demslayerrz:


The hate is mutual. No pretense or playing the victim card. We hate you with passion same way you hate the so called Afonja people. Fact!

SLIDEwaxie:
I thought these people are biafrans and not Nigerians...why weeping? Are they this confused?

obailala:
This thread is in response to the thread below which state the south-east zone was totally excluded from all planned project to be financed by the $29.96 billion foreign loan:
https://www.nairaland.com/3434857/federal-government-leaves-out-south

After reading through the report in the thread above and digesting the contents (including comments), some questions have been going through my mind.
Below is an extract from the report:



A very quick look through the list above shows that the projects are purely projects that benefit Nigeria as a whole, not any particular section of the country. I may be wrong on this assumption and would be glad if someone can prove me wrong.

If the all important 3050mw Mambilla Hydro Dam project in Taraba state is completed, it would single-handedly almost double Nigeria's power generation capacity and to the best of my understanding, the 3050mw produced will not be distributed only in the north (would be nice if someone can tell me I am wrong on this assumption).

Secondly, one begins to wonder whether the all important Calabar to Lagos Rail would not also be used by Nigerians of south eastern origins. This very rail connects the Calabar Seaport and the Onne Seaport in Port-Harcourt, and the last time I checked, the rail goes through the industrial city of Aba and connects Aba to the 2 most important Port cities in the south. Reading through the comments on that thread, I never knew Aba had been erased from the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria (I would be glad again if someone tells me my knowledge of geography is outdated).

Taking a look the other items on the list from the Eurobond to the Budget support, the Education/health/Agriculture support funds, I still wonder how it was concluded that these interventions funds would not be beneficial to the common man from the south-east.

In summary, could it just be that some divisive persons have chosen to deliberately distort information to deceive hordes of gullible persons and promote their political ideologies?

cc: Uduak2019, Clinton9000, DickDastardly, SamuelAnyawu, mrvitalis, izombie, Keneking etc

blues20:
@OP your defense is very weak. We all understand that Nigerian politics is riddled with tribal and regional allegiance.
South East is devoid of Federal built infrastructure, a fact you cannot dispute.
If the Federal Government is borrowing funds to finance infrastructural projects, across regions,
that will be paid back by all Nigerians, irrespective of tribe or region, then
the South East should also be captured in their development plan.
From your posts, South East is completely left out from the infrastructural development budget.

Note: my emphasis is on infrastructural projects.

TruthisGOD:

Your type is why Nigeria is in a disgusting and sorry state. Always trying to justify injustice.

truefact:

Now, you doubt he is yoruba because he support igbo. A true yoruba and a true Nigerian is any one who hate and disdain igbo, yet shameless and evil people like you have never in your life champion for a separate country devoid of igbo.
...what an evil people who know the simplest way to solve their igbo problem, yet do nothing about it...shame on you all

obailala:
There are 4 infrastructural projects there listed;
- Lagos to Kano Rail
- Calabar to Lagos Rail
- Abuja FCT city rail
- Mambilla hydro power dam

Lagos to kano railway goes through the SW, NC and NW. The Calabar to Lagos railway goes through the SS, SE (Aba) and SW. The Mambilla dam is to supply 3050mw of electricity to the whole of Nigeria. These projects are clearly not region or zone specific, they are national projects. If we were talking of building universities, airports, roads, etc, then we could argue about projects being shared across zones or not. But man, just take a deep look at those 4 projects, if we must be deeply honest with ourselves, if we must really leave sentiments aside and if we must put pre-programmed prejudices aside, what exactly is really wrong with the FG completing these projects?

Read what I wrote above, what exactly is the injustice in these projects?... Is it really everything we must complain about?

blues20:
@op this what a supposed Nigerian posted on this thread. Go through it and see for yourself. I copied it verbatim.....

https://www.nairaland.com/3434857/federal-government-leaves-out-south/8#50615838

Now you can see the average mindset of the typical Nigerian toward South East (Igbo). Do you expect us to keep quiet? I have a lot to say, but I'll not.... We are taking note of everything.... I'm still very young, and there are millions of my kind that are watching and taking note.....

obailala:
It don't matter what people say about you, I don't give a damn what people say or think about me. I know who I am, Igbos are a great people and Igbos don't even need the government to survive and prosper. What I do not understand however is the recent continuous lamentations and continuous wailings of a lot of Igbos especially since 2015. It belittles the Igbo nation and it smacks of inferiority complex. Take a look at this thread for instance and lets focus on it, I have been asking, how exactly do these 4 projects exclude the SE?.... Is it really everything we have to cry about?

