I real feel the struggle of the people. It was a good thing but in my opinion I felt Ojukwu made a very grave and stupid tactical move. Clearly Biafra was not prepare to fight that war. This tactical mistake cost d lives of d people. A general is responsible 4 d lives of d people he leads.
Good afternoon. Forgive me for my bad English. Use a translator.
I'm from Ukraine. Interested in the history of Africa. Material in Ukraine on these issues unfortunately very little. Be kind, if you is not difficult to send to the address mza_1844@mail.ru memories of their relatives, photosvideo of the events in Katanga, Zaire in general, Biafra, Kenya and other countries over the period 1950 - 1980.I would appreciate any information. Thank you. Take the story of its own people more accessible.
What are the intents of the propaganda geared towards Biafra's arms scarcity and against the decision to severe themselves from their determined killers who had not been restrained in a whole year of genocidal macabre while ignoring the very forces, institutions and personalities behind what was to become Africa's worst genocide? Why trump malicious charges of "ambition" against Ojukwu while Gowon is exonerated from any ambitions? Why blame the victim and exculpate the perpetrator?
Ever wondered why Igbo people are the most talented craftsmen in Africa? Listen to Ojukwu as he recalled how they invented their own weapons and machinery for the war. Sure the man was a visionary. If Aba is of any example, Biafra could've been a major success.
They are the most greedy, and senseless people. They think everything is power. But the brain is more powerful than the strength. That is why the Yorubas are able to defeat them whenever they meet. And we do not need a battalion to fight Igbos, Just one or two people. People like Moremi and Awolowo.
people mistake so many things when they say we are one nigeria no no we are not they is noting like nigeria ontil the british brings 3 kinds of people together in 1914 we are living on our own before the year 1914 i want many people to understand that if some one said we live in one nations now why did all african did not live as one nation since we did not have any ocean the share us that biafran want they freedom is not cramie cos many have taking they freedom long live biafran
You guys need to calm down really, ha. We are people before being Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Ijaw et al even Black, white, red!!! Please for goodness sake cant we for once forcefully withdraw our mind and head from being controlled or manipulated by the devil. God brougthus together to form the Rep of Nigeria for a reason. The devil is testing the strenth of our brotherly love and we need not to blame it on any tribe. God bless Nigeria!!!
@Yinkaldinho God did not bring Nigeria together, because he is not the author of confusion and bloodletting which Nigeria is. The devil brought Nigeria together so that innocent blood would always be shed for the demon of the Niger.
That general is a fool, all weaker forces ALWAYS start with guerilla tactics etc and then swtich to conventional operations after gaining the advantage, by the time they tried to use viet cong style operations Biafra was already lost.
People open your eyes and your locked up heads so maybe you can realize that we are living in one nation. Whether you are Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba to anyone outside Nigeria you are Nigerian and none of those. Come together to help build this nation and stop looking at it in a way that it never was, calling it a failed country as if it is the golden boy that is destined for greatness. It will only achieve greatness if we all stay as one without ripping one another to shreds. Fighting's not an option
Everything was organized by Europeans as all other conflicts that have been tearing Africa in pieces. France funded biafra and uk+usa Nigeria. for what ? OIL.
Educate the Ibos and give the army to the others muslims. what do you think can happen. Ask Bernard Kouchner he can tell better about it!!!
@jonanirina I thought I was in the twilight zone. But where I disagree is that I believe the USA initially were on the biafran front and implored us to declare war to begin with.
Support Biafra. It will become a reality, doesn't matter if people are threatened by that idea. Biafra will live and prosper. The spiritual order is set, the physical manifestation is in procession.
Truth be told, we are all to blame for the failure called Nigeria but the time has come to me forward. The YORUBAS should create the nation of ODUDUWA and the IGBOS should have BIAFRA, as for the HAUSA/FULANIS, they should form whatever nation they want and worship their Allah as violently as they want.
Nigeria is not one nation so let us stop kidding ourselves.
My YORUBA kinsmen, let us remember the Western region and the legacy of Awolowo.
@voiceoftheyorubas There is power in unity. Why can't the Yorubas, Igbos and the Biafrans have separates states but unite together for protection and strength....we have more in common than we have differences.
I actually was able to receive a good signal from Radio Biafra on 7305 KHz during the War of Independence .I still have the recordings. The anthem used at that time was actually Finlandia. Radio Biafra was one of the best run stations on the SW bands. Had Biafra succeeded, I am convinced that with help from their allies in Israel, it would have been the most successful nation in Sub Saharan Africa. The Ibos are without a doubt, the most gifted people in sub- Saharan Africa.
You Guys are uneducated... U think Biafra was a war... lol, child's play, if i was in that time i would have committed a holocaust by erasing ol igbo's and create a northern master race... then latter i will erase the pure Hausa's and Yoruba's. Try thins one 4 size.
you dont have the balls just start the shit right now .nigeria will be destroyed right from over -sea. we will invade you from every country idiot. we will erase nigerias interest world wide .
hey you guys all kinda suck, coz i really dont care if you're hausa, biafra, igbo,or whatever, we are all the same. and nigeria is the 8th most popular country in the world. get it right into your skulls. okay!
@MegaTukay I quite agree with his assertion, although I am of Ijebu extraction (Yoruba), I rate the Igbo's for their creative resourcefulness, give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's, will ya?
Biafra was indeed an example of what an African nation could become if left alone. We had our dreams and lived them out. We had one of the best functioning government even when in war. Nigeria has been without wars for decades but they still rank bottom of the world in every reasonable endeavor.Every non-igbo person loves to hate the igbos but still won't let them go ( I have lived with a couple of them). When people can't do something, they go out of their way to say you can't do it.
The same Obasanko you verbally murde everyday on here "On Monday May 29, 2000, The Guardian of Lagos reported that President Olusegun Obasanjo commuted to retirement the dismissal of all military persons who fought for the breakaway state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war. In a national broadcast, he said that the decision was based on the principle that "justice must at all times be tempered with mercy.""
Isn't even ironic that Okoroman & co are the ones complaining abt Nig democracy hen in fact " the first military coup on January 15, 1966, was led by Igbo junior Army officers, mostly majors and captains...Ironsi, himself an Igbo, was thought to have promoted many Igbos in the Army at the expense of Yoruba and Hausa officers" They you have it OKOROMAN stop blaming only the HAUSAS!!!!!!!!!!!
Your secessionist idea is not a big issue really, but the REAL issue as far as i am concern is the way u guys go like little babies crying marginalisation, yoruba oligarch, hausas are selfish , complaining that all ur probelem was, has been and still being caused by others. isn't that utterly ABSURD? i thik u shld accept the fact, ur elites are shamless, gullibble, selfish, obseqiuos, irresponsible, foolish, shallow and above all stupid!
I bet you are the worst idiot on earth to even utter these words in a serious issue like this one "Biafra" Yormeey. Wao! I see how smart you are! Rats should clap for you! I have Yoruba,Hausa and Igbo friends and i can the tell the difference, how the rest would never allow the Igbo guy speak, cos they thing they are better than the Igbo guy. Which is PURE NONSENSE! Leave them alone With Biafra which is their land and stop being GREEDY! and ABUSSIVE TOWARDS THE IGBOS! Cos IGBOS ARE INTELIGENT!
"[The West enjoyed a much higher literacy level being the first part of the country to have contact with western education in addition to the free primary education program of the pre-independence Western Regional Government.]"
"[In the South, the missionaries rapidly introduced Western forms of education. Consequently, the Yoruba were the first group in Nigeria to become significantly modernized and they provided the first African civil servants, doctors, lawyers, and other technicians and professionals]"
"[In Igbo areas, missionaries were introduced at a later date because of British difficulty in establishing firm control over the highly autonomous Igbo villages. (Audrey Chapman, "Civil War in Nigeria," Midstream, Feb 1968). However, the Igbo people took to Western education zealously. Furthermore, most Igbo eventually adopted the religion of the Christian colonialists."]
"[By the 1940's they had transformed themselves into one of the most educated, wealthiest, and politically unified groups in Nigeria and presented a serious challenge to Yoruba predominance in the civil service and the professions. Moreover, severe population pressure in the Igbo homeland combined with an intense desire for economic improvement drove thousands of Igbo to other parts of Nigeria in search of work.]"
The people of the other regions started killing Easterners because they(Easterners) moved to supposedly other parts of "one Nigeria " in search of opportunity.
In March 1964, during debates in the Northern House of Assembly, the prevailing bitterness against Igbo was publicly proclaimed and their physical elimination officially hinted. Here are a few excerpts from the speeches made during those debates:
"MALLAM BASHARI UMARU: "I would like (you), as the Minister of Land and Survey, to revoke forthwith all Certificates of Occupancy from the hands of the Ibos resident in the region" (he was Applauded by the members of the assembly) ... "
"MR. MEGIDA LAWANT: "In fact it is quite a long time that we in our part of this Region have known the Ibos and I do not think that at the moment there is any Ibo man owning a roof in Igbirra Division ... I am appealing to the Minister to make life more difficult for them ... "
"ALHAJI YUSUFU BAYERO: "Mr. Chairman, I would like to appeal to the Minister of Establishments and Training if he will appeal to the Minister of Local Government about some employees who are Ibos and are working under some Native Authorities here ... I cannot see why they should be in our Region. We are all sure that they are the poorest people in the country".
ALHAJI USMAN LIMAN (Sarkin Musawa): "What brought the Ibos into this Region? They were here since the Colonial Days. Had it not been for the Colonial Rule there would hardly have been any Ibo in this Region. Now that there is no Colonial Rule the Ibos should go back to their Region. There should be no hesitation about this matter. Mr. Chairman, North is for Northerners, East for Easterners, West for Westerners and The Federation is for all.
"ALHAJI MUSTAFA ISMAILA ZANNA DUJUNA (Minister of Establishments and Training): "Mr. Chairman, Sir, since 1955 this Government had laid down a policy. First NORTHERNERS, second EXPATRIATES and third, NON-NORTHERNERS. Mr. Chairman, Sir, I have noted very carefully all the speeches made by all the Members in the Honourable House and I am ready to put up to my Government their views and I hope my Government will give them consideration ..."
"ALHAJI IBRAHIM MUSA GASHASH, O.B.E. (Minister of Land and Survey): "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I do not like to take up much of the time of this House in making explanations, but I would like to assure Members that having heard their demands about Ibos holding land in Northern Nigeria my Ministry will do all it can to see that the demands of Members are met. How to do this, when to do it, all this should not be disclosed. In the course, you will all see what will happen." (He was Applauded)
Awolowo dismantled Fiscal Federalism in 1968, and as the author of Gowon's economic policy from 1967 - 1970, he stripped the southern Nationalities (Niger Delta) of their resource rights and control through the Dina Commission.
