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The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Electorate(op): 12:22pm On Aug 31, 2024
The below Article explains why an average Igbo man is toxic towards other tribes especially the Yorubas.

BIAFRA IPOB-IGBO MAN WHO INSULTED OBA OF BINI/EDO DECLARED WANTED! SAYING UNA NOR FIT DO ANYTHING!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBU54X_qKg?si=GexPCs2RpG0H5VVO
VICTOR PRAISE TV • Aug 30 2024


Message To The Igbo Man That Insulted Oba of Benin + Benin Edo People Because of Peter Obi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aoK3_Tducs
Inspire With Ella Suitable • March 27 2023


The FIRST video right ABOVE shows another careless and garrulous man speaking. The hateful rhetorics being spewed by that lady in Canada echos or mirrors Ipob propaganda and influence on her because that is how the other females with Ipob affiliations that I have seen in video recordings also speak. The BBC Disinformation Team also did an exclusive report on how some Ibo women abroad with secessionist affiliations were spewing hate speech in online videos while calling for the death of some people in Anambra. Second, in 2023, a male ipob member in two separate videos insulted the Oba of Benin and called Edo youths STUPID, USELESS, and uncircumcised including their Oba. When told by Edo folks online (and even some Delta State people) to apologize to the Oba, the Ipob member doubled down in a second video and insulted the Oba and Edo youths the more and it was totally unprovoked. Some of the inciting videos are still online and I have attached one of the video links (the second video) right after the first video ABOVE. Third, there was also another inciting video back in 2018 that was made by a light complexioned Ipob member insulting the Oba of Benin while casting aspersions on Ile Ife where he said the Oba came from or had ancestral connections. This led to a push back from Edo folks and Palace elders online and offline. There is a dangerous strand among some Ibos that lack complete decorum when speaking and hence tar other Ibo folks who just want to lead their normal lives in near-absolute peace.


I have to now step right into this convo for the FIRST time ever so that things can be really put into proper historical perspectives with video EVIDENCE and dates. I'm a veteran of the Nigerian Civil War history and I have books in my home library by combatants on both the Federal and rebel sides that I have had since the 1980s so as to gain proper perspectives of events. The GENESIS or ORIGINS of all these toxic hate speeches started off because of the loss of the July 1967- January 1970 Nigerian Civil War (which lasted for exactly 2 years and 6 months) and since then, some Ibo irredentists have repeatedly engaged in insults and the relentless use of toxic hate speech towards other Nigerian ethnic groups (offline from the 1979 Presidential election cycle right into the 1980s) and (online right from the 1990s) towards the Ijaws, Ikweres, Yorubas, Binis, Hausas, Fulahs, Kanuris, Tivs, Efiks, etc, who they accused of alleged betrayal over abandoned properties, and generally all prominent ethnic groups that featured in the Nigerian Armed Forces and civilian resistance towards the secession and encroachment on non-Ibo areas of the defunct Old Eastern Region (WITHOUT a referendum being carried out) by Col. Emeka Ojukwu (rtd) on May 30, 1967. It's as a result of those unprovoked toxic hate speeches online and offline that other Nigerian ethnic groups started pushing back strongly at the attacks by some of the Ibo irredentists. The younger generation who were born in the 1990s and 2000s do NOT know the genesis of how this toxic hatred started because they were NOT born or they were babies then, but those of us who are older can tell you how these cyber bullying and hate speeches laced with FAKE news started because we witnessed the birth and usage of the Internet back in the early 1990s and saw how this toxic hate speech gained momentum from the late 1990s right to the point when Massob was founded in Lagos State in 1999 by a lawyer, Ralph Uwazurike and intense hate speech and falsifications or embellishments of Nigeria Civil War history and other historical events and disinformation was taking place on those rabid Ibo-owned secessionist Websites in the early 2000s before even Nairaland was created and launched by Seun Osewa in 1995. I used to visit those secessionist Websites with an open mind to read some of what they were chatting about back in the early 2000s (to know what was going on) BUT I was stunned to know that there was high-level toxic mind control and brainwashing of the young ones going on in order to make them fit into a false historical narrative. These young ones were then used to push out fabricated stories or half-truths on other discussion forums such as X, FB, NL, YouTube, and more.

Even Ralph Uwazurike granted an interview in 2015 where he said he had to EXPEL Nnamdi Kanu from Massob because he was using the platform to spread a lot of TOXIC hate speech targeted towards others on his secessionist radio station that he recruited Nnamdi Kanu to handle from London in the 2000s.


Ralph Uwazurike was already a marked man under the former President Obasanjo administration. Starting in 2003, the Department of State Services [DSS], began to monitor him and got him arrested so he had to find a new approach using a secessionist radio station.

