IGBOS: IS LACK OF TACT ALSO LACK OF SENSE?

When Col Ojukwu was misled to secede from Nigeria in 1967, against the restraining voices of statesmen like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, it proved to be a great tragedy for Igbos and those in the Biafran enclave. Military tacticians felt Ojukwu ought to have coasted along with the Nigerian authorities until he had fortified himself enough to overthrow Gowon's government in Lagos. By the time war began and he attempted to overrun the Mid-West and the West, it was too late. It did not come as a surprise to some discerning persons who were aghast with Ojukwu's appointment of two medical doctors (Francis Ibiam and Michael Okpara) as his military and political advisers! The result was inevitable as the British-backed government of Gowon prevailed and Biafra collapsed after much sufferings and deaths of Igbos. Before his secession, Ojukwu had been assured by Chief Obafemi Awolowo that the Yorubas would equally pull out of Nigeria if the Igbos left.


Now, fifty years after that sad mistake, the Igbo people seem ready for a repeat performance. This time it is an Nnamdi Kanu who was not yet born during that war, that is set to lead the Igbos. Ojukwu, a military man had plenty of advantages over this fellow Kanu whose antecedents/experience we know nothing of. Ojukwu had his wife and children with him in Biafra but Kanu has his in Britain where they are citizens. Just as Ojukwu hoped that the Yorubas would follow him in secession, so are the Fani Kayodes and Ayo Fayoses assuring Kanu that they are with him. I see history repeating itself in Biafra. The ultimate beneficiaries of the civil war were the Yoruba. They are poised for a similar windfall again!


The killings, destructions, and rapes during the civil war occurred in the East. So will it be again if Kanu allows Buhari to unleash his military against the South East. One thing l am certain of is that even if Kanu has managed to amass some arms and weapons, he certainly has no air force or navy that can contend with the Nigerian military. Moreover, if Kanu cannot ensure that the war is fought in Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Zaria, Minna, Yola, etc, he should just forget armed hostilities.


For now, the Hausa Fulani control the polity, the Yoruba control administration, and the Igbo control commerce in Nigeria. Let the Igbos concentrate on their area of strength and comparative advantage. They should go on and become the Taiwan of Africa. Relocate your prime investments to the East. Reproduce Aspamda, Idumota, Alaba International markets in the East. Stop laying your heavy investments in the West, Abuja and the North. Thereafter, ease out Aspamda and other markets/investments in the West and North. Let them come and make their purchases from Igbo land. Turn the South East into another Israel, Munich, California, and Barcelona!


My amazement is this: where are our retired Igbo military generals in all this? I expect that the Ebitu Ukiwes, Ndubuisi Kanus, Ike Nwachukwus, Ihejirikas should be cautioning the young man Nnamdi Kanu. This is no time for their silence. Ndigbo should learn the Arab strategy of withholding hostilities until such a time that you are stronger than your opponent.

To whom head is given,brain is expected....
I pray it wont be long before they realise they are causing nuisance all over.

Legolast:
[s]IGBOS: IS LACK OF TACT ALSO LACK OF SENSE?

When Col Ojukwu was misled to secede from Nigeria in 1967, against the restraining voices of statesmen like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, it proved to be a great tragedy for Igbos and those in the Biafran enclave. Military tacticians felt Ojukwu ought to have coasted along with the Nigerian authorities until he had fortified himself enough to overthrow Gowon's government in Lagos. By the time war began and he attempted to overrun the Mid-West and the West, it was too late. It did not come as a surprise to some discerning persons who were aghast with Ojukwu's appointment of two medical doctors (Francis Ibiam and Michael Okpara) as his military and political advisers! The result was inevitable as the British-backed government of Gowon prevailed and Biafra collapsed after much sufferings and deaths of Igbos. Before his secession, Ojukwu had been assured by Chief Obafemi Awolowo that the Yorubas would equally pull out of Nigeria if the Igbos left.


Now, fifty years after that sad mistake, the Igbo people seem ready for a repeat performance. This time it is an Nnamdi Kanu who was not yet born during that war, that is set to lead the Igbos. Ojukwu, a military man had plenty of advantages over this fellow Kanu whose antecedents/experience we know nothing of. Ojukwu had his wife and children with him in Biafra but Kanu has his in Britain where they are citizens. Just as Ojukwu hoped that the Yorubas would follow him in secession, so are the Fani Kayodes and Ayo Fayoses assuring Kanu that they are with him. I see history repeating itself in Biafra. The ultimate beneficiaries of the civil war were the Yoruba. They are poised for a similar windfall again!


The killings, destructions, and rapes during the civil war occurred in the East. So will it be again if Kanu allows Buhari to unleash his military against the South East. One thing l am certain of is that even if Kanu has managed to amass some arms and weapons, he certainly has no air force or navy that can contend with the Nigerian military. Moreover, if Kanu cannot ensure that the war is fought in Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Zaria, Minna, Yola, etc, he should just forget armed hostilities.


For now, the Hausa Fulani control the polity, the Yoruba control administration, and the Igbo control commerce in Nigeria. Let the Igbos concentrate on their area of strength and comparative advantage. They should go on and become the Taiwan of Africa. Relocate your prime investments to the East. Reproduce Aspamda, Idumota, Alaba International markets in the East. Stop laying your heavy investments in the West, Abuja and the North. Thereafter, ease out Aspamda and other markets/investments in the West and North. Let them come and make their purchases from Igbo land. Turn the South East into another Israel, Munich, California, and Barcelona!


