We Are IGBOS

We Are Igbos

Every Igbo MUST read this
ALIYU GWARZO SAID:
"The problem with you Southerners is that you can never understand the north. We are a mystery to you and you cannot comprehend us despite all your boasting that you are better than us.
You claim to be educated but in fact you are uneducated and uncivilised. What do you know about education and what has it done for you?
We Fulani toss a small bone to you from our table and you betray and fight each other like dogs for it. You crawl before us and beg us for crumbs.
That is your lot in life. You are nothing more than beggars. Cowardly and contended slaves!
Just like your fathers served us, so you shall serve us. Just as you serve us, so your children shall serve us. And just as your children shall serve us, so their children shall serve us.
We are born to rule. Leadership is our blood. No-one in this country can stop or change it. No-one can touch us. Allah has given us Nigeria. It is gift to our forefathers from him.
Our great grandfather Shaik Osman Dan Fodio and the Mujahadeen fought for it. Our grandfather the Saurdana, Sir Ahmadu Bello expanded our borders and frontiers.
Our father President Muhammadu Buhari has come to complete the job and he is doing very well.
You see the most effective chains are the invisible ones. We already have you in those chains but you just don't know it. We took our power back in 2015. We will not release it to southerners or unbelievers again. Not in the next 100 years!
It is true that we came from Futa Toro and Futa Jalon many years ago and conquered the north. Now every inch of it belongs to us.
Every Fulani, whether from Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Cameroon or anywhere else is our brother and has a right to be here with us. We are Fulani before Nigerian and our allegiance is to our Fulani brothers all over West Africa more than you.
Now we will conquer south and we do it in the name of "one Nigeria". In that "one Nigeria" we shall remain the masters and you shall remain the slaves!
None of you are going anywhere. Nigeria will never break. We will not allow it"- ALIYU GWARZO
FEMI FANI-KAYODE RESPONDS:
"The problem with you is that you have allowed your delusions and lust for power and control to get the better of you. You and those you speak for are truly lost.
You threaten and boast as if you are God, forgetting that He alone has the final say. You are not the first Fulani to speak like this and you will not be the last. A man called Hassan Kontagora said similar things many years ago and where is he today? The south is still standing and despite all we are not yet conquered!
With apologies to William Shakespeare's Macbeth, permit me to say this: yours is a sorry tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!
I read your words and I shook my head in utter disgust. Such insolence! Such arrogance! Such hate! If you are incapable of learning from history are you also incapable of learning from the ancient scriptures and the Holy Books?
Can satan defeat God? Can injustice prevail against justice? Does the suffering and captivity of the righteous last forever? Can the children of God be enslaved or subjugated in perpetuity?
Can our God ever abandon us and hand us over to you? Can darkness overcome light? Though we may weep through the night does our joy not come in the morning? Is our God not faithful and is the vision not for an appointed time?
Your threats and boasts make me laugh.
Is this not the way King Sennacherub of Assyria boasted before King Hezekiah and the children of Israel at the gates of Jerusalem? Do you believe that our God, the God of Hezekiah, is dead?
Is this not the way that Goliath boasted before David? Do you think that our God, the God of David, is no longer alive?
Hear this and hear it well: as long as Jesus sits on the throne you will never conquer southern Nigeria! You can try but you will continue to fail.
And neither do you own the north. You only think you do and, as was the case with Icarus the Greek, your inordinate ambition, crass and inappropriate arrogance and hubristic pride will lead to your nemesis.
I make bold to say that hell will freeze over before we bend the knee and bow before you and before you have your way! Death would be preferable to such an ignoble capitulation!
You have the nerve to talk about education and civilisation yet the bitter truth is that you are an uneducated almajiri whose ancestors were still mounting and riding camels and donkeys whilst mine were at the best universities in the world.
My great grandfather was at Furrough Bay College in Sierra Leonne which, at that time, was part of Durham University. Where was yours?
My grandfather was at Selwyn College, Cambridge University. Where was yours?
My father was at Downing College, Cambridge University. Where was yours?
My brothers were at Downing College, Cambridge University and Georgetown University respectively. Where were yours?
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I was at SOAS, London University and at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Where were you?
I really do not know what education or civilisation you are referring to because you have neither of the two.
You, your forefathers and your successors are still living in the stone-age, riding camels, loving and worshipping cows, stealing other people's land in the name of cattle-herding, butchering your fellow-human beings and slaughtering your compatriots.
I ask you this: who is more educated and civilised between me and you and between mine and yours? Do you even know the meaning of these words?
The truth is that we are not one and we can never be one. The difference between us is like the difference between night and day.
We love but you hate. We seek the light but you seek the darkness. We believe in life but you believe in death. We delight in peace but you delight in war.
We crave for progress, stability, security and prosperity but you lust for anarchy, chaos, bloodshed, destruction, terror, conquest, power and the perpetual domination and subjugation of others.
I ask you again, who is more educated and more civilised between you and I and between your people and mine?
Can there be any fellowship between light and darkness? Can there be love between the sons of God and the sons of Belial?
Can there be peace between the serpent and the lion?
Can there be harmony between the captor and the captive?
Can there be understanding between the oppressor and the oppressed?
Is it any wonder that millions say that our country must either restructure or break?
Is it not obvious that our claim of national unity is an illusion and that it is bogus and false.
Nigeria is not one, has never been one and will never be one unless and until we firstly learn and accept the basic and fundamental principle that all men, regardless of race, religion and circumstance of birth are equal before God and secondly that we must restructure and devolve power from the centre to the six regions and zones.
Failure to do this will eventually result in the implosion and violent break-up of the country sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Why? Because no matter how hard you try oil and water do not mix, because slave-masters do not remain slave-masters forever and because slaves do not remain slaves in perpetuity.
It is true that the ancient boundaries cannot be broken but that does not mean that they cannot be altered and reset."- FEMI FANI-KAYODE.
The Igbos Are Too 
Wise And Industrious

