Nigeria: Ijaw Youths Allege Genocide Over Military Action
Daily Independent, Michael Jegede, 22 May 2009
"The Ijaws are not surprised about the incident, because the name, Nigeria, exists notoriously by intimidating, victimising, marginalising and killing her citizens" - - - Arogbo Ijaw Youth Network (AIYN) Press statement condemning Nigeria's military action on Ijaw communities in the guise of searching for militants in the areas, Daily Independent, 22 May 2009
WAR IN NIGER DELTA: JTF Sacks Okerenkoko Community. By Joe Nwankwo,Chesa Chesa, Sule Lazarus,Otei Oham (Abuja), Tunke-Aye Bisina (Asaba) and Harris-Okon Emmanuel(Warri), Daily Independent 20/05/09
"[Troops on Tuesday intensified their offensive against Okerenkoko, another community in Delta State, razing down all buildings in the all-out confrontation against militants intent on making life impossible in the Deep South.]"
"[Community leaders said over 200 homes in Okerenkoko, the second largest settlement after Oporoza in Gbaramatu Kingdom, were left desolate by the Joint Task Force (JTF).]"
"The Ijaws are not surprised about the incident, because the name, Nigeria, exists notoriously by intimidating, victimising, marginalising and killing her citizens" - - - Arogbo Ijaw Youth Network (AIYN) Press statement condemning Nigeria's military action on Ijaw communities in the guise of searching for militants in the areas, Daily Independent, 22 May 2009
Before the amalgamation of Nigeria by the British Colonial Government in 1914, the peoples of Eastern Region [Annang, Efik, Ibibio, Igbo, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Isoko, Esan, and Ogoja] lived, traded and married among themselves. They shared similar cultures, values, beliefs and general philosophy of life.
In the western part of Nigeria the Yoruba and their brothers lived, intermarried and traded among themselves. They shared similar values, beliefs and culture among themselves. But these values, beliefs, culture, and general philosophy of life were very different from those of the people of Eastern Region.
In the northern part of Nigeria lived the Hausa/Fulani and their brothers. They shared similar values, beliefs, culture and philosophy of life. Their values, beliefs, culture and general philosophy of life were radically different from those of the people of Eastern Region, but close to those of the Yoruba in the western Region.
It was clear to the British administrator Lord Lugard who amalgamated the North, West and East that it would be impossible for the three major groups to assimilate into one Nation or even a functional country. He said that the North and South were like "Oil and Water and would never mix." Yet he forced them into that union knowing full well that they cannot mix.
Once forced together the cultures started clashing. The main areas of conflict were Government, Land Tenure, Religion, Customs and Traditions, Philosophy of Life and Culture.
In the North, the Hausa Fulani operated a monarchy. The Emir was the temporal and divine authority, the ruler who possessed the power of life and death over his subjects. The Hausa tribes having been conquered by the Fulani were subjected to almost condition of slavery by the Fulani rulers who imposed a feudal system of government all over Northern Nigeria.
In Western Nigeria the Yoruba operated a quasi feudal system of government with the Oba being the temporal and divine authority, and possessing the power of life and death over his subjects. However the people could remove the Oba for egregious offenses.
The Igbo and their brothers in the Eastern Region mostly operated a robust democracy where people elected their leaders, held them accountable, removed them from office, and punished them for offenses against the people. The Igbo and their brothers in the East were essentially republican in their political outlook.
... and as for the rest of what you write, we disagree. We agree that there is a geographical mining area mapped out by Nigeria as Niger Delta, however we don't agree with your terminologies like "Niger Deltan" for a start so there really is no basis for discussion. Also the term "tribe" is a colonialist term and it is unacceptable in the manner which you use it. We may use it to facilitate your understanding but it is not acceptable to us and it therefore really isn't fun exchanging with you.
Okechukwu , Igboland is part of "Niger Delta", so assuming people called themselves "Niger Deltans" then Igbo will be "Niger Deltans". But again we only relaxed the assumption that there are people not called "Niger Delatans". Go and look at what Nigeria calls Niger Delta... and so stop deceiving yourself. Igbo also feel similar resentment to Igbo (especially One-Nigerianist efulefu Igbo sellouts), so Okechukwu you are not making a point.
Igbo communities are autonomous, so even you cant represent Igbo. Even the limits of whether to call what and who "Igbo" and who can hold claim to it in the Biafraland is often questioned since Igbo tongues differ widely but this is another time wasting subject of debate which one may call "the definition of Igbo" and, this is not our scope. All of this is a distraction.
