₦airaland Forum

NaijirianKing:
There is not really hate, but more a collective disappointment towards certain Yoruba leaders by Igbos that is imputed to the collective body, and unfortunately Igbo, and many other ethnic groups judge the group by who they revere as their "leaders."

If we are being sincere, Igbos have the example of Awolowo by which to judge the whole Yoruba race, right or wrong, the group is judged by who they revere as the their leaders. Igbos remember that it was an Igbo man who was to execute Awo, but instead freed him because of inherent justice and Awo made the agreement to pull the Yoruba nation out of Nigeria, only to break the promise within 3 months of making such a deal.

Moreover, when Awolowo was Minister of Finance and instituted the 20 pounds fiasco - which was an outright theft of bank account balances belonging to Igbos totaling hundreds of millions of dollars today, very few Yoruba came out to call out the blatantly ethnic disenfranchisement. Furthermore, due to the losses taken by the Federal troops on the battlefields, it was Awolowo who backed the policies of simply killing unarmed civilians as a tool of war, today such would have sent him to the Hague.

Igbos see this person as a man who was shown mercy and had his life spared by Igbos only to help kill innocent civilians and steal money from hard working people. As such, Igbos deal with Yoruba with "their history" in view, and any time an individual does something in line with this image, it only becomes more ingrained.

In my personal experience, I've never seen a Yoruba person repudiate Awo for his acts against the collective Igbo people. As such, silence is seen as tacit support, there is a reason Igbos don't massively develop Port Harcourt, which could've rivaled Lagos by now, but the "abandoned property" saga of 60 years ago is still fresh. Accordingly, Igbos will rather cross the Niger or enter the Sahel to invest and develop than to invest more than a duplex in PH, which some even regard as being part of the "Greater Igboland". If Igbo lands were confiscated in large scale in Lagos, Igbos would've simply packed up and developed another area over the last 50 years. Igbos are practical and simply make choices with history in mind.

goodnessme1:
I joined nairaland because of the hatred yorubas and hausa shows against igbos here.

Let the hatred continue because we are here to pay them in their own coins.

NaijirianKing:
There is not really hate, but more a collective disappointment towards certain Yoruba leaders by Igbos that is imputed to the collective body, and unfortunately Igbo, and many other ethnic groups judge the group by who they revere as their "leaders."

If we are being sincere, Igbos have the example of Awolowo by which to judge the whole Yoruba race, right or wrong, the group is judged by who they revere as the their leaders. Igbos remember that it was an Igbo man who was to execute Awo, but instead freed him because of inherent justice and Awo made the agreement to pull the Yoruba nation out of Nigeria, only to break the promise within 3 months of making such a deal.

Moreover, when Awolowo was Minister of Finance and instituted the 20 pounds fiasco - which was an outright theft of bank account balances belonging to Igbos totaling hundreds of millions of dollars today, very few Yoruba came out to call out the blatantly ethnic disenfranchisement. Furthermore, due to the losses taken by the Federal troops on the battlefields, it was Awolowo who backed the policies of simply killing unarmed civilians as a tool of war, today such would have sent him to the Hague.

Igbos see this person as a man who was shown mercy and had his life spared by Igbos only to help kill innocent civilians and steal money from hard working people. As such, Igbos deal with Yoruba with "their history" in view, and any time an individual does something in line with this image, it only becomes more ingrained.

In my personal experience, I've never seen a Yoruba person repudiate Awo for his acts against the collective Igbo people. As such, silence is seen as tacit support, there is a reason Igbos don't massively develop Port Harcourt, which could've rivaled Lagos by now, but the "abandoned property" saga of 60 years ago is still fresh. Accordingly, Igbos will rather cross the Niger or enter the Sahel to invest and develop than to invest more than a duplex in PH, which some even regard as being part of the "Greater Igboland". If Igbo lands were confiscated in large scale in Lagos, Igbos would've simply packed up and developed another area over the last 50 years. Igbos are practical and simply make choices with history in mind.

fuckboys:
A lot of Nigerians still haven't understood how sofisticated this Igbo tribe is, we we're created to domninate and rule. It's in the gene of all igbo men and nothing can be done about it, maybe unless you wipe out the entire Igbo race

Guestlander:
Why then are you not dominating anything.

NaijirianKing:
There is not really hate, but more a collective disappointment towards certain Yoruba leaders by Igbos that is imputed to the collective body, and unfortunately Igbo, and many other ethnic groups judge the group by who they revere as their "leaders."

If we are being sincere, Igbos have the example of Awolowo by which to judge the whole Yoruba race, right or wrong, the group is judged by who they revere as the their leaders. Igbos remember that it was an Igbo man who was to execute Awo, but instead freed him because of inherent justice and Awo made the agreement to pull the Yoruba nation out of Nigeria, only to break the promise within 3 months of making such a deal.

