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online language Translation lesson for educated Igboblood and Ednut, by Co by ordinary Mr Weber! ------------------------------------------------ if u want to translate an igbo word like "JI Ohu" (new Yam),with online translation, what you will get is "YAM NEW"! which makes no sense. that reminds me of one german Politician in the Time of Adenauer, a novice in english Language, who was told to translate to english speaking guest the german expresion " gleich geht es los" that means "in a moment we are starting off", the guy in a word to word translation attempt, said "equall goes it Los" !!! so educated Ednut etc, who are well aversed in online translation, you can never tranlate Igbo, yoruba, english, french, awusa, germany, chinnese etc, into each other word for word! i hope little i, have atleast succeeded in teaching you professors, the elememtary thing you ought to have known. what! payment!!, no dont worry, this Lecture is free!- thanks to BNW that make this Forum possible, for me to use to educate you guys.
Nwanne, why have you not answered my 'simple' question? Why did Kalu make apologies to the North for Nd'Igbo defending themselves during the war? Goodness knows I've asked it several times even though once should suffice. Don't you have an answer or are you just hoping I'd forget?
Postscript Do you really think you've found security in Nwa Aro's support? You couldn’t be more wrong I assure you. Methinks that you are in for a very rough ride. Hold on to your hat - and Nwa Aro's too! ---- Igboblood ------------------------------------------------- bro igbo blood, pause a while, think, and you will realise your diversionary Antics, meant simple to give a Dog a bad Name just to hang it. you see dear Bro, the issue here is simple, that Orji Kalu is massively looting Abia state Allocation and should be arrested according to Adaora or whatever, as claimed by a 419ners led by Abaribe and 3(ULO)-unidentify Living Objects. and not what Kalu said about Igbos and War. thats a quit different Topic altogether.
there is nothing like security in nwaros support! i am a pro Biafra, which Nwaro is not, and i have my Reasons for that. A country were there is so much hipocrisy and uneven treatment of its Citizenry and Components that make up its fedration, as examplify by present Nigeria is nothing but a time Bomb that will surely explode sooner or later. let me also add that no mater how strong the Brute "Force" that hold such Society Together, it will not do much to contain the explosion. but then, being a pro biafra does not make a one a Charlatan and a Witch hunting "Zoombies".
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Herr Weber, Machen Sie sich bitte keine sorgen und lassen sie sich nich verückt machen. Die leute die etwas davon verstehen wissen das Ihr Deutsch perfect ist, und unmöglich von Babel Fish oder anderen online übersetzungs diensten, in dieser fluiden form zu stande gebracht werden könten. Ich glaube nicht das sie in dieser beziehung irgend jemand irgent etwas weiters zu beweisen hätten. Schönen Veirtag noch.
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b4 i comment on that,you see, in a Family, if a brother or sister usw, did or say something wrong in one Area, he/she will receive a brotherly/sisterly knocks were he erred and in likewise manner he/she will receive kudos in Area he or she did well. nobody is perfect!and to Err is human.Human actions are full of Error. if i have a brother who is not economical with spending, does that justify me labelling Him a Thief, Killer, Devil, Womaniser, Lucify, Hitler, Animal, whore, etc! which he is not!
So this spiritual like inclination by respected Members of this great Forum BNW of apply knocks only/ apply Kudos only, depending on who, is not only non-brotherly like but also subhuman, repulsive and devilish. is like brainwashed Almajiris, Hisbollahs, Alqedas etc members sent to liquidate every so called non believen Dogs (non Muslims) for Allah. and if killed in the process, they will be rewareded with 17 virgins and a host of many Concubines! like these Zombies in in Human Form, there is nothing anybody can do to re-programm you guys back to default, but i believe Jesus!, he is able to do all things!. it will not give me any joy to see my fellow bro and sis just perish like that.So i will continue to pray for you guys. Amen ....................................... why should people be selectively occupied with what ordinary "what kalu said" about igbos & WAR? what of what Ojukwu ( the sacred Cow and the hero of BNW neo-Biafrans said, and did b4, during and after the War? have we hanged him? what of what Azikiwe said, and did during and b4 the War and after the War? did we hanged him, what of Uwazuruike, who during declaration of "new biafra" in Aba told us, that his 25 point stages will realise biafra, without any single loss of life!. as at last count 3 thousand igbo man/woman have been sent to untimely death without a fight!? and without a single enemy loss!? i am not saying Uwazuruike personally killed these people, but atleast that is what he promise the igbos, during the Aba declaration. anyway that is "new Biafra" , the issue is what kalu said about the "old Biafra", we have iwuanyawus, Nzeribes, late okadigbos etc, why were they not lynched over what they did wrong during the "old biafra" not to talk of what they say, some of these men, have also contested for Presidency of nigeria in one time or the other, and nobody called for their heads. then why singuling out the Young kalu for Lynching? ordinarily for what he said!!!
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ochiwar!, um gottes willen, du wohnst sicherlich in NRW. heute in NRW ist feiertag!, und deine Deutsch ist auch sehr überzeugend.also schone feiertag auch für dich! und geniess dein tag!
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it is an open secret that some action and inactions of the then 33 years young Ojukwu, not only his refusal of American offer, resulted in outright loss of the War by the consequence of which igbos are suffering since 40 years now!.we all have heard abou Ziks proposal to the young Ojukwu on how the War will be fought and Won if atall the need will be, which Ojukwu rejected, have anybody make out time to find out what was the content of Ziks proposal? and if implemented weather the igbos will have find themselves in this mess? what of the battle field Plan,of one the world greatest young brave Military tactician- late Major Nzeogwu to present the Biafran strike force in a guerrella formations which Ojukwu outrightly refused. Iraq of 2day Faluja in particular is an example how effective a guerrella styled strike Force can be. last year in Faluja, about a thousand determined iraqis in a guerlla Formation, Fought down about 2 battalions of heavily armed USA-Marines for over 2 months!!, forcing Pentagon to accept a cease fire agreement in Faluja brockered by a former Sadam hussein General.under the agreement, american Soldiers will withdraw completly from Faluja, handing over the security of the whole City to a so called Faluja protection Force, that will composed mainly of the same iraqis Guerella Boys, that have been killing them for months!!?. Mr Rumsfeld will never have believe that even in dreams!. so if guerella action, could be effective in a desert landscape like Iraq, imagined how effective it will be in a natural vegetative landschaft of biafraland!, were vegetation provides Combatant natural protection. ojukwu rejected this idea, and instead choose an unwinable conventional approach which is succidal,owning to the heavy military arsenals on the other side. so in some sense, ojukwu committed plunder during the "Old biafra", but then, there are also so many area he perform greatly. he should be given Knocks on the area he committed plunder and of course kudos on the area he displayes galantry. instead of Kudos only or Knocks only approach of one way thinkers that populate BNW. and for Christ sake! orji kalu should not be an treated differently!