So Okechukwu, again you are advised to read previous comments on previous comment pages. We have answered to your kind of talk over and over again, and this talk is getting boring. There can be blood Biafrans who want to stay in Nigeria. Not all blood Biafrans must be in Biafra, after all there are German speaking People in Austria, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland ... and these people are not all calling themselves Germans.
... But those who want to stay in Nigeria as 4th class Nigerian citizens can stay and hang on to rotten Nigeria (even when Nigeria has always demonstrated that it doesn't want them), and so we will not stop those who want to continue living in the hell hole. But we still try to get as many of our people as possible.
We will have Biafra. Our freedom is not negotiable,
Okechukwu, by your own admission you didn't know that there was oil in Igboland and you still don't know that the definition of "Niger Delta" is vague.
There might be a region marked in Nigerian terms as Niger Delta but there is nothing like "Niger Deltans".
but for your simplistic understanding and to facilitate this exchange, let us assume that there are people called "Niger Delatans"... but my question to you Okechukwu is: Have Niger Deltans told you they do not want to be part of my Biafra or do they not have a choice?
"What about theOgoja, Ibibbio etc. In the first Biafran war were they not considered sabotuers, even groups like Anioma, and Ika Igbo could not be trusted. "
This statement/or question above (whatever it is) is contradicting the purpose of the statement/question. Read it again and see the contradiction. What is your point? Are you asking a quesion or are you making a statement like someone who is unsure of what he is saying?
Okechukwu, "Niger Delta" is Biafraland and Igboland is part of the "Niger Delta". Moreover there is oil in Igboland, so stop saying what you don't know. Biafra is not about oil. Biafra is about our freedom: Freedom to choose your culture, social development, your economy and your political development without interference.
freedom to manage your life and your property including your natural resources, Freedom to plan your future. Freedom to give your talent to the world ...
.... Freedom to be like normal free a human being - the right to health-care, food, clothing, shelter, and education, freedom to be yourself, freedom to be who you want to be. Nigeria has denied us this freedom. That is what Biafra is about, fighting for your right to be.
"In actualizing Biafra, and forming an interim Provisional Government of Biafra in Biafraland, we make neither war, nor peace, with Nigeria. We only exercise an incontestable, basic Right, a right supported by the United Nations Organization Charter, the Right of Self Determination."
Violence is a means and not and end ...
Nonviolence is a means and not an end ...
However , Our freedom is not negotiable.
We will have our Sovereign and Independent Biafra.
So Okechukwu, you are advised to read previous comments on previous comment pages. We have answered to your kind of talk over and over again, and this talk is getting boring. There can be blood Biafrans who want to stay in Nigeria. Not all blood Biafrans must be in Biafra, afer all there are german speaking People in Aurstria, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland ... and these people are not all calling themselves Germans.
tonyeokechukwu, using Igbo name to propagate yoruba propaganda is a game we all are sick and tired of. Can you find other lying and treacherous methods? Your stupidity seems to be boundless.
"We did n't get the support of the delegates from the SouthWest(Yoruba), SouthEast(Igbo) delegates were with us and supported us..." ---- Edwin Clark, Former Federal Minister of Information, commenting on the talks on Resource Control at the National Political Reform Conference(April - July, 2005). ---- Vanguard Newspapers. Sunday, July 17, 2005. Obasanjo rejected the resolutions already reached in the conference. The political distraction with its illegitimate representation was aborted.
pity that we still fight amongst ourself.......we refuse to wake up to the reality of the issues......this was why we lost the biafran war......if we the igbos do not wake up and unit ourselves then unit with the rest or the eastern region, we will never fulfill our dreams of a great nation.....lets please stop fooling ourselves
"First, they are parasites. They contribute nothing; absolutely nothing intellectually or resource wise to this entity they call Nigeria. They are only parasites."
"..for centuries, the Niger Delta was literally a backwater of small subsistence communities, but since the discovery of petroleum, the people's environment has been rendered useless. Consequently..poverty increased and with it, anger.. as soon as the people became angry, they were branded as terrorists, as obstacles in the way of prosperity. And so they were hunted down." -- Jerry Rawlings former Ghanaian President speaking in Portharcourt. Guardian Newspapers. Tuesday October 14, 2008.
"The great majority of the civilian population fled from the fighting zone into rather than out of unoccupied Biafra. By the end of February 1968 there was an estimated one million refugees inside the unoccupied zone. In the main these were not Ibos but minority peoples." -- Frederick Forsyth in "The Biafra Story," page 198. Published 1969.
