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As the jamboree moves to Boston, the question to be asked is: has WIC learned anything from the years of shuffling from one US city to another? It is clear that self-respecting Nd'Igbo have since turned away from WIC, and the gang of jobbers in WIC are now only able to attract the likes of Orji Uzor Kamalu. WIC's problems are compounded by a growing perception that the group's leadership is unable to project an image of forthrightness and sincerity. What is one to make of the willingness of WIC to freely make illegal copies of materials belonging to others.
After I read the article by Odo Akaji, I decided to visit the WIC website, and behold the site is filled with materials that appear to have been stolen form others, including some written by Odo Akaji himself. This type of behavior suggests that WIC is a group sponsor of intellectual anarchy; hardly the sort of stuff that we wish our future generations to learn from us.
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This will be the first WIC convention of the Chibuzor Onwuchekwa nku ukwa era. Not much should be expected from the leadership ushered in at the "Nd'Igbo as a Basement People" convention organized by Kalu Kalu Diogu in Los Angeles, California.
God help the Igbo Nation!
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The CHALATANS are at it again; making their usual NOISE. For God's sake, why do the Patricks who claim they dont care a hoot what the WIC stands lose sleep whenever like-minded fellows decide to meet and decide the fate of the Igbo nation? Secondly, why cant 'Patrick' and co go to Boston (I guess the bobo, like his fellow outcasts in the Biafra of territory camp cannot brave the odds to be fotographed) to say what they cowardly post on BNW?
Patrick and co, once again I task you to go to Boston and dare Orji Kalu IN HIS FACE, instead of cowardly running to BNW to RANT like the OUTCASTS that you are.
And before you or Ambrose come up with another 'WIC meeting held at the basement of a hotel' concocted story, let me inform you and those reading us that the 12th WIC convention is going as planned, with all the invited delegates and guests present.
Now go fabricate another story.
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As the OUTCASTS on BNW who do not belong here nor there and who often find comfort in running to BNW to engange in their usual call-white-black, and vice-versa gossip and distortion of facts try to distort the facts as it concerns this year's well-attended WIC convention, as one who knows more than what these lazy and mischievious folks are telling, I will be failing in my duty if I fail to PUT THE RECORDS STRAIGHT, and in sense put them where they rightly belong - in the dustbin of history.
________________________________ Party leaders attend Igbo Congress in U.S
Five National chairmen of political parties on the platform of Patriotic Alliance (PA) left the country weekend for Massachusetts, United States to attend the 12th World Igbo Congress convention.
The party leaders are Chief Maxi Okwu, National Chairman Citizens Popular Party (CPP), Barr. Dan Nwanyanwu, National Chairman Labour Party (LP), Chief Raph Obiorah, national chairman of Justice Party (JP), Prince Ngozi Emioma, national chairman Nigerian Peoples Congress (NPC) and Chief Demain S.C. Inyamah, president general, Igbo Delegates Assembly (IDA).
In a statement signed by the National Administrative Secretary, Ernest Ogbu noted that the congress was aimed at restoring and sustaining the Igbo culture, politics, education and economic empowerment of Ndigbo.
In the statement, World Igbo Congress (WIC) chairman, Chief Chibuzor Onwuchekwa said “the 2006 WIC convention in Boston is not only to mark the rebirth of the Igbo initiative and the turning point in our collective determination to deal with all odds, it will also engender feasible economic goals and strategies for attaining them, environmental stability, communal consciousness and concerted efforts to ensure that the next president of Nigeria is of Igbo extraction.” ________________________________________________
Meanwhile, to show how truly successful this year's convention is, it did not only parade the WHO IS WHO from Igbo land and from other parts of Nigeria, its array of invited guests, who did attend the occassion, also included scholars and intellectuals from around the world. Amongst whom is the reknowed Jewish scholar and teacher, Dr. Mark Sokou:
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Boston comes alive for Ndigbo
Marriol Boston Copley Place has suddenly turned into a political Mecca of sorts for Nigerians. Boston apart from being the cradle of modern day democracy for the United States of America (USA) is home of the Kennedy’s who Americans believe is the symbol of new democracy. Boston is the venue the 12th World Igbo Conference It also parades the most outstanding Ivy League institutions in USA.
The most prominent institutions are the world acclaimed Harvard, MIT, North Eastern and Cambridge among others. It has the best medical schools and this probably accounts for why over 70 per cent of the population of Boston are public and civil servants.
