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https://mypenmypaper./2009/02/16/introduction-to-ibo-tenanthood-wanted-yoruba-only/

I blogged sometime ago about my waka waka looking for a house. I’m still searching, and I spent my Saturday Valentine celebration with me, myself and I at Isolo, where an agent took me to see a 3BR. T’was my guy MD, who schooled me in my post: LoveNotes:Dowry Monday that took me to Isolo on Friday, Feb13th, house searching, but we couldn’t see the house, so I was asked to come back on Saturday.

I got more than what I asked for. After filling his form, and talking the property over, the only condition he gave me was that the landlord wanted only Yoruba tenants, and that since I said I was Yoruba, I was welcome.

In fact, this agent didn’t believe I was Yoruba, when I continued replying his yoruba-language questions in English. He had to ask for my ID card to make sure, and I had to tell him I was Obama’s Nigerian junior brother who couldn’t dish out the local lingo. I decided to ask this  oga, ‘baba KK’ for this discussion why the landlord was so tribalistic, wanting only Yorubas as tenants. He gave me a whole lot of reasons, many of which made my day. I never imagined such things could be happening.

Wahala dey for this world o. P.s: I’m saying it like I heard it, no pun intended. The following are some Introduction to Ibo tenanthood lessons I received.

Ibos don’t send. They are eager to pay the first rent and pack into your house, but na wahala to collect every other rental payment. Even when defaulting to pay rent, after the first tenure(usually 2-years) expire, they will go and call their brother and sister in the police to make trouble with the landlord. They can even go to court because you asked them to pay their rent or pack out of your house. Then when court postpone the case up and down, wetin man go do? If you drive them out of the house by force, the wahala go dey for your head because they go say case dey for court, but they no go pay for your rent o.
Ibo’s no get straight forward business, neither do they have a steady source of income. Even Ibo wey go tell you say na bank hin dey work, na lie. You better be careful of an Ibo man that tells you he’s a business man. See, my broda, even if Ibo man dey buy new new car, new new Jeep everyday, he will not pay you rent, and na wahala he go dey find. He go dey tell you say his container dey somewhere for Port Harcourt, and he dey wait for am, before he pay rent, yet if you see the expensive phone wey he go carry for hand, you sef go hala.
Ibo tenant go rent your house, live there and make it a warehouse: an ibo tenant might soon convert his rented residence into an office, a store, a warehouse where he could store a lot of things: spare parts, electronics, even fish etc., or a mechanic workshop regardless of whether the house/apartment dey upstairs or downstairs.

I came in at this point to tell my agent informant, baba KK that I’ve never seen a mechanic workshop on the third floor of a building that was upstairs. He laughed and laughed and told me I hadn’t seen anything yet. He continued: ‘see, if house get 3rd floor, and you rent am to Ibo, he fit convert am to mechanic workshop’. Now that’s funny.
See, business sense don destroy Ibo: Ibo tenant? they go rent your house, you go see them pack in, but you no go know when they go packout, and become their own landlord. He explained that its possible for an Ibo tenant to pack to another house and rent out your house to a 3rd party without your consent. Worse, they will now rent it out to another Ibo tenant, usually a relative. The new occupants will not recognize you as landlord, especially if you weren’t informed when your original Ibo tenant was packing out, and you’ll not be able to locate the person you originally rented the house to. At the end of the day, na police wahala, as you’ll be at logger-heads with the actual people living in the house, who will show you payment receipt of money that has not entered your own account, 1-year / 2-years after the original tenure of people you rented it out to expired.
Ibo woman wahala dey too much: See, if Ibo rent your house and pack in, you better be careful if he get ibo wife. Na your own trouble, as landlord, wey that woman go dey find. If you get to your own house and see shit everywhere, and you ask the woman say, madam, wetin dey happen, why is this place like this? You know wetin she go ask you? She fit call you idiot for even talking to am in the first place, for even telling her to take care of the house wey she dey live? Dem no know how to use anoda persons thing well. If na their own, they go care for am, do am well, but if na for anoda person, kai, dey go use am as if no be human being dey live for the house. Wahala don start be that o, when her husband come, na wetin no happen she go tell her husband and then that one too go dey find your trouble.  See, my boy, if Ibo use car, u no fit sell that thing for shinshin anymore.
See, if someone come to me and say he wan make I help am find tenant for hin house, the first question I go ask be say, who the last tenant be? If he say na Ibo, I go tell am say I no dey do. If you see house wey ibo pack out from ehn, ah, God himself no go dey happy say na human being use house like that. You no go know whether na human being or na animal live there. In fact, if ibo pack out of your house, you go need to get bank loan to put the house in order before another person fit pack in o.

