sureleads:

That guy (Goodboiy) is Uhrobo. His dad is Uhrobo while the mother is Itsekiri. He is far from being a BROTHER abeg.

Who is this one ?
Where re you from ?

Am Urhobo and so ?

Igbos are diabolical ritualists

[size=14pt]Again! “Yes, I am a ritualist”: This man allegedly kidnapped, killed and harvested vital organs of 2 boys in Enugu[/size]

Chizoba Michael Nwobodo’s inordinate ambition to get rich quick has left two families in deep sorrow and anguish. The 24-yr-old gruesomely murdered two young boys and harvested their vital organs for money making rituals.
He’s a kidnapper, armed robber and ritual killer who hails from Umualaguroyi Uhueze Nenwe village in Aninri West Local Government Area of Enugu State. He committed the heinous crimes between August and October this year.
In the first incident, which occurred in Ohuhu, Abia State on August 7, 2013, he abducted Emmanuel Nwobodo, the nine-year-old son of his uncle, Nnamdi Nwobodo, immediately the boy returned from school at 4.00pm on that fateful day. He took the boy into a nearby bush, beheaded him and proceeded to harvest his kidneys, lungs, heart and genitals. Done with the horrible act, he calmly dumped the boy’s dismembered body on the bank of a nearby river.

When evening came and the boy had still not returned from school, the parents started searching for him. Chizoba even joined in the search for the unfortunate boy. When he could not be found, his parents reported the matter to the police at Isikwuato Police Station, Abia State.

Later, Chizoba made a call to his uncle, informing him thus: “I told my uncle that I kidnapped the child at 4.00pm, that if he can pay me ransom of N300,000 I would release the child to him. He paid me N200,000. After some time, I called my uncle again and demanded another sum of N200,000. I told him to sell his land, but my uncle refused to pay the money. At the time I was demanding the money, I had already killed the child.”

On October 11, 2013, barely two months after murdering nine-year-old Emmanuel, Chizoba again abducted another child, Promise Uwakwe, a five-year-old boy as he was returning from school. This time around, he enticed the innocent boy with biscuits, dragged him into the bush and when the obviously startled boy began to scream after sensing danger, Chizoba quickly strangled him to death and then removed the boy’s vital organs.

Promise’s father, Mr Ngozi Nwakwe said the family became worried when the boy’s school uniform was found on the ground but he could not be found. After the first day, he reported to the police at Anniri Police Post and the policemen joined in the search for the child. When the child was not found after three days, the case was transferred to the Anti-kidnapping Squad of the Enugu State Police Command.

Like the well-known Otokoto ritual killing incident that occurred in 1996 in Imo State, the blood of the gruesomely murdered innocent little boys cried unceasingly before the Throne of the Almighty for justice.

“It was when the suspect demanded N3 million ransom from us that we alerted the police and they rounded him up and he confessed to them that he had killed my son and removed his genitals lungs, kidneys and heart and then dumped him inside a water tank from which we recovered his corpse,” Nwakwe said in anguish.

Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abubakar Adamu who narrated Chizoba’s murderous escapades to Sunday Sun revealed that the suspect was exposed when he called Mr Nwakwe and demanded N3 million ransom for the boy. The family refused and reported to the police.

CP Adamu said the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Alex Akinlalu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and his team swung into action and arrested Chizoba at his village.

In a brief chat after his arrest by the police, Chizoba told Sunday Sun “I am a kidnapper, armed robber, ritualist, artist and musician. I traveled to India in 2013 to acquire power so that anything I engage in will prosper. I spent one month and one week in India. I needed money, so I contacted a herbalist who told me that if I wanted to make money I should look for two boys and two girls between the ages of four and nine years old for money ritual.”

Continuing, he said: “I used the two boys for the ritual. I bought red candle, blue candle, black candle, white candle and other ritual materials and did some incantations after which I threw the human parts into the bush.”

Meanwhile, Mrs. Elizabeth Nwobodo, mother of Emmanuel, the first victim, is crying and calling on the government to ensure that justice is done and she has been assured by CP Adamu that the suspect would definitely be charged to court for his heinous crimes at the conclusion of investigations.

totit:

Oh please shhhh omo ibo Must you lie to cover up

Fool am not Igbo.. not even related to Igbo.

IlekeGD:
Igbos are diabolical ritualists


[size=14pt] Ritualists Place 6 Coffins In Aba Abia State ...Threatens weak residents[/size]

It was gathered that in the odd hours of yesterday, some people deposited caskets tied around with palm fronds and reminiscent of the death threat Ndigbo got in Lagos before the April 11 governorship poll, warning the electorate in Aba that they would die if they vote against Ngwa interest.

The coffins, placed in more than six strategic points, had inscriptions: “Vote against Ngwa interest and die”.

On one of the coffins deposited at Asa Road by the Post Office, the group threatened to bring back kidnapping and insecurity in the commercial town in a more horrifying manner if their candidate was not voted for.

The incident elicited condemnation among Aba residents who have called on security agencies to ensure that those behind such unruly threat were arrested even as they maintained that no amount of intimidation would make them go against the wish of any candidate of their choice especially in this democratic dispensation.

Obviously you beat the robot hands down.
If not how come those mod are banning you but ignored him/it?

Honestly I shocked such amount of evil goes within SE, even more.

Can you imagine

totit:


Obviously you beat the robot hands down.
If not how come those mod are banning you but ignored him/it?

Honestly I shocked such amount of evil goes within SE, even more.

Can you imagine

WilyWily:

[size=18pt] Emerging Trend Of Social Almajiri In Yorubaland [/size] [b]
By Hakeem Jamiu
There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food.

I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms.

Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony.

After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his dath has led to the profilration of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers.

The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work.. In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money.

But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell.
[/b]
http://www.independentngonline.com/oped/article01

Goodboiy:


Fool am not Igbo.. not even related to Igbo.

Yeah right

Igbos are diabolical ritualists

[size=14pt]Ritualists slaughter man in Ebonyi[/size]

The body of a 40-year-old man identified as Mr. Christian Isha has been found slaughtered in a swamp with his private parts mutilated and the face skinned by suspected ritualist at the weekend in Ndubia village of Igbeagu Community in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State.
The deceased’s hand was also chopped and placed on his chest as well as his mobile phone which has been off since he was declared missing.
Late Mr Isha is a staff of Igbeagu Development Centre in Izzi local government area of the state until his death.
Sources said the deceased was whisked away a week ago by unknown gunmen with a Hilux van on his way back home from where he went to buy things for his family in the night.
The people of the area had declared him missing and embarked on a search only to later find his mutilated body one week after in a nearby swamp in the area.
A family source who pleaded anonymity also confirmed the death of Isha to Nigerian Pilot, saying the deceased’s body was found where it was badly mutilated.
The source added that the body was found through the help of a relative of the deceased who went to farm.
“One of us went to his farm. While in the farm, he said he perceived offensive ordour that no one could stand it.
“So, when the man was searching for the source of the ordour, he saw the dead body of our brother who had been missing for the past one week”, the source disclosed.
Wife of the deceased, Mrs. Isha Ada who lamented the gruesome murder of her husband called on the law enforcement agents to fish-out the perpetrators.
She described her late husband as a peaceful and caring man who never wanted any trouble and wondered why he was murdered in such gruesome manner.
“I never believed my husband could be killed in this manner because he doesn’t look for anyone’s trouble.
He was good to me, caring and tolerant. Today I have lost a companion, a loving man and a true husband. But those who killed him will never know peace in life”, she lamented.

scholes0:


Wait, how can you say anyone is denying igbos access to sea, when Igbo territory as we know it doesn't really get to the sea?
Igbos are like Edos, part of their territory is really really close to the sea, but they don't quite get there.

Ur map is false, dubious and nonsensical.

