₦airaland Forum

Nwodosis:
That Kaduna " Igbo Quit Notice" declaration was an own goal to the crusaders of One Nigeria.

It was the move that proved that Igbos need the "parasitic" North. Till today, Igbo pride is still hurt that the North will expose the Igbo hypocrisy and dependence with just a single declaration that did not even require a rally. Now imagine the North staging rallies like IPOB, boy o boy, Igbos will be shitting their pants and writing appeals to even Togo and Liberia.

Even Kanu has no plan for the Igbos that would return enmass. Hence the cries and appeals to UN and US.

Have you seen any Yoruba or Northern groups appeal to UN or US over NigerDelta quit notice?

We don't even regard it as noise, it is just an irrelevant whisper? Are the NigerDeltans ready to leave the North and West?

omenkaLives:
The writer did a good job here if you ask me.

did u sell ur moniker?
u seem to reason wit sense nowadays

You marginalise them and they cry out, you then kill them and they cry out louder, you prepare to kill them further and they cry out further...all you think of is how "incincere" the leader of the cries is. How you still classify yourselves as rational beings still shocks me...

abouzaid:
they failed to draw the line between a call for self determination and a call for genocide. another own goal was the 97% Vs 5% speech by buhari. that's the biggest hate speech in modern Nigeria.

"A crisis looms in the east. So no one cares to interrogate the minds peddling this secessionist idea. No one questions their methods vehemently . It’s enough that they mouth marginalization of Igbos and paint a colorful Biafra. It’s enough that Buhari is cast as a symbol of oppressive, anti-Igbo, Islamist, Hausa Fulani hegemony. Igbos are truly marginalized."

Yeah, truly marginalized, even, in their thinking of where the problem lies and who to blame!!!

Throwback:
It was the move that proved that Igbos need the "parasitic" North. Till today, Igbo pride is still hurt that the North will expose the Igbo hypocrisy and dependence with just a single declaration that did not even require a rally. Now imagine the North staging rallies like IPOB, boy o boy, Igbos will be shitting their pants and writing appeals to even Togo and Liberia.

Even Kanu has no plan for the Igbos that would return enmass. Hence the cries and appeals to UN and US.

Have you seen any Yoruba or Northern groups appeal to UN or US over NigerDelta quit notice?

We don't even regard it as noise, it is just an irrelevant whisper? Are the NigerDeltans ready to leave the North and West?

Are you now the town crier for the Nigher Deltas that you people caved out? The Igbos appealing to the UN is a show of civility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaBqIk52R0


A BIAFRAN professional boxer won gold medal in asia country Cambodia

sarrki:
Nothing like master anything here

Its absolute thrash

My brother is Nailand a full time job for you?
Why are so afraid of Biafra?
it seems fear of Biafra leaving Nigeria is giving you sleepless night.

abouzaid:
they failed to draw the line between a call for self determination and a call for genocide. another own goal was the 97% Vs 5% speech by buhari. that's the biggest hate speech in modern Nigeria.

Why do you guys like telling lies like this? I know the quit notice was out of place but please tell us where they mentioned genocide, it was IPOB and radio Biafra that started the talk of genocide.
Why are you guys not talking about the genocide Nnamdi kanu asked you to commit when he asked for the killing of hausas and yorubas or was that right?

A judicial cris is looming. Nnamdi Kanu officially challenged the bail conditions and it is official. What the fed govt should do is to argue against the challenge in court. For them to file a fresh application against the challenge is nothing but judicial rascallity. We shall wait and see how the court handles it.

Throwback:
It was the move that proved that Igbos need the "parasitic" North. Till today, Igbo pride is still hurt that the North will expose the Igbo hypocrisy and dependence with just a single declaration that did not even require a rally. Now imagine the North staging rallies like IPOB, boy o boy, Igbos will be shitting their pants and writing appeals to even Togo and Liberia.

Even Kanu has no plan for the Igbos that would return enmass. Hence the cries and appeals to UN and US.

Have you seen any Yoruba or Northern groups appeal to UN or US over NigerDelta quit notice?

We don't even regard it as noise, it is just an irrelevant whisper? Are the NigerDeltans ready to leave the North and West?

Truth be told, the Igbo pride has been hit really hard about the quit notice and writing to different international bodies, you can see the yorubas and Hausa-Fulani didn't even shake after niger delta militants issued theirs and later withdrew the quit order.

dunkem21:
Of course, I know you didn't read it..

The writer wasn't praising Kanu or IPOB neither was he dissing your hero. He was unbiased and brought out the undiluted facts with literal superiority.

Kindly reread it when the ileya hangover booze comot for ya eye

I totally agree with you. The writer was not biase.he talked about the hypocrisy of both the Igbo elders, the priest. Nnamdi himself and the Nigerian government and made a call for a political solution to the Biafra issue while acknowledging that military might will not be solution to the problem.

PFRB:
A judicial cris is looming. Nnamdi Kanu officially challenged the bail conditions and it is official. What the fed govt should do is to argue against the challenge in court. For them to file a fresh application against the challenge is nothing but judicial rascallity. We shall wait and see how the court handles it.

No crisis looming, Nnamdi kanu still has a date with Abuja and if it is proven he failed his bail conditions, which you and I know he did, he's going back to prison

Yyeske:
No crisis looming, Nnamdi kanu still has a date with Abuja and if it is proven he failed his bail conditions, which you and I know he did, he's going back to prison

No bail condition that goes against the constitutional rights of individuals can stand. This is the crux of the so called bail conditions.

PFRB:
No bail condition that goes against the constitutional rights of individuals can stand. This is the crux of the so called bail conditions.

