How Omenana would have saved Igbo mega businesses.

By
Remy Ilona
HISTORY OF THOSE GIANT IGBO BUSINESSES

I grew up to see many giant Igbo enterprises which were family owned. Within 2/3 decades the breweries, trading, transport, recording, construction,  manufacturing companies, airlines, shipping lines, etc were dead. They didn't go offshore. Many Indians who became captains of industry in Nigeria began in Uganda: were driven away by Idi Amin. They came to Nigeria and rebuilt. But the moneyed class of the Igbos have no such renewal story. 

Unless you look carefully you will say these concerns which included giant law firms and hospitals failed because Nigeria is collapsing gradually, and businesses don't thrive in it again, but there's another story. The children of the founders were not brought up to see the world as their parents did. Many are in the US and the UK today working day jobs. Had the batons been transferred to people who were capable there'd be giant Igbo concerns in China, the US, Ethiopia, Israel, Japan, Rwanda, Europe, today.

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