You write as you are: Immature. If you wish to make your point you may do so but your language will certainly not be tolerated here especially when interacting directly with your Okoroman.
Now lets help your insanity -compare your statements:
"IGBOS LEAVE US NIGER DELTANS ALONE!!!!"
peelti
"they are only two igbos states in the niger delta"
peelti
Clearly you don't know what you are talking about. You (whatever you are)are only motivated by hatred of Igbo.
Yes the Nigerian government tried very hard to isolate the Igbo form the rest of the other Easterners by creating "Niger Delta" (even the so called Delta State has Igbo communities). Nigera failed there too.
"...The war aim and (final) solution properly speaking of the entire problem...is to discriminate against the Ibos and in their own interest. Such discrimination would include above all the detachment of those oil-rich territories in the Eastern Region."
"In addition, the Ibos' freedom of movement would be restricted, to prevent their renewed penetration into other parts...leaving any access to the sea to the Ibos... is quite out of the question..." (Federal Nigerian Minister to E. C. Schwarzenback, Swiss Review
The State of Nigeria pressured some Biafran communities within Biafra to renounce their linguistic and blood ties to the major ethnic group, Igbo, in Biafra, with the goal of planting discord. Villages and towns in Biafran territory have been arbitrarily renamed, under directives (and duress) from the State of Nigeria, for no other reason than to cause dissent and discord within and among Biafrans, and also, to induce cultural liquidation.
U talk with ignorance.I usually come around to help u guys that talk with insult and hate.
Niger delta is a geagraphical location.But Gov.Made it political.Oil producing states are notable in Nigeria.They include,Imo,Abia,Delta,Edo,River,Bayelsa,Akwaibom,Ondo,and Anambra state where Sunoil is now drilling oil.But OBJ gov.removed Ibo states producing oil since b4 the war and included Ondo where oil was just found yesterday.
"...against protesters; forced villagers to watch public executions of honored village chiefs and local elders; closed down schools and turned them into barracks for the army; enriched themselves in black market deals in relief food supposed to be destined for the needy; looted desirable property and sent it back home; generally let it be known that they were there to stay and intended to live off the land, and live well." -- Frederick Forsyth in "The Biafra Story" page 112. Pub. June 26, 1969.
"Very often the biggest wave of refugees into unoccupied Biafra came not with the fall of a province, but a few weeks later when the Nigerian Army's methods had been tasted. Later still more alienation of the local leaders took place as the Federal soldiers killed goats, chickens, cattle and pigs for their own kitchens; harvested unripe yam and cassava crops for their diets; took local girls and used them as they wished; stopped protests at this behaviour by punitive raids:- (continue)
Nigeria: Ijaw Youths Allege Genocide Over Military Action
Daily Independent, Michael Jegede, 22 May 2009
"The Ijaws are not surprised about the incident, because the name, Nigeria, exists notoriously by intimidating, victimising, marginalising and killing her citizens" - - - Arogbo Ijaw Youth Network (AIYN) Press statement condemning Nigeria's military action on Ijaw communities in the guise of searching for militants in the areas, Daily Independent, 22 May 2009
Okoroman 2 years ago
WAR IN NIGER DELTA: JTF Sacks Okerenkoko Community. By Joe Nwankwo,Chesa Chesa, Sule Lazarus,Otei Oham (Abuja), Tunke-Aye Bisina (Asaba) and Harris-Okon Emmanuel(Warri), Daily Independent 20/05/09
"[Troops on Tuesday intensified their offensive against Okerenkoko, another community in Delta State, razing down all buildings in the all-out confrontation against militants intent on making life impossible in the Deep South.]"
Okoroman 2 years ago
"[Community leaders said over 200 homes in Okerenkoko, the second largest settlement after Oporoza in Gbaramatu Kingdom, were left desolate by the Joint Task Force (JTF).]"
Okoroman 2 years ago
"The Ijaws are not surprised about the incident, because the name, Nigeria, exists notoriously by intimidating, victimising, marginalising and killing her citizens" - - - Arogbo Ijaw Youth Network (AIYN) Press statement condemning Nigeria's military action on Ijaw communities in the guise of searching for militants in the areas, Daily Independent, 22 May 2009
Okoroman 2 years ago
Before the amalgamation of Nigeria by the British Colonial Government in 1914, the peoples of Eastern Region [Annang, Efik, Ibibio, Igbo, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Isoko, Esan, and Ogoja] lived, traded and married among themselves. They shared similar cultures, values, beliefs and general philosophy of life.
