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Igbo Land Is Not Landlocked – We Have The Shortest Access To The Atlantic Ocean / The Igbos Are Not Landlocked / It’s A Lie: Igboland Is Not Landlocked By Aloy Ejimakor (2) (3) (4)

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*igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by emexc11(m): 11:31pm On Jun 12, 2021
A lie when told for many times and for so long unchallenged transforms into a truth , one of such is the horrible falsehood institutionally unveiled and allowed to prevail by the oppressive Nigeria government backed by hausa Fulani oligarchy and Yoruba hegemony after the Nigeria /Biafra civil War that ALA IGBO is landlocked (that Igboland has no access to sea), This conspiracy was one of their strategies meant to scheme NDIGBO out of economic relevance in Nigeria..

This exposition is meant to debunk this age long lie from the pit of hell with the truth, the truth of the rich, easy to explore and harnessed potential seaport in ALAIGB O. You can easily confirm this TRUTH if you know how to read Google Earth or walking through these areas by foot and canoe or flying boat as the case may be.

Meanwhile, I cannot go on without making mention of the scope of ALAIGBO (Igboland) in Nigeria. What is geographically known as Igbo land today is far smaller than what it was and legally supposed to be. As far back as 1856, Baikie- one of the earliest and credible geographers of ancient Nigeria had this to say “ Igbo homeland, extends east and west from the Old kalaber river to the bank of Kwora, Niger river, and possesses also some territory at Aboh. an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the later stream. On the North it borders on Igara, Iigala and Akpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes , all of which trace their origin to this great race” (Baikie, William Balfour’ Published with a sanction of her Majesty’s government in 1856).

But with that infamous post-War abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in boundary adjustments and the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically and psychologically lost their vested ancestral lands, all to the point of not caring anymore about their historical contiguity to the Atlantic, which their ancestors beheld and called the ‘Great Sea’. The psychological beat-down got so bad that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now lying outside Southeast) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not.

The worst injustice was In 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a serious and targeted agenda of carving out core Igboland territories into some neighboring States of the South-South. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it. They missed the southernmost Southeast lands that possess Rivers that meandered through slices of Igbo-friendly South-South territories and ended up at the Atlantic, thus unwittingly placing Igboland and its right of access to the sea under the canons of customary international law.

POTENTIAL SEAPORT S IN ALAIGBO: ALL ARE CLOSER TO ATLANTIC OCEAN THAN OTHER SEAPORTS IN NIGERIA.

With reference to the seaports outside the present South East and without equivocating non of them was of less nautical miles than those in the south east which were abandoned. In lay man’s understanding a nautical mile is about 1.8 kilometers.

To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Portharcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River. Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 nautical Miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was dredged 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaports was dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic.

NOW CHECK IN ALAIGBO (SOUTH EAST)

A. Azumiri (blue River) in Abia State, which is a large and deep body of water is 30 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean ( strategically located for a seaport, connecting Rivers State, Akwaibom State, and Abia State)

B. Obeaku- Ndoki River Is 25 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean and is another potential seaport waiting for our use.

C. Oseakwa (River Ulasi) Ihiala Anambra State that is linked to Osemoto Oguta River Imo State Is only 18 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean with 20m deep without dredging. Do you know that Ulasi is the deepest River in Nigeria, (Strategically located connecting Anambra Imo, Delta, Beyelsa and Enugu)



Why do we have Moribund Seaports in Igbo land? It’s deliberate orchestration and conspiracy to under develop Igboland instituted by the Hausa Fulani oligarchy. Knowing very well that functional seaport in igboland is very strategic for the economic development of Alaigbo

A functional seaport is the only way to transform ala Igbo to economic hub of West Africa.

*The economic destiny of Ndi Igbo lies in Maritime business..

* Ndi Igbo must rise now to seek for economic survival.

Have you seen that the notion “ Igboland is landlocked” is a garbage from our adversaries meant to scheme ndigbo out from economic power . We must break this conspiracy and make Ala Igbo prosperous and economic hub of Africa.



HEAR WHAT THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF IMO STATE SAID.

