Mobolaji:
Far from it. I do not consider you biologically incompetent. I do however insist that your flirtations with the Igbo Language in your writing often cause you to become confused about the boundaries of "political proclivity" and "biological incompetence." Were it not so, you would have known that it is impossible to think of "Ogbete Market," without thinking of "Onye Ara Ogbete." So, your attempt at a distinction is null. Please take this as lesson #1.

Besides, my coment was directed to your "arguments" and not to your "biological incompetence." With added emphasis, here again is what I wrote to you.

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I don't hold brief for our articulate Nwa Aro, but, remember your own comments when Nwa Aro starts to compare your arguments to those of "Onye Ara Ogbete," or as the Yoruba might say, w�r� Mushin.

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In the spirit of moving forward, I shall suspend my distrust of the distinction that you are making.

And I will continue to work on my Igbo, despite yourself!

Ngwanu, Nwa Aro!

As to your evasive question "why have the Igbos been so ill-treated (they have not only been ill-treated but abused and massacred like no other Nigerian tribe) in Nigeria since 1945? You Nigerians who have sworn to liquidate the Igbos intellectually, economically, and politically should answer that question. My duty and responsibility as the hated is to make sure I leave (with my people) from such a genocidal environment like your bastardized Nigeria: that was what the old Biafra was and that is what drives most young Igbos like me in our urge to have a new Biafra Republic, because to us it is not just another country, rather, it is a safe-haven and a place of succour from the Northern Jihadists and their Nigerian collaborators. Exactly what Isreal is to the other most persecuted race in the world - the Jews!

If your "I go lawa from here" is a threat or an attempt to make us go on the defensive, or allow you distribute your well-known pan-Yoruba diatribes unquestioned and unchallenged, you are dead wrong. I personally will agree with you where I deem it ok; will challenge you where necessary and will praise you when I must. In a nutshell, I will give as I receive from you or any other member of this great board.

Once more, I advice you to tighten your seat-belt 'cause the road on which this freedom train runs is sometimes and somewhere rough and bumpy. Nevertheless, we on this train (board) are trained (prepared) to ride (tell the bitter truth) nomatter how bumpy and rough (how risky or cruel) some freightened passengers (dishonest Nigerians) are.
We tell it as it is and not as we are told it must be told. Welcome!!

Diatribe, I don't know, but an attempt at the chronicle of Igbo experience in Nigeria Yes.

"... facile Ogbete-Market rumours in a number of instances", I'd like to think that was trying to be sarcastic. Although I am not an expert in Igbo, nonetheless, I will interpret "Ndeewo nu!" to meaning " I come in peace or with love � right!" Therefore, I assume for the new comer it is sarcasm. In true spirit, let it be.

If I should quote Larry King's "Curiosity theory": it isn�t curiosity that killed the cat, rather it made him/her famous. Most of us are curios minds, hence I have taken the liberty in answering the question posed to Nwa Aro, which was:

"Why has it been your lot to be so "massacred" in Nigeria?"

Let me repeat myself here, IMHO, it is the case of the bacon and egg. The Pig and the Hen, were wondering who is indispensable. They resolved that since the Pig committed him/herself for the masters to have their bacon, and the Hen only participated by laying the egg, it is simple logic to figure out who is indispensable.

The predicament of the Igbo's is they truly or stupidly believed they could salvage Nigeria. They never learn that history repeats itself; hence they always become victims or the grass, when the elephants in Nigeria fight.

Other wise, how come there are many Azikiwe's, Ifeajuna's et al. in Igboland?

One Igbo sibling wrote the following about such Igbo�s: "�Igboland have a lot of more serious problems in Nigeria created mostly by half-hearted "dimwits".

Ndiigbo should stop trying to be more Nigerian than Nigerians, or indispensable, else it will continue to be their lot to be so "massacred" in Nigeria.

That is my take. Ya gazie.

"Why the Igbos?"

