place that they travel; reason for this is that, they see no point in it and done keep tabs on other ethnic groups and how travelled they are compared to themselves.

I thought you said there are no sizeable Yorubas in SE?
Is it only few Yoruba people in Enugu that are crying marginalization and expecting FREE LAND.

^^

That is not what statistics show.

Posted by: Rafaell

All U bad-belle Ibo haters, U ar evry wher, we meet U guys on daily basis: frm Nairaland to Naijapal, frm Facebk to Sahareport; in neigborhoods & workplaces frm PHC to Benin city & frm Warri to Lagos, U can keep on hating for all I care; it wil neva in any way erode de briliance, dogedness & resourcfulnes of de Igbo man: and this no other tribe in Africa got.

U can keep your Presdency, mr. Nigeria; d statment by Ohaneze is merely part of a proces of stratgies culminatin 2a bigger PICTURE.
Longlive Biafra

Brilliant dude.

Posted by: Ileke-IdI

To be honest, until SE stop this raging kidnaping and gang ra ping, I will not be stepping inside that region. As for the North, no compromise there, wouldnt even touch it with my 5k yard stick.

Calabar is the closest I'd go beyond the SW.

You are already in the North; 2-3 generations, according to alj Harem.
You are brothers with aboki. You even share language sef. No need denying ya broda.

I would worry about the dogs in your land than worry about SE. 
Dem dogs have been very busy. I wouldn't want to be a woman in odua.

Quote from: alj_harem

but it is rare to see the same case in the SE, what I mean is it is rare to see as you call it Yoruba or hausa to have 2-3 generations in the SE.

that does not mean they are not there.

What you are trying to do is called Sophistry, or outright deceit.
Show me a Yoruba or Hausa that has lived in SS (Eastern region part) for 2 -3 generations.
The civil war caused that.

You can find Yorubas in the North who has stayed there 2-3 generations because they are brothers with aboki.
They are same culture.

^^

Read my lips: WE DON'T CARE.

It is like saying that a Japanese would care to know whether a Somali is in Japan or not. 
The Jap is busy inventing things and growing his business.

Only lazy folks count non-indegenes in their land.

^^

YES he is, and we are proud of him.
He is ezigbo nwa.

Posted by: alj_harem

Rhymez you need to understand that Swesterners don't like going to the SEast

I travel a lot and meet large yoruba communities in the SS (delta, rivers, cross river and awka ibom) also in the north where they control the cab company in the region

People in general don't like going to the SEast that does not mean they do not travel.

Even hausa that go to the SEast don't stay there for long.

Al-goat you need to have your head examined.
Nnewi alone host more Hausa than I can imagine. If I have my way, they won't stay there.
Ontisha hosts even more. And they keep returning after reprisal killings.

Yoruba is in SE but they ride Okada.

Other Nigerians (like SS folks) are more in number naturally, cos we are brothers.  

Overall, we don't give a rats a55 if anyone stayed or not because it doesn't depend on us; just like it doesn't depend on our hosts to have us in their lands. Most of them do their best to drive us out. But we will leave willingly when we get our country BIAFRA.  

@phreakabit

I support your position 100%.

Chyz and other Igbo brothers, I think that we Igbo must learn to live with the fact that Ijaw is our IMMEDIATE neighbor, no matter how annoying they sound sometimes.
If there is a war in Nigeria tomorrow (which I believe is inevitable anyway), we will need them, and they would need us.
THAT IS A BOLD FACT.

Nuff said.

@Okija_juju,

I still maintain you are not Igbo; at minimum, you are either a badly raised one or an outright efulefu.
You are entitled to your opinions, and so am I.

This is what a MAINSTREAM Igbo politician (Senator Uche Chukwumerije) said about Nigeria:

In the quest for political leverage, our loud deadlines and projections on the election of a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction have been mocked by the Nigerian system. Our place on the rung of Federation's power ladder has slid to 5th or 6th level, yet we are the largest single ethnic group in the country. On the social front, the Igbo cultural personality is treated with as much respect by the rest of Nigeria as the regard which animals of the forest reserve for the once-respected red crest of the rooster!

Chukwumerije is not a secessionist, by any stretch of imagination.
Even his cries now are for redress. He thinks that only a president of Igbo extraction can solve our marginalization and abuse by the Nigerian system. I am not sharing that his optimism. But we both agree on one point: the Nigerian system is killing us politically and culturally.

I would advise you to mind your section of the country and leave us Igbo alone.