₦airaland Forum

adoinem:

You have muddled your thread by seeking to enforce an artificial difference between tribal jingoism and tribal bigotry!
They are two faces of the same coin. Tribal jingoism at its basic level is tribal bigotry taken to fever-pitch level or bellicose chauvinism.

airmark:
Nice one guys. I saw one moniker , passingshit writing my moniker as a bigot on nairaland. If you are reading this, you better erase it now. My better half is Igbo <pun intended> and very special to me.

adoinem:
You are confused! Bashing other tribes is the same as tribal bigotry.
It also refers to stubborn and complete opposition of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
Barcanista is as guilty as charged. Rather, you should remain silent instead of defending the indefensible.

adoinem:

I have read his numerous posts extolling the virtues of his people and need to break-away from Nigeria. That was unequalled bigotry!

amakasul:
This man is unashamedly pro-Ijaw and at other times Biafra. If you don't think such ethnic sentiments undermine unity of the whole, then your tribal bigotry is not in the dictionary.

Ebukaobi:
Bloodkiller, onye nzuzu

Anuofia

Ebukaobi:
Nnamdi Kanu is a smart 419 guy. He could have been a drug carrier too but he chose the easier option of bamboozling his idiotic brothers

He knows he has a bunch of imbeciles and idiots as followers. He knows that all he needs to do is sweet talk a group of blockheads and they will believe him.

Most of his followers are poverty stricken, hopeless, hungry, frustrated and never do wells. That is why you see this group of fools shouting Director everywhere and sending money they get from selling gala on Lagos traffic to a man that is investing in UK properties.

Ibo masses and commoners are the easiest people to deceive in this universe.

I dont think that even chickens, goats, sheep and cows are this gullible. Even cows know when they are about to be slaughtered and will put up a resistance.

I am very convinced that Ibo DNA is a mix between homo sapiens and goats

OdenigboAroli:
Senseless post.

How funny is it to know that everything that migrated from Bini automatically becomes Igbo ? Are Bini people Igbo ?

amakasul:
You have missed out Barcanista

missKiffy:
For including my name

Rilwayne001:


[b] Silly attention-seeking idiotíc son of Orubebe.

tucky200:
All I see here is a list of PMB supporters

Sall:
Gradually they are biggining to change curse.

anulaxad:
Did I insult igbos, I did the complete opposite of what your suggesting I said Biafra can never be I was defending unity. My belief that Buhari will change this country is stronger than ever. So please remove my name off that list.

anulaxad:
Remove my name from that list. If you have any evidence that I have incited ethnic hate then please bring it forward.

God is watching me I have only used one account since 2012 so please do not paint me in lies.

Finally why will I creeate a list for the mods to ban, if I myself was an ethnic bigot. It just doesn't make any sense.

I will ask kindly again please remove from that list.

anulaxad:
Funny thread.

Another troublemaker on the loose, Nigeria will be great again under PMB, and by the time he has finished we will see who is still calling for Biafra; sorry Biafra.

yorubatic:
Op, those are my cowards folks who don't want the actualization of odua republic. .a sophisticated and progressive Odu'a republic where there won't be any ibo.

They are bigots who don't know what they wanted out of Nigeria. ..they have no mind of their own. ..they are weak and can only rant and curse...they have no argument and lack truth in them...

I bet you most are muslims, I am a Christian and always tell the truth. ...

Omololu007:
men you are not fair to me at all,am not a tribalist

Omololu007:
omo ibo it is 50million moniker dat I have on NL not 20 ..omo Igbo b proud of who u are.which forest in ebonyi are u from olori pelebe? ;d

Omololu007:
Igbo boy wen are u goin back to Biafra?

mcvaeey:
May thunder fire me and my family. I'm a bastard son of a thousand fathers. An ofe mmanu candidate. I shall develop leprosy for posting on this thread.

The South-East zonal chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday, August 23, said the Igbo leaders currently opposed to probing the immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan are speaking blasphemy against the traditions of the Igbos.