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Herr Weber und Ochiwar: Es ist gut dass wir habe viele mitglieder von Igbo land im diese Dorf. Ich wunsh euch eine scheones feiertag!!
Herr Weber: Dont go too far with the civil war review. Fact is that the archives which were before now hiden from the good Igbo people shows that Ndigbo did not lose at that war because they couldn't fight or because of the activities of those Ojukwu called "sabotuers" and killed for nothing as the ill-infomed Amidi Os want their fools to buy.
Truth of the matter is that Ojukwu was ancious to become a president of a tiny enclave called Biafra Republic. And in that rush, he refused, sadly, like the CONFUSED, cowardly and idiotic neoBiafrans of 2005 to heed to WISE CONSEL from within and without Igbo land. What bothers me is not if Ojukwu made mistakes; as we know he did. What is most idiotic is when animals whose ignorance has been exposed try to harrass anyone who brings up that HIDDEN TRUTH for the same Igbo people to know and learn from.
While the COWARDS on BNW hide behind Ojukwu's Biafra of the 60s to deceive those who are not in the know, could they tell the world one, just one country in the world of today which is totally and completely in support of the Biafra of territory of 2005? Ojukwu can be forgiven because he operated in a crises situation. But what will those who cannot venture outside their hideouts in the respective places of resident in the west, where fortunately one can go out and protest without being arrested to bring Uwazuruike's plight to the world attention have as excuse for not making that assesment before sending poor Igbo youths to their untimely grave from their hideout in the west?
Or peaking hypotetically, should any of these fools be caught say at the Multala Muhammed Airport with Biafr memorabilia after knowing that what they are engaging about in 2005 is more or less a SUCIDE MISSION, will they go about to blame Orji Kalu or any Igbo for that matter for not "condemning" the security officials at the airport for their travails? Whereas they were pre-warned on this and other boards by the Nwa Aros that their action is treasonable, even by western laws?
Mein Bruder, be it with Ojukwu's old or Uwazuruike's new Biafra, what the opportunists should know from hence is that the era of asking people who claim to know it all not to commit mass suicide is long gone. The message today is this: Anyone who want to jump into the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean should feel free to do so. But in doing so, he/she should not bother those who are not in the business of using their fellow humans as human shield. They should instead use themselves and members of their family as rams to pay the "supreme price." If that is not enough, they should use their villages and State of origin as operational base for their MADNESS. As someone from Abia State, I am in total support of Orji Kalu making sure that most of the non Abians who clamour for this thing called Biafr of territory do not use our state as another battle field. QED.
Afterall, that is what Ednut and Rick told the neoBiafrans on BNW when their respective Enugu and Delta States were almost used by the MASSOBIAN. So why shouldn't Orji Kalu, who is AN ELECTED executive governor of a state not say same, or be hanged if he does as he BRAVELY DID.
The Igbo or not, the era of shedding chrocodile tears is gone and gone for good.
Igboblood: Any of you who cannot brave the odds to go out on the street to protest Uwazuruike's arrest and detention,say at the front of the Nigerian Embassy close to you, as the Palestinians often did is from hence a BORN COWARD.
It is the most easy thing to come to the NEt to threat fire and brimstone but another to put same to action.
Igboblood and co, time for long and empty talk in the cyber world is over, now is the time for loudmouths like you to ACT. ORUE LA NA OMUME!
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"A man is not judged by only what he said or says but more by what he did or does." - Anonymous.
After using an international example in my opening mail to show how only those who operate from within the mainstream in a given society are often the pioneers in breaking the bond of isolation and abandonment of a particular people, I will in this epistle use a more local example, the Yoruba experience in Nigeria, to bring that home-truth right onto the bed of the extremists and the fringe elements amongst the Igbo race.
It is not debatable that the Yorubas, who, though did not face any conventional war in Nigeria as the Igbo did were also sometime in chequred history once in a similar political limbo as the Igbo race have been going through since the end of the Nigerian civil war. Just like the Igbo race, some in the Yoruba house then also errenously thought that it was following Awolowo and his politics of isolationism that would bring the Yoruba nation out of the wilderness they were before 1992. But unlike what the Awoists and the neo-isolationists among the Yorubas like Abraham Adesanya, Bolaji Aluko, Bola Ige, Babatope, etc brainwashed the Yoruba people to believe that it is when the Yorubas race follow Awolowo's tribal politics or relocate into an equally unarticuted 'Oduduwa republic' (as the Awoists attempted to do during Abiola's travails) that their economic and political dislocations will be resolved, as fate would have it, it tuned out that that the Awoists were not only wrong, but DEAD WRONG. Ironically, it was not the late Awolowo, nor his die-hard followers like Olu Falae, instead, it was/is those like Moshood Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo whom the then equally brainwashed and blinded Awoists and the extremists among the Yoruba foolishly refered to as "bastards," "Traitors," "enemy of the people" and what have you who actually led the Yoruba nation into mainstream Nigerian politics.
