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chiagozien:
Good to know about you

Thewrath:
Does the “illusion” have an expiry date?
If it’s an illusion why is Nigeria afraid of the igbos and have refused to fully integrate them back ?

Nigeria will continue to watch over its shoulders over an “illusion” until it can watch no more..

The reality is inevitable,it will only take time.

Razzness:
You can't give a single case of Igbo oppression in this country, in fact I think Igbos are treated extra nicely because of the war. Igbos are among the elite population in this country with the liberty to live freely, conduct business and thrive in every nuke and cranny sometimes at the expense of the indigenous population (not saying it's bad).

The only grudge some Igbos may have is that we have not had a president of Igbo descent. But you and I both know that it is not state policy that is to blame here. Its just the dynamics of the Nigerian politics which makes it so. I hope and pray for an Igbo president in our lifetime.

Razzness:
I believe the the most viable solution to making Nigeria a true giant of Africa is unity. We must see past our religious or cultural differences and focus on our common struggle against oppression and bad governments.

Razzness:
I believe the the most viable solution to making Nigeria a true giant of Africa is unity. We must see past our religious or cultural differences and focus on our common struggle against oppression and bad governments.

shortgun:
You are funny.
Why is south east the only region with only 5 states? While other regions have 6 and 7 states?...this means less representation in the senate and house of reps. Less allocation from the Federation account. E.t.c
Why is no refinery sited in the southeast despite having the most viable crude oil?
Why do south east children need to score 150 to gain admission into unity schools while the some part of the North only need to score 9?
Why is it that when criminals kill any security personnel in the southeast the army will retaliate by killing innocent people and burning down villages and towns but does not deploy the same strategy for other parts of the country.
Why does the southeast the most policed and most militarized region in Nigeria?
Why does southeast states receive the least allocation from the Federation monthly allocation

Make I stop here first.
The good thing is that the present generation of Easterners don't want to just seat and complain, they don't want to just complain, they are tired of being victims.

shortgun:
You are funny.
Why is south east the only region with only 5 states? While other regions have 6 and 7 states?...this means less representation in the senate and house of reps. Less allocation from the Federation account. E.t.c
Why is no refinery sited in the southeast despite having the most viable crude oil?
Why do south east children need to score 150 to gain admission into unity schools while the some part of the North only need to score 9?
Why is it that when criminals kill any security personnel in the southeast the army will retaliate by killing innocent people and burning down villages and towns but does not deploy the same strategy for other parts of the country.
Why does the southeast the most policed and most militarized region in Nigeria?
Why does southeast states receive the least allocation from the Federation monthly allocation

Make I stop here first.
The good thing is that the present generation of Easterners don't want to just seat and complain, they don't want to just complain, they are tired of being victims.

shortgun:
NNAMDI KANU: THE IMPERATIVE OF A POLITICAL SOLUTION


https://x.com/iamHSDickson/status/1993418021361402261?t=wSqDa41-KqHkkpKLYIEFWg&s=19[/quote]The truth is no example example from the past in honesty will stand in defence against this. If you check very well, you will see remorse in the cases that you want to sight.

So why is Simon Ekpa sentenced and none of you guys are fighting and standing by him.

Mazi don know law now

shortgun:
You are funny.
Why is south east the only region with only 5 states? While other regions have 6 and 7 states?...this means less representation in the senate and house of reps. Less allocation from the Federation account. E.t.c
Why is no refinery sited in the southeast despite having the most viable crude oil?
Why do south east children need to score 150 to gain admission into unity schools while the some part of the North only need to score 9?
Why is it that when criminals kill any security personnel in the southeast the army will retaliate by killing innocent people and burning down villages and towns but does not deploy the same strategy for other parts of the country.
Why does the southeast the most policed and most militarized region in Nigeria?
Why does southeast states receive the least allocation from the Federation monthly allocation

Make I stop here first.
The good thing is that the present generation of Easterners don't want to just seat and complain, they don't want to just complain, they are tired of being victims.

CharlotteFlair:
Oga, try to stream sense before delving in to do Chochocho. Well meaning Nigerians know the implications of the issue at stake but here you are always capping without first streaming sense. Please take several seats backwards when elders are discussing.