The party said the Igbo leaders who are supporting the former president have flouted the traditional admonition which forbade Igbos from identifying with thieves or alleged thieves.

According to Vanguard, several Igbo leaders including Prof Ben Nwabueze, chairman of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, and the secretary-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Joe Nwaorgu, had in recent times faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s planned probe of the immediate past administration.

The Igbo leaders stressed that limiting the probe to Jonathan’s government was an indication that Buhari was being influenced in his anti-graft campaign.
However, the South-East APC in a statement by its spokesman, Osita Okechukwu told the concerned Igbo leaders to stop desecrating Igbo tradition by supporting Jonathan.

The spokesman wondered why Jonathan’s Ijaw kinsmen have not been the ones defending him and why the Igbo leaders must be the ones to do the defence.

Okechukwu said: “Our worry is that the timeless Igbo tradition, which admonishes us not to steal, and not to defend nor associate with rogues or even alleged rogues is being flagrantly breached by prominent Igbo sons, crying more than Ijaw sons and daughters.

“We are yet to locate any sentence where any of them, even our revered icon, erudite and constitutional lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze, in any form denied the mindless, pervasive and unbridled corruption which governed ex-president Jonathan’s regime. We stand to be corrected. Then why splash us with the mud?” he asked.

Condemning the argument by the scribe of Ohaneze Ndigbo that Buhari should extend the probe to the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the one hand, Okechukwu on another hand accused Nwaorgu of deliberately blocking a planned meeting between Buhari and the Igbo group before the elections. He said that Buhari had conveyed his request for the meeting, where he intended to chart the way forward with Ndigbo.

The spokesman said: “May we appeal to Chief Joe Nwaorgu and his cohorts, if actually the interest of Ndigbo is what they are fighting for, to climb down from their high horses, drop their ancient stereotypes and stop the hate narratives and embrace the true position that Ndigbo stands to gain more from President Buhari’s regime, if ever we gained from our massive support to former president Jonathan.

“Failing which, Chief Joe Nwaorgu and his cohorts, may wittingly or unwittingly confirm the allegation that they – Ndigbo ultra-defenders of Jonathan – were beneficiaries of presidential campaign slush funds,” Okechukwu added.

The APC said in the statement that Ndigbo like all hard working groups in the country, will gain more from Buhari’s administration than Jonathan’s, and that they are more likely to realise their wish to have one of their own as president of the country through the president.

He said: “The Igbo ethnic merchants and gossip-terrorists who bandy all manner of conspiracy hate theories against President Buhari must come to terms that eight-year tenure of the man of uncommon integrity is the surest route to actualisation of president of Igbo extraction, given the zoning convention.”

Meanwhile, fresh facts from a Lagos-based group have revealed that some boys loyal to ex-president, and some caucus members of the APCC are responsible for the witch-hunt of Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers state.

Maj. Gen. Ishola Williams may have no answer to the Nigeria’s myriad of problems, but he is full of wisdom and offers a direct and practical approach to problems. He retired from the Nigerian army long ago but not without making news twice.

First, he walked out on the army and General Sanni Abacha in 1993 saying that the army takeover of the government was immoral. Second was when he as a colonel questioned a chief of army staff.

General Williams, presently on the faculty of the Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PASPRG), speaks to Naij.com’s correspondent in Abuja, Olajide Adelana, on the present Nigerian military, the fight against insurgency and President Buhari’s willingness to negotiate with Boko Haram.

Naij.com: How would you describe the present Nigerian army compared to the one you left behind over 20 years ago?

Ishola Williams: You must be a clown for asking me that. I left the army 30 years ago, I don’t know how old you were. If you leave an organization 30 years ago, you can only be observing it outside. Now, what you do realize is that the military, is supposed to be an instrument of political power. They are so dependent on political authority. Therefore if they are going to do what they are supposed to do in respect to what the constitution has mandated them to do, then the political authority must give them the wherewithal to be able to do that. What do I mean by that? First of all, there must be a strategic directive from whoever is the Commander-in-Chief. Out of that strategic directive, you can develop a sort of policy for the Armed forces itself. The Armed forces will now develop operational doctrine. Within the operational doctrine at that strategic level, the role of the Air force, Army and the Navy are spelt out and how they can work together. Once you have that, the doctrine is taken from operational level to technical level. And then when they have done that, they will now be able to know the equipment needed to implement the doctrine, the sort of structure needed, how many people needed to be able to do that, what sort of logistics support needed and so on and so forth.

