Logic Mind:

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

But your analogy is partially wrong.
Here is a better one. Two friends are bullied separately by a bigger classmate. One of them decided one day that enough is enough and went to confront the bully. He asked asked his other friend to join him because the two of them could together defeat this big bully and be free. However this other friend was born with cowardice and was afraid. Instead of helping his brave friend confront the bully, he ran and submitted himself to the bully, allied with him to beat up him once best friend. That, my friend, is the ultimate betrayal.

Dede1:

This is absolute nonsensical conjecture by Nowa Omoigiui. I am a member of the group named NNWDC which took hack writer in Nowa to task by quarrying him to provide an iota of proof either by naming the commander or battalion or brigade that committed said atrocity at the plantain plantation. Nowa was unable as church rat to proffer any clue of Biafrans who committed such act. It was funny Nowa blamed the lack of evidence to the moronic claims on Nigerian’s inability to gather intelligence during the war. It was not surprise to us because if the British did not provide such intelligent gathering capability, Nigeria was dead as a road kill.
When Biafra accused Nigeria of atrocities committed as in the cases of Asaba and Ogba Egbama, Biafra did not only provide the brigade or battalion involved but also the commanding officers of the uints.

[size=14pt]In addition to the scourge and humiliation of the occupation itself, fleeing Biafran soldiers carried out all kinds of unspeakable acts of brutality against the local population (17, 18 ). At the Urhonigbe Rubber Plantation, for example, hundreds of Midwesterners were summarily shot by regular and militia units which had already blazed a 'scorched-earth' trail of terror through Benin-West division (14).[/size]

Unfortunately, therefore, temptation to seek revenge against Ibos was very strong shortly after federal troops arrived...

http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm

Beaf:

Don't mind basta'rds like Logic Mind that think they can change history and minorities have no voice.

bbpreye: Right now at at swali community in Bayelsa state and we are conducting free HIV/AIDS test for the people through the NYSC/SHF collaboration, THESE PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN POVERTY, inspite of thier abundant oil that is being used to fund Nigeria's budget! For how long are we going to live like this? My solution for Nigeria is this,
Corrupt politicians should be given death sentence
True federalism should be practiced
And some people should stop receiving 90million naira security vote

If these are not met, break up is a must!

Logic Mind:


We passed through your land on our way to Lagos and even gave you a country. Aboki came from the desert to your land, abolished your country and raised a military base from where to attack your brothers. Stole your wealth and distributed amongst themselves. And you call me the invader.

adefash:
Have u ever seen or heard of any peaceful break up? even when lucifer wanted to be free, it wasnt peaceful.
if u have ANY1 in bene republic,ghana or mali u'r better start calling dem to book for a space in their refugee camp.

Logic Mind:

There is this problem with these minorities that nobody knows what you want.
We all know what you don't want but the question is what do you want.

Do you want your own country?
Do you want to be part of a new Biafra?
Do want this one nigeria?

You are always crying about how you are treated but are never making any effort to take your destiny in your hands.


WHAT DO YOU WANT?!

ak47mann: One question for the minorities?? can you tell me what you gained and still gaining from Nigeria?? name one.....forget ogoni people i feel sorry for them....

Beaf:

Dude, people like me only respect you for your age. Please respect yourself.
Biafra murdered, ra'ped and pillaged in the Midwest, because we are minorities.

Here is the truth again:

basadenet:

Anyhow anyhow, the igbos are the one that betrays the Yorubas . please read this for clarity http://www.africamasterweb.com/CounterCoup.html

YORUBA AWURE NATION MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES BEFORE 1966 AND AFTER 1966 IN NIGERIA POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, BUT YOU ARE SO MUCH INTO IGBO MISTAKE OF 1966, AND OBSESSES ED ON WHAT IGBOS DID AND WHAT IGBOS DID NOT DO IN 1966. YOU HAVE REALLY BECOME SICK WITH YOUR OBSESSION AND INFATUATION WITH IGBOS AND YOU NEED HELP.

TAKE A LOOK AT YORUBA MISTAKES FROM 1966 AND CONSEQUENCES FOR YORUBA, AND YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON YORUBA MISTAKES AND BLUNDER FOR YOUR OWN SANITY FOR WHILE, TO START YOUR HEALING PROCESS BEFORE YOU GO FULL SCALE CRAZY AND MAD ON YOUR OBSESSION WITH IGBO ISSUES.

(1) YORUBA COUP 0F 1966 FAILED AND THE CONSEQUENCES ALSO AFFECTED YORUBAS TOO

(2) AWOLOWO YORUBA LEADER WAS PUT IN JAIL FOR DEAD IN CALABAR AND IGBOS BAILED HIM AND SET HIM FREE AND HE WAS DENIED PRESIDENCY AGAIN IN 1979 AFTER SERVING THE NORTH, WITH ENAHORO WHO FOUND HIMSELF IN EXILE AND LIVING FROM ONE BASEMENT TO ANOTHER BASEMENT AND IN ONE ROOM IN DIFFERENT PEOPLE HOUSES IN CANADA AND USA AND HE BECAME A NUISANCE IN CANADA AND USA.


