By Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The Ijaw community in Abuja, Wednesdaycelebrated the heroics of Maj. Isaac Adaka Boro 50 years after his demise.
Boro, born on September 10, 1938 was an undergraduate student of Chemistry and a Student Union President at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, before he left school to lead an armed protest against the exploitation of oil and gas resources in the Niger Delta areas which benefited mainly the Federal Government of Nigeria and Eastern region at the expense of the Niger Delta people.
He believed that the people of the area deserved a larger share of proceeds of the oil wealth, and this prompted his decision to form the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, an armed militia with members consisting mainly of his fellow Ijaw ethnic group.
The group declared the Niger Delta Republic on February 23, 1966 and fought with federal forces for 12 days before being defeated, and Boro and his comrades were jailed for treason.
The administration of General Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty on the eve of the Nigerian civil war in May 1967, and later enlisted and was commissioned as a major in the Nigerian army.
He fought on the side of the federal government but was killed under mysterious circumstances in active service on May 9, 1968 at Ogu (near Okrika) in Rivers State.
Speaking at a rally held in his honour in Abuja, the Chairman Ijaw Youth Council, Abuja Chapter, Ebizimor Preye, said Boro gave an Ijaw man a true definition in the entire Nigeria, saying that the rally was aimed at marking his 50th remembrance.
When asked if what he died for has been realised today, he said: “Basically, those are the questions we are asking today as Ijaw nation. If what Boro fought for has been really achieved. Today, we use this as a point of contact to reach out and to still remember what he fought for and place ourselves strategically because the era of armed struggle is beginning to fade off and the society is changing. It is time the Ijaw youth place themselves strategically to see how these things can be achieved.”
Preye noted that the Abuja chapter of the council has established the Ijaw Youth Consultative Forum, a developmental arm, to come up with a working document to engage the government in addressing the problems facing the Ijaw nation.
Also, the Chairman of Ijaw Youth Community, Abuja, Chief Onimim Batubo, said the rally was aimed at celebrating their legend and the founding father of the Ijaw struggle.
He stated: “Today is a day of mourning and celebration because Boro has given hope to an average Ijaw man that has a voice today in Nigeria context. That is why we are all here to make sure of that.”
Batubo believed that 10 per cent of what he fought for has been realised, stressing that part of his struggle made former President Goodluck Jonathan to become the president.
“My expectation is for the federal government to look more into the plights of the people of Niger Delta because we produce what is making this country work and we should be able to benefit from what is coming out of our soil,” he said.

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/05/50-years-after-ijaw-community-in-abuja.html

One thing I never understood about Adaka Boro, one minute he is fighting to liberate his people, the next mlnute he is fighting to put them back in bondage

gidgiddy:
One thing I never understood about Adaka Boro, one minute he is fighting to liberate his people, the next monute he is fighting to put them back in bondage

very confused fellow.

He still died in the hands of the federal troops.

He fought against Biafrans to get a medal from Danjuma but he ended up getting a bullet.

in Addition, Danjuma took almost all their oil wells. When they tried to get sense, Obasanjo sent troops to clear some villages. Then they started bombing and destroying their farm land in the name of pipeline vandalism

In all this, they still held the fiction that Igbo man is Their problem Their mumu never do

Chizuru01:
He fought against Biafrans to get a medal from Danjuma but he ended up getting a bullet.

in Addition, Danjuma took almost all their oil wells. When they tried to get sense, Obasanjo sent troops to clear some villages. Then they started bombing and destroying their farm land in the name of pipeline vandalism

In all this, they still held the fiction that Igbo man is Their problem Their mumu never do

Stop crying more than the bereaved.
It's non of your business.
Leave them alone.
Can't you fight for your agitation without them

The ijaw man believes in one Nigeria, they only agitate for resource control from the federal government. When a daka boro was the SUG president of university of Nigeria Nsukka, the igbo's made him know that the ijaws and igbo's were never one, that was what made adaka boro to join the federal forces to chase and defeat biafra from Rivers state and other part of ijaw land. His reward include.
(1) to make him major in the federal forces.
(2) to situate port-harcourt in ijaw land (okrika)
(3) to create bayelsa state, as full ijaw state.
(4) to state giving ijaw benefits of the oil produce.

Funnicator:


very confused fellow.

He still died in the hands of the federal troops.

He is better than Ojukwu the cowardly dog

Amarabae:

Stop crying more than the bereaved.
It's non of your business.
Leave them alone.
Can't you fight for your agitation without them

Lol.Despite the fact I love Nnamdi Kanu, I have never for once supported the idea of adding people that has this phobia of Igbo domination into map of the proposed Biafra.