Okoroman 2 years ago
In the western part of Nigeria the Yoruba and their brothers lived, intermarried and traded among themselves. They shared similar values, beliefs and culture among themselves. But these values, beliefs, culture, and general philosophy of life were very different from those of the people of Eastern Region.
Okoroman 2 years ago
In the northern part of Nigeria lived the Hausa/Fulani and their brothers. They shared similar values, beliefs, culture and philosophy of life. Their values, beliefs, culture and general philosophy of life were radically different from those of the people of Eastern Region, but close to those of the Yoruba in the western Region.
Okoroman 2 years ago
It was clear to the British administrator Lord Lugard who amalgamated the North, West and East that it would be impossible for the three major groups to assimilate into one Nation or even a functional country. He said that the North and South were like "Oil and Water and would never mix." Yet he forced them into that union knowing full well that they cannot mix.
Okoroman 2 years ago
Once forced together the cultures started clashing. The main areas of conflict were Government, Land Tenure, Religion, Customs and Traditions, Philosophy of Life and Culture.
Okoroman 2 years ago
In the North, the Hausa Fulani operated a monarchy. The Emir was the temporal and divine authority, the ruler who possessed the power of life and death over his subjects. The Hausa tribes having been conquered by the Fulani were subjected to almost condition of slavery by the Fulani rulers who imposed a feudal system of government all over Northern Nigeria.
Okoroman 2 years ago
In Western Nigeria the Yoruba operated a quasi feudal system of government with the Oba being the temporal and divine authority, and possessing the power of life and death over his subjects. However the people could remove the Oba for egregious offenses.
Okoroman 2 years ago
The Igbo and their brothers in the Eastern Region mostly operated a robust democracy where people elected their leaders, held them accountable, removed them from office, and punished them for offenses against the people. The Igbo and their brothers in the East were essentially republican in their political outlook.
Okoroman 2 years ago
"This time we must know how our brothers in the other tribes feel before including them in a cause they may not want anything to do with."
Okechukwu, who misinformed you that consultations and proposals are not made widely across Biafran communities? Have you read the Biafra Charter?
Okoroman 2 years ago
... and as for the rest of what you write, we disagree. We agree that there is a geographical mining area mapped out by Nigeria as Niger Delta, however we don't agree with your terminologies like "Niger Deltan" for a start so there really is no basis for discussion. Also the term "tribe" is a colonialist term and it is unacceptable in the manner which you use it. We may use it to facilitate your understanding but it is not acceptable to us and it therefore really isn't fun exchanging with you.
Okoroman 2 years ago
Okechukwu , Igboland is part of "Niger Delta", so assuming people called themselves "Niger Deltans" then Igbo will be "Niger Deltans". But again we only relaxed the assumption that there are people not called "Niger Delatans". Go and look at what Nigeria calls Niger Delta... and so stop deceiving yourself. Igbo also feel similar resentment to Igbo (especially One-Nigerianist efulefu Igbo sellouts), so Okechukwu you are not making a point.
Okoroman 2 years ago
Besides that, what's this talks about Igbo? Is this not resentment?
Okechukwu, "stop thinking you know so much and listen to what others have to say."
Okoroman 2 years ago
So Okechukwu we have also spoken to many more "Niger Deltans" who want Biafra.
Okoroman 2 years ago
Igbo communities are autonomous, so even you cant represent Igbo. Even the limits of whether to call what and who "Igbo" and who can hold claim to it in the Biafraland is often questioned since Igbo tongues differ widely but this is another time wasting subject of debate which one may call "the definition of Igbo" and, this is not our scope. All of this is a distraction.
Okoroman 2 years ago
So Okechukwu, again you are advised to read previous comments on previous comment pages. We have answered to your kind of talk over and over again, and this talk is getting boring. There can be blood Biafrans who want to stay in Nigeria. Not all blood Biafrans must be in Biafra, after all there are German speaking People in Austria, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland ... and these people are not all calling themselves Germans.
Okoroman 2 years ago
... But those who want to stay in Nigeria as 4th class Nigerian citizens can stay and hang on to rotten Nigeria (even when Nigeria has always demonstrated that it doesn't want them), and so we will not stop those who want to continue living in the hell hole. But we still try to get as many of our people as possible.
We will have Biafra. Our freedom is not negotiable,
Okoroman 2 years ago
Okechukwu, by your own admission you didn't know that there was oil in Igboland and you still don't know that the definition of "Niger Delta" is vague.
