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everyone seems to have forgotten the only gorvonor that really did a lot for his people.this is a man of intergrity and a man with a vision.I remember the days one could drive around the cleanest city in nigeria,the garbage trucks and the people keeping the city clean. with the little money from the fedral government his rural electrification scheme was unrivaled in the country. this was followed by greedy nigerians that sold the turbines and generators as scrap.
why cant we have leaders like this .This is the man we should listen to not to the cronies in ohaneze and our present leadership.
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Wow Bababoyz goodmorning, looks like you are finally waking up. If you can be honest to yourself, can you tell me that if you have Oduduwa republic that the Yorubas will allow Miss world pageant moved from their land to London? I don't think so. I know Biafra would have put up a good show that would have showcased us to the world. Do any of you know how many people watch that pageant on TV?
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Biafra, there is an ignore button for someone who posted bail last Monday and just recently been released from the county jail for public nuissiance. Some people do not deserve responses and thats one good reason the ignore button is useful. Babyboyz is suffering from Attention deficit disorder [ADD] and will crave anything to get noticed. Infact his short respones further depicts an acute sense of congenital disability, a pathology that is either inherited or resulted from lack of nutitient in his brain. He may appear normal but looks does deceive. He knows he is insignificant but tries very hard to assimmilate. Best medicine is thorozine with 6,000 miligrams but ignore button is highly recommended in this board.
Note: I believe it is rather pretty insulting to suggest that Mbakwe is the only trustworthy marvrick in Igbo land out of 35 million or more people. I left Biafranigeria in 1979,was it not Mbakwe the first of Imo State who went to jail for misappropriation? Correct me if I'm wrong?
Hail Biafra
[ November 24, 2002, 11:20 AM: Message edited by: Waypoint1Biafra ]
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"I believe it is rather pretty insulting to suggest that Mbakwe is the only trustworthy marvrick in Igbo land out of 35 million or more people. I left Biafranigeria in 1979,was it not Mbakwe the first of Imo State who went to jail for misappropriation? Correct me if I'm wrong?"---Waypoint.
Waypoint: That was a really long long time to be out of your supposed country. Now I know why you and I have and will NEVER agree. Just stating the obvious, I hope you dont start a fight.
I stand to correct you here like I did in other threads which you seem to misconstrue. Mbakwe is surely not the "only honest man in the east" as the rheoretical question of this thread suggests. However, for the avoindance or doubt and to put the records straight, Mbakwe was and has never been convicted by any court of law in Nigeria or overseas for "misappriopriation" of any sort.
Infact, on the opposite, he was described as the "crying Governor" because he was fond of shedding tears (genuine tears) whenever the Igbos are slighted, or when Imo State; which he governed superbly like none before and after him is denied its fair share of federal projects or allocations. And in some instances when the then central government based in Lagos take action which was anti Igbo/east.
If you add the humility and passion of Mbakwe to the REASONABLE toughness, pride and love of Ojukwu, then you get the PERFECT future leader Nd'Igbo despereately needs.
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" Note: I believe it is rather pretty insulting to suggest that Mbakwe is the only trustworthy marvrick in Igbo land out of 35 million or more people. I left Biafranigeria in 1979,was it not Mbakwe the first of Imo State who went to jail for misappropriation? Correct me if I'm wrong? "
Ordinarily I would agree with your earlier statement on the ignore issue, but let me first correct you by saying you are wrong on Mbakwe. I do so because Mbakwe is someone I hold dear to the current Igbo revival project.
First can you enlighten us on what funds it was Mbakwe pilfered? Going by your analogy Shehu Shagari is a saint because when Buhari and the crazed Idiagbon decided to jail the politicians, Shehu never went to jail while Ekwueme and the rest grew beards in protest at Kirikiri jail. Let's get our facts right military tribunals headed by illitrate genocides were set up to try the so called corrupt politicians, how then was it that the same military set all the jailed politicians free 18 months later ?
I do not know if you have been to BiafraNigeria since 1979, but Sam Mbakwe was the best thing that happened to Imo state since it's creation. The little industry you have there today was his creation, an integrated poultry facility at Avutu which Udenwa has been using to lure foreigners for his little 419 schemes, a shoe factory in Owerri which today is moribund, a packaging plant at Orlu, Paint and Aluminium extrusion plant which Genocide Ike Nwachukwu coveted for himself. The most painfull of all being the power plant at Akabo that the thief James Aneke dismantled and sold for himself. Let's not even talk about the roads at Aba which were hitherto non existent or the creation of the new Owerri town.
So where do you start faulting Mbakwe ? When Ekwueme and Shagari wouldn't hear of an Airport at Owerri, Dee Sam mounted a cartepillar by sunrise one day and levelled a farm land at Ulakwo, Imo airport was born. That same airport is what the "brave" Kema Chikwe who comes from the vincinity is unable to develop despite being the aviation minister. Now we have to contend with OPC and the jihadist in Lagos and Abuja airport in the name of one nation.
Our generation MUST acknowledge Sam Mbakwe and pray for more of his type in Igboland if we are to see any progress. Mbakwe to me and many others is a hero.