Razzness:
So which of the Igbo states is too big? Land wise or population wise there are states in Nigeria that are much bigger than all the Igbo states yet they have 3 senators like the Igbo states. How is that being unfair, do you want the government to create more states out of thin air in the south east.

In the core South East, only abia State has substantial oil reserve and before oil was discovered there refineries have already been built in neighbourig states of Delta and Rivers. So would it not be prudent to transport the crude oil there instead of building a refinery abia. Moreover, what are the refineries in Nigeria doing, absolutely nothing.

South Eastern schools have more competitions, while nothern schools have low applicants that why their cut off mark is lower. It simple logic, not because the schools don't like Igbos.

IPOB has gone scot free after burning a police station in abia, and have repeatedly attacked police and soldiers in other states without any consequence.

South East is the most militarized region ke, have you been to Borno, Benue, Yobe and Other states.

South East have higher FAAC allocation than North east and north central, so what are you saying.

The new generation of Nigerians, understand that they are not victims, they will let go of the grudges that have held us back and work towards building a better country.

shortgun:
You are very ignorant of Nnamdi Kanu,IPOB movement and the Biafran agitation.

For years, IPOB’s activities in the Southeast were peaceful. People marched, held rallies and demanded fairness in a country where many Igbos felt politically sidelined and constantly treated as second-class citizens. The movement’s message was loud but non-violent. Give us justice, give us equity, give us dignity or give us Biafra was IPOBs message everywhere.

But instead of dialogue, the federal government answered with military force, intimidation, arrests, and killing of many Igbo youths. Young people who came out with flags and placards were killed like criminals. Communities were surrounded by soldiers as though they were war zones. Naturally, this hardened feelings in the region and resentment for the government grew. People who didn't align with IPOBs ideology later sided with the movement.

The situation exploded with Operation Python Dance II in 2017. Soldiers invaded Nnamdi Kanu’s home in Abia State while he was on bail in an operation that many see as an assassination attempt by the Nigerian Army. His father died as a result of that operation and more than twenty five Igbo youths lost their lives during the raid. There are recorded cases of teenage girls captured by the military and turned into sex slaves after labeling them IPOB, fathers were rounded up in their places of work killed and labeled IPOB. Amnesty international recorded many extra judicial killings by the military.

What followed was predictable. When a peaceful movement is met with state sanctioned killings of innocent people, frustration and anger take over. The government’s actions radicalized many who once believed in non-violence.
Many youths now vowed to retaliate by killing many security officers

Invading Kanu’s residence and causing the deaths of innocent youths, the Nigerian military turned a peaceful agitation into a volatile movement. Many youths still remain missing till date. You don't expect not to fight back when you are unjustly killed by a government that should protect you.

........the rest they say is history.

Attached picture are IPOB members during a rally.
No guns, no clubs, no weapons, no violence Just flags, placards and loud voices

shortgun:
1.political representation has nothing to do with land size. It is about equal political representation.
Every state big or small in Nigeria has 3 senators.
So southeast with fewer states automatically have less representation, less political bargaining power and fewer federal allocations tied to the number of states.
North West: 7 states → 21 senators
South East: 5 states → 15 senators
This is a permanent structural disadvantage!

Representation is not calculated by land size; it’s calculated by number of states—and the South East has the lowest.
The point is that all regions were created politically, not naturally and the South East’s demand for balanced state creation is legitimate

2. Nigeria intentionally concentrated refineries and other oil infrastructures in certain regions because of political power distribution, not geography or efficiency.
If transporting crude is more prudent, why then did Nigeria build refineries in far away North (Kaduna), which has zero oil and requires pipelines running across the country? Without building one in the southeast which has crude oil and gas reserves?
The prudence argument collapses immediately...the only reason a refinery was built in kaduna was to give the North a sense of belonging.

Why is it taking the government of Nigeria this long to address this obvious inequality.

3. For schools cut off mark.
High competition isn’t the problem.
The problem is that the federal government santioned cut-off system that penalizes high-performing regions instead of expanding capacity and rewarding them, a system that punishes merit and rewards mediocrity is an anomaly!
Places with lower demand get preferential thresholds, which guarantees unequal intake and opportunity.