Okoroman 2 years ago
There might be a region marked in Nigerian terms as Niger Delta but there is nothing like "Niger Deltans".
but for your simplistic understanding and to facilitate this exchange, let us assume that there are people called "Niger Delatans"... but my question to you Okechukwu is: Have Niger Deltans told you they do not want to be part of my Biafra or do they not have a choice?
Okoroman 2 years ago
"What about theOgoja, Ibibbio etc. In the first Biafran war were they not considered sabotuers, even groups like Anioma, and Ika Igbo could not be trusted. "
This statement/or question above (whatever it is) is contradicting the purpose of the statement/question. Read it again and see the contradiction. What is your point? Are you asking a quesion or are you making a statement like someone who is unsure of what he is saying?
Okoroman 2 years ago
Okechukwu, "Niger Delta" is Biafraland and Igboland is part of the "Niger Delta". Moreover there is oil in Igboland, so stop saying what you don't know. Biafra is not about oil. Biafra is about our freedom: Freedom to choose your culture, social development, your economy and your political development without interference.
freedom to manage your life and your property including your natural resources, Freedom to plan your future. Freedom to give your talent to the world ...
Okoroman 2 years ago
.... Freedom to be like normal free a human being - the right to health-care, food, clothing, shelter, and education, freedom to be yourself, freedom to be who you want to be. Nigeria has denied us this freedom. That is what Biafra is about, fighting for your right to be.
Okoroman 2 years ago
"In actualizing Biafra, and forming an interim Provisional Government of Biafra in Biafraland, we make neither war, nor peace, with Nigeria. We only exercise an incontestable, basic Right, a right supported by the United Nations Organization Charter, the Right of Self Determination."
Violence is a means and not and end ...
Nonviolence is a means and not an end ...
However , Our freedom is not negotiable.
We will have our Sovereign and Independent Biafra.
Okoroman 2 years ago
So Okechukwu, you are advised to read previous comments on previous comment pages. We have answered to your kind of talk over and over again, and this talk is getting boring. There can be blood Biafrans who want to stay in Nigeria. Not all blood Biafrans must be in Biafra, afer all there are german speaking People in Aurstria, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland ... and these people are not all calling themselves Germans.
Okoroman 2 years ago
tonyeokechukwu, using Igbo name to propagate yoruba propaganda is a game we all are sick and tired of. Can you find other lying and treacherous methods? Your stupidity seems to be boundless.
Biafrans7 2 years ago
"We did n't get the support of the delegates from the SouthWest(Yoruba), SouthEast(Igbo) delegates were with us and supported us..." ---- Edwin Clark, Former Federal Minister of Information, commenting on the talks on Resource Control at the National Political Reform Conference(April - July, 2005). ---- Vanguard Newspapers. Sunday, July 17, 2005. Obasanjo rejected the resolutions already reached in the conference. The political distraction with its illegitimate representation was aborted.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
pity that we still fight amongst ourself.......we refuse to wake up to the reality of the issues......this was why we lost the biafran war......if we the igbos do not wake up and unit ourselves then unit with the rest or the eastern region, we will never fulfill our dreams of a great nation.....lets please stop fooling ourselves
hott2dogg2 3 years ago
"First, they are parasites. They contribute nothing; absolutely nothing intellectually or resource wise to this entity they call Nigeria. They are only parasites."
(Asari Dokubo, July 2008)
Okoroman 3 years ago
"..for centuries, the Niger Delta was literally a backwater of small subsistence communities, but since the discovery of petroleum, the people's environment has been rendered useless. Consequently..poverty increased and with it, anger.. as soon as the people became angry, they were branded as terrorists, as obstacles in the way of prosperity. And so they were hunted down." -- Jerry Rawlings former Ghanaian President speaking in Portharcourt. Guardian Newspapers. Tuesday October 14, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"The great majority of the civilian population fled from the fighting zone into rather than out of unoccupied Biafra. By the end of February 1968 there was an estimated one million refugees inside the unoccupied zone. In the main these were not Ibos but minority peoples." -- Frederick Forsyth in "The Biafra Story," page 198. Published 1969.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
looooooooooooooool if u claim igbos dont care about us then how come you guys are talking abt ous, dedicating a youtube page for us? huh?
Know who is claiming us?
