If he s talking about street beggars then he s wrong.. Go to Onitsha Main Market, Ogbete Main Market, Ariaria.. You will see them beggars singing and begging.. Most of them are blind though.

Earthquake2:


Is that why your family lineage are beggars?

Is that why your family lineage are criminals?

traihit:

Reno actually knows how to talk trash and exaggerate unnecessarily. I used to say that before but I was wrong, there are Igbo beggars.

You people are so devoid of comprehension. Reno never said that there are no igbo beggers, he said he has never seen one, which means to him there are rear, what right do you have to argue about what he has seen or has not.

Well should I also say I have never seen a Benin, Ibibio, Ijaw etc beggars too?

Sentiment outside, if igbos had access to state resource at the top level as this abokis or yolobas..they will be miles ahead in every sense.

Every tribe has beggars, it not just as rampant as northerners who take it as occupation and even come through lorries that offload at tomatoes market at night.Northerners export their begging to every state across the country. I sometimes think some northern states earn a large percentage of their gdp through begging occupation.

They have constituted nuisance in my state and harass people by holding on to their clothes as if they gave them money to keep for them,if you are not careful one will pick your pocket while the other distract you.

Nemesis909:
That means you've never travelled.

9th mile, Onitsha, even Abakaliki - Ogoja park, them plenty for there.

Funny enough, even in Ojuelegba, under the bridge, you'll see well known beggars from the east.

I know about that ogoja park em plenty there but all in all, all tribes have beggars.....

Ikem11:


That's how some people fail exams.. The man said he never seen but here they are assuming he said none

Una go just dey fool unaself trying to defend trash!

MoneyMan5:
Reno and his forever ass licking of Igbo

Anambra also take pride in being a Beggars colony

You don't sound intelligent. Staying in Anambra doesn't make them Anambrarians.
They are obviously your SW brothers struggling to survive in Anambra state

Reno my man

There's this Igbo woman at Ojuelegba who always begs for "transport to Festac".

I later saw her at CMS Bus stop, doing same.
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Lawalemi:
Igbos love to make their money unlike the other tribe that wouldn't mind begging for remnant

So you actually believe we don't have beggars or just politics?

I'm telling you

Tamasaba:
There are Igbo beggars. I will be honest. Dino would have been absolutely right if he had said "I have never seen an able bodied Igbo beggar". What I am saying is that Igbo's only have people who resort to begging because they can't, reasonably, fend for themselves. E.g the blind or those suffering from illnesses that they can't handle financially.

This is unlike some tribes with healthy able bodied men begging for alms with bowl. E.g...lol

DINO OR RENO?

I have given money to an Igbo begger before in a motor park in Aba while I was serving there.

Nigeria economy grew as a result of higher oil prices not as a result of any unique innovation by Ngozi, although I really respect the woman a lot.


The largest economy in Africa thing only came as a result of rebasing our economy not Madam Ngozi exploits.


Reno should stop playing to the gallery, I know he is far more intelligent than this.

Niwdog:
oh no no no since I was born I have never seen an Igbo beggar

Sister have you seen?...

Lawalemi:
Igbos love to make their money unlike the other tribe that wouldn't mind begging for remnant

Reno said what he said because he is not a true Nigerian.

I am Igbo. You will find Igbo beggars all over Igboland. At motorparks in Aba, Onitsha, Umuahia, Enugu, Ekwuluobia, even in Lagos etc.

Reno is just an adult kid....

It is still better to beg than to pioneer robbery and kidnapping.

MChaze25:

Oga your cheap buying mentality made you buy fakes not igbos.
Ain't you ashamed to say you got scammed at the market place without a gun pointed to your head?.
The person wey scam you get two heads?
If you want anything standard, get your money up.
Better soup na money kill am.
Besides I think Reno might be wrong here.
No be Fashola pursue igbo beggars from Lagos that year?
Am proudly igbo!

There is no way Reno can be wrong.
He said he has never seen,not that they don't exist.

That was my thought until I traveled to Awka and Umuahia. There are some igbo beggars at Unizik Junction in Awka.

Those guys hustle.
They are trying alot

Adakintroy2:
Sentiment outside, if igbos had access to state resource at the top level as this abokis or yolobas..they will be miles ahead in every sense.

Tell me access to state resources the Igbo do not have.

Reno making sense since the days of Eden.

very funny. goto Lagos park at Nnewi and umuahia park you will see able bodied men and women begging and entertaining you with their native songs


Reno will make sense today, will be senseless tomorrow. Reno had what I called mental inconsistency

Adakintroy2:
Sentiment outside, if igbos had access to state resource at the top level as this abokis or yolobas..they will be miles ahead in every sense.

You have been senate President, president vice president amongst other numerous high profile position in the history of Nigeria, but how has that changed your own life ?

dokiOloye:

There is no way Reno can be wrong.
He said he has never seen,not that they don't exist.

You are right

MrMou:

Una go just dey fool unaself trying to defend trash!

You are the trash Mr. Only a fool will believe there is no Igbo beggar. But based on the topic, his statement said he never "seen" but you blindly choose to read meaning into it because of your naive and evil mind

Tamasaba:
There are Igbo beggars. I will be honest. Dino would have been absolutely right if he had said "I have never seen an able bodied Igbo beggar". What I am saying is that Igbo's only have people who resort to begging because they can't, reasonably, fend for themselves. E.g the blind or those suffering from illnesses that they can't handle financially.

This is unlike some tribes with healthy able bodied men begging for alms with bowl. E.g...lol

There are many able bodied Ibo beggars littered all over the country. There's nothing special or different about the ibo man, except of course his insatiable greed

gaetano:
Choir sing along....

Since i was born, and now I am getting old, I have never seen an Igbo beggar.

Brothers have you seen....?

this comment totally cracked me up

The fear of poverty is what drives the Igbos to do what they do. When an average man sees a nylon, an Igbo sees an opportunity to make money out of ordinary nylon plastic.

That's why most of them engage in criminal activities here and outside. I respect them for their hustling spirit but they tend to take it too far. An Igbo man is ready to sell his brother for money, they pledge their allegiance to who brings the most cash to the table

Reno is wrong though, but he said "HE HAS NEVER SEEN", not that there are no Igbo beggars

Truth be told, I have also not seen an igbo beggar in LAGOS, they might a preponderance in the east though.
Been to Amafor-imsigwa in umuahia, Owerri, Enugu, and haven't seen any.
In remote village in Amafor-imsigwa, I saw duplex, mansions, built by young igbo men.
Apart from Bende and isi-alangwa , you can hardly find old, dilapidated houses in umuahia.
Those guys can survive under the most stringent conditions.
When Paul, whom I buy foodstuffs from opposite my house told me he lost over 800k from his acct due to scammers, I was dumbfounded!!
If they tell you this guy is worth 100k, you would argue it. He's still an apprentice under his Oga, wears only one clothe, intact his second clothe, I dashed him,sleeps in his shop.
igbos are very enterprising and resilient, and if the could all channel their energy towards building their region, they would be great.
Although I don't like their other side of always complaining of what they are guilty of.
Worked at ochanja market and relief market in onitsha, last year, their Agberos are mean and more wicked than those we have here sef.
That place is the only place I know on Nigeria where you have to pay if you want to exit with goods in the market and pay again if you want to cross the expressway with your goods.
You pay virtually everywhere around the market.
Damn