NDIGBO THIS, NDIGBO THAT, BLA, BLA, . ; MY RESPONSE TO MY RESPECTED NORTHERN "FRIEND".

Thanks for calling me a friend in your opening statement. There is hope then that we can find common ground. . Where did I depict any anger on my part? In all humility(?) I concluded my presentation with the sentence, "I stand to be corrected." I am still waiting. . There is no debating the fact that Igbo accumulated investments in the north is several multiples (50x, I don't know?) of that of northerners in Igboland. Ordinarily is that bad? Well, that depends on how you look at the disparity. Northerners may be happy about these investments which often exceeds all that the government can do, OR they may be resentful leading to the kind of threats of expropriation that is now making the rounds. On the other hand some Ndigbo are angry that Igboland is deprived by such a trend. Hence the renewed call for "Invest at Home." I pursue information, on all sorts of platforms. Three years ago I had cause to contradict an American who contributed to the US Foreign Affairs Journal. In a most bizarre reading of the Boko-Haram insurgency, this crazy American had posited that the problems in the North-East depended to a great extent on the LACK OF INVESTMENTS BY SOUTHERNERS in the North? Can you beat that? I wonder how many Nigerians believed such rubbish. Kindly consider all the above. Biafra or no Biafra, this writer boasts that he spends more time and energy agonizing over the backwardness of the north than my contemporaries up there. I am not by any stretch imagining that I am doing the North a favour. It is a matter of enlightened self-interest.