Kanu used Radio Biafra to spread a deeply sectarian and militant propaganda message, as he put it "… Biafra or Death", often referring to Nigeria as a "zoo" that was destined to go up in flames. He ALSO CLEARLY solicited for "guns and bullets" in a video BELOW when he went to the U.S.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XU2JtlUF6M


In a video that has since gone viral on social media, he said of religious leaders from the South-West and North-Central of Nigeria Yoruba ethnic group, “It's always Yoruba people, head of Pentecostal, head of Catholic, head of Anglican. Hausas are killing us, Yorubas are sucking our blood."

“If you’re attending a Yoruba church, you should be ashamed of yourself”, he continued. “Anybody attending a pentecostal church with a Yoruba pastor is an idiot, a complete fool, an slowpoke. They are worse than Boko Haram. If your pastor is Yoruba, you are not fit to be a human being.”



It was after Nnamdi was EXPELLED from Massob after a splinter group came into existence that he created Ipob in the early 2010s (2012) to continue the fabrication of history and relentless hate speech targeted at other ethnic groups..

[b]The reason why the Yoruba and Ibo confrontations online is so pronounced is simply because both ethnicities have a much larger presence online due to overall population size than other ethnic groups, so it's NOT surprising that Yoruba folks had to fight back easily at the falsehoods being relentlessly spread online by younger Ibos such as the LIE that Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, committed suicide by drinking rat poison after planning a coup against Gen. Ibrahim Babangida which is one of the most ASININE LIES and insults ever fabricated online because Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo passed on peacefully and was given a national burial in 1987 being a GCFR with General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Ibo leaders such as Ojukwu himself greatly eulogizing Chief Awolowo, calling him "the best President Nigeria never had." So, how did these young Ibo kids end up FABRICATING the FAKE story and online memes stating FALSELY that Awolowo committed suicide by rat poison? It was via those secessionist, propaganda Websites and blogs from the early 2000s. I was alive in 1987 when Awolowo passed on and I can say here and now that he was well eulogized by many Nigerian and world leaders who had worked with him back in the day.[/b] A second historical fabrication and LIE that I have been seeing online including on Nairaland is a fake meme being uploaded by younger Ibos showing General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in military uniform calling Yorubas "cowards" in 1993. That is another CLEAR EVIDENCE of secessionist fabrication of history. IBB NEVER made such a comment either in English or Hausa languages and he's still alive at over 80 years of age (though recuperating on a wheelchair) to debunk that irresponsible lie. He is a man who has close friends among Yoruba folks and wouldn't insult the people he had as friends within and outside the military.

The healing process has to start from within. Nobody is gonna do it for those Ibos who are still bitter about the past and have been manipulated by secessionist propaganda to hate other ethnicities and played victimhood like the guys in those videos above are doing. Forgiveness on all sides is key as well. Period.
Copied: Konquest

Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by illicit(m): 12:25pm On Aug 31, 2024
I feel their pain...

That's why I like the girls, I know they are hurt, I am not a doctor but I treat them well
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Electorate(op): 12:25pm On Aug 31, 2024
Unfortunately, it is their brother Ojukwu Odumegwu that was responsible for the war that lead to the massacre of Igbos, He fled on exile when the war got out of hand only to return to work for the same government he killed his people for.

Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by TemplarLandry: 12:26pm On Aug 31, 2024
cool
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by gidgiddy: 12:32pm On Aug 31, 2024
What Igbos need is a seperate country of their own. The toxicity comes from Nigeria, it is not a country that propagates fairness, equity and justice

The best thing Nigeria can do is grant Igbos their independence and a seperate country

But if Nigeria insists on "one Nigeria by force", don't expect Igbos to ever be happy inside Nigeria
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Ttalk: 12:34pm On Aug 31, 2024
The funny part. Two pieces of people chai
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by LadyExcellency: 12:35pm On Aug 31, 2024
Another nonentity feeling funky.
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Electorate(op): 12:44pm On Aug 31, 2024
gidgiddy:
What Igbos need is a seperate country of their own. The toxicity comes from Nigeria, it is not a country that propagates fairness, equity and justice

The best thing Nigeria can do is grant Igbos their independence and a seperate country

But if Nigeria insists on "one Nigeria by force", don't expect Igbos to ever be happy inside Nigeria
Unfortunately, that will NEVER happen, a brainwashed Igbo will gladly want Nigeria burned, they intentionally destroy the image of Nigeria here and abroad, Deliberately sell fake drugs and ignorantly end up killing themselves not knowing fake drug can not identify a person by tribe. They cannot leave a country they want to destroy, their children and generations to come will be alive to witness the mess they are creating.

