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Ogonimilitant:
In Ogoja alone, one ethnic group. It has more than 6 languages. Each of them dont understand one other

Talk about fuji house of commotion!

This is placing the cart before the horse! For now, i think the stay at home planned for the 30th should suffice.

investnow2013:
Diversion Of Govt Revenue: Market Union Leader Arrested In Nnewi
25 MAY 2018


WRITTEN BY AMAKA CHIBUZOR OKOYE
State government has apprehended one Mr. Obinna Okechukwu for allegedly diverting government funds into his private pocket.

Mr. Obinna Okechukwu who is the Chairman New Motorcycle Spare Parts Nnewi was said to have been the government revenue agent for the market but printed his own receipt instead of using government approved receipt, thereby diverting some of the money.

Amaka Chibuzor Okoye who witnessed the arrest reports that while handing over Mr. Okechukwu to the men of Department for State Services the Commissioner for Trade, Commerce, Markets and Wealth Creation, Dr. Christian Mmadubuko, said that information has been filtering to the Ministry that Mr. Okechukwu has been dubiously collecting illegal revenue on behalf of government, issuing fake receipt without remitting the money into government coffers.

Dr. Mmadubuko stated that Mr. Okechukwu claimed that he has paid in ten million naira into government account and still have about seven million naira and admitted that he stopped other members of the Market Executive from being involved in revenue collection with a promise to settle them with the money generated and stated that full investigate will be carried out by security agencies to help expose those who divert government funds.

The Commissioner warned revenue agents to know that government will not tolerate sharp practices, rather they should remit to government coffers what they collected and disclosed that they have prosecuted about ten market leaders and recovered all diverted money back into the government coffers.



Narrating his side of the story, Mr. Okechukwu said he has been using the receipt to collect tax which every other market in Nnewi is using, alleging that a particular informant fabricated the story which led to his arrest as he has paid ten million naira within three months in office.

It's these thieving bastards that are responsible for the relatively poor IGR returns in the state. They should lock him up and melt the key!!

horsepower101:
After all the cheating and injustice, today peace airline is expanding massively and is about to make Enugu airport its hub.

Even an imo state man ( I forgot his name)owns a major airline in Swaziland.

Igbo progress can never be stopped. We are not regular Africans that you beat down and they remain in the ground forever.

That's Aghalieaku Airline

prettyzee11:
I don't understand, is it for cars?

Hehehehe

What did you think it was for before....cooking or wanking?

I think the silly posts above yours confused you a bit as to the actual use of the lubricant!

sholatech:
Can Betcy erode Dangote's Market share?? Fingers crossed.

Nobody is looking to erode nobodies market share.

Dangote should maintain his lane while Ibeto maintains his own lane, and everyone will be happy!

sarrki:
Shut up

Who is caging who

Ipobs are the problem

Stop all this your no make sense post

No...you shut da fuc/k up!!!

You sit there pretending not to know what Ibeto went through in the hands of the gov't and monopolistic-minded adversaries!

They're doing a number on INNOSON as we speak! So yet again, you shut up!!!

The foetus isn't doing anything its mother didn't do!

It's none of your business!

ISLAMBAD:
What's this one saying ?

This one has refused to call a spade, rather he keeps beating around the bush just to be politically correct..
Average IBO man wants nothing but total balkanization of this rotten contraption , but politicians keep sabotaging it for their own egocentric benefit. Some of them believe that once this country is balkanized, majority of them might fizzle away from political scene . Then the mischievous ones among them will keep shouting "restructuring" like lunatics just to save face while some gullible southerners are buying such useless idea.
What are you restructuring,?, the same restructuring Ojukwu clamoured for @ Aburi which Gowon rejected hence the civil war..
Even those that are clamouring for restructuring have done practically nothing about it other than hinding under their keyboards to clamour for their own restructuring .. Funny enough than those clamouring for the so called restructuring are quick to criticize IPOB for their protest of independence why "restructuring" chanters are doing their restructuring protest behind the closed

Obiano should go and hide his face

Thank you bros! What he have here is a classic case of burying your head in the sand hoping your problems would go away!

It seems they only chant this 'restructuring' mantra just to take some of the wind out of the sails of IPOBs demand for referendum! They want to make it look like there's a 2nd and much preferred option available to us.

Now after the effort, time and money wasted on that jamboree on Monday, everyone has gone back home and it's business as usual!