So, when the Wackos from Igbo land correctly say that Nigeria of 2005 is in their words 'Yoruba Incoporated,' they should be informed that that did not happen through Awolowo's politics of isolation as the Wackos preach today, On the contray, it is a non-conformist in the person of the late Moshood Abiola (who never had love for Awolowo's myopic politics) who carved the path and led the way for the likes of Obasanjo to follow to Abuja to now occupy the all-empowering seat that made it possible for Obasanjo to create that Yoruba national pride which the Wackos are jealous of.
For the Yorubas, being the political mavericks that they are, sensing that they have been misled and held to bondage by the opportunistic Awoists all the while did not waste time in rebelling against the neo-Awoist by taking their destiny into their hands in 2003 by voting enmass for the national PDP in preference to the Awoist-dominated localized AD. The Yoruba isolationists and extremists in the now deserted AD house of deceit have not yet come out of that rude shock as we write. And there is no chance that they will ever come out of it anytime soon.
Even the westernized African-Americans who ought to know and act better are not all that either. For we have heard and read of how some African-Americans who were/are obviously brainwashed and blinded by isolationists like the Reverend Shampton and racists like Louise Farakhan also deregoratory refer to successful non-conformists and trail-blazers like Condelessa Rice and Colin Powell with names ranging from "House N-word" to "Uncle Sam's' bla bla bla.
Above are the handy examples from which the Igbo extremists, fringe elements and OPPORTUNISTS among us (I hope they continue operating behind handles) who hang their case on one myopic pole or the other, or who think calling the Nwa Aros silly names will scare anyone MUST have to learn from before they are also swept off the scene like their opportunistic conterparts above.
It is only an Igbo who is born of half Igbo blood, or one who is not guided by both local and international history who will be detered by the CRAP which some self-styled extremists and fringe elements who cowardly operate from behind veils post on the Net.
In continuation on my series on WHAT and HOW Ndigbo should acknowledge the past, the Biafran experience. But instead of letting it be a hindrance or an opportunity for some to hold us down forever as the Nwa Aros around the world have been arguing of late, I will use the experience of another Nigerian race to show how that past experience could instead become a propella and energizer for Ndigbo as 2007 approaches. Since everyone reading us must have gotten the inclination by now that, I, Nwa Aro is a fan of Governor Orji Kalu of Abia State, I will also use this opportunity to present the unheard and often hiden positive side of the Governor, and his recorded achievements to wit:
Whether Orji Kalu's opponents like it or not, truth is that Governor Orji Kalu is a trail-blazer in many ways than one. On the local south eastern Nigeria front, Orji Kalu to his credit has done for Abia State what neither Nnamani of Enugu State, Udenwa of Imo State, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi State nor Chris Ngige of Anambra State has thus far done for the people of their respectively states. This is even as some Ngige supporters from Anambra State claim that he (Ngige) is doing "wonders" in his state.
Though I am not, and wouldn't want to be seen as Orji Kalu's campapaign manager or his mouthpiece, even at that, I would gladly grab the opportunity to do the job should it come my way. The reason being that I strongly believe that difference of idealogy, sentiments and clannism apart, the fellow, apart from being a fellow Igbo and Abian, is worth the support.
As the saying goes, " a taste of a pud is in the eating." Hence, if one could remove the clannish and myopic idealogical lenses which one does not need to be psychologist to discern that it is the fuel driving the nay voices against Orji Kalu's candidacy from among some minority from Igbo land in this village, it becomes more obvious that Governor Orji Kalu has indeed achieved so much with very little resources at his disposal.
Politics: Though Abia State, like the rest of the South East had its own share of post-election disputes following the rigged 2003 elections, however, the manner most Abians, starting from Orji Kalu's opponent at the poll, Mr. Onwuka Kalu, to the way Orji Kalu accomodated the former after he lost his appeal at the Election Tribunal, right down to the matured way ordinary Abians on the streets behaved themselves while other parts of Igbo land where in one political crisis or the other means that other Igbo-speaking states, and indeed Nigeria as a whole has a lot to copy from Abia State. And most importantly, from Orji Kalu's all-inclusive style of leadership.
Economy: It is an age-old truism that economic grown and instabilty are like oil and water: Both cant mix and produce a pure and disolable liquid. In other words, for any polity to grow economically, there has to be relatively a political fertile ground on which that economic flower could flourish and blossom. So, while some may not agree with Orji Kalu's other attributes, no one, I repeat no one who want to be honest to his conscience would argue with the FACT that Abia State under the leadership of Orji Kalu has known relative peace and tranquility when compared to its neigbours in the south east part of Nigeria. This has in turn created an enabling environment whereby commercial activities in notable Abia cities like Aba and Umuahia has been mushrooming and expanding in very rapid pace.
Education: Despite the fact that Abia State is more younger than the present Imo and Anambra States, statics however show that Abia State has more medium-sized and large-sized industries (mostly concentrated in Aba and Umuahia and its environs) than those in the older two affore-mentioned states. It can't also be argued that since Abia State under the leadership of the charismatic Orji Kalu started implementing the socalled Universal Free Primary Education Program, that Abia State has had more schools built, and those in existence have seen its student-intake quadruple. Infact, the pupil and student enrolment into primary, secondary and post-secondary institutions of learning in Abia State is presently far higher than those of say Anambra State for example.
General Development: Those who have been to Umuahia, Abia State's capital city, prior to when the present Abia State was carved out of the old Imo State would agree with me that inspite of the effort of the then equally charsmatic Governor Sam Mbakwe to spread development all around the old Imo State, Umuhia then was more or less a cosmopolitan village. Though the first executive governor of Abia State, Ogbonaya Onu, like Mbakwe before him did do some good work in Aba metropolis, sadly, whether out of ommission or commission, they both neglected doing same for Umuahia and its nearby towns and villages. That all changed when Governor Orji Kalu came into office in 1999.
