kettykin:


But the nonsense and insult of selling niger delta oil wells to the north and the hypocritical south west, the hounding of a president of niger delta origin out of office through violence, propaganda, victimization, corruption accusations and conspiracy must be endured sometimes I really wonder what set of people are niger deltans.

Alams has been hounded to his untimely death, Deziani is being persecuted for unsubstantiated crimes, ibori is serving a jail sentence, Goodluck Jonathan is on the verge of going on exile and all niger deltans come to do is to rant against biafran demonstration in a city with close affinity with igbos.

Truckpusher:
In Nigeria anybody can bear anything as long as it serves their purpose ,you can walk into any court in this Nigeria and swore an affidavit and it would be accepted ,so this list would only be accepted by a flawed system for a flawed people.

Maybe, if they were shot dead their original identity would have been known.

Bottom line is simple : That nonsense won't be tolerated again.

Dhugal:

First,they were jobless Igbo touts brought from the east mixed with those already on ground.Now,it's that their true identity cannot be known unless they're dead.
Let me know when you make up your mind on which to believe.
Denial is not that river in Egypt,you know.

Truckpusher:
And all these your phantom rivers,edo and delta Igbo you just mentioned have you bothered to ask them if they want Biafra?

naijaking1:


Go find out for yourself that Owerri provence included the what today you call Port Hartcourt, and even Bonny--Igwe Ocha and Igwe Nga respectively, and the majority people of the area described themselves, signed themselves as, and called themselves Igbos.
Until the discovery of oil, the tribal identity of the inhabitants of the area has never been an issue, and it wouldn't be an issue when the fortunes of oil is gone.

Truckpusher:
Like you wouldn't do the same thing if you had the same opportunity like they had. Huh! You think we are stupid? no we are not and we know you and we also know them - You're all the same,you have the same agenda which is to loot and plunder.

The North and the hypocritical South West simply beat you at your own game and we became the victim. So, why are you even crying more than the bereaved? when the death of the diseased was as a result of your shortfalls, greed and disrespect for the diseased or are you simply feigning ignorance even as the truth stare you in the face ?

DMerciful:
I mentioned Ijaw nation....why not focus on that and leave others to speak for themselves. Like I said I am delta igbo

kettykin:


My problem is not the north and south west but niger deltans themselves

Truckpusher:
And what's the Igbo man's obsession with them or some part of it?

kettykin:


Because there are igbos in niger delta, igbos have age long affinity with niger delta an igbo ex slave founded opobo.
Niger delta states of Rivers, cross rivers, akwa ibom and bayelsa were once part of the eastern Nigeria.

ishiamu:


How do you know their position? You just speaking for your self, haven't heard of igbos calling ph igweocha till now and if the rivers people don't like it someone would have said it out prolly someone in power so I don't know your point man

naijaking1:

Go find out for yourself that Owerri provence included the what today you call Port Hartcourt, and even Bonny--Igwe Ocha and Igwe Nga respectively, and the majority people of the area described themselves, signed themselves as, and called themselves Igbos.
Until the discovery of oil, the tribal identity of the inhabitants of the area has never been an issue, and it wouldn't be an issue when the fortunes of oil is gone.

DMerciful:
Who are Rivers people? Who are south-south people? Were these names mentioned 100yrs ago? Hausa man gave you a name and you are proudly answering it.

Truckpusher:
You need a babalawo to understand that one too?

Dhugal:

Oh,I quite understand it's not a pretty sight twisting yourself into a pretzel.I do wish you goodluck with that.
It's your inalienable right to believe what you believe,hold what position you do,but don't claim to be speaking for others.They can speak for themselves,as some have done,going by their names and the ethnicity OFFICIALLY ascribed to them.Whether that part is false is not for you to say,you have no contrary proof,nothing.
Again,speak only for yourself and mayhaps,your kindred.Don't assume to speak for others when they haven't given you the go-ahead to so do.
I'm done with you.

TonyeBarcanista:

I neither disputed nor agreed by the claim that some IPOB youths arrested were indigens of Rivers state. I won't comment on that.

