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VirginFinder:
ibos are supposed to be neutral, indifferent or on both sides. But by taking sides with someone who is promising you more than what the APC LASG has given you so far, you come around as ingrates, selfish and greedy.
Hence, the need for all Yorubas to rally round Ambode, the Yoruba candidate, to keep you ibos in check.

Let us watch and see ...I will remind you this

Your an idiot for calling us ingrates

Did you give us anything free that we should be appreciative

Coward leave your region and try the uncharted waters and know if you will last a year

PDP will get Lagos

Some people are afraid to stand on their own in Nigeria

They are noted for cowardice that's why they hate Igbo now I didn't call any tribe

So ignore this

khia:
That's ridiculous, you should be ashamed of yourself, so you think whites have BETTER HAIR than you, and to think it's you men that are always callng Nigerian women self-haters for wearing weaves.

That's what's called complex ..she got it ..hair

What is hair

So vane or vain

To be honest ..I don't think I will marry Yoruba for reasons like curses ..their women are so bad mouthed ..next too fetish and I am not ok with that ...I don't like dirts also ..I think they are big no for me

I won't want a woman that parties every time and buys asobi always ...I am sorry if I hurt people that my own preference and infidelity hmmmm

I will love to marry calabar woman nice cook very neat and handles a man well

But the snag is I have a wife and she is pretty

He should first of all create the job for his people in north ..what positive impact has that man ever made to his people in terms of bettering their lives

Igbo do not need jobs
Igbo need to create jobs

So he should stfu

berem:
Ochejoseph the defender of Igbos. Tell me what Jonathan has done for your own ethnic group? What has Jonathan done to improve the standard of living of your people?
Are you telling me that Igbos do not need jobs? Must every Igbo man go into business?

You absolutely have no case against Buhari.

Such a despicable and despised submission

chidiidika:
Such a pretty lady,having devils heart....smh the little girl can barely see with those eyes, talks of the wounded breast,.....women are very very heartless!!! Golden Rule should be applied.

SHE IS NOT PRETTY

SHE IS BLEACHED

HOW CAN A WOMAN DO SUCH A THING, SUCH A STANDING BREASTTTWELL STANDED AND POSSIBLE NICE NIPPLES, DOES SHE WANT TO REMOVE THE NIPPLES

O THIS IS WOMAN INHUMANITY TO WOMAN, PLEASE I NEED TO PERSONALLY MASSAGE THAT BREASTTT , I CAN TREAT HER


NNE NDO

[quote author=Kenneth205 post=30151089][/quote]will there ever be positive news from ibadan, it is either soka forest, or no toilets or no airport facility or something, or touts killing themselves


when do we hear of a positive news coming from ibadan and now they moved this junk to front page

THIS SMALL GIRL SHOULD TELL HER PAPA NOT TO BE CLOWNISH, HE SHOULD PRODUCE HIS CERTIFICATE..IT DOESNT PAY TO ENTER THE ARMY THROUGH BACK YARD


WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE DUE PROCESS


GEJ TILL BUHARI CONFESSES LORD AS HIS PERSONAL SAVIOUR

11. they are too beggerly, you meet a lady online today, next thing is send me recharge card, they are too tokenistic and confused, I think i will do with ethipoian lady so that i can drink caffinated coffee all through or jamaican, so that i can smoke weed all the days of my happy life

reporter1:
Stop fooling yourself. Nobody is advising Ibos to to do anything. Who gives a F as to what you do?

As for your phantom home ownership -how many people are paying rent to Ibos? Why do you people like to embellish yourselves? Does it really make you feel good? Are you suffering from grandiose delusion?

And which jobs are you talking about? The multinational jobs? Or you think spare part sellers are the employer of Labor in Yoruba land.
You need to get off your high horse.

FIRST THING, GO BUILD TOILETS FOR YOUR PEEPS IN IBADAN, THEN REHABILITATED THOSE AGBEROS AND OMO NILE THEN WE CAN HEAR YOU

Ikengawo:
hhahahah
They always have that lame excuse as to why they live in a slum of 4 million people. None of those ridiculous cities are older than any other city in Nigeria, they're just uglier.

YOUR CORRECT NO PLACE IN EAST IS DEVELOPED LIKE IBADAN, THIS IS TRUE...NOW READ ON ...THIS REPORT WAS JUST FEW MONTHS OLD..I INSIST THAT YOU GO TO WORK WITH G WAGON AND TO FARM WITH X5 BMW



Three houses, two toilets: Welcome to ‘Shot Put’ Republic
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Many old settlements in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, are notorious for their poor sanitary conditions, particularly the lack of toilets. ABIODUN AWOLAJA recently visited some of these areas, a number of whose residents already dread demolition.