The policy initiated by Obafemi Awolowo towards the economic impoverishment of the Biafrans after the war was the &20 pounds flat rate "compensation" given to every single Biafran man or woman irrespective of the amount they had deposited in the Banks prior to the war. After this came the indigenisation policy by Olusegun Obasanjo that handed the greater percentage of shareholdings to Hausa-fulani and Yorubas while the now pauperized Biafrans were excluded to their bad fate.
"All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder." --- Chief Obafemi Awolowo(Minister of Finance) -- New York Review, 21 December, 1967.
"If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of Omission or Commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then the Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the federation. ----- Obafemi awolowo's speech to Western Leaders of Thought in Ibadan. May 1, 1967.
"..He (Awolowo) said it in Enugu and he confirmed it in Lagos, that if we were pushed out of the federation, that the Yorubas would follow suit. And in any case nobody would deny that." -- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Tell Magazine (Page 27). September 18, 2000
"..when I became governor of the East, my mind immediately went to chief Obafemi Awolowo where he was in Calabar. I gave him as much protection as I could. The same as I did to J.S. Tarka..It was my own decision to release him(Awolowo) but not on any understanding. I released him because I felt that was one of the problems that beset Nigeria even before the attempted coup..On his release, he drove in car, followed by my own personal guard." - Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Tell Mag. Sept. 18 2000.
"The conquest to the sea is now in sight. When our god-sent Ahmadu Bello said some years ago that our conquest will reach the sea shores of Nigeria, some idiots in the South were doubting its possibilities. Today have we not reached the sea? Lagos is reached. It remains Portharcourt. It must be conquered and taken.." --- Mallam Bala Garuba.
"...I told him(Yakubu Gowon) that the generation to which I belong had failed and we should politely leave the stage for the younger generation to take over. Nigeria is totally messed up today and nothing appears to be working.." --- Theophilus Danjuma, co-genocidist with Gowon and former defense Minister. Guardian Newspapers. Wednesday March 5, 2008. Is it Danjuma's generation that failed or he and his genocidist cohorts?
"While the Military Government of Eastern Nigeria made a determined and sincere effort to act according to the spirit and decisions of Aburi, Lt.Col. Gowon deliberately set out to ignore both. Ten days after the Aburi meeting, Gowon's Government issued a booklet, entitled 'Nigeria 1966,' parts of which attacked and libelled the Military Governor of the East." --- Temple Ubochi. Nigeriaworld. Sunday September 7, 2008.
...perhaps Okoroman should also tell us how U.S. and European relief organizations, private groups and religious groups came to the assistance of the Biafrans in response to Biafran propaganda stressing the genocide of the Ibo. Airlifts brought food, medical supplies and arms to the war zones during the nights. Most of Biafra's military supplies were acquired through unofficial assistance by France via the franco-phone colonies, in the international arms market.
funny enough, okoroman and is cohorts have told us on here that the first military coup in Nigeria was led by an Igbo man called Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. Instead he pontificates and he says 'he is not arguing with people , he is telling them' lol
"...Asika was unpopular with many Igbo, who considered him a traitor, and his admin was characterized as inept and corrupt. In 3 years under his direction, however, the state govt achieved the rehabilitation of 70 percent of the industry incapacitated during the war. The fed govt granted funds to cover the state's operating expenses for an interim period, and much of the war damage was repaired. Soc servs and public utilities slowly were reinstituted, although not to the prewar levels..."
"An Igbo official, Ukapi "Tony" Asika, was named administrator of the new East Central State, comprising the Igbo heartland. Asika had remained loyal to the federal government during the civil war, but as a further act of conciliation, his all-Igbo cabinet included members who had served under the secessionist regime..."
Yakubu Gowon is a leading genocidist in Africa and was instrumental toward plunging the continent into the blight of military dictators and series of genocidal conflicts its still suffering today. The yet non-trial of Gowon, Awolowo, Haruna and cohorts in the high crime of Biafran genocide encouraged many African despots to tow such line greatly hindering peace and progress in this wonderful continent. Still today, lurking in the highest echelons of power within Nigeria is such evil conspiracy.
"If Yakubu Gowon, as he later claimed to any British diplomat or journalist who would listen, did not want personal power, why accord it to himself with such haste after Aburi?..Emeka (Ojukwu)at Aburi had asked for the honor of proposing Gowon as Chairman of the Federal Military Government if Aburi was fulfilled." --- Frederick Forsyth in page 92 of "Emeka" first published 1982.
"Yet such was our faith and, in retrospect, our folly, that our people ignored these early warnings and continued to preach and fight for a united Nigeria. In our folly we ignored the FUNDAMENTAL differences in religion, the differences in our social organization, the differences in political outlook. We continued to believe that our gestures of brotherhood and compromise, our efforts at understanding and unity, were serving a useful purpose." -- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at OAU. Aug. 5 1968.
"...We continued to invest in Nigeria, and placed all our security of life as well as of property in the hands of Nigerian Government and Nigerian constitution. In 1966 our folly became real tragedy when massacre followed massacre in May, June, August, September and October of that year. We lost 30,000 of our kith and kin. We had to resettle over 2 million refugees, our people who had fled from all parts of Nigeria." --- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at the OAU. August 5, 1968.
"The only explanation for the extra-ordinary U-turn of the North in favor of a strong, almost unitary constitution, in which the federal government owns everything including the mineral resources in my backyard,(and we all know that federal government means the Arewa North)is what Professor Omafuume Onoge has aptly described as "Niger Delta's Oil and Gas proceeds cupidity." "The obsessive love ..of the Niger Delta's oil.. has to be curbed." -- Prof Itse Sagay. Vanguard Newspapers. June 23, 2005.
"Olusegun Obasanjo ruled for eight years and he could not implement any project. The best advocacy the region got was at the National Political Reform Conference in 2005. The north did not have sympathy for the Niger-Delta. The South-West which had some sympathy came with proposals for true federalism.., though their language was milder, their position was as hard as the north. So Niger-Delta was left with the South-east, of course.." -- Prof Itse Sagay. Punch Newspapers. Tuesday July 29, 2008.
"These people as far as I know, and as far as I am concerned, do not want to carry arms against the federal government of Nigeria. Biafrans don't want war. Refusal for bail should not be as a means of punishment. I urge the court to grant the suspects bail." -- Clement Obiekwe, Counsel to 84 MASSOB members standing trial at the federal high court, Enugu, on eight-count charge of treasonable felony(honoring Biafra's Freedom Day in May 30, 2008). This Day Newspapers. August 1, 2008.
"We fed our people during the war. My government decided that the staple was the only thing it should take care of. And the staple akpu for garri and rabbit for meat. Then everybody else had his farms, your tomatoes, pepper and other little things that you required." --- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Tell Magazine. September 18, 2000.
"Two key International Organizations(National Democratic Institute(NDI) led by former United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright), and European Union Observation Mission (EU EOM), yesterday declared last Saturday's presidential and national assembly elections (that installed Umaru Yar'Adua 's illegitimate regime) in Nigeria as heavily flawed and, perhaps, the worst in all regions of the world." -- Guardian Newspapers. Tuesday April 24, 2007.
It is 47 years of Hausa/fulani Islamic jihadists and yoruba oligarchs like Obasanjo ruling nigeria and there has never been a free and fair election , census or a peoples' sovereign constitutional conference. Hausa/fulani has registered the nation as an Islamic country with the Organization of Islamic countries in 1986 under Ibrahim Babangida's leadership and the Islamic codes (Sharia) is enforced in about 19 northern states. Advocates of "one-nigeria" are beneficiaries of its wicked policies.
Biafrans7,point of correction, they've never been a perfect free and fair elections anywhere, but in 1993 there was one close to perfection but a man from the from southeast under the name, Association for Better Nig.(ABN) went to court to get it annuled. his name is ARTHUR NZERIBE. He's not an 'hausa man', or 'yoruba oligarch', from the SOUTHEAST. He's now a senator in the National Assembly of Nig! There is no way u can absolve the southeast of any problems nigeria faces?
But Babangida had the executive authority with Nzeribe as his surrogate. And please don't claim the obligation of compliance with court orders because Nigerian government never does. The elections (adjudged the best in Nigeria's history and overseen by Humphrey Nwosu(Igbo)was cancelled by Babangida as he had accepted. Where the authority lies is where the blame is most heavily laid. Yoruba again all deserted MKO Abiola and he died in the hands of Hausa-Fulani while most kept on mouthing off.
Here we go again..'surrogate'? Nzeribe(an igbo man) must be a fool to allow himself be used as a surrogate for evil deeds. Since IGBOS have been used as surrogate by other clever pple, then it is save to conclude that they can never be absolved of the problems nigerians a facing. Yoruba/nigerians have never deserted MKO, the southwest still regard june 12 as democracy day and its a public holiday.
Biafrans7,point of correction, they've never been a perfect free and fair elections anywhere but in 1993 there was one close to perfection. A man from the from southeast under the name, Association for Better Nig.(ABN) went to court to get it annulled. His name is ARTHUR NZERIBE. He's not an 'hausa man', or 'yoruba oligarch'! He's now a senator in the National Assembly of Nig! There is no way u can absolve the southeast of any problems nigeria faces
Nigeria's were not elections at all for the past 48 years. Yormeey, I can't continue to play your stupid yoruba-game of keep-talking -trash dialogue. You will soon be ignored.
well, u cant hold a reasonable and RESPONSIBLE dialogue . I have never in my life met any IRRESPONSIBLE BUNCH in my life. Right from u, to 'okoroman', 'onyibeb', etc haven't accepted glaring fact that IGBOS CANBNOT BE TOTALLY ABSOLVED OF THE PROBLEMS OF NIGERIA. "The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Diodan, 1934. There u all have it, U need to know that the measure of a man is the ability to accept responsibility.
Large, responsible and reasonable minds discuss issues, little minds discuss personalities. It's absurd that you keep deviating from the main issues confronting Igbos which is their inability to mobilise and organise themselves into a politically united component.
Yes you keep discussing Ojukwu, as if he is the only Biafran. Don't you see that you are contradicting yourself? You are little minded by your own admission.
Discussing Nigeria and Biafra without mentioning the genocide and war crimes (and individual criminals) and crimes against humanity is like someone trying to distort the fact OR WORSE: It is like someone trying to distort justice by justifying crimes against humanity.
'Discussing Nigeria and Biafra without mentioning the genocide and war crimes' reservedly accept this comment. But would u also accept its fair to accept that you cant discuss biara without ojukwu and those countries like Britain Federal govt) and Portugal,France and Sweden who helped Biafra and assisted both sides in prolonging the sufferng ordinary people?
