quote: Mr Marshall was a senior figure in the ANPP, which is expected to pose the greatest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo's re-election campaign. He was one of the contenders to be the running mate of the ANPP's candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler.
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The BiafraNigeriaworld report makes it as if Obasanjo is to blame for the killings. That is not so. People in Nigeria are resisting leadership from a veteran leader and they are killing each other.
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Very sad day for Nigerian both at home and in diaspora. It will get worse before it gets any better. May God be with Mr. Marshall's family. He was anti Igbo but he was fighting for his people and saw the Igbo as his enemy. Like Wiwa before him, he didn't die in the hand of the Igbo Biafrans at the end.
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You write as though you know his killers. Semantics will not help you.
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quote:Originally posted by Ednut: He was anti Igbo but he was fighting for his people and saw the Igbo as his enemy. Like Wiwa before him, he didn't die in the hand of the Igbo Biafrans at the end.
All,
I started to post and read Ednuts comments. He has said it all.
Irewelle, please reflect a little more on the hypocricy of that your "semantics" thing, you seem to be the one applying it.
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Ednut made an important observation. But one needs to read what Obasanjo has been saying to understand the game plan. In 2001, he told Bayelsa people that the civil war was fought to secure oil for one nigeria. Going by Obasanjo's theory, Igbos wanted out of Nigeria in order to control vast oil wealth. Guys like Harry Marshall and Ken Saro Wiwa believed that theory. And there truly was a time that hating Igbos was enough to keep a south south politician relevant. With Igbos so politically marginalised, the new enemy of the Nigerian state are those who used to hate Igbos but have suddenly realised that Obasanjo and co fought the civil war to enslave them.
President Olusegun Obasanjo was reported to have said that the Nigeria Civil War was "more of a war for resources control". He was reported to have said that "it was only the victory over Biafra that ensured that the natural resources were deployed for the use of all Nigerians. "If Biafra had won, he added, the resources would have been in the hands of the Biafrans". President Obasanjo pressed his point by telling his listening Bayelsans that "if Nigeria had lost, that man (Emeka Odumegwu) would have cancelled Rivers State which gave birth to Bayelsa". President Obasanjo was not done yet. He fired on: "If Ojukwu had won, I know I would be dead by now and so many other people would be dead too."
No matter what happened during the civil war, a powerful Igbo voice of protest should emerge against the systematic extermination of people who advocate against the crippling control of oil resources by the corrupt Nigerian state. It is not going to be easy as there are people like Edwin Clark who can't get it out of their head that Igbos are their enemies. Even him (belatedely) agrees that Nigeria did not go to war to save him and his people.
Instead of benefits for the Deltans, Clark said, it is mainly the big southern tribes that have cornered the region's oil and gas resources. "The majority ethnic groups", said Clark, "particularly the Yorubas and the Igbos, have taken over our place, they have colonised us".
There are still others who have gone further than Clark in narrowing who their oppressors are:
"We are gradually realising that the main oppressors of the Niger Delta", he said in his column of April 17, "are the Yorubas: from Awolowo to Obasanjo, from land use decree to denying us our share of the offshore oil as if the Niger Delta states were part of, say, Cameroun, Obasanjo's Supreme Court will come and talk of the oil belonging to him".
Handshake acoss the niger is a stillborn idea
So, 33 years after the civil war the tide is gradually turning and the best strategy for Igbos should now be to show leadership and try to forge a partnership of equals with their neighbours.
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Man I love this new found wisdom by Ednut the snake, I never knew that Ednut can be objective in his life. Ednut congratulations, I am happy that you finally saw the light about the failed experiment called one Nigeria.
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Quote: -------------------------------------------------- "...best strategy for Igbos should now be to show leadership and try to forge a partnership of equals with their neighbours."---CSE. --------------------------------------------------
CSE: If by your post above you mean Igbos should prostrate to the Saro-Wiwas/Harry Marshalls, then your "strategy" is UNAPPLICABLE.
The last time I checked out I did not find any Igbo since the Nigerian civil war ended owning a house in say Rivers State without paying for it like any other resident. Or doing anything in general that suggest that the Igbos do not regard nor treat their vile "neigbours" as slaves. So what "partnership of equals" are you talking about?
