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lol, I'm disappointed that some of the people I thought smart fell for this classical ndu_chucks' trap again.

I warned my Igbo brothers to always read ndu_chucks' comments upside down and in OPPOSITES, or better yet flip all his comments first before reading. He is quite articulate in OPPOSITES.
He is a master strategist.

I support Uwazuruike in his efforts to sanction and rein in Victor Umeh who is desperate for power and position.
Infact MASSOB should make life HELL for Umeh and whoever is trying to destroy APGA for personal reasons.
Mr Shinkafis of Nigeria would never shut up until we deal with people like Victor Umeh.

APGA is a national party, but we must retain control of it.
We need to field a presidential candidate in 2015 under APGA flag. Win or lose, we need to do it.

I will repeat what I said earlier: NDIGBO are the party(APGA), the party is not Ndigbo. If the party dies today, we will simply float another one; CPC sprang out of the desert sands overnight. A new party can spring out of the lush vegetation of Igboland in a twinkle of an eye.
This drama is good for us because it would prepare us better for 2015.

lagcity: Shinkafi's gang is threatening to punish Peter Obi and Bianca Ojukwu; the next target might be Rochas Okorocha. Igbos need to rally round Obi and Okorocha so that they can keep control of the party. The most important thing is to find out the Igbo traitor who has been romancing Shinkafi's gang. There has to be an Igbo traitor somewhere for Shinkafi to be bold enough to say these things.

The most visible traitor I see in APGA is Victor Umeh the lame Chairman.
He is also a sit tight Chairman. He has refused to organize a convention where new leaders of the party would emerge.
The Shinkafis are supporting him because they don't want to go either.
It may boil down to a court case, or a simple option would be for Obi and Okorocha to form another party ASAP.
Ndigbo are no fools.

By demand, Enugu international airport dwarfs Kano.
By political investment, Enugu holds more PDP stocks than Kano.
So, why is Kano being concessioned to be upgraded to world class status, while Enugu is stepped over?
These are CRITICAL questions facing us my Igbo brothers.

The question was even triggered because of the Enugu airport project that someone posted earlier. Then I started thinking.
Here is the map of how Nigeria voted.
Why is PDP upgrading Kano that voted for CPC, but not Enugu that voted for PDP?
Which kain politrick is this?
So, no matter how you ask this question, it doesn't give a good answer.
See map! (sorry Musiwa )

PointB: Lol. Pointb for Presidency,
I don't have the stomach for frontline political office. I think myself a strategist, not the foreman. Thanks for the confidence though.

lol, was pulling your legs though. I don't want you to die yet. We need you for eventual real job of getting us out of the Nigerian jungle. That is more important than any Nigerian presidency position for which one can lose his life.

PointB: @OnlyTruth,
I don't really care about what become of PDP in Igboland or Nigeria, I support people that offer Igboland hope. That's why I like how Obi has and Rochas are building road in the hinterland, even though some may have reservation about the overall quality. The gesture is very much welcome. On the Chime Airport issue, I agree we don't see him shout and scream about the airport, but one can only wonder what is happening in the background. But I rate him on high on the Enugu monorail vision, even though serious work is yet to commence.

As for the Onitsha port, I am yet to shout halleluyah, until I actually see commercial activities commence there. And by the way, I have not heard Governor Obi's voice recently on the issue of second Niger bridge. I thinks that and Onitsha port are his babies.

Finally, I want Obi and Rochas to be more involved in buiding the APGA brand, or jettisoning the party and forming another if external forces are bent on keeping the parties in the fringes.