Because of his untiring effort, Umuahia is today not only a modern city. It also a city where the public utilities like water supply is in quantative and qualitative supply; the city is now linked to the Nigerian National Electric Grid; it now has digitalized telephone network; the roads are well paved and lined with trees and flowers; the street electricity poles are standing and its lights fuctioning. Infact, if anyone is looking for how and what to judge Orji Kalu's proven abilities at governance, my advice to them is that they should take time when next they visit Nigeria to pay an uncensored and unrestricted visit to Umuahia city. I bet those who have questioned Orji Kalu's abilities will come back here to hastly retract their comments.
Apart from the capital city of Umuahia haven been transformed beyond recognition, ancient and historical towns like Arochukwu (this town is older and has more historical artifacts and monuments than any other town in the southeast apart from the village of Nri in Anambra State) are rapidly being also transformed into a truly modern city.
Sports: It is in this field that no other state, nor governor in Nigeria could match that of Governor Orji Kalu of Abia State. It is in the field of sports administration and management that Governor Orji Kalu has more than shown how someone could uproot a scrap metal and turn same into a functioning and productive machine
Governor Orji Kalu proved his managerial skills when he took-over the then rag-tag Enyimba Football Club of Aba, which was then in the Second Division of the Nigerian National Leaque and single-handedly financed it until it climbed to the First Division. That was not the end of the story, for Orji Kalu's fate with history and glory came when Enyimba Football Club of Aba first won the elusive African Cup of Champions in Egypt in 2003. They did repeat the same feat the year after. It must be noted that Eyimba Football Club of Aba was the FIRST Nigerian club to ever win the African Champions Cup.
On the personal, which is the thrust of my bringing up this sports angle, Orji Kalu is on record to have bought the boots, jerseys and other sporting apparels which the cup-winning side used while the tornament lasted. Furthermore, he is said to have paid the fight ticket and hotel bills for the triumphant Enyimba club side from his private wallet, starting from the qualifing stage uptill the club first won the cup in 2003. To cap it all, Governor Orji Kalu, who is a footbal enthuisiast to the core, like his mentor, the late Moshood Abiola, did not stop at only supporting and sponsoring the team, he also presented a gift of a brand new 'KIA' (a South Korean brand) saloon car to each of the players and members of the technical team of the 2003 maiden Enyimba cup-winning side on their return to Nigeria from Egypt where they won the cup! It should be noted that most of the players and its technical crew were non Igbos.
It was in recognition of the above effort that the Nigerian Ministry of Sports honoured Governor Orji Kalu with the title of 'Nigerian Pillar of Sports.' It should also be recalled that this was the title Moshood Abiola held when he was alive; for as history also recorded, he did contribute immensely toward the development of footbal and sports in general in Nigeria before he died in jail.
It was the above records that I had in mind when I asked Sylva at the Orji Kalu headed thread if he knew that Orji Kalu has contributed positively to the development of Ndigbo, Igbo land, Nigeria as a country and in Nigerians as a people? Obviously, Sylva's concentration on what Orji Kalu said or did not say about Anambra State where he come from, and all that crap did not let him see through where my question was coming from.
So when all is said and done, and when one puts all the nonsensical "reasons" Orji Kalu's opponents have brought forward to unmake his candidacy, it becomes clear even to the uninformed that their "reasons" are based on hearsays and tale-by-moonlight make-believes, or to some extend long-held stereo-types. But an objective indepth look at Governor Orji Kalu's record of RECORDED successes since 1999 till date shows that he has done well as governor to move to the next national level of governance as he wishes to do come 2007. So to even read Sylva say that Governor Orji Kalu should "continue doing his business" when his term is expired is to say the least unbecoming of somone whom I thought believed in democratic norms and values. Come to think of it, is there really any other business more important than one having political power gotten through the ballot-box and using same to affect positively on the people that live in the holder's area of authority as Orji Kalu intends, and God willing he will achieve come 2007?
Now that the world has been informed point-by-point what Governor Orji Kalu has been able to do for his people in Nigeria since he came into office, we, his supporters would also love those who are against hiscandidacy to move from harping on his person: Of what he said or should have said, to broaden the search-light and debate by telling the world what the other prospective candidates, namely, Obasanjo (who is Nigeria's President since 1999 and is rumoured to have a third-term ambition,) IBB (he was Nigeria's longest serving Military Head of State,) Atiku (he is since 1999 Nigeria's Vice-President) or Marwa (he was once governor of Lagos State), who are also rumoured to have ambitions to become Nigeria's next president have done or could do better than Orji Kalu when any of the former manages to become Nigeria's head of state.
The onus of prove is now on Orji Kalu's opponents in this village and without to tell us what are the qualities and the resources at the disposal of Orji Kalu's known and imagined opponents, Igbo or not, which makes them more qualified than Orji Kalu, to: A) become Nigeria's next President, and, B) how he/she could manage and pilot Nigeria's dire political, social and economic affairs post-2007.
Please, anyone who could answer the above should not belabour us with polemics. Just give us facts and figures for everyone to mull over. Thanks in advance.
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quote:bro igbo blood, pause a while, think, and you will realise your diversionary Antics , meant simple to give a Dog a bad Name just to hang it. you see dear Bro, the issue here is simple, that Orji Kalu is massively looting Abia state Allocation and should be arrested according to Adaora or whatever, as claimed by a 419ners led by Abaribe and 3(ULO)-unidentify Living Objects. and not what Kalu said about Igbos and War. thats a quit different Topic altogether.
Diversionary antics? Different topic? It most certainly is none of those things! If a man wants the support of Nd’Igbo he will be assessed on everything he has done for (or against) them. The apology made by the man is tied to the man. The looting of the State by the man is tied to the man. The inaction in his own State is tied to the man. The visionless leadership in Abia is tied to the man. Do you honestly expect Nd'Igbo to make an evaluation of his capabilities without considering all these?! C’mon man… you having a laugh? You cannot possibly seriously believe that.
quote:there is nothing like security in nwaros support! i am a pro Biafra, which Nwaro is not, and i have my Reasons for that. A country were there is so much hipocrisy and uneven treatment of its Citizenry and Components that make up its fedration, as examplify by present Nigeria is nothing but a time Bomb that will surely explode sooner or later.
