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Igboid:
Stop fighting imaginary enemies. Horsepower is not pazienza. Check the writing style. This shouldn't be hard.

Igboid:
Stop fighting imaginary enemies. Horsepower is not pazienza. Check the writing style. This shouldn't be hard.

Armaggedon:
It's now obvious you have no valid justification for your position. I'm not a kid. I have been in struggles a couple of times and I have learnt not to trust people, however committed they may be cos they may betray anytime.Biafra agitation is seriously gathering momentum. So also the oppressors are fighting back using everything at their disposal. Anyone who falls by the way , we dump him and continue, including you.

yes! you pazienza.

Hotice085:
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How bitter the truth his

mrvitalis:
Kanu is an idiot please ...I don't listen to dumb people ....no wonder he couldn't become a super Lion

Igboid:
“It was among the Ibos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”


To understand the root cause of the resentment towards Ndiigbo from these minorities, Ndiigbo needs to read and understand this part of the report.
The minorities were raised by their parents to believe Ndiigbo were the inferiors because of the way the slave trade panned out in the region. The Ijaw coastal city states and Coastal Efiks aided by the Aro Igbos, were selling Igbo slaves off to the whitemen as middle men between Aro and the whites. These sparsely populated minorities also acquired Igbo slaves themselves when they needed to swell up their numbers.
This created the impression in them that Ndiigbo are an inferior race.
When the slave thread ended and colonial government came on board, power changed hands, as Igbo numerical advantage and coal discovery in Igbo hinterland at Enugu, placed the Igbo on top of the food chain in the East. This didn't go down well with these minorities, the Igbo slaves cannot be ruling them, it should be the other way round.
With this mentality, it was always going to be difficult for Igbos to do no harm.
Till today, many of these groups still harbour this complex. When Asari dokubo( An Ijawnized Igbo himself), was telling IPOB how Igbos used to be Ijaw slaves, it was this same mentality at play.


Just felt I should provide more insight to this issue.

Ndewonu.

fhranchez:
still listen to the gospel you might neva know

horsepower102:
My brother I am not pazienza. I disagree with you just like I disagree with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu but that doesn't mean I have ill feeling towards you or him. But it looks like you are taking it way too personal. Try to reason with me to see that if anything, I am trying to protect Ndigbo from unnecessary sabotage and betrayals.

We all agree that we want to get out of this shitt hole called Nigeria. We only disagree on the methods.

mrvitalis:
I have ...still do ...the guy has absolutely no plan to achieve Biafra ....to plan

6 years same point

Armaggedon:
did igbos request for your protection? were you not the fellow who admitted you can't do what Kanu is doing? those who are brave enough to undertake the risk are doing the job. You either have the option of supporting them or begin your own movement. If you can do either of these you may well take several seats.

it does appear we are no longer on the same boat or you no longer share the same Biafra vision with the majority since your own method destroys instead of achieving a goal.

gidgiddy:
The wilinks report has nothing to do with IPOB or or Kanu. This is a purely historical report that is over 60 years old and has nothing to do with current times. It is about the past, not the future.

What gains do you think Igbos have made? Whatever you see Igbos have today has been from sweat, ingenuity and hardwork, none which will change whether Nigeria exists or not nobody has gained anything from Nigeria, if anything, Igbos have lost a lot.

I believe in the independence of the Igbo nation as a seperate country, I believe Igbos will do much better when they are out of the failed country called Nigeria, and I have believed so, long before I ever heard anything called IPOB

fhranchez:
There's no quicker way unless you want to pick up arms

gidgiddy:
Would we be here talking about Biafra if it were not for Kanu and IPOB? Probably not. Who raised the Biafran issue to the level of consciousness it has become in the minds of people.

Those who are criticising Kanu and IPOB are those who wish they were out of the way so that nobody would even remember or be talking about Biafra.

mrvitalis:
Form a political party Oga simple ...win sits become the true representative of the people

Tech your people how to protect their votes , follow to collection centers ....no body can rig where they are not popular

When u have 75% of the sits then everyone would listen to u

pazienza:
The relationship between the Igbos and the minorities were relatively peaceful but not without intrigues.

