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Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by oladele97: 4:22pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
E SOURCE: READ MORE: OPINION YOU MAY ALSO LIKE READ NEXT ver since former President Jonathan lost the presidential elections on March 28 2015 which some of us knew he will never win based on the facts that we all know and the statistics available, majority of Igbo have been unhappy and angry. They have been cursing and abusing the President and APC leaders wishing that President Buhari never existed and APC never formed. Many of them have been so frustrated after the elections that they are now looking for a way to get back to the APC controlled Federal government. Joe Igbokwe writes from Lagos Now, one Nnamdi Kanu who has been dreaming about the State of Biafra has provided a space for them to vent their anger. Some of them have joined this small boy to begin to wish for the State of Biafra. Suddenly the so-called Radio Biafra has created a momentum for them. On facebook I have watched with a keen interest what these guys dish out on daily basis in the name of fighting for Biafra. They tell blatant lies, they create havoc, they make terrible noise, they abuse other Nigerians, and they preach unimaginable propaganda and hate that at once put Igbo land in potential danger. I have been waiting for the South East Governors to speak up but they have maintained a deafening silence that suggests complicity. I have also waited for our elders to call this small boy to order but nothing has happened. With the so-called Radio Biafra this boy I do not know his age has unleashed an unimaginable trailer-load of lies and potentially dangerous propaganda that has put Igbo nation in danger. It is now 45years after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and I think that Igbo must rise up to stop this small boy who never saw the 1967-1970 Civil War and who may not know the implications of what he is doing. He has never consulted anybody to seek his opinion. He has been speaking to the gullible and not too educated people in Igboland, and very soon these uneducated people will take a dangerous decision that may decimate and destroy Igboland. Soon our people will start complaining that they were not consulted. To be fore warned is to be fore armed. Last week, I saw the photo of a group of people that gave the impression that they are getting a military training somewhere in Igboland. This afternoon I saw another photograph on facebook with some youths bearing guns and Nnamdi Kanu standing with them. I may not know where these pictures came from and what they are planning to do but this is the time to speak out and I urge anybody who is anybody who understands where we are coming from to stand up now to be counted. Woe betides a nation whose leaders are children. If we elders do not talk about this evil, posterity will never forgive us. Let us speak out and if these children do not hear us, then it should be on record that we spoke. About a month ago the barrage of lies and uncontrolled propaganda Radio Biafra dished out everyday drew the attention of NBC which asked Nigerians to stop listening to this useless Radio Station. Now here are compelling reasons why Igbo must remain in Nigeria in their own interest: Igbo fought a civil war of self determination between 1967 and 1970 and lost about one million people. This should be taken as a huge price for the unity of this country. Having paid this monumental supreme price I think Igbo should work for the unity of this country based on social justice, equity and fair play. Nigeria has three major ethnic groups: Hausa/ Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo. The Hausa/Fulani Empire has Hausa people stretching all through the Sahel to the Sudan. They are mostly Muslims and they have contact with the Arab world. The Yoruba nation has Togo, Benin Republic, Sierra Leone and even up to Brazil and Cuba to run to where their kinsmen are. Igbo nation has no outlet anywhere in the world where the language is spoken. Therefore they must see Nigeria as where they belong and work for its survival. Nigeria provided a big space for Igbo to spread their tentacles, explore, excel and blossom. South East is too small for this highly mobile and dynamic people to thrive. The world pays attention to Nigeria today because of our size and population. If Nigeria splits into smaller countries the world will pack their bag and baggage and leave. Population and size make a nation a destination. Assuming we manage to get a State of Biafra which State in the South East will produce the first President? When Enugu State was created, the late Governor C.C Onoh sacked all the Civil Servants and Teachers from Anambra State. Recently former governor Orji of Abia State sacked workers from Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu States. Now how can we manage Biafra with this attitude? Igbo control 60-70% of all the imports in Nigeria and other Nigerians, Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, Ijaw, Efik, Birom, Tiv, Idoma etc provides huge market for Igbo mobile and