Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by fr3do(m): 2:15pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Super1Star:
The Igbos of the new era should also inculcate respect for others and decorum in their new curriculum. Of lessons of life learnt by them. Respect is reciprocal. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Thissonofman(m): 2:21pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Equalizer:
What happened in 1966 coup was nothing short of revenge cos Gowon, Murtala, Danjuma and other senior officers felt betrayed by the eastern and western region cos the origin plan was for all the Democratic leaders to be wiped out but Azikiwe,Awololo and that mid western man survived the attack and only the north recorded heavy casualties.. Am sure till date, the north are yet to forgive the Igbos for what Kaduna chukwuma Nzengwo did to their great men.. on point 1 Like |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by fr3do(m): 2:22pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Super1Star:
Pazienza, we have all been around NL for long and we have dwelt on every single events concerning the bitter experience and the not too glorious actions of our all our founding fathers, we cannot keep arguing back and forth on a yearly basis on.them.
Have learnt a lot from all the political discuss on NL. Some really made me to read in-depth about Nigeria. The contributions of Deridegull now Dede1, katsumoto etc have been eye opening. In all our ethnic jingoism and jibes, we have all.learnt a lot. I now understand the culture and mentality of a typical Igboman, which is totally not.in tandem.with a yorubaman and hausa/fulani.
This generation and the coming ones have a choice of either learning from the mistakes of the past and avoid repeating them OR keep dwelling on them till eternity comes.
All sides made fundamental mistakes and there was a high level of immaturity in most of their actions. None of them was a saint.
Do not bring the achievements issue here. Even your Chinua Achebe alluded to.it that the Yorubas were ahead of everybody. That is a story for another day,all the same.
One thing I will jot stand on NL, is some younger generations spewing rubbish about the events of 1966 based on false heroics and tales by moonlight stories of their fathers and uncles. Keep your advice to yourself. It is everybody except you that makes mistakes. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by raumdeuter: 2:25pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
pazienza:
You felt Igbo military men killed your leaders,fair enough, you went on to get your revenge by killing Ironsi, many other Igbo military officers and Igbo civilians in the North. That's revenge, an eye for eye, so why then were you invading Biafra? A continuation of the revenge or simply aggression? Killing other regional leaders and sparing yours led to everything, the July coup, and also the Biafra war. If you attack me first you cant tell me how to respond. I respond whichever way I want 7 Likes |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Super1Star: 2:25pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
fr3do:
Respect is reciprocal. It has always been accorded you but what have we been.hearing --- They are lazy and we are hardworking, as if they are feeding anybody. They are dirty and we are clean, as if Aba and Onitsha are in SW or SS or North. They are poor and we are rich, as if we do not have access to forbes list of Africans and we know the people selling gala on the highways and fake goods in 2by2inches shops. They are dullards and we are brilliant, as if we do not know where the top public and private ranking schools in this country are located. 9 Likes |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Nobody: 2:30pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
SopranoCoder: Why is there so much hate on here?
The alleged "Igbo" coup of 1966 is always wrongly perceived. There were Yoruba generals among the plotters and Major Nzeogwu couldn't even speak Igbo having lived in Kaduna all his life. I researched and found out that the reason Southern leaders escaped was that the people meant to execute the coup in the south did not do their part. Only Nzeogwu did his part, and that was to handle the Northern leaders.
Mind you, at this point Nigeria was a cesspit of corruption. But still, that doesn't justify a coup.
After Ironsi was was overthrown 50,000 ethnic Igbos were killed in the Northern regions. Just absorb that number: 50,000. No formal investigation was carried out, and all he countries leaders turned a blind eye. Also, the majority of qualified workforce in Nigeria was Igbo, and so the Igbos were in large numbers in the civil service, academia, etc. All of them fled their posts and returned to the East.
Ojukwu then met with Gowon to discuss the mass killings of Igbo guys. The result of their meeting was the Aburi Accord. However, 5 months after their meeting Gowon was yet to implement the resolutions. So the East got restless and put pressure on Gowon to declare Biafra and seced, and he did it.
Mind you, this secession came about because the Igbos were backed into a wall. What can you do when the country you fought hard to get independence turns its back on you and rejects you?
The ensuing Civil war that followed led to the death of 3 million Igbos. let that number sink in: 3 million. Now the Biafran army was not up to 300,000 soldiers, but there were 3 million casualties, which means that most of the casualties were civilians.