1The Igbo man is that man that will leave his Father's land.... Come to your Father's land and turn you into his tenant.... Peacefully ooooo
2.  The Igbo man doesn't like so much noise, if you're not talking money.... You're making noise... He believes in "Ego n'ebi okwu"...
3. The Igbo man goes to Obodo oyibo. He doesn't know anybody there. Give him 6 months, he will start sending cars back home.
4. The Igbo man can wear slippers, use Nokia torch phones and may even be riding ladies machine but the figures that is in his bank account will be enough to write a full maths textbook.
5. The Igbo man gets rich. Goes to the village, picks village boys, trains them in business, settles them, the boys become rich, go to the village and do the same thing..... It's It's not magic..
6. The Igbo man, where you see nothing, he sees market. You're looking at an evil forest, he's looking at an estate, you're looking at a village girl, he's seeing a sales girl. You're looking at shit, he's seeing manure.
7. The Igbo man is not a ritualist. He's the man that kept going when others turned back. He's the man that enters a country where they say nobody survives. He's not a risk taker, he's Risk itself!!
8. The Igbo man loves 'Njakiri' (healthy jests) no matter how rich you're, if your mouth is not sharp, you will always be a subject of Laughter among your peers especially in "ime ahia" or Umunna meeting"
9. The Igbo man believes in Training his children properly with good morals no matter how wealthy he is.... He will still nurture you to stand up for yourself because he understands he won't be here forever.
10. The Igbo man is not lazy.... He toils day and night in other for his children not to go through what he went through...
11. The Igbo man wakes up with money in his mind.... That's why they don't greet "Good morning".... They greet "Money nwannem"
12. The Igbo man Prefers a Customer to a girlfriend..... He can walk away from any girlfriend because a particular customer came to the shop...still comes back treats his woman like a queen for walking away to the customer...
13. The Igbo man knows how to do "Uto Nwanne" They love and appreciate themselves in diaspora.... That's why an Igbo man can stand and spray a friend 2million naira.... Because they believe that "ihe inyere nwanne gi but ngaa jidere m"
14. The Igbo man speaks Oral igbo..... If igbo man sings praises to you as his wife in dialect, you will melt and melt again
15. The Igbo man believes in "Iru ulo" (going back home) .... No matter how busy an Igbo man is, he must take his family back home at times.
16. The Igbo man believes in "biri kam biri"... Live and let live... He obeys the rules of your land. Just allow him do his business, make his money and go... He can even marry your daughter just to have his way thereby creating wealth for your family too..
17. The Igbo man, when he enters an occasion, he doesn't need your food or drinks to be happy... He only needs the MC to recognize him and hail him by his titles maka na ona agba mbo...he works hard.. ife emebezia
18. Finally Any country you enter and you don't see The Igbo man..... Just know that you're no longer on earth, you are at underworld... Vamus..
19. The Igbo apprenticeship system have produced more millionaires than the entire university system in Nigeria
God bless igbo indigenes.ABUM ONYE IGBO,ABUM NWA AFO IGBO ONYE ORAIFITE SIMBAMAN AM NEVER APOLOGISING FOR IT.