Honestly, our future really depends more on Rochas and Obi, from what I've obversed. I thank God for Rochas in particular because he gives me a different kind of hope for political leadership in Igboland, APGA or no APGA.
I am only convinced, that only those governors who think for collective SE and Igbo good are good enough.
Enugu governor for instance needs to understand how important the city and the airport is to SE, and hustle for it like mad. Peter Obi (though not PDP) still needs to hustle for the second Niger bridge and the port at Onitsha because both will serve Igboland. PDP governors have not shown much commitment to the collective. They have been reclusive towards collective Igbo interests somehow, and I blame PDP for it. All these can still change if they prove me wrong tomorrow and actually hustle for us. Within 8 years of Obasanjo presidency, I know how Yoruba almost cornered the whole Nigerian oil wealth. Love them or hate them, those Yorubas are militant with their interests.
That is why they are getting more attention than we that enthroned PDP.
Nwanne eziokwu ike na acho igwu m.

Dede1: Bros, you are still talking about to render any federally focused party irrelevant in Igbo land. I want Igbo land out of Nigeria entirely.

Good, but we need a party.
In Sudan, they had Sudan peoples Liberation Movement. It is a party formed out of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army.
Maybe we should form such a party, though the Nigerian authorities would never register such party.
My point is that we have to start a party that brings in elite Igbo, not just the masses like MASSOB is doing.
Our elite would determine our political future.

@PointB,

Nna eh, if there is at least ONE solid project by the federal government in SE, and we see that work has started on it(like that second Niger bridge), we would have something to hold onto while we wait.
Nsogbu adighi bros,

Ihe merenu bu ka anyi na elegodi anya na afo a.
Honestly, if by year's end we have nothing to show (and we will have nothing to show, mark my words) we should leave PDP this year.
We should leave PDP before 2015 unless there is a MAJOR political concession the party is willing to give to Ndigbo in 2015, else I would even encourage YOU [b]PointB [/b]to go and run for Presidency under any party. I will mobilize votes for you.
As long as we don't vote those who would retain institutional marginalization of Ndigbo in Nigeria, I will sleep better at nights, knowing that we never voted for them.

Dede1: To ask a non-Igbo Nigerian to speak the truth on the issue that slightly favor Ndigbo in the contest of Nigeria polity is akin to pulling a tooth.

hehehe!

PointB: Well, Eze I agree, but not totally. The APGA governors in SE are very diligent visionary, who know what they want and are consistently pursuing it, despite some opposition. But we cannot totally cast aside the PDP governor - Sullivan Chime, who has transformed Enugu state.

Yet still, one APGA governor has GEJ ears, what has he been whispering to him. Governor Obi is doing well (IMHO), but I am yet the see the benefit of his being in GEJ economic team.

My brother my dream remains that the rest of Igbo states go APGA.
With all humility and sense of responsibility, I don't think that Enugu governor is Igbo focused enough for my liking, thanks to PDP. How many times have you seen Chime say anything about Igbo interest? I know that we are faced with a cache 22 situation because he is working in Enugu city that we see. Some have argued on this site that he is neglecting other parts of Enugu. For me, anybody in SE who is not thinking collectively is not achieving a damn thing, because Enugu is part of SE, and we rise or fall together. That Enugu airport would have been among the first to be concessioned to be upgraded to world class level, but alas, Chime's PDP yoke won't let him hustle and agitate seriously for it. I make bold to state that an APGA governor in Enugu would have attracted more respect from Jonathan, and any request by such governor would not fall on deaf ears. Peter Obi has been able to get Onitsha port almost completed, while our Enugu is relegated to "second phase" nation wide airports upgrade. A second phase that may never come.

Nwanne my mind is made up about PDP.

odumchi: Frankly, it's quite obvious that one musn't depend entirely on the FG for anything whether it be something as small as a road repair or as large as an airport. Unfortunately, this is the problem that is not only affecting the Igbo but Nigeria as a whole.

Were it not for the determination of Igbo individuals, Igboland would have been in shambles by now. This simple fact again attests to the culture of selfishness imbued within some of our politicians; they work for their personal aims and leave the people in the dust. I once heard someone ask what the difference bertween Southern and Northern politicans was and the reply was that Southern politicans steal money and deposit it into their own pockets, while Northern politicans steal money and develop their land with it.

In actuality, the only ways that the Igbo Nigerians are able to get things done the way they want are in the state and local government level.

