Ikwerreboy:
I want to use this oppurnity to pls inform all the igbos/south easterners, i would have prefer to call you biafrans but you are still under the canopee of nigeria.
Niger delta (south south geo-political zone) is not against your biafran struggle, no, we are not against it. We understand the persecutions the igbo tribe have and are currently going through in the north,south west and in the south south, you are always critised, you are never loved, they condem you, they hate your progress, they don't see you as one of them, they even go as far as not geting married to your tribe and also not selling lands to you (Expecially the Ogba people,Ogoni people,Kalabari people,engenni people and some part of ikwerre, expecially outside port harcourt and obio apkor local govt areas all in present day rivers state)
In the north they are killing you, in the south west (yoruba land) they are killing and deporting you, in the south south they dispise you they never acepted your biafra proposal even when you both lived as then eastern region, up till date the kalabari,ikwerre,ogoni,ogba and ekpeye people of rivers state celebrate the liberation of their tribe from the hands of the igbos during the biafran war.
We understand the love as many may say that the igbos have for we the south south, e.g the massive support you gave to our son in 2011 and 2015 presidential elections and we are very glad for this, i want to say a big thank you for everyone of you. We the south south have showed so much appreciation to you igbos for the love you have for us, we have never killed you,deport you, close down your investment, or even introduce policies that will make life unbearable for you in the south south, we have never, we accomodate you, you leave without fear unlike in other regions of nigeria, even though the fear is there as some may say, but it is less in the south south than any other region of nigeria.
But i have now understood that despite all these freedom giving to you igbos by we the south south in south south zone have never be regarded by most of you, you still figure hate in our minds, you still figure out batrayer in our minds, you belief the only thing that would clear all this though you have toward us is our open aceptance of biafra republic as 98% of south south are not in support/interested in biafra.
Ever since the biafra war, all you are all bent to is letting we the south south belief the northerners and the yorubas are our enemies even when we have no record of any negative role they played on us rather they even helped by liberating us from the hands of the larger tribe (igbos) in the then eastern region. Secondly you have always been preaching love in our ears, trying to make us believe that the only brothers we have in nigeria are the igbos, forgetting the negative role your fathers who migrated to the south south place on the ibibio people (google Aro-ibibio war and through the wikipedia link click and read for yourself), on the ikwerre,ogba and ekpeye people (were there community names were changed,teaching of igbo language in schools,overthrowning the mayor of port harcourt from an ikwerrian, rewriting the history and bent on eradicating the culture of the ikwerre,ogba, and ekpeye people and so on), on the ogonis, the kalabari and even the etche people of rivers state. Indeed you were bent on igbolising the south south, but you never succeeded as the ikwerres,ogbas and ekpeyes that were affected more than all other ethnic group in the south south and been documented by the nigerian govt as ethnic groups of there own, not igbo,not ijaw,not yoruba, not hausa but on there individual tribe, they still retain there history and are not members of any of your organisation till date even if they bear similar names,cultures and language with you igbos.
Truth most be told and do not hate me for this, because it will not change anything.
Geo-graphically south south is far larger than south east (only cross rivers and akwa ibom is more than the whole of the south east).
In terms of natural resources, south south by the grace of God is more bless than the south east, excluding our crude oil that is been used to feed the whole of our dear country today including you igbos, as you offer nothing to the federal govt but recieve monthly allocation every month fron our God given resoureces, we, south south are not fools and can never be decieved.
In terms of development you are no were close to we the south south, as only port harcourt city (ikwerre land) with airports,sea ports popularly known as the lagos of the south south/niger delta is more developed than the whole of the south east, not to talk of warri,calabar,benin and presently uyo the capital of akwa ibom state all in the south south zone.
Politically we (south south) are far better than you south easterners.
Let me just stop here, some times i ask this question; Who is suppose to ask who to join her.
South south is south south, south east is south east, south west is south west, we have different struggles, we the south south we have Movement For The Emacipation Of Niger Delta Republic (M.E.N.D) a republic that was first decleared on feb.23the 1996 even before ojukwu's biafra republic declearation, the south west have there Oduduwa, and also the south east have there biafra.
Igbos stop telling people we are part of your biafra, as 98% of us are not aware/in support of what you are doing over there. 30th of march you shall be celebrating your biafran heroes, and urge every nigerian to watch and see if the south south will participate in this celebration, if you find anyone with a biafran flag in any of the south south state go and check very well he or she is igbo, that is if at all you will find one.
I don't hate anybody but rather am trying to secure my people (south south) from falling into another nigeria (south south and south east merging to form biafra). I will never allow that by the grace of God.
I urge all the indegenes of the south south zone to love one another, though we are of seperated ethnic groups but God has a reason for placing us together in one region, we ever you go, were ever you stay threat a south southerners be it ikwerre,urhobo,itsekiri,ogoni,ijaw,e.t.c as you blood brother for we are one.
Don't be moved by those creating fake biafran maps that has south south on it for they are confused people, yes and they will continue to be confused till they realise themselfs.
As we await the almighty God who have placed us together to grant us our freedom always have one thing in mind, I am a nigeria but with time me and my generation to come will surely one day be Niger deltans, not biafra, not oduduwa not arewa but Niger delta..
God bless you all.....By Ubong .E.Daniel ..
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=699057263537466&id=691375847638941&_rdr i have taken time to study the aro-ibibio war and there were never a place there where the igbos were forcely teaching those tribe you mentioned igno language and trying to change their culture. You are such a YORUBA hater man filled with bitterness to decieve the gullible but you have failed cos SS AND SE shall come tohether and form lower niger and shut you out in Jesus name amen |