Maybe you yourself can answer that question which seems to think that genocide can be excused for a variety of reasons? You tell me what the women and children who were brutally slaughtered had done to deserve such treatment? What threat imagined or real could they have posed to the entity called Nigeria?
We can safely say, that when this (Nigeria) disfigured entity is finally dismantled it will go down in the annals of history as one of the most brutal countries that ever existed.

I would like to remind you that we did not "rejoin" "Nigeria" willingly. And that our continued existence in such entity is by FORCE. You can force a region to be under your dominion, but you cannot forcibly remove our aspirations to be rid of the burden we are suffering under.
We have no interest in trying to enter the dark minds of the evil who massacred our people wantonly for no cause, and then finished us off, by starving to death 2 million of our children.
To us it is crystal clear, that there is only one way to prevent this reoccurence, and that is by having our own state which will be able to safe guard the lives and properties of our peoples. A state where Ibibios, igbos, ijaws, Efiks, Urhobos, itsekiri, can all aspire to be not only free but also to be president of their territory.
A state where there is justice for all, and opportunities for all.
A state which guarantees the seperation of religion and state, which recognizes the sanctity of each and every life before God. WE WANT TO BE FREE...

" We have no interest in trying to enter the dark minds of the evil who massacred our people wantonly for no cause, and then finished us off, by starving to death 2 million of our children "

Ijeoma you have touched a raw nerve here. Indeed we have no desire to know what inhabits the mind of the wicked, but it will be wintry day in July before the learned professor admits to this evil action of his mentor.

I guess the Igbo efulefu Odili Chuck, your former friend has kicked u out and now u are here. But LET ME REMIND U THAT this is not Egbeomoduduwa.com. If u dump your trash here we'll throw it back at u.

I haven't exchanged words with u at all. Not even in Nigeriaworld but I know u very well. Let me make it clear to u that we are pro Biafrans and if u exhibit the arrogance that u have been exhbiting at other message boards then u better be ready for the wrath of the Biafrans 'cause no ngbatti ngbati speaking anti Biafrans will be allowed to talk trash without getting a swift and rabid opposition. I hope u know that.

Mobolaji Aluko,
I might be wrong but I'm sure u are the Mobolaji Aluko that was talking trash to one Ibibio/Biafran man Iboro Bassey at Nigeria On Edge last year during the Sharia fracas. (I stand to corrected.) That Mobolaji Aluko totally rained insults upon insults on Iboro Bassey for speaking up for his Ibibio people and the Easterners but unfortunately for mobolaji his people defended him. I might be wrong but I'm sure that u must be that Mobolaji Aluko. The two Mobolajis are both anti Biafrans and trash talkers.

And u asked us why we are always killed for no reason. What a stupid question to ask. Why don't u go and ask your fellow Awoist Yorubas and your the Hausa masters that question. Your question shows me how cruel minded and insensitive that u can be. Why don't u ask the Gypsies why they are subject to inhumane treatments in Hungary.

Whether u like it or not,BIAFRA lives and will never die. U might have defeated the physical Biafra but in our mind Biafra is still alive and i assure that Biafra will be actualied sooner that than anyone will expect. The blood of our people who bastards like u have killed, discriminated against, maimed is back and haunting u bloodsucking genocidal Nigerians. U parasitic Nigeians are going to finally destroy yourselves in that cursed nation that u all have ruined all because of passionate hatred for the Igbos and the Easterners. U idiots are already devouring eachother in Nigeria but by the time we actualise Biafra your killing spree of our people will totally turn backwards and u all will devour your bloodthirsty selves.

We want our freedom and we will have it.

As for your flirting with Igbo lang. congrats for that one. At first I thought u were going crazy when I saw those Igbo words 'cause it's very rare to see an Odua especially an anti Biafran speak Igbo or another person's language

Williamson,
What a nice poem. Okay now what point are u trying to make.

Abi nor be so this place be: "Freedom Train?" I welcome myself aboard!