Biafra cannot be discussed in a day. The issue is that it becomes a distraction when you seem to think you can reduce Biafra to Ojukwu. By so doing you want to down play Biafra's exisence. You are not neutral as you claim because you have a strong one-sided opinion on anything about Biafra. you brought up the issue of "great minds not discussing personalities", I will suggest that you change that to "greater minds do not stick on one personalitis" - sounds better ...
Saying it will perhaps not not that sufficient. Perhaps you should apply the concept to your reasoning before you leave any comment.
Now why don't you also discuss Uwazurike, and see what you have to say? Will you dig out the allegations of corruption from news paper quotes - its the same you play over and over again. It is boring.
Discussing Ojukwu is a job for historians at this point in time. Ojukwu committed no crime - this is the point we make and will keep singing to you. In contrast, the criminals are Gowon, Obasanjo, Adekunle (AKA Black Parasite)... yet to be tried.
Well, I'll the issue of neutrality for someone else who is reasonable. On issue of personalities, U getting wrong again. I have never to stuck to ojukwu, i an saying to u that ojukwu atleast got to a point before failing and fleeing. In this present times, Biafran wouldnt't even get anywhere.
okoroman finds it so comfortable to blame Britain's colonial past 4 the problems faced by nigeria and has refused to blame portugal and france who supprted Biafra with illegal arms and support sometimes thro international aid org for their colonial past. That to me and many reasonable people is hyprocratic! In fact they prolonged the suffering of the ordinary southeastern citizens of Nigeria.
"The whole of Black race is backward because of the Hausa-Fulani People. It is about their dominance. In Asia, the Chinese are the dominant people and the entire Asia is progressing today because of the progressive nature of the Chinese.Why is Africa not progressing today? Is it not because the Hausa-Fulani are the largest ethnic group in Africa, and they are corrupt, bankrupt and primitive.That is why the whole of the black race is in darkness." - Asari Dokubo. Nigerian Tribune August 17,2008
'The whole of Black race is backward because of the Hausa-Fulani People'? God, this is getting better. It wouldnt be long before u start blaming other people for you being black. Talk of pple who don't accept responsibility, u guys on here are number ONE.
The Hausa/Fulani Plot to keep the "infidels" who have decided to follow the illusion that is Nigeria impoverished continues. The country currently has about $61 billion dollars in external reserve but it is a certainty that the the devil agents of the Sokoto Caliphate led by the criminal Yar"Adua will never construct needed roads, provide clean running water, hospitals, schools and necessary social amenities in "one Nigeria." Why don't these delusional one-nigerianists ask questions?
"We have pretended for too long that there are no differences between the peoples of Nigeria. The hard fact which we must honestly accept as of paramount importance in the Nigerian experience especially for the future is that we are different peoples brought together by recent accidents of history. To pretend otherwise will be folly." --- excerpt from the Northern Nigerian memorandum submitted to the Ad Hoc Conference on the Nigerian Constitution in September 1966.
"Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, as the premier of the Northern Region and Sardauna of Sokoto, wielded monumental power. He was the leader of the NPC, chairman of the NNA, and foremost Northern politician and chief architect of not only the northernization policy but also the much feared jihad. An arch-tribalist and therefore an implacable enemy of Nigerian unity. He was seen to be directing the affairs of the federation from Kaduna,his methods decidedly Machiavellian." -Ben Gbulie Nigeria's 5 Majors"
"Nigerians, if you allow them, will hail an armed robber. I mean an armed robber, who can distribute money. Some people say yes, he (Yar'Adua) stole but he is distributing. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor. I mean some people can say this..... Secondly, there is no evidence to hope that there can be success because who is the president? This is somebody who has not distinguished himself.." ---- Balarabe Musa, Former kaduna Sate Governor. Daily Sun. Monday June 2, 2008.
"..a war against the East could only be a war favoured by the north alone. Second, if the true purpose of such a war is to preserve the unity and integrity of the Federation, these ends can be achieved by the very simple devices of implementing the recommendation of the committee which met on August 9, 1966, as re-affirmed by the decision of the military leaders at Aburi on January 5, 1967."
-- Obafemi Awolowo's speech to Western Leaders of thought in Ibadan. May 1
"Nigerians, if you allow them, will hail an armed robber. I mean an armed robber, who can distribute money. Some people say yes, he(Yar'Adua) stole but he is distributing. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor. I mean some people can say this... Secondly, there is no evidence to hope that there can be success because who is the president? This is somebody who has not distinguished himself.." --- Balarabe Musa. Former kaduna State Governor. Daily Sun. Monday June 2, 2008.
"Even before his(Obasanjo's) history comes to be written, we have started drafting the history and by our draft, Obasanjo was the worst president that Nigeria has ever had. Have we ever heard of a president, who has been exposed as being a crook as Obasanjo? Have we ever heard of a situation where a president of a country has been so exposed as Obasanjo? ---- Balarabe Musa. Former Kaduna State Governor. Daily Sun. Monday June 2, 2008.
"Because feudalism is the rhizome of relative poverty of the north; this is at the roots of the observations made by Chukwuma Soludo, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria...Poverty in Nigeria is a northern phenomenon in spite of billions poured into the north, poverty and ignorance still ravages the north. It is a place where the people and its leadership are not one: it is feudal. It is antithetical for feudalism to free people by empowering them. --- Obi Nwakanma. Vanguard July 27, 2008.
While the north maintains a colonial-imposed and anti-Igbo-motivated dominance of Nigeria, the middlebelt, who are Christian, remain in search of a collective identity drawn by the opposing forces of ethnicity, culture and religion. The label "north" creates indecision regarding loyalty and a bold break from political subjugation. To the West, the Yorubas treacherously play the callous game of Oil-parasite supporting the forces against the East for its exploitation and consequent destruction.
"During the crisis of 1966-1967, the present leaders of Nigeria gave several assurances and guarantees to our people about the safety of their lives and property, and about restoration of political and personal freedom within the constitution. None of these assurances was honoured. On the contrary, the Nigerian Government went out of their way to demonstrate their repudiation of those assurances." -- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu speaking to the Organization of African Unity, Monday August 5, 1968
"Yet, such was our faith and, in retrospect, our folly, that our people ignored these early warnings and continued to preach and fight for a united Nigeria. In our folly we ignored the fundamental differences in religion, the differences in our social organisation, the differences in political outlook. We continued to believe that our gestures of brotherhood and compromise, our efforts at understanding and unity, were serving a useful purpose." ---- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at OAU 5/8/1968.
"I write to personally inform you that MASSOB has declared a stay-at-home on Thursday August 28, 2008. The stay-at-home lasts from 7.00a.m. to 4.00p.m. Perhaps I need to re-emphasize the fact that MASSOB considers the struggle for Biafra a matter of life and death, as our destiny and the destiny of our children are tied to this struggle." --- Ralph Uwazurike, MASSOB Leader and Biafran Frontline Nationalist. Daily Sun. Friday July 4, 2008.
What Britain did will for ever remain a daint on the socalled head of commonwealth.THERE IS NOTHING COMMON ABOUT THE WEALTH, EXCEPT THAT THE NATIONS ARE EXPLOITED BY THE SAME NATION.
Britain hated Ibos because they knew Ibos were MOST INTELLIGENT IN NIGERIA AND WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO STEAL THE OIL AND RESOURCES AS THEY DID AFTERALL.Biafra HAS RISEN AND WILL RISE STILL TO THE SHAME OF ALL ITS ENEMIES.WE WILL ALL LIVE TO SEE THE RISING OF THE GREAT NATION.JUST LIKE ISREAL COMING OUT OF EGYPT.
Yeah with wooden guns. can you believe that!!!of course the biafrans thought they were fighting an inter-village free-for-all squabbles, until the Nigerian fire-power showed up. Then the biafrans hightailed for the mountains!. hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
... And so for many decades the fate of "Nigerians" and ocupied Biafrans remains the fate of lab mice in the British (white mans') toy project/experiment called Nigeria,... The fate of premature death and you are laughing? Oh yes! the NiGGerians have passed the stage of crying, so like helpless lunatics they "Nigerians" laugh at every issue.
You know, your Ikemba O. Ojukwu respected Awolowo so much that he never said anything detrimental about the man. Maybe you need to borrow a leaf from your progenitor.
If gen Ojukwu respected Awolowo because they were mates at a time doesn't concern us. Awolowo is a criminal, who died uselessly IN HIS BATHROOM. .... Then your country man asked: "did he drink tea like MKO Abiola?"
Mates? Ojukwu was never in the league of Awolowo stature. Your Ikemba was in his baby diapers in the high days of Awolowo's service to his people. don't you ever draw a parallel between the two again!. As to his death? at least he passed away in his home, in the hand of his family. What more can a man ask for.
Pay attention to "if" you fool. I know you want to reduce this forum to a stupid debate about who is superior because you do not have anything valid to talk about when it comes to "Genocide on Biafra". General Ojukwu was clearly the superior in all respects. In 3 years he and other Biafrans archieved what Nigeria and Nigerians could not achieve in 40years +. FYI Gen Ojukwu is only beign Diplonatic. Awolowo on other hand - "the best president Nigeria never had" who died uselessly in his Bathroom.
General Ojukwu was clearly the superior in all respects. In 3 years he and other Biafrans archived what Nigeria and Nigerians could not achive in 40years +. FYI Gen Ojukwu is only beign Diplomatic. Awolowo on other hand - "the best president Nigeria never had" who died uselessly in his Bathroom.
Daft punk you are. Again, you are deliberately deviating from subject to endless sub-subjects. So at least by your statement you admit that the Sokoto Caliphate controls Nigeria.
Nigeria is a confused failed state - Granting Gen Ojukwu "a pardon" was merely a strategy of Nigeria also out of confution to create an image of pardon. By the way gen Ojukwu wasn't the criminal, Nigeria knows this. Take some time
Nigeria is a confused failed state - Granting Gen Ojukwu "a pardon" was merely a strategy of Nigeria also out of confusion to create an image of pardon. By the way gen Ojukwu wasn't the criminal, Nigeria knows this.
Take some timeto consider the implications of Gen Ojukwu in exile over 40years. precisely what Nigeria will try to avoid.
FYI Gen Ojukwu was under protection of Ivory Coast, and he could have been protected France. I think so many people wanted Idi Amin and couldn't get him (but nonetheless not in comparison). Would Nigeria have risked a war with Ivory coast and other friends of Biafra? Think - maybe - it is a rubbish country anyway.
Now back to the subject of back-stabber Awolowo - he should have been left by gen Ojukwu to rot in prison.
Earlier the Caliphate had dumped Awolowo and Enahoro in prison on trumped up charges. Gen Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison where the Caliphate had dumped him. Later Awolowo turned around and joined the Sokoto Caliphate in committing genocide against the Igbo (Biafrans).
Rumour has it that Awolowo had conspired with Russian authourities to wage a coup against the Nigerian government, to form a socialist State of Nigeria.
