21/02/2026
ANAMBRA PEOPLE ARE COMMITTING A CRME AG∆INST HvMANITY T0WARD EBONYI PEOPLE.
Please before you cryy that I am creating dvision and h∆te amongst brothers, take cognisance of this scenario:
A man or woman from Nsukka walks into the booking office of a transportation company. He speaks in his Nsukka dialect to the ticketer, who also hails from Nsukka. Something immediate happens, a spark, a recognition, a bond. Instantly, respect and favour are exchanged. Across Igboland, Mbaise, Awka, Nkanu, Nnewi, Awkuzu, Umuahia, this same truth holds. Speak your tongue, embrace your heritage, and suddenly, the world bends towards you. Pride is celebrated. Identity is affirmed. You are seen.
Now,
Hear this, and let it sink into your very soul: when an Abakaliki man enters a similar office where an Abakaliki sister or brother is the ticketer, if he tries to speak their dialect to her, everything changes. The ticketer, even though she is from Abakaliki, hesitates. She does not meet his gaze. She replies in Central Igbo, stiffly, formally, guardedly. She hides. Not because she cannot speak her own language. Not because she is ignorant or cruel. No. She hides because she wants to be in the good book of an Anambra person who will not waste time before pl0tting her downfall or el!min∆tion should they find out that she is an Abakaliki person.
So she has been conditioned, through years of prejudice, ridicule, and open social h0stility, to fear the very people who surround her, the Anambra people who dominate the office, the market, the social sphere.
Recognition. Kinship. Favour. These are withheld. Denied. Betrayed. All because acknowledging her own roots, acknowledging her brother, could unleash scorn, m0ckery, or professional ruin. This is not social awkwardness. This is cultural violence. This is the theft of dignity on a systematic scale.
In schools, in marketplaces, in offices, and even in churches, there is a deliberate attempt by some Anambra people to silence, to suppress, to drown out the voices of Ebonyi people, and, in the process, to erase the identity of Abakaliki people.
Ladies and gentlemen, what Anambra people have done to Abakaliki people is not a small slight. It is monumental. It is deliberate. It is a cr!me against hvmanity, a th€ft of pr!de, an assault on id€ntity itself. They have forced Abakaliki people to fear their own tongues, to suppress their own roots, to silence themselves in order to survive.
This is not just injustice. This is tyranny disguised as civility.
But
let me be clear: Abakaliki man, your spirit has not been extinguished. Your heritage has been constrained, yes, but it still lives, fierce and unyielding. Now is the time to reclaim it. Speak your dialect boldly, offices, markets, streets, every gathering. Fear nothing. Yield to no mockery. Let no Anambra chain, no societal scorn, no shadow of prejudice silence your voice. Reclaim your dignity. Reclaim your pride. Let your tongue speak, let your roots rise, let your presence demand recognition.
Because
At the end of the day, identity, self respect, humanity, these are not privileges. They are rights. And no one, no matter how powerful, no matter how entrenched, has the authority to strip them from you. Not now, not ever.
Abakaliki, rise. Speak. Be heard. Be seen. And let the world, and every oppressor, witness the undeniable power of a people who will no longer be silenced.
May Ebonyi state be great again.
NOG
