[b] 1. Close down Lagos ports and Open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri. 2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports...only local or minimal connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights...direct and major connecting flights. 3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar. 4. All federal governments agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC,e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu. 5. All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to PH, Calabar and Enugu. 6 Relocate the Nigerian capital to Calabar, PH, Enugu or Asaba
7. If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented, we can try one Nigeria and let's see if you Hausas and Yorubas will like it for a month. Meaning, Yorubas and Hausas needing to get visas shall travel to PH, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights, same with shipping and importing their goods, e.t.c. [/b]
If the guy is not retarded but instead interested in the future of his generation unborn rather than on the price of shawarma, the above is the sense he should be talking into his Arewa-Oduanistan friends.
Didn't your god, Kanu, said he has a big army that he can release any time to fight? Or did you fall from your mother's back and hit your head on the floor? Suddenly you are denying your god and talking about peace? You are a bastarddd. Your father is an imbecileeee. Your useless flatheead pappy should have been castrated.
Madam take it easy , those boiz are already destroying properties and harming non igbos in port harcourt , they may tell you that they are protesting for the release of Nnamdi Kanu but that's not true , they want something else and that's going to lead to war , i cant even believe the women are in support of this
You are an Imbecileee Fulani slave. Am sure you like that one too, since it perfectly describes you.
U must have mistaken me for ur fada or mayb 1 of ur relation... Go and take ur drugs or better still u stop smoking weed ur over reacting. I expect more silly remarks from u but since am allergic to stu+pid pple like u, I won't rply. Keep d mentions coming ode
tonytony208: The same reason your tribe should stop acting like a confused lot
It's far honourable to die for a cause than be like your confused tribe who will eventually end up dying for nothing as deluded slaves in Lord Lugard's cage.
It's far honourable to die for a cause than be like your confused tribe who will eventually end up dying for nothing as deluded slaves in Lord Lugard's cage.
May you die for biafra this week, since it is more honourable to die. Amen.
Yoruba's have always been stable and consistent with what we want. Since the days of abacha, we have been demanding for resource control or complete division of Nigeria. Everyone whose brain is still functioning will know dat we have not deviated from that till today.
But the same can't be said of your tribe. One day, you are shouting GEJ till 2019. Another day, you are claiming to own Lagos, the next day, it is the shout of biafra. What exactly does your tribe really want? Lagos or Biafra? Your lot is confused. I mean very confused. And there is clear evidence of your confusion.
I challenge you to give an example of confusion among we yorubas. I mean just one example.
My father is a foool and an iimbeciles. He so steupid he started fvcking my sisters. I won't blame him anyway, the curse of incest runs in our family. I too have started smelling my sister's pants. Am afraid that this curse on me May make me to start fvcking my own daughters. Believe me, my family is cursed for life.
upon the mentioning of the Holy name "Biafran all hausa fulani yorubas collect heart attacks ...why do I say this,,, I wonder how someone will be crying like a rat all day because a particular people they hated want to secede to stay on their own? this is hypocrisy...shame on all of you.
tonytony208: May you die for biafra this week, since it is more honourable to die. Amen.
Yoruba's have always been stable and consistent with what we want. Since the days of abacha, we have been demanding for resource control or complete division of Nigeria. Everyone whose brain is still functioning will know dat we have not deviated from that till today.
But the same can't be said of your tribe. One day, you are shouting GEJ till 2019. Another day, you are claiming to own Lagos, the next day, it is the shout of biafra. What exactly does your tribe really want? Lagos or Biafra? Your lot is confused. I mean very confused. And there is clear evidence of your confusion.
I challenge you to give an example of confusion among we yorubas. I mean just one example.
I prefer to die for a worthy cause if need be this week as you've stated.
But for an unrepentant lying bigot like you from a generation of unstable people who rarely stand for anything you shall surely end up dying for nothing possibly as a ritual victim of your barbaric kinsmen in Soka Evil Forest, sooner than later.
If you still have some sense in you you would have requested a trusted member of your kindred tell you the history of your diabolic people. Even if you were duly briefed your arrogance and stupidity would still push you to go online to post lies and falsehood to massage your silly ego.
