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Xavi2019:
South Africans and Xenophobia again?

Rotimi47:
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The Igbo crime culture
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In the sweltering heat of a serial lynching and killing of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013, I wrote an article entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence, debauchery and vanity which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own.

I am compelled to revivify the article here, but with a few adjustments. I say it again; the Igbo take the inglorious front row in certain crimes – drug peddling, armed robbery and kidnapping – at home and abroad.

In August 2016, an Igbo drug dealer was guillotined in Indonesia. But his funeral in Anambra was a shin-dig of celebrations. He was even described as a “hero” by his kinsmen.

Once again, an Igbo kidnapping lord, who unleashed barbarity and savagery on many Nigerians, has steadied attention on the “special” crime proclivities of the ethnic group. I will not dwell on this; I will zero in on Igbo criminality abroad, and take a slight detour home.

As a matter of fact, a good number of Igbo youth in Asia are into crime. It was reported sometime in the year that the India police said all Nigerians – Igbo, of course – in their country were drug dealers. Although, this is questionable, it cannot be entirely repudiated.

Arguably, the reason for Igbo sojourning – to even the remotest of places in the world – has been attributed to their much vaunted entrepreneurial spirit. The truth is that this claim is enclosed in heavy, meaty layers of fallacy like the entrails of burger.

Inasmuch as the “entrepreneurial sojourning” thread cannot be utterly pooh-poohed, it is judicious to explore other reasons why the Igbo are peripatetic. First, in Igbo ethology, it is a cringing evil for a native, man or woman, to commit a “stigmatised” crime (Alu) such as armed robbery, drug-dealing, etc at home. This is not an obviation of abhorrent crimes committed at home by some unabashed Igbo criminals. The truth is, the “home” Igbo criminals are a hopeless and shameless horde whose self esteem and sense of shame are terribly at their nadir, and as a result purvey crimes at home. Inter alia, for any stigmatised crime committed at home (Igbo land) there is a stern reprimand implicit in the cleansing of the crime. The sacerdotal process of cleansing the land of a crime or an abomination is called “Ikpu Alu”. However, “Ikpu Alu” (cleansing of abominations) does not extend to crimes committed by Igbo sons and daughters in places outside the native dome. It is therefore not surprising if some Igbo persons commit heinous crimes in obverse places, and come back home to take chieftaincy titles. As a matter of fact, in some morally weak Igbo communities it is a brave thing to traffic in drugs abroad. Drug barons are gleefully celebrated as Ndi kara Obi (lion-hearted people). Such is the pantomime of the Igbo and crimes.

It is therefore indubitable to posit that an unenviable number of Igbo persons with innate criminal manuals travel outside the Igbo enclave to pursue crimes. This confutes the general idea that the sojourning of the Igbo is driven solely by entrepreneurial inclinations and motives. To a large extent, the sojourning of some Igbo is driven by a morbid aim of shielding their evil trades from the peering eyes of their kinsmen. Their names are protected as long as they do not traffic in crimes at home. The important thing is to be successful in crimes abroad; successful enough to build vulgar mansions at home and throw lazy cash about.

To animate my argument further, what is the entrepreneurial inclination or motive of the Igbo in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, and other countries peddling drugs? Is the entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo only awakened abroad? Why should the Igbo entrepreneurial spirit find its host cozily and lopsidedly outside Igbo land? Is there a marriage between Igbo criminality across the world and Igbo entrepreneurial genome? These are questions that defeat the long, tired argument of Igbo entrepreneurial “peripatetism.”

The fact is the “entrepreneurial” beat-up logic and reason for Igbo sojourning is a bored excuse.

Analogously, Igbo sojourning atavism is also effectuated by pride, ego and vanity. A typical Igbo person will want to prove he is successful in anyway. It is wickedly mortifying to be seen as struggling in Igbo land. This underscores the reason many Igbo persons smuggle themselves out of Nigeria, and because it is thought that any person in Obodo Oyibo (white man’s country) or even anywhere outside Igbo land is “doing well”. Those Igbo persons who are “cursed” to be in Igbo land are seen as struggling and as such do not deserve the courtesy of admiration and respect. It is a proud thing for an Igbo father to say, “All my children are in the abroad”; even though “the abroad” is Gabon. Such a father courts the respect, envy and admiration of other fathers in Igbo land. This is the awful linkage between Igbo sojourning and base vanity.

