The Igbo Crime Culture (2) By Fredrick Nwabufo
------------------------------------- 1) In the heat of the lynching of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013 over alleged criminality, I wrote an essay entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to @sarnchos@ogundamisi2) ..de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence and vanity, which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own. I also suggested the need for value re-orientation – a task that must be actuated by all groups – the age grades, unions and traditional institutions
The suspected Taraba kidnap kingpin is a petty fish trader, painter, politician, polygamist with many children and a philanthropist. His wealth status might have been exergerated because of his generosity and profligate spending. @scarfizal2) He was reclusive until the last two years. His wealth, allegedly through kidnapping shot him into ‘prominence’.
He is at the centre of a disagreement btwn the Army and the Police following soldiers killing of three policemen and a civilian who were on an @Funkemyfun@nkyru