As per the confusion amongst your Yoruba folks who rarely stand for anything... [b] Awolowo opined that Nigeria is a mere geographical expression which showed that your forbears had the mindset for self-determination but Yorubas colluded with the Northerners and picked up arms against Biafrans when they had no business doing so. TRUE OR FALSE?
You lots have repeatedly propagated that Yorubas remained neutral to the civil war until Biafran Army led by Victor Banjo (a Yoruba man) entered the Mid-Western region enroute to Lagos in the mischievously tagged Midwest invasion just to .justify the genocide by Obafemi Awolowo, Benjamin Adekunle a.k.a the Black Scorpion et al. TRUE OR FALSE?
You lying bigots have maintained that it wasn't Odumegwu Ojukwu that released Obafemi Awolowo from jail prior to the civil war. TRUE OR FALSE?
You lying generation have maintained that you colluded with the enemy to wage a civil war against Biafrans just to keep Nigeria one. TRUE OR FALSE?
You liars and propagandists have maintained that the January 15, 1966 coup was carried out by Igbos and therefore you mischievously termed it Igbo coup. TRUE OR FALSE?
Recently, just a couple of months ago, Olu Falae, an important figure in Yorubaland was abducted from his farm in Ondo State by 6 Fulani herdsmen and kept in bondage, in the bush for four days for a ransom of N100m. But a number of Yorubas took to the Internet to accuse Igbos for kidnapping Falae even when Falae had revealed that Fulani herdsmen kidnapped him. TRUE OR FALSE?[/b]
I challenge you bigot to respond accordingly to the above aforementioned issues for further discourse.
I prefer to die for a worthy cause if need be this week as you've stated.
But for an unrepentant lying bigot like you from a generation of unstable people who rarely stand for anything you shall surely end up dying for nothing possibly as a ritual victim of your barbaric kinsmen in Soka Evil Forest, sooner than later.
If you still have some sense in you you would have requested a trusted member of your kindred tell you the history of your diabolic people. Even if you were duly briefed your arrogance and stupidity would still push you to go online to post lies and falsehood to massage your silly ego.
As per the confusion amongst your Yoruba folks who rarely stand for anything... [b] Awolowo opined that Nigeria is a mere geographical expression which showed that your forbears had the mindset for self-determination but Yorubas colluded with the Northerners and picked up arms against Biafrans when they had no business doing so. TRUE OR FALSE?
You lots have repeatedly propagated that Yorubas remained neutral to the civil war until Biafran Army led by Victor Banjo (a Yoruba man) entered the Mid-Western region enroute to Lagos in the mischievously tagged Midwest invasion just to .justify the genocide by Obafemi Awolowo, Benjamin Adekunle a.k.a the Black Scorpion et al. TRUE OR FALSE?
You lying bigots have maintained that it wasn't Odumegwu Ojukwu that released Obafemi Awolowo from jail prior to the civil war. TRUE OR FALSE?
You lying generation have maintained that you colluded with the enemy to wage a civil war against Biafrans just to keep Nigeria one. TRUE OR FALSE?
You liars and propagandists have maintained that the January 15, 1966 coup was carried out by Igbos and therefore you mischievously termed it Igbo coup. TRUE OR FALSE?
Recently, just a couple of months ago, Olu Falae, an important figure in Yorubaland was abducted from his farm in Ondo State by 6 Fulani herdsmen and kept in bondage, in the bush for four days for a ransom of N100m. But a number of Yorubas took to the Internet to accuse Igbos for kidnapping Falae even when Falae had revealed that Fulani herdsmen kidnapped him. TRUE OR FALSE?[/b]
I challenge you bigot to respond accordingly to the above aforementioned issues for further discourse.
You see, one thing your tribe is known for is propaganda.
You would originate problems and cause rancour. But when others repay you back in your own coin, you start crying like victims.
Your tribe is full of peeps, who do not use their heads well.
The only time igbos use their heads well is in business. In other aspects, you behave like members of the Scottish Dundee united.
Your tribe should know self determination couldn't be achieved by force, especially when the forces you are fighting against is greater than you.
Ojukwu should have known better. But ojukwu was so pompous, proud and arrogant that he threw caution into the wind.
