Idrismusty97:
He was executed by Ojukwu! At least he taught the beast how to dress like a woman. You killed an innocent Northerner then get killed by your own kinsmen while doing what will benefit them. Now that's Karma at its best! Didn't the monster Ojukwu still negotiate a ceasefire at the end? But it was already too late, 3 million lives have been wasted.

T9ksy:



The operationally words in your du.mb post above are, "may have" which is neither here nor there but one thing we both do know for a FACT, is that the person who accepted the task, DID chickened out.

Duru1:


Shut up your putrid mouth and stop punching above your weight class. You are an intellectual midget. Only dumbass rapscallion will term Tafawa Balewa an innocent northerner. The jackass who introduced nepotism into Nigerian army and produced un-certificated deadbeat generals such the Daura Dumbass and other goons from northern region of Nigeria.

mightyhaze:
am jst balancin ur silly assumptions. Who was dat pasn dat 'u and I' know dat chickened out? Go on bleat me som more

OfoIgbo:


There were already Yorubas in the war even before the thrust towards Lagos.
Yorubas were already involved in some of the ministries that were undermining the Biafean efforts even before the war.

The thing is that Yorubas always try to justify their efforts in betraying their neighbours.
They even justified their actions of 28th march 2015, by deplouing their media arm in labelling GEJ as clueless and an dumbo. It's all about GIVING A DOG A BAD NAME BEFORE HANGING IT

Volksfuhrer:


Yoruba soldiers were not involved until the skirmish at Ore. In any case, you still missed the point. Biafra lost the moral high ground when its forces ventured outside its borders.

Granted that some Yorubas were Ministers in the Federal government, the war was still between soldiers from the North and the East. Until Ore changed the game.

Ojukwu simply did not build enough coalition for the Lagos offensive. It was flawed from the start. Nothing could be more naive than thinking Yorubas would submit to Banjo because he was a Yoruba man!

7lives:


Oh Yoruba should have co operate with you to colonize them now, nonsense.

T9ksy:



Oh, so according to you and your impish folks, because Tafawa Balewa allegedly introduced nepotism into the Nigerian Army, that was enough reason for your brothers to snuff the life out of him? Am certain you and your ilk will tender "genuine" reasons for every non-ibos your blood-thirsty brothers killed in the jan 1966, coup.


It was a good thing Awo was in prison at the time 'cause am sure you guys would have had him murdered too, for one reason or the other, irrespective of how preposterous it sounds to sane minds.

Duru1:


I have known you for a while and realized that when you shout fight corruption, it is only a mindless gesture of a hypocritical whiner. Are you among those Nigerians who thought corruption is limited to embezzlement? Actually, embezzlement is the most junior in the class of corruption.

brainpower:
Nigeria's history is always very interesting to read especially concerning the civil war and event before the civil war but sadly, they aren't taught in our schools because of the dust they will dig up. The people we have now are liars who tell stories to suit them. E.g. OBJ who wrote 3 volumes of his book and mentioned other people's infidelities but decided to have an amnesia about his affair with his son's wife. Whether Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa, we really need to read a lot about this country even if the particular book doesn't favour us. It will help in creating future leaders that know exactly what's wrong with the country.

T9ksy:



And only non-ibos are corrupt in the country? And who made you ibos the prosecutors, jury and the executioner?

Obiagelli:

Wrong Obj did good by writing his own side of the story, we would have a clearer picture of others had the balls to do same.

mightyhaze:
stay put in biafra while federal forces amass at enugu while unleashin terror. U forget lagos was d operational seat of govt den wile enugu was d den capital of biafra. U guyz don't cease 2 amaze one.its right 2 attack biafra and not same 4 biafrans 2 retaliate. Ojukwu did not lagos attack 2 spite yoruba,but 2 seize gowon. More like seizin d serpent by d head.d war wud av been brought 2 an abrupt end if not for d folly n schemin nature of col banjo. More over d yorubas were already active in d war b4 den.so don't try 2 twist history just 2 justify d massacre of ova 3million lives

SonOfEl:

descend into realm of insults? take a look at the mirror.

Duru1:


I am not surprise form the above post. The coup was never Igbo thing but Nigerian army’s stuff coincidentally led by officers from Igbo extraction. Those who partook in the coup were soldiers who knew the level of rot such nepotistic tendencies will impact on Nigeria army. However, few miscreants in Nigeria turned it into Igbo thing.

vega84:
Pls where did u get ur facts? The prime minister was nt shot, he died at of panic on their way to calabar his body was then left in a plantation. Nobody shot him as they were no gun wounds in his body. #vegatalks

T9ksy:



Can't remember his name now but we were told by your lying grandfathers that Ironsi too was on the (Jan 15) coupists' list

but ibo man that was entrusted with this enormous task chickened out at the last minute hence Ironsi was alive to quell the coup.


Typical ibotic logic.