Pay attention Planetolusola -"Earlier the Caliphate had dumped Awolowo and Enahoro in prison on TRUMPED UP CHARGES. Gen Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison where the Caliphate had dumped him."
Not that Awo wasn't capable of that. He was very capable judging from his actions towards Gen Ojukwu and Biafra. We may want to relax the assumption of "trumped up charges"
Leader of Western Nigeria in 1967, Obafemi Awolowo announced to the world press that the Western region would declare their Oduduwa republic of should the Eastern Region declare independence.
Others suggest that this was a ploy to get the Eastern Region (later known as Biafra after deceleration) excited about its prospect with the ulterior motive of the other regions to get the Eastern Region where the rest of Nigeria would pounce on it, crush it and end the rise of this region. On the other hand others suggest he meant his promise to declare the Oduduwa republic but discovered that his people weren't ready or bold enough for the move.
What we see however is that he pitched his tent with Gowon (Nigeria), and the Western Region & Northern Region pounced on the Eastern Region. So both of these happened - Awolowo gained Nigeria govt appointment, whilst Nigeria declared war on Biafra.
It should however be recalled that earlier, in his article titled: Path to Nigerian Freedom (London: Faber and Faber, 1947)" Chief Obafemi Awolowo made this statement: "Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression."
Others suggest that this was a ploy to get the Eastern Region (later known as Biafra after declaration) excited about its prospect with the ulterior motive of the other regions to get the Eastern Region where the rest of Nigeria would pounce on it, crush it and end the rise of this region. On the other hand others suggest he meant his promise to declare the Oduduwa republic but discovered that his people weren't ready or bold enough for the move.
Your Ikemba, Ojukwu ran away with his tails tucked between his legs to Ivory Coast, under a vague pretence he was going overseas to seek lasting peace. The son of a dog never returned until Shagari granted him full pardon. (A ploy to spoil the UPN / NPN election that Awolowo won, but was rigged in favor of NPN). Nevertheless, Gowon should have sent a covert killer squad after him. That was Gowon's biggest mistake.
So Awolowo was a back stabber because he refused to drag his people into a senseless war? Una want Yorubas to come fight ya papa's war? Ha, naive and stupid biafrans.
Serving his jail term for treason at the Calabar Prison by time the Civil War was imminent, Awolowo was set free by General Ojukwu with an understanding that the Yoruba leader was bent on using the opportunity of ongoing national crisis to pull his people out of the Nigerian federation and declare the Oduduwa Republic in the West.
But the master tactician had something else in mind as he paid lip service to an accord with Biafran leadership before his release from jail. As soon as he made it safely out of Biafra, he pitched his tent with General Gowon who rewarded him with appointment to the highest civilian post in the military junta in Lagos. Awolowo also was the Minister of Finance where he had full rein on the the Nigerian national coffers.
His elevated position instantaneously made tens of thousands of Yoruba recruits to join the Nigerian armed forces. The command structure and bulk of foot soldiers that spearheaded the maritime invasion from the southern front were mostly Yoruba.
As this Yoruba chieftain acquired more control of the federal bureaucracy in Nigeria, he became more aggressive and vocal in defense of Nigerian war policies in Biafra, which included deprivation of food and medical supplies to the civilian victims of the War. He was reported to have told foreign media correspondents, who expressed global outrage at the level of misery inside Biafra, that starvation was a legitimate instrument of warfare.
It was the "post-war" policies of Awolowo-led Ministry of Finance that inflicted the most lasting pain on those who managed to survive his starvation policy. The Biafran currency, which was the only legal tender of the survivors of the Biafran siege, was overnight declared worthless and everyone with a bank account was issued a measly 20 pounds, in lieu of their deposit, to start life anew on their own.
A few years afterwards, the same Ministry embarked on the process of selling off foreign-owned businesses to Nigerians who were able to pay. In that indigenization process, penury did not allow Igbo(occupied Biafrans) to participate as the collective wealth of Nigeria was handed out only to those who had the cash in hand.
It could be said that Chief Awolowo was not only a proven bedfellow of the Nigerian military establishment, but he also sanctioned the tacit gang-up by the North and West to use authoritarian military rule to keep Igbo (occupied Biafrans)marginalized for the next decades.
Same Sokoto caliphate who granted your 'superior', cowardly runnaway Ojukwu unconditional pardon and brough him back to Nigeria from Ivory Coast. Gowon should have hunted him down like a dog he was and hung him by the neck until his legs stopped kicking!.
you are simply a disgruntle element okoroman. Each time i read yr comment on here i realise how deluded you are. You simply wasting ur time. Ojukwu was a rebel and a reasonable govt would prevent him from seceding its territory. Awolowo is respected man all over the world and commands more respect than ojukwu in nigeria and all over the world. Infact he was so stupid. Only blind people like u would follow him.
yormeey, don't be silly and stop borrowing the "disgruntled" word, which Okoroman just used recently to add weight to your rubbish noise... Back to discussing Ojukwu? Well you are simply disillusioned. soon you won't be getting direct responses - value it while you get it.
According to your reason the land belongs to the government and not to the people - what a low mentality.
Okoroman discuss issues not personality, that what great minds do. For yr info, 'disgruntle' is not a new word to yormeeey. Having said that, yormeey is an open minded individal that tries to learn new things everyday and not a parochial, disillusioned, hallucinating, subservient and above all gullible Youtube Biafra warrior.
Perhaps we can accept that the word "disgruntle" or "disgruntled" is not new to you, and neither is it owned by Okoroman but see how and when you apply it. You apply it to your sentence that carries no weight or no arguing (assuming you think you are arguing -we are not arguing with you - we correct you)
You make a mess out of this forum by "dumping" in the hope to cover up valid/interesting comments left by Biafrans on previous pages.
Okoroman discuss issues not personalities, that's what great minds do. For yr info, 'disgruntle' is not a new word to yormeeey. Having said that, yormeey is an open minded individal that tries to learn new things everyday and not a parochial, disillusioned, hallucinating,DISTORTING, subservient and above all gullible Youtube Biafra warrior.
So by your own admission you have a little mind. If you really want discussion (it is obvious you don't) go through all this genocidal war videos and see Okoroman's responses on all pages, or visit comments on the Okoroman channel.
Thank God! It is now over, and I pray that it will never come again before Jesus comes...
Derock147 1 month ago
I real feel the struggle of the people. It was a good thing but in my opinion I felt Ojukwu made a very grave and stupid tactical move. Clearly Biafra was not prepare to fight that war. This tactical mistake cost d lives of d people. A general is responsible 4 d lives of d people he leads.
steveayeni 3 months ago in playlist Documentary: Nigeria war against Biafra 1967-1970 (OIL) 2
Good afternoon. Forgive me for my bad English. Use a translator.
I'm from Ukraine. Interested in the history of Africa. Material in Ukraine on these issues unfortunately very little. Be kind, if you is not difficult to send to the address mza_1844@mail.ru memories of their relatives, photosvideo of the events in Katanga, Zaire in general, Biafra, Kenya and other countries over the period 1950 - 1980.I would appreciate any information. Thank you. Take the story of its own people more accessible.
AntonioAndorr 5 months ago
he lead the igob people to their death jack ass what fuck they where not prepared but he said they were
vintageinidierocker 7 months ago
@vintageinidierocker What did Gowon lead about 700,000 nigerians to? Do you want to be led again to your doom?
Biafrans7 5 months ago
what kills me is that i cant see an ounce of passion in Ojukwu's temprament, he is just to cool. you can't move a war like that.
emanny1986 10 months ago
see how well educated the heads and politicians were at that time, speaking fluently
bubeisco 11 months ago 3
@bubeisco you said it all,,i was really impressed to see him talk like that
breatheloveable 4 months ago
What are the intents of the propaganda geared towards Biafra's arms scarcity and against the decision to severe themselves from their determined killers who had not been restrained in a whole year of genocidal macabre while ignoring the very forces, institutions and personalities behind what was to become Africa's worst genocide? Why trump malicious charges of "ambition" against Ojukwu while Gowon is exonerated from any ambitions? Why blame the victim and exculpate the perpetrator?
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups.Do you think there will be prosperity if divided? But I still believe in one Nigeria.
Emmaolu1 1 year ago
Ever wondered why Igbo people are the most talented craftsmen in Africa? Listen to Ojukwu as he recalled how they invented their own weapons and machinery for the war. Sure the man was a visionary. If Aba is of any example, Biafra could've been a major success.
amadioha1 1 year ago
They are the most greedy, and senseless people. They think everything is power. But the brain is more powerful than the strength. That is why the Yorubas are able to defeat them whenever they meet. And we do not need a battalion to fight Igbos, Just one or two people. People like Moremi and Awolowo.
PrincessEnitan 1 year ago
people mistake so many things when they say we are one nigeria no no we are not they is noting like nigeria ontil the british brings 3 kinds of people together in 1914 we are living on our own before the year 1914 i want many people to understand that if some one said we live in one nations now why did all african did not live as one nation since we did not have any ocean the share us that biafran want they freedom is not cramie cos many have taking they freedom long live biafran
1benjara 1 year ago
LONG LIVE BIAFRA!!!!!!!!!!!!
moscolah 1 year ago 2
Biafra is a mix of Igbo, Efik-Ibibio, Ijaw and Ogoni. The Igbo are the largest in population.
biafra83 1 year ago
You guys need to calm down really, ha. We are people before being Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Ijaw et al even Black, white, red!!! Please for goodness sake cant we for once forcefully withdraw our mind and head from being controlled or manipulated by the devil. God brougthus together to form the Rep of Nigeria for a reason. The devil is testing the strenth of our brotherly love and we need not to blame it on any tribe. God bless Nigeria!!!
Yinkaldinho 1 year ago
@Yinkaldinho God did not bring Nigeria together, because he is not the author of confusion and bloodletting which Nigeria is. The devil brought Nigeria together so that innocent blood would always be shed for the demon of the Niger.
Onyibeb 1 year ago
That general is a fool, all weaker forces ALWAYS start with guerilla tactics etc and then swtich to conventional operations after gaining the advantage, by the time they tried to use viet cong style operations Biafra was already lost.
CreoleCommando 1 year ago
People open your eyes and your locked up heads so maybe you can realize that we are living in one nation. Whether you are Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba to anyone outside Nigeria you are Nigerian and none of those. Come together to help build this nation and stop looking at it in a way that it never was, calling it a failed country as if it is the golden boy that is destined for greatness. It will only achieve greatness if we all stay as one without ripping one another to shreds. Fighting's not an option
shagari7 1 year ago 3
this guys are my heros i wish biafrans won
majiico 1 year ago 2
I hate muslim terrorists
19coyote80 1 year ago 2
The only reason this hostility exists amongst the peoples of the African continent is because of God damn Europe and its colonialism.
madandbugged 1 year ago
1 round per man against apc`s?.
core1976scotland 1 year ago
Everything was organized by Europeans as all other conflicts that have been tearing Africa in pieces. France funded biafra and uk+usa Nigeria. for what ? OIL.
