T8ksy:



You mean, "every hate-filled igbos concoted, propagate and believe this fallacy".

DMerciful:
National burial is not based on attendance but whether the state conducted the burial.

A person that committed suicide cannot be given national burial obviously

Slytiger:

You are only angry and peddling lies because Ojukwu disguised as a woman and fled to Ivory coast when Black Scorpion started sending Biafrian soldiers to in their amadioha in large numbers.

AlexBells:

I didn’t say I don’t want to hear about Niger delta, I asked what was Niger Delta, an established region or a part of eastern region. Was borro not a rebel, what position did he hold in government

DMerciful:
Don't deflect! Awolowo was not given a national burial because its against the law to honor death from suicide. Even insurance companies won't pay life insurance payout if the death is from suicide

Slytiger:

It's not deflection. It's history being told

Ojukwu fled disguised as a woman. History has it that sk*lls of some Biafrian children were being crushed by his plane wheels as his escape plane took off on the runaway, and those kids ran to chase after the plane.

flokii:
Where I knew Awolowo was free and fair to all was in his free education policy for Westerners which even the Igbos born and bred in Yorubaland enjoyed.

Indeed all is fair in love and war.. na who get tactics pass go win war.

DMerciful:
Awolowo committed suicide with rat poison

DMerciful:
Maybe you genuinely do not know how and why he committed suicide. Read and cure your ignorance

https://www.legit.ng/1169589-what-led-death-chief-obafemi-awolowo.html

Slytiger:

Awolowo was given a national burial.
What is your definition of national burial?
Who was supposed to be there that wasn’t there?

Aikhomu as the No 2 citizen then led the federal delegation to the burial. Prior to that, Babangida and his wife led separate delegations to Ikenne. Public holiday was declared in the whole south west and the Parliament building in Ibadan was temporarily opened for his body to be received.

At the liberty stadium Ibadan, his body was received by many military governors, military and police and public.

His casket was carried on a gun carrier surrounded by soldiers..

Awolowo is well known abroad. He created the first TV station in Africa, help establish Obafemi Awolowo university whose graduates are doing outstanding things all over the world.

Pictures:
1. News announcing Awolowo:a first tv station in Africa
2. Awolowo with British PM
3. Awolowo and other African and world leaders take a picture with Queen Elizabeth

Dsimmer:


Awolowo is an Oosa.

Christistruth00:
You cannot betray those who were never loyal to you


This is the Equivalent of Saying prime Minister Churchill of Britain betrayed the Germans

They were never his Loyalists in the first Place
Ojukwu would have done far worse if he was in Awolowo's position and even emptied the Midwest of its food Supply after his soldiers invaded

Biafran Soldiers Broke into the food Stores and shoos in the Midwest and Cargo the food back to the East

They didn't give a damn whether the Midwest eat or not

It was Gowon that made arrangements to quickly resupply the Midwest with food

Dsimmer:


You're describing your father and Ojukwu.

Below picture was a week before Awolowo death when he went to collect his passport from IBB.

This was the report on Awolowo death.
https://www.nairaland.com/2749349/buhari-killed-awolowo-washington-times

DMerciful:
Fake link saying a different thing

Dsimmer:


Because you're a retard who can't understand simple thing. Awolowo 's passport was siezed by Buhari. However, he needed the passport when he needed to go for heart surgery. When IBB took over, he went to collect his passport but it was too late. That was why Washington stated that Buhari killed Awolowo.

DMerciful:
Don't gaslight yourself! Buhari killed Awolowo and you guys overwhelmingly campaigned,
voted and supported Buhari for 8 disastrous years? Either way, you can see how you people cut your nose to spite your face . His suicide is a fact, everybody knows this including you but too ashamed to accept

DMerciful:
Don't gaslight yourself! Buhari killed Awolowo and you guys overwhelmingly campaigned,
voted and supported Buhari for 8 disastrous years? Either way, you can see how you people cut your nose to spite your face . His suicide is a fact, everybody knows this including you but too ashamed to accept

kingsways:
Imagine

How can any right thinking human being open his trap and say everything is acceptable in war?

So Israel can go ahead and kill all Palestinians including civilians and kids since everything is acceptable in war according this demented fellow

7lives:


Have you been watching Aljazeera tv station news?, if not you better start.
Whoever wants war must be prepared to die.
Israel has been bombing hospitals in Gaza, war is not a tea party.