Even if, by some form of divine providence, the polity is restructured, the core Muslim north with their unfair numerical advantage in states and LGAs will ensure that whatever is agreed would be so watered down and insignificant to be of any use to anyone down south: they'd still have same unfair advantage in number of states/LGAs, still be leeching off the oyel and gas in the south, still ensure all the critical ministries, depts, institutions and security outfits (like the army, police, aviation, ports, customs, NNPC, etc) are in the exclusive list where they can still control and keep an eye on things, and continue in the quest of holding down the south so they don't develop too much and leave the north for dust!

CAPSLOCKED:

LOL,
IS THAT HOW PEOPLE ARE DECLARED WANTED IN YOUR VILLAGE? BY GOING TO LOOK FOR THEM IN THEIR HOUSES?

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR REACTIONS THE LAST TIME HE WAS PICKED UP AT HIS PREMISES?

HE SHOULD JEJELY GO AND PRESENT HIMSELF BEFORE THE MEDIA MAKES A MESS WITH THIS SITUATION.

You're not making any sense!

My point is, have they exhausted all possible avenues of arresting him before rushing to sensationally declare him wanted? The courts can declare him wanted only after going to effect arrest at his home or office and he is not found there!

So because of what happened last time when police went to his home to arrest him, it therefore means that he would be declared wanted in perpetuity, since the police are 'scared' of the reaction that would follow if they went to his home or office?

Have they tried his house or business premises before rushing to declare him wanted?

This is a brilliant presentation by the secretary of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Uche Okwukwu. He's Ikwerre by the way!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d4VwLVVXpA

spyder880:
More pictures from Umuahia. .......

I say it as it is! Umuahia in particular, and Abia in general is a huge disappointment! These recent pics of Umuahia have absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever!

These peoples arrogance is breathtaking! I suppose all those millions that have lost their jobs are lazy as well?

And just what is it with these people calling hapless Nigerians lazy all the time? I just don't get it!

Let everyone answer their papa name, only then can we separate the men from the boys and know just who the 'lazy ones' are!

Strikethem:
Yes, I care for them, that's is why I will always refer to Robert Goldstein 's letter. All your blackmail against awolowo is total futile. The same way you people have been crying victim of how how they ceased your properties in Lagos. Of which many of you that are truthful here have said how they returned their properties, including money for rent. How come you did not ask me who Robert is to ojukwu. And why he wrote that letter n resign from working with him? Now, if I bring the story written by the son of the land in midwest, you that asked for it will still call it lie. Was Midwest ever being part of East before the war. Why did you people like covering your atrocities and cry victims about yours. Is it cos of defeat or what. If you people had won, would all this cries happens. To know the atrocities of your soldiers against innocent n defenseless citizens of the people of Midwest. Go and read Midwest invasion of 1967.
Also see these below
https://www.nairaland.com/2505533/attrocities-biafran-soldiers-during-civil#36653428

https://www.nairaland.com/3833712/midwest-invasion-benin-delta#57081478.

No matter how you people cry victim, we have the history.

Honestly, you guys are so despicable and vile!

In your attempt at revisionism and trying to portray a people whose only 'crime' is that they're sick and tired of sharing the same country with scum, you resort to all manner of tall tales concocted in your lab of propaganda and falsehood!

How come the reports of so called Biafran 'atrocities' in your first link are being made known by a man who in all likelihood wasn't a participant in the war and who sounds like he's cut from the very same cloth as Itse Sagay (ie, dislikes Igbos)! I scanned your first link looking for the independent/neutral source of the authors allegations but found none! Probably he either imagines the stuff he wrote, or he was told so by another equally insecure bigot!

If such atrocities were actually committed by Biafran soldiers, doesn't it stand to reason that the federal gov't of the day would have made capital out of it to show to the whole world Biafran 'aggression' and 'wickedness'? This would have been a surefire way to win even more Midwesterners over to their side, don't you think? Wouldn't there be newspaper reports on such 'atrocities' that can be referred to or quoted?

Instead, what we have (your second link is proof of this as well) is someone, twenty years after the uncivil war, waking up in the morning and sitting down in their study to cook up a yarn worthy of the Pulitzer prize for literature!