Take it or leave it, if someone hates you even if you give him your wife as present he will still hate you. That is the case with the Igbos and their eastern neighours and I am afraid there's NOTHING an Igboman can or will ever do to make an average Easterner see him as a "partner."
My condolences though to the Harry Marshalls.
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Nwa Aro, You echoed my sentiments exactly. What patnership of equals is he talking about?. CSE please explain yourself. In retrospect, I really can't identify what the Igbos did to this people both in the old Eastern Nigeria and Biafra. Sarowiwa was killed by Abacha and this marshall guy could possibly have been murdered by Obusonjo and his pdp gang. The same Obusonjo killed thousands in Odi. Where has Ndigbo opressed them?. I think they need to heal themselves of the common ailment most people in Biafranigeria have and that is Igbophobia.
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I have merely suggested that we need to find a way to work with the 'eastern minorites'. There are no hidden meanings in my statement regarding a partnership of equals. It does not in any way mean that Igbos are the cause of of any misunderstanding between them and their neighbours. I merely suggest that we cannot carry on as we have been carrying on. I hope that contributors are concerned enough to contribute to the debate constructively. I have acknowledged that there is no ready made or brilliant formula. So, lets try to develop one in the course of our deliberations. One thing for certain is that the present policy of detachment is not working. I will try to write in small bits and come back in as time permits.
The current policy of detachment Just after 1999 elections, I spoke to an Igbo businessman in London about politics in Nigeria and and how the Igbos are involved in it. He was taken aback that I bothered to ask. I was bemused that he didn't know much more than beer parlour politics of how IBB is an evil genius who snaps his fingers and things happen. He was very satisfied about his thriving importation business. His only regret then was that telephone facilities were such that he had to relocate to Lagos and Abuja to remain in contact with his suppliers. How do you assess Obasanjo so far, I asked? He is doing his best. He has retired the political soldiers and clamping down on corruption. They have found billions hidden by Abacha and he has promised uninterrupted power supply. What policy objectives have the Igbo senators set to achieve? If there was any, he didn't tell me. My lectures that economic prosperity of individual Igbo businessmen amidst hostile policy makers was interpreted as intellectualisation. Not long after our discussions, I met him again. He was in a hurry. He had to clear his refrigerators or generators because the government banned their importation into the country and the law takes effect in the not-too-distant future. He was subdued and appeared to pity himself. He was singing a different song. Suddenly, Obasanjo was all out to get the Igbo traders and how the Yorubas didn't like Igbos. And business wasn't quite good any more. He reckoned the ban did not necessarily mean the policy would be enforced but that custom workforce made up largely of non-Igbos were going to have a field day. Slowly but steadily he was learning to pronounce marginalization. It all became boring listening to his moans when second hand cars were banned as well, and sharia troubles meant that people he knew had their businesses in flames and running for cover from Hausaland to Yorubaland; and only transiting Igboland to keep their surviving kids while they settle in their new found havens.
To summarise, the current policy of detachment; 1. Has produced Igbos who have done well for themselves but are about to learn that economic power without political clout means very little.
2. The Igbos are neither the king nor the kingmakers in the current setup. Politicians who claim to represent Igbos merely sell to the highest Yoruba or Hausa bidder. They remember where they come from if they need an Ogbunike cave to hide a mace or their mess.
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CSE Your post about the Igbo Business man is typical. The reason there is too much aparthy in Igbo land todays, because the few who are doing good business wise, doesn't want to rock the boat. That left tugs like Udenwa and Ojo maduekwe running wild with Obasanjo killing Igbos and eastern Minorities.
quote:Originally posted by CSE: My lectures that economic prosperity of individual Igbo businessmen amidst hostile policy makers was interpreted as intellectualisation.
He was subdued and appeared to pity himself. He was singing a different song. Suddenly, Obasanjo was all out to get the Igbo traders and how the Yorubas didn't like Igbos. And business wasn't quite good any more.
Yes indeed, a saaaadd saaaadd commentry.
Bro CSE. Good thread as usual.
I am in full agreement with you. Regardless of how we may feel about our South southern/Eastern brethren, we must move on. we do not live in a bubble, and just as some may complain about unwarranted bad blood on our side, there are enough on their side complaining about unwarranted bad blood.
What motivates my position is that among other "Southern" Biafranigerians only our brethren share the most similar values to us. We dont have to cuddle up together but we can at least get along in order to move ahead.