Once you have determined that, you now go back to the political authority to say this is our requirement and anything you want us to do from now, we need these requirements to do them. If you remember when the immediate past Chief of Defence left, he was complaining that he was not given what he needed to be able to fight Boko Haram, but did they submit the process I just described to you to the Commander-in-Chief and they were not given what they wanted? But the Army chief came back and said we were able to do what we did at least towards the end of last year and early this year because we were given what we needed. So we don’t know who to believe, the Army Chief or the Chief of Defence staff?
You will also remember that they brought in South African machineries. And with their help, the military was able to push back Boko Haram. They left and Boko Haram started gaining ground. Now we are going to form a multinational force, so let’s see what is going to happen. The new president has promised to give them anything they needed, the British has promised, the American has promised, everybody has promised to help them with equipment and everything. So, we are waiting to see what is going to happen.

Naij.com: The Peoples Democratic Party and some other stakeholders have criticized the World Bank loan obtained by the president to rebuild the northeast, saying that the loan cannot be useful at the moment as the country is still fighting in the region they want to rebuild. What is your take on this?

Ishola Williams: One thing that people have got to realize is that, if you have no secured environment development cannot take place. So, to a certain extent, you have got to reduce to the minimum the violence been perpetuated by Boko Haram. In other to do that, I have advocated that terrorism should be left to the police and let the military face Boko Haram. Now, what you find today is that the military is pursuing armed robbers. The military is mounting road blocks in Abuja, on the streets, that is not their business. They want to help them to catch bank robbers, they are doing road patrol with the police. It is not their business.

Naij.com: (Cuts in) But when the president ordered that the checkpoints be removed, you will notice there was an increase in attacks.
No, the point in this is that, what do you have the mobile police for? Are they not carrying guns? What is the difference between a soldier and a mobile policeman? Tell me, why did we train the mobile police men separately from the ordinary police?

Naij.com: (answers) To have advanced skills and other necessary expertise needed to maintain law and order.

Then let the police with the advance skills handle that and the army to handle insurgency which requires more advanced skills than the mobile police requires to be able to handle terrorism, check points, criminals, armed robbers and kidnappers. That is how they do all over the world.

Naij.com: (cuts in) In other words, are you saying you are fully in support of the loan to rebuild the northeast at this particular point in time?

Ishola Williams: To do what?

Naij.com: The loan given to us by the World Bank to rebuild the northeast, are you in support?

Ishola Williams: Now listen, this is very important because I have not been there. You see, the destruction that has taken place, the loss of lives, the internally displaced persons (IDPs), the returnees, and people in danger, they require urgent help. If not, you are going to have an increase in the number of orphaned children. Am sure they are running into thousands now. They have closed so many schools, they have closed so many health centres. Therefore what you need to do is that as soon as you liberate a place, start the development process, do not delay it. Secondly, those who have been displaced including those terrorist who have escaped from Boko Haram who say they do not want to fight again should be reconciled with their own people. The third thing is that the young people should be trained. Trained to do what? To rebuild their communities with the money the World Bank is giving them now. How do they do that? Train them as carpenters, bricklayers, this and that and that. So, the hands they used to destroy their communities, they use the same hands to rebuild their communities. The hands that destroy, can also build.

Naij.com: The president has expressed his willingness to negotiate with Boko Haram. Compared to America who has repeatedly said that they do not negotiate with terrorists, do you think Nigeria should be negotiating with Boko Haram?