(3) CHIEF ENAHORO THE EDO " ONE NIGERIAN MAN" DIED UNSONG LIKE A CHICKEN ON THE ROAD SIDE. NIGERIA DID NOT SHOW HIM ANY RESPECT AND HE DIED A BROKEN AND LONELY FORGOTTEN MAN. ENAHORO WAS A NUISANCE WHEN HE WAS IN EXILE BEGGING FOR FOOD AND HAND OUTS FROM NIGERIANS, AMERICANS, AND CANADIANS.

(4) YORUBA COWARD GENERAL OGUNDIPE WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE OVER POWER IN 1966 BUT HE WAS A SISSY AND CHICKENED OUT AND THAT WAS WHY COL.YAKUBU GOWON HIS JUNIOR TOOK OVER THE GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL OGUNDIPE RAN TO LONDON WERE HE DIED A LONELY AND SCARY MAN.

(5) AWOLOWO AFTER SERVING GOWON AND NIGERIA WAS DISGRACED OUT OF POWER AND DIED A LONELY AND SORROWFUL DEATH FOR ONE NIGERIA.

(6) MKO ABIOLA WON ELECTION AND WAS DENIED POWER AND HE DIED JUST LIKE A BACKYARD CHICKEN IN AFRICAN VILLAGE AFTER DRINKING THE TEA.

(7) GENERAL DIYA WAS JAILED AFTER SERVING GENERAL ABACHA AND NIGERIA MADE HIM CRY AND HE KNELT DOWN PLEADING FOR MERCY FROM GENERAL ABACHA ON NATIONAL TELEVISION AT THE TRIBUNAL FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT TO OVERTHROW GENERAL ABACHA.

(7) GENERAL IDIAHGBON DIED BY DRINKING TEA AFTER SERVING JAIL TIME WITH GENERAL BUHARI

( GENERAL OBASANJO WAS JAILED AND WAS LUCKY THAT GENERAL ABACHA DIED AND HE WAS RELEASED AND WHO KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF GENERAL ABACHA DID NOT DIE.

THESE AND MANY MORE ISSUE AFFECTING YORUBA NATION BEING THE CONSEQUENCES OF 1966, AND TOO MANY FOR YORUBA, AND THESE ISSUE SHOULD TAKE YOUR FOCUS BECAUSE IGBO ISSUE IS TURNING YOUR RETARDED MIND WACKO AND TURNING YOU INTO A CRAZY MAN.

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

ak47mann: One question for the minorities?? can you tell me what you gained and still gaining from Nigeria?? name one.....forget ogoni people i feel sorry for them....

(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) [size=14pt]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.[/size]

(viii) [size=14pt]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.[/size]

Laughing at the bolded parts..

Ibos trying to colonise us in our own homeland..

I see why pops don't regret pistol whipping a biafran gorilla.. My pops is a legend, I love you pops.

Beaf:

Dude, people like me only respect you for your age. Please respect yourself.
Biafra murdered, ra'ped and pillaged in the Midwest, because we are minorities.

Here is the truth again:

Logic Mind:

You are being proved wrong left right and centre, yet you persist.

I understand you because you believe your father told you the truth and it hurts to see your belief shattered. So you cling on with insults but no substance.

Dede1:

It has been more five years to date, we are still waiting for Nowa to name one commander or battalion or brigade that was involved in the alleged massacre in Urhonigbe Rubber Plantation. Why would Biafrans commit the alleged atrocity only in Rubber Plantation in one village? Was there anything special about the remote village of Urhonigbe and its Rubber Plantation? It annoys me when assumed intelligent fellows fail to bear intelligent falsehood.

Beaf:

Luckily, if a time comes for negotiations, it wouldn't be with pathetic, toilet creature types like you. There are many more responsible Igbo's, people who do not lie and are not hate-filled or bigoted.

Phuck you and your revision of history.

ballabriggs: I have never seen a people like this Igbo people. They are inherently bigots, xenophobes, arrogant just to mention a few. Yet they wonder why the rest dislike them.

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.

ballabriggs: I have never seen a people like this Igbo people. They are inherently bigots, xenophobes, arrogant just to mention a few. Yet they wonder why the rest dislike them.

Logic Mind:

I told you I'm not a diplomat so i wont be in any negociations, but rest assured that even the sweet mouth igbos still think the same as me.

The problem still remains: What do you want?

mpumalanga:
The Midwesterners took side with Nigeria before the war stated.
They showed their position when they refused to give the Midwestern
IGBOS relief materials in benin city telling them to go ENUGU which they did.
That was when every body ran to their different region because of the pogrom
and negotiation was still going on.

...

Sky-walker:


speak for yourself bro. why will you want us to breakup? even though we have problems, we need to find ways which we can all be one and stop the blame game

Beaf:

Proved wrong by who or what? You?
I have backed up my words with reliable quotations (and I have a thousand more), whereas all you have are your rumours and lies.
I pity people like you, you don't read, you don't exist outside your tiny bigoted bubble and you talk like fools.

Lying bastar'd.

Beaf:

Did you see the quote about Achuzia in Aboh? How they took people wives and enslaved them?
Dude, there are quotable sources of atrocities in diverse places; from Benin to Sapele to Warri. We were seen and treated as nothing.

Keep shamelessly lying to your children.

Beaf:

The fact that we are unhappy with Nigeria does not warrant a revision of the bitterness we went through to the lie of "betrayal."
It is a deeply enraging lie against the victim.

We might be minorities, but we are equal to any other. Can you tell me a single benefit of majority numbers to Nigeria or to the groups themselves?
The undying rule of happiness lies in mutual respect.