The thing is, he has failed to abide to his bail conditions he agreed to obey, why did he accept those conditions in the first place? The judge and FG just roped him into a trap.

Throwback:
It was the move that proved that Igbos need the "parasitic" North. Till today, Igbo pride is still hurt that the North will expose the Igbo hypocrisy and dependence with just a single declaration that did not even require a rally. Now imagine the North staging rallies like IPOB, boy o boy, Igbos will be shitting their pants and writing appeals to even Togo and Liberia.

Even Kanu has no plan for the Igbos that would return enmass. Hence the cries and appeals to UN and US.

Have you seen any Yoruba or Northern groups appeal to UN or US over NigerDelta quit notice?

We don't even regard it as noise, it is just an irrelevant whisper? Are the NigerDeltans ready to leave the North and West?

Comedians and jokers everywhere.
How can the quit notice hurt Igbo pride? You mean people like me in Enugu lost any sleep over what some Nothern youths are declaring in Kaduna? The quit notice was laughable. Quit notice cannot work while there is ONE NIGERIA.

Nigerians have this ridiculous mindset that if Igbos are serious about their own country, they would all return to their region.
This is a nonsense that has been done before that did not work. In 1967, all Igbos went home and declared Biafra, Nigeria still came to the East to fight for ONE NIGERIA.

Igbos know that going back home will not give them their own country, all that will do is give mischief makers the opportunity to loot Igbo investments.

It is absolute hypocrisy and laughable for people to be issuing quit notice while holding on to the notion of ONE NIGERIA.

If the Northern youths were serious about the quit notice, they should declare a Arewa Republic then Igbos will know that they are in a different country and can go.

dunkem21:
I really want to know who penned this article and coated it with word paintings, idiomatic arts cum proverbial palm oil..

Such a masterpiece!!

If people like you are still left in Iboland then there is still hope for SE and SS. I continue to tell our people that our problems in the south are self inflicted.
We cannot blame anyone but ourselves for our failures. We are 95% responsible for oour action or inactions.

attackgat:
Comedians and jokers everywhere.
How can the quit notice hurt Igbo pride? You mean people like me in Enugu lost any sleep over what some Nothern youths are declaring in Kaduna? The quit notice was laughable. Quit notice cannot work while there is ONE NIGERIA.

Nigerians have this ridiculous mindset that if Igbos are serious about their own country, they would all return to their region.
This is a nonsense that has been done before that did not work. In 1967, all Igbos went home and declared Biafra, Nigeria still came to the East to fight for ONE NIGERIA.

Igbos know that going back home will not give them their own country, all that will do is give mischief makers the opportunity to loot Igbo investments.

It is absolute hypocrisy and laughable for people to be issuing quit notice while holding on to the notion of ONE NIGERIA.

If the Northern youths were serious about the quit notice, they should declare a Arewa Republic then Igbos will know that they are in a different country and can go.

It is absolute hypocrisy for IPOB to be insulting their host up north that they want their country and the north does not want you to go, the north decided to give you a quit notice after years of insults and name calling. You said you can't leave because you've not gotten your country and needed a referendum to get it and they said they would be petitioning the UN on your behalf for you to get your country, instead of moving and going to get your Biafra as you've always wanted, you still refused and instead petitioning that same UN that you don't want to leave again.
The arewa people never told you they wanted a separate country, it was you that wanted out so stop giving excuses

kettykin:
Any person who breaks the law and or threatens security of our country must face the law.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/biafra-crisis-looms-igbo-land/

The only relevant part of the long essay.

Yyeske:
Why do you guys like telling lies like this? I know the quit notice was out of place but please tell us where they mentioned genocide, it was IPOB and radio Biafra that started the talk of genocide.
Why are you guys not talking about the genocide Nnamdi kanu asked you to commit when he asked for the killing of hausas and yorubas or was that right?

arguing with you is pointless because it's your full time job at the BMC, so go and argue the United Nations body that called for their arrest over a call for genocide.

abouzaid:
arguing with you is pointless because it's your full time job at the BMC, so go and argue the United Nations body that called for their arrest over a call for genocide.

Let them continue feeding your likes with lies, you think anyone will overlook the call for genocide against hausas and yorubas by Nnamdi Kanu when the time comes. Continue waiting for the arrest of arewa youths who never talked of killing but kanu did.

Paperwhite:
The crisis is rather looming much over a goddamned country called Nigeria.

Of course the crisis is looming much over Nigeria (since there is no country known as Biafra for now). Unfortunately, that's the fact and that is what many well-meaning, patriotic Nigerians are crying about. But which part of Nigeria will bear the direct consequence the most?

Every Nigerian feels the wicked and devilish acts of boko haram, but who bears the pang more than those who once lived in their home - now living in IDP camps, surviving at the mercies of other citizens for several years now?

The eye is only peaceful because 'something' has not fallen into it.

Yyeske:
It is absolute hypocrisy for IPOB to be insulting their host up north that they want their country and the north does not want you to go, the north decided to give you a quit notice after years of insults and name calling. You said you can't leave because you've not gotten your country and needed a referendum to get it and they said they would be petitioning the UN on your behalf for you to get your country, instead of moving and going to get your Biafra as you've always wanted, you still refused and instead petitioning that same UN that you don't want to leave again.
The arewa people never told you they wanted a separate country, it was you that wanted out so stop giving excuses

Listen well. The concept of ONE NIGERIA is that there is no host. Anyone has the right live or reside anywhere they want in Nigeria as long as they are Nigerians. There is nothing like "host". If any region does not feel happy with another and wants control who lives or does not live in that region, let that region agitate to be a separate country same as IPOB/Biafrans/Igbo are doing. When they become a separate country, they can issue as many quit notices as they want.