There were often innate fears and cries of Igbo domination by significant members of the minorities who usually called for creation of a minority region from the Eastern region. These demands led the colonial government to constitute the Willink commission of 1957 whose aim was to look into the grievances of the minorities and offer a recommendation.
The report of this commission can be found below this post.
The commission found no real marginalization of the minorities and maintained that Igbos have been fair in their dealings with the minorities, all the accusations brought to the commission by the minorities were found to have no substance and were dismissed. The commission noted that division of the Eastern region was not necessary.

Igboid:
“It was among the Ibos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”


To understand the root cause of the resentment towards Ndiigbo from these minorities, Ndiigbo needs to read and understand this part of the report.
The minorities were raised by their parents to believe Ndiigbo were the inferiors because of the way the slave trade panned out in the region. The Ijaw coastal city states and Coastal Efiks aided by the Aro Igbos, were selling Igbo slaves off to the whitemen as middle men between Aro and the whites. These sparsely populated minorities also acquired Igbo slaves themselves when they needed to swell up their numbers.
This created the impression in them that Ndiigbo are an inferior race.
When the slave thread ended and colonial government came on board, power changed hands, as Igbo numerical advantage and coal discovery in Igbo hinterland at Enugu, placed the Igbo on top of the food chain in the East. This didn't go down well with these minorities, the Igbo slaves cannot be ruling them, it should be the other way round.
With this mentality, it was always going to be difficult for Igbos to do no harm.
Till today, many of these groups still harbour this complex. When Asari dokubo( An Ijawnized Igbo himself), was telling IPOB how Igbos used to be Ijaw slaves, it was this same mentality at play.


Just felt I should provide more insight to this issue.

Ndewonu.

horsepower102:
I just noticed that since you have been responding the me, you never said anything about how you feel about the inclusion of non-igbos in the Biafra Nnamdi kanu is pursuing.

What is your personal opinion on that. I would like to know your point of view.

Maybe if i know your point of view, I may even agree with you. What do you think about including Niger delta NON-Igbo minorities? Do you trust them?

horsepower102:
You sound exactly like me when I used to defend Nnamdi Kanu with IPOB. That’s reasoning is wrong. Just because he is willing to dedicate his life to his version of IPOB liberation doesn’t mean he is moving in the right direction.

It’s been 6 years since Nnamdi Kanu started getting very popular with his radio. What exactly has been accomplished with it.

Now he is a perpetrator of one conspiracy theory to another.

He should visit the meetings of the south south minorities he is including in his referendum to see the level of hatred this people have for him and igbos.

IPOB has lost me. Think about it for a second. I have collected insults on their behalf and spent hours defending them. For them to loose my support tell you something of fundamentally wrong with that organization.

It’s up to you to face the reality and reach out to IPOB to change course or they will one day loose you the way they lost me.

I was a young boy when MASSOB was very popular and I remember how they faded away in Igboland. The same fate awaits IPOB if they don’t make this movement mainly about igbos and approach is from less emotional stand point. Be more realistic and pragmatic.

mrvitalis:
Form a political party Oga simple ...win sits become the true representative of the people

Tech your people how to protect their votes , follow to collection centers ....no body can rig where they are not popular

When u have 75% of the sits then everyone would listen to u

horsepower102:
The truth is that I don't have it in me. I am not bold and charismatic as him. I will give that credit to him. He has the ability to influence people. He is a radical.