Ishola Williams: There are two sides to the story. One is that one should not be too dogmatic about this administration. What is important is to flow with the situation. First of all, we need to ensure that the people who they want to negotiate with are the true leadership of Boko Haram. Two, before you start negotiating you need to deal with another issue and that issue is very important. Are you going to do reconciliation with justice? That is, you are not going to grant amnesty to those leaders (Boko Haram) for what they have perpetuated. The leaders must be able to face an internal court in Nigeria for what they have perpetuated. Or you are going to grant them amnesty and say because you have surrendered we have forgiven you all the atrocities you have committed. The government has got to decide that. Three, have a programme in place, first of all for those who are going to escape. And also when a cease-fire is in place, the boys that are going coming back, what are you going to do with them? And of course, there are also young people too, the women and children who were captured in their hundreds, what are you going to do with them? So you must have a programme in place. Those are the three things that are very necessary before you start negotiation.

But the two key ones are: one, you negotiating with the right people? Two, what is the position with respect to amnesty or no amnesty. The people expect justice for the atrocities they have committed.

Naij.com: Questioning the administration of President Buari’s termination of the pipeline surveillance contract, Asari Dokubo and his ilk, who were awarded contracts by the former administration of Goodluck Jonathan to secure the oil pipelines came out some few days ago to say they were properly awarded the contracts. Do you think the president has done the right thing by revoking this contract ‘without necessarily studying what is on ground’?

Ishola Williams: The point is this; when was the contract awarded?

Naij.com: (answers) At the twilight of the last administration but government is a …..

Ishola Williams: (Cuts in) Exactly, exactly. That is the issue. When you want to do a contract there is a process. Was the process followed? And you must go through the Bureau of Procurement for doing that. Did they get approval from the Bureau of Procurement? And so on and so forth. But my Lord, the key issue is this; what is the mandate of the civil defence and security corps? Their mandate as created by law is to protect the infrastructure. The mandate of the Navy is to protect our coastal waters. In fact the Navy is supposed to assist the marine police. So you have what it takes to protect the pipelines, so why are you awarding the contract again to civilians.

Tell me another story.

Naij.com: What is your take on the fact the president has not appointed ministers and those he will be working with, while the few he has appointed has been largely people of the northern extraction?

Ishola Williams: The Constitution allows the president to appoint anybody he believes is qualified. But you must remember one thing, we are in an ethnic based society. There is supposed to be federal character. I am giving you all these key points because they are very important. You put people who you trust, in positions of trust. If the people who you trust happen to come from your neck of wood, then because you believe they are going to get the work done and people do not really care as long as the job is done. You see, performance, efficiency and all those things do not carry any ethnic colouration. Ok, now, am also aware that he (Buhari) is also aware and you are aware that you have to follow federal character in some strictly political appointments. There are political appointments that are direct, like appointing advisers, ministers and thing like that. And there are some that are indirect. For example, chief executive of NNPC and some of these other parastatals. If you look for those who are qualified no matter the ethnic group they come from and you put them there, it is good for Nigeria. If you put people from your area who are not qualified, then that is a problem.

Naij.com: You granted an interview to a newspaper in January this year where you were asked questions about Tompolo who was rumoured to have purchased warships at that time prior to the general elections. Also, Asari Dokubo and some former Niger Delta warlords threatened that if the elections does not go the way of former President Jonathan there will be fire, bloodshed and all that. You replied in the interview that was not going to be and at the moment we have no major crisis in the Niger Delta, do you think this can actually be sustained throughout the tenure of President Buhari?