Moreover, when Awolowo was Minister of Finance and instituted the 20 pounds fiasco - which was an outright theft of bank account balances belonging to Igbos totaling hundreds of millions of dollars today, very few Yoruba came out to call out the blatantly ethnic disenfranchisement. Furthermore, due to the losses taken by the Federal troops on the battlefields, it was Awolowo who backed the policies of simply killing unarmed civilians as a tool of war, today such would have sent him to the Hague.

Igbos see this person as a man who was shown mercy and had his life spared by Igbos only to help kill innocent civilians and steal money from hard working people. As such, Igbos deal with Yoruba with "their history" in view, and any time an individual does something in line with this image, it only becomes more ingrained.

In my personal experience, I've never seen a Yoruba person repudiate Awo for his acts against the collective Igbo people. As such, silence is seen as tacit support, there is a reason Igbos don't massively develop Port Harcourt, which could've rivaled Lagos by now, but the "abandoned property" saga of 60 years ago is still fresh. Accordingly, Igbos will rather cross the Niger or enter the Sahel to invest and develop than to invest more than a duplex in PH, which some even regard as being part of the "Greater Igboland". If Igbo lands were confiscated in large scale in Lagos, Igbos would've simply packed up and developed another area over the last 50 years. Igbos are practical and simply make choices with history in mind.

aribisala0:
Let me ask all of you this.

Why did Chinua Achebe not tell the whole world his own personal experience of the £20 saga in his many books?

fuckboys:
edited go and read and requote

resurgent4oodua:
Comments such as this is why the igbos are hated and will never be allowed to lead.


You have condemned the yoruba to mediocrity in this your comment and it is unfortunate. Neither I nor my generations will allow igbos rule over other Nigerians. We would rather topple an igbo Government than let it thrive. You can continue boasting on the internet while Yorubas and Hausa's handle the power in real life.


#istandwithbuharitill2023

MeanChris:
Let us put the issue to an end. For the record

0monnak0da:
One further fact these devious Eboes miss.
Biafra was not only Eboes, how come Not one single NON Eboe is on record anywhere as claiming to be a victim?
Not one Efik no one Anang or Ibibio.
Even Rivers state fell to Biafra before liberation and was under the Biafra pound for a while and yet none of them lost money
.
How many people had bank accounts and how many banks were in Nigeria in 1970

mightyhazell:
if by eboe,u meant igbo,then may i remind u that the masterminds of the wicked act actually targetted igbos and not all easterners.. most easternern minorities that suffered similar fate with igbos were mostly collateral damage and a relative few at that.

0monnak0da:
The £20 story is a dirty lie
If a people suffered cheating on such a scale they would keep evidence for posterity.
Where are the bank papers?

0monnak0da:
Evidence?
No newspaper article
Even Achebe NEVER wrote about it
This it the generational lie that you have used to manage the trauma of your defeat
Blame someone else

Eboes are inveterate liars

Are we to believe that no one can find a bank books
of his grandfather and post on social media

Guy the storyline is a lie

mightyhazell:
keeping evidence for what exactly? ppl dat were desperate to survive st the moment.. my granddad lost houses and a school in the course of the war and had to tap rubber for 2 good years b4 he could muster enuf to venture into a trade...and ur hre yapping about 20pounds...

anyway the igboman has moved on....





and therz no stopping the igboman!

Turantula:
Showing hatred in a faceless forum like nairaland is good for everybody in this country because there is no love amongst us. The sooner we stop pretending the better for everyone. I hate Buhari and everything the he represents. I will probably hate anybody that loves him - na so the thing set.

goodnessme1 post=72941206:
you must be an igbo man,because they always stand on what they believe,if they hate you,they will show you they hate you and the reason they hate you,
unlike one tribe that will hate you,but will be the ones accusing you of hating them.

obonujoker:
Igbos or Northerners aren't tribalist... they can live and move everywhere... the main tribalists in Nigeria are the yorubas...

Check them out..;
They never attend a church which they presume Igbo , Calabar or Hausa heads...

They rarely travel to do business or have fun at other parts of the country....

Buh thank God for Christianity which is changing the younger ones growing up, who have decided to eschew religious lies and tribalism, and embrace truth....

mightyhazell:
believe whatever tickles ur simple mind,..but the 20pound saga cant be wished away,and the pepetrators never denied it. moreover what trauma could even measure up with ppl dat lost businesses,proprrties ,valuable assets and ....wait for it 3million kith and kin. what load of shit are u even yapping about concerning money in the bank....can money in the bank equate any if these things?even for a simpleton?

0monnak0da:
Desperate to survive ?
That is between them and the bank
After the war you are claiming the FG took the money from the banks or what?
The two main banks in Nigeria were Barclays now Union and First bank
By what power was money taken?

