They share the same culture.

Wei see propaganda, how many people are even in Benue that Igbos are claiming to be up to a million in Benue.

The thing is I know this tribe to be people who play mind games to get sympathy........ And development in Benue is at all time low not only in Igbo community, in Tiv land, the majority tribe in Benue, if you go to some villages, you will wonder if human beings are really living in this kind of place...... But it is so pathetic that these people are bringing tribal and political colouration into this.... Continue!!!

Crying upandan on the net.

Aonkuuse:
Wei see propaganda, how many people are even in Benue that Igbos are claiming to be up to a million in Benue.

The thing is I know this tribe to be people who play mind games to get sympathy........ And development in Benue is at all time low not only in Igbo community, in Tiv land, the majority tribe in Benue, if you go to some villages, you will wonder if human beings are really living in this kind of place...... But it is so pathetic that these people are bringing tribal and political colouration into this.... Continue!!!

That is what they know how to do.Its nobody's fault and the funny thing is that Zik supported them being partition to north the same way he supported yorubas in Kogi and Kwara being partition to north .

Let them move on.

We would like to know about the plight of Igalas in Anambra and Enugu States in your next presentation. Thank you.

There is need for boundary adjustments

Obigbo also has no business in Rivers

NaMe4:
We would like to know about the plight of Igalas in Anambra and Enugu States in your next presentation. Thank you.

and Idomas in Enugu.

gidgiddy:
The Igbo nation must do something about the over one million indigenous Igbos carved into Benue


They  are torn between two worlds. Being of the Igbo stock, their soul is in the Southeast, but their bodies and homes are in Benue State, in the Northcentral. That is not all. In Benue, where they are quartered, more for political considerations than for cultural reaons, they lament their lack: no roads, no water, hardly any sign of modern life.

They are Igbos of the Ezza, Izzi and Effium stock. Their kith and kin are in other parts of the Southeast, particularly Ebonyi State. They claim they are not fewer than one million scattered in four local governments of Benue State. And for close to 50 years since they were excised from their kinsmen, they have been living primitive lives.

Their pathetic plight is that the authorities in Benue, from the state to the local governments, have not seen them as part of the state ostensibly because they speak Igbo. On the other hand, the Ebonyi State government where they should have rightly belonged is helpless as they are not under its area of administration and authority.

The people allege that since their inclusion into Benue State they have not felt any government presence. None of their people were considered for employment in any of the two tiers of government. Indeed, in their lamentation, they are not in the scheme of things as far as government business is concerned in Benue.

“We have been on our own. No roads, no water, no electricity, no employment. We just wander about to help ourselves in our own way,” an octogenarian, Pa Nwankwo Aloh said, clutching a bucket in search of water.

Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam is said to have acknowledged their existence and concerns, even promising to address them, but that was during his first term in office.

Also, Mr Ogbu Igelega, spokesman of Ado Local Government Area, one of the councils where the Igbos are found in Benue, told our reporter on the telephone that one of the obstacles to the development of the Igbo-speaking areas of the state is their difficult terrain. Igelega said this makes access difficult, adding that the few places which do not present such challenges get government attention.

The spokesman cited the example of Etenyi which has 90 per cent Igbo population, saying the community “is being electrified at the cost of N17m”. He also said the Igbos occupy “important offices” in the council, adding that the assistant head of Revenue Development is Igbo, while the Senior Special Assistant on Inter-ethnic Relations is also Igbo.

The reporter met with the president, Benue Igbo Development Union, Nweke Cedrick Ifeanyi who narrated their ordeal. He said all they want is for the Benue State government to accept them since fate has lumped them together. He is of the view that if they can be given a sense of belonging, they would all wholeheartedly join in the effort to develop the state.

Ifeanyi does not expressly condemn their inclusion in Benue State, be he said if the other ethnic groups do not want them in Benue, the Federal Government should set up a machinery immediately to return them to their kith and kin in the Southeast, particularly Ebonyi State.

He sent a save-or-soul message to the Senate president, David Mark and Governor Suswam to come and save them from “this ignoble plight”, adding: “We are neither here nor there.”

In Nweke’s words: “The Igbos in Benue State particularly those in Ado, Oju, Obi and Okpoku LGAs of the state were in existence before the advent of Christian religion in Nigeria.

The Igbo found in Benue are:  Umuezeokoha, Umuezeoka, Oriuzor, Umuoghara, Amaekka and Amaezekwe all in Ezza communities, Izzi, Ezzamgbo and Effium, these are the people who would have been in present-day Ebonyi State but due for the fact that the Nigerian government then carved us into Benue in order to use our population to suppress our Eastern population. Apart from the Ezza-speaking  clan, particularly the people of Umuezeokoha that has over 300 villages, if you are to calculate the number of Igbo-speaking villages, you find out that we are more than 600 villages because three of the biggest markets in our area are all in the Igbo-speaking part. The markets are as follows: Inikiri Ichari, Iddah, Iduokpe.