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The reason why we should not press the "ignore button" when some ill-informed people write their TRASH is because if we do, sooner than later tabloid will become "news;" fiction will become "fact;" hate and biggotry will become "freedom of speech;" ignorance and idiocy will become "thinking different" and personal opinion will soon become "Igbo position."
Efulefu Chikwe is a "brave" and "intimidating rolemodel," but TRUE and full-blooded Igbo son like Dee Onunaka Mbakwe ((may we have more of him as you prayed!) is a "misappriotor of funds." TUFIAKWA! TUFIAKWA!! TUFIAKWA!!!
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quote: I hate to admit, but it is begining to look like Chief Odumegwu Emeka Ojukwu is a visionary afterall.
Bababoyz, You are indeed very late with your observation, it does not begin to look like, rather,you should have said that Chief Ojukwu is a visionary leader and gentleman, a man of justice with implaccable integrity. by reading all the sentiments of later day and emergency revolutionaries at egbeomoduduwa.com inculding our own bababoyz, by suggesting that the southern nigeria??? applly the Gidion Orkars dose, I can only conclude that these men are bunch of fools, unsensitive and irresposible men that lacked every sence of vision. Let it be clear to the bunch of bababoyz's of the world that Igbo will not join your fight, Igbo belongs to the Biafran nation, at the time of reckoning, the Igbo youths will do what we have to do,we will be there to defend our only nation/country as our beloved forebearers did before us, the signal has been send from Aba, Umuahia and Owerri that nobody will ever kill Igbo under whatever pretence and get away with that, for NdiIgbo, the jihadist/nigerian army does not make any difference from the area boys(lagos)/balogun's mobile robbers(ogbunike toll gate). Bababoyz and co, to your tent o! nigeria.
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It was the late Cowboy Will Rogers the Texan entertainer from Fort Worth who once said, "I never saw a man I did'nt like"
Let me modify that statement thusly, "I never heard anything about Dee Sam Mbakwe's record of service I did'nt like"
I had just turned eighteen years old in january of 1982 when I left Biafranigeria for the good ol' US of A. At that time Imo State and Anambra States were the States represented by Igbo and carried in 1979 by the NPP party very strongly in addition (strangely) to the Benue Plateau State of Solomon Lar and one or two others.
In Imo State there was a sense of pride, a sense of progress and accomplishment, a sense of belonging and value of input, and a sense of amity of all the constituent units, with Owerri as capital and rising star city.
"Made in Aba" products were becoming competitive with "Made in anywhere in the West" products both in quality and in quantity,
Imo State was ranked among the highest if not the sole highest in Biafranigeria for education and academic achievement, and the general outlook of pride, optimism, and a bright future reflected itself visibly in the faces of many indigene I knew even though I lived in Lagos.
When something catastrophic happened in Imo State such as a natural disaster either flood or fire in Aba and environs, Mbakwe wept. and when federal funds were not forthcoming for rapid response, he again wept and was thus dubbed "The crying governor".
All in all, he acquitted himself with integrity, and availed himself to be used by God to help many. He especially endeared himself to all indegenes of Imo State as an honest to goodness well meaning, hard working energetic and successful governor, and lastly, due to his well disposed mien, did not pettily inflict himself upon others much like his counterpart form Old Anambra State was wont to do.
This is the Mbakwe I remember around the time I left the shores of Biafranigeria.
A man who if he ran for Igbo presidency today (even though I would'nt advise that generational cadre of politicians to run anymore) I believe would get my vote, for possessing both the Saavy to play Biafranigeria politics, and the dedication to bring home the bacon to all Igbo not withstanding a position as a national figure.
Infact he would be the Anti-Anyim.
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Your best bet is to ignore Waypoint1Biafra because the more you engage him in his derailed mind, the more likely he would make you say something you wouldn't want to say.
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bababoyz: Thanks to Mr. Onuma and to you for reposting that advisory message.
But whenever I read my history (both Igbo and others) and discover that evil and evil people have ALWAYS gotten their way ONLY where and when GOOD people keep silent, I cant help not to speak and shout at the top of my voice; and if need be put my life on line to fight evil that stems from IGNORANCE.
Believe you me, our world will be a better place if WE ALL learn to use whatever weapon we have to fight for it.
So, no matter the heat or pressure, I WILL REMAIN STEADFAST IN MY MISSION TO USE THE WEAPON I HAVE (information technology) TO CHANGE (not to destroy or kill) PEOPLE. The more, the merrier!
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>>>lastly, due to his well disposed mien, did not pettily inflict himself upon others much like his counterpart form Old Anambra State was wont to do.<<<
Mbakwe was good but Anambra governor at that time was not bad either, remember that Anamco is still standing today as part of his lagacy here in Enugu.
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Peerless thanks for bringing that to attention. For his legacy of Anamco in Anambra and Igboland and Biafra let us give credit where credit is due.
While I recognize that no human being of flesh is either a total saint or a total villain, my personal opinion and position is one of coldness towards Jim Nwobodo for unbriddled self promotion even at the expense of the collective, especially as it regards Igbos in Biafranigeria.
But it does'nt mean that there is no space for forgiveness if a man should mend his ways, be that as it may, my passing assessment of Nwobodo in juxtaposition to my sense of Mbakwe's contributuion was not an attempt to diminish any of Nwobodos own input.
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