obailala:
There are 4 infrastructural projects there listed;
- Lagos to Kano Rail
- Calabar to Lagos Rail
- Abuja FCT city rail
- Mambilla hydro power dam

Lagos to kano railway goes through the SW, NC and NW. The Calabar to Lagos railway goes through the SS, SE (Aba) and SW. The Mambilla dam is to supply 3050mw of electricity to the whole of Nigeria. These projects are clearly not region or zone specific, they are national projects. If we were talking of building universities, airports, roads, etc, then we could argue about projects being shared across zones or not. But man, just take a deep look at those 4 projects, if we must be deeply honest with ourselves, if we must really leave sentiments aside and if we must put pre-programmed prejudices aside, what exactly is really wrong with the FG completing these projects?

Read what I wrote above, what exactly is the injustice in these projects?... Is it really everything we must complain about?

BankeSmalls:


We the Yoruba went to war on the premise that the highest office we could get under jonathan was only the fifth highest in the nation.

What shall we do if the whole projects, none was sited in our refine? We will all be crying by now.

BankeSmalls:


Igbos don't even need the Federal government to survive , according to you.

Then why not support ipob so we can leave this ineffective forced nation?

blues20:


Your defense is still very weak, and you are making an emotional plea here. Aba is just one city in south east... should I remind you that the entire federal roads connecting south east are dead traps?

Omeny:


The western Nations that told u this nonsense developed their country with energy from coal.

Till tomorrow, China,America etc still get their electricity from coal.

What will we do with ours when God has massively blessed us with it?

Even God must be regretting now for all he's given us yet we are like this.

Keballl:


And Yet Dangote is planning to build a coal powered plant.

Coal and gasoline, which one is causing more emission of the green house gases globally!

BankeSmalls:


And yet, many world powers are using it still?

Cooly100:


- Lagos to Calabar Coastal Railway Pro­ject: Calabar to Port-Harcourt Segment ($3.5 billion)
- Lagos-Kano Railway Project: Lagos to Ibadan Segment ($1.3 billion)

Why won't we ever have Onitsha-Awka-Enugu-Markudi-Abuja segment...Only an evil person will not see how successive government have been working very hard to remove the SE from anything they are doing...This is despicable. What part of the loan will be used for the federal roads in the SE, that are worse in the federation?

obailala:
Well, maybe that is just my opinion; these are old projects which have been in the books for years, I think they benefit all and not necessarily any particular zone(s). In my opinion, there are other good reasons to complain regarding the FG's neglect of the SE zone for ages, but this very case of these 4 projects, I think the complaints are needless since these are national projects that benefit all.

Just like I said, this is just my opinion.

blackpanda:


Like I said, the world is moving away from coal.

obailala:

I was only painting a picture of an independent, progressive people. That the Igbos don't need the FG to survive doesn't mean the FG should abandon the SE. But with regards to these 4 projects listed, I don't see any big deal warranting this outcry. If we get to 2017 and the FG still doesn't do something about the Onitsha owerri road for instance, then that should be a genuine reason for threads like this, not these mambilla dam and rail projects.

SLIDEwaxie:
I thought these people are biafrans and not Nigerians...why weeping? Are they this confused?

Bujumbura:
people like you are not different from buhari. When they complain you start shouting that they they should face their biafra but when they clamour for biafra you start shouting that they can't be allowed to go.



What does yoruba really want

BankeSmalls:


Igbos don't even need the Federal government to survive , according to you.

Then why not support ipob so we can leave this ineffective forced nation?

BankeSmalls:


We the Yoruba are confused. We want the Igbos to deny biafra and also want then to ensure marginalisation.

blackpanda:


Those same western nations are experiencing unprecedented earthquakes, tremors, hurricanes and other disastrous natural occurrences that u definitely cannot cope with. A wise person learns from others mistakes, not rushing to fall into the same bowl of shit!

blackpanda:


Those same western nations are experiencing unprecedented earthquakes, tremors, hurricanes and other disastrous natural occurrences that u definitely cannot cope with. A wise person learns from others mistakes, not rushing to fall into the same bowl of shit!

Omeny:


We should kukuma not mine any of our mineral resources since it will bring unprecedented Tsunami,Tremor,earth quakes,Typhoons,Tornado etc. Lol

Excuses, Excuses for lagging behind the rest Nations.