DeepThroater:
Many an Ibo will lie boldly to your face and tell you that there exist imaginary cultural ties between them and people of western Cameroun.


This is of course all a big lie.

When you ask them where all that brotherly love was in the Plebescite of 1961, they will either lie again and tell you the UN conducted Plebescite was rigged or that western Cameroun parts in the then old eastern region were a victim of propaganda by both the British and northern Nigeria to leave the old eastern Nigeria.

The truth is that western Cameroun people trapped in the old eastern Nigeria were victims of oppressive and marginalising policies of neglect and disenfranchisement carried out by the majority Ibo populace on ethnic minorities trapped in the British drawn colonial borders of eastern Nigeria.

This was not only the plight of just the people of western Cameroun but that of every non Ibo tribes trapped in the British administrative region of the then old eastern Nigeria.

Under southern Nigeria protectorate, there was no clamour for a return to Cameroun as the British administered the whole protectorate through direct rule in a fair and equity manner.

The clamour to leave Nigeria began only when the southern region was split into two and semi autonomous direct rule was introduced by the British.

The minute the majority Ibo got power in 1953, agitations by not only western Cameroun but also other ethnic minorities in the eastern region to be free from the Ibo dominated east began.

So what we have here is evidence of Ibo arrogating and no apologies oppression and marginalisation of ethnic minorities trapped with them in the British created eastern region.


The then Eastern region was the only region that was so restive in terms of ethnic nationalities wanting to be free from it.

KwuoteYourFada:

Lie lie there are yoruba Moslems

DeepThroater:
Many an Ibo will lie boldly to your face and tell you that there exist imaginary cultural ties between them and people of western Cameroun.


This is of course all a big lie.

When you ask them where all that brotherly love was in the Plebescite of 1961, they will either lie again and tell you the UN conducted Plebescite was rigged or that western Cameroun parts in the then old eastern region were a victim of propaganda by both the British and northern Nigeria to leave the old eastern Nigeria.

The truth is that western Cameroun people trapped in the old eastern Nigeria were victims of oppressive and marginalising policies of neglect and disenfranchisement carried out by the majority Ibo populace on ethnic minorities trapped in the British drawn colonial borders of eastern Nigeria.

This was not only the plight of just the people of western Cameroun but that of every non Ibo tribes trapped in the British administrative region of the then old eastern Nigeria.

Under southern Nigeria protectorate, there was no clamour for a return to Cameroun as the British administered the whole protectorate through direct rule in a fair and equity manner.

The clamour to leave Nigeria began only when the southern region was split into two and semi autonomous direct rule was introduced by the British.

The minute the majority Ibo got power in 1953, agitations by not only western Cameroun but also other ethnic minorities in the eastern region to be free from the Ibo dominated east began.

So what we have here is evidence of Ibo arrogating and no apologies oppression and marginalisation of ethnic minorities trapped with them in the British created eastern region.


The then Eastern region was the only region that was so restive in terms of ethnic nationalities wanting to be free from it.

KwuoteYourFada:

Lie lie there are yoruba Moslems

sweetgala:


There is nothing like Yoruba Muslim !
A Yoruba man is a yoruba man. You can't divide our ranks using religion even if we have different opinions we all return to our basis of being bonded by blood when the dirt hits the road

sweetgala:


There is nothing like Yoruba Muslim !
A Yoruba man is a yoruba man. You can't divide our ranks using religion even if we have different opinions we all return to our basis of being bonded by blood when the dirt hits the road

DeepThroater:
Why did northern parts of western Cameroun opt to remain in Nigeria but the Southern Cameroun provinces opt to leave Nigeria?

71% in southern Cameroun voted to leave Nigeria while a similar ratio voted in the north to remain in Nigeria.


The reasons for wanting to stay or leave was as a result of the predicaments and treatments both provincial regions faced in their respective regions to either the northern Nigeria region or eastern Nigeria region.

Cameroun was once a German colony but following the end of WW1 and the treaty of Versailles, Germany was forced to pay war reparations to Britain and France.

German Cameroun was then split into two halves and shared between the British and French.

Britain took the western half and included it into their colonial estate , Nigeria while France took the eastern flank. This arrangement began from 1916 to 1959. The Southern Territories of western Cameroun were lumped with the eastern region of Nigeria while the northern provinces got lumped with northern Nigeria.

In the 50's, a movement sprung up by peoples of western Cameroun lumped into the old Ibo dominated eastern region, demanding they either be allowed to become a region of their own or returned back to Cameroun were they had been carved out from. There was no such movement in the mostly Muslim northern parts of western Cameroun.

Following series of petitions to the British and UN , a referendum was organised in 1959 and later postponed till 1961 on western Cameroun exit from Nigeria.

To the north , the Plebescite returned a result to remain in Nigeria under the northern administrative region. To the south, the result was an overwhelming "No" with over 70% wanting out of Nigeria.


Why were there such diverging opinions between the people of north and south Western Cameroun ?

Raf4:


If they conduct another referendum today, Ebonyi state will overwhelmingly vote to opt out of SE.

Emergingnation:
keep denying Obvious and glaring facts..

Typical Yoruba Muslim !

DeepThroater:
Many an Ibo will lie boldly to your face and tell you that there exist imaginary cultural ties between them and people of western Cameroun.


This is of course all a big lie.

When you ask them where all that brotherly love was in the Plebescite of 1961, they will either lie again and tell you the UN conducted Plebescite was rigged or that western Cameroun parts in the then old eastern region were a victim of propaganda by both the British and northern Nigeria to leave the old eastern Nigeria.

The truth is that western Cameroun people trapped in the old eastern Nigeria were victims of oppressive and marginalising policies of neglect and disenfranchisement carried out by the majority Ibo populace on ethnic minorities trapped in the British drawn colonial borders of eastern Nigeria.

This was not only the plight of just the people of western Cameroun but that of every non Ibo tribes trapped in the British administrative region of the then old eastern Nigeria.

Under southern Nigeria protectorate, there was no clamour for a return to Cameroun as the British administered the whole protectorate through direct rule in a fair and equity manner.

The clamour to leave Nigeria began only when the southern region was split into two and semi autonomous direct rule was introduced by the British.

The minute the majority Ibo got power in 1953, agitations by not only western Cameroun but also other ethnic minorities in the eastern region to be free from the Ibo dominated east began.

So what we have here is evidence of Ibo arrogating and no apologies oppression and marginalisation of ethnic minorities trapped with them in the British created eastern region.


The then Eastern region was the only region that was so restive in terms of ethnic nationalities wanting to be free from it.