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Anybody who identifies with endsars without bring to the fore the police brutality in the east, has failed our people.

PrinceOfLagos:
The igbos are your problem out of the Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, igala and other Africa nationals participating in this protest

You did not read it or you woefully miscomprehended.

Today marks the remembrance of the endsars Lekki massacre where soldiers opened fire on Nigerian youths protesting for a scrap and/or disbandment of a killer cop unit, the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS that had hitherto been involved in widespread extra judicial practices steeped in human rights abuses including forceful disappearance, extortion, maiming, abduction, theft, arbitrary arrests, murder etc etc.

Today a number of youths across the country remember those who were killed and maimed at Lekki toll gate, main venue of the protests, exactly a year ago. Of interest to the writer is the trend among the Igbo youths to wrongly identify with the endsars movement.

Our people say that "the man who does not know where the rain started beating him will not know where it will end". Another saying amongst our people goes thus "if you do not know where you're going, at least know where you're coming from". The Igbo youths, especially those who are mainly resident outside the South East have shown with this endsars memorial that they are clueless as to where they are coming from.

At this time let me bring to your notice a vital piece of information many have forgotten or even ignorantly overlooked. As the endsars global movement raged across Nigeria about time last year it refused to ignite in the South East. Weeks went by and there was no rally or protest or recognition of the movement in the East. The reader who does not know this may ask why.

To those Igbo youths mostly outside the South east who naively identify with the endsars movement and put up the disgusting flag of the forest republic of Nigeria how many memorials have you had for the thousands of our youths and parents who have had their lives cut short by not just SARS but by every military and paramilitary body in the country. How many memorials have you had for them. How many times have you written or spoken up against the wanton extra judicial killings of innocent people by security operatives in the East. How many memorials have your colleagues from other parts of Nigeria had for Igbo youths and parents, too many to count, who have been killed extra judicially since the 70s by units of the police force, the army etc etc. How many times has police brutality on innocent Easterners made the news outside the South East. Answer this questions to yourself in all frankness and honesty. How many times have you remembered those who have been widowed, those who have been rendered orphans by security operatives. How many times have you spoken up for them.

Today, you spit on their graves by putting up a flag that has decimated thousands of innocent people in your home land. Not to make light the incidence at Lekki which stands condemned any day, but that incidence pales greatly in comparison to the accounts of police brutality in the East.


And this is what many in the south east knew and felt that made a global movement like endsars go almost unnoticed in the east. It stood as hypocritical to many, for Nigerians to suddenly wake up to police brutality and yet expect them in the South East who have been suffering it for decades with no one to listen to them, to suddenly join in. On behalf of South Easterners and Igbo people in general I asked some influential endsars conveners who kept taunting the south east to join the movement last year. I asked them, where were your voices? All went mute. They had no answer.

What I observed is that many rushed to identify with the endsars movement so as to look politically correct to their colleagues from other parts of Nigeria. They told me last year, ehn let us come together since the movement is fostering unity. You don't seek unity by selling yourself short. True unity is attained by ensuring there is equity across board. If endsars was equitable why did the conveners or the movement not hit on police brutality in the East. That would have been equity and true oneness.

To show you that your endsars movement was shallow how many times did you see other Nigerians you're trying desperately to identify with speak against police killings in the east. Even asides endsars have you ever seen Nigerians talk about police brutality against Igbos at home? Your answer is as good as mine. Yet you struggle to identify with people who do not identify with your plight or your reality. Not once during the global endsars movement last year was police brutality in the east brought to the front burner. But here you are talking about endsars. Are you doing right by your people at home? Or you think the world starts and ends in Lagos.

How can you identify with an endsars movement that would see changes in the police modus operandi but your home where police brutality walks on two legs was never mentioned. How?

Umu Igbo chuwanu amamihe maka amamihe amaka. Ụnu adizina iberibe.


I will end by repeating this adage, "if you do not know where you are going, at least know where you're coming from". Daalu nu.

I will reserve my comment for now.

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TooNoisy:
You Igbos are the ones always masturbating on Yoruba threads. Always abusing and insulting all other tribes. Let me tell you, Igbos do not have a monopoly of hatred. Other tribes tried to reason with you but your hatred for everything non-Igbo just pushed everyone away. All Nigerian tribes hate you. You guys are hated in South Africa. Let it be known that the Xenophobia we see in South Africa against Nigerians is mainly against the Igbo tribe. They hate you guys there. They hate you in Dubai, Malaysia and everywhere else you go.

Your hate is now permeating so much you have turned on yourselves. Two monarchs were killed today by IPOB. Killings everyday and everywhere. We will just let you continue to kill each other - we just keep watching. But if you try any other tribe in this country, na cane una go collect. Most of the other tribes are bigger than you sef and certainly richer in resources.