Very good! I’m happy you know.
quote:why should people be selectively occupied with what ordinary "what kalu said" about igbos & WAR? what of what Ojukwu ( the sacred Cow and the hero of BNW neo-Biafrans said, and did b4, during and after the War? have we hanged him? what of what Azikiwe said, and did during and b4 the War and after the War? did we hanged him,
When you go through the archives you will clearly see that all these issues have been addressed in great depth. Moreover, how can you even begin to compare Kalu to Ojukwu? On what basis? We all know the positive contributions Ojukwu made to Nd’Igbo. What positive contribution(s) has Kalu made?
quote:what of Uwazuruike, who during declaration of "new biafra" in Aba told us, that his 25 point stages will realise biafra, without any single loss of life!. as at last count 3 thousand igbo man/woman have been sent to untimely death without a fight!?
Yes, 3,000 have been sent to an untimely death – by the NIGERIAN POLICE! Uwazurike made his promise in good faith. He has never proposed violence + this being a ‘democratic’ dispensation, he expected the government to respect the right of individuals (or groups) to peacefully agitate for equality. That these brothers + sisters of ours have been murdered in cold blood condemns no one but King Kong! Of that make no mistake. Please try not to confuse where the blame should be squarely laid.
quote: anyway that is "new Biafra" , the issue is what kalu said about the "old Biafra",
There is no such thing as old + new Biafra in the context you propose. There was a first attempt + now a second attempt. Both flow effortlessly into each other. The first attempt informs the strategy for the second. The second attempt reinforces the justness of the first. Therefore, one cannot expect the apology attributed to Kalu (about the first attempt) to be ignored now. Mba!
quote:we have iwuanyawus, Nzeribes, late okadigbos etc, why were they not lynched over what they did wrong during the "old biafra" not to talk of what they say, some of these men, have also contested for Presidency of nigeria in one time or the other, and nobody called for their heads .
Again, visit the archives. If you had previously, you would, like I have, deemed this statement of yours unnecessary.
Markus, please allow me to reiterate: Mr Orji 'we are sorry for the war' Kalu will NEVER get the support of the discerning Igbo until + unless he retracts his cowardly apology + finally grows himself a backbone! Kalu took it upon himself to apologise for Nd’Igbo choosing not to be slaughtered in their beds.To add to that, he has left his State in a condition that any impartial observer would roundly condemn. Mbakwe would have shed buckets of tears if he was alive to see what has become of all his efforts in the State. So, nwanne, on what basis are you campaigning for him exactly? What has he done for Ndi Abia? What has he done for Nd’Igbo? What can we look to in order to convince ourselves that he is the right man for the job? Do you know something we don’t know?
Please tread softly lest you + he be tarred with the same brush. Enough said.
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quote:It is the most easy thing to come to the NEt to threat fire and brimstone but another to put same to action. - Nwa Aro
Yes! I love the NET! I love BNW! It allows me to be ‘entertained’ in my home by jokers like you that I wouldn’t have in my home. Is my writing bothering you dear man? Are you upset? Throwing your toys out of your playpen? I’m not surprised. “Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to all those who seek to suppress the truth” – Prof. Wole Soyinka.
quote:Igboblood: Any of you who cannot brave the odds to go out on the street to protest Uwazuruike's arrest and detention,say at the front of the Nigerian Embassy close to you, as the Palestinians often did is from hence a BORN COWARD. - Nwa Aro
Really? Is that a fact? Is that how it works? Assuming, for the sake of argument, that not going to the High Commission is cowardly, is it more or less cowardly than living a life full of 180 degree turns? More or less cowardly than being willing to eat crumbs from the ‘master‘s’ table? More or less cowardly than the financial impropriety you displayed at a recent fundraising + the lies that followed thereafter? More or less cowardly than plagiarising articles written by others? More or less cowardly than being incapable of independent thought? More or less cowardly than being unable to take a firm stand? More or less cowardly than supporting a known fraud? More or less cowardly than calling Nd’igbo illiterate + unenlightened? My dear man, your desperation is apparent + flows directly from the fact that there is definitely 'something of the night' about you. If I am a coward, then you are the shadow of a coward. Stated otherwise, you don't even have the courage to be a coward.
Your endorsement of Kalu has nothing to do with commonsense or even concern for Nd’Igbo, but everything to do with good, old-fashioned human stupidity, ignorance + greed. Be in no doubt; your very transparent mind in no way translates to clear thinking + your extraordinary moral somersault in recent times is the preserve of mediocre minds which, regrettably, also have to be kept busy. Do continue to clutch at straws…that’s all you’ve got to prevent your drowning. As you + Kalu fraternise with your Abuja handlers, always remember that although Brutus conspired to stab Caesar in the back, he never became emperor! When the history of Nd’Igbo is written, your kind will be nothing more than a footnote to a footnote. Good luck mate – you’ll need it because you have no credibility left to damage!
Postscript I didn’t bother to read your clearly plagiarised second post which a cursory glance immediately revealed to be an attempt to catch the truth in a very tangled web. As Tijani would say, “Na real wah”!
___________________ Free Uwazurike Now!
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Igboblood: a COWARD you are and so you seems to want to remain. You can run but you cant hide. You cant come on the Net and make claims of Orji Kalu "emptied" the treasury of a State, which most on this board do not come from and when confronted with HARD FACTS, you start claiming that you "did not read" the other side of Orji Kalu.
Quote: ----------------------- "Markus, please allow me to reiterate: Mr Orji 'we are sorry for the war' Kalu will NEVER get the support of the discerning Igbo until + unless he retracts his cowardly apology + finally grows himself a backbone! Kalu took it upon himself to apologise for Nd’Igbo choosing not to be slaughtered in their beds. ----------------------------------
Speak for youself. Who are the "we" in your statement above. Be informed that Orji Kalu's campaign is not like the cyber-frenzy "new" Biafra of territory charade. if you are in doubt, do feel free to call your relatives back home to know where in your village Orji Kalu's posters, which dots every nook and cranny of Nigeria is hanged in your area.