Given how evil the federal gov't of the time was (the fulani were actually pulling the strings behind the scene...forget that dumb christian called Gowon being HoS), it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility to suggest that they actually carried out a couple of atrocities in the Midwest themselves and then turned around to blame the Biafrans!....They're that devious!! It's a tried and tested technique that's still in use even till today where you see mercenaries, bandits and foreign terrorists wearing the Nigerian army uniform to commit unspeakable evil on civilians (most of whom are christians and middle-beltans)!

Here are a few INDEPENDENT links on the Nigerian atrocities in Biafra...not conjecture, tales-by-moonlight, or malaria-induced hallucinations!:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/asaba-massacre/A4F701A1F1228255ECFF10E4DC8375A1



http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/27th-december-1968/10/britain-and-biafra-the-case-for-genocide-examine

The Government has not thought it necessary to underline that the last big arms agreement was accompanied by a U0 million interest-free loan to the Nigerian government (ostensibly for telephones) and that to all intents and purposes

we are giving these arms to the Nigerians. The only other justification which I have heard ad- vanced by ordinary people with " an awareness of what is happening is that if we do not support the Nigerians in their efforts to crush Biafran

nationhood and extinguish as many Ibos as are necessary for this purpose, then we shall lose our investments in Nigeria, variously estimated at between £200 million and £1.000 million.

Although photographs of the atrocities being perpetrated in Biafra have appeared in most newspapers, the general impression given by the captions and news coverage is that the children are starving to death as the result of a famine brought about by the war. Not a single newspaper has seen fit to point out that the children are dying as the direct and in- tended result of a siege which is supported by the British government, by the official opposi- tion party and by very nearly every Common- wealth correspondent in Fleet Street.

However, since the failure of the 'quick kill,' Nigeria has returned to a siege strategy. Possibly this siege is intended to last only as long as is necessary for the Nigerians to secure another massive arms build-up, but the indications are otherwise. A siege is far cheaper and less dangerous to the fragile structure of Nigerian unity. Anybody can now see that a siege has no hope of working (at any rate until three quarters of the Biafrans are dead) and anybody at all interested in the matter is now in a posi- tion to decide that the only logical intention behind the resumption of siege tactics is a genocidal one. Visitors to Nigeria invariably come away convinced that no such intention

https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/nigeria-civil-war/

Atrocities (1966-1970)

The first phase of violence occurred from May 29 to September 29, 1966, when organized killings of Igbo communities took place in northern and western Nigeria. The ancestral land of the Igbo is in eastern Nigeria, but communities lived in northern areas as well. The traditionally northern ethnic communities resented the Igbo for dominating commerce and for their perceived desire to become the new rulers of independent Nigeria.[i] The proximate cause of the first wave of inter-communal violence seems to have been a January 1966 military coup led by a small group of junior southern (and primarily Igbo) Nigerian officers, which led to the killing of several prominent northern politicians.[ii] In the months that followed, ethnically targeted attacks accompanied by mob violence unfolded in three main waves throughout the northern and western regions. The first and third wave targeted Igbo civilians living outside the east. Between those waves soldiers in July 1966, there was a counter-coup, during which Igbo officers and men were systematically slaughtered.[iii] The extent to which Nigerian state officials organized and coordinated the killings remains disputed.[iv] General Yakubu Gowon, named Nigerian Head of State following the counter-coup, spoke out against the anti-Igbo violence, but the national government failed to assert its authority to effectively end the killings. Though death tolls have not been well documented, it is estimated that a minimum of 3,000 and a maximum of 30,000 Igbos living in northern Nigeria were killed during these attacks.[v]

chernest2002:
They killed him because he have no metal weapons, let them kill bokoharam and herdsmen then i will know they are real army and not cowards.

You do have to wonder at the devilish mien of some people!

They're actually happy that Buhari sent his fulani soldiers to go and abduct and possibly murder Mazi Kanu and his parents! I hope all can begin to appreciate why many of us Igbo are not comfortable sharing the same country with these so called humans?

It doesn't bother them that Buhari couldn't resort to available avenues via the rule of law and the constitution to deal with the 'IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu problem', but instead saw extra-judicial means as the only way!

In a way, i blame Mazi Kanu for underestimating just how evil and medieval-minded the people he was up against are! These scum would resort to anything, even spilling blood, to protect their ATM that is 'one Nigeria'!

HtwoOw:
Flog a goat right now , it will retuen to where you just flogged it ...


Won't say more

Please, don't say more! You're saying gibberish!!