If they like they should not develope their region, let them be waiting for a Biafra that only exist in their head, their region will remain like that for 100 or 200 or 1 million years, who cares?.
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Nobody:
gidgiddy:
What Igbos need is a seperate country of their own. The toxicity comes from Nigeria, it is not a country that propagates fairness, equity and justice

The best thing Nigeria can do is grant Igbos their independence and a seperate country

But if Nigeria insists on "one Nigeria by force", don't expect Igbos to ever be happy inside Nigeria
"before Ojuku declared the
republic of biafra in may 1967
Isaac Adaka Boro an Ijaw man had declared the
Niger delta republic in february 1966.
Boro had formed the niger delta
volunteer force an armed militia with
members consisting mainly of his fellow
ethnic group declared the niger delta
republic on february 23 1966 and fought
nigeria's federal forces for 12 days but
they were eventually defeated and then
jailed by the Ironsi an Igbo man federal
military government [and Ojuku an Igbo man eastern governor] for treason"

But it was Gowon from Kanke Local Government Area in Plateau State that later set Boro free and Boro later became a major in the Nigeria army and helped to tame the Biafra army.

The Igbos started the civil war because they wanted to take the lands of the Niger Delta from the people that own the Niger Delta, because the Europeans came and created Nigeria and put some parts of the Niger Delta in the SE then and the Igbo coup of 1967 made Ojukwu the military governor of the SE region.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRx3RhN3XE
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by helinues: 12:55pm On Aug 31, 2024
The Rwanda civil war was more recent yet they have moved on
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by helinues: 12:57pm On Aug 31, 2024
gidgiddy:
What Igbos need is a seperate country of their own. The toxicity comes from Nigeria, it is not a country that propagates fairness, equity and justice

The best thing Nigeria can do is grant Igbos their independence and a seperate country

But if Nigeria insists on "one Nigeria by force", don't expect Igbos to ever be happy inside Nigeria
When the likes of Adaka Boro was leading Niger Delta secession movement, what was Ojukwu and Ironsi',s response?

What we do today na history for tomorrow
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by ERockson: 12:57pm On Aug 31, 2024
They can never heal. They will remain bitter till eternity if they are yet to heal after more than 5 decades
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Ttipsy(f): 1:00pm On Aug 31, 2024
helinues:
The Rwanda civil war was more recent yet they have moved on
the deliberate starvation of igbo kids is more reason that atrocity will never be forgotten by igbos
Only solution is a separate country..

Unity is not forced right ?
Rwanda is a country very prosperous
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Mbanda(m): 1:08pm On Aug 31, 2024
Electorate:
Unfortunately, it is their brother Ojukwu Odumegwu that was responsible for the war that lead to the massacre of Igbos, He fled on exile when the war got out of hand only to return to work for the same government he killed his people for.
The bolded is one propaganda that has been over flogged in Nigeria. I don't know why you lots are still dishing out these lies and propaganda till date even when you know that it was actually Gowon and the British that caused that unfortunate war not Ojukwu.
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Aboks(m): 1:13pm On Aug 31, 2024
Super story
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by twosquare(m): 1:18pm On Aug 31, 2024
Ttipsy:
the deliberate starvation of igbo kids is more reason that atrocity will never be forgotten by igbos
Only solution is a separate country..

Unity is not forced right ?
Rwanda is a country very prosperous
What deliberate starvation? Maybe you should ask Ojukwu and his soldiers why they looted food aid sent into Iboland.
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by kestolove95(m): 1:20pm On Aug 31, 2024
Useless and bitter people
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Christistruth02: 1:20pm On Aug 31, 2024
Ojukwu did his people very huge damage
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Lifestone(m): 1:29pm On Aug 31, 2024
Ttipsy:
the deliberate starvation of igbo kids is more reason that atrocity will never be forgotten by igbos
Only solution is a separate country..

Unity is not forced right ?
Rwanda is a country very prosperous
I so much hate this starvation theory. It's a fact that it was Ojukwu that refused to receive food for his people, he choose to starve his people to death and gleefully displays their skeleton over the newspapers across the world as war propaganda.
Please read your history
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Dalohad: 1:43pm On Aug 31, 2024
helinues:
The Rwanda civil war was more recent yet they have moved on
The Tutsi were at the receiving end of the Rwandan genocide. The Hutus have reconciled with the Tutsi and were not shouting 'Tutsi will never be president'...bla..bla..

Find out what tribe the President of Rwanda belongs and know why the reconciliation was fast and hastened, with the Tutsis having a sense of belonging.

Until then, continue to irredeemably have your head buried in your arsse as usual.
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by loveth360(f): 1:43pm On Aug 31, 2024
Electorate:
The below Article explains why an average Igbo man is toxic towards other tribes especially the Yorubas.



Copied: Konquest
Now you have tell us.



