I've very just read this story by a nairalander and i hope we can all learn from his story if its true regardless of which tribe we belong to.


We had an Igbo person staying among us before the war. My community had a custom where a stranger no matter his age is given a share just after the titleholders. This is to recognise his community in our midst and not necessarily the individual. We treated every stranger among us then as ambassador of their various homeland. The Igbo man stayed in my community for so long that by age he became the second eldest man.
When my community wanted to share farmland he was given where they used to give to him even when we had so many people his seniors, this time around the Igbo man rejected. He said he must be recognised as the second eldest man in the community and by that should be given such share as it was deserving and due of the second eldest man. This demand would put him among the titleholders. It was unheard of and an abomination for a stranger to be given such position. Surprisingly before my community could say Jack Robinson and adjust to this rude shock, the man had gone to court. He claimed that by the constitution of Nigeria that having stayed in my community for more than 10 years that it was enough to make him a bonafide citizen of the community.
To cut the episode short the ruling was in his favour. It was rightly so. Although the magistrate and everyone that presided over the case were Igbos. The Igbos were effectively in charge of the Eastern Government.
This was happening in the present day Rivers State.
My community learnt their lesson via that case and to be frank the man ran from the community when Port Harcourt fell to the Federal troops during the Nigeria Biafran Civil War and never came back even after the war.

Laws should be made to protect the special rights of all Indigenous Peoples of every state across the country.

There should be laws too, yo make state government decide to secede too

I saw this writeup by an Ikwerre man yesterday and I was shocked

That bad


Since everyone is a native of a particular place, then everybody Is a winner and no one should try to have a double advantage over others

lexylaw40:
Laws should be made to protect the special rights of all Indigenous Peoples of every state across the country.

Kindly indicate in your post that the writeup is copied and that the writer is an Ikwerre man

EmperorCaesar:


Kindly indicate in your post that the writeup is copied and that the writer is an Ikwerre man

I don't know if it was an interest man but I still have the post

Only pigs will go against this as usual

Everybody should support this for a better Nigeria

accordadoga26:
Only pigs will go against this as usual

Like those ones that captured ilorin