The north has no right to issue any quit notice to anybody while holding on to ONE NIGERIA. That is the height of hypcrisy.

Is it a new thig for people to agitate for independence? Scotland agitated and got referendum from Britain in 2014. At no point did other Regions such as give Scottish people quit notice just because they said they want to go.

Britain had referendum last year and left the EU. The EU is not giving British citizens quit notice.

It is only in uncivilised places like Nigeria that people start giving quit notices to people who have every right to be there

attackgat:
Listen well. The concept of ONE NIGERIA is that there is no host. Anyone has the right live or reside anywhere they want in Nigeria as long as they are Nigerians. There is nothing like "host". If any region does not feel happy with another and wants control who lives or does not live in that region, let that region agitate to be a separate country same as IPOB/Biafrans/Igbo are doing. When they become a separate country, they can issue as many quit notices as they want.

The north has no right to issue any quit notice to anybody while holding on to ONE NIGERIA. That is the height of hypcrisy.

Is it a new thig for people to agitate for independence? Scotland agitated and got referendum from Britain in 2014. At no point did other Regions such as give Scottish people quit notice just because they said they want to go.

Britain had referendum last year and left the EU. The EU is not giving British citizens quit notice.


It is only in uncivilised places like Nigeria that people start Giving quit notices to people who have every right to be there

Is it that Igbos dont live or have buildings in other parts of the country and is anyone chasing them out? I used the word host for a reason because afterall, nobody feeds nor houses Igbos in Lagos, Abuja nor Kano for free.
Have you asked yourself how Scotland you mentioned got the referendum, i guess you think they moved around the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow and the British government awarded them.
As for the quit notice, it was a silly idea but you know why it came about.

kettykin:
It’s not alarmist. Crisis is looming in Igboland. The sore has been allowed to fester, for too long. Pus has accumulated. Massage and warm compresses won’t do now. A surgical knife must go in.


The government must act decisively, one way or the other. Prevarication can lead to a costly gangrene. The wound must be drained and cleaned, so that it can heal. The wound dressing must involve comprehensive political engagement of the southeast, and a restructuring of the federation.

We are on a slippery slope. Nnamdi Kanu was granted bail by a court. He is being tried for offences bordering on treason. He has flouted the bail conditions. He must have been emboldened by the enticing temerity of the Arewa youths. ShettimaYerima and his Arewa youths committed treason. They issued a quit notice to Igbos to leave the north,or face severe consequences by October 1. They did more than plagiarize Nnamdi Kanu’s hate files .They were not arrested. They were not charged.


The Federal high court judge that granted Nnamdi Kanu bail wouldn’t rightly be concerned about effect of Arewa youth’s impunity on Nnamdi Kanu’s actions as no case has been brought before him. So despite the double standards, the court may have no option but to revoke his bail. The law is an ass. The federal government has found its missing courage, it has asked the court to revoke the bail. The federal government is not permanently timid. The judge has no decision to make. Well, Nigerian Judges can be creative, sometimes
If the bail is revoked, Nnamdi Kanu will have to abandon his tour of his Biafra, and return to a ‘zoological’ prison in Kuje. That is now almost inconceivable. Almost. This is where it gets complicated. If Nnamdi Kanu’s utterances can be relied on, he would not submit himself for incarceration. Then once again, the judge will have no options. A bench warrant will be issued against him. When a Bench warrant was issued against Tompolo, the Nigerian police didn’t find him. So the federal government may let the police not find Nnamdi Kanu. Tompolo was discreet though.




He sought refuge in the creeks. He was out of view, until he came to bury his dad. Nnamdi has said he cannot go on exile. It’s beneath him to go out of circulation, into hiding. That would make him lily-liveried. He was sent by God. He has been touring Biafra. So he isn’t exactly a Tompolo, who claims no territory. Tompolo wasn’t seen. Yes he wasn’t seen destroying crude oil pipelines. Nnamdi Kanu has no pipelines to put out of use. He can’t touch the economy. He has no way of bringing the federal government to its knees, from the shadows without amputating his nose, turning Igbo land into a cauldron. IPOB is now a non violent organization. That’s their new image. So the Police may be forced to arrest an ubiquitous and garrulous Nnamdi Kanu. However, it is not compulsory, not inevitable.



This is Nigeria. The police declared Shettima Yerima and Arewa youths wanted . Shettima sauntered from place to place, huffing and puffing. The Police chose not to see him
So the police may easily fail to see Nnamdi Kanu. The government has an alternative. It may send the Minister of Interior to say something absurd that exonerates Kanu
The Judge will understand. This is Nigeria. The Minister of Interior said that the Arewa Youths claimed they were misquoted. Heavens didn’t fall. Shettima later denied the minister and his tales. Shettima is ,obviously, not a coward. He boldly stated he was withdrawing the quit notice to honour Buhari. The ijaw youth council president is sure Shettima had state dinners. The government has other options. It can send an official to waffle about heating up the polity. Then it can explain the decision to trash the court warrant and let Kanu roam as politically sensible. That’s what cowards do. In fact it can ask the attorney General to reverse himself, and say that Kanu cannot be arrested. And he would blame it on security concerns. That’s what the chief law officer said about his impotence against the Arewa Youths who committed treason in broad daylight. The government can always chicken out. So the wound can fester a little more. They have been warned. Ango Abdullahi warned them about Shettima, they capitulated. So Ohaneze has warned the federal government. Nnamdi Kanu could be set to bask in his own impunity. The Judge would understand. Nnamdi’s criminal case could be effectively over. Nnamdi may not risk going to Abuja. He is sure no policeman would come to his Biafra to arrest him
He has warned Buhari. He said his non violent IPOB would slaughter any Policeman who comes to arrest him in Biafra. That’s is his idea of civil disobedience. The Die is cast. The federal government can’t arrest Nnamdi without crossing the red line of double standards. The federal government cannot leave Nnamdi and his daringness without conceding sovereignty. Igbo elders are quiet. Igbo youths are restless. Emotions have replaced reasons. The elders have taken refuge in timidity. They now speak in muffled tones