But if you think that because I cannot do it (which I humbly agree), that I don't have the right to critique the movement and its direction, then you are very wrong. The fact that my Igbo brothers and sisters have sacrificed their lives for this movement forces me to be involved. Igbo blood is very precious to me and we cannot sacrifice it for those who have rejected us.

mrvitalis:
You pay to your northern masters ....all Igbo land oil are locked under national reserve ....you think u have more oil than the east ? ...lol ....when Nigeria breaks u go know the truth


We survived thousands of years without south south ...we have enough gas and oil to last us for life ...take igbos out of uyo and it's dead

That's it ...after employing your people what do we get ...insult ...me myself employee over 12 people in uyo all from your state

You guys think u can get cocky because of oil ...lol time dey come

mrvitalis:
Form a political party Oga simple ...win sits become the true representative of the people

Tech your people how to protect their votes , follow to collection centers ....no body can rig where they are not popular

When u have 75% of the sits then everyone would listen to u

pazienza:
Some weeks back on one of your posts I made a rebuttal about the erroneous and mischievous rants of some of my (our) misinformed Niger Delta brothers.

First and foremost let me tell you all a little story for the avoidance of doubt.

I am from the Agbo ethnic group in Cross River State. We are located in Abi Local Government Area which is a coastal settlement and unarguably the smallest LGA in Cross River State in terms of landmass and to a large extent population - slightly a few thousands ahead of Bakassi LGA.


My fore bearers both on my maternal and paternal side were given the opportunity to serve in then Eastern Nigeria regional government.

My grand uncle Dr.S E Imoke of blessed memory was an all influential cabinet minister in the regime of Dr M I Okpara. He held the Trade portfolio and was also Finance minister at the time until the unfortunate incident of January 1966.


He was the longest serving Education minister. His son the Urbane Liyel Imoke is the immediate past Governor of our state “Cross River”.

During the outbreak of the war, he was the Biafran Commissioner for Refugees and Humanitarian affairs. One of my maternal uncles also served as Permanent Secretary in the ministry of health at Enugu.


My maternal grand father was also a front-line member of the Eastern Nigeria regional house of Chiefs.

Outside my family circles, another great Cross Riverian M T Mbu was nominated a Federal Minister for Transport and Navy by the Igbo controlled NCNC.

It's on record that Mbu was Nigeria's first Ambassador to the UK, UN and the USA.

He is from Boki in Cross River state. Boki is another minority ethnic group just like my native Agboland. The Igbos gave him the opportunity to excel ahead of their own worthy sons at that time.


He is the father to a Senator MT Mbu jr. Another person who is noteworthy is the late Chief Michael Eta-Ogon who was the Administrator of the oil rich Port Harcourt province in the first republic.

He is also from the same Boki with Mbu. Thomas Weir Ikpeme an Efik man from Odukpani in my native Cross River was the longest serving Permanent Secretary in the Eastern Regional Ministry of Education.

The key point is that the Igbos were comfortable with us “the minorities” that was why they entrusted education solely in our hands.

Not only education but other critical areas like Public Works and Transport etc. N. U Akpan an Ibibio man from Akwa Ibom state was the technocrat behind the eastern regional public service. He was the Secretary to the regional governement

Thompson Akpabio, an Annang man from Ukana in present day Akwa Ibom state was the regional minister of health.

The former Governor of Akwa Ibom state Godswill Akpabio is his nephew.

There were other high ranking cabinet ministers of minority origin like one of our family good friends, HRH Amanyanabo E P Okoya, Agada III the Ibenanowei of Ekpetiama in Bayelsa State, Chief. Erekosinma of Rivers and a whole lot of others who are too numerous to mention.

During the secessionist struggle, an Ogoni from Rivers state, Chief.Ignatius Kogbara was Biafra's Ambassador to Britain.

My dad's friend Chief. Lekam Okoi, from Idomi in present day Yakurr LGA of Cross River state was one of Ojukwu's trusted drivers. He is today a successful lawyer and a former commissioner in the Federal Character Commission.

Capt Akpet a minority from Cross River was also Ojukwu's dependable aide on intelligence.

Secondly for the avoidance of doubt, aside these political appointments, our people enjoyed immense goodwill from the Igbo dominated region by way of

My dad's immediate elder brother received a scholarship from the regional government that enabled him study for a PhD in soil science.