In all, there are Igbo persons in the scrawny good number whose sojourn in foreign countries is not tainted by any evil intent or base vanity, but it is a bleeding fact that the singular Igbo entrepreneurial logic for sojourning is one big smorgasbord of fallacy

iammo:
Thanks for the kind words to Nigerians, however there aree many bad eggs among Nigerians and Africans who never want to take responsibility for their actions, Even the so called slave trade our people collaborated with whites to use our diety and oracles to hypnotize people into slavery just for items the whites offer, southafricans would never take Responsibility for not making their slums habitable , same way I am appealing to bad eggs among Nigerians, the cultist, love-vendor, fruadsters and the drug dealers to respect other peoples territory.

Lekan1o1:
I'm a Yoruba but u are very stupid,
Stupidity is when u live in self denial that there are no Yorubas doing crimes in SA Too.
Besides the news didn't state they are a particular region,
We all need to stop this rubbish and look for a way forward.
Tribalism is meant for the dunces and shallow minds

iammo:
It's either you try to learn or continue behaving like gorilla

Fvctard, if you dunce needs a wake up call to reality you would continue getting it, your people die hopelessly in the north since 1960 and get issued quite notice, all around the world people hate you . Yet your own concern is which tribe comits the most crime. Arguing with you is a waste of time

Meliaen:
There's Yoruba on the one hand and Yoruba Omo Ale on the other. Which are you? Latter I bet.

iammo:
Little brain man, I clearly stated Nigerians (over 200tribes) and Ipobians (separatist tribe) hate filled irrational beign

Rotimi47:
TheCable

HomepageViewpoint
The Igbo crime culture
Fredrick Nwabufo in On the GoTop StoriesViewpoint


In the sweltering heat of a serial lynching and killing of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013, I wrote an article entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence, debauchery and vanity which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own.

I am compelled to revivify the article here, but with a few adjustments. I say it again; the Igbo take the inglorious front row in certain crimes – drug peddling, armed robbery and kidnapping – at home and abroad.

In August 2016, an Igbo drug dealer was guillotined in Indonesia. But his funeral in Anambra was a shin-dig of celebrations. He was even described as a “hero” by his kinsmen.

Once again, an Igbo kidnapping lord, who unleashed barbarity and savagery on many Nigerians, has steadied attention on the “special” crime proclivities of the ethnic group. I will not dwell on this; I will zero in on Igbo criminality abroad, and take a slight detour home.

As a matter of fact, a good number of Igbo youth in Asia are into crime. It was reported sometime in the year that the India police said all Nigerians – Igbo, of course – in their country were drug dealers. Although, this is questionable, it cannot be entirely repudiated.

Arguably, the reason for Igbo sojourning – to even the remotest of places in the world – has been attributed to their much vaunted entrepreneurial spirit. The truth is that this claim is enclosed in heavy, meaty layers of fallacy like the entrails of burger.

Inasmuch as the “entrepreneurial sojourning” thread cannot be utterly pooh-poohed, it is judicious to explore other reasons why the Igbo are peripatetic. First, in Igbo ethology, it is a cringing evil for a native, man or woman, to commit a “stigmatised” crime (Alu) such as armed robbery, drug-dealing, etc at home. This is not an obviation of abhorrent crimes committed at home by some unabashed Igbo criminals. The truth is, the “home” Igbo criminals are a hopeless and shameless horde whose self esteem and sense of shame are terribly at their nadir, and as a result purvey crimes at home. Inter alia, for any stigmatised crime committed at home (Igbo land) there is a stern reprimand implicit in the cleansing of the crime. The sacerdotal process of cleansing the land of a crime or an abomination is called “Ikpu Alu”. However, “Ikpu Alu” (cleansing of abominations) does not extend to crimes committed by Igbo sons and daughters in places outside the native dome. It is therefore not surprising if some Igbo persons commit heinous crimes in obverse places, and come back home to take chieftaincy titles. As a matter of fact, in some morally weak Igbo communities it is a brave thing to traffic in drugs abroad. Drug barons are gleefully celebrated as Ndi kara Obi (lion-hearted people). Such is the pantomime of the Igbo and crimes.

It is therefore indubitable to posit that an unenviable number of Igbo persons with innate criminal manuals travel outside the Igbo enclave to pursue crimes. This confutes the general idea that the sojourning of the Igbo is driven solely by entrepreneurial inclinations and motives. To a large extent, the sojourning of some Igbo is driven by a morbid aim of shielding their evil trades from the peering eyes of their kinsmen. Their names are protected as long as they do not traffic in crimes at home. The important thing is to be successful in crimes abroad; successful enough to build vulgar mansions at home and throw lazy cash about.

To animate my argument further, what is the entrepreneurial inclination or motive of the Igbo in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, and other countries peddling drugs? Is the entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo only awakened abroad? Why should the Igbo entrepreneurial spirit find its host cozily and lopsidedly outside Igbo land? Is there a marriage between Igbo criminality across the world and Igbo entrepreneurial genome? These are questions that defeat the long, tired argument of Igbo entrepreneurial “peripatetism.”