Igbos have a direct access to the sea, educate Ur self with a real map.

Igbos are diabolical ritualists

[size=14pt]Ritualists attack Catholic priest in Ebonyi[/size]
Chaiii!! evil shrine vs man of god

A Catholic priest in Ebonyi State, Rev. Fr. Cornelius Ovuta is now battling for survival at the Federal Teaching Hospital in Abakaliki after an attack by adherents of a dreaded deity in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state.
Ovuta had after a morning mass for his Assumption Parish, Abina Ikwo parishioners decided to go and pray for a sick person when he was confronted by the adherents of the dreaded Nte Ofina deity in Eleke village, Echara. He was accompanied by his Catechist.
On the way to the place where the sick person is living, he sort direction from a man to the place but the man was surprised that the clergy was going to see someone whom the village is accusing of committing an abomination against the deity already arrested by the deity for the said abomination.
According to an eyewtiness, who simply gave his name as Nwukwu: ‘’While the priest headed towards the Nte Ofina deity location, the man telephoned other Nte Ofina forest guards and informed them that a cleric had entered their deity to desecrate it, so that their first victim could be freed and all the fines he was supposed to pay lost.
“At this juncture, the man of God was swooped upon by the goddess’ local forest guards led by a staff of Ebonyi State College of Education Ikwo, hitting the Reverend Father with sticks and other dangerous weapons”.

IlekeGD:
Igbos are diabolical ritualists

[size=14pt]Ritualists slaughter man in Ebonyi[/size]

The body of a 40-year-old man identified as Mr. Christian Isha has been found slaughtered in a swamp with his private parts mutilated and the face skinned by suspected ritualist at the weekend in Ndubia village of Igbeagu Community in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State.
The deceased’s hand was also chopped and placed on his chest as well as his mobile phone which has been off since he was declared missing.
Late Mr Isha is a staff of Igbeagu Development Centre in Izzi local government area of the state until his death.
Sources said the deceased was whisked away a week ago by unknown gunmen with a Hilux van on his way back home from where he went to buy things for his family in the night.
The people of the area had declared him missing and embarked on a search only to later find his mutilated body one week after in a nearby swamp in the area.
A family source who pleaded anonymity also confirmed the death of Isha to Nigerian Pilot, saying the deceased’s body was found where it was badly mutilated.
The source added that the body was found through the help of a relative of the deceased who went to farm.
“One of us went to his farm. While in the farm, he said he perceived offensive ordour that no one could stand it.
“So, when the man was searching for the source of the ordour, he saw the dead body of our brother who had been missing for the past one week”, the source disclosed.
Wife of the deceased, Mrs. Isha Ada who lamented the gruesome murder of her husband called on the law enforcement agents to fish-out the perpetrators.
She described her late husband as a peaceful and caring man who never wanted any trouble and wondered why he was murdered in such gruesome manner.
“I never believed my husband could be killed in this manner because he doesn’t look for anyone’s trouble.
He was good to me, caring and tolerant. Today I have lost a companion, a loving man and a true husband. But those who killed him will never know peace in life”, she lamented.

You robot friend keep stalking me around

Hehehehkikikiki

totit:


Obviously you beat the robot hands down.
If not how come those mod are banning you but ignored him/it?

Honestly I shocked such amount of evil goes within SE, even more.

Can you imagine

Lol! Igbos like uis to believe that Yorubas are ritualist, but igbos are even worsE.

Imagine raping women and selling their babies to ritualists. Igbo people are evil.

WilyWily:
[b]
Nigerian Fraudster Arrested For Defrauding American Of $4M, Ado Ekiti Hotel Owner In EFCC Net
idowu olanrewaju

Nigerian Fraudster Arrested For Defrauding American Of $4 Million, Ado Ekiti Hotel Owner, Idowu Olarenwaju In EFCC Net.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it has arrested a suspected fraudster, Idowu Olarenwaju (alias Capt Anthony Abel Saramoh) has been defrauding an
American Citizen of $4million through his company, Total Intership Nigeria Limited.

The suspect blew the fraud cash on exotic cars, acquisition of several properties in Port Harcourt, and a 44-room hotel in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.

The posh cars recovered from the suspect included a 2014 Range Rover, 2013 Honda Crosstour, 2013 Range Evogue and Honda CRV.

According to a statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren.

The statement said: “The heist was earned through a phony crude oil contracts with the victim, wiring the said amount into the account of Total Intership Nigeria Limited ostensibly for the supply of crude oil.

“The bubble burst after the victim was left clutching the air, in an exasperating wait that ended with a petition to the EFCC.

“One Joe Onwudimowei, an accomplice who operates the account of Total Intership Nigeria Limited with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) where the proceeds of the said fake contract was deposited, was arrested on 18th June, 2015 and upon interrogation, fingered Idowu Olanrewaju and one Otunba Yemi Osho as the people he handed over all monies that passed through the account.ekiti hotelier fraudster

”On the 19th of June, 2015, the duo of Idowu Olanrewaju and Yemi Osho were arrested following a dawn raid on their homes by operatives of the EFCC.”

The statement said the suspect, who has no reasonable source of income, was speechless when confronted with facts.hotel owner dupes american

The statement added: “According to Onwudimowei, Olanrewaju sometime in 2010, instructed him to withdraw the sum of Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N3, 500, 000.00) for Chief Yemi Osho. Osho, he claimed, in turn handed over the money to two people sent to him by Olarenwaju.[/b]

IlekeGD:
Lol! Igbos like uis to believe that Yorubas are ritualist, but igbos are even worsE.

Imagine raping women and selling their babies to ritualists. Igbo people are evil.

patrick89:
I have said it before and I will say it again, yorubas are the worst human on earth ... They have this inherent fetishism in them.. they still belong to 19th century, even as a christian and at worst muslim, especially Alfa and Cele peeps..
Their juju movies are the most pirated movie in the country, yet they will carry placards.. if you are anywhere in slum be it ibadan, Iyana ipaja makoko, sango, ibadan, abeokuta, snap their movie and upload it... and snap nollywood movie and upload it too.. you will understand! why I said.. yorubas pull themselves down! they don't helps their people! these people are very wicked! they hate themselves so much! they abuse themselves, course their children to no end..
Tell me one good thing that has ever come out from yoruba.. All they do is lips service, like what they are doing to kunle afolayan, watch how they will betray that bastard orobo tribalist! scumbag! . bunch of lazy fools.. they will employ their brother, and at the same time use him as slaves, if you're a woman they will be sleeping with you, even though you have married..

They curse you and remind you that you were nobody before they brought you to lagos.. they are also snitches, they can never respect you if you're not from their tribe. Most of their graduates working on Coat With tie on, receive as low as 5000 a month in so called lagos, but in awka ordinary security jobs is at least 30k, hotel at least 15k, all the noise about companies are all useless! all these companies pay as low as 7k! per month. if you doubt me I will publish the names and location... I pity your generation. we used to give them fifty naira any day they block the road of our street and start their owoda campaign.

Could you believe one useless igboman wanted to grade our road, since 2011 they refused him, because they claimed that government will do it, up till now nothing has been done.. it was actually because, the igbo man told them contribute money to assist him.. , they all ran away, the same thing happened on transformer... awon oloshi oloriburuku Omo ita, Omo ale oponu! useless peeps hanging inside over worn traditional attires used in previous owambe ceremony.... if you follow your yoruba friends to their house and room, you will never collect anything from them again..

