₦airaland Forum

laidian:
She should keep crying... If that is your case, then all other tribes sacked were sacked because of their tribe. metcheeeew

Your education is questionable. Learn how to read and absorb textual content before you express an opinion.

She did not say she was sacked because of her Igboness. Read the article again, very slowly this time, and tell me what you think.

Caseless:
her achievements should be visible to the blind and audible to the deaf, if she has done so well like she claims- I don't need to peruse the balderdash.


Again, I want to ask you: those northerners sacked alongside onyeka , what's the reason?

Intelligent people stick to a question and provide an answer.

If you really have an answer, you don't need to stress to buttress it.

laidian:
She should keep crying... If that is your case, then all other tribes sacked were sacked because of their tribe. metcheeeew

please her post before judging. She never complain of her sack but the treatment she was given by staffers in service. I am not a fan of the Igbos because of their hate tendency but then am oppose to victimisation of anyone anywhere in Nigeria and the bases of tribe. I think the FG should address the issue of Tribalism and religion in Nigeria to give everyone equal right everywhere.

Who is suprised? Me? I'm not! The FG seems to be riding on ethnicity to achieve it's aims.

Madam Onyeka, whatever happened will not affect my respect and regards for you.

However, I think you made the same mistake other Igbos made too. Igbos kept all their eggs in one basket with respect to 2015 presidency; they hated PMB and the northerners and they didn't hide it; this was evident in the voting patterns. Unfortunately, PMB won.

I can relate to the tribalism and nepotism you are trying to explain, it is prevalent in all aspects of Nigeria - private & public sector, even in the south-east.

I want you lift your head up high and see yourself as a winner - champion. You are the elegant stallion, never mind the sack, you will not die at the government work anyway.

Caseless:
gerrarahia! I have been in the east, are your people any better? You cry marginalization, how many non-igbo have you integrated into your civil service in the east to show good example?

how many Yoruba or hausa people went to east buy land develope the land like igbos do in other states or u want igbo people to dash u land like elegunshi family dash igbos in lekki ,fulani people graze thier cattle in our land for free later they will still sell the cow to us ,who is fooling who ? m'gbo m'gbo papugi isi for this ur statement

If any one of you here, still believe in Nigeria's capability to offer you anything including electricity, then you are living in illusion. Your life is in your hands.

This is why most people, after they assume office, start firing people just to give them room to breath.

I must even ask Onyeka Onwenu what she did when they allegedly sabotage those generators when the senate committee visited.

Since it became obvious that people in the ministry were working against her and undermining her authority, she should have given them the boot.

But this is also just one side of the story, we would like to hear more from someone inside, I wouldn't be surprise if they say she's corrupt because she seem an ardent ally of Patience Jonathan.

Of course we all know when the name Jonathan is mentioned, the word that follows is corruption!.

freshvine:
Intelligent people stick to a question and provide an answer.

If you really have an answer, you don't need to stress to buttress it.

what in the article do you want me to re-read if I can't ask you a question deduce from her reason in the report? So, if you are asked a question in an exam, it shows your lecturer is not intelligent? Cognitive dissonance!

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drss:
dat is why dis God forsaken con3 will continue to be a zoo.

What an irony, the guy that came up with the zoo concept, is now locked up in a cage, more like a monkey in a zoo, despite all his empty and boisterous threats against other tribes in the country.

erekoshe:
The mediocrity and hatred from the teenagers in the west and some die hard APC followers against the IBO race is legendary.. Too bad! I'm not IBO but damn! People didn't even read the write up before the insults.

Since the civil war, from generation to generation the Yoruba and IBO are always at dagger drawn, even for no cause.. What a shame! Nairaland promotes such too and even the unborn Yoruba believe the IBO is his enemy while the ibo-regardless of the Biafra agitations still consider them brothers-probably in business

So the ibos despite some of their agitations believe yorubas are their friends and..

Look at what you typed, you can type better than this. I never knew you could tell peoples ethnicity with the what they type.

disloman:
Tell us what's there to confirm.She's sacked and it remains so.Playing the tribalism game is senseless and childish.

So y are you people still talking about the IPOB people.... She never said anything like biafra or the aforementioned... Please you should talk about the suitation on ground and stop playing as victim cos I know the this separation whatever will never happen...

Bro you have a degree in HYPOCRISY,

Caseless:
if he's complaining of northerners run the civil service, I'm telling him it's a national problem. Yeah, I have lived in the east...you know I know what I'm saying.

But madam you were not the only one that was sacked as the dg of an agency. Other dgs from other tribes were also fired. Intact why did you jump into conclusion that because you are igbo and that is why you were fired. Accept it and stop being sectional.

Onyeka onewnu, you are a woman of Virtue

opeaceo:
So the ibos despite some of their agitations believe yorubas are their friends and..