The fact is the “entrepreneurial” beat-up logic and reason for Igbo sojourning is a bored excuse.

Analogously, Igbo sojourning atavism is also effectuated by pride, ego and vanity. A typical Igbo person will want to prove he is successful in anyway. It is wickedly mortifying to be seen as struggling in Igbo land. This underscores the reason many Igbo persons smuggle themselves out of Nigeria, and because it is thought that any person in Obodo Oyibo (white man’s country) or even anywhere outside Igbo land is “doing well”. Those Igbo persons who are “cursed” to be in Igbo land are seen as struggling and as such do not deserve the courtesy of admiration and respect. It is a proud thing for an Igbo father to say, “All my children are in the abroad”; even though “the abroad” is Gabon. Such a father courts the respect, envy and admiration of other fathers in Igbo land. This is the awful linkage between Igbo sojourning and base vanity.

In all, there are Igbo persons in the scrawny good number whose sojourn in foreign countries is not tainted by any evil intent or base vanity, but it is a bleeding fact that the singular Igbo entrepreneurial logic for sojourning is one big smorgasbord of fallacy

Rotimi47:
Two Nigerians nabbed for shabu in Angeles City
By: Tonette Orejas - @ttorejasINQ
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 03:53 PM August 02, 2018

San Fernando — Two Nigerian men were arrested during a drug buy-bust operation in Angeles City, Pampanga for selling shabu or crystal meth to undercover policemen on Thursday.

Christopher Chukwuma, 33, and Ben Okoye, 34, were arrested at an apartment in Barangay Amsic, where the police seized about 50 grams of shabu, worth P150,000, sealed in six sachets.

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The P3,000 marked money used in the sting operation was found in the suspects’ possession.

The Bureau of Immigration has been asked to determine the status of Chukwuma and Okoye in the country, according to Chief Supt. Amador Corpus, regional police chief.



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nwanyionitsha:
I don't think you have any atom of reasoning.
Oya go and collect Dubai visa na.
Go and get visa before any igboman in any embassy. Smh.
See what awo the man who soaked garri with sniper has caused.
Illiteracy combined with headslamming is indeed a disease.

KingSango:
As an American I love Nigerians they bring business and life to an area

The Caucasians and the house niggers in South Africa keep the South Africa poor as dirt

Have you seen the areas reserve for them They gave them the poorest land and cut them out of every resource

It's still that way for the poor South African youth oppressed in their own land in the richest economy in Africa

They leaders give them the Nigerians to hate because Nigerians showing them how to create your own market


Top 10 deadliest disease on earth are: Hiv Aids,Cancer, Cholera, the black race, ebola, malaria, diabetes, stroke, tuberclosis and Diarrheal.

able1993:
This would not have happened if their own country was conducive to live. So far between 2015 , Nigeria has become another thing. it's really difficult when you don't select the right leader or you don't have the right leader to select. Even after the vandalism, they won't still return to Nigeria because the hope of rising again or doing better over there is still higher than in Nigeria. Nigeria has continued to feature at the top of every bad index from the United Nations. From poverty capital, to the most hungry, to the unhappiest people and the likes. Yet, the rhetorics is they are fighting corruption and we are doing better. Should doing better not be the verdict of the people or how do you participate in a match and still ref the match....

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nwanyionitsha:
You are the foolish one here, because you made it look like yorubas were without international crime reputation.

Lekan1o1:
I don't care what u say or call me.
And I will never let the words of shallow minds or never-do-wells get to me

dainformant:
According to confirmed reports, Nigerian owned businesses were targeted as some shops were vandalised and goods stolen in a recent Xenophobic attack which happened on Tuesday in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.

It was gathered that about eight Nigerians were abducted by South Africans in Evander, north-west of Secunda in Mpumalanga province of the country, but have been released after government intervention.

Some others were beaten mercilessly during attack by South African residents as can be seen in the video below.

Adetola Olubajo, president of the Nigerian union in South Africa, told NAN that the abducted Nigerians were released on Wednesday following pressure by the union on the South African authorities.

Olubajo said Nigerians in Evander had also informed the union about attacks on them in the province. “The mob arrested eight Nigerians and took them to an unknown destination.” Olubajo said the union had informed the Nigerian mission in South Africa about the incident.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2019/04/xenophobia-shops-looted-in-south-africa-as-8-kidnapped-nigerians-regain-freedom.html

nwanyionitsha:
You are the foolish one here, because you made it look like yorubas were without international crime reputation.

