Katsumoto:

You may disagree that they were Yoruba soldiers but it still doesn't detract from the fact that Nigerian soldiers were paraded naked and humiliated.

Katsumoto:

You may disagree that they were Yoruba soldiers but it still doesn't detract from the fact that Nigerian soldiers were paraded naked and humiliated.

Sunny_bobo:

Those were prisoners of war and not innocent civilians (mainly women and children) in the case of Biafra.

ezeagu:

Hmm, soldiers of war paraded around naked, or starvation of military unrelated women and children?

chosen04:

He is not a soldier unless you can prove otherwise. I wasnt even aware of the video until the person i talked about drew my attention to it. He wasnt even killed. He was just made to sing Biafra will win the war. The truth most times looks like a tales suitable for moonlight. You can as well google the address of the movie makers and confirm my story. If you cant provide a credible evidence of atrocities against Biafran soldiers, then its best you stop talking of such.

Hope you still remember Adekunle's infamous statement? Why Ojukwu was busy advocating minimum use of force in yoruba territory. Adekunle was busy boosting of how they shot at things that dont even move(including children, woman and animals) when they entered Biafran territory. Hope you can see the difference between my people and your people?

You are yet not to respond to AWO calling biafrans enemies. If truth is to be told. AWO saw NDI-IGBOs as enemies till his death and as well sold the same enemity story to others against Igbos. Will a friend give pay his friend 20 naira to go and die even when he has millions in bank savings?

Will you like to respond to the 20 naira AWO's policy against biafra? Any known atrocity more than that?

chosen04:

Katsumoto,

am still waiting for your respondes to the issues i raised.

chosen04:

Pls can you repet your issues. Guess you werent talking to me personally when you brought them up. I cant see them.

Thanks and remain blessed.

Katsumoto:



Zik through his actions/inactions during the events of the first coup laid the foundations for the brutal actions against the Igbo. His cousin was the leader of the plotters. Zik also campaigned for Biafra but switched sides and supported the Nigerian government, when it was obvious that Biafra was going to lose the war. Now the message: If you accuse Awo of Betrayal for acting in the supposed best interests of his people, should you not accuse Zik of a greater sin?

aloy*emeka:

Who told you that Chiejina is Zik's cousin?

Katsumoto:

I have read it in several literature that Ifeajuna was Zik's cousin. Do you information to the contrary?

aloy*emeka:

May be its the Nigerian type of cousin sha. Ziks parents were Onitsha natives and Ifeajunas parents were Ogwashi natives in Delta state. May be its some kind of distant relationship but I know Nigerians love to call anybody from around there area 'cousin'.

asha 80:

Actually Ifeajuna is from Onitsha.Funny that he went to ilesha grammar school.

Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna

Home Town: Onitsha

Location:

Country: Nigeria

Alumni: Old Student

Category: SPORTS

Period: 1948 - 1952

Profession: Military

Email:

Phone:

Submitted By: abi


Deceased
Emmanuel Ifeajuna placed Nigeria’s name on the world map in two distinct areas, setting two different records for Nigeria.
Before he joined the army, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, then a medical student at the University College Ibadan, earned for himself the honour of being the first black African to win a gold medal when he won the high jump in Canada at the Commonwealth Games in 1954. He also set a record. For this feat, a pencil sketch of Ifeajuna taking the jump over a tall bar was embossed on a popular exercise book.

But another kind of fame was the type which beckoned on Ifeajuna one day in August 1965, when he and two other army officers, Major Donatus Okafor and Captain O Oji, began the active planning of Nigeria's first coup. The coup was executed on January 15, 1966, but was foiled by major Aguyi Ironsi. Ifeajuna fled to Ghana, but was sent back to Nigeria when Nkruma was overthrown in February. He was jailed in the East but was later realeased by Lt. Col. Ojukwu in September.

On August 9, 1967, as a Biafran Lt. Col., Ifeajuna was the first Chief of Staff of the 'Midwest Liberation Force' (101 Division) under Victor Banjo. However, he got involved in an alleged plot to overthrow Ojukwu, was tried under Ojukwu's Biafran Law and Order (maintenance) Decree of 1967, before being executed in Enugu on September 25, 1967 along with Banjo, Alale and Agbam.

The following event result is good enough to remember him:
1954 Commonwealth Games
Mens - High Jump Final
1. Emmanuel IFEAJUNA (NGR) 2.03 m
2. Patrick ETOLU (UGA) 1.99 m
3. Nafiu OSAGIE (NGR) 1.99 m

Katsumoto:

I suspect these two posts are not for this thread.

Katsumoto:

Can't really decrypt the code; please break it down.

aloy*emeka:

Erroneous report . Ifeajuna was born in Onitsha but he was from Ogwashiuku Delta state. I read his biography sometime. I didn't know he had a gold medal. Why did they tell us that no Nigerian has either the olympic or commonwealth games gold medal before Chioma Ajunwa?

SapeleGuy:

Perhaps you missed the provocation caused by disparity in the treatment of northern bankers and southern bankers.