Look at what you typed, you can type better than this. I never knew you could tell peoples ethnicity with the what they type.

I'll take it that you're unable to read and understand...I'm neither IBO nor Yoruba and you're not as intelligent as half what U think!


Unfortunately, for someone like you, explaining is waste of time for youl never understand.

Mztarstrechy:
Singer and actress, Onyeka Onwenu, who was fired this week as Director General of the National Centre for Women Development has released a disturbing allegation of how tribalism held sway in the agency and how she was persecuted because she is Igbo.

Read her story below:

When the call came on Sept 13 2013, to serve the Nigerian people as DG National Center For Women Development, I took it as a call from God and I answered in the affirmative. 

I served for 2years and five months and did my best under very difficult conditions. We hardly had money to operate and the place was badly run down. Worst, there was low moral and lack of commitment among the Staff. Most spent the day loitering and gossiping. Many would not show up for work or arrive 11 am, only to leave before 3 pm. Some were absent for months and were just collecting their salary at home. 

My administration changed all that. Most Staff were turned around and became passionate about the work, appreciating also the changes they thought were not possible but were happening right before them. 

There remained though, a remnant who felt that the Center was their personal preserve and that the position of Director General should only go to someone from their part of the country. I was initially dismissed as just a Musician. When that did not work, I was targeted and abused for being an Igbo woman who came to give jobs to and elevate my people while sidelining them. When these detractors could not provide answers to the spate of improvement we were bringing, they resorted to sabotage and blackmail. The first such salvo was fired when a Senate Committee visited on an oversight mission a few months after my arrival. All three Generators at the Center were cannibalized, overnight, just hours to the visit. 

We got over that incident and trudged on. The rest of our activities and accomplishments, modest as there is public knowledge. I have never in my life been an unfair person. I never favored any group. I carried everybody along. But I did not put up with deliberate incompetence and a refusal to learn, an attitude of entitlement which some people displayed. We brought back a level of professionalism and commitment to deliver on our mandate. Without these attributes, the Center would have fallen apart. 

When the call came for me to disengage from the Center, I took it in good faith and with thanksgiving to the Almighty, Yes some stakeholders were upset and tried to make a case for me to continue. Their effort was a testimony of God’s grace on my administration, but I also knew that it was time to go. God who sent me there was taking me to a higher level of service. His infinite wisdom is unassailable. That is my faith. Besides, I was exhausted and had abandoned many personal projects to devote myself, 200% to the Center. The abuses and lack of cooperation from a mother Ministry, from those who felt that the Center overshadowed them, to the extent that they tried to discourage others from working with us, were just a bit much for my comfort. I did not lobby for the job in the first place and I was not going to lobby to keep it. I actually looked forward to leaving. But some people were going to exact their pound of flesh. 

They organized some staff, mostly Northerners, invited the Press and set about to disgrace themselves. By mid afternoon, while the Heads of Departments were putting together the handover notes, they seized the keys to my official car, even with my personal items still inside. Threats began to fly. “That Ibo woman must” “we will disgrace her”. Their Chief organizer, the Acting DG, went about whipping up ethnic sentiments against me. Late 2015, the same officer had gone to the Center’s Mosque to ask for the issue of a Fatwa against me, claiming that I was working against the interest of the North. We nipped that in the bud by calling a townhall meeting and asking that proof be provided. The Fatwa was denied and peace reigned for a while. 

Police was called in to the Center to escort me out and avoid blood shed as I disengaged. Eventually, in the midst of insults and name calling, with an angry baying crowd, some of whom were brought in from outside, I entered my official car and left. At no time during this melee did I threaten to sue Mr President for asking me to disengage. Why would I? Is it not within his authority? Even if it were not, is the Center my personal property? I had done my best and if it was time to go, it was that simple. Life continues. I had a thriving career before my appointment. The Center did not make me. I have so much to do. I am a multitalented, multifaceted and multitasking child of God. By His grace, the future is greater. So what is the problem?

Let me say here that The Federal Government should really look into the Parastatals and take note of the fact that many people who work on them do not have the requisite qualification. Many contribute nothing and many see their job as personal entitlement. They are owed because Nigeria belongs to them and them alone. Somehow, these people were given the impression that they could attempt to do what they did to me and nothing would happen. That is very sad indeed. The Ministry also has a case to answer. They helped to create that impression. A situation where the Ministry could invite a Management Staff to a trip abroad without informing the DG and the Staff would only inform her principal via text message, from the Airport as she is leaving the country, creates an atmosphere of indiscipline and anything goes. The Ministry should restrain itself to its spelt out function and not undermine the authority of the DG. 

Finally, I declare that I am a Nigerian citizen who should enjoy the rights attendant to that privileged. I am Onyigbo and proud of it. I respect myself and I love and respect all for who they are. We are all God’s children. No one has the right to insult or abuse me or deprive me of my rights. Nigeria will not hold unless and until we all come to that realization. 