IBADAN, if you are driving in from Lagos, Ile-Ife or Oyo, is quite a welcoming sight. Particularly in the last four years, many parts of the ancient city have been wearing a new look courtesy of the determined beautification efforts of the incumbent state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi. However, like most Yoruba cities, Ibadan is an intricate mix of the modern—some would even dare to say ultramodern—and the decidedly traditional. That the picture of relatively modern settlements like Iyaganku GRA, Oluyole Estate, Bodija, Alalubosa, Agodi GRA, and Elebu which boast of fairly good facilities contrasts rather too sharply with that of old settlements like Bere, Oritamerin and Mapo where life is harsh and sad, is no news. What may be news—and resonantly so—is that the ancient settlements have remained virtually within the primitive levels that gave them their identity many decades ago.

In many of the old communities, toilets are a pipe dream. But more fundamentally, they may need to be pulled down, like Nero’s Rome, for a new city to emerge, a task which no administration in the state has embarked on in the last three decades basically for political and cultural reasons. For one thing, it is in the ancient settlements that most of the wealthy and influential (wo)men of the city have their roots, and retaining them preserves some cultural linkages. More fundamentally, according to a large number of respondents, the political cost of such an endavour is huge. And so, figuratively speaking, the beautiful structures are not yet born, and the ugly ones have refused to die.

When Sunday Tribune visited Abebi, Ayeye, Idi Ikan, Orita Merin and Bere communities during the week, they remained remarkable for their poor sanitary conditions, particularly the lack of toilets in many households. Though successive governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) had built toilets in these communities to fill the void, they are considered by many of the residents themselves to be grossly inadequate. Worse still, none of the residents is planning to build any.

Inadequate toilets but well maintained

At Abebi, Soosi Eleja area, an octogenarian, Mrs Odunola Gesinde, told Sunday Tribune that the sanitary facility in the area, a 12-room lavatory which services hundreds of residents, was being properly maintained by the residents. She said: “The public toilet here is very fine; there was a tap attached to the facility but it is no more working. In this one that we have, there are 12 rooms, which we have divided among the houses in this area; three houses use two toilets. The men take care of the place every 15 days. We contribute N100 per house to take care of the place. The local government people from Onireke come to inspect it when it is full; they give us chemicals packaged in big gallons to put into it, so that the matter can go down, and then the pits can be filled up again.”

The 12-room toilet in question proudly carries this inscription: “Rehabilitation of a Complex of Toilet Facilities Undertaken by CASSAD (an NGO) with support from IDRC Under the Eco Health Project. Commissioned: 24-03-2005.” Apparently, the non-governmental organisation that facilitated the rehabilitation of the lavatory did not want to leave anyone in doubt about its good deed.

Each of the three houses that share two lavatory rooms has at least 15 occupants, meaning that, on the average, there are 22 persons to a lavatory pit. But the other residents who are not allocated toilets do not enjoy the luxury available to the few households (popularly called agboole) like Gesinde and Idi Igba where public toilets, located at a walking distance, provide respite.

Unlike in self-contained rooms where you enjoy privacy while on the vitally important and inevitable natural assignment, residents here grab a water kettle (known as age) and proceed into the lavatory in the full glare of passers-by and a business community. At Abebi, the facility is located close to a stall, where a popular akara seller plies her trade, but users of the toilet are, at least assured of privacy once inside the facility.

The order of ‘Shot Put’

While each of the households allocated toilets has a different key available only to its members, the inhabitants of the adjoining areas, numbering thousands of people, have no toilet facilities to use. To relieve themselves, they have, indeed, perfected a method: they do their thing in the bathroom, wrap it in cellophane bags, popularly called poly bag, and proceed to dump it in nearby drainage at dawn. Hurling human waste into drainages or bushes is styled “Shot Put” in Nigerian parlance. Indeed, as one of the residents, a bejewelled illiterate who simply identified herself as Alhaja Suliat, told Sunday Tribune: “Bo se n lo niyen, o ye ke ti jasi ke!” meaning “That’s how things are; you ought to understand!”

Mrs Adesola Jegede, another resident of the area, lamented the lack of toilets in most households. “The entire area lacks toilets; what the people do is pile up faeces and throw it away at dawn. You see, our own house used to have a toilet long ago. However, because the owner of the house objected to people from neighbouring houses continually pouring their thing into the lavatory without cleaning the place, he was killed through occult manipulations. So, my caretaker has vowed not to build a toilet because his father died on that cause. In any case, nearly all the houses in the area have now been sold. People are digging up their dead and transporting them to the farmsteads in Aromiyo sacks. When I wanted to buy a place and wondered what would become of the sepulchre in front of the house, the family members told me not to worry, promising to move their dead, because they do not want caterpillars to uproot their ancestors.”