I will also want to know why Yorubas are toxic towards Igbos

Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by loveth360(f): 1:45pm On Aug 31, 2024
Electorate:
Unfortunately, that will NEVER happen, a brainwashed Igbo will gladly want Nigeria burned, they intentionally destroy the image of Nigeria here and abroad, Deliberately sell fake drugs and ignorantly end up killing themselves not knowing fake drug can not identify a person by tribe. They cannot leave a country they want to destroy, their children and generations to come will be alive to witness the mess they are creating.

If they like they should not develope their region, let them be waiting for a Biafra that only exist in their head, their region will remain like that for 100 or 200 or 1 million years, who cares?.
Foolishness is fighting to remain with What you claim is your problem grin grin
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by loveth360(f): 1:47pm On Aug 31, 2024
helinues:
The Rwanda civil war was more recent yet they have moved on
So why haven't Yorubas and other Nigerians moved on?

Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by MEEVEET: 1:50pm On Aug 31, 2024
helinues:
The Rwanda civil war was more recent yet they have moved on
Have Nigerians moved on?
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by MEEVEET: 1:52pm On Aug 31, 2024
helinues:
When the likes of Adaka Boro was leading Niger Delta secession movement, what was Ojukwu and Ironsi',s response?

What we do today na history for tomorrow
How can a none elected or appointed leader declare a country

Ojukwu didn't even declare Biafra alone the eastern assembly members did that

Which leaders of ijaws gave boro the right to speak for them

Talking about history who killed Boro?
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Nobody: 1:56pm On Aug 31, 2024
MEEVEET:
How can a none elected or appointed leader declare a country

Ojukwu didn't even declare Biafra alone the eastern assembly members did that

Which leaders of ijaws gave boro the right to speak for them

Talking about history who killed Boro?
Who elected Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa to represent them to declear Biafra now?

Which leaders of the Igbos gave Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa the right to speak for them now?
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by loveth360(f): 1:57pm On Aug 31, 2024
ERockson:
They can never heal. They will remain bitter till eternity if they are yet to heal after more than 5 decades
Those in bitterness are those promised after the war that Igbos are forever down.
But now Igbos matters is peppering them.



Because the same people are buying up their father's graves. cheesy grin
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by MEEVEET: 2:00pm On Aug 31, 2024
guysbewise:
Who elected Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa to represent them to declear Biafra now?
Nnamdi kanu have never declared Biafra

Ekpa is a joke, any unelected official who declares independence of people who didn't elected him should be arrested n jailed
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by oyatz(m): 2:01pm On Aug 31, 2024
guysbewise:
"before Ojuku declared the
republic of biafra in may 1967
Isaac Adaka Boro an Ijaw man had declared the
Niger delta republic in february 1966.
Boro had formed the niger delta
volunteer force an armed militia with
members consisting mainly of his fellow
ethnic group declared the niger delta
republic on february 23 1966 and fought
nigeria's federal forces for 12 days but
they were eventually defeated and then
jailed by the Ironsi an Igbo man federal
military government [and Ojuku an Igbo man eastern governor] for treason"

But it was Gowon from Kanke Local Government Area in Plateau State that later set Boro free and Boro later became a major in the Nigeria army and helped to tame the Biafra army.

The Igbos started the civil war because they wanted to take the lands of the Niger Delta from the people that own the Niger Delta, because the Europeans came and created Nigeria.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRx3RhN3XE
Irrespective of the past, if the Igbos or any other tribe want a separate country, they have the inalienable rights to do so.
However, I think it is best that their Representatives in the National and States Assemblies table this in Parliaments
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by Nobody:
MEEVEET:
Nnamdi kanu have never declared Biafra

Ekpa is a joke, any unelected official who declares independence of people who didn't elected him should be arrested n jailed
So who has been elected now by the Igbos to declear Biafra's independence?

And also who elected Ojuku to declear Biafra in 1967?

Ojukwu gives a Press Conference in the newly declared Biafra


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9W8SJN2nlU
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Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by oyatz(m): 2:06pm On Aug 31, 2024
helinues:
The Rwanda civil war was more recent yet they have moved on
1) Rwanda is a very small country compared to Nigeria.

2) Rwanda is fairly homogeneous.
The Rwandans, despite divisions into Twi, Hutu and Tutsi ,speak only one language called Banyarwanda and practice same culture.

3) Rwanda have abolished 'tribes' such that it is now illegal to call a Rwanda citizen Hutu or Tutsi, but you can simply call him a Rwandan

It is easier for Rwanda to move on and reconcile since they are more or less the same people.
Re: The Igbos Need Healing, The Civil War Did A Lot Of Damage To Them. by MEEVEET: 2:20pm On Aug 31, 2024
guysbewise:
So who has been elected now by the Igbos to declear Biafra's independence?

And also who elected Ojuku to declear Biafra in 1967?
.
Elected people's representatives declared Biafra nor ojukwu
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