If you rent out your house to ibo, if Ibo do anything to that house, like put keylock, window glass, even nail for wall wey hin use hang his own picture for wall, he go remove everything when he dey pack out. Any kin thing no matter how small, dem go remove am. Ibo go remove the bulb wey he use last. If na him do electrical work, he go remove am, he go remove the electrical cable, and the way he go remove am ehn, na be say he and the house dey fight. See, if Ibo fit remove the paint wey hin use paint house, he go remove am when he dey pack out.

I laughed until I I was tired. The passion with which baba KK schooled me out of his own experiences was most amazing. All I could imagine was the face of whoever Ibo man/woman who had dealt with baba KK in times past. Honestly, I shed a tear. I was so surprised.

p.s: the Landlord is not a Yoruba man, neither is he Ibo.

In my mind, all I could say was ‘wahala dey for this country o’, and meanwhile, I could not help thinking about my guy MD, my Coz, and my other Ibo in-law on the way…how all these guys will fare, for going down east to take their brides, etc. So I asked baba KK if this landlord we were waiting for would accept a Yoruba man married to an Ibo woman as his tenants. According to baba KK, an Ibo woman who marries a Yoruba man is not Ibo. Now that was a stunner.

I rested my case right there.

Now, its time for you to speak up. With all the allegations against Ibo tenants listed above, which can you relate with?

i can relate with this but it's actually has to do with an Igbo tenant and a Yoruba tenant.

My parents had 3 tenants. a yoruba muslim, a yoruba christian and an igbo christian. my parents are yoruba christians

They had no problems with the yoruba muslim but the igbo christian and yoruba christian showed them hell.

Yoruba christian didn't pay rent for 2 years, igbo christian didn't pay rent for 1.5 years. Yoruba christian would use my parents fuel (the one for their gen) and refuse to even acknowledge it. Igbo christian will refuse to pay his share of NEPA bill. Yoruba christian would rather drink and womanize than leave money for his family at home leading to the wife collecting food from my parents (whom they've refused to pay rent to). Igbo christian will beat his wife (whenever she demands money for family upkeep or for just any reason) who always runs into my parents arms for protection (even though they refused to pay rent). Infact a lot of things too numerous to mention.

I hardly visited home but once i came back and my sister narrated what had been happening to me, i contacted a reputable estate agent without my parents knowledge. They were shocked when my friend (who works there) showed up at their doorstep with a letter for them to sign authorizing their takeover as administrators. They signed and the battle began. The yoruba christian suddenly remembered he was an 'omoluabi' and started prostrating and begging for a chance to repent. The igbo christian got a lawyer and boasted he'll stay free of charge in that house for at least 5 years (his wife started begging behind his back anyway). When his lawyer got talking with the estate agent and he heard the whole story, he knew they had a weak case. when his lawyer informed him about the precarious nature of their case, igbo christian requested a meeting with me(they found out i was the initiator) but i declined. he sent his wife who came kneeling but i stuck to my guns that they must go. yoruba christian was too ashamed to talk to me because he knew he did wrong considering how much help i'd been to him in the past.

eventually, they both packed out. the igbo christian in a bid to make some trouble again told his lawyer that we were still holding unto his furniture and some few items. when the lawyer came to collect them by force, he was shocked at the sight he saw. horribly torn, dirty chairs and mattress, broken book shelf, bent pots etc. He called the man in my mum's presence and said ''Vitalis, na the properties wey you say mummy no gree you collect be this?'' the man said yes and lawyer said ''Vitalis, you're a very wicked man, this woman is supposed to charge you money to clean up this rubbish you use dirty her compound''

Finally the house was renovated and two tenants are back inside again. Guess what??





