₦airaland Forum

Nwakaumu:
Yoruba,thats how you lot talk trash.why are you people like tol act like an. Ostrich that would rather bury his head in the sand than face the reality.I spit on you people.

wirinet:
You guys must have a serious physiological condition that makes you think, sleep and dream Yoruba every second of your existence. You need help!

Nwakaumu:
its you yoruba that has mental problem,otherwise you should ve concerned yourself with how to stop ritualistic human skull mining and hunger that is ravaging yoruba land.you shameless lot claim igbo are not complaining against these injustice but pretend you do not know that these injustice is what fuel the current Biafra agitation. Get da fvck outta here.No wonder Sanusi says that Yoruba is the Problem of Nigeria.They always stand with any thing that is bad.

wirinet:
The problem i have with you guys is that you guys are too emotional. Instead of making your demands clear and unambiguous and use diplomatic, political and other legal means to air your grievances and how to achieve your demands, you guys resort to complaining, insults and sometimes outright threats. The south east have 5 governors, 15 Senators and 60 House of rep members, have you guys made your grievances known to them? Have you made official complaints to both the Federal and State Governments on the so called siege on the south east? Have you guys held protest complaining of the excess military and police presence in the South East?

You guys always accuse others of hating on you guys, but it is you guys that throws the most insults on social media, it is you guys that involve other people who are not interested in your agitations. You guys call minority tribes in the Nigerdelta slaves, you insult Bini people, you call Yorubas all sorts of names, you call Northerners cows, and all sorts of unprintable names, and you are here talking about others hating.

wirinet:
The problem i have with you guys is that you guys are too emotional. Instead of making your demands clear and unambiguous and use diplomatic, political and other legal means to air your grievances and how to achieve your demands, you guys resort to complaining, insults and sometimes outright threats. The south east have 5 governors, 15 Senators and 60 House of rep members, have you guys made your grievances known to them? Have you made official complaints to both the Federal and State Governments on the so called siege on the south east? Have you guys held protest complaining of the excess military and police presence in the South East?

You guys always accuse others of hating on you guys, but it is you guys that throws the most insults on social media, it is you guys that involve other people who are not interested in your agitations. You guys call minority tribes in the Nigerdelta slaves, you insult Bini people, you call Yorubas all sorts of names, you call Northerners cows, and all sorts of unprintable names, and you are here talking about others hating.

ba7man:
You must be mistaken. GEJ fixed all the southeast roads.

Cooly100:
I want to shut your mouth and shame you...with those that gave you 5 likes, with these images...The [b] SE leaders have been visiting all past Nigeria leaders on the issues of the SE, but none of them listened.So what do you want the youths to do? We are not emotional..it is you who have failed to see what is happening because you have never visited the region...Again please name one federal project or investment in the entire SE? [/b]

wirinet:
For you information, I am not Yoruba.

But, I still ask, what concerns you with Yoruba problems, when you guys say your own problem is much more that theirs? How did Yoruba enter your Biafra agitation?

You now see why i say you need help?

wirinet:
Another senseless emotional rant.

Which nonsense have the Igbos been dealing with that others have not been dealing with?

What Referendum are you demanding exactly? Is it that Igbos want to leave Nigeria? If that is the case, then you guys need to form political parties with secession as the agenda. You cannot achieve secession with a cacophony of noise on TV, radio and social media.

wirinet:
SE leaders visiting past Nigerian leaders? Why exactly? What do you thing past leaders can do to promote your interests. They see currents leaders, they ignore but visit past leaders. They should have visited the graves of dead past leaders also, maybe those ones would intervene from heaven.

What youths can do? Youths can organize themselves into pressure groups, then articulate your ideas, demands and interests. You campaign to get strength of numbers (that is what democracy is all about), then you either support on the local, State or Federal level someone that believes and can promote those demands and ideals. The current youths only know how to wail and throw insults on social media.