Bastards are so afraid to see Ndigbo go that they're even prepared to contravene sections of the constitution that guarantee free speech, freedom of association and freedom to protest any perceived injustice!

True-true, Nigeria na zoo!

I guess this is just a little warning to OBJ, telling him in code to be careful....that he's been running his mouth a lot lately, and that they're quite prepared to 'treat his fuc/k up' if he doesn't watch it!

hucienda:
1914?

Nigerians know the genesis of their problem - and got no chill on Lugard.

Bros, i think you'll find it's just the southern part of Nigeria that shares this sentiment!

The Middlebelt, on the other hand, would be thanking their lucky stars!

Strikethem:
Which truth, you mean truth from ipob book to ipob like you? If he's saying the truth, why didn't he talk about how biafram soldiers molested, raped and killed people of Midwest, why did he not talked about the letter written to ojukwu from Robert S Goldstein about how ojukwu was diverting food mentioned for women n children to his soldiers n leave the women n children to die. Truth my foot.

Far be it from me to want to interrupt the back-and-forth you're enjoying with Horsepower, but could you corroborate that your claim of Biafran soldiers molesting, raping and killing (by killing i mean killing of noncombatans) in the Midwest?

On the accusation of Ojukwu diverting supplies: seeing that the use of starvation as weapon of war was the brainwave of Awo (apparently, conventional warfare wasn't getting them anywhere, despite all the outside help from Arab nations and the U.K, so he had hoped to get at the soldiers via starving their women and children)....since Awo initiated this wicked policy, don't you think you should first start by questioning the accuracy of his moral compass before accusing Ojukwu (that was fighting a war of survival for his people) of denying his people food?

All of a sudden, someone that sees nothing wrong in Awos' policy of starvation, shooting anything that moves and lining up all the young men in Asaba to be summarily executed....all of a sudden, you're now caring for Biafran women and children!?

Throwback:
But it was clearly stated from the evidence you supplied, that it was a corrective slot allocation that has now balanced what was previously skewed to favour the South by the Jonathan regime and has now aligned with the federal character principal you seek to defend.

It simply means the Jonathan regime with a Southerner as head of DSS, ensured more Southerners were employed based on "Merit". Now the Buhari regime with a Northerner as head of DSS, ensured more Northerners were employed based on the same "Merit".


So what exactly is wrong that the federal character you love so much has now been balanced?

We are a nation of hypocrites, nepotists and tribalists. And it shows with every regime since the return to democracy, except the Obasanjo regime.

Please just zip it!

Pray tell, what 'corrective measures' have been taken in favour of the SE? Or you feel from the late 60s to date that we've been treated as equals with others...esp' the other two legs of the tripod?

When your god is now called a nasty, nepotistic bigot only interested in the core muslim north, you go begin dey vex!

Banmeallday:
That elder and king is also there to waste time and to keep his “subjects” subjugated in the British corporation called Nigger Area so it’s good for him...


By the way, what type of summit is this. Is it in an open field or market that you will be talking about something serious? How can one side of this quack stadium hear those from the other side?

The biggest problem and obstacle that IPOB actually face is that a good section of those they are fighting for see themselves as Nigerians and are the only NIGERIANS that exist, because Hausa-Fulani and/or Yoruba see their tribe and even religion before they see Nigeria. Nigeria for them is only a concept to enrich themselves and have something to further their life or lifestyle, while stupid Igbo and minorities actually see themselves as “Nigerian” and thus will deny their history or even themselves...

What the hell is actually wrong with Ndigbo you ask, well you see in the pictures a lost, confused, orphaned, and corrupt society.

How things have fallen apart for the once mighty

My sentiments too....unfortunately!

Ahmedhussain3463:
nnamdi kanu is a common criminal.if jonathan had won kanu wouldn't have rise.

IPOB gained prominence and won more converts mainly b'cos of Buharis' nepotism and wickedness towards Ndigbo! They had existed long before 2015, but didn't have as many followers back then.

Mazi Kanu is my hero and has many admirers!

Smarkie:
it's a summit organised by ohanaeze ndigbo to discuss the faith of the southeast in the restructuring of the country(not for the whole country as reported by the op)

Then why is Chief Clark there...or am i missing something?

Bede2u:
As the picture below shows, the six geopolitical zones need to become six authonomous regions, with an elected government. Other reforms can be in the following forms;
1. A premier should be elected for the six regions. The 774 LGA chairmen should become regional legislators. The top traditional rulers from each region should form regional House of Chiefs (equivalent of Senate). The 36 states should be federating units within each region, the 3rd tier of government and as presently organised.