The politicians can be forgiven. Politics entails opportunism. Nnamdi Kanu,increasingly, looks like a king or a king maker. The churches have a strong influence on Igbo politics. Igbo politicians go to churches to declare their candidacy and to lobby the clergy and their congregations. The churches play politics of denominations godlessly. But the church claims to be the light of the world. Igbo church leaders are quiet. In northeast the clerics kept low profile. The core north didn’t like President Jonathan. People refused to speak up. Boko haram was troubling Jonathan, and making the place ungovernable. That was exciting. Powerful figures maintained a conspiratorial silence. Yusuf and Shekau preached, told the people what they wanted to hear. They talked about poor governance and corruption. They told them that democracy was sinful, ‘zoological’. That it was designed to keep the ordinary people in perpetual servitude. Their followership grew. Boko haram metastasized. They have tapped into a rich vein of frustration and political insensitivity. The economic circumstances have yielded many idle hands. It’s a perfect combustible mix. The murderous forays of herdsmen fueled already inflamed tempers. A crisis looms in the east. So no one cares to interrogate the minds peddling this secessionist idea. No one questions their methods vehemently . It’s enough that they mouth marginalization of Igbos and paint a colorful Biafra. It’s enough that Buhari is cast as a symbol of oppressive, anti-Igbo, Islamist, Hausa Fulani hegemony. Igbos are truly marginalized.



The Bishops ought to be discerning. They claim spiritual insight. They can’t be as impressionable as the rabble. They can’t be as excitable as youths who didn’t experience the civil war. They cant afford to be enthralled by mere charm. Some of them actually now find Kanu

Some Igbo Bishops are frolicking openly with Nnamdi Kanu. Some others are relishing the prospects of a loathed President Buhari being taught some lessons. Biafra is always seductive. Igbos are emotional about it. It is sweet nostalgia of what nearly was. The promised land. Anyone who comes in the name of Biafra is welcome. The Buhari government didn’t help matters. The sense of alienation has never been greater. Politicians who lost in 2015 took their grief personal

intimidating. Kanu says Jesus is not God. The Bishops don’t care. He mocks Mary. The catholic priests are unperturbed. If they are perturbed ,then they are filled with the spirit of fear. God gave them the spirit of power
.Kanu says New Testament is junk
The priests don’t treat that as heretical. The priests must announce their allegiance to Christ. It wouldn’t matter if Kanu were a self respecting atheist who didn’t defame and ridicule other peoples religious beliefs. Kanu can’t get away with duplicity. He says the worship of Jesus is Idolatry. It is good we don’t mix politics and religion. It is good we keep the state away from religion
But Kanu has not stopped announcing that God sent him. He said that God has decreed that there would be no election in Anambra state. We have spirit filled priests who claim they hear from God. Why can’t they confirm or condemn Kanu’s spiritual pronouncements? The IPOB spokesman claims Kanu is a Christian. Kanu denies that he is a Christian. Why is it difficult to know whom Kanu is? If you ask hard questions , you will be told its not about Kanu. But who decided there will be no elections in Igboland? Kanu hears from God, so he says
He may actually hear from God. Since he drops the name of God, Igbos must be told what God he worships. The role of a priest is not just to collect tithes and offerings. A priest owes the people and the society a duty to expose religious charlatanism and sorcery. When a man goes to Agwushi and collects prayers, and jumps over to adoration ground of father Ebube Muonso and collects more prayers, that’s syncretism.




It could mean nothing. But it could be a window into a mind filled with confusion. Priests can’t sit astride and watch the people dance on the brink for lack of knowledge. Why is the church silent? Who is an anti Christ? Truth and reason have been battered on Aba highway

Igbo priests are passing by like the Rabbi who snubbed the man beaten by highway robbers. Where are the good Samaritans? Where are they? The church perhaps isn’t ready to dabble into politics . Igbo churches dabble into it only when telling members to vote a Catholic and against an Anglican or vice versa. Who really is an antichrist? A murderous Fulani Herdsman who kills some Christian farmers? Or a man who peddles damaging falsehoods about Jesus Christ and the Bible? If the church cannot speak for moral reasons, why can’t the church speak for prudential reasons? Why can’t it defend Christian theology against an onslaught from a charlatan? Nigeria, they say, is a zoo. Our leaders act with impunity. Then the messiah comes for the Igbos and no one is ready to hold him to account for his speeches and positions. Only a few are interested in interrogating his mind. What sort of freedom do Igbos dream of? A freedom that would excommunicate dissent and plurality of views? A freedom where every critic is a marked traitor? Ohaneze is timid. It may have actually become redundant. It sees the crowd that follows Kanu around and it is ready to embrace a little demagoguery, once in a while. Kanu has labeled Ohaneze leaders corrupt old men willing to sell their consciences and birthrights, for crumbs. Ohaneze excuses IPOB’s waywardness as understandable youthful exuberance. Ohaneze has no balls. So Ohaneze fudges and fudges. Ohaneze knows Igbos are marginalized.