Anyway, sha, I am in the middle of what is called a "pregnant pause". Despite indications to the contrary, I have a day-time job, so I cannot respond to every Okoro, Okeke and Okafor (or for that matter, every Ngozi, Chinyere and Nonyelum) immediately they write. I shall not be rushed as I prepare my detailed response to Nwa Aro nwoke'm.

I am also waiting for many of you to exhale with your various "garagara" and "njakiris", so that I can respond to as many of you as possible with one single "ogbunigwe." The quicker many of you stop exhaling, the quicker I shall respond to Nwa Aro(chukwu).

Inu ihe nkuru? Jissike!

Bolaji omo Aluko
"The Vulture is a Patient Bird"

The answer to your question is very simple and I have only two words for it: Bigotry and hatred.

So, welcome Mr. Aluko. If you have any doubt that we take no prisoners, all you need do is look at the archives of BiafraNigeriaWorld. As you know, the archives at egbeomooduduwa.com is a fraud, doctored by the owner. Too many posts at egbeomo.com have been deleted, including your own posts. Luckily for you, some of those deleted posts of yours are here for reference.

When you guys finish discussing an individual, I'll suggest you all concentrate on the serious issue at hand, which is: "That it is common in Abuja these days, to see Moslem Arabs (foreign) with their Nigerians partners riding in open trucks and chanting moslem solidarity songs".

Furthermore, some strange faces are seen in Makurdi, there is fear now, that the city could be the next cauldron of islamic extremist outburst.

The above I scavenged from reading "elsewhere". If the observations are true, then one hopes the Igbo nation is vigilant, and is prepared to repulse their attack - should they have the audacity to visit the East of the Niger. Especially, since we all know that alacrity is not the word the present administration is known for. I have even heard people speak of
Obasanjo's lethargic reactions, when dealing with his masters. Scary indeed.

I reckon the above is inline with the gist of this thread.

Nice try. Your attempt to sneak in the "Aro in-law" word as a diversionary tactic is not gonna cut it.
We're all ears, holding our breaths and waiting for your Awoist "research" findings that's gonna contradict Nwa Aro's Facts about Ndigbo entraped in Nigeria; and their persecution by your tribe and it's Hausa/Fulani masters.
Please make it snappy. Our patience is wearing thin.

Welcome bro!

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL I OR MY PEOPLE BE ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH ATROCITIES.
WE REFUSE TO BE IN A COUNTRY LIKE THAT!!!!!!

You need to see this documentary:
The women are not allowed to work, and are forced into begging.
The cities are like the northern nigerian cities patrolled by their "vice" or "sharia"
police. No music is allowed,( that rings a bell like ZAMFARA!!!!!). You witness public executions in the football stadium, where they hang you or blow your brains out in front of a blood thirsty mob!

More than 3,000 Muslims on Sunday attended a rally in
northern Nigeria's mainly Islamic city of Kano during
which organisers expressed support for Osama bin
Laden.

The peaceful rally, staged at Aliyu bin Abi-Talib
mosque, was organised by the Kano State Council of
Ulama or Islamic scholars and addressed by the group's
president, Ibrahim Umar Kabo, reported an AFP reporter
at the scene.

The rally took place before US-led attacks began on
Afghanistan late Sunday in response to the September
11 assault on New York and Washington.

"America's definition of terrorism differs from that
of the rest of the world. America is the biggest
terrorist nation, given its record of unprovoked
attacks on countries like Libya, Iraq and Sudan," Kabo
told the gathering.

"We condemn recent statement by authorities in Nigeria
to help America in its search for imaginary associates
of bin Laden," he added.

He said that in his moment of tribulation, Muslims in
Nigeria will not be cowed to disowning bin Laden, whom
he described as a fellow Muslim.

Bin Laden is Washington's chief suspect in the
September 11 attacks.

Kabo said that the group "will not be deceived by
America's repeated assurance that it is not fighting
Islam but waging a war against terrorism in the
world."

He condemned the US government's offer to provide food
and medical relief to displaced Afghan people, saying
that "an enemy cannot offer you food and medical
facilities all for nothing."