”But in all these places, we have been facing a lot of deprivation of our fundamental human rights to the extent that we do not have any project attracted by the government, be it local, state or federal. In fact we have become the rejected part of the country because local government identification letters are not given to us any longer.

“Before now we used to witness governmental attention in everything during and after colonial administration but since after the civil war we were dumped by the successive governments just because of our language difference.

“We do not have any drinking water, our source of water here is a dam which Fulani herdsmen do carry their cow to drink at the same place with us because the water is not covered. “In the process of stopping them from coming to the water with their cow, it later resulted in the loss of five lives.

“We have no representative in local, state and federal levels. Mosquito nets that were given free of charge to roll back malaria have been sold to our people at the sum of N6,000 each. We have become slaves to our brothers because of language difference. No hospital, let alone health centre, we are seeing hell here in Benue State because of our language. I do not know whether it is a curse for someone to have fallen under a particular tribe like Ezza, Izzi, Ezzamgbo and Effium

“Our women are dying every day during labour. Also our children are dying for lack of polio immunisation programme and other medical treatment needed to be given to a child at  a tender age.

“Our roads are not passable. We have contributed so much not only to the development of Benue State but Nigeria at large. At least a place with over one million people in population has no primary school. We are therefore as a matter of urgency calling on federal government, our Southeastern brothers and any other corporate  bodies to rush to our aid before water will come to our neck.

We can never regret why we are Igbos or deny being Igbo people before we are recognized in the country of our fore-fathers.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/agony-igbos-benue/

u igbos even carry victim mentality reach benue

Nawah ooo

Aonkuuse:
Wei see propaganda, how many people are even in Benue that Igbos are claiming to be up to a million in Benue.

The thing is I know this tribe to be people who play mind games to get sympathy........ And development in Benue is at all time low not only in Igbo community, in Tiv land, the majority tribe in Benue, if you go to some villages, you will wonder if human beings are really living in this kind of place...... But it is so pathetic that these people are bringing tribal and political colouration into this.... Continue!!!

You have no right to dictate to Igbo how they deal with their own problems.
The topic is about Igbo people in Benue state which people like you are trying to de-Igbonize.
I however agree with you that Igbo should forget about preaching morality and seeking empathy (which is an anathema in Nigeria), and instead be silently calculative and very brutally decisive in pursuit of their interests.
You can lament all you want in Nigeria, NOBODY CARES.
If Igbo were to behave the way they should (being HIGHLY militantly brutal in pursuit of their interests) people like you would respect them.
Now, you don't respect them because they still don't have a clue how to exist in the jungle that Nigeria is.
But with proper prodding by people like you, Igbo will get the message soon.

Aonkuuse:
Wei see propaganda, how many people are even in Benue that Igbos are claiming to be up to a million in Benue.

The thing is I know this tribe to be people who play mind games to get sympathy........ And development in Benue is at all time low not only in Igbo community, in Tiv land, the majority tribe in Benue, if you go to some villages, you will wonder if human beings are really living in this kind of place...... But it is so pathetic that these people are bringing tribal and political colouration into this.... Continue!!!

E remain small thing make I call you a fuuu

Why are you so obsessed with the igbo people?? Dem thief ur destiny??

NaMe4:
We would like to know about the plight of Igalas in Anambra and Enugu States in your next presentation. Thank you.

Before then, we'd like to see the ijaws in ondo, awori in lagos. They're marginalised in their own state with too much propaganda and everything

Sweetrosie:


Before then, we'd like to see the ijaws in ondo, awori in lagos. They're marginalised in their own state with too much propaganda and everything

Awori yoruba in Lagos, are you m*d...

Wetin concern you with Awori?

I don't know the reason why some people go about creating topics that will foster enmity, hatred and division amongst the various tribe's in Nigeria.

The people beating drums of war in this country don't know that war is akin to setting fire to a dry forest. Once the fire ignites to curtail is very difficult.

In most cases I blame the people who like their comments and cheer them on.

The fact that most people commenting above have no idea that the article is an old one even make it more worrisome.

All one need to do is to tag Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa to a topic and boom on line worriors and tribalists will show face.

The hatred is getting out of hand, naira land really need to regulate how people create threads.

Is this true?

Igbos of Kogi, cross river and Benue suffer a lot it's painful to see

The igbod in Edo are fairly well treated, Delta are a majority tribe in Delta so they are good

In rivers they are scattered wish they foamed a unique Identity like igbos of Delta

Akwa ibom is only a few village but yet are we taken care off from my research

Sweetrosie:


Before then, we'd like to see the ijaws in ondo, awori in lagos. They're marginalised in their own state with too much propaganda and everything

aworis are Yoruba just like egba, ijebu, ijesha e.t.c however, ijaws are not Yoruba.

