mjconcept:
Bro I am an igbo boy to the core but I am against the breakup of Nigeria because it will do us no good Ojukwu himself said a united Nigeria will be the best thing to happen to us,take Sudan and South Sudan for example.

Logic Mind:

I understand it that one nigeria is doing you a lot of good then.

Cabme: NIGERIA CAN NT BREAK UNTIL I TAKE MI OWN NATION CAKE.

Niflheim: my hometown,Bakana,was invaded by igbos,they buried my great uncle alived and they changed the name of our village to an igbo name.now this is the 2nd most painful part.the most painful part is when an igbo man tells you that you should be grateful for all the invasions and beheadings!!!

mjconcept:
The things we see today is a result of our choice,we choose to destabilize Nigeria in one way or the other.

Logic Mind:

Ahh. But a destabilised nigeria is still better than a strong Biafra? Abi?

Logic Mind:

You are still yet to provide proof, that Biafra killed mid western top officials.

Unknown to Banjo, a unit led by Lt. Col. Ochei (a Midwest Ibo officer), specifically attacked the Government house in Benin, ostensibly ordered by Ojukwu to capture the governor, Lt. Col. Ejoor dead or alive . Fortuitously, Major Ogbemudia (then quarter-master-general) had changed the guard detail at the Government House during the night . Therefore, the soldiers on duty, not being part of the plot to hand-over the state resisted. Ejoor escaped, separated from the rest of his family. Other than some fighting in the Siluko area, this was the only resistance the "Liberation Army" had to face in its initial phase of operations.


Ejoor, David A.: Reminiscences. Malthouse Press Ltd., 1989.

Instead, the 12th battalion stalled in Benin City, while Banjo and Ojukwu argued back and forth for three days about whom to appoint Governor/ Administrator of the Midwest. Ojukwu had apparently initially preferred Lt. Col. Nwawo as the governor. But Banjo, eager to avoid creating a restive non-Ibo population, independently and separately approached Lt. Col. David Ejoor (through the Catholic mission), Major Sam Ogbemudia (through an agent) and Lt. Col. Trimnell (a molato officer with ancestral links to Aboh division), in that order . The first two declined. Ojukwu turned down the latter, ultimately choosing Major Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, a Midwest Ibo medical officer. After the first of several recalls to Enugu, Banjo returned to Benin City on August 11/12, 1967 to resume the fatally delayed westward thrust of the 12th battalion, which had now been re-designated a brigade. The announcement of Major Okonkwo's appointment was eventually made on Thursday, August 17 from Enugu.

Ademoyega, Adewale: Why we struck: the story of the first Nigerian coup. Evans, 1981.

Supportive citizens, who were too old for action, donated their single and double-barrel cartridge guns. Recruits performed armed and armless combat, isolating and capturing Biafran sentries. Night raiders spat salt into the eyes of soldiers, while attractive girls distracted them with sex, obtained intelligence, and even stole their weapons. In a manner reminiscent of the Vietcong in Vietnam, corpses of freedom fighters were recovered at great peril for burial, frustrating the Biafran units who had just engaged them in firefights. In the Siluko area, 50 Biafran soldiers (about half of a company) were drowned by a group of "Ijaw, Urhobo and Itsekiri swimmers" who lost 16 men in the fight


According to Ejoor , similar activities took place in the Delta. Small groups of Biafran soldiers looking for local Hausa communities in the riverine areas, were drowned by local Urhobo swimmers in the treacherous currents of the Ethiope River.


Ejoor, David A.: Reminiscences. Malthouse Press Ltd., 1989.

Before we knew it, Biafran troops were in Benin City and en-route to Lagos. The Republic of Benin was created and it subsequently became the shortest Republic that ever was. Before we knew it, all our Igbo friends and neighbors started saying “Kedu” to us. When you turn around to look at him in surprise, he would say, “Ah, unah, you never begin learn? Na wa. I’m sorry oh.” The big question was: Learn what? Do you mean Igbo is becoming the lingua-franca in “Benin Republic?” Biafran troops were in control and from all practical purposes, the people were being intimidated, etc. Basically, Benin Republic was functionally a colony of Biafra.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NIgerianWorldForum/message/118045

LETTER FROM LT.COL. OJUKWU TO LT. COL.BANJO

22nd AUGUST 1967



From: The Military Governor,

Republic of Biafra Enugu,



22nd August, 1967.



