₦airaland Forum

First of all, IPOB is indeed a terrorist organization. If you can stop my right to free movement then what is the difference between your organization and Taliban? If Nnamdi Kanu was so loved why is the support not organic? Why do you have to kill people who come out during your sit at home and force everyone to live in fear.

I live in the South East and decided to write this for those living in diaspora or Lagos who believe their e-warriors on their cheap online campaign to always deny their actions and blame DSS. Secondly for those non Igbo's always saying they can't believe Igbo's allowed these people take over their region, it is not as easy as you think. Everyone is scared, terrorism can happen in any region just be careful and pray it doesn't happen to you.

Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are responsible directly and indirectly for all the atrocities happening in the south east.

When this IPOB thing started in the south east they were a bunch of people mostly illiterates and semi illiterates who believed Biafra was their ticket out of Nigeria and every form of poverty affecting them was from the north. They believed once they achieve Biafra the land will be flowing with milk and honey. They were non violent then I agree. They would hang around at certain spots in town and listen to radio Biafra all day and read their propaganda print. We ignored them and went about our businesses.... if only we knew.

They started a form of solidarity sit at home once a year on the Biafra remembrance day which made sense to even the sensible ones amongst us. Why not, let's remember those we lost in the Biafran war. I lost my Grand Uncle in the war so it made a little sense. Back then if you open your shop during sit at home they will come to warn you but there was no killing. Then it moved to phase two.

After Nnamdi Kanu was arrested the first time things started to get violent. They went from sticks and stones to guns very quickly. The east started to get hot, we started hearing of killings here and there and everyone would just pray to be safe. It all went out of control when they declared the Monday sit at home. They had enforcers, if you opened shop they would destroy your goods, if keke, they would burn it and the people cheered at first. Some of us knew it didn't make sense and was just cowardice. Take your protest to Abuja, talk to your representatives to bring up these things in the house, there are legal and peaceful ways to achieve these things. I know Nigeria doesn't work that straight forward but try that avenue first.

The sit at home became a menace quite quickly with people getting killed every Monday by their enforcers, cars getting snatched or burnt. Monday was a kind of purge day where crime was Legal. The military and police didn't help either. Actually I agree Igbo's are marginalized because even the body language of the authorities show they don't care and they enjoy what is happening but the people doing this to their own brothers are just horrible. The police would assure people protection to come out on Mondays and rather than work with intelligence they would just make random arrests. You could be arrested for wearing a black shirt, for having an IPOB picture on your phone that might have been sent as a whatsapp broadcast, for having dread lock or just for looking some type of way so it became safer to stay at home. Everyone started hiding, if not from IPOB, from the military and police or worse, from their crossfire. So now you understand why the streets are empty and IPOB warriors will snap it and those in diaspora will think we all support MNK.

After a while they listened to the outcry of people suffering. Artisans who feed from hand to mouth and would stay hungry every Monday. Businessmen who would miss business, school children who were behind the curriculum and their peers in other regions, but it was too late. The movement had been hijacked and was out of control. Hence why I blame IPOB both directly and indirectly.

I personally know two people who have been affected. First, a doctor who was on his way to the hospital and was stopped. They spoke fluent Igbo in our local dialect and beat him up for not obeying the sit at home order. Took his phones and his car and left him at a gutter to die, he was bleeding from the head when we found him. I laugh when I read their comments accusing DSS. So DSS employed Igbo boys who speak fluently to be terrorizing the east, or they brought northern officers and taught them Igbo abi? or even if it they are responsible and you notice it has been hijacked, why do you keep declaring sit at home and giving these people who hijacked it the opportunity to carry out their evil.

Secondly they claim online that sit at home on Monday's have been cancelled but sent a threat letter to my aunt who was furious her school children were behind the curriculum and decided to start opening on Mondays. Thank God they didn't burn the school. Every Monday they still burn vehicles of people flouting the order, sent threat letters, come to the market to announce sit at home. But "officially" online it has been cancelled so they can deny any killing on that day. Cowards...

We are all scared here. Every one is being careful and mindful of who they speak to because you don't know who they have brain washed as a supported and the next thing they label you a sabo and burn your house or worse kill your family and nothing will be done by the authorities, hence the silence from a lot of well meaning Igbo's. I was speaking to one of them who believed he will be made Minister of Finance or at least governor when Biafra is achieved, I just laughed but couldn't say my mind before they label me sabo. These guys are fighting for their pocket. Some of them think they will be political appointees when Biafra is achieved. This kind of violent and destructive Biafra if achieved will be worse than Nigeria. Do you really think Nelson Mandela would support this level of terrorism on his people while he was in jail? Think about it.

Burning police stations, forcing people against their will, killing and using violence to force people to do your wish, beheading, bombing public infrastructure, killing innocent people indiscriminately, all these are acts that IPOB engage in, which makes them a terrorist group.

ve0992a:
First of all, IPOB is indeed a terrorist organization. If you can stop my right to free movement then what is the difference between your organization and Taliban? If Nnamdi Kanu was so loved why is the support not organic? Why do you have to kill people who come out during your sit at home and force everyone to live in fear.

I live in the South East and decided to write this for those living in diaspora or Lagos who believe their e-warriors on their cheap online campaign to always deny their actions and blame DSS. Secondly for those non Igbo's always saying they can't believe Igbo's allowed these people take over their region, it is not as easy as you think. Everyone is scared, terrorism can happen in any region just be careful and pray it doesn't happen to you.

Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are responsible directly and indirectly for all the atrocities happening in the south east.