Ishola Williams: You see what people tend to forget in this issue is that before elections in Nigeria people are always crying there is going to be war, there is going to be this. Let me tell you one thing, I have not seen any young set of people who want to commit suicide. Have not seen them. What is happening in the case of Niger Delta is that they want something, they are not getting it the way they think they should be get it, so they take up guns. Sometimes, they succeed, sometimes they are killed and sometimes they are caught. Alright. It is left for them to come up with an idea rather than taking up guns. To say that, see these re concrete developmental efforts that we think is necessary in this area for us to be able to satisfy that you have our interest at heart. Let me give you an example, and am happy one governor in the Niger Delta has taken up the case. Why can’t government build or allow this people to look for money and build mini-refineries in Niger Delta? Why can’t we do that? Instead of having thugs all over the place in Niger Delta, from one refinery to another and all over Nigeria, why don’t you allow them to build mini-refineries to satisfy the requirements of the Niger Deltans. Why don’t we allow them to do that? Do you know how many people those mini-refineries will employ, directly and indirectly? Have you seen any rich man who picks up a gun to fight? Have you seen one? Why do you think people who are rich build up fence, electric wires and so and so forth? Why do you think they do that?

Giggles… Let the boys be rich and they will stop fighting!

Naij.com: Thank you very much, Sir!

Ishola Williams: Thank you, bye bye!

The Ekiti state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has evaluated Governor Ayodele Fayose 10 months in office which it highlighted conducting road shows, buying pepper and tomatoes in open markets as the governor’s only achievement.

Reacting shortly after Governor Fayose alleged that his predecessor Kayode Fayemi betrayed the APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun, publicity secretary of the party, said all that Governor Fayose had done so far had tended towards taking sufferings to the doorsteps of Ekiti people.

Olatunbosun, who stated that Fayemi’s legacies presented the best opportunities for Ekiti state to grow, said that Governor Fayose was not only destroying himself, but also mortgaging the future of Ekiti people through stomach infrastructure that provides a kilogramme of rice and three-month-old chicken at every Christmas, Vanguard reports.

According to Olatunbosun, Governor Fayose’s accusation of N86Billion debts against his predecessor Kayode Fayemi is untrue.

Noting that Fayose and his media aide, Lere Olayinka, were “rabble-rousers and a perfect match in public image deficit”, Olatunbosun said the governor’s lies in dishing out unreliable figures on the state debts had exposed him as a destroyer of worthy legacies and a man not prepared for governance to develop the state.
He said: “Fayose claimed that Ekiti owed N86 billion, when in reality the debt restructuring as released by the Debt Management Office (DMO) and published in Thisday of Friday, August 21, 2015, confirmed Ekiti debt as N18. 8 billion after conversion to long-term bond.

“This has shown that Fayose is a pathological and serial liar. Ekiti people should now ask Fayose where he got the N86b figure he has been bandying around that does not allow him implement development projects, including payments of gratuities and pensions for several months while also refusing to pay last year September salaries and five months salaries to traditional rulers after collecting allocations for the payments.
“Government is a continuum. Fayemi met billions of naira debts on assumption of office, but this did not deter him from executing many projects, including life-lifting and empowerment projects as well as enduring physical infrastructure, such as renovation of schools and hospitals, new Government House, the pavilion, the civic centre incorporating e-library, women development centre, conference centre and museum, construction of modern markets across the state amongst others. This also did not stop him from increasing workers’ salaries three times, a feat which Fayose never matched not even once.

“Fayose has cancelled social security scheme for the elderly people, youths in commercial agricultural scheme that employed thousands of youths, apprenticeship scheme, youth volunteer programme, Ekiti Traffic Management Agency that employed hundreds of youths and community development and empowerment schemes and in their place, he instituted stomach infrastructure that has turned the youths to hell-raisers on the streets after bouts of drinks at ‘ogogoro’ joints where armed robbers and kidnappers take off for their various operations across the state, resulting in scaring investors and creating general atmosphere of insecurity in the state. Ekiti has become the kidnapping capital under Fayose’s administration.

“Ikogosi Warm Springs Resort that Fayose left in ruins but which was turned to a world class tourist centre by Fayemi is again facing another neglect by Fayose, even Fayemi also resuscitated Ire Burnt Bricks Company that was moribund for 22 years.”

The APC remarks on Governor Fayose comes just days after the party had described the governor’s outburst on President Muhammadu Buhari as unsurprising

powerfulsettingz:
And where is introvert name?

Midehi:
if i see my sweetheart name on your list, i will fire you arrow ---->