Though I did condemn Orji Kalu's reported "apology" then on this board. But unlike some of you who try to capitalize on every opportunity to destroy people, I did it then because I simply thought that it was unnecessary and uncalled for. But since touts like you are now using it to rubbish Orji Kalu's other recorded achievements, I hereby withdraw that public condemnation, and furthermore, I am hereby telling you guys that Orji Kalu does not owe you or anyone any apolog for exercising his god-given right to free speech
Quote: -------------------- To add to that, he has left his State in a condition that any impartial observer would roundly condemn."--Igboblood. ---------------------------
Yes oga kwatakwa! And we should believe it because a god called Igboblood said so, abi? Where are the figures to support your wild claims?
BTW, who are the "impartial observers" amongst the brainwashed neoBiafrans? Is it the Igboblood who cannot reason with his head or whom?
Since you tried to also dudge answering the questions I put to you guys in my last mail, or even try to say that the positive things I wrote about Orji Kalu are made-up, a review of the threads will unearth where Emyimba Football Club's continental victory was celebrated on this board. Moreover, a complete read of the said thread will get you informed on the positive things more older socalled Biafrans on this board said of Orji Kalu as a person then. Now come back and compare same with the madness you and your gang of confusionist are spreading now.
Listen Igboblood, the era when you ignoramuses came on this board to post craps and expect everyone to buy it or remain silent has gone and gone forever. So be sure that when next you come here to say that this person did this or that, that there will be someone like Nwa Aro who will be here to challenge you guys to come up with the FACTS and FIGURES. Otherwise... This is not Ariria market where an Oga gives orders and the boy-boys nod in obeyance; even when they dont know what their master instructed them to do.
So the only way you guys will be making sense in the truly impartial minds is when you come up with the specific amount that was in Abia State's vault when Orji Kalu came into office in 1999, how much he "stole" between then and now. and most importantly, how really poor are the Abians when compared to other Igbos as we write.
Anything short of providing the above information will leave you and your fellow journeymen in the limbo you have often found yourselves when you try to brush woll over people's eyes.
FYI, what we post on this board is not only for the consumption of a loner called Igboblood. Rather is for the world to know that Igbo people are not foolish and blind as you guys want everyone to be. So once again, I repost a re-edited mail I posted above.
As for your gragra, be informed that many, I mean very many cowards like you have come with more empty threats and cajoling but the INDOMITABLE Nwa Aro whose only weapon has been the TRUTT, the whole truth and nothing but the truth has put them in their rightful places, one way or the other, so do not waste your time engaging in Halloween-like gragra.
As for your changing position, someone should have told you and your mentors that Nwa Aro is not a fool as they thought. Check this out: You stay in London, Chicago, Los Angeles, and what have you, you send your fools in Nigeria to die an UNACCOUNTED and miserable death. If that person is not unfortunate to die like chicken and is instead arrested as Uwazuruike is presently, (I guess you liars and story forgers must have deceived him to believe that George Bush and other western leaders knows of what he is doing in Nigeria as Chiboy came here to deceive people that MASSOB sent a letter to "congratulate" Bush on his re-election) instead of doing what the Lebanese, whose Prime Minister was assinated by have been doing by going on the streets to bring the plight of their slain leader to world's attention, all you loudmouths do is to come to BNW to shed crocodile tears. Yet, you still want any reasonable person to take you seriously.
Nwa Aro the fool should have gone to die for an idealogy which life-loving nitwits like you cannot explain in two simply lines. Abi?
Have you ever heard of the saying that "when cunny man die cunny man buryam?"
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Again, here is the re-edited mail I posted for you COWARDS to either address or shut up forever:
-------------------------------- "A man is not judged by only what he said or says but more by what he did or does." - Anonymous.
After using an international example in my opening mail to show how only those who operate from within the mainstream of a given society are often the pioneers in breaking the bond of isolation and abandonment of a particular people, I will in this epistle use a more local example, the Yoruba experience in Nigeria, to bring that home-truth right onto the bed of the extremists and the fringe elements amongst the Igbo race.
It is not debatable that though the Yorubas did not face any conventional war in Nigeria as the Igbo did, nevetheless, they also had a chequred history which was once similar to the political limbo the Igbo race have been going through since the end of the Nigerian civil war. Just like some in the Igbo race, some in the Yoruba house then also errenously thought that it was following Awolowo and his politics of isolationism that would bring the Yoruba nation out of the wilderness they were before 1992. But unlike what the Awoists and the neo-isolationists among the Yorubas like Abraham Adesanya, Bolaji Aluko, Bola Ige, Babatope, etc brainwashed the Yoruba people to believe; that it is when the Yorubas race follow Awolowo's tribal politics or relocate into an equally unarticuted 'Oduduwa republic' (as the Awoists attempted to do during Abiola's travails) that their economic and political dislocations will be resolved, as fate would have it, it tuned out that that the Awoists were not only wrong, but DEAD WRONG.
Ironically, it was not the late Awolowo who thought that he was more Yoruba than every other Yoruba, nor his die-hard followers like Olu Falae that did the magic. Rather, it was/is those like Moshood Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo whom the then equally brainwashed and blinded Awoists and the extremists among the Yoruba foolishly refered to as "bastards," "Traitors," "enemy of the people" and what have you who actually led the Yoruba nation into mainstream Nigerian politics.
So, when the Wackos from Igbo land correctly say that Nigeria of 2005 is in their words 'Yoruba Incoporated,' they should be informed that that did not happen through Awolowo's politics of isolation as the Wackos preach today, On the contray, it is a non-conformist in the person of the late Moshood Abiola (who never had love for Awolowo's myopic politics) who carved the path and led the way for the likes of Obasanjo to follow to Abuja to now occupy the all-empowering seat that made it possible for Obasanjo to create that Yoruba national pride which the Wackos are jealous of.