Another Igbo christian (bachelor) and a Yoruba christian (family man) but they are very ok......at least for now

so MayorofLagos, that's my story and it made me realize that there are bad tenants in every tribe

MayorofLagos:
https://mypenmypaper./2009/02/16/introduction-to-ibo-tenanthood-wanted-yoruba-only/

I blogged sometime ago about my waka waka looking for a house. I’m still searching, and I spent my Saturday Valentine celebration with me, myself and I at Isolo, where an agent took me to see a 3BR. T’was my guy MD, who schooled me in my post: LoveNotes:Dowry Monday that took me to Isolo on Friday, Feb13th, house searching, but we couldn’t see the house, so I was asked to come back on Saturday.

I got more than what I asked for. After filling his form, and talking the property over, the only condition he gave me was that the landlord wanted only Yoruba tenants, and that since I said I was Yoruba, I was welcome.

In fact, this agent didn’t believe I was Yoruba, when I continued replying his yoruba-language questions in English. He had to ask for my ID card to make sure, and I had to tell him I was Obama’s Nigerian junior brother who couldn’t dish out the local lingo. I decided to ask this  oga, ‘baba KK’ for this discussion why the landlord was so tribalistic, wanting only Yorubas as tenants. He gave me a whole lot of reasons, many of which made my day. I never imagined such things could be happening.

Wahala dey for this world o. P.s: I’m saying it like I heard it, no pun intended. The following are some Introduction to Ibo tenanthood lessons I received.

Ibos don’t send. They are eager to pay the first rent and pack into your house, but na wahala to collect every other rental payment. Even when defaulting to pay rent, after the first tenure(usually 2-years) expire, they will go and call their brother and sister in the police to make trouble with the landlord. They can even go to court because you asked them to pay their rent or pack out of your house. Then when court postpone the case up and down, wetin man go do? If you drive them out of the house by force, the wahala go dey for your head because they go say case dey for court, but they no go pay for your rent o.
Ibo’s no get straight forward business, neither do they have a steady source of income. Even Ibo wey go tell you say na bank hin dey work, na lie. You better be careful of an Ibo man that tells you he’s a business man. See, my broda, even if Ibo man dey buy new new car, new new Jeep everyday, he will not pay you rent, and na wahala he go dey find. He go dey tell you say his container dey somewhere for Port Harcourt, and he dey wait for am, before he pay rent, yet if you see the expensive phone wey he go carry for hand, you sef go hala.
Ibo tenant go rent your house, live there and make it a warehouse: an ibo tenant might soon convert his rented residence into an office, a store, a warehouse where he could store a lot of things: spare parts, electronics, even fish etc., or a mechanic workshop regardless of whether the house/apartment dey upstairs or downstairs.

I came in at this point to tell my agent informant, baba KK that I’ve never seen a mechanic workshop on the third floor of a building that was upstairs. He laughed and laughed and told me I hadn’t seen anything yet. He continued: ‘see, if house get 3rd floor, and you rent am to Ibo, he fit convert am to mechanic workshop’. Now that’s funny.
See, business sense don destroy Ibo: Ibo tenant? they go rent your house, you go see them pack in, but you no go know when they go packout, and become their own landlord. He explained that its possible for an Ibo tenant to pack to another house and rent out your house to a 3rd party without your consent. Worse, they will now rent it out to another Ibo tenant, usually a relative. The new occupants will not recognize you as landlord, especially if you weren’t informed when your original Ibo tenant was packing out, and you’ll not be able to locate the person you originally rented the house to. At the end of the day, na police wahala, as you’ll be at logger-heads with the actual people living in the house, who will show you payment receipt of money that has not entered your own account, 1-year / 2-years after the original tenure of people you rented it out to expired.
Ibo woman wahala dey too much: See, if Ibo rent your house and pack in, you better be careful if he get ibo wife. Na your own trouble, as landlord, wey that woman go dey find. If you get to your own house and see shit everywhere, and you ask the woman say, madam, wetin dey happen, why is this place like this? You know wetin she go ask you? She fit call you idiot for even talking to am in the first place, for even telling her to take care of the house wey she dey live? Dem no know how to use anoda persons thing well. If na their own, they go care for am, do am well, but if na for anoda person, kai, dey go use am as if no be human being dey live for the house. Wahala don start be that o, when her husband come, na wetin no happen she go tell her husband and then that one too go dey find your trouble.  See, my boy, if Ibo use car, u no fit sell that thing for shinshin anymore.
See, if someone come to me and say he wan make I help am find tenant for hin house, the first question I go ask be say, who the last tenant be? If he say na Ibo, I go tell am say I no dey do. If you see house wey ibo pack out from ehn, ah, God himself no go dey happy say na human being use house like that. You no go know whether na human being or na animal live there. In fact, if ibo pack out of your house, you go need to get bank loan to put the house in order before another person fit pack in o.