Educate the Ibos and give the army to the others muslims. what do you think can happen. Ask Bernard Kouchner he can tell better about it!!!
jonanirina 2 years ago
@jonanirina I thought I was in the twilight zone. But where I disagree is that I believe the USA initially were on the biafran front and implored us to declare war to begin with.
mazzoanV2 2 years ago
Fools. Why couldnt your leader work with other to drive the hausa bastards out. Yiu ibo people had your agendas but you didnt succeeed
blackgent0306 2 years ago
@blackgent u re fool an usless for ur comment idiot u nutin but a dickhead pussy hole
6946611638 2 years ago
war is a terrible thing. God be with all those innocent children who became victims of this war.
oduro0111 2 years ago 2
Biafra will be one day, soon.
Emere Chineke
aliemarati2000 2 years ago 3
'Not war for peace - Peace for peace' - David Icke
ifurn0 2 years ago
WAR IS EVIL. PEOPLE LIVE IN PEACE.
tellfortruth11 2 years ago 2
Support Biafra. It will become a reality, doesn't matter if people are threatened by that idea. Biafra will live and prosper. The spiritual order is set, the physical manifestation is in procession.
NobleSkeptic 2 years ago
Truth be told, we are all to blame for the failure called Nigeria but the time has come to me forward. The YORUBAS should create the nation of ODUDUWA and the IGBOS should have BIAFRA, as for the HAUSA/FULANIS, they should form whatever nation they want and worship their Allah as violently as they want.
Nigeria is not one nation so let us stop kidding ourselves.
My YORUBA kinsmen, let us remember the Western region and the legacy of Awolowo.
voiceoftheyorubas 2 years ago 31
@voiceoftheyorubas There is power in unity. Why can't the Yorubas, Igbos and the Biafrans have separates states but unite together for protection and strength....we have more in common than we have differences.
VelvetRae 11 months ago
I actually was able to receive a good signal from Radio Biafra on 7305 KHz during the War of Independence .I still have the recordings. The anthem used at that time was actually Finlandia. Radio Biafra was one of the best run stations on the SW bands. Had Biafra succeeded, I am convinced that with help from their allies in Israel, it would have been the most successful nation in Sub Saharan Africa. The Ibos are without a doubt, the most gifted people in sub- Saharan Africa.
AlGoreSux 2 years ago
Radio BIafra is already replicated as I write. There is now Radio Biafra London, and there is Voice of Biafra in Washington BC.
Onyibeb 2 years ago
Spot on...
essertpitay 2 years ago
You Guys are uneducated... U think Biafra was a war... lol, child's play, if i was in that time i would have committed a holocaust by erasing ol igbo's and create a northern master race... then latter i will erase the pure Hausa's and Yoruba's. Try thins one 4 size.
adasplanet 2 years ago
you dont have the balls just start the shit right now .nigeria will be destroyed right from over -sea. we will invade you from every country idiot. we will erase nigerias interest world wide .
tweenthyfourseventow 2 years ago
hey you guys all kinda suck, coz i really dont care if you're hausa, biafra, igbo,or whatever, we are all the same. and nigeria is the 8th most popular country in the world. get it right into your skulls. okay!
leksideodutayo 2 years ago
Am not igbo, but truly the igbos are the most intelligent and creative people in nigeria
great2009ful 2 years ago 34
They are trying but... In the North there are powerful minorities... and don't u 4get that.
adasplanet 2 years ago
@great2009ful y must you segregate?
ToonieU 1 year ago
@great2009ful Your so dumb and lame to say what you just said.What indices do you use in your conclusuion.............
MegaTukay 1 year ago
@MegaTukay NO, YOU might be dumb and lame in calling @great2009ful dumb and lame. you might deny it but I'm convinced of that. LOL.
mercuryis007 1 year ago
@MegaTukay I quite agree with his assertion, although I am of Ijebu extraction (Yoruba), I rate the Igbo's for their creative resourcefulness, give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's, will ya?
Tampinu 1 year ago
KKKK
calexculux 2 years ago
Biafra was indeed an example of what an African nation could become if left alone. We had our dreams and lived them out. We had one of the best functioning government even when in war. Nigeria has been without wars for decades but they still rank bottom of the world in every reasonable endeavor.Every non-igbo person loves to hate the igbos but still won't let them go ( I have lived with a couple of them). When people can't do something, they go out of their way to say you can't do it.
donbyro1 3 years ago 3
The same Obasanko you verbally murde everyday on here "On Monday May 29, 2000, The Guardian of Lagos reported that President Olusegun Obasanjo commuted to retirement the dismissal of all military persons who fought for the breakaway state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil war. In a national broadcast, he said that the decision was based on the principle that "justice must at all times be tempered with mercy.""
yormeey 3 years ago
Isn't even ironic that Okoroman & co are the ones complaining abt Nig democracy hen in fact " the first military coup on January 15, 1966, was led by Igbo junior Army officers, mostly majors and captains...Ironsi, himself an Igbo, was thought to have promoted many Igbos in the Army at the expense of Yoruba and Hausa officers" They you have it OKOROMAN stop blaming only the HAUSAS!!!!!!!!!!!
yormeey 3 years ago
Your secessionist idea is not a big issue really, but the REAL issue as far as i am concern is the way u guys go like little babies crying marginalisation, yoruba oligarch, hausas are selfish , complaining that all ur probelem was, has been and still being caused by others. isn't that utterly ABSURD? i thik u shld accept the fact, ur elites are shamless, gullibble, selfish, obseqiuos, irresponsible, foolish, shallow and above all stupid!
yormeey 3 years ago
I bet you are the worst idiot on earth to even utter these words in a serious issue like this one "Biafra" Yormeey. Wao! I see how smart you are! Rats should clap for you! I have Yoruba,Hausa and Igbo friends and i can the tell the difference, how the rest would never allow the Igbo guy speak, cos they thing they are better than the Igbo guy. Which is PURE NONSENSE! Leave them alone With Biafra which is their land and stop being GREEDY! and ABUSSIVE TOWARDS THE IGBOS! Cos IGBOS ARE INTELIGENT!
Celebrityzmode 2 years ago 3
"[The West enjoyed a much higher literacy level being the first part of the country to have contact with western education in addition to the free primary education program of the pre-independence Western Regional Government.]"
Okoroman 3 years ago
"[In the South, the missionaries rapidly introduced Western forms of education. Consequently, the Yoruba were the first group in Nigeria to become significantly modernized and they provided the first African civil servants, doctors, lawyers, and other technicians and professionals]"
Okoroman 3 years ago
"[In Igbo areas, missionaries were introduced at a later date because of British difficulty in establishing firm control over the highly autonomous Igbo villages. (Audrey Chapman, "Civil War in Nigeria," Midstream, Feb 1968). However, the Igbo people took to Western education zealously. Furthermore, most Igbo eventually adopted the religion of the Christian colonialists."]
Okoroman 3 years ago
"[By the 1940's they had transformed themselves into one of the most educated, wealthiest, and politically unified groups in Nigeria and presented a serious challenge to Yoruba predominance in the civil service and the professions. Moreover, severe population pressure in the Igbo homeland combined with an intense desire for economic improvement drove thousands of Igbo to other parts of Nigeria in search of work.]"
(Source: Wikipedia - Nigerian Civil War)
Okoroman 3 years ago
Then what happened next?
The people of the other regions started killing Easterners because they(Easterners) moved to supposedly other parts of "one Nigeria " in search of opportunity.
Okoroman 3 years ago
In March 1964, during debates in the Northern House of Assembly, the prevailing bitterness against Igbo was publicly proclaimed and their physical elimination officially hinted. Here are a few excerpts from the speeches made during those debates:
"MALLAM BASHARI UMARU: "I would like (you), as the Minister of Land and Survey, to revoke forthwith all Certificates of Occupancy from the hands of the Ibos resident in the region" (he was Applauded by the members of the assembly) ... "
Okoroman 3 years ago
"MR. MEGIDA LAWANT: "In fact it is quite a long time that we in our part of this Region have known the Ibos and I do not think that at the moment there is any Ibo man owning a roof in Igbirra Division ... I am appealing to the Minister to make life more difficult for them ... "
Okoroman 3 years ago
"ALHAJI YUSUFU BAYERO: "Mr. Chairman, I would like to appeal to the Minister of Establishments and Training if he will appeal to the Minister of Local Government about some employees who are Ibos and are working under some Native Authorities here ... I cannot see why they should be in our Region. We are all sure that they are the poorest people in the country".
Okoroman 3 years ago
ALHAJI USMAN LIMAN (Sarkin Musawa): "What brought the Ibos into this Region? They were here since the Colonial Days. Had it not been for the Colonial Rule there would hardly have been any Ibo in this Region. Now that there is no Colonial Rule the Ibos should go back to their Region. There should be no hesitation about this matter. Mr. Chairman, North is for Northerners, East for Easterners, West for Westerners and The Federation is for all.
(He was Applauded)."
Okoroman 3 years ago
ALHAJI SIR AHMADU BELLO, K.B.E., Sardauna of Sokoto (The Premier):
"It is my most earnest desire that every post in the Region, however small it is, to be filled by a Northerner." (He was Applauded)
Okoroman 3 years ago
"ALHAJI MUSTAFA ISMAILA ZANNA DUJUNA (Minister of Establishments and Training): "Mr. Chairman, Sir, since 1955 this Government had laid down a policy. First NORTHERNERS, second EXPATRIATES and third, NON-NORTHERNERS. Mr. Chairman, Sir, I have noted very carefully all the speeches made by all the Members in the Honourable House and I am ready to put up to my Government their views and I hope my Government will give them consideration ..."
Okoroman 3 years ago
"I think these two things are the major things I have to answer now. One is on scholarship and the other is on how to do away with the Ibos."
