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You have presented a one sided view that may have been caused by your belonging to the ethnicity that is most affected by the demolitions. Certainly you have not been watching the television interviews of government officials involved or you have deliberately ignored the facts. It is not only the Igbo that are affected but they are the most affected. And it points our a fact about that tribe, they reflected mostly the tendency to do things by bribery in Nigeria. When are we going to learn to do things by the rules? FHA MD said the issue had been on since 2018 and the authority had waited obeying court injunctions. All of buildings affected have no approval and the land were bought from land grabbers. Lagos state challenged anybody with valid approval to publish them on social media. So far nobody has done that. Can you the writer do anything without approval in Rome where you wrote from? While do we do right in foreign nations and refuse to do that in Nigeria. The blame of ethnic vendetta is not right and it is not true. That is always done in Nigeria to cover up misdeeds. And it most common with Ndigbo. Nigerians want to have neat and decent cities like they are abroad. And I especially welcome the demolitions in Abuja, Lagos and Porthacourt . When Peter Obi demolished houses in Onitsha and said he would not pay compensations because those houses were not built with approvals, nobody charged ethnic agenda. Finally, let Ndigbo leant to adjust to their host communities anywhere they are in the world. Why are they always the target in all countries including South Africa. They need to do a reevaluation of themselves.

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