My dear Victor,



1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circumstances that have led to the current and inevitable disintegration of what was the Federation of Nigeria. We have been fully convinced that the aim of the Hausa/Fulani complex has ever been, and will ever remain, the total domination of every other part of what was known as the Federation of Nigeria. It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree, the people of the Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools, the gallant people of Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas. We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and freedom during 1965.



2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination.

We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.



3. After clearing the whole question with my Executive Council, I, as the Commander in Chief of the Biafran Armed Forces, have decided to place at your disposal Biafran forces, for the liberation of

Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:-



(i) You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator in the Mid-West Territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West.

(ii) The willingness and preparedness of Biafra to assist any part of the former Federation of Nigeria wishing and willing to liberate itself from the Hausa/Fulani domination, does not in anyway whatever

imply any inclination on her part to compromise her sovereignty or preserve what remains of the defunct Federation of Nigeria. In other words, our sovereignty and break with Nigeria is irrevocable. Nothing must, therefore be said or done by you or any member of the Liberation Army to give a contrary impression.

(iii) Biafra is determined to maintain and safeguard her sovereignty and ensure that her integrity and safety are never again threatened.

(iv) Biafran troops will, after the liberation of the Yorubaland, remain in that territory only for as long as we in Biafra consider it necessary for the Yorubas to consolidate their position and sovereignty against any external threat.

(v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory.

(vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba.

(vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.

(viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops.

(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss:

(a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;

(b) the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.



4. I do not need to remind you that Biafra regards all Yoruba as friends. As such everything should be done, to ensure the minimum force and loss of life are involved in achieving the objective of liberation.



5. It is essential, in order to avoid misunderstanding or confusion, that all subsequent requests for support be formally made to me by you in writing.



6. Will you please signify in writing, your acceptance of the above conditions so that you may leave for Western Nigeria and lead the army of liberation.





Yours very sincerely,



signed Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu,



Military Governor and Commander in Chief of Biafran Armed Forces.



http://www.dawodu.com/biafra1.htm

Logic Mind:

Here they come again with their vile lies.
It is always, "my father was nearly killed", "my great grand uncle was buried alive", "my village goat was slaughtered by biafran soldiers", "biafrans added insult to injury by urinating in my well". E.T.C.
No substance.
Such hatred of igbos I have never seen. The hatred that will let someone bequeath his inheritance and resources to cattle herders from the desert instead of building something solid with his cousins.
You did what you had to do against Biafra. I hope you are enjoying the aboki one nigeria love.

Many resistance groups may have operated in the Midwest, but one in particular was organized and very effective. This group was the one formed by Chief Michael A. Ojomo in Benin on August 18th. According to Ogbemudia, "….In a short time, recruitment and training started, and volunteers came in hundreds. Soon afterwards, an effective system of hit and runs was in operation…..By 26thof August, we had assembled a reliable force of about 600 men and 180 women……" (14)
Supportive citizens, who were too old for action, donated their single and double-barrel cartridge guns. Recruits performed armed and armless combat, isolating and capturing Biafran sentries. Night raiders spat salt into the eyes of soldiers, while attractive girls distracted them with sex, obtained intelligence, and even stole their weapons. In a manner reminiscent of the Vietcong in Vietnam, corpses of freedom fighters were recovered at great peril for burial, frustrating the Biafran units who had just engaged them in firefights. In the Siluko area, 50 Biafran soldiers (about half of a company) were drowned by a group of "Ijaw, Urhobo and Itsekiri swimmers" who lost 16 men in the fight (14).

