₦airaland Forum

MoshoodOkunola:
WHO IS AFRAID OF IGBO?

In October 1960 a Nation was finally born and became an independent Nation in Africa. Nigeria was officially handed over to Nigerian by its British colonial master. The hope was high and the aspiration was great as the founding father of the new great nation was full of hope of a great future for Nigeria but this dream never came to be. It was beclouded with acrimony, selfishness, sentiments, complexity and tribal egotism. Unnecessary rivalry between once united tribes who united to fight their common enemy(colonial master), started by waging cold war which eventually led to the first military coup in 1966 that permanently created division and lack of trust between all the tribes that made up Nigeria. In 1967 a counter coup was launched by the aggrieved sections of the country who believed that the coup of 1966 was sectional and aimed at killing their political leaders. The mutual trust was lost, revenge was in the mind of every aggrieved tribes against one another. Hausa hate Igbo, Igbo hate Hausa, Yoruba hate Hausa vice versa. The mistrust grew and hatred spread and the cat and rat race started.

Unfortunately, we went into an unavoidable and unnecessary secession war of ego, millions of Nigerians were killed from both sides, things fell apart and the center never hold again. After the 3 years of bloodshed the crocodile peace was reached but the wound is yet to heal, mistrust is still there after 52 years. Though, we live together but the mutual suspicion is in the heart of every tribes against one another.
The young Igbos who were not born during the war but read or heard the history of civil war rekindled the call for secession because of the persevered injustice and the neglect of igbo from political scheme. Since independent the dream of Igbo to rule Nigeria after the failure of poorly packaged and executed 1966 coup and the counter coup that removed (killed) the last Igbo military head of state Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi was a mirage. Then Igbo resulted to if we cannot rule Nigeria we should be allowed to rule ourselves. The new call for secession in the recent time is another reaction due to lack of trust between Nigeria tribes, the Igbo youths are becoming aggressive against all other tribes and becoming isolated. Is like nobody want to trust Igbo nor wanted to gamble with power game with them, other tribes believe Igbo cannot be trusted with a country they once went into war with. The fear of Igbo as become beginning of wisdom for entire Nigeria tribes. Who is afraid of Igbo?. And why should we be afraid of Igbo. If Igbo are our neighbors our friends, our co-tenants, our classmate, our school mates, our co -workers, our business partners, wives and husbands then why should we be afraid of Igbo.
We can relate peacefully, forget the past, apologize for the wrong of the past injustice, stop bad mouthing each other, create mutual respect and stop secession agitating. We cannot avoid another civil war and error of the past. We can hug each other trust each other and Igbo can one day lead the country without fear of mistrust.
WHO IS AFRAID OF IGBO?

By Oladimeji M Idowu

LochOtieno:
Give me the president of Nigeria and I will split this country within 72 hours....

ComradeWonder:
Igbo have the constitutional right to contest any office as far as Nigeria is concern. No one can deny them that. The writer of this piece is well acquainted with the historical genesis of what transpire to lack of trust, ethnic jingoism and religion bigotry the Nigeria geographical location. Igbo people are hardworking people with steadfastness and capability to achieve. Their greatness cannot be doubt by anymore, but with due respect to them, i think Yoruba and Hausa deserve unquantified respect as well. If Igbo want to produce president, they would have to imbibe the spirit of inclusiveness and sportsmanship encapsulated in love, trust and unity.

Odingo1:

Not when the two tribe continue trapping upon the Igbos, for almost 52 years now they have continue stampeding on Igbos.

GEJ did not do well in the office because of Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani just because GEJ put some few Igbos in key positions.

GEJ renamed UNILAG with Abiola name all hail was losed but Imagine if Buhari renamed the same university with Abiola name, they will gather and celebrate it and give thanks to Buhari.

Joylove2324:
i'm sure you've never got the opportunity to be an ordinary class captain talkless of being your ward councillor....bros you think NIgeria is as easy like that to govern?

LochOtieno:
Mohammed Buhari is a terrorist.

