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It was Biafra Army policy to evacuate towns where the battle fronts are as a safety measure to save the indigenes from stray bullets or being caught in cross fires.
These communities are usually evacuated to hinter and safer towns.
This happened in Igbo part of Biafra. People in Onitsha area were asked to evacuate their towns immediately the Nigerian military crossed the Niger River.
My family was affected by such mass evacuations. Usually living in new town was hard, they had big house in our village. But where they were resettled, the indigenes of where they were resettled tried their best, but no place like home.

What I don't understand is why Biafra and Ndiigbo are being demonized by minorities for trying to evacuate them from their towns for their own safety, when the same thing happened else where.
I have even heard stories by minorities where Ndiigbo and Ojukwu were accused of evacuating them from their land because they wanted to replace them later with Igbos after the war, and rename their towns with Igbo names, like New Onitsha, New Owerri, etc.

It's a pity that Ndiigbo and Biafra are being demonized for trying to minimize civilian casualties during the war.

For those Igbos who would want to sweep these minorities Igbophobia under the carpet, I pity you lots.
I'm a member of Ijaw language clinic facebook page, and I know what goes on there. This thread is exactly how those lots are.
You have been warned severally to leave them and focus on Igboland, but you will not listen. The stubborn fly would definitely follow the corpse to the grave.
If you like come here and claim they are Yorubas, don't wake up to the reality. Keep playing the ostrich.

knowledgeable:
Utterly rubbish!.

Any claim of ingenuity you Yorubas would claim above Igbos in this running thread will amount to null & void, until the Yorubas can proudly and unashamedly stand up to show case their culture/their ingenuity to the world as can be express through the seeking of Oduduwa, since those ingenuities/endowment can be clearly belong to the Yoruba culture.

Hiding under multitudes of ethnicities under Nigeria while arguing relentlessly with Igbos who are proudly & ready to show case to the world the beauty of their culture/ingenuity through actualization of Biafra, only shows that there are some really ugly stuff that the Yorubas are hiding under the cover of one Nigeria. It can be logically, safely to conclude, one Nigeria for Yorubas covers those ugliness/weakness and Oduduwa exposes them.

This is what exposes them.

EzeAro:
Brother we are on the same page, I'm just throwing it back on the faces of those naive minorities who contrive to blame Igbos for all their woes, some even joining with the North and Yorubas to insult us... meanwhile the same people whose behinds they kiss are the same people using their resources to wash toilet.

No need to do so.
As far as they are concerned. You are only interested in them because you want to replace the Arewa/Oodua alliance and milk them.

When you merry on their pains, you increase their susceptibility to manipulations at the hands of that alliance.

How hard can it be for Ndiigbo to pretend like the minorities don't exist. To ignore threads like this one and allow them ponder on their own miseries while we ponder on ours.

I don't mean to dictate for you what to do or not do, so pardon me if I come across as being pushy. Just can't help myself.

EzeAro:
Me complaining? Noooo we must enjoy these oil money by force

You don't merry on a neighbor pains, even if they are naive neighbors.
You let them be, if they don't want your help, and try to help yourself first.
This is why we are beseeching IPOB to jettison the minorities and concentrate on Igboland.

Crude oil is either going to run dry or become like coal. What do you think would happen by then if we remain in Nigeria?
Our lands have natural gas. We are not short of shortsighted greedy leaders who would sell us off too.
Time is ticking. We need haste. Leave the minorities, they can't be saved by anyone, focus on saving ourselves first.

EzeAro:
Make I follow my Aboki brothers laugh jare , go on Arrewa Twitter and see how they are mocking the South over basically using our oil to flaunt their wealth, basically inviting us to do our worse, even El rufai's not-so-smart son of course joined in the fun . The biggest clowns here are the "We the South South crew" who think Igbos are their problem... una never see anything, as a matter of fact since you guys want to remain and think like the minorities that you are (I mean the so called South South crew), I encourage Igbos who own oil wells to also flaunt their arrays of flashy automobiles on social media just to be petty... as una decide say Igbos be una problem, oya na o set ti go.

Crying more than the bereaved yet again.

IGBOSON1:
Post of the day!