My position on this subject is very clear and wouldn't want to drag it. It is not about PDP or APC but about outhe South-South people. If the Igbos want a united SSSE front(which is very good), then we must define terms of agreement. Some of the terms are;

1. They stop calling PHC as 'Igweocha' because the status of Portharcourt as the exclusive property of Rivers people as presently constituted is non-negotiable.

2. Respect for our Greats like Isaac Adaka Boro, Ken Saro Wiwa and every other Niger Deltan Heroes. Also respect for our fathers and stop calling us 'Traitors' because I can't remember any treachery. The respect must also be to our present generation that have been bearing pains to swallow pills they never bargained for.

3. Respect for the decision of South South people as a whole and as individuals on this subject irrespective of their/our/my position. Irrespective of whether they agree with some of your position or not.

These to me are very fundamental to real unity. We don't have to fight each other.

Truckpusher:
Then it should be on their own terms and not being coerced or emotionally blackmailed into it. Don't you think it is the most appropriate thing to do?

Chiwude:
It shall be on their terms. Independent of Igbo and Ijaw influence. Their decision shall be respected good or worst.

TonyeBarcanista:

Bro, this subject is not one we'll be killing ourselves for. It has been repeatedly said that Portharcourt is Portharcourt as accepted by the owners. Igweocha is not Portharcourt and should not be used as substitute name for Portharcourt.
This is nonsense Sir!



I don't even know your point. My position remains that Portharcourt is Portharcourt and owned by Ijaws(Okrikans) and Ikwerres. Also, the agitation for OLD Rivers state even started before the Civil War. The name was conceived by the elders of present day rivers and bayelsa state. Not Hausas! Gowon only approved our demand. The Niger Delta led by Great Boro were even the forst secessionist movement of post-independent Nigeria. The Republic of Niger Delta was birthed

Trillyonaire:
As a Rivers man who saw the events of 1967-1970 and who was old enough to understand them, this protest in Port Harcourt is a slap on true Rivers indigenes. and the memory of ALL the Rivers men and women who were slaughtered in the pogroms and ethnic cleansing committed during the civil war by the Biafran Army.

Let us remind ourselves of the TRUE facts and REAL reasons behind the secession and subsequent civil war. Ojukwu and his cohorts decided to secede from Nigeria because Gowon broke up the regions and created Rivers State among the 12 states he created. Remember the Aburi accord? Article 4 of that accord had to do with the breaking up of the regions. On the 27th of May, 1967, Gowon broke up the Regions, from the then Eastern Region and carved out Rivers, South-Eastern and East-Central states. 3 days later on 30th May, 1967 Ojukwu seceded citing the Aburi accord. ON ABURI WE STAND!! The rallying war cry of the day. How anyone who calls himself/herself a Rivers indigene support tacitly or otherwise the so-called Biafra cause when Biafra seceeded just because Rivers State was created and the Rivers people for once had a right to self rule?

In the quest for a sovereign country did the Igbo majority seek, discuss with or solicit the support of the minorities in the Oil Rivers and South-East?? Where is Biafra? How do you seek for a country which was susequently named Biafra WITHOUT involving the indigenous people of Biafra? Isn't that supreme arrogance or maybe they were not included because they were meant to be wiped out later. Events proved the latter to be true.

Late Chief (Dr.) Nabo Graham-Douglas who was the Attorney General of the Eastern Region was sent on compulsory leave and exiled to his home town Abonnema with orders for him to be executed. Fortunately the plans leaked and he miraculously escaped. He didn't draw the Articles of secession and only heard about Biafra from the BBC journalists who came to interview him in Abonnema.
He was one of the lucky ones.

The ethnic cleansing began in earnest. Our intelligentsia; top civil servants, technocrats and other able bodied men and women were rounded up and summarily executed in Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Degema, Buguma, Bakana, to mention but a few towns/cities. In Port Harcourt, Rainbow town and Igritta, became killing fields. the bones of those victims still lie there
These atrocities were committed by the Biafran Army, against people who were supposed to be fighting the same cause with them.
In a bid to wipe out the minority tribes, our towns and villages were evacuated, our men put to slave labour and later on shot (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), our women taken as sex slaves, young boys shared the same fate as the men. Bakana, Bille, Abonnema were all forcefully evacuated.