Omotolatolulope:
The Igbos should stop carrying the mindset that some set of people does not want them in power. They should shun nepotism and all their effort of dividing the nation, and being independent on their own should be aborted. A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

Yellowface1220:
IGBOS ARE UNDER SIEGE, TREATED LIKE A CONQUERED PEOPLE WHILE THEIR ELITES WATCH COWARDLY.

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...

LochOtieno:
Hausa fulani and yorubas are the ones afraid of igbos........


they have consistently and wickedly even viciously ensured that Igbos race are wiped out from the surface of the earth.......


Since 1945 uptill today.......approx over 6millions igbo lives have been lost.....and still counting....


The terrorist in aso rock with his allies has made it a point of duty to continue the killing for no just cause.......

We trusted them but they betrayed that trust....even uptill today.

Omotolatolulope:
The Igbos should stop carrying the mindset that some set of people does not want them in power. They should shun nepotism and all their effort of dividing the nation, and being independent on their own should be aborted. A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

LochOtieno:
not easy but we will work towards it.

spartanman007:
Where did you get your statistics from? Who are the ones doing the killings? Did you do history in school at all? did you know how many lives were lost during the first coup carried out by Igbo officers? Do you know how that Biafra made the first strike on Nigeria during the civil war? Do u know how the Biafra soldiers invaded bendel rape their women and kill thousands ?

LochOtieno:
Nothing to forget.....people that died are not chickens......they are human beings for christ sake...........

Odingo1:
Yorubas and Hausa-Fulani are the ones afraid of Igbos.The more they team up together to isolate the Igbos the more Nigeria become a stagnant country with new militia springing up like Boko haram. They poison the mind of middle belt and other tribes in Niger Delta against the Igbos.

Today middle belt are been wiped out from the surface of the earth because Yoruba don't care if the Fulani wipe them out as far as they are picking their crumbs from their masters table.

Igbos are concerned but cannot act because the middle belt also hate Igbos.

spartanman007:
[s]Where did you get your statistics from? Who are the ones doing the killings? Did you do history in school at all? did you know how many lives were lost during the first coup carried out by Igbo officers? Do you know how that Biafra made the first strike on Nigeria during the civil war? Do u know how the Biafra soldiers invaded bendel rape their women and kill thousands ? [/s]

kayfra:
What about people that died in the Nigerian side?

Casualties of war were not restricted to Biafra and even within Biafra, the casualties in the Biafran side wasn't limited to Igbos! What about the Ibibios, Ijaws, Akan, Efiks etc that died fighting for Biafra. Have they not moved on?

Pleaseeeeeee

LochOtieno:
I see u have no conscience.......many biafrans were lost and u are here talking trash.....

only division can salvage this country.....

T9ksy:
I guess you are about to tell us how the Yorubas aligned with the Hausa-Fulani in the first republic to spite the ibos.

In the second republic after the war which saw 3million ibos been led to Golgotha by their boastful cantankerous warlord, which section of the country aligned with the same Hausa-fulanis?

Of course, the middle belt region must be populated with m.o.r.ons who can't see, read nor hear hence it was easy to poison their minds against the ibos. They must have been blind, deaf and dumb when you ibos invaded and occupied their ancestral land under the pretext that you want out of the new nation.

According to you, "The middle belt are been slaughtered all because the yorubas don't give a damn about them as long as they are able to feed off their master's table", however the ibos that were concerned with the plight of the middle belt region were the same ones inundating all social media with the words "Karma is a bitch; serves them right for fighting against the ibos during the civil war".

Igbos are the only ones who gloats whenever the hausa-Fulanis unleashed their murderous act on the middle belt people.

kayfra:
Many Nigerians were lost.
Many non-igbo Biafrans were lost too.
They've all moved on.
Your freaking point?

LochOtieno:
u moved them on?

what a wicked and blood filled comment.