Social Thought: 

MR. Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo,

 GCFR, Ph.D. Speaks out on the Igbo Question

“Unfolding why Igbo are ahead of other tribes in Nigeria Former President of Nigeria, Chief Obasanjo has revealed reasons why Igbos are ahead of other tribes in Nigeria. It will be a task impossible to actualise for the Igbos, to follow the Yoruba’s Ideology. The Igbos are more republican by nature, which is why it is very difficult for you to tame such a tribe.

From the extensive research I did on the three major tribes, I find out that the Igbos are the most westernized, most enterprising, most astute, most dynamic, most intelligent (smart), and the most technically gifted tribe found among the black race. The Hausa/Fulani and the Yorubas have limitations. But an Igbo man doesn’t see any limitations.

An average Igbo man is highly competitive, unlike the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani. While the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani had kingdoms which enabled the British to infiltrate their territories easily, the Igbos on the other hand, had what could be called Chiefdoms” autonomous Communities. These structures made it very difficult to tame the Igbos.

It took the British just 9 months to tame the North and South West but almost 30 years to be able to tame the Igbos. The British had to send a team of anthropologists to the South to understudy the Igbo because, they (the British) acknowledged they hadn’t being up against a black race with such depth and intelligence coupled with the gut to confront the whites and learn from them so, so fast.

While a Tinubu, can have unrestricted influence over the Yoruba tribe, something you can only find mostly among blacks and some poor nations on earth today, an Igbo man can never be tamed by the ideology of one man unchecked, no matter how highly placed he or she is.

That’s why the Igbos are very successful no matter where they find themselves. They don’t believe in putting limitations on their path. You can only find such similarities among the Europeans, the Americans, and developed Asian tiger nations. A Hausa/Fulani man sees Kano as his world. A Yoruba man sees Lagos as his world. An Igbo man sees the world as his Village!”

WHILE YOU RUN ABOUT CLAIMING DELTA-IGBO,

OTHER NIGERIANS KNOW YOU AS IGBO AND SHOULD

THE TRIBAL CARD BE PLAYED, WOULD TREAT YOU AS ONE

By Okoyele C Neddy

I always get stupid comments/questions as “Neddy, shey you be Delta? Why you dey carry Igbo matter for head? You be Delta-Igbo not Igbo”.

Honestly, am fed up of the stupid thinking of both the so-called “Delta-Igbos” and the “main Igbos”. Foolish people, all of them! When a Fulani man is from Gombe state in north-east Nigeria, he doesn’t say, ‘am Gombe-Fulani’ or ‘am north-east Fulani’. Likewise, a Yoruba from Kwara or Kogi, would never say, ‘I’m middle-belt Yoruba’, he just says “omo o’dua lemi”.

These people claim brotherhood beyond the imaginary boundaries of state and regions but encourage you to divide yourselves along those lines and you all in unmatched foolishness agree to be divided and even fight to be addressed as such.

Please, Nzeogwu, yes Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, is from Okpanam in present day Delta state(then mid west before it was in Bendel

Okpanam, is a neighboring town to mine, Ibusa(anglicized Igbo uzo). However, it is well known that his coup was led by an Igbo man, being himself. During the genocide, Asaba, another town bordering mine in the present day Delta state, was deprived of men, they were all gathered and slaughtered. Why? Simple, they were Igbos.

While you run about claiming Delta-Igbo, other Nigerians know you as Igbo and should the tribal card be played, would treat you as one, but when they want to deceive you to get something from you, they say you are Delta-Igbo, and you foolishly swallow their crap.

Dumb-wits! Those ones across the Niger always want to feel like heroes of the genocide, thinking they were the only ones who paid the price of lives to keep this contraption breathing.

