It is mentality like “opening up bushes and turning them into towns” peddled every day that makes it easy for people to push the wrong rhetoric against Igbos. 
Even when we think we are speaking facts, let us apply emotional Intelligence to it. The Igbos never moved anywhere to “help” the people of the place, they moved there because they saw an opportunity there. Hence, the place already had attractive value before they came.
We all live with communities that are not ours as every Nigerian should be free to, but let us never make the mistake of being disrespectful to host communities. It breeds danger everywhere in the world where some form of “immigrant” starts to push disrespectful rhetoric against their host communities. 

It never ends well for everyone involved.