T9ksy:

Oh, so according to you and your impish folks, because Tafawa Balewa allegedly introduced nepotism into the Nigerian Army, that was enough reason for your brothers to snuff the life out of him? Am certain you and your ilk will tender "genuine" reasons for every non-ibos your blood-thirsty brothers killed in the jan 1966, coup.

It was a good thing Awo was in prison at the time 'cause am sure you guys would have had him murdered too, for one reason or the other, irrespective of how preposterous it sounds to sane minds.

Volksfuhrer:


I read your post with some bemusement. You, just like Ojukwu, actually believed Biafra's Army could get to Lagos unscathed and "seize the serpent by the head." Utter conceit!

The sheer folly of the mission was not lost on Banjo, who knew quite well that the Biafra troops he led were not prepared to fight a prolonged battle en route to Lagos. After all, what was the point of getting deep behind enemy lines decimated. It was a bad plan, a suicide mission, and Ojukwu was a reckless commander. History eventually proved Banjo right when Biafra's seeming juggernaut was halted at a border post at Ore.

Stop giving excuses for a lost cause fought without adequate logistics and the right alliance. War is also fought on good intel, not conjectures. Ore was not only a disaster and morale killer for Biafra, but It was also an eye opener for the Federal Government that Biafra was not as strong as they otherwise have thought! Whereas had Biafra stayed within its borders, the strength or weakness of its troops would not only have been more difficult to fathom, but Biafran troops would also have defended their homeland more spiritedly than they did.

Stop blaming Banjo. Stop blaming Yorubas. Put the blame squarely on bad Biafra leadership!

mightyhaze:
call it woteva dat suits ur evil mind. Dere isn't any proof of complicity in failure of d coup 2 take down ironsi.ppl escape ambushes n d marksmans rifle.call it anitin,I call it providence.wen obasanjo failed 2 report at office d monin murtala was killed,dereby escapin dimkas guns,y did ur ilk not term it 'igbotic logic' or worreva d hell u termd it. D truth is dat ur likes will always view tins from ur evil n schemin prisms.

AnanseK:

Rubbish. He was killed by the Igbo murderer and quintessential hypocrite - ifeajuna.

mightyhaze:
do u know dat murtala n d rest northern elements were already ferryin dia poiticians and elders bak 2 d north wen dey got wind of d biafran advance? Dere was general panic and evry1 includin gowon were gettin ready 2 flee lagos. If not for d delays by. Banjo lagos wud hav been seized v quikly and a ceasefire negotiated!

mightyhaze:
do u know dat murtala n d rest northern elements were already ferryin dia poiticians and elders bak 2 d north wen dey got wind of d biafran advance? Dere was general panic and evry1 includin gowon were gettin ready 2 flee lagos. If not for d delays by. Banjo lagos wud hav been seized v quikly and a ceasefire negotiated!

laudate:


... And his body was abandoned along the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Road, where it was discovered by Alhaji Babankowa, a former Commissioner of Police who was then serving as an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) at Otta, and a former Minister in Tafawa Balewa’s government, Alhaji Maitama Sule, after a week.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/10/how-i-discovered-balewa%E2%80%99s-decomposing-body-babankowa/

AnanseK:


Rubbish. He was killed by the Igbo murderer and quintessential hypocrite - ifeajuna.

laudate:


Tales by moonlight!

Listen, the armoury was in Lagos. The federal forces had superior armaments and far more soldiers than Banjo had, already on ground in Lagos. They would merely have surrounded him, disarmed his entire contingent and thrown them in jail.. that is if they didn't kill him first!

The panic you describe was only limited to the civilian population, and not the military. In fact, the whole series of events galvanised the federal forces into action!

If there was such general panic, how come the federal forces were still able to defeat Banjo at Ore? If the panic was as general or as widespread as you would like us to believe, they would have abandoned their arms, and given Banjo easy passage to Lagos!

laudate:


Hahaha ... right after you! What was reflected when you looked in your mirror? The insults started flowing from your end remember? I guess this response from you, is your bid to sound intelligent. It still missed the mark by a wide margin. Ooops!

SonOfEl:

inferiority complex, jealousy, hate, hypocrisy, cowardice, all combined into one person - YOU.

OrlandoOwoh:

It's still not clear who first saw the corpse, and its state. Former Governor Segun Osoba of Ogun State, who was the time a journalist who visited the scene, gave a different story. In 2010 Matthew Mbu said Tafawa-Balewa was never shot, but died of shock or other heart related sicknesses.

mightyhaze:
let me educate u mr tales by moonlight.in warfare,dere is sth dey call element of suprise. Dis is a function of speed.wen u lag n shuffle feet,instead of quik advances,u gv d enemy ample time 2 regroup n counter.d delay obviously made d operatn a flop.evn if ur loaded wit all d armanent in d world,a quik move by d enemy can turn evth against u.durin d hey dayz of insugency in nigeria,rag tag boko fighters took heavy military installations by suprise,sackin whole barracks dat hav v large armouries,heavy equipment and evn aircrafts.so lagos havin superior arms n more men doesn't hold water. Banjo flopped dat mission,period!