Yoruba's want resource control and regionalization. In fact, we championed it. But we also realise it is senseless to attempt to get it by war. We realise this thing can be obtained by negotiation and dialoguing.
Yorubas will never jump like eediots into a war because we have fought so many wars in our history and we have learnt the hard way how destructive wars can be. We have watched whole towns wiped out by war. shortly before Nigeria was amalgamated, we fought a war titled kiriji war, in which guns and canons were used freely by the ekiti/ijesa soldiers against the Ibadan soldiers. Kiriji war was destructive. We learn from history in Yoruba land; we will never jump foolishly into a war anymore, especially when the war is unreasonable.
Awolowo visited ojukwu few weeks before the war to appeal to ojukwu to allow dialogue instead of war, but ojukwu refused, no thanks to his pride, arrogance and lack of foresight.
So, you were expecting we Yoruba's to join with you and fight against the northerners? That will be very foolish. It is also unreasonable. Ojukwu's reason for going into that war was one of the stupidest reasons on earth. Ojukwu was selfish and self-centered. Why did I say that?
1. When aguiyi ironsi removed, by the way of coup, a civilian president, ojukwu did not say a thing, because things were working for the igbos
2. When your Igbo brothers in the army were killing Hausa and Yoruba soldiers and leaving Igbo soldiers unhurt, ojukwu kept quiet, because igbos were not hurt.
3. When the northerners were asking ironsi to punish perpetrators of the January 15 coup and ironsi was acting reluctant, ojukwu never said a word, because things were moving fine for the igbos.
4. But the moment ironsi was killed in retaliation by the northerners and a northerner in the perosn of General Gowon took over, that was when ojukwu suddenly woke up from his slumber. That was when he realised that igbos were being marginalised and killed. He only noticed that when the table turned against the igbos.
Your Igbo brothers up north were so steupid to the extent of printing a bread label depicting how nzeowgu killed sadauna of sokoto. That is very wrong and insensitive. And do you expect Yoruba's to identify with such ungodly and unreasonable, insensitive, proud, arrogant and puffed-up set of poeple, who have no control over themselves and their emotions? In fact, I look back right now on the issue and I thank God that the Yoruba's never joined you.
The same thing is being played out today, making one wonder if igbos ever learn from history or will ever change:
When GEJ was president, there was nothing like IPOB. But IPOB suddenly came to limelight the moment GEJ lost. What does that teach us? IGBOS ONLY WANT TO SEPERATE FROM NIGERIA BECAUSE THEY LOST CONTROL OF THE PRESIDENCY. YOU ONLY REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE MARGINALIZED WHEN YOUR PREFERRED PRESIDENT IS REMOVED FROM POWER
Listen; I don't regret that Yorubas left you alone in each of your battles against the Hausas. Your motives, dispositions, ideals and driving forces are very wrong,
Instead of you to even seek dialogue this time around, you are baying for war. A reasonable person who has his brain well functioning, will know that all the Hausas have to do is to recruit almanjiris in large number and place an experienced soldier as their unit commander. They will also turn it to a religion war and will never desist until they kill all kafirs. This is exactly how a second Nigerian civil war will play out.
If you like, go and die for biafra; your death will be inconsequential. Your tribe even has more to lose by war. Do not forget you are the ones that have investments all over Nigeria.
You see, one thing your tribe is known for is propaganda.
You would originate problems and cause rancour. But when others repay you back in your own coin, you start crying like victims.
Your tribe is full of peeps, who do not use their heads well.
The only time igbos use their heads well is in business. In other aspects, you behave like members of the Scottish Dundee united.
Your tribe should know self determination couldn't be achieved by force, especially when the forces you are fighting against is greater than you.
Ojukwu should have known better. But ojukwu was so pompous, proud and arrogant that he threw caution into the wind.
Yoruba's want resource control and regionalization. In fact, we championed it. But we also realise it is senseless to attempt to get it by war. We realise this thing can be obtained by negotiation and dialoguing.
