₦airaland Forum

the middle-belt's chickens have come home to roost . . . . i have refused to feel sorry for the middle belt as a unit feeling the love of the hausa-fulanis. these same people were the ones that finished off the igbos in the 1960s . . i read in there a mention of middle belt heroes such as yakubu gowon and theophilus danjuma . . . ring a bell . .for any igbos here. . theophilus danjuma, yakubu gowon . . and he blasts murtala for wasting a division, i'e not using a division for what it was meant to be used for. we must not forget that the division was meant to be used for the slaughter of igbos . . hmmmmm, i see. and he writes of a middlebelt/south south alliance . . . . all igbos should look at that alliance, it locks the igbo and perhaps i smell a final solution to the igbo question here

the middle belt was were the igbos suffered most in the 60s, they were the foot soldiers in the anti-igbo genocide, foot soldiers in the war-crime-filled-civil-war,
the south south was where we were sold out and even after the war, the south south were the cleaners that cleaned up what was left of the igbos. it was sooo bad that these people kept re-opening wounds that were struggling to heal. up till today, i have not heard of any aoplogies or even remorse on the part of the middle belt or south-south for these evils against igbos. it got so bad that many igbos changed their names to survive. . . hmmm

when i saw those photos from jos crisis i was moved to tears, or at least almost to tears. i saw them as innocent women and children and i want it to remain so in my mind. these are God's children too. _{i hope not to see them as middle belt children.} but no igbo guy who saw those photos that wont remember the 1960s photos/stories we were told by our fathers. stories told in tears and felt in blood can never be forgotten

the axe may forget, but the tree will remember . . . middle belts chickens have come home to roost. instead of being sorry for what their fathers did they are planning to align with the south south. did not even talk of people of good will coming together to fight evil but will rather talk of more sectionalisation of the nation with an unfortunate re-alignment. please

agabaI23:
M hapugodi Lysa, i ka ga-agbakwa ya okirikiri etu isi agba Ify okiri, ndi na-eri anu eriri gawa.

haha this darfur of a man/boy/mugu . . o ka na achughari ify n'odu . . . whereas ify di married darfur anoro na old kent road na ata peanuts na tasco everyday chee na onwere enyi nwanyi

tutus:
Nwanyi otule ukwu gama ihe omere onweye mgbe oso suru,
Anagi ahara isi kwa wara otele aju,

. . . . o si gini mere

the country cannot divide. that issue has been discussed and decided.

islam may not be the problem. i'm thinking, there is islam in tanzania, kenya, uganda ghana, sierra leone, gambia, senegal etc . . these countries are peaceful. there may be something else causing this . . . . . Nigeria is the problem. we must search our souls

the system that keeps bringing up people like iwu et al. that is the problem. the best election in nigerian history, i believe, was june 12. why has no one ever spoken of the famous ''option A4'' that was used in that election?

phew, . . .

but the problem is that now that there is no death, this will be forgotten and nothing will be done about it until disaster happens

dont they give seat numbers in nigerian flight tickets?

how can there be love when the children of those murdered in cold blood in the 60s are still living with that pain and yet nobody acknowledges the injustice? we need to reconcile, apologise and forgive where necessary. until this is done, we are wasting our time and my advice to anyone who can is to get ur family out of that mess bc it wont last for another generation

yes . . i keep saying this . . the problem is the system . . remove mr iwu, put the pastor from redeemed or winners chapel the same thing will happen.

@asha 80

odighi fair. odikwa serious.

@topic
the only way forward is reconciliation. no amt of security forces can protect the volatile nothern region for 24hrs everyday. the 2 groups must reconcile. reconciliation is key. nigeria is dying and we must reconcile the country so that it may become a nation

''went well'' by nigerian standard

asha 80:
That is not the issue.Nigeria needs peace so the jos indegenes should think of the country since justice to the perpetrators might never be served(there is no history of that in nigera).They should just forget it after all they are not the first people it has happened to

yes, that is the way nigeria works. something this bad happens and you say forget it. nothing happens and then after sometime another one happens and we say forget it. once we forget it, we unwittingly trivialise it and then it will repeat.

we've been ''forgetting'' things for over 5 decades and they kept repeating

agaba,
somebody has to say the truth. maka ndi ara ka nna m jiri gbapu naijiria after the war and we thank God he was lucky things went well for him in england. ya e meetie my mum, luo ya na london bia mutazie anyi nile. but he still has the scars and he talks about it often. he taught me not to be bitter with people on a personal level. but he implanted in me a hot dislike for the system that sent him on self exile for 40yrs and he lost his relatives in that mayhem

anyway, i think the best way forward is to accept the truth and then work from there

ode remo:
@otele,this your BIAFRA thing is becoming a bore. if it will make you happy
i major general ode remo on behalf of all Nigerian apologise to the igbo for all atrocities knowingly and otherwise.
we are sorry. truly sorry. cant be more sorry.
infact sorry is now our breakfast , lunch and dinner.
are you happy now.,so we can all move on.