Indeed, even for those who have access to the public toilets, the site is visited only during the day. At night, because a road divides many houses from the location of the toilet the poly bag method comes in handy, as the residents cannot go out because of the fear of robbers and vigilance group men.

In areas like Ayeye and Bere, Sunday Tribune found, the situation is even more dire. At the Bere public toilet, an 11-room facility located very close to the Bere-Oje-Gate road, Sunday Tribune found two workers, Mr Saheed Yekini and one Mrs Adetunji, who gave an insight into the lavatory needs of the area. Said Mr Yekini: “Here, there is no sharing of toilet rooms among houses. This is the only toilet in the entire Bere. There are five rooms on either side here, making a total of 10 toilets and a bathroom. These toilets serve the entire Bere community, as well as people on motion. If this facility had not been placed here, this entire environment would be littered with faeces.” The area, before the toilet was built, according to Mrs Adetunji, “was a dumping site for human waste. We had to lift the waste from here on our heads. That made it possible for us to even work here at all. Even now, the back of the toilet has been turned into a dumping site by the residents. This is done at night. We buy water; the woman who brings water is almost here. The people who use this place pay N30. If they want to have their bath, it’s N50. Urinating costs N10 only.”

Asked what would be the fate of residents who did not have any money at the time of their visit, she said:

“The residents have nothing to fear. We do not collect money from the people that we know.” On those who use the bathroom, Yekini noted “They are people returning from work, including construction workers and travellers looking for a place to take their bath.”

“What we want from the government,” said Mrs Adetunji, “ is to give us more toilet facilities in Bere. They should give us water and evacuate the waste regularly. We cannot tell the government where to locate the toilets; the government is in the best position to do that. You know that public toilets are not meant for those in the neighborhood alone; they are for everybody. Regarding those on a journey, some have even defecated on their bodies before arriving here. Such a person would say that he or she is coming from a certain place and was directed here. So, government should make facilities like this surplus.”

Need for more toilets

On the number of additional public toilets needed, she said: “Toilets cannot be too many, sir. If the government builds four more toilets for us, it is worth the effort, because it is not only Bere people that use this one. Everybody uses it; some would be in a vehicle and suddenly feel their stomach rumbling. They rush here. No one smokes igbo here. We open at 6 a.m and close at 9 p.m. Then, the users themselves have a problem. Some believe that since they have paid, they are not supposed to flush the toilet after use. But we make them to understand that it is not right. If they wake up in their own home and use the toilet but refuse to flush it, would they be able to stay in the place, with the odour? Now, even though we are buying water, we encourage them to use as much water as possible.”

“Really, there’s no one who does not know how Bere is,” said Mr Raymon Adetunji, manager of Bere public toilets who arrived just as Sunday Tribune was rounding off the chat with Yekini and Mrs Adetunji.

“The challenge we have is this: you know there are different kinds of people. As you have mad people, so do you have normal people. People give us a lot of problems here; some would even refuse to defecate in the toilet proper, but on the bare ground. It is when we get there that we discover that the place has been messed up. So, now, we make sure that once a user goes out, we go in immediately to check how the place has been used. We have to do this because there are people who abhor sighting other people’s ordure. We ourselves know how this area is; many are the times that we wash the place and apply izal (a disinfectant) to it.

“Even whenever we are leaving at night, we ensure that we give the place a thorough clean up. And when we come in the morning, we still clean up the place after it has been used. This is the only toilet from here to Oja’Ba. From here to Oje, there is only one, and from here to Ayeye, there is only one. We buy water, because there is no well here. If a borehole were available, it would solve a lot of problems. I remember that when this toilet was constructed, a well was dug. But the project stopped when the Hausas who built it could not see clearly anymore within the ground. They did not reach water level. The well was blocked when some people fell into it. There are places where a well or borehole can still be built here. What I want the government to do for me is to give me water. That would solve the problem.”

Indeed, in August 2011, about 50 houses in the six areas of Ibadan North West Local Government Area in Oyo State witnessed an outbreak of cholera claimed four lives. The Caretaker Chairman of the council, Mr Wasiu Olatunbosun, said that the epidemic was caused by the unhygienic attitude of the people living in the areas. He added: “I directed that all their wells should be chlorinated. Besides, we will sink boreholes in strategic places there to provide potable water for the people of the areas to drink. We thank God that the epidemic has been effectively checked. We saw only one casualty. In fact, about 50 houses that we visited do not have toilets. Some wrapped excreta in a cellophane bag and dropped it at their entrances. It is very unhygienic. We will continue to charge those who flout environmental laws to court.” Also, a statement by Dr Festus Adedayo, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications to Governor Ajimobi, said that the governor had immediately directed the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abdulateef Olopoenia, to visit the affected areas and ascertain the claims in order to curtail its spread.