IgbosNIGHTMARE:
OSU ipob pigs retadds always bringing tribalism to everything
That's why they have remained backward in their own land

nwanyionitsha:
Female beheaded

nwanyionitsha:
Female beheaded

Blisplendor12:
They've started again.

iammo:
Jokes on all of you,. Monkeys continue shouting marginalization, xenophobia. Dunce don't know how much other people hate their uncouth criminal ways........ shamee!!!!!!

bionixs:
things like this no longer news. is it not almost same thing happening here in our own Lagos ? one guy under you who goes by Iammo is even one of them on this forum. It is called Xenophobic attack out there but don't know if it should bear same name here. Our sophisticated brethren, una Weldon . it is one of your contributions to the development of the country, perhaps

tehn6421:
Time to target South African businesses in Nigeria let us loot shops and they will have common sense to understand that you don’t treat people like that. A country we contributed immensely for them to achieve independence can turn back on us. Nigeria contributed wealth and resource to poor South Africans to make sure they don’t die of starvation during the apartheid. All Nigerian artist started singing about free Mandela and South Africa. We were made to sing apartheid songs in public schools.

gbosaa:
You are foolish. What has Awo got to do with this thread?
Why can’t you focus your response on the I diot ypu quoted.

You all should be locked up in a room and lit with enough gasoline.

Umu anumanu, Awo this, Ojukwu that.

Afo sagbuchakwa unu.

Rotimi47:
Your Dad is stupid while your mum is a nympho and you are a nitwit.

You must be damn too stupid to see and think straight as you have dog poo for a brain.

Waiting for your response.

Rotimi47:
Nigeria drug baron arrested in Thailand in a sting operation [Photos]

09/22/2017
Tell your friends

A notorious Nigerian drug baron who had been declared wanted in Thailand has been arrested in a sting operation.

A 34-year-old Nigerian man,

ALSO READ: "Stubborn Fly: Nigerian sentenced to life in Cambodia for drug trafficking"


According to Thai News, Umemma who has been elusive for many years and had been declared wanted on a court-ordered arrest warrant, was arrested in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district during a raid where over 10 other drug dealers including Nigerians, were arrested.


Deputy National Police Commissioner, Chalermkiat Srivorakan, who led the arrest of Umemma, told a press conference that Umemma will face charges of obtaining and possessing 'ice' with intent to sell and send to Australia.

The police said they got information Ummema had tried to send 120 grams of 'ice' to Sydney at the time he was apprehended.

ALSO READ: "Labour Of Love: Thai woman jailed for life after Nigerian man used her as drug mule"

The Police boss added that from October 1, 2016 to September 15, 2017, NSB officers had seized 100, 200, 829 'yaba' pills and 4, 342 kilograms of 'ice', more than the 28, 838, 422 'yaba' pills and 632.72 kilograms of 'ice' confiscated in the previous fiscal year, with most of the arrested suspects being Nigerians.

We can go on and on you shit head.

iammo:



Nigerians/ Ipobians should respect themselves in other peoples territory, be a good resedent and integrate peacefully, all this no man's land mentality and December / Xmas hustle for village show off brings about strong hate






.

Rotimi47:
Nigeria drug baron arrested in Thailand in a sting operation [Photos]

09/22/2017
Tell your friends

A notorious Nigerian drug baron who had been declared wanted in Thailand has been arrested in a sting operation.

A 34-year-old Nigerian man,

ALSO READ: "Stubborn Fly: Nigerian sentenced to life in Cambodia for drug trafficking"


According to Thai News, Umemma who has been elusive for many years and had been declared wanted on a court-ordered arrest warrant, was arrested in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district during a raid where over 10 other drug dealers including Nigerians, were arrested.


Deputy National Police Commissioner, Chalermkiat Srivorakan, who led the arrest of Umemma, told a press conference that Umemma will face charges of obtaining and possessing 'ice' with intent to sell and send to Australia.

The police said they got information Ummema had tried to send 120 grams of 'ice' to Sydney at the time he was apprehended.

ALSO READ: "Labour Of Love: Thai woman jailed for life after Nigerian man used her as drug mule"

The Police boss added that from October 1, 2016 to September 15, 2017, NSB officers had seized 100, 200, 829 'yaba' pills and 4, 342 kilograms of 'ice', more than the 28, 838, 422 'yaba' pills and 632.72 kilograms of 'ice' confiscated in the previous fiscal year, with most of the arrested suspects being Nigerians.

iammo:
So what's the solution Mr genius... 90% of comments highlighted the problem without offering solution, yet I am the bad person for offering a solution based on my own travel experience