₦airaland Forum

ikechizoba:
It may interest you to know that during the war British people did not get any deal from Odumegwu Ojukwu when he went to Russia to buy weapons and assistance, the condition he was given was to nationalise the oil companies and hand over to them, Ojukwu turned it down and maintained his stubbornness. I am sure that is what some minorities shouting our oil mistook for Igbo interest in the oil. The oligarchs on the other hand knew they wouldn't have east access to the oil fields with Igbos in view.
Earlier, the British launched minorities commission in 1957 popularly known as Willink commission, the idea was to prop up unwilling tools (minorities) who were mainly farmers and fishermen to scuttle igbo influence and ignoring the fact that political arrangements were heavily weighted in favour of oligarchs who have persecuted Tivs and other minorities and in the west, yorubas showed great hostilities towards the Urhbo and Benin etc.
Saro wiwa an opportunist and a poor historian who should have learnt from Afonja in illorin and his close brother Adaka Boro who paid the ultimate price for sabotage, becomes overnight friend to uncle Sanni Abacha and Saro wiwa and family lived in gigantic mansion of Odumegwu Ojukwus father in port-harcourt. Saro wiwa kids called captain Abacha, uncle Sanni " this was in the early 70s. Saro wiwa at some point boasted of crossing over to join the Nigerian army and helped them take (Igweocha) now Port-harcourt , because he believed that Igbos had disrespected him.
Fast forward to early 90s and "uncle Sanni" hangs daddy saro.
The idea to seize igbo properties only in port harcourt was to ensure that the bitterness, hate and distrust between the two brother regions never healed. OC nwali and okogbule nwonodi warned Niger deltans against this, but the glee and rejoicing by the EK Clarks camp was too raucous.
The trouble for saro wiwa, elechi amadi and EK Clark started when immediately after the war, captain David mark was drafted in to share the abandoned properties in port harcourt. This was despite the agreement that indigenes would share them.
The niger delta servants of the Fulanis started feeling the tinubu treatment immediately after the war. E K Clark who was given information minister during the war was dropped and have struggled for the rest of his life to touch a government post.
Elechi amadi was found as a ready tool by the British and the Nigerian government to spew all forms of misinformation, One of his book titled Sunset in Biafra alleged that.....
"Some thirty years ago the Ibos began to move in .......Eventually, many settled and Igbo came to be so widely used that certain tribes practically lost their mother tongue. "
Fabricated lies and deception !!!
Elechi amadi was abandoned and he remained brutally and abjectly poor until Amaechi tried to rehabilitate him at dying age.
Saro wiwa was serially humiliated from immediately after the war and never got that illusive happiness from Fulanis.
Before he was wasted like a common criminal In 1994, a year before his death, he showed up un-invited to an Ohaneze meeting in Enugu and asked Ndi Igbo
to forgive him and aid in his fight for self actualization.
With the Fulanis and British eye on oil, and with documented fears of Britain to negotiate with Igbo's, who they hated for knowing even more than they the white man knew, (for every British professional expatriate in the 50s, there were 3-8 superiorly educated and exposed Igbo's.
So, Britain wanted Igbo's away from oil negotiations. This led to the advice to Gowon to cut Elele, Etche, Opobo, Oyigbo, Asa, ndoki, ndoni and some other Igbo communities into the new rivers state they created for stark illiterate 23 year old korofo naval boy, diette spiff to run.
Then they feared that ikwerre blood tie & proximity to Igbo's will return them to their Igbo identity, so, they asked Gowon to pay and commission captain elechi amadi who was a literary practitioner and author, but who felt overshadowed by achebe, and thus, hated Igbo's like hell, to rewrite the ikwerre language and create a new ikwerre language.
So, okuko becomes ochucho, onyeisi = nyerisi, nw =w, as in wike, nwobo=Wobo.
Elelenwa becomes Elelenwo, Umuola becomes rumola, umuokorushi becomes rumuokorishi, obigbo becomes oyibo, umuokuta becomes rumokuta , obi =ovu , umuaka= rumutakiri , etc etc etc
The British clandestinely funded to language alteration project to reduce the Igbo's to minority, so as to face less hectic trade negotiations in future. They also feared that Igbo's might start spreading to run other African states due to their expansive westernisation and individual wealth.
All these hatred were justified as result of Igbo's running port harcourt through enugu the capital. The British who are detailed historians, found every bit of fear mongering and annoying story of domination to whip up hysteria amongst the niger deltans. Where there were facts, they greatly exaggerated them. Lazy men who couldn't compete in life started blaming igbo domination for their failures.
The war was a connivance of convenience as the British bombed the Igbo's, while nigeria blockaded them for starvation purposes. This occurrences are in the past. They shouldn't raise emotions amongst Niger deltans or Igbo's. They're just history.
We shouldn't let them repeat.

Chei, ipoo spewing rubbish left, right and centre.
After you finish insulting our great men you will expect us to clap for you and join your biafra like zombie.
It's alright.

Ekinematics:
Chei, ipoo spewing rubbish left, right and centre.
After you finish insulting our great men you will expect us to clap for you and join your biafra like zombie.
It's alright.

As in eh, these ppl are just unrepentant e-goats, ph ws igweocha before d war....

fratermathy:
They exist independently in both languages. Agege is from old Urhobo. Most likely means "let's protect him". It's original meaning, like many other Urhobo names such as Okumagba, etc, is a subject of conjecture only. But based on the principles of Linguistic derivation and etymology, it should be close to what I just wrote.


Cc:
Opharhe

I don't really know the meaning of the namey, 'Agege' but I don't think it's related to Yoruba.

[quote author=belzabull post=58244442]That sound you hear when disgusting and hate-filled pig opens his mouth

A deluded and frustrated soul who doesn't know that igboland goes beyond the geopolitical SE zone[/qu


Typical of this new generation of BIAFRIANS.

Funny thing is, for people like u, Biafra or not you'll end up a nobody....This world will end and U will be remembered for notin. You are one of those passer-bys in life; those who add no value to the world around them. You are one of those gullible youths they'll give arms to go die for nothing.

How did I know this??

Ur level of intelligence is glaring!!

Sunmolar:
Maybe you're the one that's illly informed, vagabond.

Big fool, still living behind.

herich:
Big fool, still living behind.

hirelings like you, small fool, by the way if I'm a fool why quote me. common let's fly together if you have wings. idiot, you lack proper upbringing. as you don't know your left from your right you jump to any page & make silly comments.

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Sunmolar:
hirelings like you, small fool, by the way if I'm a fool why quote me. common let's fly together if you have wings. idiot, you lack proper upbringing. as you don't know your left from your right you jump to any page & make silly comments.

ll leave you to keep fooling around,
Omo ale.

herich:
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ll leave you to keep fooling around,
Omo ale.

ask your mama if she's sure who your father really his among all that entered in between her laps. then you can be sure why you behaved like someone who grew up from a broken home.