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Islam in some third world countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Afghanistan is something else.

PearlStreet:


Apc your foot indeed. Shebi na una dey cry for Senate Presidency from the same APC? No wahala.

You discriminate among fellow Igbos and you're here yapping nonsense about civic responsibility.

Talking about civic responsibility, can an Ebonyi or Nnewi man contest election in Anambra?

Lol......You have seen why nobody listens you junks. Because you always make careless statements to state your ignorance.

You have never left your fathers compound or the southwest but you will stay behind your keypad to type rubbish.
Where is Nnewi located my brother?

If Arabs and African can pay tax and contest for an election in London, New York, Chicago, why can't they do that in this country.

Brainwashing and your myopic brain set have made religion and ethnic bigotry the bane of both you an Afonja and those IPOB miscreants.

PearlStreet:
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You ed Biafra but are now crying that a Yoruba man wants to defeat an Igbo candidate.

It is Igbos who celebrate mediocrity. Look at the nonsense going on in Abia. Are you not ashamed that the entire state has become a big latrine?

What did Rita do for her constituency? Nothing.
She would organise empowerment for women, share stuff Igbos and SS women and exclude Yorubas. Imagine the effontery in Yoruba land?

As I said, we are ready for the supplementary elections. Shebi una get 3 heads? No need for long story.

Afonjas.....Always making noise

I am glad you mentioned Abia. At least we have seen where your knowledge have left you. Do you stay in Abia state? No.

Placing Biafra behind every one that speaks against your tyranny doesn't make your point relevant.

If una like make una carry thugs from Oshodi come, we go still dey alright.

Is it not foolishness to deny someone their civic responsibility yet collect tax from them? That is what fools like Afonjas can do.

APC my foot!

Afonjas and their rubbish mindset. HKT has been there for like forever what has he done. Always celebrating mediocrity.

We know you guys will carry thugs to intimidate Igbo voters in the LGA, buy votes as usual and rig your way through.

Never forget, what is dead, may never die.

Excercise

Always beautiful

Says someone that can't construct a clear sentence. Now we see why it was difficult for you to understand an episode.

dannybrasky:

I THOUGHT THEY SAID ONLY A PARTICULAR TRIBE DOES DRUG OFFENSES AND TARNISHES THE COUNTRY IMAGE ABROAD?

ARE THE NAMES I'M SEEING HALF-CAST?

ONLY IGNORAMUS WILL BLAME A TRIBE FOR A SINGLE MANS CRIMES.

Where are the barricades for that place!

After I saw where one slay queen was buried recently, I thought to myself that life is vanity.

If she was told this is where she would be buried, I am very sure she would have disagreed.

No mind those stupid set of people. One of my village guy that was a cultist here in Nigeria left and went to Malaysia and we thought we have seen the last of his cult activities.

Only to see him few months later recognising with the Malaysian branch of Vikings.

Stupid set of people

Hotfreezer:
We don't condone nonsense in Yoruba land.
All of them should be beheaded.

We are not like those cursed pigs exporting armed robbers to Dubai and insulting everyone because they caught their brothers continuing the family tradition of crime.

I thought you fools said one tribe is only synonymous with crime? yeye dey smell

Rotimi47:

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The Igbo crime culture
Fredrick Nwabufo in On the GoTop StoriesViewpoint


In the sweltering heat of a serial lynching and killing of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013, I wrote an article entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence, debauchery and vanity which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own.

I am compelled to revivify the article here, but with a few adjustments. I say it again; the Igbo take the inglorious front row in certain crimes – drug peddling, armed robbery and kidnapping – at home and abroad.

In August 2016, an Igbo drug dealer was guillotined in Indonesia. But his funeral in Anambra was a shin-dig of celebrations. He was even described as a “hero” by his kinsmen.

Once again, an Igbo kidnapping lord, who unleashed barbarity and savagery on many Nigerians, has steadied attention on the “special” crime proclivities of the ethnic group. I will not dwell on this; I will zero in on Igbo criminality abroad, and take a slight detour home.

