₦airaland Forum

AnanseK: What does he need to function properly ? He has enough cassava bread - 1 billion Naira for last year alone.

At least you know that he is not" functioning properly" but you prefer to blame someone else for the President's gross incompetence.

Ngwakwe: This is the moment I will always remember the bravery of Orji Uzor Kalu for scolding and embarrassing his colleagues (Mbadinuju the then Governor of Anambra, Nnamani of Enugu State, Udenwa of Imo State and Egwu the then Governor of Ebonyi State) for supporting the mass arrests and sundry extra judicial killing of members of MASSOB by the orders of OBJ.

He asked them if they have ever heard such thing happen in Abia State under his watch notwithstanding that MASSOB was so much active in Aba and Okigwe.

He challenged them to stand up against self hatred and hypocrisy of Nigerian politics.

Orji Uzor Kalu, though you are not my role model. I salute your courage and bravery for Igboland.

Thank you.

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stuhporh: [b]stuhporh: How can some people be so gullible to believe everything, they hear, and instantly too.
Yes, the NPF might have killed them, but you and i dont know, it might be mere suspicious rants towards them. On the other hand, they (NPF might be guilty as accussed by the massob.
But then, if i was an investigation officer, which is the right way to think and figure where to concentrate investigation on. Massob has been making headlines recently on how bad they want to break from NIGERIA. having heard them claim these bodies are their members, and immediately writing to UN and the rest, i will move closer toward an assumption that Massob are trying to create some dissintegrations and uncalm atmosphere, to aid their movement towards breaking of Nigeria. These will bring me to speculate that Massob might be responsible for the killing and twist the story aswell. If the bodies are confirmed to be massob memebers, they might be killed due to their questionable loyalty to massob group by massob members. That is also Possible.

Am suprised most of you here already Jumped into conclusion that NPF is responsible. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX GUYS!!!!

MASSOB IS AS MUCH A SUSPECT AS NPF[/b]

AnanseK: and they think certificate though exam cheating is equal to merit. See the kind of dumb president they gave us .

AnanseK: The thread is not about the the north. It is about the Igbo COAS ihejirika's nepotism . Placing Igbo's in senior military position at the expense of all other groups in the country. The Yoruba officers sidelined by ihejirika are much more in number than from any other group. Yorubas have a right to complain. This man ihejirika is dangerous.

Yazmin: Ode! Ewu gambia! Mumu!...who told u abba moro is a 'mallam' or even of hausa fulani extraction? He is idoma from benue state and was d campaign director of david mark in the 2011 elections. Because the Op says 'mallam', with ur coconut head u don't have an idea of who the person really is $ next u open ur wide mouth,supported by ur illiterate brain and spew poo!!! Zombie kawai!

Yazmin: Ode! Ewu gambia! Mumu!...who told u abba moro is a 'mallam' or even of hausa fulani extraction? He is idoma from benue state and was d campaign director of david mark in the 2011 elections. Because the Op says 'mallam', with ur coconut head u don't have an idea of who the person really is $ next u open ur wide mouth,supported by ur illiterate brain and spew poo!!! Zombie kawai!

miiraaj: I smell igbo in the report.

igbo boy: ^^^ u get time o...u must be new here, she is the forum's ogbanje. She gets really Hot whenever she sees an igbo post

Desola: seems like literacy is the cankerworm which rather than eat fruits, takes permanent residence in your brains and subjects people from your part of the world to illiteracy and render you useless when it comes to spelling.

I have only out of the goodness of my heart corrected one lunatic from your stock and you come running along. Do you guys fall of the conveyor belt of stupidity?

There must be a manufacturing plant specially for you people because the rate at which you churn out idiocy is amazing!

Prof Corruption: Well, it's difficult to fault your stance but a lot of folks here are putting in more emotion than logic. But you don't break a law because you don't like it, you repeal it.
It's not like Ihejirika is a military head of state whose decision can not be questioned. Somebody ll use same methodology tomorrow and I hope folks take it in like manner.

Aggrippa: walahi trust me some people are deliberately relentlessly determined to make these SE people perpetual slaves.

Prof Corruption: The highlighted is true. But you must realize that Ihejirika ll not be there forever. Another man tomorrow might just pack Northern generals there and because someone has done it before in the name of "merit", there would be no basis to question such a move. A merit that is not defined is nothing short of nepotism.