My amazement is this: where are our retired Igbo military generals in all this? I expect that the Ebitu Ukiwes, Ndubuisi Kanus, Ike Nwachukwus, Ihejirikas should be cautioning the young man Nnamdi Kanu. This is no time for their silence. Ndigbo should learn the Arab strategy of withholding hostilities until such a time that you are stronger than your opponent.

To whom head is given,brain is expected....
I pray it wont be long before they realise they are causing nuisance all over.[/s]

You wey get 'Sense of sense'. Why do you have fulani emirates on your land as a conquered yoruba man. Why can't you remove the emirates on your ancestral land with your 'sense'.

Mind you...those emirates have been there before zoogeria, after zoogeria, they'll still be there.

...Hausa controls the polity,yuroba administration, Igbo commerce.. this line is so correct and worth to ponder on to excuse ones greed.but some think that the crude from the delta is worth dying for....

After reading this, it is a shame to Igbos who do not support Biafra.

You have indicted yourself severally in your write up but let me point out this paragraph.
You rightly say Hausa Fulani controls the polity while Igbos control commerce but we all know
1. In a democracy in a diverse society like Nigeria, polity was supposed to be shared by Federal character, so if one side is controlling the polity then something is terribly wrong

2. He who controls the polity dictates the policies which control the commerce
Eg. You say Igbos should relocate to east but you know Igbo business can't survive without seaport so who have been frustrating dredging the Niger for Onitsha seaport or approval for Ibaka seaport? Hausa Fulani
Cos they know, if this two ports are working, Igbos will relocate from Lagos

3. In area of commerce, which business that a Northerner has interest and Igbos succeeded
Dangote use your "control of polity" to kill Ibeto cement, the brave Igbo business nurtured in the east

4. Same as above, Ifeanyi Uba is having a run just because he dare to make profit in oil business
Igbos in BDC faces unfair competition with Aboki as policies allows Aboki to get dollar at Hajj rate and sell at market rate

Maybe your problem is succession, they how about restructuring? Is that one also a call for war?

For now, the Hausa Fulani control the polity, the Yoruba control administration, and the Igbo control commerce in Nigeria. Let the Igbos concentrate on their area of strength and comparative advantage. They should go on and become the Taiwan of Africa. Relocate your prime investments to the East. Reproduce Aspamda, Idumota, Alaba International markets in the East. Stop laying your heavy investments in the West, Abuja and the North. Thereafter, ease out Aspamda and other markets/investments in the West and North. Let them come and make their purchases from Igbo land. Turn the South East into another Israel, Munich, California, and Barcelona!

Legolast:
IGBOS: IS LACK OF TACT ALSO LACK OF SENSE?

When Col Ojukwu was misled to secede from Nigeria in 1967, against the restraining voices of statesmen like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, it proved to be a great tragedy for Igbos and those in the Biafran enclave. Military tacticians felt Ojukwu ought to have coasted along with the Nigerian authorities until he had fortified himself enough to overthrow Gowon's government in Lagos. By the time war began and he attempted to overrun the Mid-West and the West, it was too late. It did not come as a surprise to some discerning persons who were aghast with Ojukwu's appointment of two medical doctors (Francis Ibiam and Michael Okpara) as his military and political advisers! The result was inevitable as the British-backed government of Gowon prevailed and Biafra collapsed after much sufferings and deaths of Igbos. Before his secession, Ojukwu had been assured by Chief Obafemi Awolowo that the Yorubas would equally pull out of Nigeria if the Igbos left.


Now, fifty years after that sad mistake, the Igbo people seem ready for a repeat performance. This time it is an Nnamdi Kanu who was not yet born during that war, that is set to lead the Igbos. Ojukwu, a military man had plenty of advantages over this fellow Kanu whose antecedents/experience we know nothing of. Ojukwu had his wife and children with him in Biafra but Kanu has his in Britain where they are citizens. Just as Ojukwu hoped that the Yorubas would follow him in secession, so are the Fani Kayodes and Ayo Fayoses assuring Kanu that they are with him. I see history repeating itself in Biafra. The ultimate beneficiaries of the civil war were the Yoruba. They are poised for a similar windfall again!


The killings, destructions, and rapes during the civil war occurred in the East. So will it be again if Kanu allows Buhari to unleash his military against the South East. One thing l am certain of is that even if Kanu has managed to amass some arms and weapons, he certainly has no air force or navy that can contend with the Nigerian military. Moreover, if Kanu cannot ensure that the war is fought in Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Zaria, Minna, Yola, etc, he should just forget armed hostilities.


For now, the Hausa Fulani control the polity, the Yoruba control administration, and the Igbo control commerce in Nigeria. Let the Igbos concentrate on their area of strength and comparative advantage. They should go on and become the Taiwan of Africa. Relocate your prime investments to the East. Reproduce Aspamda, Idumota, Alaba International markets in the East. Stop laying your heavy investments in the West, Abuja and the North. Thereafter, ease out Aspamda and other markets/investments in the West and North. Let them come and make their purchases from Igbo land. Turn the South East into another Israel, Munich, California, and Barcelona!


My amazement is this: where are our retired Igbo military generals in all this? I expect that the Ebitu Ukiwes, Ndubuisi Kanus, Ike Nwachukwus, Ihejirikas should be cautioning the young man Nnamdi Kanu. This is no time for their silence. Ndigbo should learn the Arab strategy of withholding hostilities until such a time that you are stronger than your opponent.

To whom head is given,brain is expected....
I pray it wont be long before they realise they are causing nuisance all over.

....... thank u vry much.. d south east is already cryin, n nigerian army neva even declare half war on ipob.... my question is, na who wan fight dis fight? ipob no even get d strength in any form to challenge evn nigerian mobile police force....

Igbos do not control commerce.


You're welcome to prove me wrong.

How do igbos control commerce exactly?