19/02/2026
EBONYl IS EVlL AND H£ARTL£SS: Why We Must Stop Generalizing EviI And Personalizing Good
Of course, what happened in Onitsha is wi¢ked and paiπful.
A young Nwa-bọị from Ebonyi kiIIed his ọga with a Aka-odo, and we are insisting that justice must be done.
That is fine, no argument.
But turning around to iπsuIt all EbonyiState people or calling Abakaliki people evụl is ignorance and evụl on its own.
If we judge a whole tr!be by one cr!miπal, then πo Igbo state wiIl be iππocent.
Remember Evans, the not0ri0us kidπap kiπgpiπ from Nnewi in AnambraState who was arr£sted and is now serviπg a Iife seπtence.
Did we call all Anambrarians or Nnewi people kidπapp£rs? No.
Think of r!tuaI h0rr0r stories linked to Edison Okeke, a native of Nawgu. Eddy Nawgu was later kiIIed by the Bakassi Boys in the late 1990s.
We did not generalize it to Ndị Anambra.
What about Chidinma Ojukwu from Abia, the student who kiIIed SuperTV boss in 2021?
Did anyone say her whole state are kiIIers? No. We coπdemπed only her.
Years ago, there were a series of claims that Ngwa people in AbiaState £at hvman b£iπgs.
I am sure it is now history, and nobody is talking about it anymore or calling Abians caππibals.
What about the d!sturbiπg native doctor kiIIings reported in Ezeagu that sh0¢ked the entire country?
Why didn’t we call Ezeagu people r!tuaIists or extend the cr!me to the entire EnuguState?
Gen Z should be made to understand that the Otokoto r!tuaI kiIIiπgs was not a Nollywood movie, but happened in Owerri in 1996 and led to ri0ts across the city.
Yet nobody called ImoState people eviI forever.
I writes this not to stain any state but to let those who are calling an entire Ebonyi eviI to think twice and please stop.
Every land has good and bad people.
When we generalize eviI but personalize good, we destr0y Ala Igbo ourselves.
Today Ebonyi is being m0¢ked. Tomorrow it could be Anambra, Abia, Enugu, or Imo that will face w0rse humiIiati0π.
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Moral lesson: Condemn crime, seek justice, and stop hat
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