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Former presidential media aide and Arise TV anchor, Dr. Reuben Abati on Thursday disclosed how a former Minister of Information, the late Chief TOS Benson was denied the opportunity of buying a land in Igboland simply because he is a Yoruba man.

Abati, said the late Minister, who was married to an Igbo woman, publicly made the remarks in Lagos at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA).

While reacting to the statement by Senate President, Gosdwill Akpabio that Igbos build houses and establish businesses in any state they reside across Nigeria, Abati wondered why the Igbos can’t reciprocate the good gestures to outsiders.

“He (Akpabio) is right if he says Igbos are entrepreneurial and I end by what people say about Igbos that if you enter a community, a village and you don’t see an Igbo man there, please pack your things and go. It means that place is not conducive”.

“However, let me give the flipside. The late Chief TOS Benson, former Minister of Information, on one occasion at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) and I am not making this up. He said it publicly and if anybody can contradict me, let them do so. He said something about Igbo people. He said he had an Igbo wife and had an Igbo daughter”.

“He said that he wanted to buy land in Igboland for his daughter and wife, to say I’m (TOS Benson) getting old, let me build in this place for my wife. He said that his in-laws told him that they don’t sell land to outsiders. That is the irony of Nigeria, about the politics of the federation of the unity”.

“The same Igbos who are so industrious, that they are all over and they do well in other parts of Nigeria, you go as a non-Igbo man to go and buy a land, you will be told that you don’t belong even as an in-law” Abati said.
https://thescrutinyng.com/2024/11/21/how-igbos-refused-to-sell-land-to-an-in-law-former-minister-who-is-yoruba-reuben-abati/

Not something new or perhaps this shouldn't be a news

At least 40% of the available land in South East have been acquired by their billionaires with no intentions of using it for anything but to add to family glory while some families are not even interested in selling their lands.

Only skyscraper buildings would save South East real estate in the future

Huge lies. We have a Yoruba that owns a business school in Onitsha. These lies are disgusting and outdated. If you have your money, I can get you land in Independence layout enugu

Yoruba can't even buy land in alaigbo yet Igbos are building houses and contesting in Yoruba land
In short
Igbos resources for Igbos only.
But Yoruba resources should be for Igbos too
Oti ye mi

I think these might only happen in the interior parts of igbo land.

And why would anyone want to buy land over there, unknown gunmen go just kill you.

kettykin:
Huge lies. Ww have a Yoruba that owns a business school in Onitsha. These lies are . If you have your money I can get you land in Independence layout enugu

IT IS CALLED A NARRATIVE.

BIGOTRY, XENOPHOBIA, TRIBALISM ARE STRONGLY LINKED TO NARRATIVE.


IN SOUTH AFRICA THE NARRATIVE TO JUSTIFY HATE IS POWDER.


OH, YORUBA MAN MARRY IGBO WOMAN CANNOT BUY LAND IN SEAST, MEANWHILE YORUBA PEOPLE ARE BUYING LAND IN THE SAME SE.


AS A MATTER OF FACT, WALTERSMITH REFINERY IS OWNED BY A HAUSAFULANI, MASSIVE LAND.

https://www.nairaland.com/7798813/yoruba-developer-stephen-akintayo-buys

Lies and propanga against 2027

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helinues:
Not something new or perhaps this shouldn't be a news

At least 40% of the available land in South East have been acquired by their billionaires with no intentions of using it for anything but to add to family glory while some families are not even interested in selling their lands.

Only skyscraper buildings would save South East real estate in the future

If you beleive this, then your IQ is below flashing credit.

So, a land seller will first ask your tribe before selling land to you?

Hate can really make someone believe every rubbish


Una talk say Igbo can sell his brother for money. Na the same una wide mouth dey talk say Igbo no dey sell land to other tribe

Chai

Why are yorubas like this?

Bendeco02:
If you beleive this, then your IQ is below flashing credit.

So, a land seller will first ask your tribe before selling land to you?

Hate can really make someone believe every rubbish

Why are yorubas like this?

See, I can't count how many times I have talked about this not to talk of how many years I have been talking about it.

You know what I am saying is true but will pretend as if it's not happening.

It's for the sake of una region.

Bendeco02:
If you beleive this, then your IQ is below flashing credit.

So, a land seller will first ask your tribe before selling land to you?

Hate can really make someone believe every rubbish

Why are yorubas like this?