As for the Yorubas, being the political mavericks that they are, sensing that they have been misled and held to bondage by the opportunistic Awoists all the while, they did not waste time in rebelling against the neo-Awoist by taking their destiny into their hands in 2003 by voting enmass for the national PDP in preference to the Awoist-dominated localized AD. The Yoruba isolationists and extremists in the now deserted AD house of deceit have not yet come out of that rude shock as we write. And there is no chance that they will ever come out of it anytime soon.
Even the westernized African-Americans who ought to know and act better are not all that either. For we have heard and read of how some African-Americans who were/are obviously brainwashed and blinded by isolationists like the Reverend Shampton and racists like Louise Farakhan also deregoratory refer to successful non-conformists and trail-blazers like Condelessa Rice and Colin Powell with names ranging from "House N-word" to "Uncle Sam's' bla bla bla.
Above are the handy examples from which the Igbo extremists, fringe elements and OPPORTUNISTS among us (I hope they continue operating behind handles) who hang their case on one myopic pole or the other, or who think calling the Nwa Aros silly names will scare anyone MUST have to learn from before they are also swept off the scene like their opportunistic conterparts above.
It is only an Igbo who is born of half Igbo blood, or one who is not guided by both local and international history who will be detered by the CRAP which some self-styled extremists and fringe elements who cowardly operate from behind veils post on the Net.
In continuation on my series on WHAT and HOW Ndigbo should acknowledge the past, the Biafran experience. But instead of letting it be a hindrance or an opportunity for some to hold us down forever as the neoBiafrans often argue, I will use the experience of another Nigerian race to show how that past experience could instead become a propella and energizer for Ndigbo as 2007 approaches. Since everyone reading us must have gotten the inclination by now that, I, Nwa Aro is a fan of Governor Orji Kalu of Abia State, I will also use this opportunity to present the unheard and often hiden positive side of the Governor, and his recorded achievements to wit:
Whether Orji Kalu's opponents like it or not, truth is that Governor Orji Kalu is a trail-blazer in many ways than one. On the local south eastern Nigeria front, Orji Kalu to his credit has done for Abia State what neither Nnamani of Enugu State, Udenwa of Imo State, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi State nor Chris Ngige of Anambra State has thus far done for the people of their respectively states. This is even as some Ngige supporters from Anambra State claim that he (Ngige) is doing "wonders" in his state.
Though I am not, and wouldn't want to be seen as Orji Kalu's campapaign manager or his mouthpiece, even at that, I would gladly grab the opportunity to do the job should it come my way. The reason being that I strongly believe that difference of idealogy, sentiments and clannism apart, the fellow, apart from being a fellow Igbo and Abian, is worth the support.
As the saying goes, " a taste of a pud is in the eating." Hence, if one could remove the clannish and myopic idealogical lenses which one does not need to be psychologist to discern that it is the fuel driving the nay voices against Orji Kalu's candidacy from among some minority from Igbo land in this village, it becomes more obvious that Governor Orji Kalu has indeed achieved so much with very little resources at his disposal.
Politics: Though Abia State, like the rest of the South East had its own share of post-election disputes following the rigged 2003 elections, however, the manner most Abians, starting from Orji Kalu's opponent at the poll, Mr. Onwuka Kalu, to the way Orji Kalu accomodated the former after he lost his appeal at the Election Tribunal, right down to the matured way ordinary Abians on the streets behaved themselves while other parts of Igbo land where in one political crisis or the other means that other Igbo-speaking states, and indeed Nigeria as a whole has a lot to copy from Abia State. And most importantly, from Orji Kalu's all-inclusive style of leadership.
Economy: It is an age-old truism that economic grown and instabilty are like oil and water: Both cant mix and produce a pure and disolable liquid. In other words, for any polity to grow economically, there has to be relatively a political fertile ground on which that economic flower could flourish and blossom. So, while some may not agree with Orji Kalu's other attributes, no one, I repeat no one who want to be honest to his conscience would argue with the FACT that Abia State under the leadership of Orji Kalu has known relative peace and tranquility when compared to its neigbours in the south east part of Nigeria. This has in turn created an enabling environment whereby commercial activities in notable Abia cities like Aba and Umuahia has been mushrooming and expanding in very rapid pace. Inspite the fact that Abia State is more younger than the present Imo and Anambra States, statics however show that Abia State has more medium-sized and large-sized industries (mostly concentrated in Aba and Umuahia and its environs) than those in the older two affore-mentioned states.
Education: It can't also be argued that since Abia State under the leadership of the charismatic Orji Kalu started implementing the socalled Universal Free Primary Education Program, that Abia State has had more schools built, and those in existence have seen its student-intake quadruple. Infact, the pupil and student enrolment into primary, secondary and post-secondary institutions of learning in Abia State is presently far higher than those of say Anambra State for example.
General Development: Those who have been to Umuahia, Abia State's capital city, prior to when the present Abia State was carved out of the old Imo State would agree with me that inspite of the effort of the then equally charsmatic Governor Sam Mbakwe to spread development all around the old Imo State, Umuhia then was more or less a cosmopolitan village. Though the first executive governor of Abia State, Ogbonaya Onu, like Mbakwe before him did do some good work in Aba metropolis, sadly, whether out of ommission or commission, they both neglected doing same for Umuahia and its nearby towns and villages. That all changed when Governor Orji Kalu came into office in 1999.
Because of Orji Kalu's untiring effort, Umuahia is today a modern city. It is also a city where the public utilities like water supply is in quantative and qualitative supply; the city is now linked to the Nigerian National Electric Grid; it now has digitalized telephone network; the roads are well paved and lined with trees and flowers; the street electricity poles are standing and its lights fuctioning.
Infact, if anyone is looking for how and what to judge Orji Kalu's proven abilities at governance, my advice to them is that they should take time when next they visit Nigeria to pay an uncensored and unrestricted visit to Umuahia city. I bet those who have questioned Orji Kalu's abilities will come back here to hastly retract their comments.
Apart from the capital city of Umuahia haven been transformed beyond recognition, the ancient and historical towns like Arochukwu (this town, apart from Nri village in Anambra State is older and has more historical artifacts and monuments than any other town in the southeast part of Nigeria) are also being rapidly transformed into a truly modern cities.