I feel for the Harry Marshalls, and others who wish to remain bitter toward the Igbos to the end, but maybe in the hereafter the scales will finally fall from their eyes. I wish his family well at this sad time for them.
We cannot allow ourselves to be eaten up by spite. each of us will have our awakening, when we come to learn that there are no absolutes. It is with this knowlege that we must forge our relationships.
In my view the most viable partners to forge ahead with right now, remain our immediate brethren. There is no further gainsaying it.
Bro NwaAro good to have you back.
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"and the best strategy for Igbos should now be to show leadership and try to forge a partnership of equals with their neighbours" writes CSE
The above line is an indication of a person with sound leadership mind. CSE for President!!!
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Fellows, While we are at it, another notable politician from Imo Stae belonging to the ANPP has been ELIMINATED. Even as we argure over who to be (s)elected by the powers that be in the regions and Abuja, it seems the April polls may not lead Nigeria from the "nascent democracy" to an adult one thereafter. It may still be back to SQUARE ONE to the khaky boys.
I hope am wrong.
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Another ANPP chieftain shot in Imo
By Yusuf Ozi-Usman
About 24 hours after unidentified assas-sins snuffed the life of the vice chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Marshall Harry, another ANPP chieftain, Hon. Uche Nwole, was reportedly shot in Owerri, Imo State capital yesterday.
Hon. Uche, who is said to have been rushed to a hospital in Owerri after a gun shot from assassins, is a senatorial candidate of ANPP in Imo State.
He recently crossed carpet from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he won the 1999 election into the state House of Assembly to the ANPP.
The national chairman of ANPP, Chief Don Etiebet, who broke the news of the attack on Uche after a phone call from a party member from Owerri yesterday, lamented that the nation was heading toward political chaos.
He said the trend of assassinations in the recent past showed that it was those who crossed over from the PDP to other political parties that have been the victims. --------------------------------------------------
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quote:While we are at it, another notable politician from Imo Stae belonging to the ANPP has been ELIMINATED. Even as we argure over who to be (s)elected by the powers that be in the regions and Abuja, it seems the April polls may not lead Nigeria from the "nascent democracy" to an adult one thereafter. It may still be back to SQUARE ONE to the khaky boys.
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I was replying to Nwaro's report concerning the shooting of Hon Uche Nwole.
quote:Fellows, While we are at it, another notable politician from Imo Stae belonging to the ANPP has been ELIMINATED. Even as we argure over who to be (s)elected by the powers that be in the regions and Abuja, it seems the April polls may not lead Nigeria from the "nascent democracy" to an adult one thereafter. It may still be back to SQUARE ONE to the khaky boys.
I hope am wrong.
The actual report from Daily Trust did not say he was killed but he was shot.
Since we are not sure i feel the best thing to use now is HOPE YOU ARE WRONG, instead of I THINK YOU ARE WRONG.
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Ok! But, you wrote "I think you are wrong." I just don't want you to come in the future and say that you were quoted incorrectly.
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Politician warns Nigeria of slide to civil war By Kope Obe ENUGU, Nigeria, March 6 — A Nigerian politician who said he escaped assassins this week said on Thursday he feared political killings might push Nigeria to civil war. A day after the murder of an opposition leader shocked Nigerians and fuelled doubts over elections in April, party leader Chekwas Okorie said he too had been a target of violence.