big time traders. Monumental inter marriages between Igbo and Yoruba and other ethnic groups have thrived for close to 70years now that we cannot just dismiss all these with a wave of hand. Igbo own huge and massive investments in property in Lagos and Abuja, and other State capitals in Nigeria. Now are you going to wish all this away? Other Nigerian cities have provided safe haven for Igbo as places to run to cool off whenever self inflicted crisis arise or other problems. When kidnapping became a way of life in the South East, our people moved to other parts of Nigeria to settle. Now where will Igbo go when confronted with these problems in Biafra. How can Igbo thrive without their Lagos and Abuja or Port-Harcourt? What happens to all their connections and relationships in these places? Can someone tell Nnamdi Kanu that wars may be fought for 50years and people will die to achieve Biafra? The war may even consume Nnamdi and all the members of his family and millions of others without achieving the purpose. We have been so inter-married, interwoven, intertwined, inter-related that the idea of separation may not be encouraged. I do not want to lose my friends from the other parts of Nigeria for anything. I can go on but there is no need to continue to do so. We must be strong enough to stop this world’s old problems of looking down on people who are different from us. This is the problem of Nigeria. Nigeria’s diversity is a big plus for all of us to excel. United we stand, divided we fall. I confess that Igbo have not played better politics in Nigeria since 1970 and that has been our bane. Anytime we want to change bad leadership in the country Igbo as a block will resist it. It happened in 1993 and we lost everything. In 2015 Igbo were at it again but forces of history prevailed. Igbo can do better than this. Now we must collectively stop this small boy called Nnamdi Kanu who is still sucking his mother’s breast before he endangers the whole of Igboland and plunge us into a civil war once again. When a writer is silent he is lying. A story that must be told never forgives silence. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in any society is that good men do nothing. However, I want Nigerian leaders to show leadership by carrying all Nigerians along in distributing power and resources. If there is no justice, there will be no peace. If there is no peace there will be no progress. Let justice prevail. Let us be fair to all concerned. If the truth must prevail and it must prevail, Nigeria has not been fair to Igbo since the end of civil war. They tell us that there is no victor and no vanquished but in actions and deeds the victors are still celebrating and enjoying the spoils of the war while the defeated are still languishing in abject neglect. For instance, of all the six zones in Nigeria only the South East zone has five States. We have found solace in all these because we have found out that those who are still oppressing the Igbo in Nigeria are not better. We also take solace in the findings of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council that all acts of indignity against human persons, against human society debase the perpetrators more than the victims. It is not that the offended cannot forgive but have the offenders repented? This injustice must stop now for the sake of unity of this country. I wrote Igbos: 25 Years After Biafra in 1995 thinking that the book will prick the conscience of other Nigerians but they have not paid any attention. It has been business as usual. Now, President Buhari must address this injustice. Case rested! Joe Igbokwe Lagos http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/14/compelling-reasons-why-nnamdi-kanu’s-biafra-project-must-be-stopped-now 1 Like |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by carzola(m): 4:23pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Abba999(f): 4:24pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Abba999(f): 4:36pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
[s][/s] oladele97:[s][/s] Rubbish! Mumu! Boko Haram r consuming ya family, u r busy here spewing nonesense. 5 Likes |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by kazmanbanjoko(m): 4:39pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
Biafra is a fraud. Igbos no dey tink well, they are brainwashed by dier leader. Follow the fellow who follows a dream, not a fellow who misleads. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by feedburner(m): 4:45pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
When Chukwuokike abiama told pharaoh to let his people go he was arrogant and stubborn. @op the time has come for the children of God (umuchukwu) to restore the kingdom of heaven of earth; Biafra that's why it can't stop. Nigeria (zoo) has expired (1914-2014) 7 Likes |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by ibietela2(m): 4:52pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
[s] oladele97:[/s] 1 Like |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by YoruBanger: 4:54pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
The author of the article wrote:
As tragic as it sounds, both the SE governors and elders are terrified of Kanu's influence over his followers, hence their fear and reluctance to speak out against him. For this reason they are complicit at best, and cowardly at worst. |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by feedburner(m): 4:57pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
How can somebody who answers igbokwe say that the death of millions of Biafra is a sacrifice for the unity of the zoo called Nigeria? Jesus Christ! Yahweh Yeshua! pls somebody with sense should tell dis baboon that the death of biafrans is a genocide. Steve Jobs became an atheist because of this. Yakubu Gowon and other murderers should get ready to appear before ICC for war crimes. 7 Likes |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Sall(m): 4:58pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
There greed and hatred has beclouded there since of reasoning this Igbo will bit there finger in regreat by the time they get what they want . And continue to listen to that corward called KANU. |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by zendy: 5:59pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
This entire write up by Joe Igbokwe is utter nonsense from top to bottom. I don't blame him after all, he is just another APC "hired-hand". Joe Igbokwe is just an obsolete relic in a digital age. The issue here is not how old Nnamdi Kanu is, the issue is if what Nnamdi Kanu stands for which the actualisation of Biafra, is a just cause. Have the Igbos and certain minorities in the SS got the right to disband any political ties with Nigeria and seek their own nation? That is the pertinent question to ask. Just look at the reasons Joe Igbokwe put forward why Igbos should forget their God given right to self determination in favour of a fraudulent and oppressive Nigerian state: Igbos paid a high price during the war yes Igbos paid a high price but freedom is one of the very few things in life worth dying for. We fought to prove to the world that we are not Nigerians. It is highly patronizing of Mr Igbokwe to say " please forget Biafra so that we will not be killed again". This is the talk of a myopic coward who has no sense of emancipation. Someone who has imbibed "captivity mentality" and a born defeatist. He said Igbos have outlet to the world to propagate their language: What has propagating my language go to do with gaining my sovereignty? Of what interest is to me if a Yoruba or Hausa man learns Igbo? The Yorubas and Hausas spread their language through their imperialistic machinations before the coming of the White man and that is their business. Nigeria provides a bigger space for Igbos Absolute rubbish! The Igbos have spread out across the world like a great swarm. Nigeria is like a tiny dot on the earth compared to mobility of the Igbos. For a small thinking Igbo man like Mr Igbokwe, Nigeria is big. The world pays attention to Nigeria because of population Another nonsense written by this man. The world pays attention to what a nation is producing and its human development. They don't care about population. Is it my job as an Igbo man to make up the population of Nigeria? Belgium is a country of just 11 million people but is far richer than Nigeria and is the seat of the European union. Bangladesh has a population of over 200 million but nobody knows them. Igbos control 60-70% of Nigerian imports and would lose that market if Biafra emerges This is the thinking of a man living in a box. As large as the world is, it only the Nigerian market that Mr Igbokwe can see. Is importation even such a good thing? People import when they are not producing anything. We should have Biafra so that we can turn those '70% importers' into 'exporters' of made in Biafra goods so we can grow our nation not import as if to say this is an economic plus. how can the Igbos thrive without Lagos,Abuja and Portharcourt ? Just look at the daft question an Igbo man is asking. Igbokwe doesn't even know that Porthacourt is an Igbo city owned by the Ikwere people ( Ikwere people speak Igbo as their ancestral language and bear Igbo surnames so if anyone says they are not Igbo can be debated another day) and is part of the Biafran establishment. Everyday, the work of Nnamdi Kanu brings the Ikwere nation closer to their Igbo brothers and they realise that the Nigerian state only used the war to cause divisions because of Oil. Igbokwe should as himself what will become of Lagos and Abuja if Igbos leave those places. Igbos don't need Lagos or Abuja, it is Lagos and Abuja that needs Igbos. I just want to finish this by telling my fellow Igbos and Biafran enthusiasts to Ignore Mr Igbokwe. He is just a myopic individual who cannot see beyond his nose. He is just another slave of "one Nigeria". Let us all see Nigeria as our dark past and Biafra as our new beginning. Forget the likes of Igbokwe, a slave and a free thinker can never reason alike. 9 Likes |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by oladele97: 6:12pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
