RE: IGBO POLITICS AND HOLLYWOOD MOVIE

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Mr Shuaib,

Where were you when the entire Igbo rejected the so-called election that produced the very same outcome you are now whingeing about? In which part of the God foresaken state were you hiding when the farcial charade was enacted in April? Short of running about and killing pregnant women in sabon gari or behading a man in police custody and parading his head on a spike around Kano, what are Hausa people doing to challenge the illegitimate regime that has been imposed on Nigeria?

1. Igbo people are not Hausa or Yoruba people just like Italians are not French and Germans are not Rusians. Your commentary arises largely from a gross misreading of the Igbo political culture. The moment you understand that key point, the better for you and your ilk. The French, Italians and Japanese change their goverments every fotnight, yet they control some of the largest economies in the world.

2. Not long ago, Nigerians without any evidence gloated about educational collapse in Igboland da da da da da da. That continued until JAMB showed that Anambra state alone had more university candidates than the entire nothern Nigeria, and more candidates than three Yoruba states combined! And yet Anambra was the state where Igbo had allegedly abandoned education for trading.

3. The decay if any in Igbo politics is caused and maintained by state failure in Nigeria. An independent Igbo state free from the constrictures imposed by your ilk would evolve at its own pace, it may change regimes daily or weekly and still be able to develop and guide its own rocket systems just like was done in Biafra, so shut up and don't talk to us about genocide in Sierra Leone. What about the massacre of Igbo people in Hausaland that led to war? What about the massacre of all male Igbo by your hero Mr Murtala Mohammed at Asaba in 1967? What about the Hausa-led starvation to death of 2 million Igbo women and children between 1967 and 1970? Obviously, those do not qualify as genocide in your warped logic.

4. And when you speak of "credible candidate for the presidency", we say yeah right! Just as credible as Obasanjo, a semi-literate thug and buffoon who is running the hopeless negro state down on a daily basis. Now that the Igbo did not produce your credible candidate, let those of you who can produce them continue to run Nigeria, Obasanjo style and lets see who gets hurt first.

5. My friend, if I were you, I would keep my nose out of Igbo affairs and concentrate on issues affecting the Hausa nation - desertification, mass illiteracy, Islamic fundamentalism, delinkage from global culture etc.

I look left, right and centre and I fail to see any gains your nation has made out of its political wisdom that qualify you to prescribe political behaviour for us.

6. So just look after yourself mate and leave the Igbo alone. Nigeia is not going anywhere but downhill without the full and robust participation of Igbo people, the single largest nation in that state. Anti-Igbo policies and commentary will only lead to further collapse of Igbo support for the Nigerian state and its inevitable collapse. All such ideas will ultimately fail while the Igbo will survive, always. For example, in the 1970s, you lot started messing about with the Nigerian educational system to punish the Igbo - quota system, federal character, educationally disadvataged areas etc. As a result, many Igbo were forced out to the USA. Today we have a solid Igbo diaspora - educated, mobile, skilled, affluent and conscious. Meanwhile the Hausa are still stuck in Nigeria with their degenerative quota system. In the same way, the principle of rotational presidency was squelched when it was the Igbo turn. Now look at what obasanjo is doing with the unfortunate black state.

Tufia!

The Nigerian state is run as a punitive enterprise against Igbo people. But every anti-Igbo policy will drive that state down the tube while the Igbo targets will survive and prosper. The emergence of the Igbo diaspora as a direct consequence of the degenerative quota system is a lesson for you and your ilk.

So weep for youself and your Nigeria, weep not for Ndiigbo.

Mz Kevin Ani

Executive Director

CIVIL RIGHTS LEAGUE-NG <crlng@catholic.org>

How are you? I want to congratulate you for the piece on 'Ibo people' which I read in the

internet. I am Ibo myself but it pains me that Nigeria's leaders have not been able to harness the potentials of Ibos while discouraging the wrongful diversion of these potentials in perpetuating negative vices of all sorts exhibited by many of my kinsmen.

Chudi

"Lawrence Ikwueze"

<lc2ikwueze@hotmail.com>

8-Aug-2003

Dear Shuaib

I am of the Ibo descent living in the United States.I am writing to commend you on the most brilliant and effuusive article I have read in a long time. I agree into-to with every assertion as you have enumerated in you piece.My promise to you is that I do intend to e-mail this particular piece to all my friends and sundry.

"Dibia, Adolphus"

<ADibia@lexgen.com>

25 july 2003

Shuaib,

After reading your piece on the above subject I concluded that you seem not to know what is going on even when it is clear on the ground. can't you understand that Obasanjo is reponsible for what happened in Anambra state, just to embarass Ekwueme and Ojukwu ? why has Obasanjo not charged those guys with treason as he will do to others else where?

You wrote as if Ibos are naturally stupid people who preper Illiterates to govern them. Remember it was Emeka Offor who was used by OBJ during the tenure of the previous governor. Now it is Chris Uba . You are an intelligent person who should ask himself some relevant questions:

Why must these two troublesome fellows be Illiterate contractors based in Abuja? It has nothing to do with ethnic group or tribe. Were northerners in OBJ's campaign not insulting Gen Buhari ?

Has that happened before? Will that be enough reason to say the northerners are stupid? We all know what OBJ is doing, but I am happy that he only has a couple of years left. Why must it always be Anambra State? Why not Imo, Abia Ebonyi or Enugu?

jonas

jonas.x.okwara@verizon.com

24 july 2003

Thanks Mr. for your good insult, Mr.Yushau Abdulhameed Shuaib. Why should you deliberately decide to be ignorant? You can blame Igbos for everything including the Kaduna Sharia riot, but you should have been frank to admit that Obasanjo (Nigeria state as whole) is still waging the Biafran war against the Igbos. Igboland is the only section of the country where the federal Police force engages in all arts of crime and lawlessness with the active support and encouragement from the Obsanjo's federal governemet. It is

deliberately done in order to instigate riot in Igbo land, so that Obasanjo will see reason to "take off more Igbo heads" if i may borrow that phrase from Reuben Abati. If not why has Obasanjo not made a comment on the Anambra crisis? Where is the outrage from the Nigerian Press and the so-called civil right activists? Blame Igbo for everything including the the fuel riot, if Igbos wheren't into fuel business, petrol would have 50K per liter.

"Emenike Anigbogu"

<eanigbogu@Paratekpharm.com>

23 july 2003

Yushau Abdulhameed Shuaib-

I'm Igbo and under normal circumstances i would rip apart your article. The truth can not be ignored and your write up is true. You hit the nail on the head. Any national aspirations for Aso rock should come after we clean up our house. For all our achievements a handful of hooligans make the entire tribe to seem decadent.

Your write-up was very insightful.

Thanks

IBB.

-- "1b_bad " <1b_bad@blackplanet.com>

24 july 2003

Hello Shuaib,

I am a student at the Catholic University Leuven Belgium. I am a full blooded Igbo Man who not only love my race and tribe but firmly wishes to have a separate Igbo nation from the deceit called Nigeria.

However, I would not fail to give you a standing ovation for your well tailored and objective observation. I refuse to see your views as criticism whether objective or subjective but as a candid love to my dear race and beloved people. For I saw your views as a great honour and respect to the tribe I came from and not to make mockery of it, as I do observe in some other authors.

I do read a lot of works from other biased people ,but I was most impressed by your work that I had to take off time of my studies to write you a commendation mail.

Once more, I say thanks,

If you can, please be sending me your articles I would be glad to have them.

Keep fine and may God bless you.

Uche ( Schooling in Belgium)

"EVANS UCHE OBIKWELU"

<uchevario@hotmail.com>

23 july 2004

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