yemaldo:
U just proved that ur parent shouldn't have sent u to school

onoja12: please educate yourself,awolowo is a civilian,the first coup was plotted my major kaduna uzodu,which by the way was sent to school and enlisted into the army by the late prime minister who he payed back by killing please note that this prime minister in question was a norther.so young once don't allow your old people fool you and plant wickedness in your heart,go back and study Nigeria history as writing in does days not the lies they are writing this days

Mckennedy:


And kaduna Nzeogwu is from where?

onoja12: the eastern part of the country as the name implies,why the question and sorry for the wrong spelling in name

Mckennedy:

Nzeogwu is from the ppl u call the the Niger Delta ( Delta State ) pls tell me the names of south eastern ppl ( Igbos ) involved in that coup?

Mckennedy:

Nzeogwu is from the ppl u call the the Niger Delta ( Delta State ) pls tell me the names of south eastern ppl ( Igbos ) involved in that coup?

onoja12: am amazed,are you denying the fact that major kaduna uzogu plotted an all easterners coup,or you are trying to deny that the first coup in Nigeria where plotted by igbo people,or are you trying to deny that the first military head of state in Nigeria is an igbo man,what brings awolowo into the matter,yes he may have given some backing but i can assure you,he had no direct active role in the coup because i can remember he was penciled
down to be killed in that coup,before the Yoruba officers involved brought him in.like i said study with an open mind,not a tribalistic heart,or bad blood,if the youth can do away with the mess the old men have brought on them by there greed,Nigeria would be a great nation,if not the greatest

onoja12: very wrong as at the time there was no states in Nigeria,it was regions and nzeogwu was from the eastern region

meforyou1: if not that ojukwu released awolowo from prison and awolowo turned to a back-biting saboteur. Don't forget to read achebe's "there was a country".

meforyou1: Even Japan, who didn't commit up to one-tenth of the war crimes gowon, obasanjo, awolowo and adekunle committed, has apologised for their 2nd world war atrocities. Gowon is just postponing the evil day, because one day he, his children or his grand children must apologise to the igbos for the genocide he committed against us. We are igbos, we never forget. And so we say, never again shall such evil be meted against us without a ten-fold retaliation.

DikeOha882: Nzeogwu was an Igboman from Delta, delta was in the mid western region not Eastern region. Givin half baked information. OLODO

fuckluv: Ojukwu never released Awo from prison, Gowon did. Awolowo was a prisoner of the Nigeria government held in the eastern region, so ojukwu does not have the power to unilaterally release him.

Awo was charged with Treasonable felony in November 1962 and sentenced in September 1963

In March 1966, Awo wrote to Ironsi from prison asking to be released but was ignored by Ironsi. Between January 1966 and July 1966, Ironsi was Head of State while Ojukwu was Governor of the Eastern region.

Gowon was sworn-in in the evening of July 30 1966 but made his announcement on August 1st.

Obafemi Awolowo was released from prison on the 8th of August 1966; exactly 1 week after Gowon's ascension.

Now talking about Achebe's memoir, that's his personal opinion. Socrates was right when he said that “what any man is saying or seeing is often a factor of where that man is sitting or standing at any given point” I will concede to Achebe that he probably drew his conclusion based on where he was sitting or standing when he made his observation, But there is more to what really happened in that war than the totality of what Chinua Achebe has stated in that book.

Have you paused to consider what Azikiwe's role was in all these brouhaha? He also sided with Gowon at the most critical phase of the war. See there's enough blame to go round if we want to be realistic.

Reading Achebe's book alone which of course is bound to lean towards the igbo tribe is not justifiable. You need to read from independent writers too before you can draw conclusions.

MailSA: Pls don't quote people wrongly! Mr Nwodo said "I acknowledge the presence of former head of state Gen Yakubu Gowon, I remembered how he gave us seats after the civil war when we were sitting on blocks to learn in our classrooms in his bid to recocile all agrieved." That means Gowon provided seats for them to stop sitting on blocks. Stop inciting people!

Ojiofor: if Ojukwu does not have the power to release Awo as you claimed, where did he get power to release Banjo, Nzeogwu and the rest who were prison mates of Awolowo at same calabar prison.

T9ksy:


Didn't you find it odd that all those (prisoners) ojukwu released from prison were immediately conscripted into

his (ojukwu's) rag-tag Biafran Liberation Front?