As a matter of fact, a good number of Igbo youth in Asia are into crime. It was reported sometime in the year that the India police said all Nigerians – Igbo, of course – in their country were drug dealers. Although, this is questionable, it cannot be entirely repudiated.

Arguably, the reason for Igbo sojourning – to even the remotest of places in the world – has been attributed to their much vaunted entrepreneurial spirit. The truth is that this claim is enclosed in heavy, meaty layers of fallacy like the entrails of burger.

Inasmuch as the “entrepreneurial sojourning” thread cannot be utterly pooh-poohed, it is judicious to explore other reasons why the Igbo are peripatetic. First, in Igbo ethology, it is a cringing evil for a native, man or woman, to commit a “stigmatised” crime (Alu) such as armed robbery, drug-dealing, etc at home. This is not an obviation of abhorrent crimes committed at home by some unabashed Igbo criminals. The truth is, the “home” Igbo criminals are a hopeless and shameless horde whose self esteem and sense of shame are terribly at their nadir, and as a result purvey crimes at home. Inter alia, for any stigmatised crime committed at home (Igbo land) there is a stern reprimand implicit in the cleansing of the crime. The sacerdotal process of cleansing the land of a crime or an abomination is called “Ikpu Alu”. However, “Ikpu Alu” (cleansing of abominations) does not extend to crimes committed by Igbo sons and daughters in places outside the native dome. It is therefore not surprising if some Igbo persons commit heinous crimes in obverse places, and come back home to take chieftaincy titles. As a matter of fact, in some morally weak Igbo communities it is a brave thing to traffic in drugs abroad. Drug barons are gleefully celebrated as Ndi kara Obi (lion-hearted people). Such is the pantomime of the Igbo and crimes.

It is therefore indubitable to posit that an unenviable number of Igbo persons with innate criminal manuals travel outside the Igbo enclave to pursue crimes. This confutes the general idea that the sojourning of the Igbo is driven solely by entrepreneurial inclinations and motives. To a large extent, the sojourning of some Igbo is driven by a morbid aim of shielding their evil trades from the peering eyes of their kinsmen. Their names are protected as long as they do not traffic in crimes at home. The important thing is to be successful in crimes abroad; successful enough to build vulgar mansions at home and throw lazy cash about.

To animate my argument further, what is the entrepreneurial inclination or motive of the Igbo in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, and other countries peddling drugs? Is the entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo only awakened abroad? Why should the Igbo entrepreneurial spirit find its host cozily and lopsidedly outside Igbo land? Is there a marriage between Igbo criminality across the world and Igbo entrepreneurial genome? These are questions that defeat the long, tired argument of Igbo entrepreneurial “peripatetism.”

The fact is the “entrepreneurial” beat-up logic and reason for Igbo sojourning is a bored excuse.

Analogously, Igbo sojourning atavism is also effectuated by pride, ego and vanity. A typical Igbo person will want to prove he is successful in anyway. It is wickedly mortifying to be seen as struggling in Igbo land. This underscores the reason many Igbo persons smuggle themselves out of Nigeria, and because it is thought that any person in Obodo Oyibo (white man’s country) or even anywhere outside Igbo land is “doing well”. Those Igbo persons who are “cursed” to be in Igbo land are seen as struggling and as such do not deserve the courtesy of iration and respect. It is a proud thing for an Igbo father to say, “All my children are in the abroad”; even though “the abroad” is Gabon. Such a father courts the respect, envy and iration of other fathers in Igbo land. This is the awful linkage between Igbo sojourning and base vanity.

In all, there are Igbo persons in the scrawny good number whose sojourn in foreign countries is not tainted by any evil intent or base vanity, but it is a bleeding fact that the singular Igbo entrepreneurial logic for sojourning is one big smorgasbord of fallacy

The person who wrote this, is an idiot.
I come to Nairaland and see people bashing Igbo's as if I have never seen their lot commit unspeakable crimes and I just shake my head.

I don't blame them though, I blame their parents, I blame the media and I blame where they got their education from.

Thankfully I have lived in both the Southwest and the Southeast.