When this IPOB thing started in the south east they were a bunch of people mostly illiterates and semi illiterates who believed Biafra was their ticket out of Nigeria and every form of poverty affecting them was from the north. They believed once they achieve Biafra the land will be flowing with milk and honey. They were non violent then I agree. They would hang around at certain spots in town and listen to radio Biafra all day and read their propaganda print. We ignored them and went about our businesses.... if only we knew.

They started a form of solidarity sit at home once a year on the Biafra remembrance day which made sense to even the sensible ones amongst us. Why not, let's remember those we lost in the Biafran war. I lost my Grand Uncle in the war so it made a little sense. Back then if you open your shop during sit at home they will come to warn you but there was no killing. Then it moved to phase two.

After Nnamdi Kanu was arrested the first time things started to get violent. They went from sticks and stones to guns very quickly. The east started to get hot, we started hearing of killings here and there and everyone would just pray to be safe. It all went out of control when they declared the Monday sit at home. They had enforcers, if you opened shop they would destroy your goods, if keke, they would burn it and the people cheered at first. Some of us knew it didn't make sense and was just cowardice. Take your protest to Abuja, talk to your representatives to bring up these things in the house, there are legal and peaceful ways to achieve these things. I know Nigeria doesn't work that straight forward but try that avenue first.

The sit at home became a menace quite quickly with people getting killed every Monday by their enforcers, cars getting snatched or burnt. Monday was a kind of purge day where crime was Legal. The military and police didn't help either. Actually I agree Igbo's are marginalized because even the body language of the authorities show they don't care and they enjoy what is happening but the people doing this to their own brothers are just horrible. The police would assure people protection to come out on Mondays and rather than work with intelligence they would just make random arrests. You could be arrested for wearing a black shirt, for having an IPOB picture on your phone that might have been sent as a whatsapp broadcast, for having dread lock or just for looking some type of way so it became safer to stay at home. Everyone started hiding, if not from IPOB, from the military and police or worse, from their crossfire. So now you understand why the streets are empty and IPOB warriors will snap it and those in diaspora will think we all support MNK.

After a while they listened to the outcry of people suffering. Artisans who feed from hand to mouth and would stay hungry every Monday. Businessmen who would miss business, school children who were behind the curriculum and their peers in other regions, but it was too late. The movement had been hijacked and was out of control. Hence why I blame IPOB both directly and indirectly.

I personally know two people who have been affected. First, a doctor who was on his way to the hospital and was stopped. They spoke fluent Igbo in our local dialect and beat him up for not obeying the sit at home order. Took his phones and his car and left him at a gutter to die, he was bleeding from the head when we found him. I laugh when I read their comments accusing DSS. So DSS employed Igbo boys who speak fluently to be terrorizing the east, or they brought northern officers and taught them Igbo abi? or even if it they are responsible and you notice it has been hijacked, why do you keep declaring sit at home and giving these people who hijacked it the opportunity to carry out their evil.

Secondly they claim online that sit at home on Monday's have been cancelled but sent a threat letter to my aunt who was furious her school children were behind the curriculum and decided to start opening on Mondays. Thank God they didn't burn the school. Every Monday they still burn vehicles of people flouting the order, sent threat letters, come to the market to announce sit at home. But "officially" online it has been cancelled so they can deny any killing on that day. Cowards...

We are all scared here. Every one is being careful and mindful of who they speak to because you don't know who they have brain washed as a supported and the next thing they label you a sabo and burn your house or worse kill your family and nothing will be done by the authorities, hence the silence from a lot of well meaning Igbo's. I was speaking to one of them who believed he will be made Minister of Finance or at least governor when Biafra is achieved, I just laughed but couldn't say my mind before they label me sabo. These guys are fighting for their pocket. Some of them think they will be political appointees when Biafra is achieved. This kind of violent and destructive Biafra if achieved will be worse than Nigeria. Do you really think Nelson Mandela would support this level of terrorism on his people while he was in jail? Think about it.

did people enforcing sit at home tell you that they are ipob I don't know why many Nigerians can't reason

ve0992a:
First of all, IPOB is indeed a terrorist organization. If you can stop my right to free movement then what is the difference between your organization and Taliban? If Nnamdi Kanu was so loved why is the support not organic? Why do you have to kill people who come out during your sit at home and force everyone to live in fear.

I live in the South East and decided to write this for those living in diaspora or Lagos who believe their e-warriors on their cheap online campaign to always deny their actions and blame DSS.
We are all scared here. Every one is being careful and mindful of who they speak to because you don't know who they have brain washed as a supported and the next thing they label you a sabo and burn your house or worse kill your family and nothing will be done by the authorities, hence the silence from a lot of well meaning Igbo's. I was speaking to one of them who believed he will be made Minister of Finance or at least governor when Biafra is achieved, I just laughed but couldn't say my mind before they label me sabo. These guys are fighting for their pocket. Some of them think they will be political appointees when Biafra is achieved. This kind of violent and destructive Biafra if achieved will be worse than Nigeria. Do you really think Nelson Mandela would support this level of terrorism on his people while he was in jail? Think about it.

This right here, is the truth.
I am an Igbo person living in the South East.
The situation is much more terrible than is being reported.
Many people are living in fear. You don't even know who is who.
They rob, kidnap, rape and kill.
You can't even confidently go out after 7pm.
A lot of terrible things are happening here and we are scared to speak up.

IPOB has been a curse unto Igbo land.

We were struggling to catch up with the South West before. But now, this IPOB menace has set the South East back by at least 10 years.

I pray God helps us and comes to our aid against these terrorists.