All because of things told them by others as the Yoruba led press and the Hausa/Fulani led governments. Igbos, think, i say, think! When the troubles in Ukraine started, why was Crimea annexed by Russia? I’ll tell you, because they were native Russians.

That is the oyibo wey una dey worship, still clinging on to tribal sentiments and brotherhood across borders, into another country. Let’s not even mention Israelis or Arabs, or even Italians and Irish people, they all regardless of their passports and the country it carries, know and accept first, that they are natives of their tribes.

Should there be need for whatever, they already know whom to side with in such events. Albeit, the Igbos fight and deny their selves to the benefit of their enemies and to their common detriment.

The Urhobo, Ijaw, Itshekiri, Isoko and all these riverine tribes in Delta state see me as Igbo, ask Ifeanyi Okowa, the current governor of the state, he will attest, they think we don’t belong with them.

We in turn distance ourselves from our cousins across the bridge and are just forming “anioma” (which isn’t in any way bad if the reason is to remind us of our roots and not to cut those ties).

Somehow, ours is far better, as the population is split 60-40 in favor of people thinking as i do. The Ikwerres, are a lost people totally.

Next time, when i talk about Igbo things, if you have nothing meaningful to contribute, just shut the hole in your face and say nothing, don’t even exercise your writing skills in waste, because i know my roots and I’m not even faintly ashamed of it.

I will be addressed as Delta-Igbo only when we begin to have and adress people as middlebelt-yoruba and northeast-fulani.

Daalu nu.

BIAFRA:No amount of brutality,

attacks can stop us—IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has described the attacks, killings and burning of houses in Aba, Abia State, allegedly by security operatives, as unprovoked and totally unnecessary.

The group said the attacks took a gruesome dimension since the emphatic rejection of Fulani Ruga settlements, National Life Stock Programme (NLSP) and Waterways Bill in the National Assembly by Igbo lawmakers.

IPOB in a statement on Sunday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, alleged that the attacks were “disguised and sold to the gullible public as clampdown on kidnappers and armed robbers in the state.”

“While we maintain that those unfortunate victims seen on video being molested by Nigerian soldiers are not IPOB family members, we nonetheless demand for their unconditional release. If the reason for this blatantly stage managed arrest and accompanying evocative and misleading press statement by the Fulani controlled Nigerian army is to dent the global image of IPOB then they have failed spectacularly,” the statement said.

IPOB insisted that no amount of state sponsored terrorist act against IPOB will make it contemplate being part of a decaying and purposeless one Nigeria.

The statement further said: “It doesn’t matter what Fulani caliphate does, IPOB will never allow RUGA or any other Fulani land grabbing scheme to take hold in our land. No amount of collaboration between discredited politicians and their Fulani handlers will lead to the surrender of any inch of Biafraland to Miyetti Allah and their murderous gangs as Dave Umahi so wish.

“Fulani terror cells in Nigerian Police and Army formations we are convinced will continue to brutally murder and arrest innocent Biafrans but their time will soon run out because the world is watching with very keen interest. We also wish to emphasise that these unnecessary arrests, torture and killings of Biafrans will be reciprocated at the appropriate.

WHO IS Igbo MAN?

LISTEN CAREFULLY

 BEFORE YOU CALL THEM RITUALIST

 BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THAT.

1. The Igbo man is that man that will leave his Father's land.... Come to your Father's land and turn you into his tenant.... Peacefully ooooo

2. The Igbo man doesn't like so much noise, if you're not talking money.... You're making noise... He believes in "Ego n'ebi okwu"...

3. The Igbo man goes to Obodo oyibo. He doesn't know anybody there. Give him 6 months, he will start sending cars back home.

4. The Igbo man can wear slippers, use Nokia torch phones and may even be riding ladies machine but the figures that is in his bank account will be enough to write a full maths textbook.

5. The Igbo man gets rich. Go to the village, pick village boys, train them in business, settle them, the boys become rich, goes to the village do the same thing..... It's It's not magic..

6. The Igbo man, where you see nothing, he sees market. You're looking at an evil forest, he's looking is an estate, you're looking at a village girl, he's seeing a sales girl. You're looking at shit, he's seeing manure.

7. The Igbo man is not a ritualist. He's the man that kept going when others turned back. He's the man that enters a country where they say nobody survives. He's not risk taker, he's Risk itself!!