If the North has low applicants, that’s all the more reason to invest more in basic education there, not to suppress merit in competitive regions and kill the dreams of Igbo children which traumatize many of them forever. How exactly do you explain to a kid that their high score after rigorous studying is not enough to get them admission in the same school were kids from other regions don't even need to lift a finger for the same opportunity?

4. In the case of IPOB, no region has paid with the bloods of it's people for the actions of few like the southeast.
The atrocities Nigerian security personnels committed in the name of fighting IPOB in the southeast can only be equated to war time wickedness.

Many innocent Igbo people who had no business with IPOB have been killed and labeled IPOB
There was Mass arrests
There was Military raids
Illegal Detentions
Fighter jets were deployed to bomb villages.
Young teenage girls were labeled IPOB and turned to sex slaves.
Entire communities were touched by security officers.
Every Igbo person is regarded as IPOB member
Numerous killings of civilians wrongly labeled as IPOB/ESN. Worse still, the government did not investigate any of the killing of the innocent people which speaks volumes.

Meanwhile, other violent groups—Boko Haram collaborators, bandits, herdsmen militias have received negotiations, reintegration programs, and in some cases state-backed pardons.
So saying IPOB gets special freedom is misleading

5. Militarization: You are Comparing Apples to Oranges
Saying “Go to Borno or Yobe” as proof that the South East isn’t militarized oversimplifies the matter.
Yes, the Northeast hosts the military because it is an active warzone.
But the question is different:
Why does the South East without an active insurgency even before IPOB have the highest densities of checkpoints and federal security operations in the country? Do you know security officers pay huge bribes to the superiors to be posted to the southeast? Because of the money they'll illegally make from the people of the southeast?

A region with no declared war shouldn’t be treated like a war zone under siege.


6. The push for fairness is not a victim mentality.
Demanding structural balance is the foundation of every stable federation worldwide.
You cannot build national unity by telling one region to forget legitimate historical and political disadvantages.

Unity is only achieved by:
Correcting systemic imbalances
Ensuring equal political voice
Distributing national opportunities fairly

Equality Requires Honesty
Nigeria cannot move forward by pretending the system treats everyone the same.
The South East’s concerns are rooted in the undeniable mathematics of Nigerian federalism.
A country that seeks unity must first seek fairness.
And fairness begins with acknowledging the imbalance, not dismissing it.



Our fathers endured this shameless, daylight injustice because the Nigerian state and it's collaborators took advantage of the peaceful nonchalant nature of the Igbo man to cheat him out in everything.

But this generation, we don't have the patience of our fathers and will not sit quietly and continue to absorb disrespect.
We’re not begging anymore, we are not waiting, or pretending anymore.
We will take back control of our future and make sure our children never inherit this engineered injustice. If we don't do it nobody will do it for us

Nefort:
Just be honest with yourself, before Operation Python Dance started and before any protesters were killed, Nnamdi Kanu has been inciting violence through his radio Biafra broadcasts. He has a right to agitate for Biafra but they way he was doing the agitation was terribly wrong. The federal government made a mistake by killing innocent people but Nnamdi Kanu is also responsible for the mayhem because of his violent style of agitation.

When IPOB was beating up people not complying with the sit-at-home order is the federal government also responsible for that?

You can't fight the federal government of a nation. If you kill security personnel as revenge you will only end up making the situation worse. Security forces will come in again and kill more people. How does that solve any problem?

lawani:
State creation if states are equal should be based on population and the SE has like 80 percent of Lagos population according to NIN data. Why should SE have the same number of states as the SW with more than double the population or NW with more than triple?

States should be for whoever wants it but they should not be deemed equal

shortgun:
1.political representation has nothing to do with land size. It is about equal political representation.
Every state big or small in Nigeria has 3 senators.
So southeast with fewer states automatically have less representation, less political bargaining power and fewer federal allocations tied to the number of states.
North West: 7 states → 21 senators
South East: 5 states → 15 senators
This is a permanent structural disadvantage!