Very good observation.
In order words, we don't really need the federal government of Nigeria for anything.
Let us get it into our heads and render any federally focused party irrelevant in Igboland.
Let us do this and reclaim our future!

^^ Contd.
Now if you add a statistically very SIGNIFICANT + or - 30% of traffic at Lagos which usually terminates in SE, the Enugu and Owerri airports if given full international operations, would dwarf Kano, and even Abuja.

You people should learn to speak the truth always even if it hurts you.

jason123: This is why:

Kano


Enugu



http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/ext/latest_release/ssd09.pdf

Not that I value Nigerian statistics much, because they are political tools.
Nevertheless, even your own statistics fail you if you look again, and this time more carefully.

One of the topmost PDP Senators (a leading member of that chamber) maintains a suite at NICON HILTON Abuja.
That suit costs hundreds of thousands of Naira EVERY DAY, and he has another house in Abuja o.
That NICON suite is just a "slaughter house".
That is his own contribution to development of SE.

Our emancipation will begin the very day we kick PDP to the curb.
I wonder who would debate the fact that the two APGA governors in SE are the best governors there.
They are really thinking about EVERY of our problems.
Our PDP big men are only kissing assses and have ZERO projects to show for them.
At least our APGA governors have things to show.
Our PDP people have NOTHING to show us. And BTW they all live in Abuja.

ndu_chucks: I will be back with my own input shortly. It is possible to develop ala Igbo without government handouts. 60% of the handouts are stolen by the governors and their agents anyway.

In the meantime enjoy the interesting thoughts below, of a wise Igboman resident in Kano:

Mai gida, e be like say your senses don return.
Well, at least you are spot on with the bolded.
You would at least acknowledge that I have been saying the exact same things about how to develop Igboland.
My bitter hatred for PDP is because that party creates a false sense of entitlements and deviates otherwise hardworking folks from engaging in things that empower them.

Dede1: I have likened Nigeria and anticipated Republic of Igbo land to the comparison between scenes of broken or divided house and united house. Nigeria has a concurrent subliminal conflict among the members of the house which brewed a culture that shuns patriotism and encourages ethnocentrism and corruption. Individuals elected into political offices by Nigerians have no common link with the masses. They are elected into cabal which has every intention to stockpile money so that their offspring will perpetuate their unfinished business, confuse the masses and reduce them to paupers so that a mere sudden handout could turn them into a political zombie, maintain a stagnated economic status quo so that people are on each other’s throat and willing to annihilate each other on slightest of the provocation and make sure Nigeria resembles an impenetrable jungle that will be unattractive to its citizens abroad.

In Republic of Igbo land, unlike Nigeria, will be a united house with a common destiny for all. The republic shall be a place where patriotism shall flow like a river and the need to maintain urgent sense of competitiveness shall remain the motto. It shall remain a place where people will thrive to get it right from the start. Let me further buttress my point with what happened in Owerri few years ago about Otokoto’s saga. If Owerri was Nigeria, such action will never happen due to ethnic sensitivity. Owerri was taken over by hoodlums and rascals to the point that a once lovely city such as Owerri suddenly became death spot. But one fine morning, Ndigbo decided they have had enough from the rascals and set out for house cleaning without glancing over their shoulders about being accused of ethnic cleansing. Anybody who looked back before the revolution against Otokoto and what Owerri later became would understand that “Umunna wu ike”.

Bros, everything you said is spot on.
However I am not willing to let off our people in government so easily.
Do you know my happiness? It is that for the first times since a very long time, we actually have our people in government, and in strategic positions. It has never happened this way before. So, if they are not doing anything to better the lot of Igboland, then, my brother I am really afraid that we may NEVER be able to leave Nigeria, because these local thieves will always sell us cheap.
My next happiness is that we have the power to agitate ourselves thoroughly between now and 2015 when they will come again to ask for our votes. Not that they ever used the votes, but next time, it would be very dicey for them to try even rigging.

achi4u: My heart bleed each time i remember that igboland are being subjugated and maginalized by its sons and daughters who are elected as our sole representative____,yet we seems to be handicaped in all front,but how can we fight those monsters with fangs and guns?
In this case,if we must fight many WILL lay down their lives,thats why i do buy the ideas of Mr Dede1 that nigerian is a "broken house" which we can't continue to live with,we either confront those toying with our futurs with anything we lay our hands and fight.