After the war, the Igbos were very impoverished and low on morale.
In 1970 the Finance minister froze all Igbo-held bank accounts and took all the cash they held, an obvious act of ethnic hate. A flat sum of 20 pounds was given to every Igbo person with an account, regardless of the amount the bank account previously held.
In 1972, the Indigenization decree was promulgated. This opened up large amounts of foreing businesses for Nigerian investors. Guess whcih group of people couldnt participate in this investment because all they had was 20 pounds? Oh yeah, Igbos.
I've been researching these issues and there are so many things i'd like to point out, but not enough time. please note data to your smartphone. Please post more. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Nobody: 2:31pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
pazienza:
You are silly. Aba is not the capital of Abia state. Umuahia is. Name the town in your state that is not the state capital, that is as developed and advanced as Aba!
Ignorant person. You have no brother and sisters in Igboland, I believe you know where your brothers and sisters are. With this mindset of yours I can see why some of my brothers and sisters that are well placed will continue to invest in other people's territory. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Super1Star: 2:35pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
fr3do:
Keep your advice to yourself. It is everybody except you that makes mistakes. Who bloody cares about you? Get off my mention, deluded bunch of people. 1 Like |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Paretomaster(m): 3:14pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
momentum85: I must say that Aguiyi Ironsi caused his death, he trusted d northerners so much and they betrayed him just as GEJ did and he was disappointed. Nigeria is yet to be one. Just as Sardauna trusted Nzeogwu, who later slaughter him in cold blood abi? So u didn't see d role played by Sani Bello in d whole saga? 7 Likes |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Wsdm: 3:20pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
LoveDecay: do you have the one where sarduana of sokoto was mudered in cold blood by a cold hearted betrayer. May God ellevate you for this sensible comment. 1 Like |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by zendy: 3:30pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Truthpallbearer: "As an Igbo man, I have nothing in common with a Yoruba or Hausa man." What about the colour of your blood and the air we breathe in? Your type is one of the reasons Aba is like a refuse dump. Think of something better instead of ethnic/religious bigotry. God bless my brothers and sisters in Religion and Humanity. #SayNoToTribalism This has got nothing to do with tribalism. This is all about the right to exit or stay in the 'partnership' called Nigeria. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by tucky200(m): 3:40pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
babajero: It was his foolishness that killed him, Ojukwu warned him about his closeness with the hausas and yorubas and told him not to go for that meeting but he ignored him, and is the same problem with president Jonathan today he brought hausas too close, forgetting they are just vagabonds. Have you forgotten it was the igbos that started the war 1 Like |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Rotimi47: 3:45pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Equalizer: Senator Andrew Nwankwo from the Izzi clan in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was a captain in the Nigeria Air Force before the January 1966 coup that made way for Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi to emerge as Head of State. He became Ironsi’s Aide-De-Camp through the recommendation of Brigadier George Krubo who was then in-charge of the Air Force and subsequently supervised the late Head of State’s security. Capt. Andrew Nwankwo (rtd) said he was to die with his boss, but for fate. He was present when both Ironsi and Fajuyi were shot dead. Tracking the 61-year-old former ADC down in his one story building residence in Abakaliki was not as difficult as getting him to recall the events that led to the death of his master 38 years ago. He would start by taking you down memory lane when he served as a courier to late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, "I was manning the octopus-a helicopter that carries 105 artillery gun and six other machine guns. "So when Ethiopia was at war with Somalia in 1964/65 we formed the defence group of the emperor, we also formed an attack force. When the emperor is going to the frontline to see what is happening, we ring him round to clear the way for him". It was part of these that Ironsi saw and handed over his security to the young captain. "It was cool working with Ironsi, he understood everything about what I should do because he had commanded the UN forces in Congo, and that exposed him to the type of people he needed". The coup Recalling the events of that night, July 29, 1966, Nwankwo noted that they were in Ibadan, "we had a small detachment of 106 Artillery, Commanded by one Walbe from Plateau" The Head of State had the previous day hosted traditional rulers from all parts of the country in the Ibadan Government House. "He wasn’t feeling quite well, he had a knee problem and