8. The Igbo man loves 'Njakili' (healthy jests) no matter how rich you're, if your mouth is not sharp, you will always be a subject of Laughter among your peers especially in "ime affia" or Umunna meeting"

9. The Igbo man believes in Training his children properly with good morals no matter how wealthy he is.... He will still nurture you to stand up for yourself because he understands he won't be here forever.

10. The Igbo man is not lazy.... He toils day and night in order for his children not to go through what he went through...

11. The Igbo man wakes up with money in his mind.... That's why they don't greet "Good morning".... They greet "Money nwannem"

12. The Igbo man Prefers a Customer to a girlfriend..... He can walk away from any girlfriend because a particular customer came to the shop...

13. The Igbo man knows how to do "Uto Nwannu" They love and appreciate themselves in diaspora.... That's why an Igbo can stand and spray a friend 2million naira.... Because they believe that "ihe imere nwanne gi but nga jidere m"

14. The Igbo man speaks Oral igbo..... If igbo man sings praises to you as his wife in dialect, you will melt and melt again

15. The Igbo man believes in "Iru uno" (going back home) .... No matter how busy an Igbo man is, he must take his family back home at times.

16. The Igbo man believes in "bili kam bili"... Live and let live... He obeys the rules of your land. Just allow him do his business, make his money and go... He can even marry your daughter just to have his way..

17. The Igbo man, when he enters an occasion, he doesn't need your food or drinks to be happy... He only needs the MC to recognize him and hail him by his titles, ife emebe!

18. Finally Any country you enter and you don't see The Igbo man..... Just know that you're no longer on earth, you are at underworld...

19. The Igbo apprenticeship system have produced more millionaires than the entire university system in Nigeria

God bless igbo indigenes

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Without Igbo

 Nigeria Would

Have Been Poorer, Says Gowon

March 6, 2020  foxchannel

Important Message 

From The Former 

Nigeria Head of State-Gen. Gowon 

A former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), yesterday stated that Nigeria would not be complete without Ndigbo, adding that the absence of Igbo’s intelligentsia and hard work would have made the nation poorer.

Addressing a debate on “National Unity: Federal Character, Restructuring and Rotation of Presidential Power in Nigeria” organised by Igbo Leadership Development Foundation in Abuja, Gowon, who spoke through Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, maintained that God did not make a mistake in putting the ethnic group in Nigeria.

The ex-military leader noted that in a democracy, there must be fairness, justice and transparency in the leadership and governance of a country, adding that “restructuring has to be done in an atmosphere of tolerance and love for one another.”

He asserted: “I am not a friend of hate speech and bitterness but a friend of patriotism because Nigeria is dear to my heart and I believe in the bright future of Nigeria and Igbo and that together, we can make our country great.”

Expressing own view, Mailafia, who was deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), decried the alleged injustices being meted to the ethnic nationality in the country

He stressed that the most populous black nation was big enough to accommodate everyone irrespective of tribe, pointing out that the ongoing discussions on restructuring must address all imbalances for the sake of equity.

His words: “I believe that a lot of injustices have been done to the Igbo and the constitutional debate on restructuring must address all imbalances.

“Nigeria is big enough for all of us and I believe that the Ndigbo, Middle Belt and the Yoruba are the true Nigerians because if you look round our borders, people came from abroad and are still coming, but the Ndigbo and the Middle Belt have always been there, even the Yoruba have always been there.”

He went on: “People who came in yesterday and have a duty of respect are now the ones talking.

“Going forward, we must create a federal democracy that would respond positively to all the aspirations of our people not about East-West but all about working together in equality, bringing in the youths and the women together to build a new Nigeria.”

In his keynote address, founder of Gregory University, Uturu, Prof. Gregory Ibe, who submitted that Nigeria’s unitary and federal system was only in name, contended that the current model was “a clear departure from the federal system bequeathed to the country by its founding fathers and colonial Britain.”

He said: “Most of the powers that will engender real growth and development are tied in the exclusive list. Solid minerals, electricity, railway, ports, security etc. are all tied to the federal exclusive list to be executed only by the Federal Government, which has not been able to live up to the expectation of Nigerians.

“In summary, restructuring, consequentially, is returning to the states the powers taken away by the military from the regions.”

