Yorubasgreat:

And they can wear short and slippers.. .

U know them wella.

Found it.

http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e5/55258.htm

Biafra (3, 000 sq. miles, 4-6 million). Colonel Ojukwu -- 35, British-trained, erstwhile playboy -- presides over the popular support and military morale of a people convinced that defeat means extinction. The Ibos are the wandering Jews of West Africa -- gifted, aggressive, Westernized; at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by the mass of their neighbors in the Federation.
They have fought well (by African standards) against heavy odds; their cynical public relations use of the starvation has been brilliant.

Current Position: Ojukwu says in one breath his sovereignty is not negotiable, yet in the next talks about a compromise "confederation" or "commonwealth" which he never defines. He has ruled out the British as mediators and distrusts the OAU, just as the Feds accept-it, because of its pro-Federal stance. Biafra proffers a "ceasefire" knowing that neither Gowon nor his coalition could survive a hiatus which only gave a respite to the rebel-lion. The rebels seem more aware than before of their desperate food situation, but are convinced they can hold out (or will be bailed out) until the Feds collapse. Short of that, Biafra is almost certainly unable to win the war militarily. If Gowon (as he likes to see himself) is Lincoln fighting it out in the Wilderness with draft riots and copperheads back home, Ojukwu is Jeff Davis before Gettysburg with time on the side of secession.

Relief and Diplomacy

The immediate food crisis is on the Biafran side, which has been reduced to a 70- by 40-mile enclave in Federal-held territory. The only relief access is to the one working airstrip used for both arms and relief flights at night only. The planes come from two small islands off the coast. The religious voluntary agencies (some U.S., some European) fly from Portuguese Sao Tome. But Portugal has been sympathetic to Biafra and occasional arms flights also go in from Sao Tome. The Red Cross had been flying from Fernando Po until stopped last week by their landlord, the government of Equatorial Guinea. That problem is a mixture of high-handedness by the Swiss Red Cross people, perhaps some pressure on the Guineans from the Feds, and mostly the urge of a new and uncertain black regime to show the white men in their midst who's boss. State is hard at work on this. The Red Cross should be able to "rent" a grace period to continue flights until an agreement is negotiated.

For the moment, deaths have probably gone down in Biafra as a result of the 300 tons or so of protein concentrates flown in per week before the block on Fernando Po. But the fall harvest in Iboland is being consumed, and they face a carbohydrate famine which will have still greater impact on the population and require much greater bulk than the present relief airlift could possibly handle. The tortuous politics of relief boil down as follows:

-- Both sides have obstructed relief, but the balance of guilt rests with Biafra. In part, there are military priorities over food, but in the last account the rebels know well there's political profit in going hungry.

-- Biafra blocks daytime relief flights (which could substantially increase deliveries) because they're afraid Fed MIGs will tailgate and knock out the airfield (which the MIGs avoid at night or in daylight when anti-aircraft is free to shoot at anything in the air.) The rebels also enjoy the "cover" their arms flights get from relief planes at night, should the Feds grow bolder after dark.

-- The Feds endorse daytime flights in principle (to isolate the night arms run and maybe get a daytime crack at the field despite pledges to the contrary). But they regard (with reason) the voluntary agencies flying from Portuguese Sao Tome as pro-Biafran potential gun-runners, and thus illegal. And they don't want the Red Cross, which they do accept, flying in the fuel necessary to distribution of food.

-- The Feds want the airlift to operate from Federal territory, which would let them inspect the food for hidden arms. Biafra argues a Federal-based airlift means poisoned food (a potent fear in West Africa) and at very least that relief would be hostage to their mortal enemy. The relief people contend a Federal base will (a) hamstring their flights where military operations would take precedence in already overtaxed facilities, (b) cripple what does go out with endless bickering over what's relief (fuel, spare parts, tools) and what's military.

-- The Biafrans oppose an overland corridor unless it's policed by an army as big as the Feds' to prevent a sneak breakthrough. The Feds talk about a corridor -- again, in principle -- but manage objections to specific proposals and usually demand prior agreement by the rebels.

Over all this are two hard facts about the total relief picture:

1. Without either (a) a major enlargement of the present airlift (air drops, building another "neutral" airstrip inside Biafra, etc.) which would bring a break between the Feds and the relief operation or (b) a land corridor, we can only scratch the edges of the food crisis soon upon us.

2. Of the 4 million people ,now existing on outside relief and medicine, easily half are dependent on the continuation of the International Red Cross (read white - foreign) operation in Federal-held territory.


TAB A
BASIC REALITIES

1. We must not be enmeshed in irrelevant experiences of our past involvement in Africa. Others -- most notably the Congo -- have put down secession and minimum U.S. help (a few C-130's in quick operation) made a difference. Unlike most in Africa, this is a real war.

