This Biafran activist recently prayed that Ndigbo should stop all investments in Nigeria outside Igboland. This prayer will not be answered. Ndigbo will not sit on the floor when they can reasonably afford chairs. The types of residences which the natives/their hosts make available for the sourjourning or settling Igbo has never been acceptable to them. Or in adequate supply. The issue of reciprocity never comes to mind. Ndigbo never figure in their calculations the fact that others hardly ever invest in Igboland.
Our people want to live in relative comfort when they are in foreign land and are prepared to pay for it. It does not matter if it is Abidjan, Douala, Lagos, Samaru or Accra.
The takeaway from Agbasi Maryann Ogoo's advice is that Ndigbo should make a preponderance of their investment in Igboland. That is good! This is why I have a lifelong passion about Electrical-Power-in-the-South-East. Few people understand this important connection. With power available, we will not have to beg Ndigbo to invest at home.
Meanwhile those outside, and they are many, must necessarily build homes, simple or palatial, to the envy of their hosts. This notion that by posturing to be low achievers Ndigbo will somehow be loved is misplaced. No matter what, Ndigbo cannot take up residence under the flyovers in Abuja or Lagos.
Tufiakwa!
Tufiakwa!
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