They come online to berate igbos, yet their people feel happy if you mistakenly call them igbo,, or Omo jo yiibo... rubbish I know yoruba like my palms, I don't like writing about them, but they always give me reason to do so..

let me also tell you vultures, that an average igbo man only get to know yoruba as their opposition later in life, because we used to know that north /Hausas are our opposition and yoruba neutral, but their intrusion into hausafulani -igbo fiasco make igbos to see them as who they are.. we do not care about you!!! An average igbo man in igboland doesn't know yoruba! they only know hausa and islam! !! stop forcing your picture into our case there has never been igbo vs yoruba! we never had we will not have, but if you continue we will abandon hausafulani and face you vultures squarely, and I tell you, hausafulani can never come to your rescue!! stay on your lane!! leave igbo alone......

xtrorse:
WilyWily:
[b]
Nigerian Fraudster Arrested For Defrauding American Of $4M, Ado Ekiti Hotel Owner In EFCC Net
idowu olanrewaju
Nigerian Fraudster Arrested For Defrauding American Of $4 Million, Ado Ekiti Hotel Owner, Idowu Olarenwaju In EFCC Net.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it has arrested a suspected fraudster, Idowu Olarenwaju (alias Capt Anthony Abel Saramoh) has been defrauding an
American Citizen of $4million through his company, Total Intership Nigeria Limited.
The suspect blew the fraud cash on exotic cars, acquisition of several properties in Port Harcourt, and a 44-room hotel in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
The posh cars recovered from the suspect included a 2014 Range Rover, 2013 Honda Crosstour, 2013 Range Evogue and Honda CRV.
According to a statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren.
The statement said: “The heist was earned through a phony crude oil contracts with the victim, wiring the said amount into the account of Total Intership Nigeria Limited ostensibly for the supply of crude oil.
“The bubble burst after the victim was left clutching the air, in an exasperating wait that ended with a petition to the EFCC.
“One Joe Onwudimowei, an accomplice who operates the account of Total Intership Nigeria Limited with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) where the proceeds of the said fake contract was deposited, was arrested on 18th June, 2015 and upon interrogation, fingered Idowu Olanrewaju and one Otunba Yemi Osho as the people he handed over all monies that passed through the account.ekiti hotelier fraudster
”On the 19th of June, 2015, the duo of Idowu Olanrewaju and Yemi Osho were arrested following a dawn raid on their homes by operatives of the EFCC.”
The statement said the suspect, who has no reasonable source of income, was speechless when confronted with facts.hotel owner dupes american
The statement added: “According to Onwudimowei, Olanrewaju sometime in 2010, instructed him to withdraw the sum of Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N3, 500, 000.00) for Chief Yemi Osho. Osho, he claimed, in turn handed over the money to two people sent to him by Olarenwaju.[/b]

[size=14pt] Man Rapes Widow To Death In Ebonyi[/size]



A 34-year-old widow and mother of four in Egwudunagu village, Amachi community in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mrs. Ogodo Egede has allegedly been raped to death by one Alex Nwabu, a 40-year-old man in the area.

Nwabu, who allegedly committed the act in the deceased house in the night, was said to have been having constant affair with the widow with a threat to kill her if she dared disclose it to anyone.
The poor widow, who depended on artisan work to carter for her children, was seen with bruises all over her motionless body following the incident.
A family source told our reporter that when the suspect continued the act, the widow’s daughter, a 13-year-old girl was forced by Nwabu to leave the house for threatening to expose him.

‘’The girl ran to her grandparents in the night because Nwabu threatened to kill her. She came to greet her mother in the morning only to see that she was dead and was covered with a wrapper.
‘’The girl went and informed the grandfather that her mother is dead. She had reported Nwabu’s action to her grandfather,” the source added.

The youths of the area then mobilised a search party for the suspect on hearing his alleged action and later found him in his father’s compound.
On interrogation, he admitted committing the crime.
Nwabu said: “Mrs. Ogodo was owing me N1, 500 and when I visited her for the payment she refused. I actually asked her for sex and she also refused. I later used force on her and I did not know she will die because I didn’t want to kill her.

‘’But she struggled with me which annoyed me and I beat her up, I had sex with her for several hours.”

Speaking on the incident, the widow’s father, Chief Ogbonna Ogayi said his granddaughter ran to him in the night and reported that Nwabu came to their house and started harassing her mother with a cutlass.


http://newtelegraphonline.com/man-rapes-widow-to-death-in-ebonyi/

IlekeGD:


Lol! Igbos like uis to believe that Yorubas are ritualist, but igbos are even worsE.

Imagine raping women and selling their babies to ritualists. Igbo people are evil.

In all honestly, I love how you've dealt with Mr robot

To make it worst you've not only jam am but also expose what goes within SE region.
Can you imagine

Ewww

Igbos and fetish

[size=14pt]Nigerian Man Forced To Marry Dead Woman In Ebonyi.[/size]

The family of a deceased woman has suspended her burial rites until her ‘husband’ who she was cohabiting with performs her wedding rites. The woman Chinyere Mbam was been bitten to death by a snake while returning from the wake-keep of her friend, Oge Ogashi who passed on.

She was taken to a traditional healing home in the area for treatment and thereafter back to the husband’s home where she gave up the ghost when she could not respond to the treatment.Her uncle, Ishiali Ikwe confirmed her death.But the deceased’s family have mandated his ‘husband’ Stephen Mbam of Enyi Igwe village Ezzainyimagu community in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State, to carry out her traditional marriage rites before she is buried. It was gathered that the woman had been co-habiting with Stephen for three years and their relationship produced a child even though he did not fulfill her marriage rites. According to the Uncle, the family has put the burial on hold until Mbam performs traditional marriage on the deceased. He further said that Mbam’s family, in line with the tradition of the land, have scheduled a date for payment of the bride price to be preceded by the wedding.

totit:


That solves it.
But why would he ignored that robot who started the spamming and focus on ilekeh?
That's wrong!

Anyway, I yaffyed you

Sorry about that.

@ xtrorse You re high.. Y re you Derailing this thread ?.. Re you pained ? or re you scared because you just discovered The truth about Ondo ?

[size=14pt]IGBO Drug Dealers In Thailand Celebrate Decades Of Ill Gotten Wealth - From drug mafia, ritualists, crimes[/size]


Pomp as Igbo community in Bangkok installs Ezeneche Eze ndi Igbo in Mekong, Thailand

Recently history was made in Mekong Thailand when the Igbo Community in Bangkok Thailand installed Ezeneche Uzochukwu Jerome as Eze Nwanta gwuoshimiri as the supreme traditional leader to over see the affairs of Ndi igbo in Mekong Thailand. The event was witnessed by the Eze ndi Igbo in Etiosa , Eze Gerald Onuchukwu who led Igbo delegation of Igbo chiefs from Nigeria to the event.


That day, sound of melodious Igbo music filled the air as multitudes of Ndigbo from different parts of Asia converged on the Obi of Ndigbo in Bangkok to witness the occasion. As the Ijele masquerade charged into the arena, the place was thrown into frenzy as title men and Ndichie raised their hand fan (akupe) and elephant tusks to salute the people

According to Chief Abadim Christopher who is the President Igbo community in Mekong Thailand, the move was direct response to Ndigbo in Thailand request for leader to coordinate their affairs in the country. He said with the successful installation of Ezenche as their leader, Ndigbo in that country now have a place to seek succor in times of need.

http://odili.net/news/source/2015/aug/26/511.html

[size=14pt] Why Igbo Nation is Backward, By Wabara [/size]

Enugu — SENATE President, Chief Adolphus Wabara, has identified lack of respect for leaders, emphasis on wealth and individualism as major factors militating against advancement of the Igbo nation. In a message sent through his Special Adviser (Special Duties), Prince Obinna Okwuaka, to the 2003 Igbo Day celebration in Enugu, weekend, Wabara also said that as part of the effort to rejuvenate and restore the core values of Ndigbo, he would initiate the building of an Igbo Unity Centre in Enugu where the 2005 World Igbo Congress would take place.