Yorubas will never jump like eediots into a war because we have fought so many wars in our history and we have learnt the hard way how destructive wars can be. We have watched whole towns wiped out by war. shortly before Nigeria was amalgamated, we fought a war titled kiriji war, in which guns and canons were used freely by the ekiti/ijesa soldiers against the Ibadan soldiers. Kiriji war was destructive. We learn from history in Yoruba land; we will never jump foolishly into a war anymore, especially when the war is unreasonable. ...
N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs. The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures. "Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.
Fetish inbred slave from a juju-infested enclave, remember that your god, Awo (frog), ended his life in a most miserable manner by suicide. Did you not hear that Awo drank rat poison? The frustration was unbearable for him as he had treacherously sold his Yorubbish people into eternal servitude. There's no Yorubbish god that can deliver you verm1ns and vagabonds, no matter the number of gods you call upon for help - Sango, Ogun, Yemoja, Ifa, Esu, etc. Your fate is sealed. To make the matter even worst you are all noisy, bloody cowards...
If indeed the mouth can be used as AK-47 guns, Yorubas would have been a world-power by now. A moment you bigots stutter "Igbos Must Leave Lagos" when you're high with sniffing excess of your farts. The next moment after relentless ass-licking your slave masters you shout "One Nigeria" "Nigeria Will Not break". Why do Yorubas stand for nothing?
In Nigeria of today, Yoruba tribe have mainly survived and flourished by relentless ass-licking of their masters. And right now with the terroristic tendencies of their masters the Yorubas appear too helpless and scared to be on their own. Do you know why? Read on...
To ensure that they are not left alone with their masters in OduaArewanistan republic Yorubas have become too desperate for survival in the phantom 'One Nigeria', and therefore resorted to campaign of calumny and fabrication of lies, falsehood and propaganda to malign the Igbos, with a view to quenching the call for self-determination by IPOB.
It's really a pity that the so-called 'sophisticated' tribe now stand for nothing...
Lying bigot, in the 1990s, Yoruba elites capitalised on the June 12 brouhaha to champion the unlicensed and inciting Radio Kudirat. They proceeded to cause chaos and acrimony in the country. People where maimed and killed and properties destroyed by the militant OPC.
YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude. * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics; * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics. My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)... Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999. http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/
REMI FANI KAYODE, AKINTOLA, AWOLOWO, WESTERN REGION AND THE CRISIS THAT TRUNCATED THE FIRST REPUBLIC
These captains of the “tribalism industry” have good incentives to always omit the causes of the January 1966 coup preferring instead to dwell only on the coup itself. The reason is simple; It was in their own Western region then known as the “wild wild west” that election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness that occasioned the January 1966 coup took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.
Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi Awolowo became embroiled in a protracted crisis. By 1962 the crisis led to sustained violence and acts of lawlessness with law makers engaged in vicious physical combats in the Western regional parliament. Amongst serious injuries and other damages, the mace of office was broken. The federal government intervened to curb the lawlessness and violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointing Dr Moses Majekodunmi as interim premier of the Western region on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of lawlessness. Following an alliance between Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Ladoke Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Ladoke Akintola.
By 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed. By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).
In 1964, federal elections became due. As usual ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Remi Kayode and Akintola’s campaign was as usual almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, it was massively rigged in the Western region. Indeed deputy premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections. Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.
Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.
The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966. At the same time that the Western region was aflame the Eastern region was calm and democratic. Unlike the Western region there were no cases of election rigging, thuggery or other such acts of lawlessness in the East. In the North there was sporadic violence in the TIV division which was put down by the military. Of all the regions, the western region was torn the most by crisis and acts of lawlessness which eventually occasioned the coup. If the leadership of the Western region had played by the rules and avoided the infighting, the election rigging, the thuggery, the planning of a coup in 1963, the arson, the mass murders and other such corrupt acts and vices many of which were being introduced for the first time in Nigeria and which incidentally continues to haunt the nation to date, there would have been no coup and Nigeria would no doubt have immensely benefited from a functional democracy devoid of election rigging, thuggery and violence as it obtains in many progressive nations around the world.
The leadership of the Western region in conspiracy with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello are singularly responsible for the events and crisis that truncated the first republic and ruined the nation.