Mek una leave dis matter. Zik and Awo don die rotten. Their egos would not let them work together.
Stop to think that Lord Lugard's divide and rule tactics are still working to keep us from achieving the best we can be.

Katsumoto:

Was it a simple conjecture that Zik was Ifeajuna's cousin? Was Zik not out of the country? Was that a coincidence? Ok, are you aware that Zik's personal physician left Zik in the caribbean because he ran out of funds and didn't understand why Zik took him along when Zik was perfectly healthy? Zik's excuse for leaving the country was that he wanted to rest as he wasn't physically fit. The constitutional crisis of 1965; was that a simple conjecture as well. Does it surprise you that a coup followed exactly one year after Zik was told about the limited powers he had as President?

You can choose to believe what you want. I have provided the information; let everyone make up their minds.

Eziachi:

For the sake of the younger generation, both here and other places, you should stop repeating a bare faced lies, probably, you thought that if you kept saying it, it becomes the truth or a fact in the end.
For goodness sake, Azikiwe and Ifeajuna are not related by any means, let alone as close as being cousins. Where did you get this nonsense you kept repeating from?
Stop repeating this lie, I don't want to call you a liar as that will demean the objectivity of this civil discussion. If you don't have something to support an issue, don't just made something up and kept repeating them as fact.
The only relationship Azikiwe has with Ifeajuna, were that, they are both Igbo men like me and both hails from Onitsha. But please, Onitsha is a big kingdom of its own. Onitsha is grouped in "Ogbelle Ani" and Okwa-Odu " and these two men doesn't even come from the same of this groupings by any chance. So tell me, just because Abiola and Shonekan both, I will guess, came from Egba, does that make them relatives or even call them a cousin?

Katsumoto:

Stop avoiding the issues I raised. When you address the betrayal of your brothers and leaders first, then I will answer you. You don't deserve an answer yet. Keep focusing on Awo while ignoring the issues I raised.

Katsumoto:

The answer is that the problem with the January 1966 coup was that there were several factions within it. And different factions had different agendas. As Ojukwu has correctly observed, Nzeogwu was not the leader of the coup. Ifeajuna was the leader. The only reason Nzeogwu made the radio broadcast as an afterthought in Kaduna was because Ademoyega failed to do so in Lagos. While Nzeogwu was dreaming in Kaduna about who and what would be killed in Lagos, Ifeajuna had other ideas and contacts, including many civilians. Some prominent Igbo politicians (like Ajuluchukwu) have since confessed in Nigerian newspapers that even President Nnamdi Azikiwe was tipped off about the plot by his cousin Ifeajuna and that is why he was away from Nigeria – an odd absence for the President during the Commonwealth Prime-Ministers conference hosted by his country. Final decisions about who was to be killed or not killed were left to theater commanders in each region. Nzeogwu had no say outside the northern region.

http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/oarticles/orizu_ironsi_and_1966.htm

Katsumoto:

I am assuming that it was an [t]error.

Katsumoto:

I apologise to those who have to read this again; the lady asked me to re-produce the information again so that she can address them.
Chosen04, I copied and amalgated two earlier posts.

In case you miss the point of my message, I will spell it out again. Awo and Zik were leaders of the Yoruba and Igbo respectively. Awo initially had sympathies for the Biafran cause and made a CONDITIONAL statement that the Yoruba would leave if the Igbo were allowed to leave. He later acted against the Biafran cause (I believe he did not want to turn the West into a battleground); consequently, he was accused of duplicity by the Igbo.

Zik through his actions/inactions during the events of the first coup laid the foundations for the brutal actions against the Igbo. His cousin was the leader of the plotters. Zik also campaigned for Biafra but switched sides and supported the Nigerian government, when it was obvious that Biafra was going to lose the war. Now the message: If you accuse Awo of Betrayal for acting in the supposed best interests of his people, should you not accuse Zik of a greater sin?

Why did the Igbo elders tell their children and grand-children about Awo's betrayal but failed to mention the heroic acts of other Yoruba (Ayo Ariyo, Soyinka, Ayo Banjo, Ademulegun , etc) who supported the Biafran cause in one way or the other? Why did the elders also fail to tell their children that several of their Biafran sons fought against Biafra? There were several officers from the East who fought on the Nigerian side such as Brigadier Ekpo - COS, Brig. Ikwue, Ukpabi Asika, Alfred Diete-spiff, Jacob Esuene, etc. Easterners focus on Adekunle because he is a Yoruba man while they ignore that several of their sons fought against Biafra.

Apart from Aloy*Emeka, all the Igbo posters (RichyBlack, Choseno4, Naijaking, revolt, OnlyTruth) on this thread have refused to accept the information presented to them, instead they are rubbing their hands with glee and thanking Eziachi for providing information that further perpetuates Igbo innocence and Yoruba betrayal. It only proves the notion that the Igbo want to be victims and want to blame others for their problems. Well you may choose to ignore the information presented to you but everytime someone accuses the Yoruba of betrayal, I will remind them of the GREATER betrayal COMMITTED by sons of Biafra.