He said the lack of respect being shown by Ndigbo for their leaders based on their belief that "Igbo Enwe Eze" (Igbos have no king) invariably was responsible for the inability of Igbo to organise themselves for the execution of a common project.

scholes0:


That guy is not omo ibo, he is Itsekiri, A brother.

funny how people think am ibo

They just derailed the thread.. Well I just bookmarked This page. incase some fool start shouting OUR OIL . .

Goodboiy:


Sorry about that.

@ xtrorse You re high.. Y re you Derailing this thread ?.. Re you pained ? or re you scared because you just discovered The truth about Ondo ?

It's ok bro
One love.
As for Mr robot? It case is something else.
Honestly, at times I am tempted to belief that who ever is behind that I.D isn't a human

scholes0:
No SugarCoatings, No pancaking, No disguises, No sweetalks.
Here are raw data and statistics on Nigerian Oil Production.





Oil production Figures
National Production = 1,605,000 barrels per day (One Million, 605 Thousand barrels) as at timing of report.
Current Production hovers around 2.5-2.7 Million barrels per day

Total National Oil reserves 37.2 Billion Barrels
Producer ranks:

1 - Akwa Ibom
2 - Delta
3 - Rivers
4 - Bayelsa
5 - Ondo
6 - Edo
7 - Imo
8 - Abia



How much does each Oil producing state obtain from the 13% derivation formula?


Note: Cross River state's former oil wells have been ceded to Akwa Ibom after boundary adjustment. (Hence the blank)

Additional Liquid and Semi-liquid Hydrocarbon resources in Nigeria (Reserves)
Nigeria has 42 Billion barrels more of oil in the form of extractable Heavy Oils, from large bitumen belts lying dormant.


Source: http://oilrevenueng.org/
http://oilrevenueng.org/previous-themes/

almost all the south western state has oil

[size=14pt]Corrupt practices: Igbo leaders' position on probe of past - Selfish, Wickedness and greed[/size]

ACCORDING to a recent announcement, the Commission, (i.e. the ICPC), having completed its investigation, had requested the Chief Justice of Nigeria to appoint a Special Counsel to conduct interrogation of the 26 State Governors under section 26 of the ICPC Act. The announcement stated that President Obasanjo had approved the action of the Commission in this regard. In any case, the explanation that no complaints against President Obasanjo had been received by the Commission since Justice Ayoola’s assumption of office as chairman should surprise no one, and it proved nothing.

People are either scared to come forward and make complaints or simply consider it futile to do so, knowing that nothing will ever come out of it. The Courts, on their part, are precluded from entertaining any suit against the President while in office because of the immunity conferred on him by section 308 of the Constitution.

It might have been thought that he would not want to avail himself of the benefit of the immunity in view of his public posturing as a vehement detester of the immunity, but he did plead it in the suit filed against him in the Federal High Court, Abuja by Chief Gani Fawehinmi in connection with the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library project : see Chief Gani Fawehinmi v. President of the Federal Republicof Nigeria (General Olusegun Obasanjo) & Ors, Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/287/2005.

Courage of conviction
President Buhari

President Buhari

If he sincerely detested the immunity, as he had made the public believe, then, he should have had the courage of his conviction and reject the benefit of its protection for himself. It is another mark of his insincerity that he should have pleaded the immunity in the library project suit.

As expected, the Court, in a Ruling delivered on October 12, 2006, upheld the President’s immunity and dismissed the suit. It is not only insincere but it also smacks of a false show of virtue that the same President who arraigned Vice-President Abubakar and some State Governors on corruption charges before the CCT and/or before the courts in violation of their constitutional immunity should unashamedly get the Federal High Court to dismiss on the ground of the very same immunity, the suit brought against him for corrupt practice and abuse of office.

The impotence of the CCB, the CCT, the ICPC and he EFCC to take action in the form of investigation against the President left the National Assembly as the only body with the independence and capacity to do so, but unfortunately the Assembly too had been sucked into the vortex of President Obasanjo’s personal rule machine or how else could the ICPC and EFCC Acts have passed through the two legislative houses with their obnoxiously unconstitutional provisions? The National Assembly’s moves to impeach him have come to naught more than once.

Happily, the Assembly, by its action in the tenure elongation saga, seemed to have regained part of its capacity for independent action. The Senate’s investigation into the affairs of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) might well set the stage for the enforcement by the National Assembly of the sanction of impeachment reposed in its hand by the Constitution. But the Senate investigation was, regrettably, limited to PTDF money and did not embrace the Marine Float Account and lodgments into the Moffas Account from other sources besides PTDF or indeed other areas of public expenditure. Even the Senate’s PTDF investigation ended at long last due, to corrupt manipulation, in a disgraceful exoneration of Obasanjo.

Concluding remarks: The fact that an incumbent President is, as a practical matter, free from the sanctions of the fight against corruption/abuse of office is the reason why it has made and can make hardly any appreciable and lasting impact on the incidence of corruption in the country. If the object of the fight is, in the words of section 15(5) of the Constitution, to “abolish all corrupt practices and abuse of power” (emphasis supplied), and not just to punish certain individuals guilty of them, then, the President, as the leader of the nation, must be seen to be a sincere, untainted crusader against corruption/abuse of office.

Corruption has become a way of life in the country, and what is needed to abolish it is to create faith in the fight among the people, which cannot be done unless the President, as leader of the nation, is perceived to be corruption-free.

Campaign slogans

Without this, no amount of campaign slogans or punitive action against individuals, especially when such action is selective, as Obasanjo’s war certainly was, will make people give up decades-old attitudes and practices.

The President must lead the campaign by example, not by seductive slogans alone which, unless matched by public perception of him as corruption-free, will simply undermine, if not completely destroy, faith in the fight. The generation of faith in the fight among the people is therefore a sine qua non in the eradication of corruption. The President must inject into the fight a truly crusading spirit transparent enough to inspire faith and to carry everyone along.

The truth of this is borne out by General Murtala Muhammed’s anti-corruption crusade in 1976 as Head of the Federal Military Government (FMG). He launched the crusade by first surrendering to the state his assets acquired by the wrongful use of his office. By this singular and unprecedented act, by his revolutionary ardour to clean up the society of the cankerworm of corruption and by his sheer zeal and fervor characteristic of one waging a religious war, he was able to create faith in the crusade among the various sectors and levels of the Nigerian society.

People were simply propelled to take a cue from him and join the bandwagon of the crusade. Within just six months the mighty edifice of corruption began to crumble. But, alas, he and his awe-inspiring anti-corruption efforts were silenced by the assassin’s bullet.
Nwabueze: Demands a national conference

Nwabueze: Demands a national conference

With General Muhammed’s demise, the eradication of corruption was also eclipsed, not for want of anti-corruption measures, but mainly because the successive rulers, both military and civilian, were not prepared to make examples of themselves as corruption-free leaders, as General Mohammed had done. The General Obasanjo Administration that took over from him did not invoke Muhammed’s draconian Corrupt Practices Decree 1975 or the Public Officers (Special Provisions) Decree 1976 against any of the members of the administration. While it dealt severely with corruption committed during the Gowon Administration (other than corruption that might have been committed by its own members during that Administration), corruption by its members was left undisturbed and so continued unabated.

Since the 1976-79 Obasanjo Administration and the public service under it were not probed by the succeeding civilian administration, the extent of corruption during its rule has not been publicly exposed, but its prevalence cannot and has never been doubted. And if corruption continued in the face of enforcement actions under the stiff corrective measures, it might have been expected to flourish, as it in fact did, when the corrective force was removed in October 1979 on the return to civilian rule.

Corrective measures

The Buhari Military Government 1984 – 1985 had again busied itself with the investigation and punishment of corruption committed under the ousted civilian government of the Second Republic and the recovery of assets corruptly acquired by the members or officials of that government.