Sports: It is in this field that no other state, nor governor in Nigeria could match that of Governor Orji Kalu of Abia State. It is in the field of sports administration and management that Governor Orji Kalu has more than shown how someone could uproot a scrap metal and turn same into a functioning and productive machine
Governor Orji Kalu proved his managerial skills when he took over the then rag-tag Enyimba Football Club of Aba, which was then in the Second Division of the Nigerian National Leaque and single-handedly financed it until it climbed to the First Division. That was not the end of the story, for Orji Kalu's fate with history and glory came when Enyimba Football Club of Aba first won the elusive African Cup of Champions in Egypt in 2003. They did repeat the same feat the year after. It must be noted that Eyimba Football Club of Aba was the FIRST Nigerian club to ever win the African Champions Cup.
On the personal side, which is the thrust of my bringing up this sports angle, Orji Kalu is on record to have bought the boots, jerseys and other sporting apparels which the cup-winning side used while the tornament lasted. Furthermore, he is said to have paid the fight ticket and hotel bills for the triumphant Enyimba club side from his private wallet. Starting from the qualifing stage upto the club first won the cup in 2003. To cap it all, Governor Orji Kalu, who is a footbal enthuisiast to the core like his mentor, the late Moshood Abiola, did not stop at only supporting and sponsoring the team, he also presented a gift of a brand new 'KIA' (a South Korean brand) saloon car to each of the players and members of the technical team of the 2003 maiden Enyimba cup-winning side on their return to Nigeria from Egypt where they won the cup! It should be noted that most of the players and its technical crew were non Igbos.
It was in recognition of the above effort that the Nigerian Ministry of Sports honoured Governor Orji Kalu with the title of 'Nigerian Pillar of Sports.' It should also be recalled that this was the title Moshood Abiola held when he was alive; for as history also recorded, he did contribute immensely toward the development of footbal and sports in general in Nigeria before he died in jail.
It was the above records that I had in mind when I asked Sylva if he knew that Orji Kalu has contributed positively to the development of Ndigbo, Igbo land, Nigeria as a country and in Nigerians as a people? Obviously, Sylva's concentration on what Orji Kalu said or did not say about Anambra State where he come from, and all that crap did not let him see through where my question was coming from.
So, when all is said and done, and when one puts all the nonsensical "reasons" Orji Kalu's opponents have brought forward to unmake his candidacy, it becomes clear even to the uninformed that their "reasons" are based on hearsays and tale-by-moonlight make-believes, or to some extend long-held stereo-types. But an objective indepth look at Governor Orji Kalu's record of RECORDED successes since 1999 till date shows that he has done well as governor to move to the next national level of governance as he wishes to do come 2007. To o even read Sylva say that Governor Orji Kalu should "continue doing his business" when his term is expired is to say the least unbecoming of someone whom I thought believed in democratic norms and values. But come to think of it, is there really any other business more important than one having political power gotten through the ballot-box and using same to affect positively on the people that live in the holder's area of authority as Orji Kalu intends, and God willing, he will achieve come 2007?
Now that the world has been informed, point-by-point, of what Governor Orji Kalu has been able to do for his people in Nigeria since he came into office, we, his supporters would also love those who are against his candidacy to move from harping on his person: Of what he said or should have said, to broaden the search-light and debate by telling the world what the other prospective candidates, namely, Obasanjo (who is Nigeria's President since 1999 and is rumoured to have a third-term ambition,) IBB (he was Nigeria's longest serving Military Head of State,) Atiku (he is since 1999 Nigeria's Vice-President) or Marwa (he was once governor of Lagos State), who are also rumoured to have ambitions to become Nigeria's next president have done or could do better than Orji Kalu when any of the former manages to become Nigeria's head of state.
At a second thought, I even sense that all this pre-arranged lobsided (most of those shouting themselves hoarse are not from Abia State) anti-Orji Kalu cyber tantum, which, ofcourse does not go beyond BNW is another tactics which the frustrated neoBiafrans want to use to stop anyone from Igbo land from contesting the natioanl elections come 2007. Well, if that is the plan, all I can tell my fellow forumites is that Orji Kalu's campaiagn has even been noted by the powers that be in the western world. Moreover, his posters are hanging in every nook and cranny of Nigeria. All that the talkatives on BNW could do is to call home to inquire from their home-based relatives if that is the case or not. For as I earlier said, Orji Kalu's campaign is a cyber based affair, nor one to be decided by faceless individuals on the Net.
The onus of prove therefor is now on Orji Kalu's opponents in this village and without to tell us what are the qualities and the resources at the disposal of Orji Kalu's known and imagined opponents, Igbo or not, which makes them more qualified than Orji Kalu, to: A) become Nigeria's next President, and, B) how he/she could manage and pilot Nigeria's dire political, social and economic affairs post-2007. ------------
Igboblood & co, the ball is in your court to disprove or rebutt the facts and figures I presented above. Please for once give the world your FACTS and FIGURES as to how Abians have been ripped off by Governor Orji Kalu, so that we could judge for ourselves how truly "impartial and independent thinking" you guys are.
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Really? Is that a fact? Is that how it works? Assuming, for the sake of argument, that not going to the High Commission is cowardly, is it more or less cowardly than living a life full of 180 degree turns? More or less cowardly than being willing to eat crumbs from the ‘master‘s’ table? More or less cowardly than the financial impropriety you displayed at a recent fundraising + the lies that followed thereafter? More or less cowardly than plagiarising articles written by others? More or less cowardly than being incapable of independent thought? More or less cowardly than being unable to take a firm stand? More or less cowardly than supporting a known fraud? More or less cowardly than calling Nd’igbo illiterate + unenlightened? My dear man, your desperation is apparent + flows directly from the fact that there is definitely 'something of the night' about you. If I am a coward, then you are the shadow of a coward. Stated otherwise, you don't even have the courage to be a coward.