₦airaland Forum

Shaftrod:
I read somewhere that man is a 'Culture bearing Animal' and have often wondered whether this truism has not found its rightful place in the minds and hearts of my brothers from the SE. Or how do we explain their appreciation for everything despicable and illegal provided it's committed by one of theirs? Dasuki, Dokpesi and a host of many others were alledged to have been beneficiaries of an illicit largesse of public funds illegally authorised by Jonathan and my Igbo brothers are raising all manner of absurd excuses to justify the indecent behaviour of treasury looters. I also read that after the court's pronouncement in Abia,sacking the incumbent Governor some Igbo women took to the streets protesting that the sacked governor who fraudulently came to power be reinstated. Do we need to say more to prove that the Igbo culture acts as a direct opposite of anything honest? Where have the shame of my Igbo brothers fled to?

Shaftrod:
I read somewhere that man is a 'Culture bearing Animal' and have often wondered whether this truism has not found its rightful place in the minds and hearts of my brothers from the SE. Or how do we explain their appreciation for everything despicable and illegal provided it's committed by one of theirs? Dasuki, Dokpesi and a host of many others were alledged to have been beneficiaries of an illicit largesse of public funds illegally authorised by Jonathan and my Igbo brothers are raising all manner of absurd excuses to justify the indecent behaviour of treasury looters. I also read that after the court's pronouncement in Abia,sacking the incumbent Governor some Igbo women took to the streets protesting that the sacked governor who fraudulently came to power be reinstated. Do we need to say more to prove that the Igbo culture acts as a direct opposite of anything honest? Where have the shame of my Igbo brothers fled to?

Karanka:
What is more appalling is that your tribesmen allow you to roam about completely de.ranged.

TruthHurts1:
Whlie I agree with your observation, I don't agree with your conclusions. Your conclusion if accepted without qualification suggests that fraud and illegality is inherently part of Igbo nature which is unfair and untrue.
I have traveled far and wide and interacted with enough people to know that the propensity for criminal behaviour is not defined by a person's ethnic identity, rather it is more complex than that.
Things like poverty, peer pressure and desperation can make an otherwise decent person to abandon his principles for the sake of survival. In the case of Igbos, I can say that many of them suffer a kind of persecution complex which drives them to be ethnocentric even to the point of supporting their fellow Igboman who is accused of wrong doing, no matter what he may have done wrong, as long as they believe tribal politics is at play.