Keep Igbo Off Yorubaland

Yorubaland loses its culture and identity by allowing unregulated migration of people from Igboland to Yorubaland. The wave of 5 million people yearly comes from Igboland into Yorubaland. That definitely changes Yorubaland for the worse. Allowing the mass migration of the Igbo to Yorubaland in the name of One-Nigeria is shameful. It changes the fabric of Yoruba society, and unless we act very quickly to stop that, Yorubaland will never be great again.

To allow millions of people into Yorubaland without regulation is very, very sad. We are losing our culture and identity. The unregulated movement of the Igbo in Yorubaland began over four decades ago when Aguiyi Ironsi suspended the regional government in 1966 and imposed the unitary system in the country. The Yoruba leadership that preceded us did a terrible job in terms of the control of the migration of people to Yorubaland. The Igbo in Yorubaland has not been hospitable. They are sticking to a fraudulent unitary system that takes money from Yorubaland and shared it with the Igbo and the Hausa and Fulani in a bid to keep the Yoruba nation and her people poor and miserable. We are cracking down on the fraudulent unitary system because the parasitic Igbo and the Hausa and Fulani have failed to treat the Yoruba nation fairly in terms of income distribution.

For instance, the Nigerian federal government derives 90 percent of its revenues from seven major sources: the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS); the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS); the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA); the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA); and the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG). The Yoruba nation contributes 20% of the revenue of the NNPC; 90% of the revenue of the NCS; 80% of the revenue of the FIRS; 90% of the revenue of the NPA; 60% of the revenue of the CBN; 95% of the revenue of NIMASA; and an insignificant contribution to the revenue of NLNG. From all the levies paid to the Federal Government of Nigeria as revenue, the Yoruba nation pays 49% of the total revenue accruing to the Federal Government every month but receives about 8% of the monthly allocation from the Federal Government. The North, an area that contributes less than 5% of total federal government revenues, receives over 55% of the federal government's shared monthly allocation. It is likewise the same scenario with the Igbo nation. The Igbo nation contributes only 1.5% of all the levies paid to the Federal Government as revenue every month, but receives about 5% of the monthly allocation from the Federal Government. That is why the Igbo, in cooperation with the Hausa and the Fulani, refuses to accept an outright dissolution of Nigeria or a return to the regional government.

The Igbo as well as the Hausa and Fulani are parasites living off the wealth and resources of the Yoruba people. But the Igbo is the largest beneficiary of the unitary presidential system in Nigeria. That is why they can never support the outright dissolution of Nigeria or a return to the regional system. Their arrogant call for Biafra that must include the Edo, Urhobo, Ijaw, Ogoni, Efik, Ibibio and other non-Igbo speaking people is a gimmick to keep Nigeria as one indivisible country. The Igbo knows that non-Igbo speaking people are not particularly interested in Biafra, but the Niger Delta Republic, hence their repulsive slogan of Biafra or death is deliberate plot for the Igbo to remain as a part of Nigeria under the fraudulent unitary system in order for them to continue to use the Yoruba's resources, including our ports, waterways and coming to live in Yorubaland unregulated without paying the appropriate economic rent.