Public toilets, public health

But then, even public toilets are a global challenge. In the words of Dr. Anthony Komaroff, Harvard Medical School: “It’s not completely irrational to worry about dirty public toilet seats. Any contaminated surface can spread infectious disease. However, the real risk of catching a disease from a clean toilet seat is almost nonexistent.

“Public rest rooms, like all public places, do present risks from infectious diseases. But those risks are not from toilet seats. Surfaces you touch with your hands — the flush handle on the toilet, the water faucet handle on the sink, the doorknob on entering or exiting the restroom — can be contaminated with germs. Your hands are very hospitable to bacteria, such as staph germs and E. coli. Your hands can pick up the flu virus, too. And then it’s really easy for you to spread those germs from your hands to your nose and mouth. From there, they get inside your body. So, always wash and dry your hands thoroughly before leaving a public restroom. After I’ve washed my hands, if I still need to grab a door handle to leave the rest room, I will then use an antibacterial hand gel.”

But the public toilets in Ibadan are mere pit latrines, and so precautions may need to be higher.

As noted by the Gallo Institute of Public Health and Nutrition, “There are several disease-causing bacteria that you can find in the toilet seat, but these bacteria will not affect you if you have a strong immune system. Some bacteria and viruses that you can find in toilet seat of public bathrooms include E.coli, streptococcus, hepatitis A virus, staphylococcus, shigella bacteria and sexually transmitted organisms. These disease-causing bacteria will not affect you if you have a strong immune system and clean your hands with an antibacterial soap after using the public toilet.

“There is no doubt that toilet seat of public rest rooms contain germs that have negative impact on your health. They are considered a health hazard and are known to cause problems like gonorrhoea or Chlamydia. However, you must understand that these disease causing viruses and bacteria survive only for a period of very short time on the surface of toilet seat. Also, germs can only affect you if they come in contact with your genital or urethral tract. At times germs can enter the body through sore or cut in the thighs or buttocks, so it is best that you cover open wounds before using public toilet.”

The solution

Delegates at the recently concluded National Conference indeed called for the enactment of laws that would make open defecation an offence in the country. A former Head of Service, Mrs Ebele Okeke, in her contribution to the debate, lamented that “Nigeria is like a big toilet, where people defecate in open places. This is due largely to the fact that landlords build houses without toilets and even where there are toilets, these toilets are converted to stores.”

According to the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF), more than 100 million Nigerians currently lack access to improved toilet facilities, while more than 45 million Nigerians defecate in the open, a factor responsible for the spread of cholera and other related diseases in the country. Thus, as part of activities marking the 2013 World Toilet Day, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, promised: “As part of efforts to promote total health in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Health will align with all relevant partners to implement appropriate interventions to ensure a clean environment for healthy living. The occurrence of cholera epidemics could be stopped if there is a mechanism to stop open defecation which will prevent contamination of water sources and food.”

The nation, Ibadan in particular, awaits Chukwwu’s mechanism. In the interim, however, regular provision of waste disposal bins and other sanitation, increased awareness on good sanitation practices, and proper management of solid waste disposal problems through public/private partnership programme (PPP) could come in handy.




http://tribune.com.ng/life-and-living/item/17173-three-houses-two-toilets-welcome-to-shot-put-republic/17173-three-houses-two-toilets-welcome-to-shot-put-republic

THESE SOUTH WASTERN PEEPS SHOULD ADVISE THEMSELVES FIRS, MAYBE THEY SHOULD TRY BUILDING BASIC FACILITIES LIKE TOILETS IN IBANDAN AND REORIENTING THEIR ARMY OF TUGS IN LAGOS BEFORE WE CAN LISTEN TO THEIR ADVISE AND ABOVE ALL SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL...


ON FRIDAY, I WAS AT ALLEN WANTED TO BUY SOMETHING, THE GIRL ABOUT 25YRS COULDNT HEAR SIMPLE PIDGNIN ENGLISH NOT TO TALK OF COMPREHENSION

THEY REALLY NEED THE ADVISE

HopeAtHand:
See baseless rants...I have decided to buy a plot of land in this Owerri thread, i am not going anywhere.Let me see what you will do about it.

I will develop my 'Property' in this thread with intention of luring Owerri girls and enjoying Oringo.Evict me from this thread if u can...foolish boy.

guardian of Monday the 19th of June published an article titled the "Ikwerre in national politics" by one Okachukwu Dibia. The writer did indeed attempt to analyse the major problems confronting the Ikwerre both politically and economically, but neglected or ignored the most important factor that has stunted the growth of the Ikwerre politically and economically in contemporary Nigeria. As an Ikwerre myself, specifically from Emohua in Rivers State I believe I am most qualified to render my observations on the problems and way forward for the Ikwerre.