2. At the very minimum -- for moral reasons let alone domestic politics --we must mount every reasonable effort to get in relief. But we must decide what is "reasonable" in terms of long-range damage as well as the immediate disaster.

3. Our role is important but it alone will not ensure a solution. We have little leverage beyond threats or promises of greater embroilment. Neither national interest nor national security justifies U.S. military intervention. There is no prospect that U.S. military intervention -- with the political disaster it would bring -- would solve the relief problem.

4. To the degree we have leverage, we have it only with the Feds. We need their active cooperation in one half of the relief effort and at least their tacit acceptance in the Biafran half to avoid a military clash. We need their trust for any peace-making role we might assume. The relief effort and our political influence can survive the continuing displeasure mixed with hopeful expectation about our role in Biafra. Neither relief nor influence would survive a break with the Feds.

5. There is at least an even chance an outright Fed military victory would bring some slaughter of the Ibos. The rebel charges of genocide are exaggerated and unproven. Gowon is an honorable man who knows Nigerian unity would be lost if victory led to mass murder. But he may not be able to bridle his Northern troops fresh from the bush. "One Nigeria" is probably still possible, but we must be prepared to deal with some possibility of atrocities as a result, or scuttle the concept as carrying an unacceptable risk of "complicity" in supporting the Feds even diplomatically.

6. The passage of time as starvation grows and Fed coalition weakens --only reduces our options. A rapid end to the war is the best way to save most of the people now threatened by starvation. We simply don't know how long the Biafrans can live with current prospects, or how long the Fed coalition will hold together. The odds are now that the coalition will outlast the food, but it's close.


The link is juicy

Yorubasgreat:


And they can wear short and slippers.. .

with chain and "taxi driver'' cap.

bloodyBLOGGER:
that is what I call stupidity. I wonder why he can't buy himself a decent ride. Baboon go soon come chop the effort wey him monkey don work for.

Awon kan wa aiye wa sise...Awon kan wa aiye wa jaiye.

Some came to this world to work...Some came to this world to enjoy

What if he falls down and die now? His relatives will be the ones to enjoy his effort while they insult him for being so stingy to himself.

As for Yorubas, they rock! No boring day...cos tomorrow is not promised to anybody.

Call it stupidity...go and ask Warren Buffet why he drives a Lincoln Town Car worth $15,000 when he is worth over $30 billion. Tomorrow you will start hating Uchenna why he bought your father's house in Oshogbo and made you a perpetual tenant.

Real2020:


Call it stupidity...go and ask Warren Buffet why he drives a Lincoln Town Car worth $15,000 when he is worth over $30 billion. Tomorrow you will start hating Uchenna why he bought your father's house in Oshogbo and made you a perpetual tenant.

Lol

Real2020:


Call it stupidity...go and ask Warren Buffet why he drives a Lincoln Town Car worth $15,000 when he is worth over $30 billion. Tomorrow you will start hating Uchenna why he bought your father's house in Oshogbo and made you a perpetual tenant.

Lolz

Real2020:


This is true. I use to work in the bank. Fear this Igbo men even the young ones. Their balance is usualy above 100m. There was a day a young man around late 20s came to the bank was trying to coordinate large transfers for supplies from Japan. The amount was 590m. Till this day I still remember this young man. Dressed in simple cloth and shoes. And when he left, I looked through the window to see what he drove in...a pick-up truck. Lol.

that's what I call being stingy to yourself

Real2020:


This is true. I use to work in the bank. Fear this Igbo men even the young ones. Their balance is usualy above 100m. There was a day a young man around late 20s came to the bank was trying to coordinate large transfers for supplies from Japan. The amount was 590m. Till this day I still remember this young man. Dressed in simple cloth and shoes. And when he left, I looked through the window to see what he drove in...a pick-up truck. Lol.

THAT PICK-UP TRUCK IS LIKE A WORKING TOOL TO HIM AT WORK SHOP,GO TO WHERE HE LIVES TO SEE THE QUALITY OF HIS HOUSE AND AUTOMOBILES PACKED THERE AND THE SCHOOLS HIS CHILDREN GO.OH YOU EXPECT HIM TO WEAR STARCHED AGDADA,SUIT WITH POWERFUL PERFUMES,GOLD ETC. WHEN AT WORK TO EARN YOUR RESPECT?THEY ARE FAR AHEAD IN THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ADVANCED MONEY EDUCATION AND THAT IS THE SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESSES NOT THE SO TOUTED rituals.

slyfoxxjoe:
that's what I call being stingy to yourself

By yoruba standard.

Yorubasgreat:
Is this true about IPOB/Igbo boys.. ..

....could be sha. we only come this world once now, a bi?

And wat has the first 5 silly comments got to do with the issue at stake

OP see ur life?? Ur thread has been turned to the advantage of the ppl u wanted to mock and few rants ignored, another form of creativity