Slytiger:

Only in the SE is he being disregarded. Ibos hate any Yoruba politician doing well for his people. You hate that man so much that Peter Obi, the tribalist and religious bigot, weaponized the hatred to campaign for elections in Anambra state. Peter Obi's tribalism and bigotry did not just start now.

Same hatred has been passed on to Tinubu.

Christistruth00:



Exactly what Ojukwu said too
When he was asked about the Niger Delta issue in Aburi instead of agreeing on how to resolve their agitation for a Region of their own he claimed they were part of Biafra

rinzaugustine:
You missed out the part about the British role in the war and how awolowo advised Gowon to block food for millions of Biafrans . Gowon implemented and British enforced it with bombardment of food sources to Biafra .If not for British complicity, Biafra would have been a better nation today .Oji river coal power plant was generating power for SE/SS before they bombed it during the war, Most of the industries MI okpara did are still there today . Obasanjo did indigenization decree as president which basic took took ownership of local companies and handed it over to Yorubas , that killed industrialization efforts in Nigeria. Due to the policy Many foreign companies left while igbos that had industries then closed shops and went into importation. India and Pakistan were once one country but India decided to go there way when they saw Pakistan didn’t want to move forward and look at where India is today
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festacman:
Why is it so difficult to accept that Awolowo wanted to secure economic advantage for his people. It might not have worked as he anticipated due to the survival instinct and innate mercantile capabilities of Igbo people. Yes, from hindsight, it looks heartless but from ethnic competition and rivalry points of view, the policy was logical as a war tool to gain advantage.

It is the same with Ikwere people seizing properties of Igbo in Port Harcourt as abandoned property to get even while properties of Igbo in Lagos and Northern Nigeria remained untouched. Today, Ikwere estate fortunes in Port Harcourt remain inferior to those of Igbo.

Mean things happen during wars. Crazy things happen in the history of every nation. Even the Pope had to apologize for certain things the Church did in the past.

The fact is that events of yesterday are supposed to guide us today dealings as we march into Tomorrow. Forward ever, backward never!

AlexBells:

Yes they were part of The East, in Aburi Biafra did not exist. The Niger Delta that you are wiping out yourself. Abeg Niger Delta don’t exist. You can discuss yiur tribe in the so called Niger Delta

Dsimmer:


You're describing your father and Ojukwu.

Below picture was a week before Awolowo death when he went to collect his passport from IBB.

This was the report on Awolowo death.
https://www.nairaland.com/2749349/buhari-killed-awolowo-washington-times

Whalis:

Let me educate you a little. I know your hatred for Ikwerre people as exemplified and shown towards Wike is beyond imagination.
Ikwerre land had been occupied by Igbos before and during the war. Read Elechi Amadi's Sunset in Biafra. The issue of Abandoned Property was Federal Government policy and Ikwerre people never contributed or benefitted from it. Rather it was Ikwerre people who lost their lands particularly to Ijaws as they had the reach during this period. The Igbos were going to Enugu to receive letter of allocation of land belonging to Ikwerre people. They would just come and show you a paper that your ancestral they covetted had been handed over to them.
They were in charge. They would go bank to the bank of eastern Nigeria to receive loan to develop the land. Some of these loans weren't paid before the war broke out. At the end of the war government set up an enquiry to investigate this. Those who were yet to pay back their loans government seized the property they were developing with it. This was how most properties were declared abandoned. Those who could show prove of loan repayment were given back their property. Ikwerres weren't in the driving seat of the state then so wouldn't have influenced this or benefitted from this in any way. The Ijaws were in charge then and benefitted more to the disadvantages of the Ikwerres. Stop hating the ikwerres because of this as they didn't benefit.

Christistruth00:


Ojukwu's Eastern Region was Created by the British

Dsimmer:


You're describing your father and Ojukwu.

Below picture was a week before Awolowo death when he went to collect his passport from IBB.

This was the report on Awolowo death.
https://www.nairaland.com/2749349/buhari-killed-awolowo-washington-times

paramakina202:

You do not expect your enemies who want to defeat you at all cost to be nice you. Even Ojukwu refused to condemn Awo's actions during the war.