Okoroman 3 years ago
"ALHAJI IBRAHIM MUSA GASHASH, O.B.E. (Minister of Land and Survey): "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I do not like to take up much of the time of this House in making explanations, but I would like to assure Members that having heard their demands about Ibos holding land in Northern Nigeria my Ministry will do all it can to see that the demands of Members are met. How to do this, when to do it, all this should not be disclosed. In the course, you will all see what will happen." (He was Applauded)
Okoroman 3 years ago
Awolowo dismantled Fiscal Federalism in 1968, and as the author of Gowon's economic policy from 1967 - 1970, he stripped the southern Nationalities (Niger Delta) of their resource rights and control through the Dina Commission.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
The policy initiated by Obafemi Awolowo towards the economic impoverishment of the Biafrans after the war was the &20 pounds flat rate "compensation" given to every single Biafran man or woman irrespective of the amount they had deposited in the Banks prior to the war. After this came the indigenisation policy by Olusegun Obasanjo that handed the greater percentage of shareholdings to Hausa-fulani and Yorubas while the now pauperized Biafrans were excluded to their bad fate.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder." --- Chief Obafemi Awolowo(Minister of Finance) -- New York Review, 21 December, 1967.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of Omission or Commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then the Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the federation. ----- Obafemi awolowo's speech to Western Leaders of Thought in Ibadan. May 1, 1967.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"..He (Awolowo) said it in Enugu and he confirmed it in Lagos, that if we were pushed out of the federation, that the Yorubas would follow suit. And in any case nobody would deny that." -- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Tell Magazine (Page 27). September 18, 2000
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"..when I became governor of the East, my mind immediately went to chief Obafemi Awolowo where he was in Calabar. I gave him as much protection as I could. The same as I did to J.S. Tarka..It was my own decision to release him(Awolowo) but not on any understanding. I released him because I felt that was one of the problems that beset Nigeria even before the attempted coup..On his release, he drove in car, followed by my own personal guard." - Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Tell Mag. Sept. 18 2000.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"The conquest to the sea is now in sight. When our god-sent Ahmadu Bello said some years ago that our conquest will reach the sea shores of Nigeria, some idiots in the South were doubting its possibilities. Today have we not reached the sea? Lagos is reached. It remains Portharcourt. It must be conquered and taken.." --- Mallam Bala Garuba.
West African Pilot Newspapers. December 30, 1964.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"...I told him(Yakubu Gowon) that the generation to which I belong had failed and we should politely leave the stage for the younger generation to take over. Nigeria is totally messed up today and nothing appears to be working.." --- Theophilus Danjuma, co-genocidist with Gowon and former defense Minister. Guardian Newspapers. Wednesday March 5, 2008. Is it Danjuma's generation that failed or he and his genocidist cohorts?
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"While the Military Government of Eastern Nigeria made a determined and sincere effort to act according to the spirit and decisions of Aburi, Lt.Col. Gowon deliberately set out to ignore both. Ten days after the Aburi meeting, Gowon's Government issued a booklet, entitled 'Nigeria 1966,' parts of which attacked and libelled the Military Governor of the East." --- Temple Ubochi. Nigeriaworld. Sunday September 7, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
...perhaps Okoroman should also tell us how U.S. and European relief organizations, private groups and religious groups came to the assistance of the Biafrans in response to Biafran propaganda stressing the genocide of the Ibo. Airlifts brought food, medical supplies and arms to the war zones during the nights. Most of Biafra's military supplies were acquired through unofficial assistance by France via the franco-phone colonies, in the international arms market.
yormeey 3 years ago
funny enough, okoroman and is cohorts have told us on here that the first military coup in Nigeria was led by an Igbo man called Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi. Instead he pontificates and he says 'he is not arguing with people , he is telling them' lol
yormeey 3 years ago
"...Asika was unpopular with many Igbo, who considered him a traitor, and his admin was characterized as inept and corrupt. In 3 years under his direction, however, the state govt achieved the rehabilitation of 70 percent of the industry incapacitated during the war. The fed govt granted funds to cover the state's operating expenses for an interim period, and much of the war damage was repaired. Soc servs and public utilities slowly were reinstituted, although not to the prewar levels..."
yormeey 3 years ago
"An Igbo official, Ukapi "Tony" Asika, was named administrator of the new East Central State, comprising the Igbo heartland. Asika had remained loyal to the federal government during the civil war, but as a further act of conciliation, his all-Igbo cabinet included members who had served under the secessionist regime..."
yormeey 3 years ago
Yakubu Gowon is a leading genocidist in Africa and was instrumental toward plunging the continent into the blight of military dictators and series of genocidal conflicts its still suffering today. The yet non-trial of Gowon, Awolowo, Haruna and cohorts in the high crime of Biafran genocide encouraged many African despots to tow such line greatly hindering peace and progress in this wonderful continent. Still today, lurking in the highest echelons of power within Nigeria is such evil conspiracy.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"If Yakubu Gowon, as he later claimed to any British diplomat or journalist who would listen, did not want personal power, why accord it to himself with such haste after Aburi?..Emeka (Ojukwu)at Aburi had asked for the honor of proposing Gowon as Chairman of the Federal Military Government if Aburi was fulfilled." --- Frederick Forsyth in page 92 of "Emeka" first published 1982.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Yet such was our faith and, in retrospect, our folly, that our people ignored these early warnings and continued to preach and fight for a united Nigeria. In our folly we ignored the FUNDAMENTAL differences in religion, the differences in our social organization, the differences in political outlook. We continued to believe that our gestures of brotherhood and compromise, our efforts at understanding and unity, were serving a useful purpose." -- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at OAU. Aug. 5 1968.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"...We continued to invest in Nigeria, and placed all our security of life as well as of property in the hands of Nigerian Government and Nigerian constitution. In 1966 our folly became real tragedy when massacre followed massacre in May, June, August, September and October of that year. We lost 30,000 of our kith and kin. We had to resettle over 2 million refugees, our people who had fled from all parts of Nigeria." --- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at the OAU. August 5, 1968.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"The only explanation for the extra-ordinary U-turn of the North in favor of a strong, almost unitary constitution, in which the federal government owns everything including the mineral resources in my backyard,(and we all know that federal government means the Arewa North)is what Professor Omafuume Onoge has aptly described as "Niger Delta's Oil and Gas proceeds cupidity." "The obsessive love ..of the Niger Delta's oil.. has to be curbed." -- Prof Itse Sagay. Vanguard Newspapers. June 23, 2005.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Olusegun Obasanjo ruled for eight years and he could not implement any project. The best advocacy the region got was at the National Political Reform Conference in 2005. The north did not have sympathy for the Niger-Delta. The South-West which had some sympathy came with proposals for true federalism.., though their language was milder, their position was as hard as the north. So Niger-Delta was left with the South-east, of course.." -- Prof Itse Sagay. Punch Newspapers. Tuesday July 29, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"These people as far as I know, and as far as I am concerned, do not want to carry arms against the federal government of Nigeria. Biafrans don't want war. Refusal for bail should not be as a means of punishment. I urge the court to grant the suspects bail." -- Clement Obiekwe, Counsel to 84 MASSOB members standing trial at the federal high court, Enugu, on eight-count charge of treasonable felony(honoring Biafra's Freedom Day in May 30, 2008). This Day Newspapers. August 1, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"We fed our people during the war. My government decided that the staple was the only thing it should take care of. And the staple akpu for garri and rabbit for meat. Then everybody else had his farms, your tomatoes, pepper and other little things that you required." --- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Tell Magazine. September 18, 2000.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Two key International Organizations(National Democratic Institute(NDI) led by former United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright), and European Union Observation Mission (EU EOM), yesterday declared last Saturday's presidential and national assembly elections (that installed Umaru Yar'Adua 's illegitimate regime) in Nigeria as heavily flawed and, perhaps, the worst in all regions of the world." -- Guardian Newspapers. Tuesday April 24, 2007.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
Iran agrees Nigeria nuclear deal
BBC news, 29 August 2008
"[Iran has agreed to share nuclear technology with Nigeria to help it increase its generation of electricity.
A senior Nigerian foreign ministry official, Tijjani Kaura, said the technology was not intended for any military use.]"
Okoroman 3 years ago
"[The agreement was announced after a four-day meeting between Iranian and Nigerian officials in Abuja.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest petroleum producer, but poor infrastructure has resulted in severe power shortages.]"
Okoroman 3 years ago
"[President Umaru Yar'Adua has said that improving Nigeria's power supply is one of his main priorities.
Details of the deal were not announced, so it is unclear what technology Iran would provide to Nigeria.]"
Okoroman 3 years ago
"[Iran is under sanctions for defying United Nations Security Council demands to halt uranium enrichment.
It insists that its nuclear programme is peaceful and says it has a right to continue uranium enrichment.
Iran, also a major oil producer, is due to bring on stream its first nuclear energy station at Bushehr early in 2009.]"
Okoroman 3 years ago
It is 47 years of Hausa/fulani Islamic jihadists and yoruba oligarchs like Obasanjo ruling nigeria and there has never been a free and fair election , census or a peoples' sovereign constitutional conference. Hausa/fulani has registered the nation as an Islamic country with the Organization of Islamic countries in 1986 under Ibrahim Babangida's leadership and the Islamic codes (Sharia) is enforced in about 19 northern states. Advocates of "one-nigeria" are beneficiaries of its wicked policies.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
Biafrans7,point of correction, they've never been a perfect free and fair elections anywhere, but in 1993 there was one close to perfection but a man from the from southeast under the name, Association for Better Nig.(ABN) went to court to get it annuled. his name is ARTHUR NZERIBE. He's not an 'hausa man', or 'yoruba oligarch', from the SOUTHEAST. He's now a senator in the National Assembly of Nig! There is no way u can absolve the southeast of any problems nigeria faces?
yormeey 3 years ago
But Babangida had the executive authority with Nzeribe as his surrogate. And please don't claim the obligation of compliance with court orders because Nigerian government never does. The elections (adjudged the best in Nigeria's history and overseen by Humphrey Nwosu(Igbo)was cancelled by Babangida as he had accepted. Where the authority lies is where the blame is most heavily laid. Yoruba again all deserted MKO Abiola and he died in the hands of Hausa-Fulani while most kept on mouthing off.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
Here we go again..'surrogate'? Nzeribe(an igbo man) must be a fool to allow himself be used as a surrogate for evil deeds. Since IGBOS have been used as surrogate by other clever pple, then it is save to conclude that they can never be absolved of the problems nigerians a facing. Yoruba/nigerians have never deserted MKO, the southwest still regard june 12 as democracy day and its a public holiday.
yormeey 3 years ago
Biafrans7,point of correction, they've never been a perfect free and fair elections anywhere but in 1993 there was one close to perfection. A man from the from southeast under the name, Association for Better Nig.(ABN) went to court to get it annulled. His name is ARTHUR NZERIBE. He's not an 'hausa man', or 'yoruba oligarch'! He's now a senator in the National Assembly of Nig! There is no way u can absolve the southeast of any problems nigeria faces
yormeey 3 years ago
Nigeria's were not elections at all for the past 48 years. Yormeey, I can't continue to play your stupid yoruba-game of keep-talking -trash dialogue. You will soon be ignored.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
well, u cant hold a reasonable and RESPONSIBLE dialogue . I have never in my life met any IRRESPONSIBLE BUNCH in my life. Right from u, to 'okoroman', 'onyibeb', etc haven't accepted glaring fact that IGBOS CANBNOT BE TOTALLY ABSOLVED OF THE PROBLEMS OF NIGERIA. "The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Diodan, 1934. There u all have it, U need to know that the measure of a man is the ability to accept responsibility.
yormeey 3 years ago
Large, responsible and reasonable minds discuss issues, little minds discuss personalities. It's absurd that you keep deviating from the main issues confronting Igbos which is their inability to mobilise and organise themselves into a politically united component.
yormeey 3 years ago
Yes you keep discussing Ojukwu, as if he is the only Biafran. Don't you see that you are contradicting yourself? You are little minded by your own admission.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Discussing Biafra without mentioning Ojukwu is like someone is trying to distort the fact.
yormeey 3 years ago
Discussing Nigeria and Biafra without mentioning the genocide and war crimes (and individual criminals) and crimes against humanity is like someone trying to distort the fact OR WORSE: It is like someone trying to distort justice by justifying crimes against humanity.