We are the BEST set of people in this continent yet we suffer more.

...dont ask me how.

My brother that has been my biggest concern.
The way I see it, I would resign my position if as a minister of aviation I would be made to preside over the upgrade of international airports in other places that demand less air travel than Igboland.
If all our sons/daughters did the same and went to press with their stories, at least we the masses of Igboland would know who the enemy is and confront the enemies frontally.
The stoic silence of our people in government while we are being marginalized is deafening.

Er, I just remembered one more truth about APGA, I mean the ORIGINAL APGA, and it is that APGA was formed to be a national party. In fact one of Chekwas Okories main grievance against Victor Umeh and current APGA leadership is that they could not take the party outside of SE.
This may be what Shinkafi may be alluding to, but with the wrong words.
APGA is supposed to be a national party, but with HEAVY Igbo influence. FACT.
The only problem I see in APGA for now, is Victor Umeh and whoever is backing him in APGA.

PeterKbaba: God bless you. Can any igbo man come on tv like OBJ and authoritatively call everyone in government, house of assembly and police theives without any fear.. Even Jonathan can not try it. Even an hausa leader can not... So who is fooling who, we yorubas know the game more better.

My friend your immaturity is ruining this good thread.
If you don't have anything to contribute, why not go suck your mama's teaties.
We are talking serious issues here. SMH.

My chief concern remains that Ndigbo (in the interest of their survival) MUST leave PDP ASAP.
When we leave PDP our eyes will open to the realities of Nigerian politics.
BTW, if anybody thinks that when we leave PDP, or if APGA collapses that Ndigbo would end up in ACN, they better think again because ACN is now a Yoruba party.

Chekwas Okorie floated another party before this. He must have foreseen this.

PeterKbaba: We are not attacking anyone, this trend simply says an hausa man said the igbo's do not have the right to have any secret meeting without the Hausas consultation, it was not the yorubas that said that. So why are the Igbos bringing and talking about Yoruba and ACN , when this trend simply talks of 3 things, Igbo, Hausa saying they are the leaders and APGA.

So why are the igbos all changing the topic of the trend, what the subject of the topic as nothing to do with yorubas. Igbos face your problem and stop bringing yoruba into any fight you are afraid to handle... later today now, if the is a Yoruba trend you go will see over 100 igbos commenting as if it is war... read this igbo trend and see what we yorubas are saying.

I'm suprised BEAF is no were to be found.

It would help a lot if some of you Yorubas stay away from this thread, especially since most of you are not contributing maturely.
I personally don't mind the taunts because it challenges us Igbo to do more introspection and devise a better way forward, but others may take it personal.

And to those saying that Ndigbo are irrelevant in Nigerian politics, I say continue to deceive yourselves and bask in temporary hubris.
If anything, this is good because 2015 is about 2 and half years away.
I also like the fact that we Ndigbo are getting this opportunity to know our politicians well and get ready for them in future elections.
I have many more things to say, but I would wait for now.

Chei, I don suffer no be small.
To see Northsharp come here to emotionally blackmail my brother afam4eva by calling him a bigot, while turning a total blind, deaf and dumb to his Northern brother Shinkafi's open insult to Ndigbo who gave him a position in APGA.
And afam4eva apologized!
Umunna o gini na eme anyi ife a?

Afam biko, from my own understanding of your comments, you said absolutely nothing wrong.
You have nothing to apologize for.

It was Tupac who said that he would rather die like a man than live like a coward.
Your enemy will never respect you until he sees that you are ready to die for what you believe in.

