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princdebola201:
I was told that every Igboman who heard Ojukwu’s
speech after the Biafran war was filled with a renewed
sense of pride and hope. A hope that one day the Igbo
nation will rise and become a force of reckoning not just
in Nigeria but in the entire black world. I have read that
speech over and over and each time I read through, I am
filled with pride and imagination of how those who heard
the words pouring out of the mouth of the warlord
himself must have felt. Before going any further, let me
recount a little part of what the late sage said while
addressing the press:
“In the three years of the war, necessity gave birth to
invention. During those three years of heroic bound, we
leapt across the great chasm that separates knowledge
from know-how. We built rockets, and we designed and
built our own delivery systems. We guided our rockets.
We guided them far, we guided them accurately. For
three years, blockaded without hope of import, we
maintained all our vehicles. The state extracted and
refined petrol, individuals refined petrol in their back
gardens. We built and maintained our airports,
maintained them under heavy bombardment. Despite
the heavy bombardment, we recovered so quickly after
each raid that we were able to maintain the record for
the busiest airport in the continent of Africa. We spoke to
the world through telecommunication system
engineered by local ingenuity; the world heard us and
spoke back to us! We built armoured car tanks. We
modified aircraft from trainer to fighters, from
passenger aircraft to bombers. In the three years of
freedom we had broken the technological barrier. In
three years we became the most civilised, the most
technologically advanced black people on earth.”
Ojukwu, with those few lines, defined the ingenuity and
never-say-die spirit God has embedded in the marrows
of the Igboman. But my question for Ndigbo is, where
has this ingenuity for which the entire world has given
them a standing ovation, gone? Why can’t it be used
today to enhance the cause of Ndigbo? Can’t we re-enact
the same war time feat to launch ourselves back to
reckoning again in Nigeria and in the entire black world?
Since Ojukwu died, Ndigbo have been like sheep without
a shepherd. Those who we thought could take up the
mantle of leadership are nothing but selfish entities who
care for nothing but their personal interest. As I am
writing this article, I just got words that a senator in Imo
State has been discovered as a saboteur working against
the interest of his people because he has been promised
to be made Senate president in the new political
dispensation which begins on May 29. What is it with
Ndigbo and greed? How long are we going to kill
ourselves? Isn’t it a gargantuan shame that a tribe as
populous as Ndigbo can’t provide a single individual that
is seen to be credible enough to be elected president of
Nigeria? A casual observation of the performances of the
governors of the south eastern states will reveal their
level of under-performance since 1999. Case point, take
Aba which has failed to enjoy any meaningful
development since the 1929 Aba women riot. The place
is a total mess. What have the governors done with what
has been accruing to the state in the last 16 years of
democratic rule? The fact that these individuals who have
mismanaged fortunes of the state consider themselves fit
to even contest election is a slap on the faces of Ndigbo.
Ndigbo, are we cursed? The red-cap goons known as
Ohaneze do nothing but crawl from one place to another
offering themselves for sale and for use. This has been
their money-making scheme for too long and it can no
longer hold water. Can’t we take a cue from the style
Dangote adopted and made a kill? The Yoruba have
already adopted it and it is working. We have to
restrategise to become that economic power house we
crave. The idea that every Igboman who makes money
whether through his ingenuity or by accident becomes
misguided and begins to push for political office even
though they are clearly not professional politicians
should be discarded.
We hear of Dangote, the Dantatas, Otedola, Mike
Adenuga, the Okoyas, where are the Igbo equivalent in
terms of their organisational set-up? Most of our
businesses are largely one-man businesses and whenever
the founder dies, the whole thing dies. Ndigbo must do
away with their selfishness and personal greed, otherwise
we will continue to languish as a people. We must
redirect our thoughts away from the deeply engrossed
notion of “to make it in life,” “we must make money at all
cost.” What Ndigbo should learn from the just concluded
elections is that without a harmony of opinion, all our
efforts will yield nothing. Igbo kwezuenu.


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Mckennedy:
trast,,,,trash,,,trash!! when has yoloba became igbo mouth piece be proud of who you are ewedu yoloba.

fulanimafia:
Etcetera is now Yoruba? Because he spoke the truth?

Cc: sweetlemon

BuddahMonk:
It doesnt matta if he spoke the truth or not but in reality lets know who is better off

[s]check Igbo household, check yoruba and hausa households.

Check igbo cities, check yoruba amd hausa cities.

Check igbo youths, check yoruba and hausa youths.