Without any doubt the greatest problem confronting the Ikwerre, is the self imposed or politically induced identity crisis that has earned them the distrust of other Nigerians, and hatred of the larger Igbo nation. In order to avoid the confusion that has been unleashed by the identity crisis plaguing the Ikwerre, I took time out to do an extensive research on who the Ikwerre's are, and my findings I believe are common knowledge. During the colonial period the British clearly Identified the Ikwerre's as Igbo. The 1958 Henry Willinks commission report in a less political age also clearly identified the Ikwerre's as Igbo.

Every ethnologue report I consulted compiled by international ethnologue's free from local politics classified the Ikwerre's as Igbo. Inspite of the overwhelming evidence on the true identity of the Ikwerre, the Ikwerre leadership has continued to employ "the great lie strategy"; which says If you repeat a lie so often, it becomes the truth. However I am of the view, that the truth is constant and cannot be changed.

In considering the question of identity, there is a spiritual aspect which a lot of people tend to ignore. We all were created by God, and none of us had the luxury of choosing our race or tribe before we were born. Whatever race or tribe we are born into is the wish of the all knowing supreme God. To deny our God given identity because of some earthly politics is at best an insult to God who created us and made us who we are in the first place. How funny or Stupid would it be to see a Blackman claiming not to be black? What we the Ikwerre's have been doing is no different from such a scenario. In language, culture (new yam festival) or even as our names readily testifies the Ikwerre's could be no other people but Igbo. If the British colonialists had decided to carve out of what we now know as Nigeria, ethnically homogenous nations as is the pattern in Europe, no doubt the Ikwerre would have been part of the Igbo country.

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I believe the time has come for a new thinking among the Ikwerre leadership concerning our identity. It is obvious that whatever the leadership sought to achieve by the needless, shameful and undignified identity sham, the reverse has clearly been the case. Right from the creation of the old Rivers state, the Ikwerre's having sold their birthright for a pot of porridge became marginalized by the Ijaw. That marginalization led the Ikwerre to begin campaigning for the creation of a Port-Harcourt state. In 1996 Bayelsa state was created which automatically made the Ikwerre's the single largest majority in Rivers state, but ironically the Marginalization of the Ikwerre has continued. It is instructive to note that even though the Ikwerre's constitute the largest majority in Rivers state, they were not able to produce the Governor, largely because of the distrust they have earned from other indigenous nationalities, and even non indigenes resident in Rivers state. (Who would trust a man who denies his God given identity?).

The Ikwerre's have continued to be in political and economic wilderness both in Rivers state and nationally. There has never been any significant presence of the Ikwerre in the federal level, and that trend would probably continue until the Ikwerre leadership rediscovers their true identity and earn the trust of other Nigerians.

Common sense indicates that the Ikwerre's would be better off by aligning with the Igbo family who fortunately constitute a majority bloc in Nigeria. Things may not be too rosy for the Igbo at the moment because of the hangover of the civil war, but no condition is permanent and sooner rather than later the Igbo would have to be given their rightful place, which is a sine qua non for Nigeria's very survival. Nigeria is a nation beset with the continuing fear of disintegration. Eventually the overwhelming need to redress the Nigerian quagmire to guarantee her survival and the beginning of true nationhood will compel a honest restructuring of the Nigerian plate in every sphere, which would naturally see the Igbo regain their influence. Without aligning with the larger Igbo family, the Ikwerre can never aspire to play any prominent role in national politics now or in the future.

Politics is a game of numbers. All over the world ethnic groups strive to be the majority in order to be able to play a prominent role in national politics; it is not for nothing that census results have always been historically manipulated in Nigeria to give certain ethnic groups the majority they need to continue to dominate the affairs of state. Yet the Ikwerre leadership has continued to deceive the Ikwerre into struggling to be a minority, when they have the opportunity to be a majority by aligning with the Igbo family where they rightly belong. Whereas the Ijaw is struggling for a majority status, and have even started the campaign for 2 more Ijaw states, the Ikwerre is ironically struggling to be and to remain a minority of minorities. (What a shame!) Whether we like it or not ethnicity will continue to play a role in Nigerian politics. And the grim reality the Ikwerre leadership has to face; is that the Ikwerre's will forever be condemned to politics only at state level unless they assume their true identity and align with the Igbo nation. For instance no Ikwerreman can ever aspire to be the president of Nigeria without the backing of the larger Igbo nation. Even in the state level the Ikwerre's will predictably continue to be politically marginalized for the same obvious reasons.