Okoroman 3 years ago
'Discussing Nigeria and Biafra without mentioning the genocide and war crimes' reservedly accept this comment. But would u also accept its fair to accept that you cant discuss biara without ojukwu and those countries like Britain Federal govt) and Portugal,France and Sweden who helped Biafra and assisted both sides in prolonging the sufferng ordinary people?
yormeey 3 years ago
Biafra cannot be discussed in a day. The issue is that it becomes a distraction when you seem to think you can reduce Biafra to Ojukwu. By so doing you want to down play Biafra's exisence. You are not neutral as you claim because you have a strong one-sided opinion on anything about Biafra. you brought up the issue of "great minds not discussing personalities", I will suggest that you change that to "greater minds do not stick on one personalitis" - sounds better ...
Okoroman 3 years ago
Saying it will perhaps not not that sufficient. Perhaps you should apply the concept to your reasoning before you leave any comment.
Now why don't you also discuss Uwazurike, and see what you have to say? Will you dig out the allegations of corruption from news paper quotes - its the same you play over and over again. It is boring.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Discussing Ojukwu is a job for historians at this point in time. Ojukwu committed no crime - this is the point we make and will keep singing to you. In contrast, the criminals are Gowon, Obasanjo, Adekunle (AKA Black Parasite)... yet to be tried.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Well, I'll the issue of neutrality for someone else who is reasonable. On issue of personalities, U getting wrong again. I have never to stuck to ojukwu, i an saying to u that ojukwu atleast got to a point before failing and fleeing. In this present times, Biafran wouldnt't even get anywhere.
yormeey 3 years ago
okoroman finds it so comfortable to blame Britain's colonial past 4 the problems faced by nigeria and has refused to blame portugal and france who supprted Biafra with illegal arms and support sometimes thro international aid org for their colonial past. That to me and many reasonable people is hyprocratic! In fact they prolonged the suffering of the ordinary southeastern citizens of Nigeria.
yormeey 3 years ago
Why is the title called nigeria war against biafra...the way i see it...it is biafra against nigeria!
The north tried ethical cleansing
Avionicgenius 3 years ago
"The whole of Black race is backward because of the Hausa-Fulani People. It is about their dominance. In Asia, the Chinese are the dominant people and the entire Asia is progressing today because of the progressive nature of the Chinese.Why is Africa not progressing today? Is it not because the Hausa-Fulani are the largest ethnic group in Africa, and they are corrupt, bankrupt and primitive.That is why the whole of the black race is in darkness." - Asari Dokubo. Nigerian Tribune August 17,2008
Biafrans7 3 years ago
'The whole of Black race is backward because of the Hausa-Fulani People'? God, this is getting better. It wouldnt be long before u start blaming other people for you being black. Talk of pple who don't accept responsibility, u guys on here are number ONE.
yormeey 3 years ago
The Hausa/Fulani Plot to keep the "infidels" who have decided to follow the illusion that is Nigeria impoverished continues. The country currently has about $61 billion dollars in external reserve but it is a certainty that the the devil agents of the Sokoto Caliphate led by the criminal Yar"Adua will never construct needed roads, provide clean running water, hospitals, schools and necessary social amenities in "one Nigeria." Why don't these delusional one-nigerianists ask questions?
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"We have pretended for too long that there are no differences between the peoples of Nigeria. The hard fact which we must honestly accept as of paramount importance in the Nigerian experience especially for the future is that we are different peoples brought together by recent accidents of history. To pretend otherwise will be folly." --- excerpt from the Northern Nigerian memorandum submitted to the Ad Hoc Conference on the Nigerian Constitution in September 1966.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, as the premier of the Northern Region and Sardauna of Sokoto, wielded monumental power. He was the leader of the NPC, chairman of the NNA, and foremost Northern politician and chief architect of not only the northernization policy but also the much feared jihad. An arch-tribalist and therefore an implacable enemy of Nigerian unity. He was seen to be directing the affairs of the federation from Kaduna,his methods decidedly Machiavellian." -Ben Gbulie Nigeria's 5 Majors"
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Nigerians, if you allow them, will hail an armed robber. I mean an armed robber, who can distribute money. Some people say yes, he (Yar'Adua) stole but he is distributing. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor. I mean some people can say this..... Secondly, there is no evidence to hope that there can be success because who is the president? This is somebody who has not distinguished himself.." ---- Balarabe Musa, Former kaduna Sate Governor. Daily Sun. Monday June 2, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"..a war against the East could only be a war favoured by the north alone. Second, if the true purpose of such a war is to preserve the unity and integrity of the Federation, these ends can be achieved by the very simple devices of implementing the recommendation of the committee which met on August 9, 1966, as re-affirmed by the decision of the military leaders at Aburi on January 5, 1967."
-- Obafemi Awolowo's speech to Western Leaders of thought in Ibadan. May 1
1967. He joined the north.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
Okoroman, is that your face on the NativeofAfrica video response? damn it, you're one fucking ugly son of a bitch, a true biafran born NIGGER!!.
planetolusola 3 years ago
"Nigerians, if you allow them, will hail an armed robber. I mean an armed robber, who can distribute money. Some people say yes, he(Yar'Adua) stole but he is distributing. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor. I mean some people can say this... Secondly, there is no evidence to hope that there can be success because who is the president? This is somebody who has not distinguished himself.." --- Balarabe Musa. Former kaduna State Governor. Daily Sun. Monday June 2, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Even before his(Obasanjo's) history comes to be written, we have started drafting the history and by our draft, Obasanjo was the worst president that Nigeria has ever had. Have we ever heard of a president, who has been exposed as being a crook as Obasanjo? Have we ever heard of a situation where a president of a country has been so exposed as Obasanjo? ---- Balarabe Musa. Former Kaduna State Governor. Daily Sun. Monday June 2, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Because feudalism is the rhizome of relative poverty of the north; this is at the roots of the observations made by Chukwuma Soludo, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria...Poverty in Nigeria is a northern phenomenon in spite of billions poured into the north, poverty and ignorance still ravages the north. It is a place where the people and its leadership are not one: it is feudal. It is antithetical for feudalism to free people by empowering them. --- Obi Nwakanma. Vanguard July 27, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
While the north maintains a colonial-imposed and anti-Igbo-motivated dominance of Nigeria, the middlebelt, who are Christian, remain in search of a collective identity drawn by the opposing forces of ethnicity, culture and religion. The label "north" creates indecision regarding loyalty and a bold break from political subjugation. To the West, the Yorubas treacherously play the callous game of Oil-parasite supporting the forces against the East for its exploitation and consequent destruction.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"During the crisis of 1966-1967, the present leaders of Nigeria gave several assurances and guarantees to our people about the safety of their lives and property, and about restoration of political and personal freedom within the constitution. None of these assurances was honoured. On the contrary, the Nigerian Government went out of their way to demonstrate their repudiation of those assurances." -- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu speaking to the Organization of African Unity, Monday August 5, 1968
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"Yet, such was our faith and, in retrospect, our folly, that our people ignored these early warnings and continued to preach and fight for a united Nigeria. In our folly we ignored the fundamental differences in religion, the differences in our social organisation, the differences in political outlook. We continued to believe that our gestures of brotherhood and compromise, our efforts at understanding and unity, were serving a useful purpose." ---- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at OAU 5/8/1968.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
"I write to personally inform you that MASSOB has declared a stay-at-home on Thursday August 28, 2008. The stay-at-home lasts from 7.00a.m. to 4.00p.m. Perhaps I need to re-emphasize the fact that MASSOB considers the struggle for Biafra a matter of life and death, as our destiny and the destiny of our children are tied to this struggle." --- Ralph Uwazurike, MASSOB Leader and Biafran Frontline Nationalist. Daily Sun. Friday July 4, 2008.
Biafrans7 3 years ago
What Britain did will for ever remain a daint on the socalled head of commonwealth.THERE IS NOTHING COMMON ABOUT THE WEALTH, EXCEPT THAT THE NATIONS ARE EXPLOITED BY THE SAME NATION.
Britain hated Ibos because they knew Ibos were MOST INTELLIGENT IN NIGERIA AND WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO STEAL THE OIL AND RESOURCES AS THEY DID AFTERALL.Biafra HAS RISEN AND WILL RISE STILL TO THE SHAME OF ALL ITS ENEMIES.WE WILL ALL LIVE TO SEE THE RISING OF THE GREAT NATION.JUST LIKE ISREAL COMING OUT OF EGYPT.
thirdexodus2008 3 years ago
Biafrans were parading with WOODEN GUNS!I think Ojukwu never knew Britain would supply Nigeria with terrible weapons to defeat Biafra
certainly Biafra could not have stood the British fire power given to Biafra.But they tried to have fought for almost 3yrs.
thirdexodus2008 3 years ago
Yeah with wooden guns. can you believe that!!!of course the biafrans thought they were fighting an inter-village free-for-all squabbles, until the Nigerian fire-power showed up. Then the biafrans hightailed for the mountains!. hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
planetolusola 3 years ago
... And so for many decades the fate of "Nigerians" and ocupied Biafrans remains the fate of lab mice in the British (white mans') toy project/experiment called Nigeria,... The fate of premature death and you are laughing? Oh yes! the NiGGerians have passed the stage of crying, so like helpless lunatics they "Nigerians" laugh at every issue.
"Why I dey laugh?, I no fit cry" (Fela Kuti)
Okoroman 3 years ago
You don't think fighting a war with wooden guns is hysterical? hahahaha!!!!!
planetolusola 3 years ago
Looking for something to laugh about?
Pa Awo- "The Best President Nigeria Never Had"
Okoroman 3 years ago
Awolowo died of a heart attack - not in his bed but in his BATHROOM.
Then your country man asked: "Did he drink tea like MKO Abiola?" What did he mean by that?