ode remo . . . lol . . that was funny . . .but my message isnt funny
1. i'm not advocating for biafra. i'm not sure i have even mentioned the word biafra b4 this post. i've been talking about igbos not biafrans. these are two different things. igbos are an ethnic group, biafrans are those who want a different country. the biafrans may be igbos but not all igbos are biafran supporters or massob supporters

2.i'm sorry for getting you bored. truth is boring, bitter and annoying but someone has got to say it

deboski you cant shut the truth up . . . .

nzeogwu did his thing. it was nzeogwu doing it. with his gang of soldiers. but when 30,000 people are massacred, it was not done by a group of people, it was orchestrated. in the military, igbo officers were killed, in the police igbo officers were killed, in the civil service, igbos were selected and killed. it was systematic, it was all over the north and parts of the west. it was an ethnic cleansing. it was well planned and well executed progrom. what happened in jod can be blamed on a bunch of fulani herdsmen but what happened in the 60s cannot be blamed on just a group of men. it was a massive movement. . in jos, markurdi,katsina,ibadan,kano,kaduna,bauchi,gombe,yola,sokoto,zaria wukari,azare, maidugiri, minna,zungeru,  , . . it was planned . . . this was Nigeria's Original Sin and it cannot be swept under the carpet bc it has become a curse for nigeria. i'm not including the 2.5 million that died in the war. that is war. but the 30,000 that were hacked to death b4 the war

you cant shut it up. i agree that these kids had no hand in it, but this sin has become a curse hanging over nigeria. why is it that just when you think that nigeria is the worst, something happenes that is even worse than imagined . . it keeps getting worse

category:
Whose dat talkin abt Biafra and apology?
It is xactly idiots like u dat are causing evil in Jos.
How coyuld u correlate a Governor's misdemeneur to d outcome of
the stupidity of another power influenced muron dat happened abt
4 decades ago?
This is jst a true picture of the shallowness of your brain.
U r a grab idiot!

just look at the vehemence that is sprouting out from a human being for a post that you have not even set eyes on the poster. with this kind of attitude tell me where this country is going. and i hope you are above 60yrs, bc if you are below 30yrs i'm afraid for the future of the country when the leadership of nigeria comes into the hands of people like you.

truth is bitter. no one wants to hear it but someone must say it. Nigeria is going nowhere until the Original Sin of the 1960s against the igbos is acknowledged and taken care of by way of apology. that sin as it were, has become a curse for nigeria.

there are more than 180 countries in the world today, apart from places like iraq and afghanistan where there is a war, tell me which country in which you can find this kind of story in this century. yet it is becoming a regular story in nigeria.

frosbel:
If you have nothing positive to contribute to my post bagger off.
Are you still bitter after so many years, if yes,

i dont know the person you are responding to, but let me tell you this, they say time heals every wound. but when the wound is some injustice, the only healing medicine is reconciliation. reconciliation starts by acknowledgement of injustice by the perpertrator, then request for forgiveness, then forgiveness follows and peace reigns . . . none of this has happened yet. you live in the UK, i do too, but i know that 40 yrs after the civil war, all the injustice that led to the war are still with us. all of them. nothing has changed. and you talk of time.

anyway, as someone posted, the victims of this attack had nothing to do with the injustice of the 1960s. true, but that injustice of the 1960s became the original sin for nigeria and until nigeria goes through the process of reconciliation as i outlined above, this kind of mess will continue. God is not dead. he visits the sins of the father unto the children and the children's children unto the 3rd and 4th generation. read ur bible (if u r a xtian). otherwise forget it, nigeria will never get it right and we will hear of another similar barbarism in less than a year.

NIGERIA MUST RECONCILE AND UNITE TO TAKE AWAY THE GUILT AND SIN OF THE GENOCIDE OF THE 60s OR ELSE THIS COUNTRY IS GOING NOWHERE

as much as i tried not to be concerned about this mess, i cant help but weep for these women and children . . . i just cant ignore this barbarism. . . . . but vengeance belongs to God . . nobody kills God's creation without paying for it. nobody.

honestly, i didnt want to care . . . i'm that hardened when it comes to nigeria, and i'm bitter bc of the civil war which the jos people in the military destroyed my igbo people. but even that bitterness melts in this video . . . . i see humans. . . i see children . . i see mothers . . . i see tears . . . .i see wickedness at the bottom of man's heart

what kind of men kill women and children at night? now they think they are heroes? anyway . . . .nigeria is a failed experiment. it will never get well untill people recognise this kind of injustice begining in 1966.

olafolarin:
Another Biafra Victim, Apology my backside, Ojukwu declared seccession knowing fully well of not just only the consequencies but also his meagre logistics to succeed in the eventual war.Ojukwu inflicted the destruction on his people and he alone should apologise to his people.You need to read Federick Foresight's (Ojukwu's best friend) books The Biafra story and Emeka.You'll be sorry for your ikemba.
OGD is one of the worst Governors SW has ever produced.I am not at all surprised at his ADC's behaviour.I just hope he will press charges against the governor and his entourage.