There is no difference between the Ikwerre and the Isale Eko's of Lagos who are the original inhabitants of Lagos. The Isale Eko's never denied their Yoruba ancestry and have proven to be a very accommodating people, accommodating both the hinterland Yoruba and other Nigerians in general, today Lagos even without oil resources is the richest state in Nigeria. But the Image of the Ikwerre is that of a hostile, deceitful and very unaccommodating people, unaccommodating even to their own people.

The Politics Of Crude Oil:

There is no denying the fact, that crude oil is a factor in the calculations of those that sponsor the needless identity crisis. However oil is a wasting asset, and the Ikwerre must be very smart in dealing with such a situation. While it serves the purpose of those who wish to see a divided Igbo nation, it clearly does not serve the purpose of the Ikwerre in the long run. What happens in 30 or 40 years when the oil wells dry up, like the first well in Oloibiri? Or do we need to condemn our children and our grandchildren to a harsh and uncertain future because of needless greed,opporturnism and politics of divide and rule? The Ikwerre leadership must retrace their steps and walk a fine line between their Igbo brothers and whatever factors led to the identity crisis. In life what goes around comes around, and chickens often come back home to roost, we must not condemn our generation and possibly the generation after to possible retributive justice and punishment.

Ironically even those agents of the Nigerian state Who may have encouraged the identity crisis, though they may have celebrated, because it serves their purpose, yet they will still not trust the average Ikwerreman,because simply put nobody will trust a man who denies his ancestry. "It is better to deal with a trustworthy enemy, than an untrustworthy friend".

Change Will come In Our Time:

As the saying goes; "the only thing that is permanent in life is change" and it will come in our time. Evil cannot triumph, that much is certain. The Ikwerre leadership will be surprised how much they miscalculated, when the momentum for change and change itself will sweep through this land. I pray they quickly retrace their steps before that time comes.

In conclusion I wish to state that people should not deny their ancestry under any circumstances, it is not only cowardly, it is also shameful and a direct assault on God who made us who we are. One of the major reasons why Nigeria has continued to fail, is the willingness to promote fraud and deceit as the basis of statehood.

The best approach is to join forces with our Igbo brothers and fight for justice within Nigeria. By doing this, the Ikwerre Would have been liberated physically and spiritually and would be better placed to take their rightful place politically and economically in Nigeria. Only the truth can set us free!

Reference:

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ibo

guardian of Monday the 19th of June published an article titled the "Ikwerre in national politics" by one Okachukwu Dibia. The writer did indeed attempt to analyse the major problems confronting the Ikwerre both politically and economically, but neglected or ignored the most important factor that has stunted the growth of the Ikwerre politically and economically in contemporary Nigeria. As an Ikwerre myself, specifically from Emohua in Rivers State I believe I am most qualified to render my observations on the problems and way forward for the Ikwerre.




Without any doubt the greatest problem confronting the Ikwerre, is the self imposed or politically induced identity crisis that has earned them the distrust of other Nigerians, and hatred of the larger Igbo nation. In order to avoid the confusion that has been unleashed by the identity crisis plaguing the Ikwerre, I took time out to do an extensive research on who the Ikwerre's are, and my findings I believe are common knowledge. During the colonial period the British clearly Identified the Ikwerre's as Igbo. The 1958 Henry Willinks commission report in a less political age also clearly identified the Ikwerre's as Igbo.

Every ethnologue report I consulted compiled by international ethnologue's free from local politics classified the Ikwerre's as Igbo. Inspite of the overwhelming evidence on the true identity of the Ikwerre, the Ikwerre leadership has continued to employ "the great lie strategy"; which says If you repeat a lie so often, it becomes the truth. However I am of the view, that the truth is constant and cannot be changed.

In considering the question of identity, there is a spiritual aspect which a lot of people tend to ignore. We all were created by God, and none of us had the luxury of choosing our race or tribe before we were born. Whatever race or tribe we are born into is the wish of the all knowing supreme God. To deny our God given identity because of some earthly politics is at best an insult to God who created us and made us who we are in the first place. How funny or Stupid would it be to see a Blackman claiming not to be black? What we the Ikwerre's have been doing is no different from such a scenario. In language, culture (new yam festival) or even as our names readily testifies the Ikwerre's could be no other people but Igbo. If the British colonialists had decided to carve out of what we now know as Nigeria, ethnically homogenous nations as is the pattern in Europe, no doubt the Ikwerre would have been part of the Igbo country.