The investigations into past corruption and its punishment by long prison sentences and forfeiture of assets corruptly acquired did instill fear into the minds of many public servants, yet, it seems clear that no real impact had been made on the incidence of corruption. In its preoccupation with the past, the administration did pretty little, if anything, to enforce its stiff, punitive anti-corruption legislation against its own members or against current corrupt practices which were thus again allowed to continue unpunished and unredressed, unless a succeeding government should in future decide to focus the searchlight on them. And so the rot has continued up till now, eating deeper and deeper as we gravitate from one bungling government to another.

President Obasanjo claims in his characteristically propagandist fashion that his war against corruption is one of the most successful in the world, citing the cases of the former inspector general of Police, governors, Senate president, ministers and others removed from office upon an indictment for corruption. But the success of his war is no more than the kind of success achieved by the anti-corruption measures of General Buhari’s Federal Military Government between 1984 and 1985, a success measured by long prison terms and forfeiture of assets imposed on those found guilty of corruption by special military tribunals, with prison terms ranging from life to 25 years, 23 years to 21 years, though later reduced by the Supreme Military or the Armed Forces Ruling Council.

Lasting impact

However, the long prison terms and forfeiture of assets of the culprits left no lasting impact on the problem of corruption simply because people had no faith in the sincerity of the measures. All what is said above cannot but create a credibility gap between the government and the public. A government that enacted anti-corruption measures but refused or neglected to enforce them against the ruler himself cannot but appear to its citizens as insincere and unworthy of credibility and trust.

The lack of faith in President Obasanjo’s anti-corruption war amongst the generality of Nigerians is, as earlier stated, the major problem militating against the effectiveness of the so-called war. It is not enough, therefore, in creating an ethic of public probity, that corruption by individuals is being punished if corruption by the ruler himself is not also being exposed and punished.

Only if the ruler himself is seen to be corruption-free can public probity become part of the legacy he will be handing over to future generation of leaders. Obasanjo is only deluding himself in thinking that people are going to give up corruption if he retired from office in May 2007 while keeping the enormous wealth which he has acquired through the wrongful or corrupt use of his office as President, or if numerous others who corruptly acquired billions or millions of naira are allowed to keep and enjoy their ill-gotten wealth while the suffering majority of the population continue to live below poverty line.

Having replaced the evil rule of the PDP, the new ruling party, the APC, under President Buhari, must spearhead the desired change, the Social and Ethical Revolution. They should not fail the nation..

Four Fake Prophets With Human Parts In Oyo Arrestedby lalasticlala(m): 6:39pm On Sep 15

Four men who allegedly disguised as prophets but had in their possession human body parts were Tuesday paraded by the Oyo State police at the Eleyele Command, Ibadan.

According to the police Commissioner Mr Leye Oyebade, the four suspected were ritualists arrested with mutilated human body parts in their possession.

While addressing newsmen, the CP said the alleged criminals were arrested in an uncompleted building at Owode area of the state, where according to him, information had been rife that criminals
were usually gathering at the place.

The Commissioner said that one of the suspects, Odetunde Jacob, who allegedly confessed to the crime told the police that they had killed someone (name withheld) at Ogbomoso area of the
state.

“The suspects who all disguised as prophets have confessed to the crime,” the CP said.
Four men were also paraded for alleged involvement in fraudulent act. The CP said the suspects claimed that they were major distributors of Cadbury products in Ibadan, but that they duped the
complainant, Mrs Funke Lawal, of a sum of N1.2 million.

http://newtelegraphonline.com/four-fake-prophets-arrested-with-human-parts-in-oyo/

[size=14pt]The Igbo And Their Vicissitudes[/size]

AS I argued last week, Ndigbo have had a chequered history in Nigeria, especially from the counter-coup of July 1966, and their hitherto enviable position has progresively taken a turn for the worse since the end of the civil war. Envy and resentment by some key leaders of the two other dominant ethnic groups in Nigeria against the Igbo, their attempt to check the preponderant role Ndigbo played in some key sectors of our national life cannot and should not be ignored in any objective and reasoned assessment as to why my people have been seriously marginalized since 1970.

Yet, a significant number of prominent Igbo sons and daughters should be blamed for selfishly allowing their own people to be treated with levity by northern-dominated Federal Governments. Take, as a typical illustration; the terrible condition of infrastructure throughout Igboland, and in the south east generally. It is evident that successive Federal administrations have been uninterested in developing and maintaining basic facilities in Igboland. But then, how many construction firms owned by Ndigbo or managed by them had won contracts to put these things in place and how many of them actually executed their jobs creditably? Available information indicates that certain prominent Igbo indigenes whose companies were given the mandate to construct new roads or rehabilitate existing ones have merely converted the monies meant for these things into their own share of the accursed national cake with very little left for executing the projects such monies were meant for. In other words, the problem of bad roads and general lack of infrastructure in Igboland is due mainly to the rapacious attitude of some influential Ndigbo who are much more preoccupied with primitive life-stultifying greed for quick wealth at the expense of their suffering brothers and sisters.

[size=14pt]Igbos of Greed and Disunity - Igbos must sing a different tune[/size]

Starting with the Anambra gubernatorial election, the Igbo must distance themselves from the politics of emotion and lead Nigerians in singing a different tune. Nigeria is brewing with a cacophony of opposing interests, greed and tainted truths. A country of extremes that will either boil over as a socio-political failure as envisaged by western analysts or metamorphose into a miraculous economic super tiger within the next ten years. This assertion is supported by the fact that after fifty years we seem to be stumbling forward politically. It is however tainted by our contempt for truth. Truth and freedom are collectively exhaustive; you can not separate one from the other. It is important that we are stumbling at all since we will subsequently learn to walk and walk tall we must.

In the last couple of weeks, by mixing the facts of history with the fictions from his emotion, Femi Fani-Kayode’s story in the words of Shakespeare “is like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. He has more negative emotion than intellect by claiming that ex slaves who were returned back to the shores of West Africa were of “Yoruba extraction”. What of those Africans their ships landed in Freetown, Liberia etc? It is pertinent to note that the likes of Mr Kayode dream up a scenario of instability and displacement, were his fellow Nigerians abandon their property so that without due regard for their rights, people like him will feel their greed and yet they shall continue to want and never be satisfied.

Have we not learnt from the experiences of Uganda and Zimbabwe that you do not build wealth by grabbing the wealth of others? Idi Amin expelled Asians over 40 years ago to grab their shops. Mugabe expelled the whites to grab their farms. Why is it that the wealth of the population of “indigenous extraction” did not increase?

But does the real problem for the Ibo come from the likes of Mr Kayode? I definitely do not think so. The problems lie within the cash and carry leadership, devoid of vision that we created for ourselves. Whereas Fashola appointed an Igbo into his cabinet in the Lagos government; the intellectual dimwit that lords himself over the government of Abia State sacked all civil servants that he deemed not to be of “Abia State extraction” from the state service, 99% of who were from Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states; most with over 30 years of service and to date no one is talking of their entitlements as ndi-igbo and by extension as Nigerians.

So the problem is generic and engrained in the DNA of opportunists who emasculate the leadership in our society using false pretences of negative emotions to blind indigenous populations who otherwise live in perfect peace and harmony. Let’s take this even further. We have a moribund organisation called the Nigerian Governors Forum, with a subset, the Southeast Governors Forum. Can anyone tell me the top three strategic objectives of the Southeast Governors’ Forum or ‘Ohaneze’ or for that matter, Aka Ikenga?

The leadership of the Yoruba nation have a strategic objective to interlink the economies of the Southwest and the leaders of the individual states are working towards fulfilling that objective. The strategic vision of the entire leadership forum emanating from the Southeast is dead as a duck. They are more interested in putting up appearances. Our cash and carry, emergency billionaires are more interested in using their ill gotten wealth to buy the ill conceived immunity that governorship confers. Those who are supposed to provide leadership based on strategic vision have thrown in the towel.