But Ohaneze knows that Kanu’s exuberance puts Igbo lives and property at great peril. Ohaneze knows that the overall interest of Igbos is best served by an equitable Nigeria and not secession. Ohaneze knows the time has come. But Ohaneze is cowardly, or impotent. Without a bold church, without foresighted courageous politicians, without a fearless Ohaneze, who can save Igbos

Political intolerance has been sown in Igbo land. There is this new song . A very rhythmic and danceable song by one Don Prince, aka Sampe. The sort of thing you hear in Pyongyang. It says Kanu is the leader, and there will be no elections henceforth in Igbo land. It says anyone who votes in Igboland would be sent to the north. The song has gone viral. The youths have become automatons. Anyone who raises a voice against Kanu and his IPOB is branded a traitor. In one of his glib talks on Radio Biafra he boasted that the names of traitors were being compiled. IPOB is that non violent group that once threatened to murder Obasanjo.



A few days ago it openly threatened to kill any policeman who dared to re arrest Kanu. The elders wallow in denial. They dismiss the dissemination of hate and brigandage as youthful exuberance. They think Kanu would get Igbos an autonomous region, and then disappear. So they would take over and restore order. That’s the strategy. So the madness is a ploy. They whisper it, they nod their heads, smile knowing smiles, and wink. They are deluded. Some would say it has gone beyond Kanu. That’s true.
The problem of Igbo marginalization was never about him. But no one should deny this frightening development. Nuisance can be fruitful. But nuisance can outlive its usefulness. It’s good that the governors of South East states have met with Kanu. The government has a political problem to solve.



It has attended to it with arrogance , and sometimes with half-hearted condescension. Hesitancy and prevarication are no good options. The Federal Government has to be decisive. Military high handedness would be counter -productive. Constructive political engagement that enthrones law and order in the immediate term and equity, fairness and sense of belonging on the long term, must be commenced now. Any person who breaks the law and or threatens security of our country must face the law.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/biafra-crisis-looms-igbo-land/

You were just writing thrash.Because a tribe is asking for democratic referandum makes them bad?When you arrest Nnamdi Kanu millions of Nnamdi Kanu will surface. Its not about Nnamdi kanu, its about the entire Igbo race which wants a seperate nation. Allow them to exercise their democratic referandum.Southern Cameroon had it in the past so its not a new thing.It means when Late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was fighting the British for independence which you enjoy today was seen as stupid by Nigerians? Well know it today that it takes one Nnamdi to fight for Nigeria's independence ,and another Nnamdi to brake Nigeria's amalgamation.So stop hate speech and believe we can leave seperately peace and in future form a Confederacy like the EU.

reality1010:
You were just writing thrash.Because a tribe is asking for democratic referandum makes them bad?When you arrest Nnamdi Kanu millions of Nnamdi Kanu will surface. Its not about Nnamdi kanu, its about the entire Igbo race which wants a seperate nation. Allow them to exercise their democratic referandum.Southern Cameroon had it in the past so its not a new thing.It means when Late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was fighting the British for independence which you enjoy today was seen as stupid by Nigerians? Well know it today that it takes one Nnamdi to fight for Nigeria's independence ,and another Nnamdi to brake Nigeria's amalgamation.So stop hate speech and believe we can leave seperately peace and in future form a Confederacy like the EU.

When your roadside ignorant and unintelligent village ipob touts turn entire igbo race?


You people don reduce igbo people to nothing but jokes.

Own goal!

Daviddson:
No single crisis joh! Former military generals, defense chiefs, governors, billionaire business men, etc, have been arrested at one time or the other in Nigeria, and life continued. Can anyone tell me if Kanu comes near to being PA of any of these people? Why are IPOB guys giving their lord the position he doesn't come close to?

Unfortunately, Igbos are more sensible than you think, Biafra can be a great country in Africa, nothing works like work and they are ever willing to work. Truth be told.

Throwback:
Igbos must not be marginalized.

The North had their own boko haram that was initially supported and eventually turned to a terrorist group that attempted to seize government in the North. In the long run, IDPs have resulted and a waste land in the NorthEast region with a jungle called Sambisa forest.

Let the East also have their own IPOB that is being supported now. It will turn to a terrorist group that will attempt to seize power illegally in the East. It will eventually attack more Igbo non-conformists like boko haram did with Muslims and Northerners. In the long run, IDPs will spring all over the East while most will attempt to run to the "parasitic" North and "cowardly" West for safety. The jungle of Aba will flourish in hostilities under the grip of IPOB terrorism.

All I need is my cable subscription to monitor events on CNN.

This writer proved his dexterity by navigating what is without question, a mine field.

But I am equally surprised that kettykin, whose sympathies to the IPOB cause are well documented, will choose to give the article greater visibility here. Perhaps there is something he is not telling us.

Let me spell it out once and for all folks; while the process itself was slow and somewhat indeterminate - at least to begin with - it is becoming increasingly clear that IPOB's descent into a 'cult of personality' is assured. This is the point the author ruminated over in his article, while drawing attention to the seeming insouciance and inaction of leaders of thought in Ala Igbo and beyond.

Let him who has ears hear!

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kettykin:
It’s not alarmist. Crisis is looming in Igboland. The sore has been allowed to fester, for too long. Pus has accumulated. Massage and warm compresses won’t do now. A surgical knife must go in.


The government must act decisively, one way or the other. Prevarication can lead to a costly gangrene. The wound must be drained and cleaned, so that it can heal. The wound dressing must involve comprehensive political engagement of the southeast, and a restructuring of the federation.

We are on a slippery slope. Nnamdi Kanu was granted bail by a court. He is being tried for offences bordering on treason. He has flouted the bail conditions. He must have been emboldened by the enticing temerity of the Arewa youths. ShettimaYerima and his Arewa youths committed treason. They issued a quit notice to Igbos to leave the north,or face severe consequences by October 1. They did more than plagiarize Nnamdi Kanu’s hate files .They were not arrested. They were not charged.