NaMe4:
We would like to know about the plight of Igalas in Anambra and Enugu States in your next presentation. Thank you.

an igala town
Nzam is currently the headquarters of Anambra West LGA which is the largest local government in the state . Mind you the igala communities are just 7-8 while the Anam Igbos there are the majority with over 70% of the population

So yes they're not just completely culturally mixed with Igbos but they're our people and are doing just fine

Jogs1900:

That is what they know how to do.Its nobody's fault and the funny thing is that Zik supported them being partition to north the same way he supported yorubas in Kogi and Kwara being partition to north .

Let them move on.

Travel and see but you won't you stay in the SW and talk shiiiiiiit

Raskimonojendor:

aworis are Yoruba just like egba, ijebu, ijesha e.t.c however, ijaws are not Yoruba.

what of egun people?
You guys regard them as foreigners

You can call me fuu that's your own cup of tea, it's your business but truth hurts, have you been to Benue? People are suffering there not just igbos as they are claiming. Even Makurdi the Capital is hell not to talk of villages.

The funny thing is that they are playing the sympathy card that they are relegated, this is just so funny. I have never seen a tribe that complain and shift blames like this tribe.

Sweetrosie:


E remain small thing make I call you a fuuu

Why are you so obsessed with the igbo people?? Dem thief ur destiny??

Aonkuuse:
Wei see propaganda, how many people are even in Benue that Igbos are claiming to be up to a million in Benue.

The thing is I know this tribe to be people who play mind games to get sympathy........ And development in Benue is at all time low not only in Igbo community, in Tiv land, the majority tribe in Benue, if you go to some villages, you will wonder if human beings are really living in this kind of place...... But it is so pathetic that these people are bringing tribal and political colouration into this.... Continue!!!

You are mad, go and eat filt

They just carved part of Igbo labd into Benue to make up the numbers, they should have been in Ebonyi State

The bottomline is that the black man is very wicked to his kind, that is why they allow things like tribalism, religion and even statism tear them apart. The day we'll start seeing humans instead of tribes or religion is the day we'll develop.

We are always quick to cry racism when dealing with whitemen but back home, we treat our own people with so much discrimination and hate. Men like Marthin Luther Kings and other blacks who fought and paid the supreme price for freedom of the blackman today would be crying in their graves anytime they look into the way blackmen have discriminated against their fellow blacks. It's too bad!

Aonkuuse:
You can call me fuu that's your own cup of tea, it's your business but truth hurts, have you been to Benue? People are suffering there not just igbos as they are claiming. Even Makurdi the Capital is hell not to talk of villages.

The funny thing is that they are playing the sympathy card that they are relegated, this is just so funny. I have never seen a tribe that complain and shift blames like this tribe.

So if others are suffering, they shouldn't complain in their own state too??

What business do you have with benue state?

LamboWeezy:

Awori yoruba in Lagos, are you m*d...

Wetin concern you with Awori Yoruba OSU?

Yes, same awori lagosians that you migrated from your ogbomoso village to drag ownership with.

What about that??

Raskimonojendor:

aworis are Yoruba just like egba, ijebu, ijesha e.t.c however, ijaws are not Yoruba.

Awori is not yoruba, go and sit down...stop dragging lagos with the aworis, simple.

Sweetrosie:


Yes, same awori lagosians that you migrated from your ogbomoso village to drag ownership with.

What about that??

You must dumb to think I'll be dragging on Awori matter with you, I don pass that level...

My level don pass to dey drag shit like this with OSU...

Aonkuuse:
Wei see propaganda, how many people are even in Benue that Igbos are claiming to be up to a million in Benue.

The thing is I know this tribe to be people who play mind games to get sympathy........ And development in Benue is at all time low not only in Igbo community, in Tiv land, the majority tribe in Benue, if you go to some villages, you will wonder if human beings are really living in this kind of place...... But it is so pathetic that these people are bringing tribal and political colouration into this.... Continue!!!

It’s good to see that you didn’t deny their existence at all.

And what’s more, it was reported by your darling “Nations Newspaper” during Jonathan’s time when they thought they were doing Jonathan.

I’m sure if it was Sun Newspaper that reported it, you would have called it a lie.

If we now tell you that there are Igbos in Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Benin, I’m sure you f***ming in the mouth. Won’t you?

BentizilL:

You must dumb to think I'll be dragging on Awori matter with you, I don pass that level...

My level don pass to dey drag shit like this with OSU...

See omo ale dey yarn rubbish, abeg shift.

Leave lagos for awori people and face your backward ogun village

Af0NjaAreLiars:
an igala town
Nzam is currently the headquarters of Anambra West LGA which is the largest local government in the state . Mind you the igala communities are just 7-8 while the Anam Igbos there are the majority with over 70% of the population

So yes they're not just completely culturally mixed with Igbos but they're our people and are doing just fine

Nzam is not Igala Biko.
Nzam is Igbo, they only accommodated few Igala settlers in their midst.
Let's be guided by our utterances.