Ojiofor: if Ojukwu does not have the power to release Awo as you claimed, where did he get power to release Banjo, Nzeogwu and the rest who were prison mates of Awolowo at same calabar prison.

fuckluv:

Awo was charged with Treasonable felony in November 1962 and sentenced in September 1963

NaijirianKing: Wrong... he was from the Western or MidWestern Region... go learn some history before you speak on such a topic. Igbo are found in NC, SE, & SS. And in those days Delta State was part of Bendel, which was part of the West, then was carved out to create the MidWest.

fuckluv: Are you aware that Awolowo's release came much earlier before those boys? Because now you are making it seems they were released at the same time.
If Gowon didn't made the order for him to be released, would he have gone to meet Awo at the airport to welcome him with the now famous statement "we need you for the wealth of your experience"? Wouldn't he have ordered for him to be re-arrested? Or Awo himself won't even dare step his leg in lagos.

Ojukwu only released banjo, nzeogwo and co but that took place in the heat of the confrontations before the civil war. By then, the eastern region was already acting as if its not part of Nigeria. So he needed those boys to fight for him. Even then banjo could not return to his base because he was still not cleared of his charges so he joined ojukwu in the state house at Enugu.

This is why I said people should read from independent writers because they will say the truth as it is without taking sides.
You can read " Awolowo and the forgotten documents of the civil war" by Odia Ofeimun. Vanguard also carried it on Nov. 10, 2012.

NaijirianKing: Bendel was divided into Delta and Edo in 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Western_Region,_Nigeria

Asaba came from Bendel, which was formed in June 1963 from Benin and Delta provinces of the Western Region, and its capital was Benin City. It was renamed a province in 1966, and in 1967 when the other provinces were split up into several states, it remained territorially intact, becoming a state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Western_Region,_Nigeria

Indigenous Igbo speaking people are found in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_people

Abia
Anambra
Ebonyi
Enugu
Imo
Rivers
Delta
Akwa Ibom
Cross River
Bayelsa
Edo
Benue

Benue is NC, will Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Edo, and Bayelsa are all SS.

Ojiofor: that is not the point.the question is whether he has the power to release those inmates including awo or not. some of you continue to live in denial that he had no power to release federal prisoners in the east. Since you seems to agree with me he freed those soldiers who were awo.'s jail mate there is no point for argument. .

NaijirianKing: The first coup attempt was by Awo, who was jailed in the East. He was supposed to be executed, but Ojukwu had mercy on him, as Ojukwu was in charge of the then Eastern region.

Ojukwu pitied Awo as they were both victims of an unfair system, Ojukwu allowed Awo to live in exchange for pulling the West of of Nigeria and peacefully allowing all regions to develop at their own pace. But Awo was offered a position in the Naij gov't and thus broke the agreement he had made with Ojukwu.

Although Awo always wanted to pull the West out of Naij, as he saw believed his ethnic superior to others, he decided to keep his group within Naij so he could be rewarded with the highest civilian position in Gowon's gov't.

But, yes, he was a civilian, and tried a coup 3 years before the civil war, and yes he was jailed for this. So, a civilian (Awo) tried and failed to remove the gov't he saw as holding the western Region back, but he failed.

NaijirianKing: The first coup attempt was by Awo, who was jailed in the East. He was supposed to be executed, but Ojukwu had mercy on him, as Ojukwu was in charge of the then Eastern region.

Ojukwu pitied Awo as they were both victims of an unfair system, Ojukwu allowed Awo to live in exchange for pulling the West of of Nigeria and peacefully allowing all regions to develop at their own pace. But Awo was offered a position in the Naij gov't and thus broke the agreement he had made with Ojukwu.

Although Awo always wanted to pull the West out of Naij, as he saw believed his ethnic superior to others, he decided to keep his group within Naij so he could be rewarded with the highest civilian position in Gowon's gov't.

But, yes, he was a civilian, and tried a coup 3 years before the civil war, and yes he was jailed for this. So, a civilian (Awo) tried and failed to remove the gov't he saw as holding the western Region back, but he failed.

NaijirianKing: Bendel was divided into Delta and Edo in 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Western_Region,_Nigeria

Asaba came from Bendel, which was formed in June 1963 from Benin and Delta provinces of the Western Region, and its capital was Benin City. It was renamed a province in 1966, and in 1967 when the other provinces were split up into several states, it remained territorially intact, becoming a state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Western_Region,_Nigeria

Indigenous Igbo speaking people are found in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_people

Abia
Anambra
Ebonyi
Enugu
Imo
Rivers
Delta
Akwa Ibom
Cross River
Bayelsa
Edo
Benue

Benue is NC, will Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Edo, and Bayelsa are all SS.