Posted By Elliot Uko

MAY MUSINGS, SEASON ONE

ON REDISTRIBUTION OF COVID 19

Posted By Elliot Uko

MAY MUSINGS, SEASON ONE

ON REDISTRIBUTION OF COVID 19 

Shock, anger and trepidation has, once again, enveloped South east Nigeria in recent days. Why? Truckloads of street urchins, popularly known as almajiri, are streaming into the South east by night, bearing nothing other than hand pans.

Large trailers are cleverly designed to display goats and other livestock atop wooden platforms, while beneath the platform, are hundreds of almajiri hidden from plain sight.

The movement is usually done at night. The usual refrain when accosted, is that they are headed to a mosque in Owerri, Aba, Umuahia etc. Nobody resides in a mosque, a mosque is a sacred prayer and worship centre. Who invited them? Who arranged their discreet journey? Why travel only at night?

Now, given the fact that several of the same almajiri deported to Kaduna state from Kano, tested positive to covid 19 virus, there's every reason for alarm.

It beats reason why some northern state governments will choose this season, when the spiralling numbers of sudden deaths are yet to be categorically explained,to redistribute almajiri, in the guise of sending them back to their states of origin.

Given the fact that the east hadn't been invaded by the almajiri in large numbers before now, this discreet movement calls for investigation. Why now? How come the authorities are not putting their foot down, to ensure strict compliance with the lockdown, in respect to the almajiri migrating to the South east in droves,for over a fortnight now? What does this strange development portend?

Although, it's unthinkable that some people would deliberately spread covid 19 all over the country, incidentally, that may turn out the painful outcome, if this ugly trend, is not checked right at the source, where the uncomfortable journey begins.

 

ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR AGAINST NDIGBO

 

I had a conversation last night with a high school classmate, someone I love and respect. Topic of discussion: Precarious condition of Ndigbo in Nigeria. I lost my cool when he recited the unkind refrain enemies of Ndigbo, forced upon unsuspecting folks, including Ndigbo ourselves. That Ndigbo hates themselves. What a fallacy.

 

Not a few Ndigbo have in conversation, even with non Igbo, blurted out same unkind refrain over the years. Ndigbo hates each other, they usually chorus. Over the years, a lot of people have swallowed this wicked fallacy, unwittingly accepting same as truth. Ndigbo are bad,greedy and mean, they add.

 

If the Igbo are so bad and terrible, that would be suggesting that the Yoruba are so sweet, reliable trustworthy etc,that the Fulani are so accommodating, tolerant, pleasant, and that the Edo,Ijaw, Hausa etc, are all so hardworking, intelligent sweet people. That also suggests that the over 300 ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria, so much love each other and could be said to be sweet, kind, generous and very good people, save for the Igbo.

 

Now, not only is the assertion illogical, but nothing could be farther from the truth. It is against the nature of man and against every law of nature for a particular race, ethnic nationality or tribe to wear a uniform behaviour at all times, in every situation. It's like asserting that all German are thieves, whereas all French men are kidnappers.

 

Love for others is a character trait, pronounced more in some people, than in others, regardless wether they are Eskimos, Zulu or Mongolian. Religiously spreading ugly fallacy, that the indomitable Ndigbo, hate each other is nothing but, one of the handiwork of Ndigbo's adversaries, who hope to give Ndigbo bad image, just to subvert and undermine us.

 

All through history and all over the world, oppressors, when they invade other lands, to occupy and exploit, either as conquistadors or disguised as colonialists, usually resent and despise every gifted tribe they encounter. Every thing is done to blackmail, subdue and hold down such seemingly smart people out of fear that they would trouble the conquerors. Everything is done to smear and paint them bad in order to instigate and probably sustain mutual mistrust among the occupied, exploited and oppressed aborigines.

 

Because it is in interest of the colonial master that the different nationalities, they clobbered together, into one artificial country don't rise up as one to challenge the master, everything is usually done to encourage suspicion and distrust amongst the natives. This strategy was replicated in India, South east Asia, middle east, South America and all over Africa. Colonialists deliberately manipulated aborigines to be suspicious of each other, while he dutifully rapes the land.