They’re so far gone in their Stockholm syndrome that they don’t know a opportunity when they see one! I think their major problem is that the people that could reason and lead the charge for them are all wrapped up in their own selfish preoccupations....looking for the next political opportunity; next amnesty money; next NDDC contract/employment; or next opportunity for engagement as a party thug! They’re their own worst enemy!

Why are you crying more than the bereaved.
It's not cool nwanne. We need to stop this.

MetaPhysical:
Read the opening post by OP.

It has always been known that whiteman uses sampling to plot statistical data for population values.

They do not go door to door.

Your density in East is higher than the density in West.

For every square kilometer of land in East village there is a higher headcount than the square kilometer of land in West with large urban towns. What does that tell you in sampling? Mumu!

Hehe!

This one is in severe pains.

This is not Yemi kale NBS stats.

Moneywomen17:
logic but it’s 3% official but 12%? Unofficial. It was more generally accepted as closer to the truth doesn’t mean it was.

I will go with the official.

It's same as those before it.
So it's the truth anyway.

Thanks for your understanding.

Moneywomen17:
even the source u posted said while it was generally more accepted there was some undercounting estimated officially at 3% and unofficially 12%.

The under counting was for everyone.
Not specific for Yoruba.

Census with a 3% undeecounting is a success.

MetaPhysical:
If the British inflated result in North, and you concede that....why is the census acceptable at all?

You continue to open threads and make blunders.

The coin haven't dropped yet? This thread wasn't about the North.
It's about showing and rubbing in Igbo numerical superiority over Yoruba as proved in 1921,1931 and 1952.
What blunders exactly?
Better join the Bamgbose wailing line.

PVision2020:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239532495_Falsification_of_Population_Census_Data_in_a_Heterogeneous_Nigerian_State_The_Fourth_Republic_Example&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwj7wtTi0MjpAhVOx4UKHS84D6IQFjALegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw37AkBwM2K5qazCj04uljWc

Who the hell is Bamgbose? An Afonja?


This is a neutral source. Stop disgracing yourself.

https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=BZfY6O8k3PsC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=Was+1952+Nigerian+census+annulled?&source=bl&ots=yOpBhMtSr7&sig=ACfU3U3iqsbfyjUA_JuoHz9OU4xpFpImQg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjX9LDAr8jpAhWHnxQKHbANCxYQ6AEwCnoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=Was%201952%20Nigerian%20census%20annulled%3F&f=false

Asa:

Komkom
Obeama
Oyigbo


Ndoki:

Afam Uku
Afam
Afam Nta
Azusogu
Egberu
Mgboji
Mrihu
Obeakpu
Obeta
Obumku
Okoloma
Okponta
Umuagbai
Umuosi



I have listed the Asa and Ndoki towns that make up Oyigbo LGA. If you are not an indigene of any of these towns, then you are a migrant in Oyigbo. And all the listed towns are Igbo speaking.

dogheart:
Obigbo was just a market where Igbos ( no clan imparticular ) used to converge to sell their food during the colonial era. The reason why it has no particular Igbo clan name . It is not Nnewi, or Ngwa or Awka but OBIGBO meaning place for Igbo business .. There was an Obigbo even in Lagos which has become OYINGBO today . It is cos of the OYINGBO word , the Rivers state government changed the name from Obigbo to OYIGBO. Ofcourse, no government can change the name of native people. Oyigbo had no natives.. Oyigbo is also different from Ndoki . The Igbos of Oyigbo today are all migrant Igbos from all over Igbo land . Ndoki native land is just under Oyigbo lga.. Ndoki is not the Oyigbo we are discussing .

What ever you drank is strong and bad to your health.

Obiigbo was never an empty land, it belongs to indigenous Ndoki and Asa tribes of the Igbo nation. It was originally part of old East central state until in 1975 when mamar Nasir boundary adjustment commission who were determined to strip Igboland of all oil producing but Igbo speaking lands , took Obigbo away from old East central state and put it in Rivers state, where the Ijaw dominated but Igbophobic Rivers state government renamed it to Oyigbo.
All the villages and towns in the LGA belongs to Ndoki and Asa people who were separated from their kins in current Ukwa East and West LGA of Abia state by an FG hell bent on balkanizing Igboland after the war. Egbema suffered same fate, as the oil producing part was carved from East central to old Rivers state, leaving the then non Oil producing parts in Imo state.

