nijabazaar:
Plz, all Igbo should adhere to this advice ....

Imagine Oct I now looming like the Apocalypse?

I really like this. Come home and invest in our homeland. Stop all this investment in places where they either threaten:
1. Throw u in the lagoon
2. Burn ur properties.

Plz igbos ignore this who tell you that Igbo land is compacted. Lagos is just a little bit bigger than Anambra yet it contains 20million peeps. Now imagine the whole 5 eastern states. Therez enough land. if worse comes to it. We would start building vertically like hong Kong did.


Let's come home. No place like home...

newbornmacho:
First a background.
I am Igbo and I live in the north of Nigeria. I have followed events quite closely, listening to all sides hoping to decide which argument has the most merit. As it is , the northern youths' ultimatum to my kin to leave the north has helped crystallize my own position.
I am in favour of a UN backed referendum for the Igbo and any others to express their desires or otherwise to break away from Nigeria. I do hope that can be done quickly enough, and am urging the FG to please expedite this process. Ultimately I would hope that borders and other terms of the separation would be decided under the watchful eyes of the int'l community, and the new nation birthed in peace.
I've had to define my position to debunk the myth of the Igbo who will not leave the north come what may. I was born here in the north and only had my university training in the east . NYSC and 100% of my working life have been in the north and I have many friends here , but I will never succumb to the humiliation of being called a parasite on the north. Indeed I and many others like me have given to the north more than it has given me.
I was the only doctor in the local government where I served (NYSC) and the constant communication from my friends there show how much I meant to them. I own a hospital now, and 95 percent of my staff are northeners. Many of my friends similarly. Listen : if the north wants me to leave, I am more than happy to oblige them.

Now my advice:
1. All Igbo in the remote northern hinterland should relocate as a first step to the city centers with large Igbo populations. Don't be found alone when it goes down.
2. Arrangements for sufficient video surveillance of happenings should be made by all. Get a recording device and carry it with you at all times. Place any potentially illegal infringement on your rights on record. We hope to open a Facebook account where folks can post videos and all.
3. Be sure to have papers of your real estate. Bank them if you can.
4. Be extremely cautious what you say/do on social media, or in real life. DONT DRAW FIRST BLOOD!.
5. relocate those you can.
6. Keep in touch. Arrangements are being made to beam an intense international media searchlight on Igbo enclaves in the north. Don't be isolated.
7. BE READY TO GO HOME!!! Our aim is a legal divorce from Nigeria with a new homeland to relocate to; until that is guaranteed its suicidal to congregate in the east under guard of a hostile and reckless armed forces. Don't go anywhere until Biafra or some other entity legally emerges.
8. Stop all further investments in the north. Transfer what you can home. Even if Nigeria remains as is, you should have learnt a thing or two.
9. I have put up some of my real estate for sale. You may wish to do the same.
10. Retain contacts with our Christian brothers from the middle belt and the northern minorities. There will be future negotiations and discussions, and all contacts and connections will be useful.
11. Lastly don't tar everyone with the same brush. There are core Hausa Fulani that are as disturbed by recent events. There are good and bad people everywhere .
Whatever happens hereafter , Nigeria can never remain the same again.
There was a country.

cjrane:


Op, Thank you very much for your post. Well written.
Considering your post, it makes sense to relocate family members but stay back in the north as groups of men to fight together if it comes to that.

A lot of people have divulged the Fulani northern agenda to use Nigerian army to lay siege on the SE if they successfully get everyone to leave the north without a legal state of Biafra in existence to protect them. That possibility is very real. But it doesn't mean we are completely helpless should it come to that.

You do not need to sell off your estate in northern Nigeria now because you will get nothing from it. Just keep your legal papers safe and when the time comes, you will either have your property back or compensation will be paid. Just don't be foolish investing further in new projects.

Most importantly, convert most of your savings into dollars, Euro or Chinese Yuan; Renminbi NOW!!!

Open domiciliary account or open accounts in neighboring countries as Cameroon, Ghana, Togo etc. if you must bank with a Nigerian bank, use those that have branches in other countries such as South Africa etc to make sure you can operate your account outside Nigeria.
This is the only way you can retain your hard earned wealth after Nigeria changes the naira and begins their economic war. Also, move the bulk of your account to banks you know will be sympathetic to your cause so that you have a good chance of getting your money back.

It is obvious that Fulani is planning a sinister violent operation, so it may become pertinent to begin looking for arms suppliers abroad. Not that we should purchase the arms, but we will know where to get them and how much when it is needed.