The Islamic leader also said that Muslims in the state
are prepared to give the governor of northwest Zamfara
State protection in the event of a possible attack by
those he called "anti-Sharia elements."

He said that last week's clashes in Gusau, the Zamfara
State capital, in which four people died, had more
religious undertone.

He said that the intention of those who instigated the
unrest was to sabotage the implementation of the
strict Islamic code, also called the Sharia, in that
state.

Four persons died while 30 others were injured when
supporters of two rival political parties clashed
Wednesday and Thursday.

Zamfara governor, Ahmed Sani, vowed Friday to lead a
new wave of violence if the federal government failed
to punish suspected instigators of the violence.

"If the federal government fails to take any decisive
on them within three weeks, I will lead another round
of violence because as a Muslim and governor of a
Sharia-operating state, I cannot condone sacrilege on
my religion," Sani said.

"I am ready to die for this issue," he said.

In January 2000, Zamfara became the first Nigerian
state to implement Sharia, which bans stealing,
alcohol, prostitution, gambling, adultery and public
dancing.

Around a dozen states in northern Nigeria have since
introduced either full or partial Islamic law in the
past two years despite opposition by Christians and
the Nigerian government.

Check out this one........"I'm a jihadist from pakistan, not a terrorist" Only in BiafraNigeria! So like we've been screaming, Southern BiafraNigeria is under siege! Hmmmm!

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South West � News

Ogun Police boss explains arrest of 4
Pakistanis

The Vanguard
(Monday, 29th October, 2001)
By Olasunkanmi Akoni

COMMISSIONER of Police (CP) in Ogun State, Mr. Udom Ekpondum has said that the four Pakistanis arrested in the state last week are actually not terrorists and explained why they were arrested.

"The Pakistanis, investigations revealed, were legal immigrants who have no connection whatsoever or have any intention to carry out any act of terrorism," he stressed.

The police boss spoke at the weekend to Vanguard against the backdrop that the suspects may have connection with the wanted Saudi-Arabian born Osama bin Laden to cause havoc in Nigeria for her apparent sympathy for the United States in the ongoing war with Afghanistan over the September 11 terrorists attack.

According to him, "the four suspects were arrested last week in Ota area of the state. We got information that they were in a particular location. I quickly dispatched my men to the point where they were picked up and later invited them for interrogation.

"Preliminary investigations revealed that the foreigners came into the country after satisfying all immigration guidelines of the country. Moreover, they (Pakistanis) have arrived the country before the September 11 incident.

"They (Pakistanis) in their statements claimed to have come into the country with the main aim of preaching and spreading Jihad among Islamic faithfuls in Nigeria."

And when asked to explain Jihad, the police boss stated "they interpreted Jihad to mean converting people to Islam and not an holy war."

According to the police boos, "the suspects were later released when no criminal case could be established against them. "But they are still under close monitoring by security operatives, who watch their activities. I can assure there is no cause for alarm."

Similarly, the CP absolved the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) members of being a bad organisation after all, saying "I do not think I have any problem with OPC since my assumption of office as CP of the state until recently when some members of the group�s invaded the state and attacked the Iberekodo police station from where arms and ammunition were carted away."

Mr. Ekpondum noted that the organisation was created to counter the then military repressive regimes and not as a security outfit.

"Before now, OPC has been unheard of in Ogun State but I can assure you that OPC or no OPC, Ogun State shall continue to be peaceful."

Speaking on the spate of ritual killings in the state in recent time, the CP condemned the act saying "no stone will be left unturned to rid the state of the menace."

Na wa oh! In this day and time, someone, and that someone is a Pakistani admits that he is on a Jihad and you say you have nothing against him. You even go further to interpret Jihad not to mean Holy War. That means I have been taught rubbish for over 30 years. I would love some forumite to tell me what association is always made with Othman Danfodio.

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Congress (OPC) members of being a bad organisation after all, saying "I do not think I have any problem with OPC since my assumption of office as CP of the state until recently when some members of the group�s invaded the state and attacked the Iberekodo police station from where arms and ammunition were carted away."

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