Thank you and God bless. 
Onyeka Onwenu (MFR)

Former DG NCWD

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/02/because-i-am-igbo-sacked-onyeka-onwenu.html

Ipob orMasaob?anyway they both wail

seunmsg:
Nawa o, what's wrong with this lady now? Madam Onyeka, you've been sacked, go home quietly and stop wailing all over the place. Nobody is interested in your silly rants of tribalism.

Of course, no one is interested in hearing about the real cancers that plague Nigeria.

Let's ignore and pretend.
Let's all ignore it and keep fumbling along, just like we have been doing since 1960.
Let's keep playing lip service to " one nation by in freedom, peace and UNITY ".

Yeah.
That's the attitude.
It been working just fine.


Let's keep celebrating our fools and while calumnising the true heroes and heroines.

Useless failed state.

Gowon said it, Awolowo said it, today, I still see little or no basis for the people in this geographical space to be one united Nigeria.

Whipping up sentiment will not lead you anywhere.
Someone from another tribe was sacked before you were appointed in 2013, we did not hear any single noise.

I know your next assignments now will either be one or all of these:

1. Frontliner in the struggle for creation of Biafra.
2. Activist in the campaign to free Kanu (IPOB Leader)
3. Defender of any looters from your region.

But my candid advice to you is to go back to your original profession, that is what people know and love you for.

Mr. Yahaya Gusau the sacked Director-General of the Budget Office is Ibo too

It appears that whenever someone is brave enough to say the truth about what we all know happens in Abuja in particular and Nigeria in general we shout that peraon down. Are we going to deny we do not know that in most parastatals a junior hausa/fulani is most relucyant tp take instructions from a southerner. What about the open and flagrant construction pf mosques sometimes in front of the enyrance of most Government offices. Lets be honest with ourselves fpr once.

Onyeka dear stop spreading dis tribalism talk ,your DG position was a political appointment given to you for ur mama peace and papa Peace campaign ,when ur party ni longer hold. The center please dont cry tribalism ,bubu taking time to disband anybody perceived to be an hiden yam eater ,we no hear her voice since wen the thing was merry oh now dat power don shift she Dey try to point finger for d side of tribalism,she must have eaten many yam for Campaign I tink

naija8080:
I know when I read a comment from yorubas...I know.

You don't seem to know that there are a lot of Nairalanders of Northern origin and they post a lot of comments.

I don't know the veracity of her claims bit I do know one thing. Onyeka Owenu is one of the most arrogant women alive. I was her account officer back in Access bank. Her arrogance is first class. That she couldn't get along with others is no surprise to me. Being famous doesn't preclude humility. Not everyone is interested in worshipping u.

erekoshe:
I'll take it that you're unable to read and understand...I'm neither IBO nor Yoruba and you're not as intelligent as half what U think!


Unfortunately, for someone like you, explaining is waste of time for youl never understand.

eeyaah, did I just touch a raw nerve?? I'm sowie if I did.

It is a pity nairalanders are attacking this woman calling her IPOB; the only mistake she made was to say "because I'm Igbo" even hard working non-Igbos have been victimized. It is a case of if you can't beat them join them. She simply refused to play along that's why they used every means available to undermine her including fatwa. The civil service has not changed since the days of my uncles.

Mztarstrechy:
Singer and actress, Onyeka Onwenu, who was fired this week as Director General of the National Centre for Women Development has released a disturbing allegation of how tribalism held sway in the agency and how she was persecuted because she is Igbo.

Read her story below:

When the call came on Sept 13 2013, to serve the Nigerian people as DG National Center For Women Development, I took it as a call from God and I answered in the affirmative. 

I served for 2years and five months and did my best under very difficult conditions. We hardly had money to operate and the place was badly run down. Worst, there was low moral and lack of commitment among the Staff. Most spent the day loitering and gossiping. Many would not show up for work or arrive 11 am, only to leave before 3 pm. Some were absent for months and were just collecting their salary at home. 

My administration changed all that. Most Staff were turned around and became passionate about the work, appreciating also the changes they thought were not possible but were happening right before them. 

There remained though, a remnant who felt that the Center was their personal preserve and that the position of Director General should only go to someone from their part of the country. I was initially dismissed as just a Musician. When that did not work, I was targeted and abused for being an Igbo woman who came to give jobs to and elevate my people while sidelining them. When these detractors could not provide answers to the spate of improvement we were bringing, they resorted to sabotage and blackmail. The first such salvo was fired when a Senate Committee visited on an oversight mission a few months after my arrival. All three Generators at the Center were cannibalized, overnight, just hours to the visit. 