2. The resources found anywhere within the land border of the six regions would belong to the regional government. It would be theirs to exploit and share among their federating states. The entire resources found in Nigeria's territorial waters would belong to the Federal government. It would be theirs to exploit and utilise entirely for the funding of federal budgets. There would no longer be monthly allocations given to any state or region.

3. Until offshore oil finishes, taxes would only consist of state taxes and regional taxes. Taxes should seek to take much more from the rich (Dangote, Adenuga, Elumelu etc) than it currently does.

4. There would be a federal police, regional police and state police. All federal roads would belong to the regional government. All items on exclusive list (with exception of Military, Foreign affairs, CBN, Customs and Road safety) would be brought to the concurrent list so that Federal, Regional and State government can be involved as well.

5. The federal government would use its resources to develope Abuja, the FCT. It should also spend some resources on Special Economic Zones such as Lagos, PH and Kano

6. The regions should have authority to develope regional symbols such as flags, coat of arms and regional anthems. They should also be allowed to negotiate directly with foreign governments on Economic and cultural issues only.

For you to still want to hold on to the 774 LGAs, i'm guessing you're a northerner.

And besides, there's no restructuring that will be done without giving people a choice as to which region state they want to belong to. Right now, we have a situation where people were told by the military (and a few scheming politicians) which region/state they should be in. Freedom to choose means just that...freedom to choose!

Kingsley10000:
ipob want referendum not restructuring

I don't know why people are pretending not to know this. What are they afraid of...that their so called 'one united, peaceful and egalitarian Nigeria' can't survive the rigours of a referendum? But i thought they're convinced Ndigbo in particular and Nigeria in general love Nigeria so much and can never be caught dead voting to go it alone!

This useless jamboree will go the way of all the other useless and deceitful ones done in the past!

ahidjo:
Buhari hates Igbos but he is constructing roads and bridges that those that loved you refused to do in 16 or 6 years. See logic and madness. That's exactly the point I'm making

Dude, don't flatter yourself! You've not made any point right from the beginning of this useless thread!

You Buhari otimpkus always like to make noise that he's doing this and that, that GEJ /PDP didn't do. Besides the fact that GEJ did a million times more for Ndigbo than Buhari could ever dream of doing....besides this, you actually think Buhari has a choice not to do anything in the SE? He doesn't have a choice, even though i know if he has his way he'd deal with us even more than he's presently doing and ignore the SE completely!

35824L:
I even believe she was the one who convinced her PhD hushand that "stealing is not corruption"

I think what GEJ was alluding to was the narrow definition we have of what corruption is in Nigeria. There's more to corruption than just raiding the treasury.

Other forms of corruption would include:

1) falsifying your age to stay longer in the civil service.

2) overlooking a more qualified candidate for a job, so you can employ your kinsman.

3) a randy, pot-bellied old fart taking advantage of a vulnerable young girl looking for a job.

4) greedily cornering all big-ticket projects and investments to ones region, while others are left to settle for leftovers.

GEJ didn't get across what he meant to say quite well. Maybe because it was a live unscripted interview and he was speaking off-the-cuff. However, his enemies saw an opening and pounced....capitalising on this to spread the lie that he supports corruption.

doctokwus:
Why are they scared?
I thought they have been going round saying Buhari is "undefeatable" and would win by a landslide?Now they are getting scared.
Lying,misery producing,incompetent bigots of a presidency.

Looks like they've read the handwriting on the wall! All of a sudden, they're not as cocky as they used to be!

dannytoe:
so it took a whooping 56yrs to inaugurate a new fire service in a state, i wonder how yrs it will take Ipobians to catch up Lagos in development transmission.

Well you can stop wondering. Just 5 years after they get their independence from a stifling, archaic and leeching 'one Nigeria', i'm ready to vouch that Biafra (or whatever else name they choose to go by) will not only overtake your darling Lagos, but would be the beautiful bride and pride of the black race!

It says a lot about you that Lagos, of all places, is the standard you think others should aspire to!

Kennyprince:
the igbos ve no Voting population and so who they vote wont make difference

Fine! Agreed!!

Now you can leave us the hell alone, and not keep trying to send us on a guilt trip saying your god has done this and that yet those 'IPOD miscreants' don't want to be grateful!