In the same vain, name one Federal project in the South South, South West (outside Lagos), North West, and even North Central (outside Abuja).

six of us founded the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) – the first human rights body in Nigeria-on 15th October, 1987

kingzizzy:
Look, this has been dealt with many times. The Nigeria you are talking about is the mere artificial creation of the white man. As we all know too well, none of the indigenous ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria, including Igbos, ever gave their consent for the creation of Nigeria. Odinarily, the British should have held a nationwide referendum in 1960 before the left to ask all those they forced into the union of Nigeria if they want to continue with it. They didnt out of selfish interests.

So asking Igbos to seek a democratic way out of Nigeria when Nigeria was not democratically created is neither here nor there. As far as Im concerned, Igbos are being illegally held in Nigeria

Cooly100:
You are so dense..how many pressure groups have you formed to get restructuring that you have been mouthing about since 1914. I don't need to waste my time mentioning federal investment in other regions SE...ID you are happy with the structure of Nigeria...good for you..We in the SE are not and we want out...and there is nothing you gullible fellow can do about it...You can use the lagoon if you are not happy with the way we are going about it... In your feeble mind, Mike is too emotional, abi?

wirinet:
The problem i have with you guys is that you guys are too emotional. Instead of making your demands clear and unambiguous and use diplomatic, political and other legal means to air your grievances and how to achieve your demands, you guys resort to complaining, insults and sometimes outright threats. The south east have 5 governors, 15 Senators and 60 House of rep members, have you guys made your grievances known to them? Have you made official complaints to both the Federal and State Governments on the so called siege on the south east? Have you guys held protest complaining of the excess military and police presence in the South East?

You guys always accuse others of hating on you guys, but it is you guys that throws the most insults on social media, it is you guys that involve other people who are not interested in your agitations. You guys call minority tribes in the Nigerdelta slaves, you insult Bini people, you call Yorubas all sorts of names, you call Northerners cows, and all sorts of unprintable names, and you are here talking about others hating.

bukifemi1:
The Igbos are under siege in their country

By Mike Ozekhome

I am shocked that the Igbos are not speaking up at the apparent siege laid on their land by uniformed person of different categories. They range from Army, Navy, Police, Civil Defence, Customs, FRSC, etc. My journey had taken me by road from Isele-Mkpitime, where I had gone to pay tribute to a Nigerian icon, Chief (Dr) P.K.C. Isagba, the Odogwu of Isele-Mkpitime. He was one of the first Nigerians to believe in my ability as a young fledgling lawyer. I had been handling his cases whilst at Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s Chambers. When I left as Deputy Head to set up my practice in January 1986, Chief f Isagba personally went to Chief Gani Fawehinmi, to allow him move his files to me, to continue handling his cases; a request the amiable and selfless Gani granted immediately. So, Chief Isagba became my first major client as a tottering practising lawyer, trying to find my groggy feet. He became my bossom friend and elder brother.

My journey from Isele-Mkpitime, through Asaba, to Port-Harcourt, told me clearly that the entire Igbo land is locked down in a physical, psychological and mental siege, reminiscent of a civil war time.

When the Civil War ended January 15, 1970, the then military ruler, General “Jack” Yakubu Gowon, who became Head of State, at 31 and a bachelor, proclaimed the three Rs: “Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation”, which heralded his policy of “No Victor, No Vanquished”. This was after the unfortunate failure of the 4th-5th January, 1967, of the “Aburi Accord”, that would have prevented the bloody war in which over 2 million civilians and 100, 000 military combatants were killed. Or, was it an historical mistake that these people who had already manufactured “Ogbunigwe” (series of weapons, that included detonation mines, IED, and rocket propelled missiles), with which they prosecuted the Nigeria – Biafra war between 1967 and 1970, were prevented from leaving Nigeria? Perhaps, we would today have had a Japan, Singapore or South Korea lying side by side a sprawling “giant of Africa” on clay legs.

These policies were meant to quickly heal the gaping wounds of the gruesome blood-letting, forget the horrors and evils of the fratricidal war and quickly reintegrate the Igbos into the society.