North is yet to eradicate polio, VVF etc while strange sicknesses are invading SW while they send their kids to East to learn trade and crafts.

All the beggars in Nigeria are 70% hausas and 20% yorubass despite your acclaimed leadership[/s]

fulanimafia:
The bolded highlights the Ibo problems Etcetera is talking about. I am not interested in chest beating, Dangote and the satanic vices of your kin rubbishes all you wrote up there.

Until you can objectively respond to Etcetera's post, avoid my mentions.

Udmaster:
Dangote?hahahaha. A Rich Man in the midst of Poverty in the North.. Go and drink your morning cow urine.

BuddahMonk:
It doesnt matta if he spoke the truth or not but in reality lets know who is better off

check Igbo household, check yoruba and hausa households.

Check igbo cities, check yoruba amd hausa cities.

Check igbo youths, check yoruba and hausa youths.

North is yet to eradicate polio, VVF etc while strange sicknesses are invading SW while they send their kids to East to learn trade and crafts.

All the beggars in Nigeria are 70% hausas and 20% yorubass despite your acclaimed leadership

fulanimafia:
The bolded highlights the Ibo problems Etcetera is talking about. I am not interested in chest beating, Dangote and the satanic vices of your kin rubbishes all you wrote up there.

Until you can objectively respond to Etcetera's post, avoid my mentions.

laudate:
Hmmn.... another campaign of calumny is about to start. If your cities are much better than those of other tribes, why do your people keep running away from their homelands in the East, into other parts of Nigeria to settle down? Just asking.

AnambraDota:
But your acting as if your craddle-robber leaders are better off, in all indices of human developement we are better off than you people so I wonder what your killing yourself over us

fulanimafia:
Until you can objectively respond to Etcetera's post, avoid my mentions.

AnambraDota:
[s]But your acting as if your craddle-robber leaders are better off, in all indices of human developement we are better off than you people so I wonder what your killing yourself over us[/s]

AnambraDota:
Which other part of the country

focus7:
Reading from the social media and the daily newspapers this days I feel so much disgust for the igbos seeing how the have turn pathetic with whining over every national issue. Of all the tribes and regions we have I have not found one that is disgruntled and plays the victim like the igbos, it is irritating.

vanunu:
u ARE THE ONE THAT IS VERY STEWPID, THEY DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF NIGERIA AND U PEOPLE ARE FORCING THEM TO BE IN UR NIGERIA.

focus7:
Reading from the social media and the daily newspapers this days I feel so much disgust for the igbos seeing how the have turn pathetic with whining over every national issue. Of all the tribes and regions we have I have not found one that is disgruntled and plays the victim like the igbos, it is irritating.

laudate:
Madam, please go back to your own thread and continue your tribalistic chest beating over who responds to whatever is killing them, over there.

People are trying to have an objective conversation over here. Kindly stop derailing this thread, biko nu!

BuddahMonk:
Which objective convo are you having, when they say Igbo leaders are bad Yorubass started feeling funky like Ogun, Oyo and Osun states are eldarados.

Nigeria politicians are evil so Yorubass should stop acting they have gotten any leader since 99 yet Ogun roads are deathtraps while Osun and Oyo workers live of food donation

Where are your so called leaders in West, name them let's check their antecedents

laudate:
What is my business with Ogun, Oyo and Osun? Do I live there? Am I from any of those states??

BuddahMonk:
Then why do you have heavy 0rgasm over Igbos are you one of us ?

laudate:
Orgasom over...what??! Are you for real?

BuddahMonk:
Which objective convo are you having, when they say Igbo leaders are bad Yorubass started feeling funky like Ogun, Oyo and Osun states are eldarados.

Nigeria politicians are evil so Yorubass should stop acting they have gotten any leader since 99 yet Ogun roads are deathtraps while Osun and Oyo workers live of food donation

Where are your so called leaders in West, name them let's check their antecedents

BuddahMonk:
Yes heavy one for crying out loud

BuddahMonk:
It doesnt matta if he spoke the truth or not but in reality lets know who is better off

check Igbo household, check yoruba and hausa households.

Check igbo cities, check yoruba amd hausa cities.

Check igbo youths, check yoruba and hausa youths.

North is yet to eradicate polio, VVF etc while strange sicknesses are invading SW while they send their kids to East to learn trade and crafts.

All the beggars in Nigeria are 70% hausas and 20% yorubass despite your acclaimed leadership