Examine the contrasting qualities between successful Nigerian leaders (predominantly pre independence and post-colonial) and our failed leaders (mostly post second republic)? Our post colonial leaders used power to give expression to their pride of achievement. In the absence of oil revenue, they were net exporters of farm commodities. Awolowo: cocoa; Ahmadu Bello: ground nut; and Okpala: palm oil. On the contrary, post Second Republic leaders turned Nigeria into a consumer nation and failed the rules of consumerism. Aba, heartland of Nigeria’s’ postcolonial enterprise and innovation is dead. Instead of the original ‘Aba made’ or ‘Igbo made’, the competition for the local economy is between kidnapping and the distribution of fraudulently manufactured, zero quality Chinese imports. Compare and contrast this with the cumulative security budget of the five Southeast governors in the last five years.

The Igbo culture encourages enterprise and fosters community democracy. Yet local governments since the inception of this republic had been under the thumbnails of our governors. Inspired by greed and vanity; our leaders sought and continued to appropriate power as a means of lording their authority over others and feasting their pockets. They have no regard for history; they learnt nothing and have forgotten nothing. They converge with a common denominator: driven by greed and lack of self discipline that leads each of them desiring to out-steal and out-show each other: “my car and house is bigger and better than yours” syndrome. The gubernatorial election in Anambra State must conclude by correcting this anomaly.

[size=14pt]Only A Tinubu (A Yorubaman) Can Salvage The Igbo ...[/size]

Politicians from across Igboland do not get weary of talking about how dim the chances of the Igbo nation appear in the coming dispensation, where the All Progressives Congress, a Party we like to hate will be dictating the pace and calling the shots. Most of our political leaders have since relocated to Abuja to negotiate their personal and parochial interests while pretending to be negotiating the Igbo interest. It is worth re-emphasizing that there is nothing we can get from the APC led Federal Government that we have not got from the PDP in the past sixteen years, and yet the underlying questions of Igbo marginalization have persisted.

It is not by securing juicy offices for themselves that these selfish Igbo leaders trumpeting about Igbo interest can advance our collective interest as a people. In reality, any group of people drumming up the project for Igbo to be accommodated in the coming government by way of juicy political appointments or zoning of certain legislative top jobs are in the real sense, enemies of the Igbo nation. As they are merely using the ethnic card to satisfy their personal political ambitions and at the same time distract attention from the real problems of the Igbo nation. Going hats in hand to the new power brokers in the nation’s politcal setup is not also the best way to get what rightly belongs to the Igbos.

Let me assume without conceding that the Igbos low patronage of the APC is a problem to the Igbo nation, is it not best to investigate on how people who have had similar ‘problems’ in the past managed to wriggle out of it. The Yoruba nation is today one of the biggest beneficiaries in the Nigerian political system but they have being in opposition for as long as this present democratic regime. Within sixteen years of the return of democracy, the Yorubas have been able to produce a President, Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and have at the same witnessed a massive turnaround in their infrastructure, yet, they have always being in the opposition. The best questions to ask are; How did these people manage to survive? and what lessons can the Igbo nation learn from them, now that we have found ourselves in the same position as themselves?

The Yorubas did not go groveling, asking to be accommodated in the PDP, they stayed back home and made the ruling Party beg them for their votes and support. The PDP continued throwing baits at the Southwest in order to get them to support the Party, yet, the Southwest continued to play hard to get. They had their down times, too, but they remained resolute in their convictions and one man that must not be taken for granted in all these is former Governor Bola Tinubu, whose fan I can never be. But no matter how much hatred you may harbor for him, you must give him credit for being able to survive a torturous sixteen years of opposition politics, yet he held his head high and continued to pursue the ultimate goals. Today, he is the undisputed godfather of Nigerian politics.

Tinubu’s greatest secrets lies in his ability to nurture people, to hunt for talents and place them where they can be of help to him in the future. Most of the political leaders from the Eastern part of Nigeria are too selfish and too greedy to think of empowering anyone outside the members of their immediate families. Some of them do not even empower people from within their immediate families, they simply stand aloof and swim away in their ill-gotten wealth, till there is no more wealth to swim in. Most of these political leaders are so irresponsible to their immediate communities that they are stoned and jeered at even within their kindred. Tinubu is like a god to many Lagosians, because no matter how far flung you may be from him, if you have the right talents and are ready to deploy it, he will look for you. He has even empowered street urchins, drug addicts and whatnot and make them feel happy at being who they are.

In Tinubu’s own words “I am a talent hunter. I put talents in office, I help them.” How many of our Igbo political leaders will be able to boast like Tinubu has done and not be faulted? Very few. Within the four stormy years of Ikedi Ohakim’s administration, you can give him credit for identifying and empowering new political forces and also economic forces, Peter Obi of Anambra can also be credited with some of such efforts. But I do not remember any other person who qualifies for such accolade. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu goes for already established talents, collects some money from them, extracts some selfish commitments from them, then give them the rigging module. That is not the best way to empower people.

How many of these Igbo leaders will be able to call out youths to cause unrest in the country, if the need arises? Almost none. When you cannot boast of having put the right people in the right political offices and the wrong people in the wrong places, then you have no value as a political leader. That is what the Igbo political leaders should begin to look for, they should be able to own the loyalty of the right talents and the wrong talents too, if they wish to have any respect in the new system. Tinubu succeeded in midwifing the APC presidency, because he had people everywhere and gets information from everywhere, and when it comes to nuisance value, he has many of such people across the Southwest, who can come out and set bonfires across the region and force Abuja to come begging.
The Igbos should understand that in politics, you do not get anything worthwhile by begging, and you do not get you want in politics by being loved, you get more of what you want when you are feared. Your political value is measured by how much trouble you can cause than how much peace you preach.

Nigeria cannot afford to be a one Party State, and the Igbos must be proud to be at the driving seat in the PDP as an opposition Party, rather than begging to be accommodated in an APC that we should be fighting to upstage from Aso Villa.

[size=14pt]The War In Igboland - A Case of Backwardness[/size]

The June 15, 2010 edition of NEXT reported that a coalition of groups in Abia State had asked Governor Theodore Orji to resign on account of the level of insecurity in the state. It was not the usual partisan fare, with a number of opposition parties banding together to hound a state governor. Instead, the call for Orji’s resignation came from seven human rights and pro-democracy organizations.

There was no doubt that the groups – the Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation (HRJPF), Abia Peoples Forum (APF), Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy (CRPA), Popular Participation Front (PPF), Campaign for Democracy (CD), Centre for the Advancement of Children's and Women's Right (CACWR) and Centre for Human Empowerment, Advancement and Development (CHEAD) – were in deadly earnest. They set a deadline of June 30 for Mr. Orji’s resignation. And they promised to commence non-violent civil disobedience should he ignore their call.

My bet is that Governor Orji would not hearken to the ultimatum to resign. Nigerian politicians are not in the habit of giving up power, even when they have no idea how to deploy the resources of their office to solve problems.

The first duty of any government is to guarantee the security of the lives and property of its people. By this measure, Governor Orji has failed the people of Abia.

The groups demanding his resignation took care to offer a convincing narrative of Abia as “a failed state.” The dossier included a “spate of armed robbery, kidnapping for ransom, ritual killings and rape in Abia State, particularly Aba.” The groups decried “the spiraling wave of insecurity in the state.” They instantiated with gory, shocking details: “Between 14 May and 8 June, several banks have been robbed, security personnel brutally killed, trouser-wearing ladies raped, and innocent persons kidnapped for rituals and/or ransom under the nose of heavily armed security men, including the blood-thirsty Abia State Vigilante Services (Bakassi boys).”

