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CHRISTMAS: Kidnappers, gunmen scare Igbos away from southeast villages

December 31, 2022


By Vincent Ujumadu, Chidi Nkwopara and Steve Oko

THE growing insecurity in the South East has made this year’s Christmas very uneventful in many communities. Although many people were eager to come home to celebrate with their people, their relations were even the ones that discouraged them.

In fact, almost 90 of those who returned to Nigeria from abroad for Christmas could not travel to their villages in the South East because of insecurity. People are indeed afraid of going home because of the menace of kidnappers and gunmen operating in the zone. One of the people who came back from Europe and hoping to travel to the East had to shelve the idea and had to spend the period in Lagos.

In a video he made apparently out of frustration, he said: “ Almost 90% of those who returned to Nigeria from abroad for Christmas could not travel to their villages in the South East because of insecurity. The foreign currencies they would have spent with their people are being spent in Lagos hotels. Their village people are even coming to Lagos to see them.

“All these are happening because the people of South East do not want to listen and the ultimate losers are the poor people in the villages. As a result of this ugly development, the economy of South East is going down the drains. As it stands, everything in the South East is in shambles. The Christmas celebration in the South East is total rubbish because people are afraid to go home. It is the people that invited this calamity on themselves and blaming outsiders for their woes”.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/12/christmas-kidnappers-gunmen-scare-igbos-away-from-southeast-villages/

In fact, almost 90 of those who returned to Nigeria from abroad for Christmas could not travel to their villages in the South East because of insecurity. People are indeed afraid of going home because of the menace of kidnappers and gunmen operating in the zone. One of the people who came back from Europe and hoping to travel to the East had to shelve the idea and had to spend the period in Lagos.

LegendHero:
You’re IPOB, so why should IPOB terrorists attack your family again?

It’s just like Boko Haram member celebrating that Boko Haram do not attack their family.

I just hope millions of other innocent Ibos can celebrate peace for their family like this. Just today alone, almost 5 people have been killed by IPOB terrorists and that’s what made it to the media.

gidgiddy:
Says the people who are not from the South East but only remember there is insecurity in Nigeria when it happens in the South East

LegendHero:
Yes there is no insecurity in the SE. it’s a very safe region, don’t mind Afonja people.

gidgiddy:
Yes there is no insecurity in Nigeria but the online miscreant only remembers there something called insecurity only if it happens in the South East

LegendHero:
You’re IPOB, so why should IPOB terrorists attack your family again?

It’s just like Boko Haram member celebrating that Boko Haram do not attack their family.

I just hope millions of other innocent Ibos can celebrate peace for their family like this. Just today alone, almost 5 people have been killed by IPOB terrorists and that’s what made it to the media.

Fejoku:
You must stop calling IPOB a terrorist group. There's violence and insecurity everywhere in Nigeria with most of the perpetrators being state backed groups yet hate filled entities like you still prefer to push all the accusations on IPOB.
You must learn to be properly guided.

LegendHero:
IPOB is a terrorist group. They are group of criminals, terrorists, and killers.

Anyone supporting IPOB terrorists at this stage is a criminal like them and a potential terrorist.

LegendHero:
IPOB is a terrorist group. They are group of criminals, terrorists, and killers.

Anyone supporting IPOB terrorists at this stage is a criminal like them and a potential terrorist.

gidgiddy:
Nigeria is one of the most terrorised countries in the world and it doesn't surprise anyone that insecurity is the order of the day in many places

For the South East, my village in Anambra was bubbling with Christmas returnees from far and wide from the 22nd I travelled until to today I returned

If my village was a reflection of what happened in other places in the South East, then the much talked about South East insecurity is no where as serious as some online miscreants make it to be

gidgiddy:
Nigeria is one of the most terrorised countries in the world and it doesn't surprise anyone that insecurity is the order of the day in many places

For the South East, my village in Anambra was bubbling with Christmas returnees from far and wide from the 22nd I travelled until to today I returned

If my village was a reflection of what happened in other places in the South East, then the much talked about South East insecurity is no where as serious as some online miscreants make it to be

ImperialYoruba:
Stop this nonsense.

Ohakim came close to meeting his God few hours ago.

onumadu:
How many Igbos are Ohakim?
You mean out of tens of millions of Igbo that visited home, Ohakim's ordeal in the hands of his fellow NIGERIAN politicians represents the experiences of MILLIONS of Ndigbo?
Una never start cry. lol

ImperialYoruba:
Stop this nonsense.

Ohakim came close to meeting his God few hours ago.

onumadu:
How many Igbos are Ohakim?
You mean out of tens of millions of Igbo that visited home, Ohakim's ordeal in the hands of his fellow NIGERIAN politicians represents the experiences of MILLIONS of Ndigbo?
Una never start cry. lol

LegendHero:
You’re IPOB, so why should IPOB terrorists attack your family again?

It’s just like Boko Haram member celebrating that Boko Haram do not attack their family.

I just hope millions of other innocent Ibos can celebrate peace for their family like this. Just today alone, almost 5 people have been killed by IPOB terrorists and that’s what made it to the media.

plaindealer:
Millions of igbo people are currently under a brutal terrorist-enforced sit-at-home occupation so what other igbo experience are you talking about?

Igboland is full of ESN, UGM, Auto Pilot and other terrorist camps and not a single igbo man, woman, child, politician or traditional ruler, even the military and law enforcement and government institutions are immune from daily killings, kidnappings, burning and destruction.
Ohakim is just the latest victim of the madness and insanity ravaging the whole of SE.

The SEE is the only place on the surface of the earth where the entire population are mandated to sit at home and where the citizen's right to freedom of movement, freedom of association and choice are taken away by terrorists.

Do you people really don't know what is going on in the SE or you are just hopelessly delusional?

gidgiddy:
Nigeria is one of the most terrorised countries in the world and it doesn't surprise anyone that insecurity is the order of the day in many places

For the South East, my village in Anambra was bubbling with Christmas returnees from far and wide from the 22nd I travelled until to today I returned

If my village was a reflection of what happened in other places in the South East, then the much talked about South East insecurity is no where as serious as some online miscreants make it to be