I personally hate the Federal Character quota system. But the history of Nigerian army, which was once more or less a Northern Nigeria army, pleads caution. If we want to get rid of it, let us do it in a most transparent way. Get the law repealed (constitution amended) and then clearly define what qualifies someone for a promotion. I am sure if we have such a system, there would be less noise now.

HAH: This the reason the army refused making Igbo chief of army since 1966, ironsi became COAS and it led to the first coup in Nigeria and it led to first mutiny as well.

Igbos that are still thinking about Biafra, don't trust them in anything government.

bestman09: Is it now Ihejirika's turn?
There is this piece circulating online on army promotions under General Ihejirika. The author, apparently sponsored by faceless failures, alleged that Ihejirika was promoting his Igbo brothers over Northerners to achieve an "Igbo agenda".

Here is what I know. BY John Okiyi Kalu


Unlike other past Army Chiefs, Ihejirika insisted on competence and merit as a basis for promotion to very senior positions in the Nigerian Army. To give teeth to that policy and engender competence and professionalism, he invited an external body to administer promotion examination for those within the relevant cadres.

If Igbo or Yoruba man passed that exam and the author's sponsors fail to make it, should we promote the olodos and sacrifice competence and professionalism? All the while "federal character" and "we we" were used as basis to promote all manner of misfits in the army, how did Nigeria benefit? Apart from coup plotting induced pot bellies and class looting of the nation, what did we gain from past promotions?

Let the author of that vile piece summon the courage to publish all promotions made in the Army from 1979 to date. It will help the whole world see why everything is wrong with Nigeria. Don't forget that even out of power, militicians replaced themselves with their civilian minions made up of slightly more incompetent people at all levels. Even then they still find themselves retiring and contesting elections to continue the suffocation of Nigeria to death. To them, merit is haram.

For Christ sake people should also stop insulting our sensibilities by flaunting fake population figures in public discussions. We are not in the dark ages and anyone who cares to know the truth about Nigeria's population should simply go to google earth and see how many buildings are there from Abuja to Sokoto. Even the British have long accepted complicity in this census fraud. I challenge any living Nigerian to swear that those figures we bandy about as census figures truly represent Nigeria's population distribution. If you lie let your story be Nigeria's story. Great potentials but negative growth for 52 years.

Let it be known that any system that is based on merit will favor the Igbo man and competence driven Nigerians, naturally. If the rest of the country is not ready for merit based progress let them reconsider keeping Igbos in Nigeria. It is wrong to force them to remain in Nigeria while living in mortal fear of them. Like I've said severally, a key reason Nigeria is not moving forward remains her fear of the Igbo man. That mind set have led to a situation where every single national system must have a viral program that says "keep Igbos down". A country committed to keeping one section down will remain down to keep that section down. It is better to seat down and tell them to go and form their own country so that those who choose to remain will progress (or retrogress) without Igbophobia.

Even our national football team is now a victim of this "I love, I no love" attitude towards Igbos. One so called activist recently posted thrash on how the match allowance paid to the national ogbono team mean enriching the Igbo nation. The emergency activist forgot that the glorious USA 94 team was also an "Igbo team". With the exception of Yekini and 2 others,, the rest of those who made up the first team were of Igbo Origin. I can tell anyone without fear of contradiction that the team excelled because Westerhoff made his team selection based on merit. All the coaches after him were forced to operate under the "national agenda".

Not long ago, we saw similar propaganda being circulated against the former head of immigration. She was sacked two weeks ago. It was also deployed against Barth Nnaji and he lost out. Such propaganda is hardly deployed against the locust and cankerworm of the Nigerian nation. They can steal N37b police pension money and get 2 years with option of N750k fine. Billions of new naira notes can disappear at CBN and nobody will talk about the CBN governor but EFCC will look for Soludo over N750m contract awarded by Obasanjo.

Sincerely, if Nigeria is not ready for merit based growth and development, let's sit down and talk. Lord Luggard's 100 years expires next year, 2014. If because of hypocrisy we cannot shake hands and say "you are still my brother no matter your new republic" let us agree a regional government where each region pursues the type of development suited to it. While some might choose the Sharia model, others will be free to pursue Awolowo style development socialism or apply the American Capitalist model based on merit and competence. If one region is making progress others will copy or at least visit that region to borrow wisdom. Who knows, after AD 2140, our great grand children might decide to come together and propagate and pursue merit as a basis for reward, promotion and appointments..