Nigeria will have a long midnight in the near future. Thank you for your post again.

HiddenShadow:


Remain blessed

Bring back the women and children

If your are staying in the North, defend yourself

Although I wish we completely leave Hausa Fulani North and withdraw to Christian North and band with them to keep off the Jihadists far away as we expect UN Referendum.

OreMI22:


While everyone can hope to resolve a dispute peacefully with someone that cherishes violence, my advise to those that will shop for arms is to include lots and lots of anti-tank mines and sea mines. They are good if you simply want to defend yourself.

HiddenShadow:



Bazookas RPGs are better

OreMI22:


Of course lots of RPG is good if you can get close enough to the tanks. But, the anti-tank mines will destroy the thing for you at a distance. Bazooka or RPG are good if you adopt an offensive tactics. In a defensive tactics, where you are at a disadvantage of tanks, you need to deny your enemy the free use of tanks to break through. So mine the entire ground. They will be forces to face you man to man without the tanks.

mightyhaze:
never mind whoz goin which way. Just leav us to sort ourselves. Thx

HiddenShadow:


True

but remember that with RPGs and Bazookas, one can easily change direction when the Tanks avoid the minefield.

So, Bazookas RPGs compliment the effort of the mines.


They need to store chemicals, metal sheets/rods, wielding tools and acetylene (to boost the temperature level of the locally made explosives for RPGs and Bazookas) in order to produce locally made RPGs and Bazooka projectiles once their foreign ones are used up.

OreMI22:


For sure local munitions production will be massive and paly a major role, but it won't be the only role. you need some munitions that may not be quickly manufactured. Extensive minefields deprive the enemy of ability to use any space to maneuver as they desire. Since only your high command knows where minefields are located, the enemy will always play a guess work. Most times they are wrong because you already mined all the viable routes.
Bazooka or RPG are good as force multipliers when you make contact with the enemy, but we are not talking about the same military tactics here. I am talking about removing the initiative of the enemy to flank your positions or open multiple fronts to force you into dividing your forces in order to fight in multiple places. Minefield help you maintain the initiative as they will either try to clear the minefields which will expose them to your bazookas or RPG or they will sensibly decide to avoid them and thus will be playing according to your script.

HiddenShadow:


Accepted

You have a superior argument

OreMI22:

I have a secret,

HiddenShadow:



I don't understand

OreMI22:

So you are DSS?

OreMI22:


I have a secret,

HiddenShadow:


I still don't understand how I am DSS

ProWalker:




Always say less than necessary - 48 laws of power
You guys are talking too much and NL is not as anonymous as you may think

Nutase:
Why are yout trying to create panic were there is none?

whitebeard:
I want to buy your real estate but not now, when the heat starts I will be the one to tell u the price at which i want to buy it so pls hold on.



Besides the Igbo u are asking to relocate do u have house for them, do u have food for them, how will they get money to take care of theirselves...!! Pls of u are on a suicide mission don't include others just carry your cross..


Where is your real estate at lemme see if I am interested.!!

durangokid:
Guy cool down igbos are not fools they are the one to teach you business most of their property are on colatrals now why others have been insured

BlackMbakara1:
All i can deduce from this write-up is sheer arrogance which has not taken the Igbos anywhere.

It's so unfortunate for the Op to say he has given more because he's doing charity work there without pay and even if he does, are you the first?

Instead of Igbos to channel their energies into re-orientating their kins from nefarious activities like kidnapping, counterfeiting, drugs, fraud, baby factory etc and building bridges...

Tyche:


You dey mind those armchair generals and wretched touts who cannot see beyond their nose.

durangokid:
You have no sense, you are just a fool

newbornmacho:

The joke is on you.
The indigenous peoples of the eastern region via several nationalist pressure groups have publicly demanded the government consider the option of a referendum in their area. This is standard international practice and everyone awaits the response of government. I doubt you even know what you are talking about.
The northern youth rather than urge this process to go on are threatening legitimate citizens with "mop up" , thereby opening vistas for future matters at the Hague. And you talk about olive branch, and denouncing Ipob; IPOB have asked for a referendum. To know what the overall Igbo position is why not conduct a referendum? I will willingly leave my hospital here and go build another, possibly better one in a place where I can call my home without fear of contradiction. I have called the north home for so long, but the aewa youth just told me I am mistaken.

HiddenShadow:



You think so



Amnesty International report
Visa ban on your military personnel