 

There's usually a preferred tribe,usually the indolent, deal-making one who fearfully obeys and depended on the colonial master. There's also a resented tribe, usually the resourceful, independent minded sharp witted tribe, accused of being cheeky and difficult to manage.

 

You didn't have to read the memoirs of Harold Smith or fortunate enough to access the secret document,HOW BRITAIN RAN COLONIAL NIGERIA, to understand the uneven display of love and affection towards the natives, to understand the deliberate institutional disparity in colonial preferences with regards to laws, infrastructural development and administrative regulations introduced in the Southern protectorate and the Northern protectorate.

 

It is self evident that the colonial master preferred the region where a feudal few made deals to cooperate fully with the colonial master in exchange for protection and support to sustain the feudal structure. That would clearly make governance quite easy and smooth for the colonial master, in contrast to the egalitarian and Republican culture of the Southerners, who craved advancement for himself and his family. Especially after the colonial master had tried everything, including introducing warrant chiefs, unsuccessfully.

 

This same troublesome Southerners, engineered, led and sustained the struggle for independence, while the preferred region, remained docile, all through the struggle for independence. The "Iboes" fought colonialism to a standstill. Azikiwe established several newspapers all over Nigeria, exposing and battling the colonial master. They would never fall in love with him. They taught him and his people a very bitter lesson. After all, he forgot they were the ones, who would supervise both the headcount and the elections before they hand over power to the natives. They will declare the figures of the census and also declare winners in the elections. Ok.oh! That's alright.

 

The result? Your guess is as good as mine. What is truly worrisome in all these, is the disturbing gullibility and naivety of even our educated brethren, who childishly assume the colonialists were saints and angels from heaven, who can see no evil nor do any evil. Honest and upright heavenly beings, who do not harbour any interests of their own, whatsoever, except for the well being of their colonies and their peoples. It's unbelievable that some people believe that oyibo came here because he loves us so.

 

This preamble is important, before I introduce the meat of the issue. If there are any doubts about the discreet deal to hand over Nigeria to the preferred region by rigging both the national census figures and the elections results to their favour, such doubts disappeared immediately one notes the role British citizens in the North, especially those in the employment of the Zaria institute, later to transmute to Ahmadu Bello University, played in the early months of 1966, to inspire the three wave pogrom of 29th May to 3rd June 1966, 29th July to 3rd August 1966 and 29th September to 3rd October 1966.The rest as they say is history.

 

The Ifeajuna, Ademoyega and Nzeogwu led putsch of January 1966,sealed the fate of Ndigbo. Every thing was done to label it, an Igbo coup.

 

The deep resentment towards the Igbo, quickly metamorphosed into some sort of xenophobic hatred from the colonial master, (who just reluctantly gave up power 5 years earlier), towards the Igbo ,whom he believed should be taught a big lesson for attempting to seize power (so he thinks),behind his back.

 

High treason! Unpardonable! Every thing must be done to put them in their proper place. The 30-month fratricidal and internecine bloodbath was actually choreographed by anti Igbo hawks in Whitehall. They blocked every effort by the breakout republic to gain powerful international friends, monitored and frustrated every peace parley, supervised the total blockade of the embattled enclave and strangled the still borne nation. They didn't stop there.

 

After the war, fear of Ndigbo reverberated all over the world? They shocked the world by their inventions during the war.Boy, everything has to be done to put them in check.

 

Dateline January 1970. The victorious Nigerian government didn't argue when the same colonial master asked to help develop strategies to hold down the notorious and impetuous "iboes".

 

Enter the intelligence service. A lot of people don't know the origin of NSO.Nor the role the colonial master played at its formation. The police E branch, military intelligence and other services merged to give birth to a narrative, a line of thought that should be protected for as long as its possible to hold on. A certain region must not taste power. They must be blackmailed, castigated, blacklisted and painted black.

 

Their own too much, them no fear oyibo,them no know say oyibo get grand plans for Naija oyel? Oyibo go teach them bitter lesson.

 

M D Yusuf was mandated to select the beneficiaries of the first course at Scotland yard to develop, finetune and design the naija intelligence engine. Holding down a component part of the country, was part of the menu.Developing a revolting story around them, would make sure they are consistently despised by others.

Highlighting their weak points and their faults, and presenting them to all, as power mongers and trouble makers.