God forbid that my children will belong to a country where merit and competence are punished.


This post was posted to my FACEBOOK page and i agree absolutely with the author!

nagoma: You have no shame. As if it was not purely igbo officers who staged the first ever coup in Nigerias History. It was the bloodiest coup , an ethnic coup that hunted down and killed anybody important in the Nigerian army or in politics , provided he was not Igbo. They started us on this roller coaster ride, you cannot change history and your ihejirika is trying to re- enact the Igbo wicked annihilation and tragic destruction.

KenGali: I believe the majority of Igbos are reacting to this on the surface. It brings to us a lot of responsibility in thought and action. Why?

This document or campaign as it seems is meant to prepare a soft landing for what is to come. The North has never had any better strategy at power struggle but Coups, its smaller forms are the annual pogroms in the streets of Kano etc. Boko Haram is only a shrouded expression of this taint for violent play for power. An Igbo adage says that an old woman never forgets the dance she learnt from youth. But that is not the bad aspect, whenever you call her to dance she does the same dance step again and again.

This article only proves one thing, the North has planned a Coup as either the first plan or backup plan for their power bid in 2015. So far, they have failed in the civilian approach, so why not try what has always worked? This write up was not accidentally released to the public, it is strategic in trying to buy the opinion of other groups in Nigeria as a justification for an upcoming attempt to eject the government in power. If you notice, It attempts to create a so called "Igbo problem", a past rallying point for the rest of Nigeria to accept an alternate leadership from the North. There is an unrelenting attempt to link this back to 1966, the Nigerian Civil War. The fact is that if you take the holistic data from the military, rather than listing names of Igbo officers, it's whole argument crumbles. But do not bother cause, any argument at all only helps this document achieve its purpose.

In the 1960, it was an open secret that northern officers were planning a coup, yet Igbos folded their hands watching. The question today is, if we get a Mutiny in the army or a coup, what will be our response? What will be our first response? What will be our long-term response? What will be our contingency plan? What will be our international diplomacy strategy? Who outside Nigeria will likely be a threat? How do we counter them? How do we manage our immediate neighbours?

Like I said earlier, an old woman will always do those same dance steps, what is baffling rather is that the dance has not come since Jonathan took office? But Igbos must realise, that Jonathan is more their responsibility than that of the so called South South (who the north regard as being as much igbo as can be) hence all the aggression. Let us not find ourselves unprepared as we did in 1966. Last the world will always support the winning party, least we forget a bitter lesson in diplomacy.

This article is not a call to needless arguments on on-line forums, but to deep thought, co-operation and preparedness for what is highly inevitable.

Dede1: This is old slide joke. If you switch Mali with Sierra Leone, the colonialists will tell you Republic of Freetown shall be created however the black market diamond smugglers and Sierra Leonean pagans are not letting it happen. Africans should be allowed to create countries out of selfless patriotism as oppose to colonial constructs.

naptu2: Sanusi is a prince of Kano. The mischievous poster was insinuating that it was sanusi that planned the attack so that he can become emir.

kingsceemark: Tribal war lords, oya over 2 you guys. I know wetin dey una mind. anything wey una like make una talk, E no comot anything 4rm BIAFRANS. The GOD of ISRAEL always on dem side. KA CHINEKE MEZIE OKWU

ajas baba: what is all this nonesense now after some years boko haram will come out and say they want to sue the FG for damages...........PLS ALL THIS PEOPLE SHOULD BE FORGOTTEN FOR GOOD

Ikengawo: He's 100% right. People use corruption as a scapegoat because they're too lazy to think when in reality it's the mentality of the people and attitude that's holding the country back. America is very corrupt. What we call bribes here as called Lobby's in the US and Lobbyists (Bribers) get offices in Washington DC and websites. They pay politicians to do what they want the politicians to do and pay the media to do their own bidding, but the country functions. Everything from inflated contracts to cronyism and ballot manipulation, is in the US openly


the difference is if you pass a law in the US people follow it and whom ever's duty it is to enforce it will enforce it.
If you build a good road in Nigeria people use it to speed. The police hired to enforce it will sleep on he job, and if someone gets in trouble for breaking a law they act like the government is oppressing them.

Most accidents in Nigeria happen on good roads. The only thing stopping Nigerians from going top speed in their cars at all times are potholes.
Nigerians need a new civic culture.