@Topic

This is an internal tussle within APGA, and there are elements there who may be paying Shinkafi to verbally destroy the party.
I did not miss the fact that nearly all Abia state members of APGA defected to PDP a couple of weeks ago.
What is going on now is good, because maybe this APGA will die with Victor Umeh, and another will rise on its ashes.

billante: A competent contractors did the runway and lighting! PW did d runway, another contractor did the lightning...I understand your point about d substandard reconstruction of the local terminal...I think they have two options there,either they totally pull down the old local terminal to build a brand new local/international terminal which will need them closing that airport for the third time again or they reconstruct the old terminal with airport services going on along side d reconstruction which to me won't bring up a world class terminal....maybe maybe, I said maybe they want to reconstruct the old terminal with a low budget manage it for one or two yrs then construct a world class terminal at another space within the airport in d 2nd phase of the nationwide upgrading of airports! Thinking they will do everything at the same time is impossible in nigerian standard! Its how they did the nationwide teaching hospitals upgrading project....let us not put tribalism in dis! As u want ur own to be done first its d same way other tribes want theirs to be done first...its left to d FG to decide d one the will do first and they normal go for first generation ones first.

I don't know whether to cry at the bolded words. My brother, I've learned to ask the right questions, like the ones I'm about to ask.
Pray, tell me, did we Ndigbo wait for "the next phase" of elections before voting Obasanjo, or Yar adua, and now Jonathan FOR THE SAME PROJECT?
Did we Ndigbo wait for "the next phase" before lobbying to have our sons and daughters to get appointed to key federal positions?
Why is it always we Ndigbo that have to wait for "the next phase" which our brother rightly called waiting for the second coming of our Lord?

Nna biko ka anyi na agwa onwe anyi eziokwu!

Why should Enugu international airport be stepped over ahead of Kano for instance, when Enugu handles more traffic than Kano, and would likely increase in traffic after the upgrade?

I honestly hope that you are not a PDP apologist, because you honestly sound like one.
Obi adiro m mma chaa chaa.
Ndi PDP egbuona Ndigbo nie (they have killed and buried Ndigbo).

Rhino.5dm:
. Onlythruth where art thou? Mu he he he.

What are you laughing at my friend. The Shinkafi dude is smoking some cheap crack for saying this:

“The Northern part of this country plays a determining role on who will be the leader of a party because the issue of democracy is a game of numbers and in the northern part of this country, we have the number, we can checkmate anybody in this party with our numbers. In a democracy, it is the people that count. In anything concerning any political party, we have 19 states and the Eastern part of this country has five states. What I will agree with any Igbo man is that APGA has more formidable structures in Igboland,” Shinkarfi said.

The core North has 7 + 6 states(with dubious population) = 13 states
Core East has 5+ 4 (heavily populated states) =9 states

The ultimate truth is that the core North is NOT more populated than Core East.
When we get ready to rumble, they would be challenged to prove that they are more in number.

I desperately want PDP to die because only then can truth start to emerge in Nigeria.

If anybody thinks he can hijack APGA, they are goofy because the people make the party, not the other way round.
If they kill APGA, we shall raise another party and move there.
My main concern is that we must leave PDP.

One_Naira: manny4life

You are arguing against his opposition because? Nwoke mu, have you taken a look at Cameroon and compared it to Nigeria? Sh1t I rather have the entire Igboland in Cameroon than Nigeria anyday, any minute. You need to go seek an Igbo cameroon and ask them wetin dey happen? my guy you no go believe story. I truly wish engineered thing will come true. Any country is better than this f2ked up country.

@ thread
So the container surpassed Lagos and it's security team and made it all the way to Ontisha. What does that tell una? This country is f2king shame sha.

Anyway, the person that snitched is an 1diot. Who knows what they were planning to do with the arms. There are 2 option: 1.) it is for sale or 2.) protection for Igbo masses. If na 2 option, the snitch is an 1diot.

lol

If it jumps like a frog, and crocks like a frog, it is a frog!
I said that Fulani must have a hand in this, lo was I right. SMH.
Imagine begging someone to treat me fairly in my own land; lol that'll be the day.