Presenting a paper on the similarities between the Jews and Ndigbo, Mr. Mark Sokou a rabbi Jewish scholar and president/CEO Jewish Community in Boston, said that Jews and Ndigbo share a number of outstanding similarities. These include persecution, injustice, political degradation/emasculation and inequity. Mr. Sokou stated that one thing Jews share in common is the ability to transform painful memories to source of pride and strength ____________________________________________
Thanks to break-speed information tecknology, otherwise, the goons on BNW could have gone to their 'closed forum' where they often go to fabricate their out-of-this-world lies and stories to tell us that the 12th World Igbo Congress's convention was a "failure".
Needless to say that gone are the days when the socalled Biafrans on BNW would come here to put up make-believe stories and expect them not be challenged and BUSTED.
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Meanwhile, the list of WHO IS WHO who were at the convention kept multiplying: _____________________________ Monday, September 4, 2006
World Igbo Congress: Nnamani, Soludo task Ndigbo
ROSE MOSES, Boston, USA
Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani has called on Ndigbo especially the leadership of World Igbo Congress (WIC) to evolve appropriate strategies to implement the group’s development programmes. Similarly, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CB N), Prof Charles Soludo has identified three major factors holding back progress in Igboland despite the enormous potentials of its people.
Senator Nnamani also called on Ndigbo both home and abroad to focus their energy at actionable plans and programmes that can take them out of the doldrums they presently find themselves, even as he declared that no matter the formula for the sharing of the national revenue, the greater initiative for economic transformation of Igbo states must come from state and local governments.
The Senate President who spoke at the 12th edition of the World Igbo Congress, holding in Boston, Massachussets, United States of America (USA), stressed that the governors and local council chairmen in Igboland must set the enabling fiscal and regulatory environment for the innovative activities by the Diaspora Igbo, just as he urged Ndigbo to develop practical mechanism that would translate into real outcomes, the decisions and recommendations of the convention.
He said Igbo are in doldrums not because they fare worse than any other ethnic groups, but because despite their potentials for true greatness, they are far from being a great African race. He noted that when compared with what the Igbos could have achieved in Nigeria in view of their tremendous intellectual and entrepreneurial prowess, their condition calls for tears, a situation he attributed to their failure to imagine, think and act strategically. Said he: “Change comes when ideas are generated and frameworks are established to implement them.”
While citing, for instance, that participants at the last convention of WIC identified the upgrading of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport as one of the development agenda they would pursue, the Senate President regretted that up till date, no effective mechanism has been set in place to actualize that agenda. “I am not aware of a committee charged with liaising with the public authorities in Nigeria to realize the agenda,” he said, adding, “We must develop actionable plans and lay down strategies to realize them. ” Although the WIC convention holds great potentials for Ndigbo, Nnamani reminded that organizers run the risk of clothing it with pessimisms and scepticism if the people back home do not see tangible results of deliberations of the conventions. He thus called on them to ensure that tasks set by the previous conventions are achieved before taking on fresh commitments.
On Nigeria and the crisis of governance, Nnamani specifically pointed that Ndigbo have suffered much misfortune in the country that can best be understood as results of an endemic crisis of governance. “The Igbos have become the battering rams, the victims of the malfunctioning of politics in Nigeria…such that whenever politics failed to contain the fervour in Nigeria, Igbo merchants and their businesses become scapegoats for the orgy of mass violence,” he said, noting that such unprovoked attacks should be seen as part of failure of political governance. He explained that, since it is only a democratic regime, which applies the rule of law and constitutional due process that can protect the fundamental rights of an enterprising people like the Igbo, they must struggle for democracy “because it is the only regime that will have sufficient incentive to provide the level playing field that the race needs to unleash its genius.
On 2007 and the Igbo Presidency, the Senate President who described Igbo as prime actors in the politics of Nigeria, was quick to remind that because politics is a competitive game, and the fact that Ndigbo will have to contend with other Nigerian geo-political zones, said there is need to clearly define the Igbo project and connect it to the Nigerian project. Chief (Dr.) Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, PDP Board of Trustees member, on his part urged Igbo leaders especially the governors, to chart a way forward for the Igbo nation. He suggested an initiative to form committees or groups that will look into and proffer solutions to the numerous challenges that Ndigbo are facing in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof Charles Soludo, has identified three major factors as holding back progress in Igboland, despite the enormous potentials of its people. They are sociological crisis, demographic crisis and power of organization. Prof. Soludo who was speaking at the ongoing World Igbo Congress (WIC) in Boston , Massachusetts , USA , said these factors might make it very difficult, in the near future, for the Igbos to move forward, economically. According to Soludo who spoke at the cultural night organized by WIC weekend, the way things are going in Nigeria today, the southeast, which only accounts for just between eight to nine per cent of Nigeria ’s GDP, may soon be regarded totally irrelevant in economic scheme of things in the country.
