"They Tricked us Into Fighting Igbos During Civil War" - Middle Belt Group Says They Are Not Part of Northern Nigeria
THE WAY FORWARD
Chikwendu Chukwudi

A Nation at War with Self

THE United Middle Belt Youth Congress (UMBYC), a group at the forefront of mapping out the North Central geopolitical zone as Middle Belt has lampooned the north for lining up soldiers from the zone against the Igbos during the Nigerian civil war.

They said the core north easily achieved this by exploiting the command structure of the military and manufacturing fear that Biafra is out to overrun them.

"We know the ignorant years that have passed when we went to war. When they mobilised us to war and told us 'ah they want to terminate you people. The Igbos are majority and in fact they are coming to swallow you people'"

"A lot of us went to the bush to fight. I know how many families of our brothers that we lost in that war. Not to talk about our other brothers, the Igbos who we went to fight ignorantly."

The president-general, Abuka Omababa disclosed this during a courtesy visit of the group to The Moment in Ogudu, Lagos recently saying that the hackneyed concept of 'one north' was also crafted with the connivance of the British to mislead the rest of the country into believing an existence of a gigantic and awesome 'north'.

He added that while it was disheartening enough that they were manipulated into a fratricidal war with the Igbo, the Hausa/Fulani 'were in Sokoto and Kano relaxing and watching the two of us kill each other.'

The group consequently declared that the days they were play-thing in the hands of 'the North' are over for good. They therefore extend a hand of fellowship to other ethnic nationality groups in Nigeria saying that 'without us there is no north; no Middle Belt, no North. If we remove ourselves they are disconnected from Nigeria. So we are the bridge. We have served as the bridge.'

The group said that serial cases of religious intolerance in the north are championed by the Hausa/Fulani who are moulded to perceive non-Muslim practitioners with distaste. They dissociated the Middle Belt from it saying they see others as members of a single humanity rather than with religious or other colourations.

http://www.africaundisguised.com/newsportal/story/they-tricked-us-fighting-igbos-during-civil-war-middle-belt-group-says-they-are-not-part-north

If they tricked you, then you are STUPID. Are they still tricking you now?

enemsis is at war now for the genocide commited aganist igbo asari dukubo is blaming there fathers for making them hate and fought igbo now is middle belt where are by the side watching

Shocking joke,tricked into carrying rifles?blimey! Lol

I dey laf una

I think the boys are becoming men nawadays.Hehehehe the days has gone when Yoruba put together with their hausa/fulani masters can trick this people.This is a loud wake up call.

As i said earlier, that christian of the north is just realizing the agenda of their fellow northern jihadism..........but is a bit late...they have to be on defensive for a very long time.Confronting the internal war b/w them is a big struggle GOD knows when it will stop

Looks like Middle Belters are even far dumber than the North.

nobody tricked anyone! the biafra war wasn't a war between biafra and hausa people,it was a war between biafra and nigeria! it wasn't a question of angas man are you going to fight?,?yoruba man are you going to fight? or tiv man are you going to fight? all were enlisted as nigerians in the nigerian army! name a tribe outside biafra that didn't take part in the fight against biafra!

torkaka: nobody tricked anyone! the biafra war wasn't a war between biafra and hausa people,it was a war between biafra and nigeria! it wasn't a question of angas man are you going to fight?,?yoruba man are you going to fight? or tiv man are you going to fight? all were enlisted as nigerians in the nigerian army! name a tribe outside biafra that didn't take part in the fight against biafra!

say it again is actually a war b/w foreign powers under Nigerian umbrella

men take responsibilities for their actions (or inactions). Men don't make excuses or blame others. The take responsibilities, learn their lessons, live with whatever consequence and move on. My fellow middle belt youths, no one was tricked into any war.

Yakubu Gown is from north central and Head of state that declared war on ibos, so who are the youths of yesterday crying that they were forced to fight ibos ? By who if i may ask ? Jobless folks

Lol

We are so sorry.
If your parents or your leaders lied to you about Igbos or tricked you to believing wrogly about Igbos come forward and apologise to Ndigbo.

Lol.......tricked into carrying arms against a people running being eliminated in the north simply because they're easterners?
How much Asari give these people sef?