OGD is not the problem . . he is a product of the problem. after OGD another crook will come up, after which another crook comes up, after IBB-Abacha then OBJ na Yaradull. . . . .the problem is that Nigeria is living under a curse . . . i ask again, tell me one thing in nigeria that is working. not even our football. the authorities must firts wipe out the guilt due to the blood of the innocent that was shed. Germany has apologised to the jews, japan apologised to the koreans, etc. until nigeria does the same . . . it will be one snake after another in power until the end of time.

look at Ghana, nigeria has been left behind o . . . .

''no be me de talk, na prime minister botha de talk o . . . e say. . this uprising will bring out the beast in us . . . ''_____fela (the wisest nigerian)

Fhemmmy:
And do u mean that the people living there are the flies? easy oh

. . . . . .

Kratos007:
this country is a pit latrine.

nigeria is worse than a pit latrine. it is more like a vanderlised, viper infested pit latrine . . . . .

proof? tell me one thing that works in nigeria

who needs people's attention. i'm saying the truth. you tell me which part of this world where people listen to the truth. tell me. people only listen to those who tell them what they want to hear.

truth is bitter. australia has apologised to the aborigines, the US has apologised for slavery. the injustice against igbos was no accident. it was systematic and well orchestrated. if you dont see any correlation between the 60s and today, look well. start with the niger-delta. these were the worst. they finished off the igbos where the civil war left them. and they took the property of the igbos by force (even jos people didnt do that) it was so bad that igbos in port harcourt started changing their names to look like rivers names . . . look at niger-delta today. you still dont see a correlation? okay

anambra election went well bc PDP was busy with the yaradua saga. so they ignored anambra and the election went well. but that wont happen in 2011

and people wonder why militants wake up and kill in the country, when a governor can behave this way . . . .i wonder why people still expect any good thing from this govt. and anyway, the govt is nothing but a reflection of the people . . lol . .

nigeria is nothing but a land of barbarians. the only way to end nigeria's curse is for the country to recognise the injustice done to the igbos in the 60s and apologise for same. the blood of those killed in the ethnic cleansing of the 60s where the whole country . . hausa/yoruba/efik/ijaw/middle-belt/bendel etc all joined hands and finished an innocent group of people. that original sin will hunt nigeria forever until nigeria acknowledges and apologises. and i'm not even talking of reparations bc no amt of money can compensate for that injustice, so its not about money but about open apology to the igbos both living and dead. until then . . . nigeria will continue to deteriorate and the niger delta people will continue to see their land raped and their oil taken to the north and the northern ''xtians'' will continue to be attacked by islamic elements and attacks will be followed by counter attack  . . . no peace . . . until the blood of the innocent igbos killed in the north is appeased.  

lol, what a country . . .

since the bloodshed of the late 1960s, since the nation united to destroy the igbos, we have seen nothing but blood and tears in the nation. luckily we have started seeing the true colour of the northern islamic oligarchy. these people used the northern xtians and the southern minorities to inflict their mayhem, encouraged the ijaw to sieze the property of the igbos and declare it abandoned property. held the igbos down as the villians.

today what do we see? nigerian military kills ijaws in their land for their oil
nigerian military attack zaku-biam village in benue
islamic militia kill berom xtians in jos . . .

this is happening over and over again. when you chose to side with wicked people just to destroy the igbos, you forget that after the igbos are destroyed the wicked people you sided with are still wicked and will look for something to destroy. play with a tiger . . end up in its belly

[s]saro wiwa et al, MEND, now jos xtians(gowon's people) if i shed a tear for them . . i may have borrowed it from a crocodile[/s] . . i find it hard to cry for these people, as much as i dislike what happened in jos(the children and their mothers . .it is really hard not to feel pain for those photos) i still feel bitter at least for my father's sake, he was so destroyed by these people that he left nigeria as soon as the war ended and he still has the scars that tell the story . .

MandingoII:
Nigga, I know my blood line is from Africa

Duh!


my blood line is from the SUPERIOR part of Africa.

perhaps the light skinned part huh? . . . with softer accent . .

hey hey mr cold, dont go there pls. i agree the haitians should have whatever money they can get but dont let urself be fooled into thinking the whiteman is nice. they'll have all the feel good about this aid but that's it. nothing more

@suaron
why must we fall for it? if it is essential stuff like medicine, ok. but must we buy non essential and expensive stuff? did our ancestors have lexus? did tafawa balewa live in a $1million house? we fell for the expensive stuff and we have to suffer the economic consequences

@cold

i dont get ur point but i was trying to refute someone's statement that the black man is heartless. i believe the average blackman is compassionate but somewhat ignorant

~Sauron~:
Especially when America made these 3rd world countries poor in the first place. . . .

A Government run by the rich such as this one and the traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their RICH natural resources.
Haitians are where they are because of the great inflation that was caused by American companies.

how about if we refuse to buy those expensive goods. force better trade negotiations. gain better respect and treatment. wont things be better? president shagari introduced austerity in the early 80s(as i heard,  ) which slowed down importations from europe et al, many companies in england folded and laid off workers. they would have decided to re-negotiate with nigeria, which would have benefitted us, but it failed. know why? greed. black man's greed made it fail.
so we started to buy those expensive stuff again, to show off.