The Federal high court judge that granted Nnamdi Kanu bail wouldn’t rightly be concerned about effect of Arewa youth’s impunity on Nnamdi Kanu’s actions as no case has been brought before him. So despite the double standards, the court may have no option but to revoke his bail. The law is an ass. The federal government has found its missing courage, it has asked the court to revoke the bail. The federal government is not permanently timid. The judge has no decision to make. Well, Nigerian Judges can be creative, sometimes
If the bail is revoked, Nnamdi Kanu will have to abandon his tour of his Biafra, and return to a ‘zoological’ prison in Kuje. That is now almost inconceivable. Almost. This is where it gets complicated. If Nnamdi Kanu’s utterances can be relied on, he would not submit himself for incarceration. Then once again, the judge will have no options. A bench warrant will be issued against him. When a Bench warrant was issued against Tompolo, the Nigerian police didn’t find him. So the federal government may let the police not find Nnamdi Kanu. Tompolo was discreet though.




He sought refuge in the creeks. He was out of view, until he came to bury his dad. Nnamdi has said he cannot go on exile. It’s beneath him to go out of circulation, into hiding. That would make him lily-liveried. He was sent by God. He has been touring Biafra. So he isn’t exactly a Tompolo, who claims no territory. Tompolo wasn’t seen. Yes he wasn’t seen destroying crude oil pipelines. Nnamdi Kanu has no pipelines to put out of use. He can’t touch the economy. He has no way of bringing the federal government to its knees, from the shadows without amputating his nose, turning Igbo land into a cauldron. IPOB is now a non violent organization. That’s their new image. So the Police may be forced to arrest an ubiquitous and garrulous Nnamdi Kanu. However, it is not compulsory, not inevitable.



This is Nigeria. The police declared Shettima Yerima and Arewa youths wanted . Shettima sauntered from place to place, huffing and puffing. The Police chose not to see him
So the police may easily fail to see Nnamdi Kanu. The government has an alternative. It may send the Minister of Interior to say something absurd that exonerates Kanu
The Judge will understand. This is Nigeria. The Minister of Interior said that the Arewa Youths claimed they were misquoted. Heavens didn’t fall. Shettima later denied the minister and his tales. Shettima is ,obviously, not a coward. He boldly stated he was withdrawing the quit notice to honour Buhari. The ijaw youth council president is sure Shettima had state dinners. The government has other options. It can send an official to waffle about heating up the polity. Then it can explain the decision to trash the court warrant and let Kanu roam as politically sensible. That’s what cowards do. In fact it can ask the attorney General to reverse himself, and say that Kanu cannot be arrested. And he would blame it on security concerns. That’s what the chief law officer said about his impotence against the Arewa Youths who committed treason in broad daylight. The government can always chicken out. So the wound can fester a little more. They have been warned. Ango Abdullahi warned them about Shettima, they capitulated. So Ohaneze has warned the federal government. Nnamdi Kanu could be set to bask in his own impunity. The Judge would understand. Nnamdi’s criminal case could be effectively over. Nnamdi may not risk going to Abuja. He is sure no policeman would come to his Biafra to arrest him
He has warned Buhari. He said his non violent IPOB would slaughter any Policeman who comes to arrest him in Biafra. That’s is his idea of civil disobedience. The Die is cast. The federal government can’t arrest Nnamdi without crossing the red line of double standards. The federal government cannot leave Nnamdi and his daringness without conceding sovereignty. Igbo elders are quiet. Igbo youths are restless. Emotions have replaced reasons. The elders have taken refuge in timidity. They now speak in muffled tones




The politicians can be forgiven. Politics entails opportunism. Nnamdi Kanu,increasingly, looks like a king or a king maker. The churches have a strong influence on Igbo politics. Igbo politicians go to churches to declare their candidacy and to lobby the clergy and their congregations. The churches play politics of denominations godlessly. But the church claims to be the light of the world. Igbo church leaders are quiet. In northeast the clerics kept low profile. The core north didn’t like President Jonathan. People refused to speak up. Boko haram was troubling Jonathan, and making the place ungovernable. That was exciting. Powerful figures maintained a conspiratorial silence. Yusuf and Shekau preached, told the people what they wanted to hear. They talked about poor governance and corruption. They told them that democracy was sinful, ‘zoological’. That it was designed to keep the ordinary people in perpetual servitude. Their followership grew. Boko haram metastasized. They have tapped into a rich vein of frustration and political insensitivity. The economic circumstances have yielded many idle hands. It’s a perfect combustible mix. The murderous forays of herdsmen fueled already inflamed tempers. A crisis looms in the east. So no one cares to interrogate the minds peddling this secessionist idea. No one questions their methods vehemently . It’s enough that they mouth marginalization of Igbos and paint a colorful Biafra. It’s enough that Buhari is cast as a symbol of oppressive, anti-Igbo, Islamist, Hausa Fulani hegemony. Igbos are truly marginalized.



