yemmyse:

Josboy

Thank your stars this is purely virture and that physical contact is not possible.

Am sure u don't understand what it feels like to lose a whole son. One at his prime and u sit there telling me Hausas lost people too. Who started the whole?

nuzo:

I sympathize with you on the death of your son.
However, you are the type that gets the likes of quota and other Igbos feel its no biggie to loose only 3 persons when they have lost over 3 millions persons without other nigerians condemning the genocide.

Whichever way, its painful and whoever incited and carried out this and other genocides in the past should be brought to book immediately.

JosBoy4Lif:

3 million k'arya. OOOhhh unless you are talking about a war that was self-perpetrated. Sucks when you are on the losing end but get over it.

grafikdon:

This is the ''uncool'' side effect of getting your history lesson from a teacher who says "Biafra war happened because Igbos are greedy and wanted all the oil for themselvesTHe END. . . class dismissed". . . or when you get your "war facts'' from "General'' Katsina, Danjuma and "Genera'' Murtala Mohamed. So far you've cried about hatred for Hausas by Igbos because of a ''lost cause'', and also advised them to ''shut up and get over it''. . . I forgot to thank you for showing unfeigned love to the Igbos in almost every post you have in this forum. I also noticed you did not call them fraudsters and ritual killers. . . Nigeria needs more "Detribalised'' people like you, my good friend.

JosBoy4Lif:

3 million    k'arya. OOOhhh unless you are talking about a war that was self-perpetrated. Sucks when you are on the losing end but get over it.

nuzo:

I thought you were educated but you have finally proven that education as vital as it may be, is definitely not the sole answer to the fanatic belief of the northerners. I am also relieved that you had the courage to state what had been in your mind all these while. Human lives, especially Igbos means nothing to you and your fellow nigerians.
I can't imagine how you are quick to write "get over it" as if the slaughtered were bags of beans. Look, Ive lost relatives right from 1966-2008 in these genocides and the govt watches you go free. And you happily tell me to get over it and begin to sing one nigeria?
If a supposed nigerian cannot go about his business in other parts of nigeria without being slaughtered because he's of different tribe and professes different religion, why can't he be allowed to have his own territory?

JosBoy4Lif:

You need to separate the Biafra war from what is going on today. Or else you will always carry your deep seeded hatred for Hausa and even other tribes.

nuzo:

Igbos have separated these two for a long time and after 38 years the government seem to be in support of the genocides.
What do we do then; watch the Igbos continue getting slaughtered, pay more taxes to for the almajiris to go to school or pack and move out of northern nigeria?

JosBoy4Lif:

No, You know it. Their are Igbo's who still hold deep seeded hatred for Nigeria because of the Biafra War.

blackspade:

Sad, but don't you think you're overreacting a bit by calling the riot a genocide?

JOS MAYHEM
How they killed our husband –Pregnant wives
From EBOMHIANA MUSA and PAUL ORUDE, Jos
Wednesday, December 3, 2008


•The pregnant wives with their children
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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Two pregnant housewives have recounted the chilling details of how their husband was brutally killed by rampaging youths who shot him and then burnt their house to ashes.

Hafsatu Mallam Muhammadu and Adama Muhammadu who said they narrowly escaped added that they watched helplessly as their husband died of gun shots in the neck at FOMWAN Hospital in Gangere where he was rushed to after he was shot and beaten to pulp.

The two distraught housewives, who spoke amidst tears to Daily Sun on Tuesday, four days after the sad incident, said they managed to escape without being able to carry any personal effects from their house in Tudun Wada area in Jos Metropolis as it was completely razed by rioters.

The senior wife, Hafsatu, 30, mother of five told Daily Sun, " I was in the house when the crisis started. My husband asked me to wait to see what was happening. I was scared. I wanted to run. He told me that I shouldn’t worry that there would be no problem. He didn’t know it was serious. Later, I jumped over the fence with my five children, even though I am four months pregnant."

Hafsatu said she and her five children went to one Liman’s house for safety. She said further, "My husband then went to the mosque and that was when he was shot in the neck."
Hafsatu, who is currently taking refuge at the Government Secondary School, Gangare along with her mate and thousands of other displaced persons, said efforts to save her husband’s life were in vain as he gave up few hours later.

Adama, the second wife of the deceased, escaped the same time with the senior wife and her children.
"It was a horrible experience," she said. "After we stayed at Liman’s house for a while, they came there and attacked again and we escaped. We trekked to Bukuru for hours for fear of being killed and to look for food. We were very hungry and tired. We had no where to run to. I am pregnant, my first, and it was a very difficult experinmce for me. My mate encouraged me to be strong, otherwise, I almost fainted," Adama added.

Adama said she was the one who alerted the other wife that it was dangerous to remain in the house.
She said, "I was waiting outside not too far from the mosque in my area when someone came and asked me to leave that it was not safe. I immediately went into the house to inform my mate."
Hafsat said they made their escape after waiting for their husband who had earlier gone to the mosque.
"When I didn’t see him, I was sacred. But news later came to us that he was shot in the neck. I was with him at the hospital but he couldnt speak and later he died.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Information, Comrade Nuhu Gagara, has confirmed that over 250 persons have been killed since the crisis erupted on Friday.
In an interview with Daily Sun in his office on Tuesday, Gagara said the state government has spent close to N80 million to take care of the victims who were displaced by the crisis.
He said food itmes, cloths, grains, drugs and other relief materials are being distributed daily among the displaced persons scattered in 20 different centres within Jos.

The commissioner disagreed with those who attributed the crisis to disagreement arising from the local election hled last week, noting that PDP was firmly on ground and had no oppostion in the state.
He said all the state EXCO members of the supposed main opposition party in the state, the AC, except the chairman have decamped to the PDP.
He, therefore, said there was no basis for any meaningful challenge or opposition against the dominace of the PDP.

However, officials of the Jamatul Nasiral Islam (JNI), highly disputed the figure being bandied by the state government.
As at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, 17 fresh bodies in two different vans were being shifted out of the Jos Central mosque for mass burial.

Five corpes in military uniform were sighted under the Nassarawa Gwom bridge as passersby gathered to take a pathetic glimpse at them.
The state police Commissioner, Mr Samson V. Wudah in company of the AIG zone 4, Mr. Richard Chime, toild Daily Sun at the state police command that the police authorities were on top of the sitruation.

He said more enforcement (men and materials) were being deployed from neighbouring states to beef up security on ground.
They condemned what they called outrageous figures being published by foreign media.
Meanwhile, curfew is still in force in the metropolis, even as the banks remain shut. Customers who daily beiseige the banks are groaning as they find it impossible to access funds.
Except for few shops which are opened for business, activities in the city remain paralysed.