 

It didn't stop there. 29 books were written by paid writers, including the quite repulsive LET TRUTH BE TOLD, by the equally repulsive DJM Muffet. Falsehood, propaganda and half truths were weaved into frightening tales about the wickedness of the Igbo. The best Igbo are cannibals, very selfish and patently ruthless. And of course, they hate each other so much, they will never come together again.

 

Amidst the strategies and narrative that would bury the Igbo permanently, emerged this line: Convince the Igbo themselves to believe the lie that they hate themselves and would never come together and the threat of Igbo resurgence is permanently buried. Once the Igbo themselves are made to believe and glibly mouth the big lie that they hate each other and therefore can never work as a team, then can everyone be sure that Ndigbo will never rise again.

 

Money was dutifully voted and spent to make the propaganda gain traction. For decades, everything was done to make the next generation of Ndigbo believe they are vile, no good tribe of vicious criminals who hated each other and hurt everyone else.

 

It was a deliberate psychological assault on Ndigbo. Designed and articulated by the colonial master, who deeply despised Ndigbo's guts, self confidence and power and speed of advancement. He had to first of all blackmail Ndigbo, effectively get him out of the way, before they could suck Nigeria's bonny light, straight from the off shore rigs, straight into waiting tankers in the high seas. Well they truly had their way for decades.

 

Now, how does carefully spreading the repugnant fallacy that Ndigbo hate each other, help hold Ndigbo down perpetually? Simple: Once every Igbo youth believes Ndigbo hate each other and can't unite for any purpose, then, the Igbo nation is belittled, degraded and made unattractive. Next the Igbo will begin to hate each other, distance from each other and even deny each other. Then they will admire other ethnic groups, secretly wish they were Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa etc. They will adopt other Nigerians as leaders and godfathers. They will slowly but surely accept that they are not good enough to lead Nigeria, and therefore will spend their entire lives worshipping others. It's called inferiority complex.

 

Next, future generations of Ndigbo will automatically accept their place, much the same way African dark skinned citizens of countries like Yemen, ( trafficked centuries earlier as slaves from Zanzibar, Djibouti etc ) have been culturally forced to accept that they are inferior and no good.Nobody would want to be Igbo, so gradually Igbo cultural identity disappears and the great Igbo nation would DIE. Every Igbo would want to distance themselves from the despicable Igbo identity.

 

This obviously, hard-to-believe agenda of fellow Nigerians, aided and supervised by the colonial master, was painfully funded with resources acquired through the oil wells of Eastern Nigeria. Media practitioners, teachers and other professionals were hired into the operation paint Ndigbo black and effectively get them out of the way. Nothing was left undone to finish Ndigbo up, by irreparably damaging his image. Just the same way jealous and envious adversaries, at the individual level, would go to every length to run you down in order to paint you bad, thereby limiting your chances to attain success in life.

 

The discreet psychological war to unbrand and isolate Ndigbo, was anchored on the arrowhead of "convince them that they are terrible people and by all means, let it stick".It would turn out a major miracle if Ndigbo survive the onslaught.

 

Well, judge for your self, if they did.

 

Today, the younger generation of Ndigbo have rejected the blackmail of the enemy. Today, they have built synergy, articulated their agenda and are marching on.They defeated the adversary by believing in themselves. Today, the never-say-die spirit of the Igbo man has lifted him up once again. His impact is felt all over the world, as globally acclaimed merchants and also as highly regarded professionals the world over.

 

Yes, through the grace of the Almighty, we have survived the worst, but there still remains a huge task ahead. We need to dutifully prepare for the task ahead. Yes, we have our shortcomings, but so do others. We are good people, hardworking people, visionary people and great adventurers. We believe in justice for all. We have suffered so much, but most of all, we hate oppression.

 

Next time, they tell you that Ndigbo hates themselves, kindly remind them that, we know that's our adversaries famous narrative, which he's been working so hard to sell to us unsuccessfully for 50 years. Tell them we remain the only people in the world, who built over a hundred schools through self help, thereby catching up and overtaking others between 1940 and 1965. Tell them that more than half of the hospitals, schools and other developmental infrastructure in Igboland, where built through community effort

 

Remind them that people who hated each other, cannot come together to achieve such great things. Never you let them fool you baby. Truth remains: NDIGBO LOVE EACH OTHER. Cheers.