Okoroman 3 years ago
You know, your Ikemba O. Ojukwu respected Awolowo so much that he never said anything detrimental about the man. Maybe you need to borrow a leaf from your progenitor.
planetolusola 3 years ago
If gen Ojukwu respected Awolowo because they were mates at a time doesn't concern us. Awolowo is a criminal, who died uselessly IN HIS BATHROOM. .... Then your country man asked: "did he drink tea like MKO Abiola?"
Now what did your country man mean by that?
Okoroman 3 years ago
Mates? Ojukwu was never in the league of Awolowo stature. Your Ikemba was in his baby diapers in the high days of Awolowo's service to his people. don't you ever draw a parallel between the two again!. As to his death? at least he passed away in his home, in the hand of his family. What more can a man ask for.
planetolusola 3 years ago
Pay attention to "if" you fool. I know you want to reduce this forum to a stupid debate about who is superior because you do not have anything valid to talk about when it comes to "Genocide on Biafra". General Ojukwu was clearly the superior in all respects. In 3 years he and other Biafrans archieved what Nigeria and Nigerians could not achieve in 40years +. FYI Gen Ojukwu is only beign Diplonatic. Awolowo on other hand - "the best president Nigeria never had" who died uselessly in his Bathroom.
Okoroman 3 years ago
FYI it was General Ojukwu who brought Awolowo out of Prison where the Sokoto caliphate had dumped him. He should have let him rot in Jail.
Okoroman 3 years ago
General Ojukwu was clearly the superior in all respects. In 3 years he and other Biafrans archived what Nigeria and Nigerians could not achive in 40years +. FYI Gen Ojukwu is only beign Diplomatic. Awolowo on other hand - "the best president Nigeria never had" who died uselessly in his Bathroom.
Okoroman 3 years ago
In 3 years General C. Ojukwu and other Biafrans achieved what Nigeria and Nigerians could not achieve in 40years.
Okoroman 3 years ago
what did they achieve? went on exile after being roundly defeated.
yormeey 3 years ago
Point of correction. It was Yakubu Gowon who granted Awolowo unconditional pardon and released him from detention.
planetolusola 3 years ago
Daft punk you are. Again, you are deliberately deviating from subject to endless sub-subjects. So at least by your statement you admit that the Sokoto Caliphate controls Nigeria.
Nigeria is a confused failed state - Granting Gen Ojukwu "a pardon" was merely a strategy of Nigeria also out of confution to create an image of pardon. By the way gen Ojukwu wasn't the criminal, Nigeria knows this. Take some time
Okoroman 3 years ago
Nigeria is a confused failed state - Granting Gen Ojukwu "a pardon" was merely a strategy of Nigeria also out of confusion to create an image of pardon. By the way gen Ojukwu wasn't the criminal, Nigeria knows this.
Take some timeto consider the implications of Gen Ojukwu in exile over 40years. precisely what Nigeria will try to avoid.
Okoroman 3 years ago
FYI Gen Ojukwu was under protection of Ivory Coast, and he could have been protected France. I think so many people wanted Idi Amin and couldn't get him (but nonetheless not in comparison). Would Nigeria have risked a war with Ivory coast and other friends of Biafra? Think - maybe - it is a rubbish country anyway.
Now back to the subject of back-stabber Awolowo - he should have been left by gen Ojukwu to rot in prison.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Earlier the Caliphate had dumped Awolowo and Enahoro in prison on trumped up charges. Gen Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison where the Caliphate had dumped him. Later Awolowo turned around and joined the Sokoto Caliphate in committing genocide against the Igbo (Biafrans).
Okoroman 3 years ago
Rumour has it that Awolowo had conspired with Russian authourities to wage a coup against the Nigerian government, to form a socialist State of Nigeria.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Rumours, nothing more but rumours.
planetolusola 3 years ago
Pay attention Planetolusola -"Earlier the Caliphate had dumped Awolowo and Enahoro in prison on TRUMPED UP CHARGES. Gen Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison where the Caliphate had dumped him."
Not that Awo wasn't capable of that. He was very capable judging from his actions towards Gen Ojukwu and Biafra. We may want to relax the assumption of "trumped up charges"
Okoroman 3 years ago
Leader of Western Nigeria in 1967, Obafemi Awolowo announced to the world press that the Western region would declare their Oduduwa republic of should the Eastern Region declare independence.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Some suggest that this announcement was bargaining chip for him (Awolowo) to eventually become the vice-Chairman of Gowon's executive council.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Others suggest that this was a ploy to get the Eastern Region (later known as Biafra after deceleration) excited about its prospect with the ulterior motive of the other regions to get the Eastern Region where the rest of Nigeria would pounce on it, crush it and end the rise of this region. On the other hand others suggest he meant his promise to declare the Oduduwa republic but discovered that his people weren't ready or bold enough for the move.
Okoroman 3 years ago
What we see however is that he pitched his tent with Gowon (Nigeria), and the Western Region & Northern Region pounced on the Eastern Region. So both of these happened - Awolowo gained Nigeria govt appointment, whilst Nigeria declared war on Biafra.
Okoroman 3 years ago
It should however be recalled that earlier, in his article titled: Path to Nigerian Freedom (London: Faber and Faber, 1947)" Chief Obafemi Awolowo made this statement: "Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression."
Okoroman 3 years ago
Others suggest that this was a ploy to get the Eastern Region (later known as Biafra after declaration) excited about its prospect with the ulterior motive of the other regions to get the Eastern Region where the rest of Nigeria would pounce on it, crush it and end the rise of this region. On the other hand others suggest he meant his promise to declare the Oduduwa republic but discovered that his people weren't ready or bold enough for the move.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Your Ikemba, Ojukwu ran away with his tails tucked between his legs to Ivory Coast, under a vague pretence he was going overseas to seek lasting peace. The son of a dog never returned until Shagari granted him full pardon. (A ploy to spoil the UPN / NPN election that Awolowo won, but was rigged in favor of NPN). Nevertheless, Gowon should have sent a covert killer squad after him. That was Gowon's biggest mistake.
planetolusola 3 years ago
So Awolowo was a back stabber because he refused to drag his people into a senseless war? Una want Yorubas to come fight ya papa's war? Ha, naive and stupid biafrans.
planetolusola 3 years ago
I suppose you don't call it fighting a senseless war when you were fighting on the Nigerian side.
Yes Awolowo was and remains a backstabber, a betrayer and a criminal.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Serving his jail term for treason at the Calabar Prison by time the Civil War was imminent, Awolowo was set free by General Ojukwu with an understanding that the Yoruba leader was bent on using the opportunity of ongoing national crisis to pull his people out of the Nigerian federation and declare the Oduduwa Republic in the West.
Okoroman 3 years ago
But the master tactician had something else in mind as he paid lip service to an accord with Biafran leadership before his release from jail. As soon as he made it safely out of Biafra, he pitched his tent with General Gowon who rewarded him with appointment to the highest civilian post in the military junta in Lagos. Awolowo also was the Minister of Finance where he had full rein on the the Nigerian national coffers.
Okoroman 3 years ago
His elevated position instantaneously made tens of thousands of Yoruba recruits to join the Nigerian armed forces. The command structure and bulk of foot soldiers that spearheaded the maritime invasion from the southern front were mostly Yoruba.
Okoroman 3 years ago
As this Yoruba chieftain acquired more control of the federal bureaucracy in Nigeria, he became more aggressive and vocal in defense of Nigerian war policies in Biafra, which included deprivation of food and medical supplies to the civilian victims of the War. He was reported to have told foreign media correspondents, who expressed global outrage at the level of misery inside Biafra, that starvation was a legitimate instrument of warfare.
Okoroman 3 years ago
It was the "post-war" policies of Awolowo-led Ministry of Finance that inflicted the most lasting pain on those who managed to survive his starvation policy. The Biafran currency, which was the only legal tender of the survivors of the Biafran siege, was overnight declared worthless and everyone with a bank account was issued a measly 20 pounds, in lieu of their deposit, to start life anew on their own.
Okoroman 3 years ago
A few years afterwards, the same Ministry embarked on the process of selling off foreign-owned businesses to Nigerians who were able to pay. In that indigenization process, penury did not allow Igbo(occupied Biafrans) to participate as the collective wealth of Nigeria was handed out only to those who had the cash in hand.
Okoroman 3 years ago
It could be said that Chief Awolowo was not only a proven bedfellow of the Nigerian military establishment, but he also sanctioned the tacit gang-up by the North and West to use authoritarian military rule to keep Igbo (occupied Biafrans)marginalized for the next decades.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Same Sokoto caliphate who granted your 'superior', cowardly runnaway Ojukwu unconditional pardon and brough him back to Nigeria from Ivory Coast. Gowon should have hunted him down like a dog he was and hung him by the neck until his legs stopped kicking!.
planetolusola 3 years ago
Gowon was only capable of taking orders from his Colonial masters.
Okoroman 3 years ago
you are simply a disgruntle element okoroman. Each time i read yr comment on here i realise how deluded you are. You simply wasting ur time. Ojukwu was a rebel and a reasonable govt would prevent him from seceding its territory. Awolowo is respected man all over the world and commands more respect than ojukwu in nigeria and all over the world. Infact he was so stupid. Only blind people like u would follow him.
yormeey 3 years ago
yormeey, don't be silly and stop borrowing the "disgruntled" word, which Okoroman just used recently to add weight to your rubbish noise... Back to discussing Ojukwu? Well you are simply disillusioned. soon you won't be getting direct responses - value it while you get it.
According to your reason the land belongs to the government and not to the people - what a low mentality.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Okoroman discuss issues not personality, that what great minds do. For yr info, 'disgruntle' is not a new word to yormeeey. Having said that, yormeey is an open minded individal that tries to learn new things everyday and not a parochial, disillusioned, hallucinating, subservient and above all gullible Youtube Biafra warrior.
yormeey 3 years ago
Perhaps we can accept that the word "disgruntle" or "disgruntled" is not new to you, and neither is it owned by Okoroman but see how and when you apply it. You apply it to your sentence that carries no weight or no arguing (assuming you think you are arguing -we are not arguing with you - we correct you)
You make a mess out of this forum by "dumping" in the hope to cover up valid/interesting comments left by Biafrans on previous pages.
Okoroman 3 years ago
Okoroman discuss issues not personalities, that's what great minds do. For yr info, 'disgruntle' is not a new word to yormeeey. Having said that, yormeey is an open minded individal that tries to learn new things everyday and not a parochial, disillusioned, hallucinating,DISTORTING, subservient and above all gullible Youtube Biafra warrior.
yormeey 3 years ago
So by your own admission you have a little mind. If you really want discussion (it is obvious you don't) go through all this genocidal war videos and see Okoroman's responses on all pages, or visit comments on the Okoroman channel.
Okoroman 3 years ago