But, have these hardworking, gregarious “Jews” of Nigeria been reconciled, rehabilitated and reintegrated into the mainstream of the Nigerian society? I doubt it. Simple proof: show me any Igbo man in today’s all powerful cabal kitchen cabinet of PMB’s Government. My journey from Isele-Mkpitime, Delta State, through Asaba, Onitsha, Oba, Oraifite, Okija, Ihiala, Mgbidi, Awomama, Owerri, Aba to Port-Harcourt, was a strangulating reminder that the Igbos, inspite of their unquantifiable contributions to the commerce, industry and innovations that drive the non-oil sector of the Nigerian economy and give it oxygen, are nearly a conquered people. The check-points along the above stretch of road are nauseating and asphyxiating, as the security agencies, including para-military ones out-do each other to harass, torment, search, intimidate and extort money from travelers.

Earlier journeys by road (I travel a lot on professional duties), had shown me the same siege through countless roadblocks: Enugu, through the Ugwogo Nike-Opi-Nsukka Road; Amansea in Awka-Ugwuoba Oji River; Nnewi, Alor, Ekwulobia, Amesi, Ugar, Umuchu; Okigwe, Awgu and Ituku Ozalla, Umuahia and Isiala-Ngwa, on Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway. On the Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene highway, you have exasperating road blocks at Michael Okpara University junction; Isingwu-Nkweogwu junction of the Isuikwuato-Uzuakoli-Ajayi-Igbere road; and the 14 Brigade Army barracks junction at the Ohafia-Arochukwu highway.

As you are crossing one check point, a mere look ahead of you, of less than half a kilometer, will reveal another barricade. It is all so frustrating. There is no war, or security breach. South East is not North East where Boko Haram still calls the shots (forget about Government’s pet words of “we have degraded Boko Haram”; Boko Haram is still very potent, controlling large areas, killing and maiming people on a daily basis. Their representative said that much at the 2nd May, 2017, Re-Union meeting of the 2014 National Conference delegates at Daar Communications Centre, Abuja, where I delivered the keynote address).

Yet, in this Boko Haram-ravaged region, you would not find this armada of security, treating the entire geo-political zone made up of five states (the least in Nigeria; some others have seven states), like a conquered territory.

It is only the recent suit by my good friend, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, (six of us founded the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) – the first human rights body in Nigeria-on 15th October, 1987), over ''marginalisation of the South East region”, that has perhaps brought to the front burner, these disturbing tons of injustice. That is why no one can ignore them.


The Igbos are under siege in their country

By Mike Ozekhome

https://newtelegraphonline.com/tag/the-igbos-are-under-siege-in-their-country/

wirinet:
You must be an IPOB delinquent child, because an IPOB youth would know that my people have been pressuring the British and subsequently Nigeria concerning our interests since 1914. Our pressure led to the Willink Minorities Commission of Nigeria in 1957, our pressure groups led to the creation of Midwest region in 1963, our pressure led to the creation of Delta state in 1986, our pressure led to the 13% derivation, our pressure defeated the onshore - offshore Dichotomy under Obasanjo. There are too many issues that our pressure groups have achieved down the decades.

Cooly100:
Good for you...we know what we want...and how to get it...It mustn't comply to your own ways...We have the right to ask for self-determination...It is not a crime...Besides your right is not infringed in the process. So give us a break...

wirinet:
The problem i have with you guys is that you guys are too emotional. Instead of making your demands clear and unambiguous and use diplomatic, political and other legal means to air your grievances and how to achieve your demands, you guys resort to complaining, insults and sometimes outright threats. The south east have 5 governors, 15 Senators and 60 House of rep members, have you guys made your grievances known to them? Have you made official complaints to both the Federal and State Governments on the so called siege on the south east? Have you guys held protest complaining of the excess military and police presence in the South East?

You guys always accuse others of hating on you guys, but it is you guys that throws the most insults on social media, it is you guys that involve other people who are not interested in your agitations. [s]You guys call minority tribes in the Nigerdelta slaves, you insult Bini people, you call Yorubas all sorts of names, you call Northerners cows, and all sorts of unprintable names, and you are here talking about others hating. [/s]

comrChris:
And what do you and your likes call igbos? Or are you saying you people dont insult igbos too..

Your problem is that you people always point finger at igbos and leaving your own fault behind..

Nigeria can never be better if you and your people continue to hide the truth