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I believe the time has come for a new thinking among the Ikwerre leadership concerning our identity. It is obvious that whatever the leadership sought to achieve by the needless, shameful and undignified identity sham, the reverse has clearly been the case. Right from the creation of the old Rivers state, the Ikwerre's having sold their birthright for a pot of porridge became marginalized by the Ijaw. That marginalization led the Ikwerre to begin campaigning for the creation of a Port-Harcourt state. In 1996 Bayelsa state was created which automatically made the Ikwerre's the single largest majority in Rivers state, but ironically the Marginalization of the Ikwerre has continued. It is instructive to note that even though the Ikwerre's constitute the largest majority in Rivers state, they were not able to produce the Governor, largely because of the distrust they have earned from other indigenous nationalities, and even non indigenes resident in Rivers state. (Who would trust a man who denies his God given identity?).

The Ikwerre's have continued to be in political and economic wilderness both in Rivers state and nationally. There has never been any significant presence of the Ikwerre in the federal level, and that trend would probably continue until the Ikwerre leadership rediscovers their true identity and earn the trust of other Nigerians.

Common sense indicates that the Ikwerre's would be better off by aligning with the Igbo family who fortunately constitute a majority bloc in Nigeria. Things may not be too rosy for the Igbo at the moment because of the hangover of the civil war, but no condition is permanent and sooner rather than later the Igbo would have to be given their rightful place, which is a sine qua non for Nigeria's very survival. Nigeria is a nation beset with the continuing fear of disintegration. Eventually the overwhelming need to redress the Nigerian quagmire to guarantee her survival and the beginning of true nationhood will compel a honest restructuring of the Nigerian plate in every sphere, which would naturally see the Igbo regain their influence. Without aligning with the larger Igbo family, the Ikwerre can never aspire to play any prominent role in national politics now or in the future.

Politics is a game of numbers. All over the world ethnic groups strive to be the majority in order to be able to play a prominent role in national politics; it is not for nothing that census results have always been historically manipulated in Nigeria to give certain ethnic groups the majority they need to continue to dominate the affairs of state. Yet the Ikwerre leadership has continued to deceive the Ikwerre into struggling to be a minority, when they have the opportunity to be a majority by aligning with the Igbo family where they rightly belong. Whereas the Ijaw is struggling for a majority status, and have even started the campaign for 2 more Ijaw states, the Ikwerre is ironically struggling to be and to remain a minority of minorities. (What a shame!) Whether we like it or not ethnicity will continue to play a role in Nigerian politics. And the grim reality the Ikwerre leadership has to face; is that the Ikwerre's will forever be condemned to politics only at state level unless they assume their true identity and align with the Igbo nation. For instance no Ikwerreman can ever aspire to be the president of Nigeria without the backing of the larger Igbo nation. Even in the state level the Ikwerre's will predictably continue to be politically marginalized for the same obvious reasons.

There is no difference between the Ikwerre and the Isale Eko's of Lagos who are the original inhabitants of Lagos. The Isale Eko's never denied their Yoruba ancestry and have proven to be a very accommodating people, accommodating both the hinterland Yoruba and other Nigerians in general, today Lagos even without oil resources is the richest state in Nigeria. But the Image of the Ikwerre is that of a hostile, deceitful and very unaccommodating people, unaccommodating even to their own people.

The Politics Of Crude Oil:

There is no denying the fact, that crude oil is a factor in the calculations of those that sponsor the needless identity crisis. However oil is a wasting asset, and the Ikwerre must be very smart in dealing with such a situation. While it serves the purpose of those who wish to see a divided Igbo nation, it clearly does not serve the purpose of the Ikwerre in the long run. What happens in 30 or 40 years when the oil wells dry up, like the first well in Oloibiri? Or do we need to condemn our children and our grandchildren to a harsh and uncertain future because of needless greed,opporturnism and politics of divide and rule? The Ikwerre leadership must retrace their steps and walk a fine line between their Igbo brothers and whatever factors led to the identity crisis. In life what goes around comes around, and chickens often come back home to roost, we must not condemn our generation and possibly the generation after to possible retributive justice and punishment.

Ironically even those agents of the Nigerian state Who may have encouraged the identity crisis, though they may have celebrated, because it serves their purpose, yet they will still not trust the average Ikwerreman,because simply put nobody will trust a man who denies his ancestry. "It is better to deal with a trustworthy enemy, than an untrustworthy friend".

Change Will come In Our Time:

As the saying goes; "the only thing that is permanent in life is change" and it will come in our time. Evil cannot triumph, that much is certain. The Ikwerre leadership will be surprised how much they miscalculated, when the momentum for change and change itself will sweep through this land. I pray they quickly retrace their steps before that time comes.