feedburner: o boy read it very well, the above article was written by a reasonable Igbo and that who reason like u |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by oladele97: 6:25pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
zendy: I wish you have the email of the gentle man so that you direct it to him |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by feedburner(m): 6:26pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
oladele97: No reasonable Igbo man (maybe he his fathered by Hausa/Yoruba) will say that the blood of millions of innocent biafrans is a sacrifice for the unity of the zoo called Nigeria. If that monkey don't take his time I will cause him in the name of those innocent blood crying in Biafra land. He should go to hell. yakubu Gowon together with team of mass murderers should be tried for genocide. 3 Likes |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by oladele97: 6:28pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
feedburner: if you waste time cursing it will only bounce back on u |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Degis(m): 6:44pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
zendy: Useless boy |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Kingspin(m): 6:56pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
The writer must be a modern old man. Biafra radio has been on before the 2015 election campaign began. We must set the fact. Biafra is today because Nigeria refuse to work till date. They defeated the igbos during the war and i ask? is there peace in Nigeria thereafore? No. At Nigeria no talk no oneNIGERIA till tomorrow. |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by feedburner(m): 6:58pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
oladele97: The idiot was cursed immediately he made dat statement. so I don't want to compound his woes. |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Kingspin(m): 7:36pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
Igbo control 60-70% of all the imports in Nigeria - Joe Igbokwe . But in OneNigeria it is only Lagos seaport that is viable plus Kano and Kaduna inland port when the Market are men from the East. While not inland port in Benin or make river Niger navigable. This country will end naturally if not genuinely change. |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by IGBOSON1: 8:42pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
feedburner: ^^^The bastard efulefu has spent too long in Lagos, and has lost touch with his roots! Imagine the scum justifying the existence of this sham of a country based on war crimes committed against his kinsfolk! The very same evil people that did this are gloating today about it and are yet to apologize or pay any form of restitution! These same animals hate us with an overwhelming passion as can be seen by the way they talk down on us, marginalize and hound us in our businesses, jump for joy when misfortune befalls us or we lose out on anything, and murder us in cold blood....all this happening in what's supposed to be a nation they all want sustained! Instead of the fool to hide his face in shame going by the way his useless party apc is treating Ndigbo, he has the temerity to open his gob and spew crap! As we speak there's a retributive and vindictive plan being hatched to deal with Ndigbo for supporting GEJ.....and there was i thinking the elections and politicking are over! 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by sunnyb0b0(m): 9:13pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
oladele97: The only sense he made. |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Aegon(m): 10:25pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
feedburner:Don't you already know Joe Igbokwe? Every community must have its sellouts, besides the man has to eat, He needed something to impress Tinubu with. |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Nobody: 10:28pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
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Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by Nobody: 10:30pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
YoruBanger: When has any of your northern masters in the form of governors spoke against Boko Hatam? When has any of your useless governors in the Southwest spoken against boko haram? Get ready to learn the Koran off head . |
Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by YoruBanger: 10:48pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
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Re: Compelling Reasons Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped Now by ruffhandu: 11:14pm On Jul 14, 2015 |
What lie has the Nnamdi guy actually uttered? I want to know. The Joe igbokwe guy actually ended up telling us the reasons The Nnamdi should be listened to. He told us that what the "Small Boy" is saying now was the same thing Joe igbokwe wrote about in 1995 but ignored, and it's the same thing he's still saying. He simply is not happy it is being championed by a "Small Boy"- Some of such things Nnamdi condemns about Nigerians : "if I support him now he'll succeed and become more popular." |
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