If you rent out your house to ibo, if Ibo do anything to that house, like put keylock, window glass, even nail for wall wey hin use hang his own picture for wall, he go remove everything when he dey pack out. Any kin thing no matter how small, dem go remove am. Ibo go remove the bulb wey he use last. If na him do electrical work, he go remove am, he go remove the electrical cable, and the way he go remove am ehn, na be say he and the house dey fight. See, if Ibo fit remove the paint wey hin use paint house, he go remove am when he dey pack out.

I laughed until I I was tired. The passion with which baba KK schooled me out of his own experiences was most amazing. All I could imagine was the face of whoever Ibo man/woman who had dealt with baba KK in times past. Honestly, I shed a tear. I was so surprised.

p.s: the Landlord is not a Yoruba man, neither is he Ibo.

In my mind, all I could say was ‘wahala dey for this country o’, and meanwhile, I could not help thinking about my guy MD, my Coz, and my other Ibo in-law on the way…how all these guys will fare, for going down east to take their brides, etc. So I asked baba KK if this landlord we were waiting for would accept a Yoruba man married to an Ibo woman as his tenants. According to baba KK, an Ibo woman who marries a Yoruba man is not Ibo. Now that was a stunner.

I rested my case right there.

Now, its time for you to speak up. With all the allegations against Ibo tenants listed above, which can you relate with?

This silly man you have started you stupidity this morning, my response to one of your silly threads, do you think I can't create thread for it? Respect yourself and your region, you want to start what you can finish. I know that Igbos are your worst nightmare but try and control your hatered.

MayorofLagos:
https://mypenmypaper./2009/02/16/introduction-to-ibo-tenanthood-wanted-yoruba-only/

I blogged sometime ago about my waka waka looking for a house. I’m still searching, and I spent my Saturday Valentine celebration with me, myself and I at Isolo, where an agent took me to see a 3BR. T’was my guy MD, who schooled me in my post: LoveNotes:Dowry Monday that took me to Isolo on Friday, Feb13th, house searching, but we couldn’t see the house, so I was asked to come back on Saturday.

I got more than what I asked for. After filling his form, and talking the property over, the only condition he gave me was that the landlord wanted only Yoruba tenants, and that since I said I was Yoruba, I was welcome.

In fact, this agent didn’t believe I was Yoruba, when I continued replying his yoruba-language questions in English. He had to ask for my ID card to make sure, and I had to tell him I was Obama’s Nigerian junior brother who couldn’t dish out the local lingo. I decided to ask this  oga, ‘baba KK’ for this discussion why the landlord was so tribalistic, wanting only Yorubas as tenants. He gave me a whole lot of reasons, many of which made my day. I never imagined such things could be happening.

Wahala dey for this world o. P.s: I’m saying it like I heard it, no pun intended. The following are some Introduction to Ibo tenanthood lessons I received.

Ibos don’t send. They are eager to pay the first rent and pack into your house, but na wahala to collect every other rental payment. Even when defaulting to pay rent, after the first tenure(usually 2-years) expire, they will go and call their brother and sister in the police to make trouble with the landlord. They can even go to court because you asked them to pay their rent or pack out of your house. Then when court postpone the case up and down, wetin man go do? If you drive them out of the house by force, the wahala go dey for your head because they go say case dey for court, but they no go pay for your rent o.
Ibo’s no get straight forward business, neither do they have a steady source of income. Even Ibo wey go tell you say na bank hin dey work, na lie. You better be careful of an Ibo man that tells you he’s a business man. See, my broda, even if Ibo man dey buy new new car, new new Jeep everyday, he will not pay you rent, and na wahala he go dey find. He go dey tell you say his container dey somewhere for Port Harcourt, and he dey wait for am, before he pay rent, yet if you see the expensive phone wey he go carry for hand, you sef go hala.
Ibo tenant go rent your house, live there and make it a warehouse: an ibo tenant might soon convert his rented residence into an office, a store, a warehouse where he could store a lot of things: spare parts, electronics, even fish etc., or a mechanic workshop regardless of whether the house/apartment dey upstairs or downstairs.