LochOtieno:
doesn't make any sense

trash

BAILMONEY:
ITS NOW CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT YOU ARE HELPLESS JUST LIKE THE MINORITY CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ, EGYPT, SYRIA AND WESTERN NIGERIA WHEN ARE YOU LEAVING THE COUNTRY CUZ E BE LIKE SAY WATER DON PASS GARRI.

immhotep:
alariiwo and roger3d will now come and complain about IPOB

CC lzaa onyeoga madridguy buhariguy omenka shalomc iceberg3 itsmeaboki yarimo odvanguard pointzerom t9ksy

T9ksy:
I guess you are about to tell us how the Yorubas aligned with the Hausa-Fulani in the first republic to spite the ibos.

In the second republic after the war which saw 3million ibos been led to Golgotha by their boastful cantankerous warlord, which section of the country aligned with the same Hausa-fulanis?

Of course, the middle belt region must be populated with m.o.r.ons who can't see, read nor hear hence it was easy to poison their minds against the ibos. They must have been blind, deaf and dumb when you ibos invaded and occupied their ancestral land under the pretext that you want out of the new nation.

According to you, "The middle belt are been slaughtered all because the yorubas don't give a damn about them as long as they are able to feed off their master's table", however the ibos that were concerned with the plight of the middle belt region were the same ones inundating all social media with the words "Karma is a bitch; serves them right for fighting against the ibos during the civil war".

Igbos are the only ones who gloats whenever the hausa-Fulanis unleashed their murderous act on the middle belt people.

T9ksy:
I guess you are about to tell us how the Yorubas aligned with the Hausa-Fulani in the first republic to spite the ibos.

In the second republic after the war which saw 3million ibos been led to Golgotha by their boastful cantankerous warlord, which section of the country aligned with the same Hausa-fulanis?

Of course, the middle belt region must be populated with m.o.r.ons who can't see, read nor hear hence it was easy to poison their minds against the ibos. They must have been blind, deaf and dumb when you ibos invaded and occupied their ancestral land under the pretext that you want out of the new nation.

According to you, "The middle belt are been slaughtered all because the yorubas don't give a damn about them as long as they are able to feed off their master's table", however the ibos that were concerned with the plight of the middle belt region were the same ones inundating all social media with the words "Karma is a bitch; serves them right for fighting against the ibos during the civil war".

Igbos are the only ones who gloats whenever the hausa-Fulanis unleashed their murderous act on the middle belt people.

Odingo1:
3 million Igbos that died in that war are mainly small children, all because of Awolowo policy to starve little children to death by getting Cameroon to block bakkasi and he later committed suicide by drinking poison after been trampled upon by the Fulani people he served.

Man to Man fight, the combined British and Russia backed Middle belt,Hausa-Fulani,Yoruba army couldnt defeat the Igbo men for 2 and half solid years until Awolowo started food blockade by getting a deal with France for Cameroon to block their front line, today Cameroon have seize Bakassi because of the job they did for Nigeria so that they can win the way.

Yoruba use their lagos-Ibadan expressway media to blackmail the Igbos.

The middle belt fought the war for the Hausa-Fulanis despite the fact that Igbos are christians like them, they were brain washed by Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas and even other tribes in Niger Delta.

Imagine the state of dilapidation in the most Niger Delta area and yet they believe that Igbos want their oil despite living with Igbos as their neighbors for centuries without any war with each other all because Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba propaganda.

resurgent2019:
So because yorubas have refused to unduly hate hausas, christians are now minority in Nigeria?

Why cant igbos hate hausas and fight them alone? Why must the yorubas be co-opted into hating Hausa?. Na by force?

resurgent2019:
So, what do you think is the solution to all the perceived wrongs against the igbo?

Nigerians are listening....

resurgent2019:
So because yorubas have refused to unduly hate hausas, christians are now minority in Nigeria?

Why cant igbos hate hausas and fight them alone? Why must the yorubas be co-opted into hating Hausa?. Na by force?

Odingo1:
But Yoruba always join Hausas to fight Igbos

Odingo1:

The best thing is to restructure the country and allow Igbos to develop their region at-least if they cannot get anything from FG, let them have power to build functional airport and seaport and manage their region, I believe the hate will disappear.