Regretting that investments of Ndigbo is everywhere but in Igboland, Soludo who equally reminded that the most talented, the most able of the Igbo population live outside of Igboland, warned that unless this situation is addressed, the Igbos would not go anywhere. According to him, the demographic crisis, or what he called a separation and clash of civilization, is characterized by a vicious circle that would continue to stand on the way of development in Igboland. Explaining further the sociological crisis, which he also described as a bleaching syndrome, Soludo said the Igbo race is suffering from an identity crisis that might wipe out the language, if urgent steps are not taken. “The question I want all to ponder is: After this particular generation, who are the other persons that will do the dance steps, (exhibited during the nite), who are the other persons that will hear of Atilogu, how many of the families here speak the language in their homes? The danger this portends, according to him, is that the Igbo is a dying race and Ndigbo in the future may not be able to reap the benefit of the generation to come. He also said “the development of Igboland, economically speaking, will not happen on a sustained basis because many of the efforts that the people are making today, are at best, adhoc in nature, while the crisis deepens with the most potent challenge being that the Igbo language is the only one predicted to die in the next 50 years, if the current trend continues.” “It is a crisis of identity, a crisis of personality and I think I want to argue in the future that unless we address these crises, Igbos will go nowhere, economically.”
Speaking earlier, President of WIC, Ichie Chi Onwuchekwa noted that the problem of Ndigbo appears to be that of leadership, regretting that those who represent them in government have not been very successful in promoting their interests. According to him, their experience in the diaspora has always been that of leaders convincing them that government at home has the best interest of Ndigbo as a matter of policy, among other things _________________________________________
What Ndigbo exhibited in Boston is among others the following:
a) Yes, we have problems -- both economic and political. However, what all and sundary agreed (as I have argued on this board) is that these problems could only be solved by the Igbo people themselves. By we firstly knowledging that most of these problems are self-inflicted and man-made as the speakers above did state. There is no arguing the fact that it is only when Ndigbo from top to bottom (those who keep pointing fingers at others are simply being dishonest) tell ourselves the truth by principally holding OURSELVES individually and collectively responsible for our problems that we could move a step further to finding long-term solutions to them; for often blaming others for our economic and political dislocations in Nigeria or in the diaspora is to say the least SELF-DEFEATIST and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE.
b) That even though we are divided in tongue and idealogy, that we could still put those differences aside to sit FACE- TO-FACE to analyse these problems, seek for solutions at solving them. And if we work harder as individuals and as a group, that we could overcome someday.
c) Last but surely not the least, even though it has finally dawned on Ndigbo in high and low places that we do indeed have problems (as could be drawn from most of the papers and speeches heard at this convention), however, what most delegates and guests agreed in Boston is that the ONLY way to go about finding solution to these multi-dimensional problems in Igboland and amongst the Igbo people is through DIPLOMATIC MEANS AND WITHIN A UNITED NIGERIA. For anything short of this is calling for anarchy and civil strife, which unfortunately, has not served the Igbo people and land any good thus far.
That being the case, it would be foolhardy for any Igbo with his head in the right place to go out of line to call for 'war' or secession on behalf of Ndigbo as the faceless individuals does on this and other pro-Biafra websites Needless therefor to say that anyone or group of individuals who decide on their own to wage war on Nigeria should not count on the support, remotely or otherwise, of the Igbos with the HUMAN AND MATERIAL RESOURCES who gathered in Boston to see such ELUSIVE venture through.
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Nwa Aro you need to stop wasting our bandwidth with all the nonsense no body cares to read. Why not leave those nonsense in the website where they are posted, or may be put a link to it, so that people who cares to read garbages from carpet baggers can go there and read it. Please do us all a favor and stop filling threads with all this nonsense written by Igbo efulefus. Better read it in those website and stop bringing it in here.
I now see why you were told that you should have gone to school first before participating in debates at BNW. The things you are writing here these days and the ones you are copying and dumping are things we have seen in the past from better educated Igbo efulefu and osu like yourself. But I guess it is all too novel to you since you just recently acquired "further studies."
When a few months ago you said you were returning to school to further your studies, many of us thought that you would indeed acquire some real education. Instead, what we are looking at is a typical osu Aru who thinks that being abroad has caused Umuigbo to forget his osu pedigree. If you are smart, as an aru man, you will never again allow anything that has to do with outcaste to come out of your osu mouth.
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You have ignored repeated counsel by well-meaning members of BNW. You have refused to guard your tongue and you have played fast and loose with facts. I knew that the silence that followed your last few posts was only the proverbial 'calm before the storm.' It was only a matter of time before people started addressing you as the toading slime that you have shown yourself to be.
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Don't expect Nwa Aro to respond to anything in a timely fashion. He has to go and tell his speechwriters to give him a response. By the time he gets back, everyone will have moved on to another subject. This is the problem with night school education.
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