The Eboes are liars

The Nigerian state never took money from any bank and never stopped banks giving money to rightful owners

mightyhazell post=72946848:
believe whatever tickles ur simple mind,..but the 20pound saga cant be wished away,and the pepetrators never denied it. moreover what trauma could even measure up with ppl dat lost businesses,proprrties ,valuable assets and ....wait for it 3million kith and kin. what load of shit are u even yapping about concerning money in the bank....can money in the bank equate any if these things?even for a simpleton?

MeanChris:
Let us put the issue to an end.
For the record

0monnak0da:
The only reason they are every is their land is tiny and barren.Stop kidding yourself.
The entire land is smaller than Kwara state and most is is is red,eroded and barren.
How many NON Ibos are in Onitsha or Ariaria markets

fuckboys:
A lot of Nigerians still haven't understood how sofisticated this Igbo tribe is, we were created to domninate and rule. It's in the gene of all igbo men and nothing can be done about it, maybe unless you wipe out the entire Igbo race

Now this is not about been rude and boastful, this is how we were created and there's nothing we can do about it

Which tribe is leading in technology?
Pharmaceutical?
Sports? (Our supereagles and golden eaglets)
Business?
Education? ( Please other tribes, what tribe is that student that's been topping your class in primary, secondary and tetiary?, I bet my balls I already know the tribe)


Britain did a very big mistake, they should never have added this sophisticated and troublesome tribe into the Nigerian map, I'm sure they're still regretting it. They should have left the tribe to thrive on it's own. Now this tribe is gonna single handedly tear the map apart. They fought a war already, and they're still hungry for more wars? Dafuk

MeanChris:
So you can endure a murderer but not a boastful man?
Interesting

So you want to cut down Igbos??
Interesting

resurgent4oodua:
Comments such as this is why the igbos are hated and will never be allowed to lead.


You have condemned the yoruba to mediocrity in this your comment and it is unfortunate. Neither I nor my generations will allow igbos rule over other Nigerians. We would rather topple an igbo Government than let it thrive. You can continue boasting on the internet while Yorubas and Hausa's handle the power in real life.


#istandwithbuharitill2023

mrvitalis:
Lol you just agree to what I just posted, which part of the comment was a lie? Which part isn't verifiable?

Honestly if I was non igbo I would feel threatened too by such a tribe

But people like u are too small to make igbos not rule

If igbos where desperate for power we would have sided with the Hausas in 2011 against Jonathan


See hate for a tribe.. Just because they are progressing

Hausa people travel to every part like igbos too do they have the same impact as igbos?

aribisala0:
You see there are so many lies about that time that people believe without questioning.

Some of it they believe because they WANT TO. This may sound strange but people can make a deliberate effort to believe a falsehood like the young lad who walks in and finds his mother in copulo with Pastor Koboko and persuades himself they were praying. The human capacity for self deception is astounding.

Now consider the story told about Awolowo and the indigenization policy. How he conspired as Minister of Finance to facilitate the acquisition of businesses by Yorubas.

The Fact is Awolowo left Gowon's government in 1971 in fact he sent is his resignation letter giving notice in 1970. This is public knowledge.
It is also a fact that the First indigenization decree was promulgated in 1972 With Shehu Shagari as Minister of Finance from 1971-1975. Still you will never hear Shagari's name but Awolowo.

WHY??

The reason is simple.

The civil war brought a new and profound sense of failure for these people and they remained in shock for a long time. They needed a narrative to explain their failure. For them the principal reason for their failure had to be Awo and by extension the Yoruba.Reality was irrelevant.
Well we differ. You lost out not because of Yoruba betrayal(we were not allies politically) but rather because of your tendency to act impulsively without planning or regard to consequences. Just like we have seen recently with Nnamdi Kanu

Essentially they are owned by a deep sense of self hate that is so corrosive internally it had to be externalized and Awo and the Yorubas are a ready alibi.
Till tomorrow they have not been able to confront and process or interrogate the pogroms of 66 and 67 and its perpetrators ,they cannot even look them in the eye. A case of collective Stockholm syndrome.
Well They are entitled to their hate. We are entitled to ensure the fidelity of any historical narratives.

Awolowo was VERY GOOD to them and they should make a big statue for him in Owerri

resurgent4oodua:
I am interested in pushing igbos back into Alaigbo.

If the igbos can't wage a frontal war against us in our greatest city(lagos) then they are the greatest cowards this country has ever seen. I don't see what offence yorubas have committed against igbos to warrant the hatred.

But for now, as far as peace can be maintained, igbos can continue their trading business in the SW unhindered. But igbos will never attain Presidential power in Nigeria as far as Hausas and Yorubas are still in Nigeria Nigeria. We would rather give power to the South South than allow igbos get there.

#istandwithbuharitill2023