I came in at this point to tell my agent informant, baba KK that I’ve never seen a mechanic workshop on the third floor of a building that was upstairs. He laughed and laughed and told me I hadn’t seen anything yet. He continued: ‘see, if house get 3rd floor, and you rent am to Ibo, he fit convert am to mechanic workshop’. Now that’s funny.
See, business sense don destroy Ibo: Ibo tenant? they go rent your house, you go see them pack in, but you no go know when they go packout, and become their own landlord. He explained that its possible for an Ibo tenant to pack to another house and rent out your house to a 3rd party without your consent. Worse, they will now rent it out to another Ibo tenant, usually a relative. The new occupants will not recognize you as landlord, especially if you weren’t informed when your original Ibo tenant was packing out, and you’ll not be able to locate the person you originally rented the house to. At the end of the day, na police wahala, as you’ll be at logger-heads with the actual people living in the house, who will show you payment receipt of money that has not entered your own account, 1-year / 2-years after the original tenure of people you rented it out to expired.
Ibo woman wahala dey too much: See, if Ibo rent your house and pack in, you better be careful if he get ibo wife. Na your own trouble, as landlord, wey that woman go dey find. If you get to your own house and see shit everywhere, and you ask the woman say, madam, wetin dey happen, why is this place like this? You know wetin she go ask you? She fit call you idiot for even talking to am in the first place, for even telling her to take care of the house wey she dey live? Dem no know how to use anoda persons thing well. If na their own, they go care for am, do am well, but if na for anoda person, kai, dey go use am as if no be human being dey live for the house. Wahala don start be that o, when her husband come, na wetin no happen she go tell her husband and then that one too go dey find your trouble.  See, my boy, if Ibo use car, u no fit sell that thing for shinshin anymore.
See, if someone come to me and say he wan make I help am find tenant for hin house, the first question I go ask be say, who the last tenant be? If he say na Ibo, I go tell am say I no dey do. If you see house wey ibo pack out from ehn, ah, God himself no go dey happy say na human being use house like that. You no go know whether na human being or na animal live there. In fact, if ibo pack out of your house, you go need to get bank loan to put the house in order before another person fit pack in o.

If you rent out your house to ibo, if Ibo do anything to that house, like put keylock, window glass, even nail for wall wey hin use hang his own picture for wall, he go remove everything when he dey pack out. Any kin thing no matter how small, dem go remove am. Ibo go remove the bulb wey he use last. If na him do electrical work, he go remove am, he go remove the electrical cable, and the way he go remove am ehn, na be say he and the house dey fight. See, if Ibo fit remove the paint wey hin use paint house, he go remove am when he dey pack out.

I laughed until I I was tired. The passion with which baba KK schooled me out of his own experiences was most amazing. All I could imagine was the face of whoever Ibo man/woman who had dealt with baba KK in times past. Honestly, I shed a tear. I was so surprised.

p.s: the Landlord is not a Yoruba man, neither is he Ibo.

In my mind, all I could say was ‘wahala dey for this country o’, and meanwhile, I could not help thinking about my guy MD, my Coz, and my other Ibo in-law on the way…how all these guys will fare, for going down east to take their brides, etc. So I asked baba KK if this landlord we were waiting for would accept a Yoruba man married to an Ibo woman as his tenants. According to baba KK, an Ibo woman who marries a Yoruba man is not Ibo. Now that was a stunner.

I rested my case right there.

Now, its time for you to speak up. With all the allegations against Ibo tenants listed above, which can you relate with?

TRASH

;P

The time you spent in thinking and typing this, you would have u've used it to do something productive.

The mind is powerful, develop it.

Let the war begin GANN GANN *runz of the thread like chaplin*

Let the war begin GANN!! GANN!! *runz of the thread like chaplin*

Mayorofokitipupa has run mad o .

FKO81:
This silly man you have started you stupidity this morning, my response to one of your silly threads, do you think I can't create thread for it? Respect yourself and your region, you want to start what you can finish. I know that Igbos are your worst nightmare but try and control your hatered.

But he has an Igbo wife na