Representation is not calculated by land size; it’s calculated by number of states—and the South East has the lowest.
The point is that all regions were created politically, not naturally and the South East’s demand for balanced state creation is legitimate

2. Nigeria intentionally concentrated refineries and other oil infrastructures in certain regions because of political power distribution, not geography or efficiency.
If transporting crude is more prudent, why then did Nigeria build refineries in far away North (Kaduna), which has zero oil and requires pipelines running across the country? Without building one in the southeast which has crude oil and gas reserves?
The prudence argument collapses immediately...the only reason a refinery was built in kaduna was to give the North a sense of belonging.

Why is it taking the government of Nigeria this long to address this obvious inequality.

3. For schools cut off mark.
High competition isn’t the problem.
The problem is that the federal government santioned cut-off system that penalizes high-performing regions instead of expanding capacity and rewarding them, a system that punishes merit and rewards mediocrity is an anomaly!
Places with lower demand get preferential thresholds, which guarantees unequal intake and opportunity.

If the North has low applicants, that’s all the more reason to invest more in basic education there, not to suppress merit in competitive regions and kill the dreams of Igbo children which traumatize many of them forever. How exactly do you explain to a kid that their high score after rigorous studying is not enough to get them admission in the same school were kids from other regions don't even need to lift a finger for the same opportunity?

4. In the case of IPOB, no region has paid with the bloods of it's people for the actions of few like the southeast.
The atrocities Nigerian security personnels committed in the name of fighting IPOB in the southeast can only be equated to war time wickedness.

Many innocent Igbo people who had no business with IPOB have been killed and labeled IPOB
There was Mass arrests
There was Military raids
Illegal Detentions
Fighter jets were deployed to bomb villages.
Young teenage girls were labeled IPOB and turned to sex slaves.
Entire communities were touched by security officers.
Every Igbo person is regarded as IPOB member
Numerous killings of civilians wrongly labeled as IPOB/ESN. Worse still, the government did not investigate any of the killing of the innocent people which speaks volumes.

Meanwhile, other violent groups—Boko Haram collaborators, bandits, herdsmen militias have received negotiations, reintegration programs, and in some cases state-backed pardons.
So saying IPOB gets special freedom is misleading

5. Militarization: You are Comparing Apples to Oranges
Saying “Go to Borno or Yobe” as proof that the South East isn’t militarized oversimplifies the matter.
Yes, the Northeast hosts the military because it is an active warzone.
But the question is different:
Why does the South East without an active insurgency even before IPOB have the highest densities of checkpoints and federal security operations in the country? Do you know security officers pay huge bribes to the superiors to be posted to the southeast? Because of the money they'll illegally make from the people of the southeast?

A region with no declared war shouldn’t be treated like a war zone under siege.


6. The push for fairness is not a victim mentality.
Demanding structural balance is the foundation of every stable federation worldwide.
You cannot build national unity by telling one region to forget legitimate historical and political disadvantages.

Unity is only achieved by:
Correcting systemic imbalances
Ensuring equal political voice
Distributing national opportunities fairly

Equality Requires Honesty
Nigeria cannot move forward by pretending the system treats everyone the same.
The South East’s concerns are rooted in the undeniable mathematics of Nigerian federalism.
A country that seeks unity must first seek fairness.
And fairness begins with acknowledging the imbalance, not dismissing it.



Our fathers endured this shameless, daylight injustice because the Nigerian state and it's collaborators took advantage of the peaceful nonchalant nature of the Igbo man to cheat him out in everything.

But this generation, we don't have the patience of our fathers and will not sit quietly and continue to absorb disrespect.
We’re not begging anymore, we are not waiting, or pretending anymore.
We will take back control of our future and make sure our children never inherit this engineered injustice. If we don't do it nobody will do it for us

Razzness:
ordinary conversation, you don go dey use AI. Even the AI arguments self na rubbish but i no follow you argue since you no fit use your own reasoning to argue.

shortgun:
Sorry ooh, I no even know say my post go too hard for you to understand. But you self try upgrade your self

Razzness:
Says a guy who uses AI to generate arguments. your post is not hard, i just find it offensive that you could not use your own words to argue you had to resort to ai.