Then there was this unanswerable indictment: “Armed robbers and kidnappers now give notice before they strike, as vividly shown by the invasion of First Bank Plc and Fidelity Bank Plc, both in Port Harcourt Road, Aba on Wednesday, 2 June. Recall that they had written to inform [the banks] of their intention to rob them and eventually did, to [the] chagrin of all.”

It’s a sweeping, bleak panorama of the state of insecurity in Abia. But the stigma of failure is not Theodore Orji’s alone. It is a humiliating admission to make, but sadly true: a cadre of greedy, visionless leaders has for too held sway in the Igbo-speaking southeastern states. Other past and current governors of these states have – by their corruption, lack of vision and absence of strategic intelligence – condemned Igboland to economic doldrums and moral degradation.

On June 5, I was in Toronto to give the keynote address at the annual Biafran War Memorial celebration. My talk harped on the current war in Igboland, a war characterized, above all, by a crisis of values. I tried to persuade my audience that, in sheer enormity and direness, the ongoing war dwarfs the effects of the Biafran war that claimed more than a million lives.

Let’s be clear: the triumph and veneration of morally virulent values is not an exclusively Igbo malaise. Nigeria as a whole has long been in the grips of a deformed ethos, the reign of a disorder in which absurdity is held to be sensible, impunity is exalted, and honor is mocked.

In my view, however, the Igbo have paid the steepest price for permitting these misshapen values to gain traction – and then to be embedded as the norm. The moral cancer metastasizing through Igboland is best detected in the music as well as social language.

For years, the fiercely republican Igbo carelessly allowed themselves to dance to lyrics that proclaimed “ana enwe obodo enwe” – roughly translated as “a community is owned.” At first glance, that lyrical claim would appear innocuous, even persuasive. Another lyric set out to name the Igbo’s “nnukwu mmanwu” – big masquerades. Any discerning person would be shocked by the questionable pedigree of some of the men advertised either as the “owners” of their community or big masquerades.

Wealth, whatever the mode and means of its accumulation, was the unmistakable criterion for “owning” one’s community or receiving recognition as a big masquerade. Bowing to wealth, some Igbo musicians shamelessly trumpeted scallywags, scoundrels, and charlatans. It seemed anathema to credit anybody for the quality of his or her public service, for exemplary moral conduct, or for proven distinction of mind. I have never heard any musician invite Chinua Achebe, the most globally well-known and revered Igbo man – a man of stellar intellectual achievement and stupendous ethical funds – to take a seat among the masquerades. Nor have I heard any musician suggest, in a lyric, that the outstanding novelist has a say in the ownership of his community. No pride of place was reserved for women and men whose stock came in the form of dedication to service, whether in the private or public sector, or self-sacrifice in the cause of advancing the common good.

It was inevitable that the habit of worshiping material possession would bring Nigeria to its present troubling pass. In Igboland, the consequence has been nothing short of tragic. One of the popular phrases in Igbo public speech is, “onye bu igu ka ewu n’eso” – or, the goat follows the man with the palm fronds. It is a disturbing statement in every particular. It reduces humans to the level and ethic of a goat. It dictates that every goat/human must follow the man with food, even where the food is stolen.

Such scant regard for sound moral values has had devastating effect. It has fed an anything-goes culture. It has enabled shady characters to sink roots in Igboland and criminals to make a cottage industry out of kidnapping their fellows. There are whispers that some traditional rulers, unscrupulous police officers, shady businessmen as well as “prominent” politicians – the kind often dubbed big masquerades – now organize, sponsor or run their own kidnapping cells.

The Igbo have never faced a more serious challenge than the current blight of kidnappers. We can no longer afford to dress up the ugly truth in fine garbs: the Igbo people are engulfed in a war for survival akin to Biafra, but more desperate, if you ask me. The only difference is that, in this case, the enemy is within.

The casualty is extremely high. Fewer and fewer Igbos resident in such places as Abuja, Lagos or Port Harcourt look forward to traveling to their home states. And when they go, they must arrange to hire several police officers to guard them. The prospects are even grimmer for Igbos who live abroad. For fear of kidnappers, many – perhaps most – traditional marriage ceremonies are now held in Nigerian cities far from Igboland. Imagine the economic and social costs of the flight of such ceremonies. How about investment in new businesses? They have virtually dried up.

Igboland is beleaguered, dangerously close to becoming a no-go area. Yet, the Igbo governors have disconcertingly shown little inclination to weigh any serious measures to remediate the situation. Is it that they fail to recognize the scale of the threat, that they are bereft of ideas for tackling the monster, or – as many people speculate – that some of them are profiteers from the crisis?

Equally indicted are those men and women who run around Abuja and Lagos, styling themselves Igbo leaders. Their pretension to the role of leaders is rebuked by the fact that they have not seen fit to confer and focus on strategies for winning the deadliest, costliest war facing their people. The Igbo’s cultural and moral crisis is exacerbated by a crisis of leadership.

There’s no doubt in my mind that the specter of kidnapping was germinated and fertilized by a permissive culture that, over many years, sought to blur the line between “alu” (sacrilege or profanation) and “ife zili ezi” (good conduct). Consequently, if we are to win the war we’re in, we need not just a diligent, sanitized, well equipped and highly trained police (a far cry from the corruption-ridden apparatus that has usurped the name of law enforcement in Nigeria), an attuned political leadership, and a judiciary that is awake to its sacred mandate. Above all, we need a fundamental re-orientation of values. We must reclaim that moral clarity that once enabled the Igbo people to be appalled at execrable conduct and to look at ill-gotten wealth and say, in fierce repudiation, “Tufia!” or “Alu!”

We must seek this moral rebirth, or we’re doomed.

[size=14pt]Why Ndigbo should stop the denial and tackle the problem[/size]

I shall be brutally blunt in this piece. I’m ready to be called an “efulefu” (traitor) if what I write here will spur Ndigbo to stare into the mirror, see the mote in our eye and act appropriately. However, because I know that the courage to believe in one’s conviction and to speak the truth when everybody else seems to be losing their head is a virtue that the Igbo are proud of, I shall proceed to speak my mind.

A day hardly goes by these days without one reading about the police raiding a baby factory in the South East or other places. These baby factories we read about are in the main operated by persons of Igbo extraction, as their given names suggest.

To the best of my knowledge, few prominent Igbo politicians, traditional chiefs or celebrities have come out to strongly condemn this practice. State governments in the South East are shamelessly quiet about it. One or two state governments do acknowledge that this problem exists, however, they made the largely ineffective Ministries of Women Affairs responsible for any resolution. The prevailing situation is one that sees everybody in denial or acting like our daughters being turned into breeding stock is not an issue deserving urgent attention.

I hate to be misunderstood here. When I talk of baby factories I am not talking about the age-long practice of surrogate motherhood and registered, and hence legitimate, “maternity homes” working with state institutions that provide childless couples with adoption options. I’m talking about the criminals that are cashing in on the lax regulation of this alternative means of adoption. They are so efficient that they have managed to create a well-oiled child trafficking industry.

Whether we like it or not, as with drug trafficking and kidnapping, this is clearly another crime that is fast getting an ‘Igbo’ face. And like in both cases, the Igbo, who should be speaking out and taking actions to curtail the trading of the most vulnerable among us are living in denial. It turns my stomach to read about people exchanging babies for money, like livestock, or spare parts, and that this sometimes occur in the open.

Worried by the frequency of baby factory raids in the news, I wanted to know more about what was happening. How could such a practice be allowed to go on with seemingly nothing being done about it?

A couple of months ago I spoke to a former commissioner of Women Affairs in one of the states in the South East and the things she told me were chilling.

She told me about the battles she fought with child trafficking syndicate kingpins when she was a commissioner. She said that many of the women rescued from these baby factories had been abducted (her pregnant relatives was abducted). She explained that the syndicates behind baby factories particularly target young ladies with unwanted pregnancies who had gone for illegal abortions in clinics and other facilities set up by members of these child trafficking syndicates.