IKEDI OHAKIM (former governor of Imo state) wrote:

Please, let it be known from today that South East is not landlocked. It is only our economy that is locked. One quick way of unlocking the economy of South East is through marine business.

Contrary to the impression that the South East is landlocked, the truth is that it has one of the potentially deepest seaports in the country at Osemoto/Oseokwa in Imo and Anambra States.

A seaport was designated there in 1959, but the project was abandoned and the admiralty membership erased for obvious political reasons. African Development Bank (ADB) feasibility report on this is unambiguous.

Oseokwa (Ihiala LGA, Anambra State) and Osemoto (Oguta LGA, Imo State) are the deepest natural harbors in the country (over 20m deep) and offer real naval and marine transportation platforms if developed. Besides, it lies only 18 nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean and a strategic hub for the oil industry and inland dry-docks to promote trade.

This potential seaport has the capacity of handling over 35 per cent of marine business in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, it was the attraction to these potentials that made my administration in Imo state to site the Oguta Wonder Lake and Resort Centre in the area to encourage the federal government and foreign investors. If Ndigbo pursue and complete the seaport, it will also open up over 3,000 square kilometers of the most fertile agricultural land that has one of the highest alluvial deposits which has been in existence for well over a million years.

My pursuit of this revolutionary project attracted both national and international panic and may have cost me second tenure as governor (see “Demoracy By Military Tank” by Ethelbert Okere).

This deep seaport will create over two million jobs, directly and indirectly, in marine business, oil and gas, power, education, housing, agro-food industry, entertainment, tourism, etc. With that type of setting, Igbo youths will have no need to crisscross the country in search of jobs and in the process endangering their young lives.

Excerpts of his lecture delivered at the First International Chinua Achebe Conference held at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, on Tuesday 23 May, 2017.

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Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by Commentor: 11:54pm On Jun 12, 2021
Landlocked like Niger Republic.
Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by theTranslator: 11:54pm On Jun 12, 2021
Igbo land as far as Kwara shocked shocked

Chai
Which kin land grabbing be this?

Fulani sef dey learn shocked cheesy
Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by esnbrutality: 12:08am On Jun 13, 2021
We already know all this...NICE POST!! wink wink wink wink

The sad thing is the two Afonja miscreants above me ...who are absent on threads concerning ibadan herdsmen crisis,,,but decided to expose their ewedu reasoning on this thread.

yoruba ...who do una this thing sef??

haba...umu ekwensu!!

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Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by Bionic07: 12:35am On Jun 13, 2021
theTranslator:
Igbo land as far as Kwara shocked shocked

Chai
Which kin land grabbing be this?

Fulani sef dey learn shocked cheesy
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So they've been eyeing kwara all along, no wonder they keep talking about Ilorin up and dan, hmm fulani really dey learn work. angry

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Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by emexc11(m): 5:51am On Jun 13, 2021
Commentor:
Landlocked like Niger Republic.
Jealousy
Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by emexc11(m): 6:02am On Jun 13, 2021
theTranslator:
Igbo land as far as Kwara shocked shocked

Chai
Which kin land grabbing be this?

Fulani sef dey learn shocked cheesy
Itibolibo
Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by emexc11(m): 6:06am On Jun 13, 2021
esnbrutality:
We already know all this...NICE POST!! wink wink wink wink

The sad thing is the two Afonja miscreants above me ...who are absent on threads concerning ibadan herdsmen crisis,,,but decided to expose their ewedu reasoning on this thread.

yoruba ...who do una this thing sef??

haba...umu ekwensu!!
Don't mind those immature adults with underdeveloped brains

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Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by Monogamy: 6:10am On Jun 13, 2021
Probably the 10th repeated article in less than 48 hours since the tiny dot statement was made..

That man Buhari really get some people's blokos button
Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by emexc11(m): 7:32am On Jun 13, 2021
Monogamy:
Probably the 10th repeated article in less than 48 hours since the tiny dot statement was made..

That man Buhari really get some people's blokos button
Yes, it's being repeated to make it sink well in your brain and change the narrative of so many uninformed fellows about the Igbos
Re: *igbo Land Is Not Landlocked* by Omonaijani: 12:16pm On Jun 13, 2021
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