Glo is a yoruba company, first bank , GTB , Connoil and they are all sitting on landed property in the east. It seems the devil really lies through some people

Lies from the pit of hell

helinues:
See, I can't count how many times I have talked about this not to talk of how many years I have been talking about it.

You know what I am saying is true but will pretend as if it's not happening.

It's for the sake of una region.

Oya come, am ready to bet 3M, you bet 1M. We will go any random community in Igbo land. If they refuse to sell land to you, take the money.

Still inform them you're yoruba even if they don't ask

SEE EHEN, THIS NARRATIVE IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY YORUBA NARRATIVES.

HERE ONE OF THEM BUSTED AND EXPOSED THEIR LIES.

ALWAYS ONE YORUBA(THE DETRIBALISED) WILL EXPOSE THE NARRATIVES AS LIES, BEING PEDDLE BY THE BIGOTS AMONGST THEM.


https://www.nairaland.com/7798813/yoruba-developer-stephen-akintayo-buys

How a yoruba man got a piece of land for free in SE

Igbo people that say Yoruba and Hausa will come and never buy land to build house.

If you want land for development, they are looking for buyers even in Onitsha city there.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLOGVbZRiks

Bendeco02:
Oya come, am ready to bet 3M, you bet 1M. We will go any random community in Igbo land. If they refuse to sell land to you, take the money

Bro read and comprehend. Everything shouldn't be about politics.

My comments is not even even about selling to other tribes but the land future issue in South East

Have you forgotten about the man in Anambra who was insisting the proposed land for the airport was is family's land?

How about Arthur Eze abi what's that man's name that has been arresting people because of lands he has no intention of using anytime soon.

Be realistic

Only mad Yoruba get married to Osu lady, they're meant to be bleeped and discarded.

ObaOfBeninNahMu:
Only mad Yoruba get married to Osu lady, they're meant to be bleeped and discarded.

EHEN THE WERY HAVE ARRIEVD THINKING IGBO PEOPLE WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FOR NONSENSE.

WELL, I HAVE DONE JUSTICE TO THIS THREAD AND IT IS TIME FOR ME TO TAKE MY LEAVE.


CONTINUE WITH YOUR WEREY NARRATIVE, BIGOT OSHI

helinues:
Bro read and comprehend. Everything shouldn't be about politics.

My comments is not even even about selling to other tribes but the land future issue in South East

Have you forgotten about the man in Anambra who was insisting the proposed land for the airport was is family's land?

How about Arthur Eze abi what's that man's name that has been arresting people because of lands he has no intention of using anytime soon.

Be realistic

But the topic is about how Igbo comunity refuse selling land to him because he's yoruba man

Bendeco02:
But the topic is about how Igbo comunity refuse selling land to him because he's yoruba man

I am not interested in that discussion honestly. Even Igbo's are being denied same

Nawa o

kettykin:
Huge lies. We have a Yoruba that owns a business school in Onitsha. These lies are disgusting and outdated. If you have your money, I can get you land in Independence layout enugu

Don't contradict him, he is saying the truth. Igbos do not sell land to non-Igbos.

On one hand igbos can do anything for money on the other hands igbos don't sale land to strangers

But banks owned by outsiders have branches in igbo land

Abati please tell us how GTB got it's land to build branches in igbo land

The only land u can't buy in igboland is communal land owned by the whole village... No body cares what u do with your private land

ObaOfBeninNahMu:
No Yoruba will own a business in your rotten and useless region,we Yoruba will never come to your useless region,any bastard that claim to be Yoruba in your region is impostor,what business Yoruba has with Osu people?

Onitsha business school is owned by a Yoruba man

kettykin:
Huge lies. We have a Yoruba that owns a business school in Onitsha. These lies are disgusting and outdated. If you have your money, I can get you land in Independence layout enugu

That's one out of a hundred instances. Ibos hardly sell land to outsiders, they over-estimate their so-called ancestral lands so much so that they kill themselves over a piece of land.

Igbos will never learn!

If someone like Reuben Abati can parrot this nonsense, then some of us are justified in saying that there is nothing like an 'h-educated' Yoruba man when it comes to senseless and extreme tribalism. They are all the same. From their useless Professors like Wole Soyinka to the lowliest of MC Oluomo's motor park touts.

It took Tinubu's coming to finally realise what I had 'nationalistically' refused to believe all these years.