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Beyond The Cultists, Li...Read the full article.

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This Is A Good One.

But When Is This Abandoned Property Thing Going To Be Resolved? How Can There Be Genuine Reconciliation In Nigeria When Some People Are Having Some Other People's Property?

The Issue Of Ph Represents What Nigeria Stands For:injustice. But Evil Does Not Last Forever.make We Dey Watch

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OGBAKOR IKWERRE
Rivers State Abandon Property Project:
There is a need to unveil the truth about abandon property issue as it pertains to structures located in
Port Harcourt. The common misconception among the Ibos is that at the end of the civil war in 1970,
Ikwerre people acquired most of their buildings and other structures constructed before the war. Because there is a misconception, it is imperative that this issue be studied and the truth told.
Therefore, OIU will commit resources to implement this exercise. OIU is particularly interested in reviewing
all relevant documents that would help this course.

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During the Eastern government rule the Igbos never allowed the indigenes of Port Harcourt to rule as mayor in the city.

They also did not allow them own properties even though it had been in the hands of their families for many generations before the arrival of the Igbos through colonial rule.

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Kind of makes it easier to understand some behavioral patterns that has always befuddled and bemused me, ever since I visited PH the first time till date.

And the statement “Ikwerre no be Ibo” now becomes very clear.

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=Son of the Delta;204880>They also did not allow them own properties even though it had been in the hands of their families for many generations before the arrival of the Igbos through colonial rule.

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Bros, you conveniently forgot to mention how the ibo’s” bought” the properties in the first place, I am sure they did not appropriate it through the colonials as you are implying.
Its difficult to understand how you can sell your land, collect the money, and still claim to be the landlord, the practice is still on till date in PH

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=Obi Mbonu;204885>Bros, you conveniently forgot to mention how the ibo’s” bought” the properties in the first place, I am sure they did not appropriate it through the colonials as you are implying.
Its difficult to understand how you can sell your land, collect the money, and still claim to be the landlord, the practice is still on till date in PH

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@Obi Mbonu,
The Ikwerres did not say they sold the lands to the "Ibos".People have to understand the culture of a place to know whether what is being called a "bought" land is a leased land.For instance in some parts of Cross River their culture only permits a lease of land and not sales and if you are not aware when the owner/s come back for their land you may be taken by surprise.

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Crap, I am dumb, but at least I know the difference between sale and lease as indicated on the exchange documents.
Call a spade a spade, you cannot eat your cake and still want to hold.

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=chimezgo;204811>This Is A Good One.

But When Is This Abandoned Property Thing Going To Be Resolved? How Can There Be Genuine Reconciliation In Nigeria When Some People Are Having Some Other People's Property?

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But am just curious. What was the exact population of Ndi-Igbo that had properties in Port-Harcourt before the war? Were they twenty percent or as much as forty percent of the entire Igbo population? Am just interested in this piece of information, because I have heard so many different versions of this story flying around. Some folks have said that a few Igbo businessmen took loans from the Eastern property board to buy some of those properties on mortgage and had not finished paying off the loans before the war struck. So in effect, they couldn't be classified as bona-fide owners of the property, since payment hadn't been made in full.

Other versions say that some of the Igbo residents in Port-Harcourt bought freehold property from the Ikwerre, Kalabari and other property owners, but the purchase receipts and documents of sale were lost in the war and were not properly recorded at the land registry in Port-Harcourt, before the war started. So after the war, they couldn't provide documentary evidence to reclaim their property, unlike those whose sales were properly documented in other parts of the nation, and could get access to those records to butress their claims.

Others say that those who sold the land to some of the Igbo buyers, died in the war. And their kith and kin who were unaware of the sale or who were not privy to the transaction, found it difficult to believe that the properties had been sold in the first place, so when such Igbo buyers came calling after the war to reclaim those properties, they declined to hand them over.

Finally the last version says that Ndi-Igbo got their properties back in Lagos, Benin, Kaduna and other parts of the country. So why were they denied their same rights in Port-Harcourt? They claim that the administrators of Port-Harcourt who were not Ikwerre or Igbo or indigenes of Port-Harcourt, carried out the exercise and should be held accountable, instead of the Port-Harcourt residents or indigenes.

Who are we to believe? And what is the correct version of the story? What really transpired behind the scenes on the abandoned property issue? :confused1 Facts, anyone??

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Mr. Mbonu,

You can easily observe that it gladdens some of the elements mentioned as "hawks" in the article to acquiesce to the thievery notion of "Ikwerre is not Ibo". It is the successful politics that made them to weaken and isolate the native Igbo speakers, and in the process digitalized every community of theirs as distinct ethnic group.

Nothing lasts forever. Unfortunately that politics has come to a defining moment. It is either the former overlords who are now minority stoop low to maintain the status quo, or else their current actions will ignite a disharmony that will make each of the components to return to their roots.

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Hi, folks!

Senator (Brigadier General) David Bonaventure Mark, the incumbent senate president, renowned coup plotter, two-times military governor, three-times federal minister, one-time member of the AFRC, and a hawk in the IBB junta, then Captain David Mark, was the Chairman of the Abandoned Property Commission, post-civil war.

I believe David Mark is NOT an Ijaw, or Ikwerre, or Ogoni, or Okrika, or Ahoada, or Abua, or Ibani, or indeed from Rivers State or Bayelsa State.

General Olusegun Obasanjo, then Colonel Olu Obasanjo was the GOC 3rd Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt at that time.

It would be nice to ask these national heroes how the Abandoned Property Commission rationed out the houses to the "lazy indigenes" of Port Harcourt, and by extension, to the whole of Rivers State.

Obrigado.

Don Juan-Carlos ABRAXAS (III)