Egbema and Oyigbo(Asa and Ndoki) because of the fact that their people are still in SE(Abia and Imo), are the only Igbo speaking groups in Rivers state who still identify as proud Igbos.

Oyigbo has nothing to do with your Oyingbo, Ndiigbo has no link with Yorubas.

In response to testimony of pro-Midwest witness, a shadowy organization called the Anti-Midwest State Movement was put forward by the Action Group. It asserted that Edos had more to fear from Igbo than Yoruba domination, and that creation of a Midwest region would expose Edos to Igbo domination.

Key emphasis on "shadowy". Meaning the panel at the Willink commission suspects their authenticity.

Typical Yoruba way, always walking in shadows trying to dent the Igbo image.

The Igbos of Midwest were not more in numbers than Urhobos, let alone Edos, how could they have been able to dominate them? Rather than accept their wrong in marginalizing minorities, they had to rope Ndiigbo in. You don't need a seer to know who was behind the shadow.

This Yoruba behavior of trying to demonize Ndiigbo didn't start today. Our forebearers were just too blind to it. They did nothing whatsoever to counter Yoruba incessant calumny against Ndigbo in the past. They left us the modern Igbo generation with too much to do.
But we are rising to the task. First we stood up to modern anti Igbo propaganda emanating from that wing, now we are exhuming the past to do what our parents failed to do.

[quote author=laudate post=52816133][/quote]Hate comments? So says the Igbo hating one,that roams NL looking to make hateful or spiteful comments against Igbo.
You represent hate.

[quote author=laudate post=52815965][/quote]Dude. There is nothing good about a slimy, Igbophobic fellow like you, who crawls around the internet looking for Igbo related topics to spread his Igbophobia.

[quote author=laudate post=52815943][/quote]Dude, even fools might be mistaken for wise ones, if they keep silent.
If only you can spare this forum of your folly by keeping silent, it will be a better place.

[quote author=laudate post=52815928][/quote]Really? Same old boring you in a new year.
Surely, you can do better.

laudate:
If you read through this thread from the beginning, you would see the areas where I have made my contributions.

What contributions exactly? Who demanded for your opinion here?
You are neither Igbo nor Anioma. So, what's your business here?

PabloAfricanus:
Sorry but do you ever have an opinion of your own?
I appreciate your wanting to contribute but do so intelligently.
I could be completely wrong in all the points I raised and I am very aware of that.
But I notice you are either cheer leading or side quoting and never for ONCE contributing any original thought, opinion, narrative or perspective to any Igbo themed thread.
Can we hear your own narrative? We are all here to learn you know.

Don't waste your time on him.
Dude is suffering from a serious rabid case of Igbophobia.

He is always on every Igbo related thread, offering Igbophobic opinions and supporting those with opinions he deems anti Igbo.
Leave him for me, I know how to handle him. He is a regular customer of mine.

laudate:
Vincenzo a.k.a pazienza a.k.a Igboid, kindly get off my mentions. Allow only those with a sane, balanced perspective to respond. Thank you!

Lol, is that the only aka you know? You probably see Pazienza in every Igbo that torments your slimy arse.

Stay off Igbo/ Igboid related topics, and vicenzo wouldn't have to quote you.
Keep dragging your slimy self into all Igbo related threads like a vulture to a carcass, and be sure to get tormented as usual.

laudate:
Hmmmnn.... here is another interesting perspective.

Nothing interesting about those heap of gabbage.
Just figments of the writer's imagination with no credible sources to back it up.
Nri history are well documented. For someone to even suggest that Nri is of Igala origin is the highest height of ignorance.
imagine the stupid term used by that writer, " the truly aboriginal Igbos'. What a stupid write up.

https://www.nairaland.com/251901/ika-people

The story of Mbiri people in the above article, epitomizes the inferiority complex issues that fueled the identity crisis in Ika we witness today. History had been distorted by great great grandfathers to fit into perceived Superior Bini culture, and then continuously passed down to generations after generations who are too ignorant to perceive a manipulation and forgery, when presented with one.
This is a real pity.

On one hand, Igbos were nonexistent in Ika lands and were recent migrants...on the other hand Ika language and traditions gave way
to a dominant Igbo presence/culture in Ika land! Make up your minds already! cheesy
The persistent confusion is so hilarious!


This was the sweetest of them all. Well put and succinct.