IGBOS LEAVE US NIGER DELTANS ALONE!!!!
peelti 3 years ago
Don't be silly. Igbo are part of "Niger Delta"
Okoroman 3 years ago
they are only two igbos states in the niger delta
okay ondo state is part of niger delta and another yourba state is going to part of the niger delta by the end of this year.
soo are u sayings yorubas are part of the Niger delta too?
ur an idiot...ur the same igbo fool insulting yorubas....while they are also part of the niger delta..so shut the fuck up
peelti 3 years ago
You write as you are: Immature. If you wish to make your point you may do so but your language will certainly not be tolerated here especially when interacting directly with your Okoroman.
Now lets help your insanity -compare your statements:
"IGBOS LEAVE US NIGER DELTANS ALONE!!!!"
peelti
"they are only two igbos states in the niger delta"
peelti
Clearly you don't know what you are talking about. You (whatever you are)are only motivated by hatred of Igbo.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Yes the Nigerian government tried very hard to isolate the Igbo form the rest of the other Easterners by creating "Niger Delta" (even the so called Delta State has Igbo communities). Nigera failed there too.
Okoroman 3 years ago
"...The war aim and (final) solution properly speaking of the entire problem...is to discriminate against the Ibos and in their own interest. Such discrimination would include above all the detachment of those oil-rich territories in the Eastern Region."
Okoroman 3 years ago
"In addition, the Ibos' freedom of movement would be restricted, to prevent their renewed penetration into other parts...leaving any access to the sea to the Ibos... is quite out of the question..." (Federal Nigerian Minister to E. C. Schwarzenback, Swiss Review
of Africa, February 1968)
Okoroman 3 years ago
The State of Nigeria pressured some Biafran communities within Biafra to renounce their linguistic and blood ties to the major ethnic group, Igbo, in Biafra, with the goal of planting discord. Villages and towns in Biafran territory have been arbitrarily renamed, under directives (and duress) from the State of Nigeria, for no other reason than to cause dissent and discord within and among Biafrans, and also, to induce cultural liquidation.
Okoroman 3 years ago
IGBO-AKIRI renamed to IGBANKE and ceded to Edo state of Nigeria (supposedly non-Igbo state).
Does this ring a bell?
Okoroman 3 years ago
but its true...only two igbo states in the niger
peelti 3 years ago
haha lol@ u saying God created igbos with Niger deltans....go to an Ijaw man and say that..he will remove ur head off..
IGBOS LEAVE US ALONE....u 419 SCAMMERS
peelti 3 years ago
U talk with ignorance.I usually come around to help u guys that talk with insult and hate.
Niger delta is a geagraphical location.But Gov.Made it political.Oil producing states are notable in Nigeria.They include,Imo,Abia,Delta,Edo,River,Bayelsa,Akwaibom,Ondo,and Anambra state where Sunoil is now drilling oil.But OBJ gov.removed Ibo states producing oil since b4 the war and included Ondo where oil was just found yesterday.
thirdexodus2008 3 years ago
"...against protesters; forced villagers to watch public executions of honored village chiefs and local elders; closed down schools and turned them into barracks for the army; enriched themselves in black market deals in relief food supposed to be destined for the needy; looted desirable property and sent it back home; generally let it be known that they were there to stay and intended to live off the land, and live well." -- Frederick Forsyth in "The Biafra Story" page 112. Pub. June 26, 1969.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Very often the biggest wave of refugees into unoccupied Biafra came not with the fall of a province, but a few weeks later when the Nigerian Army's methods had been tasted. Later still more alienation of the local leaders took place as the Federal soldiers killed goats, chickens, cattle and pigs for their own kitchens; harvested unripe yam and cassava crops for their diets; took local girls and used them as they wished; stopped protests at this behaviour by punitive raids:- (continue)
Biafrans7 3 years ago
haha that america thingy is a joke
there will be always demand for oil...
but this is not all about oil though
y do you igbos want to unite with us?
peelti 3 years ago
haha I am Niger deltan if you didnt know..
we dont want to follow you igbos in doing anything
we dont want BIAFRA! no way
y cant u guys accept rejections..
who cares abt imo and abia states?
do we need them....NO!
peelti 3 years ago
mehn okoroman ur a FOOL for this one!
lol @ some of you igbos claiming Niger delta
haha wonder shall never end..idiots
peelti 3 years ago
Peelti, if you can't name the states that comprise the Niger Delta to prove your case, exit and save yourself the embarrassment.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
haha stop claiming Niger deltans
Ijaws, calabars, Ikwerres dont want biafra...
we dont give a fuck abt you guys...ish get it..
peelti 3 years ago