Igbos should begin Inclusion of others as part of them, That's the basis of the hatred from others - Aisha Yesufu



Igbo Apprenticeship System Makes People Hate Igbos – Aisha Yesufu Sparks Debate
Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu has stirred up a debate on Twitter after sharing her opinion that the Igbo apprenticeship system have contributed to why many people from other tribes resent Igbos.
It is given that the age long Igbo apprenticeship system has produced a lot of multimillionaires of Igbo extraction to the wonder of many from other tribes.
The Igbo apprenticeship system allows a businessman take a young person to learn about his business and eventually get settled (given start-up capital) after an agreed period of time, which usually lasts between 5 to 7 years. During the service period, the younger person (servant) serves the businessman (master) while learning the business.
The Igbos have used the system to build themselves and relatives into renowned business men and women even where apprentices have little, or no formal education.
A Twitter user had said: “The Igbo’s apprenticeship program is the only ‘MBA’ class in the world that teaches the real intricacies of running a business, the practical application of SWOT and PESTEL analysis. And when you graduate, they’ll give you seed capital to start the business. A system that works.”
In replying the tweet, Aisha Yesufu pointed out that “The Igbo apprenticeship is an amazing system and the reason Igbos are great in business.”
However, she went on to say that “Everything has it’s advantage and disadvantage and that same system has also portrayed Igbos as clannish people who only employ their own people and never assimilate”
Her tweets opened up a debate as she went on to state that the apprenticeship system have contributed to Igbos been resented the same way Jews are resented.
She went on; “These are my opinions and thoughts over the years and I might be completely wrong but this is how I see it
“There is a need to take a deliberate look at the Igbo apprenticeship system & begin to look at ways of inclusion. It can start with 5% inclusion of others. When you always go to your village to bring those that will work for you how do you expect the people where you are to feel?
“Just like the Jews, Igbos are resented & I have always wondered why? Is it because they are successful and can achieve anything from nothing? Is it the resilience? I concluded it is because it seems no matter how long they stay with you or you with them you are never one in biz
“A situation where as a business person you only employ your people via the apprenticeship model & no matter how long you stay in a place you never employ the indigenes there except to load and off load. there will be resentment. More if it is not one off experience but the norm
“The Jews too have that trait. Family businesses. Helping each other grow in business and capacity to gang up(if na one naira na one naira) on business issues are common traits shared by both Igbos and Jews. The others feel like outsiders not allowed to share in the goodness
“Systems are to be looked at and upgraded from time to time. It is also important to look at how things are perceived by others. You don’t have to change but just know this is how this action is seen by others
“In all the riots I witnessed as a child, I always say it is more economical than religion. Host community usually think it is the others that kept them impoverished. They feel those monies would have been theirs if these people weren’t there. People don’t blame their lazy selves.

Aisha Yesufu... looks like she's among the PAID influencers.

This is not the time of our forefathers. We understand divide and rule. No shaking the Alliance between South and Middle Belt ethnic nations to set ourselves free. The power dynamics is now with us via MNN-NINAS so Aisha you can Faaack off! We know you Unionists will try to spread hate among us.

Aisha, why don't you use your INFLUENCER influence to get Reparations for Igbo who lost all because of the civil war and were handed just nonsensical £20? Do something useful with your life!

“There is a need to take a deliberate look at the Igbo apprenticeship system & begin to look at ways of inclusion. It can start with 5% inclusion of others. When you always go to your village to bring those that will work for you how do you expect the people where you are to feel?

This woman should cook for her husband, she talks a lot pls.

Inclusion for what exactly?

An adage said charity begins at home. I have never heard where charity begins abroad...

Is apprenticeship system paid employment. How many people can stay with someone for up to ten years without pay on basis he will be settled at the end .

You want them to bring someone from one particular tribe that like JuJu? Make dem use juju destroy their master? Mbanu..!

Charity they said begins from home.This is the general attitude behind the ancient Igbo apprenticeship program

After the war Nigeria recent us....we were seen as outcast


The system was got us where we are today


It started by a village contributing money to send someone else's son abroad then when thenoerson becomes successful he will come home a take another persons son


We applied same in business



THE QUESTION TO AISHA YUSUF IS CAN YOUR VILLAGE CONTRIBUTE MONEY TO SEND ONE PERSON IN THAT VILLAGE ABROAD?

History555:
Is apprenticeship system paid employment. How many people can stay with someone for up to ten years without pay on basis he will be settled at the end .

Thats what exposed her as another Northerner who knows nothing about Igbos. She doesn't know that the apprentice system Igbos practice isnt paid employment. It is one where you spend years getting nothing except being trained in a particular business at the end if which you get your own business

They work for PDP and are begging APC for president.

Did one don leave buhari face Igbos.

If ur tribe and Yoruba's were Igbo's will they bring outsiders into there business?

The Clannish Nairaland Igbo are saying that Charity begins at home, why can't the business also begin and end at home?

You're doing business and making money in Kano, but you cannot train a kano youth. You have to go back to your village to bring boys. If you need 5 boys, why not bring 3 from home and 2 from your base?

The truth is, Igbo see themselves as better than others, but the reality says otherwise.

I don't consider buying and selling as ingenuity, any fool with capital can do business and succeed. Many of my successful Igbo business partners are stark illiterates with very low IQ, yet, they are very successful.



I AM DONE TALKING