She, however, explained that some of the girls, distraught by unwanted pregnancies or lured by promises of cash, out of their own volition, opt to be admitted in these devious baby delivery homes where their babies are taken from them soon after they are birthed and sold.

She said she suspected that these syndicates are backed by powerful politicians and well-connected individuals (she said some very powerful and well-connected people approached her to appeal that that she soft pedal on her investigations while others warned her to back off). She added that she suspects that some of the children are used for fetish rituals.

I had sought her insight on the matter because she is well-respected in the civil society community for her work in women rights and health (she was given a national award in recognition for her work some years ago).

I called her after the writer Chika Unigwe introduced me to Al-Jazeera. They Qatari media organisation then commissioned me to do an investigative report on the baby factories phenomenon. I made all the necessary calls. Researched the issue further and spoke to journalists who had reported the issue. Satisfied with what I had done I left Lagos for the South East, brimming with hope.

I got my first whiff of disappointment when I arrived Enugu, where the governor had inaugurated a committee few week before to look into the problem. But a director at the Ministry of Women Affairs interrupted me when I mentioned baby factory. She said there is nothing like that in the state. She argued that the state only had cases of illegal adoption, which no longer exists because her ministry has initiated programmes to regulate the adoption process in the state. I reminded her about the committee recently formed by the state governor, she responded with a blank stare.

“Anyway, we don’t have baby factories in Enugu. Go to Abia and Imo. They are very common there,” she cooed.


Nick’s Insight: Baby factories – Why Ndigbo should stop the denial and tackle the problem
By Maduabuchi | November 3, 2015 0 Comments

By Nicholas Ibekwe

I shall be brutally blunt in this piece. I’m ready to be called an “efulefu” (traitor) if what I write here will spur Ndigbo to stare into the mirror, see the mote in our eye and act appropriately. However, because I know that the courage to believe in one’s conviction and to speak the truth when everybody else seems to be losing their head is a virtue that the Igbo are proud of, I shall proceed to speak my mind.

baby-factory

A day hardly goes by these days without one reading about the police raiding a baby factory in the South East or other places. These baby factories we read about are in the main operated by persons of Igbo extraction, as their given names suggest.

To the best of my knowledge, few prominent Igbo politicians, traditional chiefs or celebrities have come out to strongly condemn this practice. State governments in the South East are shamelessly quiet about it. One or two state governments do acknowledge that this problem exists, however, they made the largely ineffective Ministries of Women Affairs responsible for any resolution. The prevailing situation is one that sees everybody in denial or acting like our daughters being turned into breeding stock is not an issue deserving urgent attention.

I hate to be misunderstood here. When I talk of baby factories I am not talking about the age-long practice of surrogate motherhood and registered, and hence legitimate, “maternity homes” working with state institutions that provide childless couples with adoption options. I’m talking about the criminals that are cashing in on the lax regulation of this alternative means of adoption. They are so efficient that they have managed to create a well-oiled child trafficking industry.

Whether we like it or not, as with drug trafficking and kidnapping, this is clearly another crime that is fast getting an ‘Igbo’ face. And like in both cases, the Igbo, who should be speaking out and taking actions to curtail the trading of the most vulnerable among us are living in denial. It turns my stomach to read about people exchanging babies for money, like livestock, or spare parts, and that this sometimes occur in the open.

Worried by the frequency of baby factory raids in the news, I wanted to know more about what was happening. How could such a practice be allowed to go on with seemingly nothing being done about it?

A couple of months ago I spoke to a former commissioner of Women Affairs in one of the states in the South East and the things she told me were chilling.

She told me about the battles she fought with child trafficking syndicate kingpins when she was a commissioner. She said that many of the women rescued from these baby factories had been abducted (her pregnant relatives was abducted). She explained that the syndicates behind baby factories particularly target young ladies with unwanted pregnancies who had gone for illegal abortions in clinics and other facilities set up by members of these child trafficking syndicates.

She, however, explained that some of the girls, distraught by unwanted pregnancies or lured by promises of cash, out of their own volition, opt to be admitted in these devious baby delivery homes where their babies are taken from them soon after they are birthed and sold.

She said she suspected that these syndicates are backed by powerful politicians and well-connected individuals (she said some very powerful and well-connected people approached her to appeal that that she soft pedal on her investigations while others warned her to back off). She added that she suspects that some of the children are used for fetish rituals.

I had sought her insight on the matter because she is well-respected in the civil society community for her work in women rights and health (she was given a national award in recognition for her work some years ago).

I called her after the writer Chika Unigwe introduced me to Al-Jazeera. They Qatari media organisation then commissioned me to do an investigative report on the baby factories phenomenon. I made all the necessary calls. Researched the issue further and spoke to journalists who had reported the issue. Satisfied with what I had done I left Lagos for the South East, brimming with hope.

I got my first whiff of disappointment when I arrived Enugu, where the governor had inaugurated a committee few week before to look into the problem. But a director at the Ministry of Women Affairs interrupted me when I mentioned baby factory. She said there is nothing like that in the state. She argued that the state only had cases of illegal adoption, which no longer exists because her ministry has initiated programmes to regulate the adoption process in the state. I reminded her about the committee recently formed by the state governor, she responded with a blank stare.

“Anyway, we don’t have baby factories in Enugu. Go to Abia and Imo. They are very common there,” she cooed.

baby-factory 2

That was not all. All the civil society people that had promised to help me became unavailable. Those who were not attending seminars in Abuja mysteriously forgot how to answer their calls. I spent two days in Enugu and by some mystery all the contacts I had established before leaving Lagos disappeared.

I tried Abia and Imo States. Same result. Officials of the Ministry of Women Affairs in both states didn’t even bother to speak to me: I was told to write a letter requesting permission before I could be spoken to.

“But we should add that we don’t have the problem you are talking about in our state, but I hear it is very rampant in Anambra and Ebonyi States,” I was told.

You could tell that they are living in denial. Nobody is ready to admit that this is a problem that needs urgent attention. In fact, they don’t see a problem at all. However, those I spoke to outside government and the NGO community admit it is a serious issue no one is ready to deal with.

Non-Governmental Organisations don’t consider baby factories an issue worthy of their time ditto for state governments.

Most of the ladies rescued from baby factories are initially treated as criminals and locked up in police cells for days before they are released on bail. There are absolutely no halfway houses to rehabilitate rescued women and their children. There are no ways of monitoring their progress; if any. How can we provide these facilities when we fail to consider the trade that got then in the situation a crime worthy of the right sort of attention?

In this same vein, Ndigbo pretended that drug trafficking and kidnapping wasn’t a crime worthy of scorn as long as perpetrators can build humongous houses, drive top of the range cars and acquire traditional titles with highfalutin appellations. Look at where that has left us? Have we stopped to ask ourselves why there are at least seven Igbos in every 10 drug mule arrested?

Why does it not worry Ndigbo that our young ones are being traded like pieces of electronics in Alaba? What will it cost us if we admit that we have a problem on our hands and work toward eradicating this problem? And this is very important because these criminals live among us and we know their names and modes of operation. If we treat them with the level of scorn that their actions deserve, they would think twice before setting up shop in our communities or flaunt ill-gotten wealth in our faces.

Well-meaning sons and daughters of the Igbo nations should come together and see this as a problem that needs to be tackled with dispatch. As every Igbo person knows, derogatory labels are something that gets hauled our way every day, but while we push back at the labels, as we should, we need to also remember to look into that mirror on the wall and remove the speck that might be responsible for the finger pointing.

I will be back for una.... don't worry

Igbos are even making it easy by washing their dirty laundry all over the internet.

If bias mods don't delete this thread, I'll help una create one.

Igbos are really the problem with Nigeria, not Yorubas.