had to go to bed early. "Lieutenant Sanni Bello was the army ADC, and we were very close. So, we left that night to go and look out and came back late. Lt. Adamu who was the ADC to Fajuyi, Sanni Bello, Walbe and myself, we all slept together in one room that night". "At about 4a.m the telephone rang, I picked it up and that was Adeola, the then commissioner of police, Ibadan he said he wanted to speak with Ironsi, I said I was the ADC, he said he wanted to speak with him because there was a coup and he gave me some names Orok and two others that had been killed in Abeokuta. "Immediately, I made a mental picture of it, and I knew that it was the northerners that were responsible. So, I handed the phone to Ironsi and they talked. I then alerted Adamu and Sanni Bello and said look, there is a coup and the trend is this way. "Bello assured me that if it is his own people he will protect me, because, there was tension in the land such that we knew a coup was imminent. So, we agreed to protect each other depending on where it will be coming from. I later discovered that Walbe who was sleeping with us was part of the coup; he later became ADC to Gowon. "Around 5:30 we heard gunfire, then Ironsi had called Col. Njoku to tell him about the coup. As Njoku was going out, he was short at, but he escaped with bullet wounds. It was Njoku, who was the commander of Lagos Garrison that alerted others outside the Government House, Ibadan. "Fajuyi later sent me outside the government House to find out what was happening. I met Danjuma, who was then a major and he was my friend. He pretended he didn’t know what was happening, he was asking me, and I said I didn’t know. While I was trying to go back, one sergeant from Benue almost shot me, but Danjuma stopped him and spoke to him in Hausa. Danjuma later told me that he would like to see Ironsi, so that he could tell them what to do. "It was then that Fajuyi came out to find out what was holding me, and there inside the Government House Danjuma ordered for his arrest and mine too. That was when I saw Walbe. Then Fajuyi asked me to take him to Ironsi so that they will obey him, that there should be only one person in charge. So, I took them to Ironsi, and major Newman, immediately he saw Ironsi, he seized his crocodile swagger stick, and then they started asking him about the January coup, he said he didn’t know about it that he only agreed to be Head of State so that he can restore confidence and normalcy. It was immediately they arrested Ironsi that they turned violent". The road to the valley of death They marched us down, Ironsi and myself, to where Fajuyi was. They used telephone cable to tie my hands behind and my legs, with a little space to walk. Same they did to Ironsi, but they removed his shirt, he wore only trousers, they also tied Fajuyi. Ironsi was in a Land Rover, Fajuyi in a mini bus and myself in another bus. They drove us towards Iwo Road, 10 km from Ibadan, there was a small forest were they stopped, marched us to the right hand side of the bush, Fajuyi was leading and as he tried to cross a small stream, he fell down, the soldiers were unruly, it appeared some of them had for the first time taken Indian hemp, so when he fell down some of them started beating him. My escape As Fajuyi fell down and they were beating him, Sanni Bello came to me and tapped me and said, we could do something now. It was providence, may be I was not destined to die. I took a few steps from them and jumped into a nearby ditch, all in a split of a second, Bello came and stood by the ditch and was shouting that I had escaped pointing at another direction. So the soldiers ran around that direction shooting into the bush, and when they felt they must have killed me, they shot Fajuyi and then Ironsi there, by the side of the stream. So Bello made sure that he was the last to leave the place. The ADC, who was later elected senator in 1983 stated that the former Head of State could have escaped if not that he wanted to make sure that there was no bloodshed. He said if he sacrificed his life and prevented bloodshed in Nigeria, it’s better for him. Even his chaplain urged him to escape but he said No. Also many of his officers who were contacted instead of taking action ran away. The ADC denied the prevailing story that Ironsi was tied to a Land Rover and dragged along the road. He maintained that he saw Ironsi and Fajuyi shot dead. "They shot him on the chest and it was a burst, so he would have died after the first shot". The crocodile staff It was a swagger stick, which he made after his name Aguiyi (crocodile). It was in the Congo, when he was commanding the United Nations Forces, the Indian troops were to land at the Lumumbashi Airport but the Cameroon gendarmes went and blocked the place with trucks, so that the Indian soldiers will not land, so, he used a Land Rover and with the stagger stick waved as they were shouting, he was eventually able to convince them to remove the trucks. Many attributed that feat to extraordinary powers in his swagger stick. But there was nothing in it, it was just a stick. Ironsi was not fetish; he was a devoted Catholic and attended mass every morning, even the day he was killed. I don't believe 90% of what I just read. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by tucky200(m): 3:49pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
SopranoCoder: Why is there so much hate on here?