Logic Mind:

We don't hate.
We respond when our memory and heritage is insulted.
I am not a diplomat and say things as i feel them.
I am not a hyporite neither and will not allow the son of a two faced horse to denigrate the memory of brave biafran warriors without a backlash.

mjconcept:
Let me ask you, who will lead and govern Biafra? Is it not those corrupt politicians who think only about their own belly. The era of Biafran glory is gone what we have now are horned lambs that speakth like a dragon.

cyril83: all ur illustrations appeared to me as copy and paste frm one of di book written by ur late bas.tar.d ekumba...mind di way u construct ur sentence "still or yet nt stil yet

cyril83: all ur illustrations appeared to me as copy and paste frm one of di book written by ur late bas.tar.d ekumba...mind di way u construct ur sentence "still or yet nt stil yet

tchaik:

NEVER INSULT THE GREAT DIM, FOR YOUR LIFE, NEVER!!!

Logic Mind: By the Holy Grace of Amadioha, Biafra shall be free of northern oppressors, western betrayers and neighbourly saboteurs!
Iseee!

cyril83: did I hear u say warrior...a warrior who ran his his asz across the border

Logic Mind: By the Holy Grace of Amadioha, Biafra shall be free of northern oppressors, western betrayers and neighbourly saboteurs!
Iseee!

Logic Mind:

See this son of a coward. Your people will rather comit suicide than be free of aboki domination.
Awolowo, your ancestor, BEGGED, for oduduwa. Ojukwu got him out of prison, made plans with him for the break up of nigeria, sent him to lagos and what did the rat-poison enthusiast do?! Joined his slave masters!!
Did we abandon your crying asz? No. We sent elite biafran soldiers, and in order not to be accused of imposing ourselves, put them under the command of a Yoruba man, to liberate you from your oppressors. We liberated and created new countries on the way. Your Banjo, of the hated memory, did what ofemmanus do best: Stopped fighting and started begging.
Today you and your OPC are begging for odua republic.
You are begging for posts in abuja
You are begging for oil subsidy
Tribe of beggars
Tribe of saboteurs
Tribe of cowards
Tribe of slaves
Tribe of suicidists
Tribe of the crying generals.

Logic Mind:

See this son of a coward. Your people will rather comit suicide than be free of aboki domination.
Awolowo, your ancestor, BEGGED, for oduduwa. Ojukwu got him out of prison, made plans with him for the break up of nigeria, sent him to lagos and what did the rat-poison enthusiast do?! Joined his slave masters!!
Did we abandon your crying asz? No. We sent elite biafran soldiers, and in order not to be accused of imposing ourselves, put them under the command of a Yoruba man, to liberate you from your oppressors. We liberated and created new countries on the way. Your Banjo, of the hated memory, did what ofemmanus do best: Stopped fighting and started begging.
Today you and your OPC are begging for odua republic.
You are begging for posts in abuja
You are begging for oil subsidy
Tribe of beggars
Tribe of saboteurs
Tribe of cowards
Tribe of slaves
Tribe of suicidists
Tribe of the crying generals.

ndu_chucks:


Dede1, I do not admire your foolish antics of calling our dear country cesspit, but I know that you try your best to provide historical facts regardless of whose ox is gored (though you embellish once in a while). Now, what really happened? Why did you, Eziachi (the respected NL biafran warrior) and others do what Beaf alleges? I ask you because I know you do not shy away from difficult questions.

Beaf:

You spit on yourself and your family.

You are stup!d, it is well known that David Ejoor strived to be neutral in the run up to the war.
Go and make up your hateful lies to fill the gaps in your personal shortcomings.

Biafra invaded the Midwest and killed people, only for pathetic scum like you to attempt to invent history.

Lying fool.

basadenet: i am sure that most of the people that answered in affirmative are possibly
from south east geopolitical zone, because they have been yearning for it
for quite a long time but God almighty will not allow it to happen in Jesus
name. amen. Let us live as brothers and sisters as we are all one family.
Nigeria go survive.