[size=16pt]The truth about the Ntan Obu massacre[/size]

The Ntan Obu Ukpe in Eniong, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State was on Wednesday May 23, nearly annihilated by the Ikpanya community of Ibiono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State over the struggle for a piece of land that is rich in mineral deposits and alluvial products.

At the last count, about 40 persons have been reported dead, an octogenarian and village head of the Ntan Obun community, Etinyin Mfon Asanye beheaded and body thrown into the river, while four policemen who were among the security operatives were allegedly beheaded.

[size=14pt]In the invasion carried out at the early hours of the Wednesday with the alleged support of the Fulani herdsmen[/size], over 2,000 indigenes of the riverine community had been chased out of their ancestral home and rendered homeless, while all the buildings in the community were leveled except one Presbyterian Church and another one belonging to the Pentecostal fold.

Most pathetic was the beheading of all the victims of the attack including children who were not spared and the river which serves as the source of drinking water was polluted and desecrated with the dead bodies of the victims and even covered with blood.

Narrating the barbaric attack, Chairman of Odukpani Local Government Area, Hon. Stephen Asuquo in an emotional laden voice said said, “The remote cause I can say is the struggle by people from Ikpanya for the land that belongs to the Ntan Obu. Ikpanya is in Ibiono local government council of Akwa ibom state while Ntan Obu is in Odukpani local government area of Cross River state.

“Something akin to this took place a year ago and the deputy governors of the two states met and agreed that everything should return to status quo ante belle and that is the position before the conflict. The supreme court judgment has ruled that the land belongs to the Odukpani and the people of Odukpani are Cross River state indigenes.

“So the struggle for the land started when the people from Ikpanya tried to lease out Ntan Obu land to cattle rearers to rear their cattle there. You can appreciate it because it is a flop play. Once the rain subsides and the waters recede, the land leaves alluvial product on the land which acts as a natural fertilizer to the vegetation. So, [size=14pt]I am appealing to the cattle rearers, we don’t mind cattle rearers being there but you must recognize the overlords and not that of the neighbouring community.[/size]

“There was complete destruction of the place, the only two buildings that are standing are two churches, but the churches were looted, the musical instruments were all carted away. Some of the displaced persons are in Asan Eniong and nearby villages. We are appealing to government that they should use the church building and the few of the buildings that were not completely destroyed for the displaced people, while we try to see what we can do to appease them.”

The Council Chairman disclosed that the community is made up of about 2,000 people and that as a measure to provide security, the Mobile Police Unit commander/the leader of the troop was on ground doing his best.

He further added, “But before then, after the first incident, we had a few number of policemen who were there. Out of the nine who were there, four are still missing up till now, we are suspecting that they may have been murdered and beheaded and we are suspecting that some were dragged to the swamp. We saw some police uniform at the swamp with blood stain.

“This last invasion is completely destructive. It is a carnage. They killed four mobile policemen who are stationed there. What happened was total annihilation; they carted away all the relief materials. The invaders came with sub machine guns.”

Asuquo appealed to the federal government to intervene and act on the judgment of the Supreme Court of June 24, 2005, which had ceded the place to the Odukpani local government area and also demarcate the boundary between Cross River and Akwa Ibom state to ensure that people from each side keep to their side and if they are coming here, they will come as tenants and they will be welcomed and not as invaders.

“This last invasion is completely destructive. It is a carnage. They killed four mobile policemen who are stationed there. What happened was total annihilation; they carted away all the relief materials. The invaders came with sub machine guns.”

Also commenting on the invasion of the community, the paramout ruler of Odukpani Local Government Area, Asakara Ekanem Umo said, “It has been on for some time now. The last incursion was so large in destruction. The fight had left the community completely destroyed, broken down the whole village and spared only the church but there is nothing inside the church.

“They cleared everything in the church including the band and the community primary that is what they left there. They killed quite a number of people including an elderly man of 87 years. They were beheaded and some of them dumped inside the water.

“Children and women were not spared and in the process, they killed four mobile police men who were stationed there for security. It happened this past week. We have been running helter skelter to see what we can do for the people who are affected.”