The alleged "Igbo" coup of 1966 is always wrongly perceived. There were Yoruba generals among the plotters and Major Nzeogwu couldn't even speak Igbo having lived in Kaduna all his life. I researched and found out that the reason Southern leaders escaped was that the people meant to execute the coup in the south did not do their part. Only Nzeogwu did his part, and that was to handle the Northern leaders.
Mind you, at this point Nigeria was a cesspit of corruption. But still, that doesn't justify a coup.
After Ironsi was was overthrown 50,000 ethnic Igbos were killed in the Northern regions. Just absorb that number: 50,000. No formal investigation was carried out, and all he countries leaders turned a blind eye. Also, the majority of qualified workforce in Nigeria was Igbo, and so the Igbos were in large numbers in the civil service, academia, etc. All of them fled their posts and returned to the East.
Ojukwu then met with Gowon to discuss the mass killings of Igbo guys. The result of their meeting was the Aburi Accord. However, 5 months after their meeting Gowon was yet to implement the resolutions. So the East got restless and put pressure on Gowon to declare Biafra and seced, and he did it.
Mind you, this secession came about because the Igbos were backed into a wall. What can you do when the country you fought hard to get independence turns its back on you and rejects you?
The ensuing Civil war that followed led to the death of 3 million Igbos. let that number sink in: 3 million. Now the Biafran army was not up to 300,000 soldiers, but there were 3 million casualties, which means that most of the casualties were civilians.
After the war, the Igbos were very impoverished and low on morale.
In 1970 the Finance minister froze all Igbo-held bank accounts and took all the cash they held, an obvious act of ethnic hate. A flat sum of 20 pounds was given to every Igbo person with an account, regardless of the amount the bank account previously held.
In 1972, the Indigenization decree was promulgated. This opened up large amounts of foreing businesses for Nigerian investors. Guess whcih group of people couldnt participate in this investment because all they had was 20 pounds? Oh yeah, Igbos.
I've been researching these issues and there are so many things i'd like to point out, but not enough time. Wonder where u getting this ur sh*t story 4rm. U just try to cover up 4 chukwuma nziogwu who started d war on northerners....ojukwu had international support ... |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Rotimi47: 3:53pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
tucky200:
Have you forgotten it was the igbos that started the war yeah! The Igbo's were the ones that planned & executed the first coup! They killed several Nigerian founding fathers & left out their own! They killed Sarduna of sokoto & Amadu bello who are Northerners, Akintola a Yoruba man & Okotiebo ( I hope his name is spelt correctly) an Edo man while no Igbo was killed as they have informed Zik & other Igbo's to flee! These death's lead to a counter coup & it lead to the 1967 civil war. Igbo's truncated Nigeria first democracy. 9 Likes |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by fr3do(m): 3:57pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Super1Star:
Who bloody cares about you?
Get off my mention, deluded bunch of people. Wretched black hearted urchin, you are pathetically tribalistic, who is you people? |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Rotimi47: 3:59pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Thissonofman:
on point Akintola was a Yoruba man & he was killed while Awolowo was in Enugu prison when the coup was going on, that's why he was not killed. 1 Like |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Rotimi47: 4:08pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
pazienza:
So we are to believe the Yoruba controlled media concocted falsehood of Jesus Fajuiyi so willing to lay down his life for a condemned Ironsi over the story of a man that was present on the scene? Haha! How quaint. I watched a video of it, Fajuyi lay down his life! Your brother who said what was posted poured out lies! I don't know what he wants to gain as in the video I watched Ironsi was stripped to his under pant & shot on a bush path. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by superstar1(m): 4:09pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
fr3do:
Wretched black hearted urchin, you are pathetically tribalistic, who is you people? See this miserable soul, descendant of wandering Cain suffering from mouth diarrhoea and cerebral palsy. Demented and tormented fellow, your tribal bigotry will kill you. Copy that. 1 Like |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by saintfizzo(m): 4:11pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
babajero: hahaha ok o didnt know you were among the. coup. Lol.... Bleep u mehn... lmao |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by pazienza(m): 4:12pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Rotimi47: I watched a video of it, Fajuyi lay down his life! Your brother who said what was posted poured out lies! I don't know what he wants to gain as in the video I watched Ironsi was stripped to his under pant & shot on a bush path. Really? *grins* Fajuiyi was pleading to be killed together with Ironsi in the video you watched? Haha! humour me, post the link to the video here. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by claremont(m): 4:13pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
handsometokunbo:
Boko haram has killed more Muslims than Christians in Borno and Nigeria at large.