The Bishops ought to be discerning. They claim spiritual insight. They can’t be as impressionable as the rabble. They can’t be as excitable as youths who didn’t experience the civil war. They cant afford to be enthralled by mere charm. Some of them actually now find Kanu

Some Igbo Bishops are frolicking openly with Nnamdi Kanu. Some others are relishing the prospects of a loathed President Buhari being taught some lessons. Biafra is always seductive. Igbos are emotional about it. It is sweet nostalgia of what nearly was. The promised land. Anyone who comes in the name of Biafra is welcome. The Buhari government didn’t help matters. The sense of alienation has never been greater. Politicians who lost in 2015 took their grief personal

intimidating. Kanu says Jesus is not God. The Bishops don’t care. He mocks Mary. The catholic priests are unperturbed. If they are perturbed ,then they are filled with the spirit of fear. God gave them the spirit of power
.Kanu says New Testament is junk
The priests don’t treat that as heretical. The priests must announce their allegiance to Christ. It wouldn’t matter if Kanu were a self respecting atheist who didn’t defame and ridicule other peoples religious beliefs. Kanu can’t get away with duplicity. He says the worship of Jesus is Idolatry. It is good we don’t mix politics and religion. It is good we keep the state away from religion
But Kanu has not stopped announcing that God sent him. He said that God has decreed that there would be no election in Anambra state. We have spirit filled priests who claim they hear from God. Why can’t they confirm or condemn Kanu’s spiritual pronouncements? The IPOB spokesman claims Kanu is a Christian. Kanu denies that he is a Christian. Why is it difficult to know whom Kanu is? If you ask hard questions , you will be told its not about Kanu. But who decided there will be no elections in Igboland? Kanu hears from God, so he says
He may actually hear from God. Since he drops the name of God, Igbos must be told what God he worships. The role of a priest is not just to collect tithes and offerings. A priest owes the people and the society a duty to expose religious charlatanism and sorcery. When a man goes to Agwushi and collects prayers, and jumps over to adoration ground of father Ebube Muonso and collects more prayers, that’s syncretism.




It could mean nothing. But it could be a window into a mind filled with confusion. Priests can’t sit astride and watch the people dance on the brink for lack of knowledge. Why is the church silent? Who is an anti Christ? Truth and reason have been battered on Aba highway

Igbo priests are passing by like the Rabbi who snubbed the man beaten by highway robbers. Where are the good Samaritans? Where are they? The church perhaps isn’t ready to dabble into politics . Igbo churches dabble into it only when telling members to vote a Catholic and against an Anglican or vice versa. Who really is an antichrist? A murderous Fulani Herdsman who kills some Christian farmers? Or a man who peddles damaging falsehoods about Jesus Christ and the Bible? If the church cannot speak for moral reasons, why can’t the church speak for prudential reasons? Why can’t it defend Christian theology against an onslaught from a charlatan? Nigeria, they say, is a zoo. Our leaders act with impunity. Then the messiah comes for the Igbos and no one is ready to hold him to account for his speeches and positions. Only a few are interested in interrogating his mind. What sort of freedom do Igbos dream of? A freedom that would excommunicate dissent and plurality of views? A freedom where every critic is a marked traitor? Ohaneze is timid. It may have actually become redundant. It sees the crowd that follows Kanu around and it is ready to embrace a little demagoguery, once in a while. Kanu has labeled Ohaneze leaders corrupt old men willing to sell their consciences and birthrights, for crumbs. Ohaneze excuses IPOB’s waywardness as understandable youthful exuberance. Ohaneze has no balls. So Ohaneze fudges and fudges. Ohaneze knows Igbos are marginalized.





But Ohaneze knows that Kanu’s exuberance puts Igbo lives and property at great peril. Ohaneze knows that the overall interest of Igbos is best served by an equitable Nigeria and not secession. Ohaneze knows the time has come. But Ohaneze is cowardly, or impotent. Without a bold church, without foresighted courageous politicians, without a fearless Ohaneze, who can save Igbos

Political intolerance has been sown in Igbo land. There is this new song . A very rhythmic and danceable song by one Don Prince, aka Sampe. The sort of thing you hear in Pyongyang. It says Kanu is the leader, and there will be no elections henceforth in Igbo land. It says anyone who votes in Igboland would be sent to the north. The song has gone viral. The youths have become automatons. Anyone who raises a voice against Kanu and his IPOB is branded a traitor. In one of his glib talks on Radio Biafra he boasted that the names of traitors were being compiled. IPOB is that non violent group that once threatened to murder Obasanjo.



A few days ago it openly threatened to kill any policeman who dared to re arrest Kanu. The elders wallow in denial. They dismiss the dissemination of hate and brigandage as youthful exuberance. They think Kanu would get Igbos an autonomous region, and then disappear. So they would take over and restore order. That’s the strategy. So the madness is a ploy. They whisper it, they nod their heads, smile knowing smiles, and wink. They are deluded. Some would say it has gone beyond Kanu. That’s true.
The problem of Igbo marginalization was never about him. But no one should deny this frightening development. Nuisance can be fruitful. But nuisance can outlive its usefulness. It’s good that the governors of South East states have met with Kanu. The government has a political problem to solve.



It has attended to it with arrogance , and sometimes with half-hearted condescension. Hesitancy and prevarication are no good options. The Federal Government has to be decisive. Military high handedness would be counter -productive. Constructive political engagement that enthrones law and order in the immediate term and equity, fairness and sense of belonging on the long term, must be commenced now. Any person who breaks the law and or threatens security of our country must face the law.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/biafra-crisis-looms-igbo-land/

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This crappy analyses.
The Ministers under Buhari have no intention but to arrest Nnamdi Kanu because they know that is what Buhari wants. They know Buhari does not want Arewa youths in jail for issuing quit notice to the hated Igbos that is why they are defending their indefensible action. So comparing the way Arewa youths (mainly FULANIS) are being treated by the Fulani dominated Nigerian state and security services to how they will treat Kanu who is an Igbo and agitating for the hated Biafrans is the height of silly analyses.

Buhari will re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu, but that won't be the end as this analyses portray, it will only lead to beginning of another phase.