We got over that incident and trudged on. The rest of our activities and accomplishments, modest as there is public knowledge. I have never in my life been an unfair person. I never favored any group. I carried everybody along. But I did not put up with deliberate incompetence and a refusal to learn, an attitude of entitlement which some people displayed. We brought back a level of professionalism and commitment to deliver on our mandate. Without these attributes, the Center would have fallen apart. 

When the call came for me to disengage from the Center, I took it in good faith and with thanksgiving to the Almighty, Yes some stakeholders were upset and tried to make a case for me to continue. Their effort was a testimony of God’s grace on my administration, but I also knew that it was time to go. God who sent me there was taking me to a higher level of service. His infinite wisdom is unassailable. That is my faith. Besides, I was exhausted and had abandoned many personal projects to devote myself, 200% to the Center. The abuses and lack of cooperation from a mother Ministry, from those who felt that the Center overshadowed them, to the extent that they tried to discourage others from working with us, were just a bit much for my comfort. I did not lobby for the job in the first place and I was not going to lobby to keep it. I actually looked forward to leaving. But some people were going to exact their pound of flesh. 

They organized some staff, mostly Northerners, invited the Press and set about to disgrace themselves. By mid afternoon, while the Heads of Departments were putting together the handover notes, they seized the keys to my official car, even with my personal items still inside. Threats began to fly. “That Ibo woman must” “we will disgrace her”. Their Chief organizer, the Acting DG, went about whipping up ethnic sentiments against me. Late 2015, the same officer had gone to the Center’s Mosque to ask for the issue of a Fatwa against me, claiming that I was working against the interest of the North. We nipped that in the bud by calling a townhall meeting and asking that proof be provided. The Fatwa was denied and peace reigned for a while. 

Police was called in to the Center to escort me out and avoid blood shed as I disengaged. Eventually, in the midst of insults and name calling, with an angry baying crowd, some of whom were brought in from outside, I entered my official car and left. At no time during this melee did I threaten to sue Mr President for asking me to disengage. Why would I? Is it not within his authority? Even if it were not, is the Center my personal property? I had done my best and if it was time to go, it was that simple. Life continues. I had a thriving career before my appointment. The Center did not make me. I have so much to do. I am a multitalented, multifaceted and multitasking child of God. By His grace, the future is greater. So what is the problem?

Let me say here that The Federal Government should really look into the Parastatals and take note of the fact that many people who work on them do not have the requisite qualification. Many contribute nothing and many see their job as personal entitlement. They are owed because Nigeria belongs to them and them alone. Somehow, these people were given the impression that they could attempt to do what they did to me and nothing would happen. That is very sad indeed. The Ministry also has a case to answer. They helped to create that impression. A situation where the Ministry could invite a Management Staff to a trip abroad without informing the DG and the Staff would only inform her principal via text message, from the Airport as she is leaving the country, creates an atmosphere of indiscipline and anything goes. The Ministry should restrain itself to its spelt out function and not undermine the authority of the DG. 

Finally, I declare that I am a Nigerian citizen who should enjoy the rights attendant to that privileged. I am Onyigbo and proud of it. I respect myself and I love and respect all for who they are. We are all God’s children. No one has the right to insult or abuse me or deprive me of my rights. Nigeria will not hold unless and until we all come to that realization. 

Thank you and God bless. 
Onyeka Onwenu (MFR)

Former DG NCWD

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/02/because-i-am-igbo-sacked-onyeka-onwenu.html

Onyeka please just hold your peace. Easy come easy go. You got compensation for your work for GEJ.
He's no longer around, so what do really expect.

There's nothing strange or new in what madam DG has said.this is the usual practice in all government agencies,ministries and others all at the federal,state and LG levels.whipping up tribal sentiments will not help our cause in this country and it clearly shows she lacks experience working in a public sector.truth be said,all federal government agencies and ministries are flooded by northerners not because they are that good but because they were the people who took up government jobs when our people from the east were busy learning trading and those from the west were busy schooling.this is the result.
Moreso,did the intimidation and harassments started during PMb regime? Or it has been there during gej regime.
We should learn to accept that some situations are well beyond our control Afterall you are not the only DG that was sacked.

IGBOPRINCE:
its because PMB had no choice so he had to put them there for the main time.

Onyeka onwenu has spoken the plain truth, whenever an igbo woman is dominating them,telling them how to do their work diligently and managed the system well, so that the ministry can move forward, they wanted to killed themselves there. Now They have reported her to their tribalistic uncle from the north because their stvpid muronic brother will listens to them and do the needful, hence her sack..

Yet some foolish and hopeless tribalistic nairalanders from the west didn't bother to read the content of the article well, they started raining abuses on her cos she is proud igbo woman.
Ndi ara
How can a staff travelled abroad and didn't inform the DG? Men this country is a mess and I blamed and hated the british for the sins they have committed by merging easterner with abboki and offemmannus people.

You are very tribalistic