Boko haram has killed more Hausas/Fulanis than Igbos or Yorubas
Well said. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Rotimi47: 4:27pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
That guy can lie! How will Fajuyi who came out into the hands of coup plotters, tell someone to go & call Irons I yo come & talk to them? He also said ironsi would have escaped if he wanted to; abeg where to! How can he escape from a place that is completely surrounded by heavily armed men! He said Ironsi croc stick was for swag & its that same stick he waved when their was issues between the Indians & the Cameroonians. Is the stick a reflector that they can see it afar? Their is more to this post then he wants us to know. 1 Like |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by fr3do(m): 4:41pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
superstar1:
See this miserable soul, descendant of wandering Cain suffering from mouth diarrhoea and cerebral palsy.
Demented and tormented fellow, your tribal bigotry will kill you. Copy that.
You're deluded and probably have a history of madness in your family. You're as unintelligent as you're tribalistic. |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by Rotimi47: 4:45pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
That guy even lied that Fajuyi sent to go & check; if Fajuyi not in his house with his own ADC? |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by pazienza(m): 4:47pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Rotimi47: That guy can lie! How will Fajuyi who came out into the hands of coup plotters, tell someone to go & call Irons I yo come & talk to them? He also said ironsi would have escaped if he wanted to; abeg where to! How can he escape from a place that is completely surrounded by heavily armed men! He said Ironsi croc stick was for swag & its that same stick he waved when their was issues between the Indians & the Cameroonians. Is the stick a reflector that they can see it afar? Their is more to this post then he wants us to know. I get it, you would rather hold unto the Jesus Fajuiyi story! All hail the Yoruba Jesus Fajuiyi, who so much loved Ironsi that he decided to die with Ironsi, even when it was obvious that with or without his life sacrifice, Ironsi was already a dead man! *grins* This is what happens when a lie is repeated for so long, especially a favourable lie, it starts taking the form of truth in the minds of the irrational and tribal beings! |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by DoroMega: 4:48pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
where the pishures nau? viewers discretion kor |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by laboguashi(m): 4:49pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Equalizer:
Was it only Azikiwe that escaped the coup? didn't you hear that Awolowo and other top yuroba leaders escaped too.. In Nigeria, when one makes sentence without including the Igbos in it, the sentence seems not to be correct.. You don't really have an accurate knowledge of the history you are commenting on. Awolowo was in prison for treason during the coup. 2 Likes |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by wadetaw202: 4:49pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
eagleeye2:
I believe Nzeogwu would have told his story had he been alive. And I can't see where in my post that portrays the victim mentality you talking a about. Is it wrong to hear different accounts of what happened in the past and helped shaped our history Every Nigerian with half brain and sense of history knows that ironsi wouldn't have been murdered or igbos killed in the north if Kaduna nzeogwu and ironsi had not plotted and executed the January 1966 coup. To show how very funny ironsi and nzeogwu were, they killed northern officers and men and only spared their fellow IBO officers and men. Ojukwu kept quiet all through these atrocities perpetrated by nzeogwu and ironsi because the former were IBO's. But the moment the tide turned against ironsi and igbos, ojukwu started talking and making threat. Like I commented earlier, you igbos love to play the victims. You would be the ones to originate problems; but when the problems you caused turned against you, you would start shouting blue murder. Igbos playing the victim since 1966. 4 Likes |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by love2nicee: 5:08pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Ehen if i hear am |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by pazienza(m): 5:08pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
wadetaw202:
Every Nigerian with half brain and sense of history knows that ironsi wouldn't have been murdered or igbos killed in the north if Kaduna nzeogwu and ironsi had not plotted and executed the January 1966 coup. To show how very funny ironsi and nzeogwu were, they killed northern officers and men and only spared their fellow IBO officers and men. Ojukwu kept quiet all through these atrocities perpetrated by nzeogwu and ironsi because the former were IBO's. But the moment the tide turned against ironsi and igbos, ojukwu started talking and making threat. Like I commented earlier, you igbos love to play the victims. You would be the ones to originate problems; but when the problems you caused turned against you, you would start shouting blue murder. Igbos playing the victim since 1966. So, Ironsi was among the coup plotters? Haha! They say there are no Igbos in the SS, Igbos are attaching by force to groups in the SS. When you remind them that Nzeogwu the so called originator of the Igbo coup was actually from SS, So going by their logic of no Igbos in SS, Nzeogwu wasn't Igbo, he was a Niger deltan( Midwestern),'the coup couldn't have been an Igbo coup. *grins* Then they shift the goal post, Nzeogwu loses all evil part of him, the moment he stops being seen as an Igbo and Easterner! "Nzeogwu had good intentions, his good intentions were actually hijacked by Ifeajuna an Igbo from Onitsha" they say, they even made Ifeajuna Zik's cousin by fire by force to sell their story of the "Igbo coup". So in an instant, Nzeogwu turns from a wicked Igbo coup plotter to a man with good intentions that was led astray by Ifeajuna, the wicked Igboman from Onitsha. *grins* It starts becoming obvious that some people are hell bent on making a villain of Ndigbo, head or tail. Then we ask them, how can the coup be Igbo, when a Yoruba man ademoyega was involved in the coup. They tell you that Ademoyega was a child with no brains who got hoodwinked into the coup by Ndiigbo, and that even at that that there are more Igbos involved in the coup, so much that the presence of one Yoruba man cannot stop the coup from being an Igbo coup. They suddenly forget that the majority of the people involved in the coup that they count as Ndiigbo, were actually non Igbos, ie SS, going by their "no Igbo in SS " mantra! Remind them of this, and they suddenly shift the goal post, " Ifeajuna is an Igbo man, he is the main man in the coup, he used strong juju to hypnotize the rest of the coup plotters", they say, the ethnicity of the rest of the coup plotters doesn't matter, what matters was that an Igbo man Ifeajuna was the coup plotter, another Igbo man Zik escaped death, another Igbo man Ironsi became the beneficiary of the coup, Viola! Nothing else matters! It must be an Igbo coup by fire and by force! *grins* From the looks of it, you find out that we have a case where people had already reached a conclusion of an "Igbo coup", and then make up evidence and twist facts along the way, to support their already pre determined conclusion. This isn't a case of using observations and evidence to reach a conclusion. 3 Likes |
Re: See How Aguiyi Ironsi Was Murdered In Cold Blood. (viewers Discretion Advised). by wadetaw202: 5:16pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
pazienza:
So, Ironsi was among the coup plotters? Haha!
They say there are no Igbos in the SS, Igbos are attaching by force to groups in the SS. When you remind them that Nzeogwu the so called originator of the Igbo coup was actually from SS, So going by their logic of no Igbos in SS, Nzeogwu wasn't Igbo, he was a Niger deltan( Midwestern), so the coup couldn't have been an Igbo coup. *grins*
Then they shift the goal post! "Nzeogwu had good intentions, his good intentions was actually hijacked by Ifeajuna an Igbo from Onitsha" they say, they even made Ifeajuna Zik's cousin by fire by force to sell their story of the "Igbo coup". So in an instance, Nzeogwu turns from a wicked Igbo coup plotter to a man with good intentions that was led astray by Ifeajuna, the wicked Igboman from Onitsha. *grins*
Then we ask them, how can the coup be Igbo, when a Yoruba man ademoyega was involved in the coup. They tell you that Ademoyega was a child with no brains who got hoodwinked into the coup by Ndiigbo, and that even at that that there more Igbos involved in the coup that the presence of one Yoruba man cannot stop the coup from being an Igbo coup.*grins*
From the looks of it, you find out that we have a case where people had already reached a conclusion of an "Igbo coup", and then make up evidence and twist facts along the way, to support their already pre determined conclusion. This isn't a case of using observations and evidence to reach a conclusion. The coup was not plotted by Igbo according to you, but an igboman, ironsi, was the beneficiary; except if ironsi too was not an igboman. Ironsi became the grand commander but refused to punish all the coup plotters and you expect the angry party to be looking on like lucozade? 1 Like |