Simply how things will play out is that Buhari cannot resist the temptation of re-arresting Nnamdi Kanu. For Nnamdi Kanu, i know he would prefer this option because it is obvious he could be assassinated by the Nigerian state as a free citizen than as a prisoner of conscience, political prisoner or whatever they classify him as. The world press will still cite his incarceration by the Nigerian state no matter how hard Nigeria tried to make it a non-issue.

So Kanu's arrest will simply lead to a renewed agitation for his release. More innocent protesters will be shot by Nigeria army and police and more of their deaths will be filed as evidence of the abuses and crimes against humanity under the draconian Buhari regime. If Nnamdi Kanu is kept in jail long enough, nobody really enforces the non-violence stand and tt some point, it will get violent with using IEDs to target moving military convoys, pipelines etc. Buhari will simply respond by killing more innocent people in the area where such incidents occured which will neither stop the perpetrator from acting again elsewhere. At some point, the norther almajiris will feel they have endured enough and kill southerners in some minor remote northern village. There will be retaliatory killing of northerners in isolated locations in the south. Eventually, the hit me i hit back will gradually escalate. Not to mention that foreign expatriates and foreign investors will begin to leave as populations move southwards from the north and northerners in the south move northwards.

Let us watch and see how the cookie crumbles. Buhari does not have the common sense or temperament to bring peace in Nigeria. It will always end badly under him because he has a hate filled heart against his fellow Nigerians from SE and SS.

Nonaira1:
I stopped reading exactly at this point



Can the buffoon that wrote this tell us exactly what benefits igbo would get from being part of one niggeria. What benefits have we gain thus far? What fucking benefits after 100 years of being in that country? Name one benefit?

We've lost more than we gained. Like fucking duh?

That shithole despise igbos even before colonization ended. Pick up a fucking Goddamn history book and read. Educate yourself!!!! Heck even if you're too lazy to read your history what's currently going on in terms of that government dealing with ipob compared to fulani herdsmen likewise Nnamdi Kanu compared to Arewa youths, that you even wrote about, should screech to you fucking loudly how that useless country sees you yet we still have some ignorant ass, dumb igbos supporting that sh1thole. My God what sort of disease is wrong with "one niggeria" igbo. It's the same fucking disease zik had that put us in this shithole is what ask you one niggerian igbos have. Like who bewitched una?

No ethnic group in Nigeria has been so accomodated and allowed to set up stalls in market squares traditionally reserved for indigenous privilege. The Ibo trader has broken taboos and gained access into corridors and city gates that until recently were forbidden to foreigners.


No one in the history of ethnicities in Nigeria has as much urban settlements and market structures as the Yorubas. Yoruba customarily have night markets, daily markets, weekly markets, biweekly markets, monthly markets. Then they have designated markets, the Ebute market, the Sango market (which Hausa call Zango), the Oba market, and so on... Then they have produce market, groceries market, textile market, jewelry market, livestock market, utensils market, merchandise warehouses, trade depots, clearinghouses.

While there is no law or constitution mandating Yoruba to admit Ibo into these markets and permit their trading, everyone of these market category have Ibo stalls in operation. There are even whole areas and market sectors that are completely dominated by Ibos and they strategically hold the monopoly and screen non-Ibos from participation. Not even Yorubas who hold the land and the market space are given concessions into the specialized trade.

As far as Yorubaland is concerned, where or how is Ibo marginalized?


Lets go to North...
Many people think Sabongari is a market for foreigners. No its not! Sabongarri means "new settlement". The reason behind excluding foreigners from living in traditional Hausa quarters is because of difference in philosophy, culture, language, ethos, worship and so on....
So to conserve its own culture and customs against strange lifestyles Hausa States set up new settlements for those who do not share their way of life and thats what Sabongari is. In Sabongari market stalls are built to accomodate trading for the foreigners. Like Yorubas, Hausas have organized market structure. Hausas have opened all the nooks and alleys of their cities and markets to Ibo. There is no part of Hausa quarter you will go in North and not find Iboman, even in remote villages. In most of these markets Ibo is the only one marketing the product you want. You are forced to patronize a Ibo trader, you cannot find Hausa that sell the commodity if your preference is to purchase from your fellow Hausa/Fulani brother.

How are you marginalized in Hausaland?


Lets go to Iboland....
Yoruba and Hausa people in Iboland are usually artisans - tailors, livestock dealers, butchers, ...they are not Hotel proprietors, they are not spare parts warehouse owners or building material traders. They face same total blockage into monopolies controlled by Ibos as do those back home on indigenous soil.

Of course the Ibo has not done anything illegal, no law mandates him to open his market to others and no constitution says he must reciprocate the magnanimity extended to him by hosts in foreign lands. Quite honestly, an Anambra Ibo even discriminates against Ebonyi Ibo or vice versa on each other territory in Iboland...much more those who are non-Ibo.

So where is the exchange and return of privilege and hospitality given to Ibos in Yorubaland and Hausaland?


The way the Yoruba and Hausa exact their own monopolies is in political strategies. While the constitution forbids discrimination in national politics, it does not spell out the punishment for violators.

So truly, Ibo has no justification or truth in claiming Nigeria discriminates or marginalizes Ibos.

You are not a victim....others are victims of your greed and immorality.

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color=#990000]The way the Yoruba and Hausa exact their own monopolies is in political strategies. While the constitution forbids discrimination in national politics, it does not spell out the punishment for violators. [/color]

So truly, Ibo has no justification or truth in claiming Nigeria discriminates or marginalizes Ibos. 

You are not a victim....others are victims of your greed and immorality.

On the colored text: you are glad to marginalize them politically, yet they are not victims? Oh! Ostrich, bury your head in the sand in shame.