The paramount ruler said that most Ntan Obu-Ukpe indigenes have deserted their residence and become refugees in different parts of Odukpani. He called on the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, to provide relief materials to the affected victims of the area.

He also called on the government to bring out measures to prevent further occurrence in the area even as he said, “the first crises that happened, we reported to the government and government went into it which led to the deputy governors of both states meeting. “We are border communities. They went in after the incursion and saw the destruction they did and both condemned in totality the barbaric tendencies of their Ibibio neighbour, Ikpanya.”

Asakara Umo who is a retired Colonel in the Nigerian Army and a medical doctor noted that the Ntan Obu people were just trying to pick their lives to see whether they can reconstruct their homes before the attack and that the invaders carted away all the zincs, cement, fishing boats and fishing nets around the place. He revealed that the two boys that escaped narrated to them that the attackers came with sophisticated weapons.

On the cause of the problem, he said that Ipanya people claimed they owned the Ntan Obu-Ukpe. He said that Ntan Obu-Ukpe has been in existence for a very long time and they have been living side by side. “Ntan Obu-Ukpe people were getting labour from them in harvesting palm fruits. Ipanya claimed the Ntan Obu-Ukpe is their territory and in claiming that, leased the land to the Fulanis who rear their cattle. We have this luscious grass in Eniong creek that the Fulani’s herds men found this useful for their cattle.

“So within the period of dry season when the flood retreat, they come around and the Ipanya people would just put them in Ntan Obu-Ukpe and in doing so, they would pollute the water, that creek water is what we drink. During that period of dry season when the flood have retreated is the only time of the period in the year that we do planting before the rain comes.”

One of the victims who managed to escape from the dungeon, Mr Emmanuel Tete said, “this thing happened around past six in the morning that day. I cleaned up, went into the toilet and after that, went into my house to eat. The next thing I heard was gunshots. They shot me. I fell down. The second one came to shoot me again but on seeing that blood was flowing all over my back, they thought I was dead and they left me, saying they did not want to waste bullet.

“I have three children. My wife escaped with one of them. So after they had gone, I managed to crawl into the backyard to get the remaining two. I carried them and swam across the river, with my wound, into the bush in the Akwa Ibom axis. Somebody I met now helped me with clothes. I went to one clinic in Ibiono and they refused to treat me. But one woman gave me N1000.

“So, I take a bike to Ikot Ekpene and went to the General Hospital there but they refused to treat me. I went to the police station there but the police said I should go to my state, let them treat me there. So ,since 10am, I left Ikot Ekpene around four in the evening to Calabar. Then I got to this clinic.”

The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Osita Ezechukwu when contacted said that the Police were making efforts to unravel those behind the attack and the whereabouts of the mobile policemen that were drafted there to make peace.
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“We are yet to ascertain the number killed because the people they killed, they beheaded and then threw the corpse into the river. The village head was killed and beheaded, we could recognize his body from the attire he wore the day before the attack. The name of the village head is Etinyin Mfon Asanye.

“Some people managed to escape; some jumped through the swamp and jumped into the river. It happened in the wee hours of the morning . When the invaders got there, they set loose all the boats and engine boats that were there to stop the people from escaping and started attacking them. It was in the early hours of the morning.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/the-truth-about-the-ntan-obu-massacre/

When I said we the youths need to "run our representative out of town", I mean that we MUST reject ANY PARTY THEY BELONG TO at the polls. When PDP was playing their heinous games of sharing of political posts, I saw in that exercise everything that is wrong with Nigeria. EVERYTHING.
As far as I'm concerned, PDP is like a template of Nigeria, a country that has decided that we Ndigbo cannot be allowed to attain our God given potential. Our support for Jonathan, to me, should be our LAST experiment with PDP.

We Ndigbo are a major nation within Nigeria. We can (and should) move into one party, ANY PARTY, and use it to fight our oppressors in Nigeria; and if they won't repent, we should use that party to seek secession.