I know what my tribesmen go through just to put food on their table despite the shortcomings of our government and the avalanche of opportunities that can be seen in the south west.

Sometime people think crime is only synonymous with a particular tribe. When we have criminals in every spoken dialect in Nigeria. from the politicians to traders, hoteliers and many others.

The same Prof Peter Obi schooled in Econometrics. What does he know that he is talking about.

I was hoping he would thank PDP for keeping our debt profile very low for 16 years like they usually blame them for their problems.

Professor my foot!

Avedonn:
Giving and shearing is the easiest way to access God's blessing.

Dangote, Jim ovia, Tony Elumelu and Rochas are the only foundation that has impacted and keep impacting on the lives of millions of Nigerians. Especially Rochas foundation. As crazy as the man may appear to be, he has been impacting the lives of less privilege.

Rochas has built schools that gives children from poor background a quality education in most part of the country.

The man has a good heart but i just don't know what's happening to him since he became a governor.

What of KANU heart foundation?

Nigeria has never been this divided until Buhari and APC came into the picture.

Happy birthday to the greatest looter, biggest landlord and mastermind of the largest thugs in Lagos and Nigeria.

Kagd10:


You should be asking why it went down from $48b to $26b under Jonathan despite crude oil selling at a huge profitable price. Awon oponu. Yeye dey smell

So that justifies $3 billion leaving the ? omode Oshi

Koolking:


Ganduje despite lean allocations performs far better than any governor in the South South and East upon the huge monthly allocation to the South South.

Even Borno State, once ravaged by Boko Haram insurgence is rebuilding top-notch primary and secondary education despite lean allocations.

Some people will just open their mouth and be vomiting nonsense

With the type of allocation and derivatives they get, such a school should never be in Delta in the first place.

I Utomi

When will you remove the VAT charged on my transfer to my family ......Oshi

dierich:

thanks.. I think you understand me more
this is the text I'm planning to send to him now


Sorry if dis offend u. I just want u 2 stop dis 4 nw. Even Queen wanna come, I've 2 stop her myself. I knw wat I'm facing & Hw much I've spent on my health. Who knows where it's coming frm, so 4 now I wanna keep tins around me holy.

How about the above message?

Do not send that text. Are you a man or a woman? tell him straight up that you can't deal with his shit. Also let him know you have no problem if he is hanging around face to face not through text.

The question no one wants to ask is why did the reserve go down to $41 billion during October 2018? Was it used to fund the election? what is the emergency situation that could have warranted the removal of $3 billion from the reserve.
Buhari is fighting corruption indeed.

Those words meant endurance. how many people know the meaning of that.

I found this new generation churches are always stirring up controversy to stay relevant. They have never brought anything new on their own.

Oblang:


Nw tell me how it is APC fault that u decide to hate igbos belonging to them. It rather justify the fact that u are the ones that hate APC and not the other way round...afterall APC have candidates in every elected positions in the SE in this election..

My broda, are they founding of APC? We are talking about the foundation here, you are talking about two independent cases.

We don't hate APC for your information. Otherwise Rochas wouldn't have been reelected in IMO State.

We just felt since the Hausa and the Yoruba decided to go to bed without us, we will continue on our path like we have always done.

Oblang:

No u are the ones that malign Igbo leaders in APC.

who are the people you are talking about? Please don't call Ngige or Okorocha

Oblang:

No u are the ones that malign Igbo leaders in APC.

who are the people you are talking about? Please don't call Ngige or Okorocha

Oblang:


None of those regions malign PDP then like the SE is doing to APC now. They all have reasonable number of PDP politician they elected unlike the SE that automatically hate any of their politician associated with APC in their region..

Yeah. Because the APC structure maligned the South East. There is no arrow ahead in the South East that can be linked to APC as a party.

Well within their right.
Who cares if the region didn't vote the APC.

Like the South East cares. What has those positions ever brought to the region. It is just another merry go round, make e no be like say we no dey there.

But it is funny that when PDP was in power, the Presidency, Vice and senate President are usually rotated among the big three ethnic groups.

Posterity will judge APC though.....

we die here