‘'We are getting at a point where we are finding ourselves in a pre-civil war situation,'' Okorie told a news conference in Enugu, the main city of his southeastern home region. Okorie, chairman of the minor opposition All Progressive Peoples Party (APGA), accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of not acting to stem political violence threatening to tear apart Africa's most populous country of more than 120 million people. ''The killings under Obasanjo's dispensation far outstrip those under Abacha,'' he said, referring to military dictator Sani Abacha, who died in 1998. ''And the president is going about as if nothing was happening, and the police have not been able to investigate any (political) killing successfully,'' Okorie said. The APGA presidential candidate is former warlord Emeka Ojukwu who led the Ibo into secession in 1967. An estimated one million people died in the civil war that ensued. National police chief Tafa Balogun on Thursday offered a cash reward on 10 million naira ($79,000) for information on Thursday's murder of opposition leader Marshall Harry in Abuja. Separately, officials said armed youths attacked a convoy of the southern Edo state governor at a rally last Tuesday. Governor Lucky Igbinedion was not harmed, but a teenage girl was killed by a stray bullet when police escorts in the convoy opened fire to disperse the youths, the officials said. Balogun told reporters police had not yet arrested anyone in connection with the killing of Harry, a top-ranking official of the main opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). Unidentified gunmen shot him at close range after forcing their way into his home in Abuja just before dawn on Wednesday. Obasanjo deplored the murder of Harry, one of his leading opponents and a regional ANPP chieftain. The ANPP's candidate for an April 19 presidential poll is former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, who is widely seen as Obasanjo's most formidable election challenger. FIRST POST-MILITARY POLLS Nigerians are due to vote in a series of ballots in April, the first polls since military rule ended with Obasanjo's election in 1999. The most important is a presidential ballot in which Obasanjo is seeking re-election. Police have failed to find the perpetrators of more than a dozen high-profile political killings since December 2001. Okorie said he escaped assassination only because he cut short a stay in Abuja. ''If I didn't leave Abuja on Tuesday night, I would not be here talking to you. I would have been dead now,'' he said. He said four armed men and a woman came looking for him and a political associate at their Abuja guest house and searched it when a resident said the two had left. Obasanjo campaigned in the northern city of Kano on Thursday amid heavy security. Police and soldiers carrying out stop-and-search operations said they arrested 40 youths armed with daggers and other concealed weapons around the venue.
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But why is it that these assassinations are rampant in the South, moreso in particular areas?
Is this not a transparency of our ability for intolerance?
We have problems.
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Irewele, Dont you get it?. A man who was believed to be able to wrest Orlu senatorial seat from PDP is shot dead. Another who is believed to be able to give PDP a run for their money in Rivers State goes the same way. Most victims have been of opposition Politicians, it would be foolhardy to blame anyone other than members of the PDP. The man at the head of the PDPis non other than your head of state. It is no use blaming the people of Rivers State, Orlu people or the ordinary policeman. Me thinks that your brother, Aikhomu should be careful make them no murd am.
On a lighter note, how Ekpoma, I often visited the Uni when I been dey for BiafraNigeria.
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You made me laugh- I mean I laughed after reading yours. When did Aikhomu become my brother? I don't know the man.
Anyhow, the Uni dey there with students roaming the streets.
Btw- Na wetin you dey find come the uni? woman abi? yeye boy!!!!
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To those of you who cannot read in between lines or possibly 3rd grade level. When one says that OBASANJO is responsible for all the killings by politics and violence against private citizens, it means that he may not be directly linked to the murders, but he has created an atmosphere for the killings---------------> INCOMPETENCE AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP:
By the way, most of the killings by politics has been from his party's resources against others. And most of the bank robbers in lagos and ethnic states is OPC. That ought to make you wonder if he is not directly or indirectly behind the killings and arm robberies. It is simple reasoning based on the principles of brainstorming. Para example, Obasanjo was in River state last month and by accident may have made some disparaging remarks about Harry Marshal to his entourage.."I don't like that man and I wish he could go to hell", vintage Obasanjo. His statement speaks volumes and someone may have mis -read his act of desparation, setting a stage for any possible killings by his henchmen. This makes him directly or indrectly responsible for Mr Marshal's. His statement is the proximate cause of Harry marshal and in a civilized society, he is liable. Remember in 2001 when he told Igbos to go to hell, violence against Igbo businesses was an all time high. Obasanjo is responsible for all the killings and violence in Nigeria for his incompetency and liable leadership.
Hail Biafra
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Mrs Emenike was an Imo PDP commissioner before she decamped to ANPP. When the decampment death squad came for her, she was not at home but there was a sick relative lying on the bed. They killed the wrong woman, and killed Mrs Emenike's husband. Mr. Emenike's corpse is still in a mortuary.
Obasanjo is driven by a mortal fear of Buhari. In the following speech note his reference to long jail sentences.
quote:Obasanjo, acting more as a comedian who has a very bad massage but has chosen a clever way to deliver it, again took on the ANPP flagbearer from where Atiku stopped. He told the jubilant crowd in pidgin English "How you go vote that kind person we no believe say democracy dey? How you go vote person we jail person 350 years when that person don pass 50 years abi you think say the person no go die? Abi you wan come de carry him family one by one go the jail after the person don die?"Obasanjo in Port Harcourt
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