Abeg, everyone should answer their papa name.
Nigerian will first be split along regional lines of the first replublic upon division. We don't need excess baggage in the east!

bluetooth, better go to one of this almajiri schools in ur area and learn that gowon was used as a stooge by the core northerners who carried out the coup that placed him. @ topic
my middle belt youths, there's no point yowling like terrible souls, in order, to seek for d sympathy of the igbos at this ur trial period, just face ur war and fight it the igbos fought theirs.

kasiem: bluetooth, better go to one of this almajiri schools in ur area and learn that gowon was used as a stooge by the core northerners who carried out the coup that placed him. @ topic
my middle belt youths, there's no point yowling like terrible souls, in order, to seek for d sympathy of the igbos at this ur trial period, just face ur war and fight it the igbos fought theirs.

gowon was stooge to who ? E ma gbami ke !

torkaka: nobody tricked anyone! the biafra war wasn't a war between biafra and hausa people,it was a war between biafra and nigeria! it wasn't a question of angas man are you going to fight?,?yoruba man are you going to fight? or tiv man are you going to fight? all were enlisted as nigerians in the nigerian army! name a tribe outside biafra that didn't take part in the fight against biafra!

Did you really misunderstand their message? They didn't mean that they were the only people brought forward to fight Biafrans, everybody knows that there were more middle belters in the ranks of Gowon, Danjuma, Bali, Mark, Dimka, Useni, Ochefu, etc, etc,etc. who weighed in with massive manpower support to tilt the war against Biafrans. No question there were Yorubas(OBJ, Adekunles), Hausa/Fulanis(Murtala, Buhari), but everyone knew the Langtang mafia from Benue Plateau ran the show.

bluetooth, u'll get the answer to ur question in one of this almajiri schools brought to ur doorstep by gej. thankgod for fresh air.

@naijaking
of course they were more middle belters fighting biafra cause they were more middle belters in the army then!

kasiem: bluetooth, u'll get the answer to ur question in one of this almajiri schools brought to ur doorstep by gej. thankgod for fresh air.

IMAOOOOOOOO Almajiri school for bluetooth hahahahahahahahahahahahaha laugh want kill me with the almajiri fresh air school at bluetooth door step.

I laugh. They were the ones who committed the pogrom of igbos in the North even before the civil war,not the hausa/fulani per se. As a matter of fact, the middle belt made up the bulk of the soldiers from the north at the time so dont know what they're talking about. what goes around comes around.

kasiem: bluetooth, better go to one of this almajiri schools in ur area and learn that gowon was used as a stooge by the core northerners who carried out the coup that placed him. @ topic
my middle belt youths, there's no point yowling like terrible souls, in order, to seek for d sympathy of the igbos at this ur trial period, just face ur war and fight it the igbos fought theirs.

Hell no bro, dey send you? i am trying to recover from the first comment about bluetooth attending almajiri school here you drop another one.If i laugh off my head i will definitely report you to the police oooo.But come to think of it blueteeth abi na wetin be ur name self you deserve that GEJ almajiri school i am judging by your utterances here.I noticed some kind of almajiri syndrome flowing in you vain imaoooooooo no offense just a kind advice as a nice southern brother.

Chyz*:
I laugh. They were the ones who committed the pogrom of igbos in the North even before the civil war,not the hausa/fulani per se. As a matter of fact, the middle belt made up the bulk of the soldiers from the north at the time so dont know what they're talking about. what goes around comes around.

Chyz my brother did you noticed someone here advising bluetooth to attend almajiri school to help him grow up.omg

it remains the yaribas
i don't expect one from them tho
in nigeria it is east and middlebelt vs aboki and their Yoruba wives
Yoruba will do so after aboki don apologize

The last tyme I remember the greatest pogrom was comitted in markurdi by indigenes against igbos tht action triggered the civil war and it wasn't hausa leading! Truth is the middle belt even spread more vile than abokis!! Nowtheyre blaming hausa! Abegy! The blood of 1966 is crying out! It'll do so till there's a revival

re@lchange:
it remains the yaribas
i don't expect one from them tho
in nigeria it is east and middlebelt vs aboki and their Yoruba wives
Yoruba will do so after aboki don apologize

eerrrrmmmm, Yorubas aka Yoruba and the abokis were the first group to apologise, but of course you do not know that do you ?

alj harem:

eerrrrmmmm, Yorubas aka Yoruba and the abokis were the first group to apologise, but of course you do not know that do you ?

My friend go and sit down.

You may call Yorubas any name your myopic brain imagined, all we care is, it was the most honourable thing to do then, a task to keep Nigeria one. It may please you to know that our fathers sacrificed much to gain the independence, what they put in the project called Nigeria is far more than any region (check your history). Any sensible man will always safeguard his investment. As it was then, so shall it be now, be informed that Yorubas will never support any disgruntled region who want to cause another havoc in this nation. No regret, no crocodile tears or apology coming from us.

Take your time dont rush the clock

Does Gowon and Danjuma know about UMBYC?