In addition, landed property owned by the Igbo was declared to be "abandoned property" particularly in Port Harcourt. In the public service, the Igbo elite were marginalised by the refusal to re-absorb most of their cadres who had attained high positions in the armed forces and the federal public service. It is in this context that many within the Igbo elite have come to understand the policies of "no victor, no vanquished" and "reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation" announced after the war, as a lie. There is room to debate these issues today as they feed into persistent demands for the creation of an additional state in the South East and the clamour for an Igbo Presidency, which increasingly appears to be a mirage. Of course since the end of the civil war, there has been a remarkable Igbo economic and commercial élan. The marginalisation did not work at the economic and commercial level and the success of the Igbo come back is one of the remarkable stories of our time.
Akikaribisha wadau kushiriki katika mhadhara huo Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa ESRF, Dk. Tausi Kida alisema kwamba mhadhara huo ulikuwa ni njia muafaka ya kubadilisha maarifa ili kuboresha kilimo cha Tanzania kwa kukipatia kilimo hicho mkakati wa muda mrefu wa kubadilika.Picha juu na chini ni baadhi ya wageni waalikwa wanazuoni mbalimbali wakiwasilisha maoni yao wakati wa mhadhara wa kujadili historia na nafasi ya kilimo na sera zake katika kufanikisha safari ya viwanda ya Tanzania, kwa kuangalia mazao ya chakula kama mazao ya biashara uliondaliwa na ESRF na kufanyika jijini Dar es Salaam.