By these "ibos" I mean the nuisances that come on here and insult the Yoruba race without justification or provacation.
I was born during the civil war and so did not see the
war because it ended when I was 3 years old; too
young to appreciate anything that went down but wise
enough to wish for war in any form.
When I was growing up, in Lagos I know some Ibos
living within my vicinity and even though we called
them okoro we were not told anything negative about
them, we just knew they did not speak our language,
some of them did of course.
My dad had a barbing salon on Lewis Street
“EWETUGA BARBING SALON” and a certain Ibo man,
Sunday was the foreman (or supervisor if you wish).
There were other barbers there who were Yorubas
and who were as good as Sunday if not better,
especially Jimoh, who was somewhere from Oyo
State, a Yoruba man complete with tribal marks.
Sunday was foreman (supervisor) because not only
was he the most senior barber then, he was also
good. He was a very good man and we all liked him
and fondly called him “broda Sunday” (brother Sunday
in accordance with the Yoruba traditional way of
respecting their elders by not calling them by name)
There was also an Ibo man who sold bread and tea
directly opposite the sandgrouse bus-stop. He was
kind of unique then because people selling tea and
bread then in Lagos (popularly called mai tea) were
the Hausas. The man was there for several years. He
only stopped selling these stuffs after buying 2
luxurious buses, at least that was what we were told.
One of my sisters had a son for an Ibo man; one of
my cousins actually married an Ibo woman. So I have
nephews, nieces, and my kids have second cousins
who are partly Ibos.
There’s this place on Lagos Island called Salu Court.
Right in front of the mosque were these Ibo family, we
grew up with these guys and went to university with
them, there was never a time that they were treated
like “foreigners” because they were not and nobody
killed them over some stupid cartoon or any reason
whatsoever.
WhenI was in EDUCATIONAL PROMOTERS at Akoka,
one of my best friends was Emeka. He was staying at
NNPC estate at Isolo. His dad would take us all
regardless of ethnicity to school. Nobody thought of
anyone being anything but brothers. My friend Amechi
who works with vanguard still sends my kids pictures
to me till tomorrow as we say. His sister is married to
a Yoruba man and they have been together for years.
Ndubuizi and his brother who is a pharmacist are
guys that, if I were to travel to Nigeria today, will visit
first. The pharmacist wife, who is also Ibo as well as
Amechi’s sister (Gbolahan’s wife) are very good friends
of my babies’ mama who is from Delta. Ndubuizi, the
pharmacist, Christian, Amechi and Gbolahan,
Amechi’s in-law are the first people that would be
called if anything were to happen to my kids.
There are some part of Lagos where you would be a
minority if you were Yoruba. Places such as Alaba,
Ladipo, Okota, Ajegunle will easily qualify. These are
places where Ibos are resident and are dominant.
There was an Ibo local government chairman in one
of these places. If someone would investigate it there
might still be one. If the Yorubas are not
accommodating there’s no way the Ibos would get to
be that many as to control a particular area. In Lagos,
it is not just the Ibos it is like that with all tribes in
Nigeria who choose to make Lagos their homes and it
is not just Lagos but all over the old western region.
When I was in Anambra during my youth service, I met
a soldier, a Yoruba man who was stationed in the
East, he was married to an Ibo woman and they were
living at Awka. These kids were not speaking Yoruba
then but speak Igbo fluently. The man told me he has
been at Awka for years. There was a tailor well known
at Awka and Amawbia. He was a Yoruba man and has
been at Anambra for several years. When I was at
Awka we would go to his shop and pass time, drinking
beer and having fun. There was never a time we had
problem coexisting.
Ican’t say the Ibos hate the yorubas because they
don’t. All my friends that I mentioned earlier are
friends that I can trust with my life and those of my
children. However, there are some individuals on this
site who do nothing but preach hatred against the
Yoruba race. These people would use any excuse to
take a jab at the Yorubas. The Hausas killed the Ibos
over some cartoon and some fool came here and
accused the Yorubas of turning the Hausas against
the Ibos, tell me in all honesty if such an individual
should not be confined to a mental home. Another
one came here telling a stupid story of a Yoruba man
who wished for the Ibo man to be tied to his back
when he was to be flogged. Rufus wrote his piece
about the plight of the Ibos in Nigeria and from his
story he did not tell of where the Yorubas committed
an act of genocide against the Ibos. If there are
quarrels between the Ibos and the Yorubas, they will
fight like everyone does and move on. Instead of “
these” Ibos to fight those killing them they would
rather call the Yorubas cowards. I belief it is an act of
cowardice to free your killers of any blame and blame
people who have shown them nothing but love.
Unless provoked, I have not seen, and if it exists it
would be an isolated case, where a Yoruba man
would write and debase the Ibos heritage or call the
Ibos leaders names. The Yorubas are well tutored in
the practice of respecting one’s elders. These Ibos will
rubbish the memories of Awolowo as if he was a
nobody.
A careful look at the background of these Ibos, I am
sure, would reveal that they are nonentities, people
who are uncouth, and totally without home training as
we say.
These are people, who lay claim to being intellectuals,
reason like imbeciles; I cannot detect any intelligent
reasoning in their outrage against a race that is
accommodating to them. They think of nothing but
war and they are bent on preaching nothing but
hatred.
The reason why these fools will continue to abuse the
Yoruba is because we let them get away with the
insult they heap on our race which is also the reason
they gleefully call us cowards. I have always said that
the philosophy of turning the other cheeks is not good
because your oppressor will always come back to slap
you.
In as much as I will not preach coming down to your
level (which I will not hesitate to do if it comes to that)
I will preach henceforth against allowing your
comments to go unchallenged.
By “these Ibos” I mean the nuisances that come on
here and insult the Yoruba race without justification or
provocation. To my Ibo brothers who preach peace,
harmony and the right of people to live decently in
that hell called Nigeria, I have nothing but love for you
and together, one day, with hard work and resilience
and steadfastness we will wrestle that country from
those baboons no matter who they are or where they
come from. To those without decorum, people
without enviable background, the educated illiterates,
intellectual bankrupt individuals, haters and preachers
of war and bloodshed I have nothing but harsh words
for you and I wish you nothing but what you wish
yourself, destruction.

Go and rest; gaa zuo ike.