In conclusion I wish to state that people should not deny their ancestry under any circumstances, it is not only cowardly, it is also shameful and a direct assault on God who made us who we are. One of the major reasons why Nigeria has continued to fail, is the willingness to promote fraud and deceit as the basis of statehood.

The best approach is to join forces with our Igbo brothers and fight for justice within Nigeria. By doing this, the Ikwerre Would have been liberated physically and spiritually and would be better placed to take their rightful place politically and economically in Nigeria. Only the truth can set us free!

Reference:

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ibo

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HopeAtHand:
Can you get me girls from Owerri?

it seems your perverted, why are you so perverted, ok, i forgot no decent girl will go for you


LAZY IKWERRE MAN

HopeAtHand:
Nothing gives better joy than seeing your sisters do their thing as prostitutes in PH...They must pay their taxes in full and the leftover will be sent to your poor old mother in the village...Thats the oil company she claims to work in PH.

your stupidity has no bounds i must confess, i was thinking that you were lazy i never knew stupidity is another angle to your mumuism, you say prosti.tues, paying taxes, i laugh in etche....

okay lets say the girls makes 30k monthly on your land and pay paltry 3k monthly under progressive taxing system(I doubt if you will understand that term) due to kia kai brian of your, now they pocket 27k , now who is smart here, that is if the smart igbo girl truly declare that they made 30k not 45k

so anyhow you look at it, IKWERE PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE STUPID AND LAZY

HopeAtHand:
Tonychristopher since Ikwerres have sold PH to you, do the needful, rename our towns as you did before, afterall, you now have the right as new owner and please submit your name to Inec to contest gubernatorial and every other available public office...it is your right, failure to do so means you are a shameless coward who has no control over his property.

stop ranting, rename the town is immaterial, the town already has igbo names so why rename places like dionu, emekuku lane, igbo street to what..dude go to your LovePeddler joint..thats your place

[quote author=lalasticlala post=30142482][/quote]YORUBA JAZZ..THIS IS SPIRITUAL, THEY MUST HAVE SENT MISSILE FROM SOME PLACE IN OKITIPUPA VILLAGE

*runs away*

HopeAtHand:
Do you know majority of prostitutes in brothes in PH come from Imo state?

I personally took time to do a census over the weekend...and not surprisingly, even the ones that had Akwa Ibom accents claimed to come from Imo...this is a testament to the notion that Owerri and Imo gals are loose and not fit as wife materials

LOOK AT YOU, A LOW LIFE, THAT IS WHY I SAY THAT YOUR PEOPLE ARE LAZY, YOU ARE SO USELESS THAT YOU CANT FIND A DECENT LADY ALL YOU GO ABOUT IS SLEEPING WITH PROSTI.TUTES COS NO DECENT LADY WILL WANT ANYHING TO DO WITH A KAI KAI OGOGORO LAZY DRINKING DEY GBAM MAN LIKE YOU


YOU HAVE PROVED HOW USELESS YOU HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE, TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU TAKE CENSUS OF LOOSE WOMEM


WELL THAT IS A NORM ..MAYBE IT RUNS IN YOUR FAMILY

NOW RUN

millionaireman:
No. But you were overtly promoting sex tourism in Owerri. And I asked you how far if your little sister is found to be part of the tourism.

Okay, all your sisters married - so whose sisters do you expect to be exploited in the sex tourism you promote?

Note: if you continue to be abusive, I shall not reply you next.

AND DOES REPLYING MY TEXT CHANGE THE PRICE OF OGIRI AT EKE UKWU OWERRI


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HopeAtHand:
Yea..just returning from dey gbam, dey well, Icelandos and Greenlanders meeting and,our general consensus is that Igbos continue to pay hiked permits and levies and taxes in PH in silence and have also resolved to constantly remind Igbos that for all their contributions in developing PH they shouldn't get carried away but should save some investment for their variois towns incase it gets to the Ikwerres to deport them back to AlaIgbo

At some point I started believing there is somewhat of a mass ZOMBIEisation of Ikwerres into openly denying their Igbo brothers.


It became clear these non-Igbos were engaged in this huge scam to keep the Ikwerres docile, making it easy for non-Ikwerres and other non-Igbo groups to keep pillaging Ikwerre oil wealth, while demonising other Igbos in the eyes of their own Ikwerre brothers.


LAZY BONES, LAZY IKWERRE MAN, NOW GO AND STAND AT THE PART, LOOK AT YOU DEPORTING, YOU HAVE EVEN DEPORTED YOURSELF WHEN YOU HAVE SOLD OUT ALL YOUR LANDS, WHERE DO YOU STAY NOW, OH I FORGOT. DIOBU, WATERLINE AND THOSE YOUR SWAMPY ENCLAVE


IKWERRE MAN ..LAZY MAN