But it will be good if they heed to his advice where he clearly told them to stop destroying their farm land in the process of resource control

Chizuru01:
He fought against Biafrans to get a medal from Danjuma but he ended up getting a bullet.

in Addition, Danjuma took almost all their oil wells. When they tried to get sense, Obasanjo sent troops to clear some villages. Then they started bombing and destroying their farm land in the name of pipeline vandalism

In all this, they still held the fiction that Igbo man is Their problem Their mumu never do

Igbos will continue to blame everyone apart from themselves, Boro fought for Niger delta republic but the Igbo unity beggers sent troops to kill Ijaws, then you wanted Ijaws to support your own cause...smh una mumu na everlasting

Amarabae:

Stop crying more than the bereaved.
It's non of your business.
Leave them alone.
Can't you fight for your agitation without them

..kaiiiiii. ..ok can I kiss u?

Donkalio:
The ijaw man believes in one Nigeria, they only agitate for resource control from the federal government. When a daka boro was the SUG president of university of Nigeria Nsukka, the igbo's made him know that the ijaws and igbo's were never one, that was what made adaka boro to join the federal forces to chase and defeat biafra from Rivers state and other part of ijaw land. His reward include.
(1) to make him major in the federal forces.
(2) to situate port-harcourt in ijaw land (okrika)
(3) to create bayelsa state, as full ijaw state.
(4) to state giving ijaw benefits of the oil produce.

so how did he become an SUG president in an igbo dominated institution situated in the heart of igboland if what you wrote true.

overall90:


so how did he become an SUG president in an igbo dominated institution situated in the heart of igboland if what you wrote true.

Then it use to be Eastern Nigeria, Rivers state was part of Eastern Nigeria, But they made him to understand that he is not an igbo man. Igbo's are tribalistic.

Amarabae:

Stop crying more than the bereaved.
It's non of your business.
Leave them alone.
Can't you fight for your agitation without them

I tire o, always looking for partners in crime.... Same reason they will forever remain politically irrelevance..

His criminal antecedents in the Oron/Calabar axis can never be forgotten. Criminal Isaac Borough.

Donkalio:

Then it use to be Eastern Nigeria, Rivers state was part of Eastern Nigeria, But they made him to understand that he is not an igbo man. Igbo's are tribalistic.

you still have not answered the question.
who are the people that voted him to become an sug president in an igbo dominated institution or was there no election?

overall90:


you still have not answered the question.
who are the people that voted him to become an sug president in an igbo dominated institution or was there no election?

Nsukka then was famous and had so many students from different ethnicity....it is true that is igbo land, but it was not only igbo students. Beside, politics is a game of interest. Maybe as of that time he was competent in all round, they may look beyond ethnicity and tribalism.

I heard it was Benjamin Adekunle that killed him?

Donkalio:

Nsukka then was famous and had so many students from different ethnicity....it is true that is igbo land, but it was not only igbo students. Beside, politics is a game of interest. Maybe as of that time he was competent in all round, they may look beyond ethnicity and tribalism.

so the tribalistic igbo may be looked beyond ethnicity and tribalism because Boro was the only competent student in Nssuka.smh

A great man he was.. The spirit of Adaka Boro lives on...

Aaaah Izon

Meanwhile, everyone to their own opinion on Isaac Boro but he remains the greatest Ijawman to ever walk on this earth. He was a man that believed in fairness and justice, a man that fought for the emancipation of his own people at the expense of personal liberty. He was a man that believed in a true country and nation. His deeds and ideals are engraved in the heart of every Ijaw son and daughter.

Chizuru01:


Lol.Despite the fact I love Nnamdi Kanu, I have never for once supported the idea of adding people that has this phobia of Igbo domination into map of the proposed Biafra.

But it will be good if they heed to his advice where he clearly told them to stop destroying their farm land in the process of resource control

One thing I never understood about this theory is that if the Ijaws man is afraid of domination by his nearby Igbo neighbour, why is the same Ijaw man not afraid of faraway Hausa/Fulani domination?

It doesn't make sense to me.

TonyeBarcanista:
A great man he was.. The spirit of Adaka Boro lives on...

Aaaah Izon

Meanwhile, everyone to their own opinion on Isaac Boro but he remains the greatest Ijawman to ever walk on this earth. He was a man that believed in fairness and justice, a man that fought for the emancipation of his own people at the expense of personal liberty. He was a man that believed in a true country and nation. His deeds and ideals are engraved in the heart of every Ijaw son and daughter.

why did Benjamin Adekunle shoot him at the back?

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