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What I'll say is that I'm surprised by the confidence this guy keeps speaking with. What does he have as per weapons? Does he have fighter jets for air cover. Arms and ammunition nko. How many does he have?

This confidence is questionable.


I just read where he said they have the capability to defend even the continental shelf


In any case they have no business revealing their faces.

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TooNoisy:
Spoken like a true gullible follower. He had to say that, knowing there was no real offer on the table. The Nigerian government just wanted to know his real intentions. And it is very clear - take control of Niger Delta oil and dominate them just as the Igbos did during the war. The Igbo domination will be worse than the Fulani domination.

He has also realized clearly that no other tribe will go with the Igbos hence the change in tune. Unfortunately for him, he will get nothing. As a matter of fact, he is seriously helping the APC government. APC might just win the November 6th election in Anambra.. why? Because the PDP and APGA followers are IPOB and they will not vote, leaving the few APC followers to win elect Andy Uba.

Unfortunately your Saint Peter Obi is caught in this web. He is only known in the South East and does not have any political relevance outside the South East. In fact, he is a non-entity outside the South East and wants to run for president. I laugh. He needs to continue saying things to excite his IPOB supporters further alienating himself from the rest of the country. On the other hand, Nnamdi Kanu will declare sit at home on election day and Peter Obi may even lose in the south east. No one takes Peter Obi seriously outside the South East, He is only know on Igbo Twitter.

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Do you know what your problem is. Your problem is that you are so taken over by the thought of Igbos you do not realize that the average Igbo does give a damn about you or your tribe. If there are a million Igbos here, 999,999 do not care about your thread or your opinion or your existence.

Yet, here you are twisting and wriggling on the Igbo case, like a possessed being.

Why do some of you like to regurgitate old discarded news? The same Nnamdi Kanu said he will take the Igbos of south east and south south only just few months ago.

Fake news. Happened at Ihiala last Sunday.

[quote author=afadi2410 post=106853207][/quote]When they were busy knacking? Are you kidding me?

They have abandoned their freedom fighter. They can betray even God in heaven.

walozanga:
Hmm u get 1st class for zooming

Lol

nickxtra:
Did u see boobi any where?

Look closer.

What we need is a separate entity outside this shithole. Recognition from Israel or any Jewish nation is secondary. Our talents are wasting away in this shithole.

Princesaha:
Na pure prank be this. It was not real ok. It was stage managed.

Stage managed with her bobi everywhere abi

DOTian:
Yaa kpôtûbaa..

Ya ka kpotukwana. The homeland should not be used a theater of a conventional war. We have done that and seen the consequences. He should not take that route.

Armed groups everywhere. This people are really pushing to be part of Biafra.

Tochiology:
Hmm! From that data, Abuja had more air traffic compared to Lagos and it's somehow unbelievable.

Again, how come Owerri's air traffic is increasing even to the extent it is higher than that of Kano inspite of the seeming insecurity in the region and the incessant seat at home orders? Does it mean that the city is more economically viable than we think? Food for thought!

Stats can really be incredible at times.

The effect of the sit at home affects daily earners more not really businesses or establishments and Owerri/Imo state is much too viable to be greatly disturbed anyway.

[quote author= post=106834318]Ibadan 4,983 [/quote]Lol

obiekunie01:

i can bet my left balls that you are the man in that stupid video.

and some of us here knows you are involved one way or the other in the various murders going on in southeast - tagged unknown gun men - that is why you are always the first to lay hands on the murder videos even before any media house hears about it.

the gods will expose you real soon.

Bolded : How did you know what I wanted to say!!!!!!!!

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Kyase:
I have been in kaduna my whole life literally and I have been to Anambra too
Now tell me what any of the states in the south east have that kaduna doesn’t?
And let me tell you, KD is more developed than Anambra( the best state in the east)

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Thrash.

Is this supposed to be a justification for the Biafran agitation to be shelved? El Rufai just typifies the average Nigerian's stupidity.

Now about security, security is a fallout of a working system. It is not a fallout of having many policemen. The safest countries have few policemen in the streets at any given time. Once more El Rufai shows himself to be just a typical Nigerian fool.

I have been down since around 2pm I heard this news. So pathetic! To make it worse I was imformed the army were the ones who set the market on fire.

SlyDev:
I think indigo people are afraid of ugm

Lol. The comments you see from Yoruba people.

My brother we are delighted with this thread you have opened.

Last time someone mentioned they were carrying out their new yam festival. No pictures from that huge Igbo event?