Finally, when the Nigerian Army counter attacked and liberated Port Harcourt, the retreating Biafran Army, burnt Kingsway (now Supabod building), Nabo Graham-Douglas's law library (which was the best Law library in the whole of West Africa) and other land marks in the Garden city. Of what military significance were these acts??

I don't blame the misguided ill-informed people for trampling on the graves of those who were murdered by the Biafran Army, by protesting in Port Harcourt. I blame Gowon for forbidding accounts of the war being published after the war, but more importantly for not trying war criminals (like Col Ojeh of Degema) within the Biafran Army and holding them accountable for their inhuman and murderous actions during the war. 70 years after World War 2, we are still reminded on a daily basis the atrocities that the Nazi's committed. If Gowon had done what he was morally and duty bound to do, this matter of Biafra would have been put to rest once and for all.

By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated

Are those protesting and the other supporters of "Biafra" aware of these facts??

The war has been over these past 45 years, we are forging on as a country, setting aside our ethnocentric issues. That Ex-Biafrans have been assimilated into all spheres of our society (as they should), without any punishment meted out to the war criminals among them, doesn't give anyone the right to re-write history or bring these painful memories back.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

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Truckpusher:
And all these your phantom rivers,edo and delta Igbo you just mentioned have you bothered to ask them if they want Biafra?

TonyeBarcanista:


It is disrespectful and insult to tag our land what you wish to tag it and not what we want you to tag it. It is our land and the only thing for you to do is to respect it. It doesn't matter whether it was given us by the Brits or congolese, what matters is what we(as owners) view it. We view it as PortHarcourt and Not Igweocha or whatever. The least you can do is to respect our position. We can't accept such open show of disrespect Sir! It is Our land, PHC belongs to us and it is exclusively in our place to determine the name of the city.

TonyeBarcanista:

It is a straightforward case! I maintained that Respect for SS as a group and as individuals. If you an Anioma man believe in casting aspersion on ND Greats like Boro and Wiwa is your choice. In fact, it has even put a fence and has knocked out ANY proposed country between us(Ijaws specifically) if the mainstream Igbos hold on to this belief. As long as Ijaws, Ogonis, Ikwerres, Binis, Urhobos etc are concerned, Isaac Boro and Wiwa are part of the heroes of Niger-Delta. I wish Abacha had granted the proposed Warri state. As for the treachery aspect, you(Anioma) may accept it but my people and others from the region are saying that they don't accept it. It is unacceptable for anyone to insult our forebearers and present generation unjustly. If this is held by mainstream Igbos, then I have to restate that the proposed united country won't work. Maybe an Igbo only and/or those that agrees with this position. But it is a No-No for the Ijaws especially

TonyeBarcanista:

I am not speaking for you! Neither am I speaking for others. But I am telling you that the position of the Ijaws, Ogonis, Itsekiri, Urhobos, Binis, Auchi's, Ikwerre, Ekpeye etc must be respected WHATEVER it may be.

lygn19:
u want Niger delta republic go take am now,
my igbo people has been suffering because they have developed minority mentality, how many times has the northerners been seen dragging if they are landlocked or not with anybody or have u seen them dragging if they have oil or not with anybody, you guys should stop looking at the faces of all this Ijaw people or there likes the oil na all of us get am anyday they talk pass there mouth we act like the northerners and there allies in the west we cut them down to size, they would scream Ataka boro was stopped by an igbo man, this that are they not even happy he was stopped by someone who considered them as brothers, look at Obj a yoruba when the Niger delta was in crisis over resource control look at how he cleared Odi with boldness, they wont remember that one but they would shout Aguiyi Ironsi stopped Ataka till they Kingdom comes who knows if maybe it was a northerner that was on seat when they started there nonsense by now Oloibiri people would have become extinct just as Odi people, lool at even ken saro wiwa and d rest of his ogoni people that was killed by a northerner in a gruesome manner because they cant face them they would pour out there aggression on igbo.
Igbos stop looking at this people's face if them f*ck up, treat the fu*ck up. Even if they like let them make noise from now till next year nothing would stop that oil from flowing to Nigerians pocket. fullstop.

By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated

StOla:
I wonder what Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB youths have to say about the above?