He is the first man “arguably” in Africa to obtain a doctorate in Soil science. I have friends across the Niger Delta whose parents, uncles, aunties and relatives also benefited from the benevolence of the Eastern regional government.

Unarguably our Niger Delta region received it's last major face-lift in terms of infrastructure when we were under the Eastern region.

Till the abolition of the regional system of government, the Eastern region was the most united region, they was never a recorded case of ethnic skirmish or BLOOD letting between the Igbos and other minority.

During the pogrom of 1966 we all carried the same cross to “Golgotha”, both Igbos and Eastern minorities were killed in their thousands across Northern Nigeria by the blood thirsty Hausa Fulani/Northern folks without blinking an eye.

It doesn't really matter if you were Igbo, Ijaw, Efik or a miniature Agbo person.

I never really wanted to bore you with reading this lengthy essay but it's my moral responsibility to tell the truth at all times.

I was thought by my fore bearers never to distort history and to always separate facts from fictions.

If we were not marginalized by the Igbos during the “analogue” age, how then can the Igbos marginalize us in this digital

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legit.ng/amp/1092790-opinion-why-igbos-never-marginalize-minorities-by-rex-egbe.html

fhranchez:
you're the most gullible person on nairaland. That is how you became a prodigal son until your eyes cleared.

Go and listen to Nnamdi Kanu lesson on #usedtissuepaper

Biafrarep:
God bless you real good, my brother. I almost shed tears while reading this masterpiece. This is unarguably the greatest piece of historical facts I have ever read about Igbos and the minorities within Eastern Nigeria.
The truth is that Igbos have really surfered terribly in Nigeria.

Oh God, we only showed brotherly love to the minorities but they turned around to hate us unimaginably! Insulted us and told tons of lies against us! Imagine giving out 216 scholarships out 413 slots to a group that consisted just 25% of the population while giving yourself 197 scholarships despite having 75% of the population!! Tell me what sort of love is beyond that?

In a region we are the overwhelming majority, we had the numbers and spread to subdue and terrorise others yet there was no history of any violence of sorts against our neighbors.

The question is, what did the Igbos do to warrant the sort of combined attack by other Nigerians against it? Is it because of the civil war? Then thr question is, who declared the war and who attacked the other first? Igbos fought a defensive war of survival right in their home against outside attack!

My anger is mostly directed at the Ikwerres, these guys chose to turn themselves into enemies of the Igbos just because we lost a war that was forced on us. P.H. had always been known as an Igbo town right from creation but they chose to hate us because the Nigerian state officially supports any group that is against Igbo interest. Ikwerres were on record as the only people that seized our properties and till date, they never returned it! There is a saying that you can only know those that truly love you when you are down--Ikwerres have twice proved and continues to show in every manner that they hate us.

These great piece has opened my eyes to a lot of things, including those I knew subconsciously. The fact is that there is nothing we do, no matter the sacrifice, that will neighbors will make our neighbors to be free with us because it is inherent in them to always be at loggerheads with us simply because they can't compete with us--they are naturally laid-back while we are aggressively progressive.

Going forward, we Igbos should completely ostracize the Ikwerres, because they are nothing but our enemies. We should focus only on our region and mutually relate, love and respect any of our Igbo brothers that were carved into the SS that accept the Igbo tag regardless of how Nigeria makes it to appear as disadvantaged while denouncing, mutually hating and distancing ourselves from the efulefus/Judas brothers that sold us out.

Igbos will continue to soar higher and higher, and will ultimately triumph against the wicked and evil Nigerian state that made Igbophobia a national pasttime.

Hotice085:
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So the Yorubas that sold themselves also see you as inferiors?
The Benins that never sold themselves see you as inferiors?
The Ikewre sees you as Inferiors?
The south Africans that were slaves in their land see you as inferiors?
The Ghanaians that sold themselves as slaves were raised to see you as inferiors?
Worldwide the stigma your criminal elements brothers perpetuate people were raised to see you people as inferiors?
Men continue talking OFF points don't go and address issues where criminal elements like KANUs n co have use in damaging the IBO tribe