Those who carried out the coup choose to act out of genuine anger and frustration at the carnage in the Western region. Whatever the demerits of the coup, It is obvious the coupists had nothing to gain other than the patriotic urge to end the corruption and lawlessness that had taken hold of the nation particularly the Western region.
Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers who peddle the propaganda of colouring an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals very similar to that of Flt Lt Jerry Rawlings in a tribal garb. In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings led a coup that eliminated three former heads of state, top military officers and top members of the judiciary. Not one of those killed was from Jerry Rawlings Ewe tribe, but Ghanaians didn’t spew tribalism into the coup and Ghana is better for it. With too many vultures and opportunists...preying on tribalism in Nigeria the story was bound to be different and thus a coup driven out of patriotism and obvious anger at the state of affairs was reconstructed as an Igbo coup and the worms were let out from the woodwork.
In January 15, 1966 coup, soldiers from every region of the federation (Nzeogwu - Mid-West; Ifeajuna -East; Ademoyega - West; Kpera -North) had staged a coup in which soldiers and politicians from every region of the federation (Akintola: West, Balewa: North, Unegbe: East, Okotie-Eboh: Mid-West) were killed. Their ultimate aim was to install and make Chief Obafemi Awolowo the ruler of the country and quell the 'Operation Wetie' that was ravaging SW region where Lagos, the seat of power, was situated.
Unegbu was the GOC of one of the major army barracks. He was Igbo, and he was also the guy who almost frustrated the first coup of 1966 by refusing to release weapons. For his refusal, the Nzeogwu group killed him.
Recall that soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil, codenamed “wild wild west” characterised by election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness, that occasioned the January 1966 coup, took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.
Remember, prior to the first coup, by 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed. By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).
When Northern soldiers staged a revenge coup in July 1966, soldiers from one region of the federation and their people (North: Danjuma, Murtala, Martin Adamu etc) singled out soldiers and civillians from one region (East) in the federation as their targets.
Gowon, Awolowo, Ejoor, Adebayo, Mobolaji Johnson, Katsina, Wey and all the groups that supported and advised the Federal Government of Nigeria to renege on the accords agreed upon in Aburi, Ghana were responsible for the 1967-70 Civil War, alongside their murderous kinsmen who killed innocent Easterners in revenge for an act done by a misguided group of soldiers comprising both Southerners and Northerners.
Ojukwu tried making peace, and called for peace-talk in a neutral ground hence the Aburi Accord, but Gowon and his co-travellers violated the agreement reached. If Ojukwu wanted war he wouldn't have called for peace talk in Ghana but the declaration of Biafra was inevitable as the killing of Easterners continued across the country. Ojukwu never asked for war! Ojukwu only declared Biafra when over thirty thousand corpses littered the Northern region in the aftermath of the January 15 1966 coup. Gowon and his cohorts declared the civil war! And Benjamin Adekunle, one the Nigerian soldier, later attested to the fact that Nigeria declared war because of oil in the Eastern region and not for the unity of the country!
Why didn't the July 1966 counter-coup plotters just wipe out the Eastern political class and call it a day. Aguiyi Ironsi did nothing deserving death yet they killed him. Ironsi was too much of a peacemaker and he died making useless peace, appeasing the Northerners. The counter coup plotters simply wanted a war and they sure got one. Bear in mind there was no war before the pogrom of 1966 started in the North. So why resort to maiming and killing innocent Easterners cum civilians. Has the killings stopped till date? NO!
The February 13, 1976 Dimka-led coupists came from Benue and Plateau region. They assassinated Murtala Mohammed then Head of State, yet there was no genocide carried against the Middle-belt people. Why was same treatment not given to the ethnic groups of the Dimka-led coupists that committed same offence? It's simply hypocrisy! It is even against the military rule to harm the innocent civilians during coup.
According to the warped logic of hypocritical Yoruba and their co-travellers anytime there is a revolution or a coup the ethnic groups of the coup plotters should be singled out for ethnic cleansing!
Bloody, treacheerous, lousy noise-maker, you think you can cover up the atrocities of you saboteurs and your god, Obafemi Awolowo, who was the chief proponent of hatred, bitterness, tribalism, nepotism, propaganda and wickedness in this country? The same power hungry and greedy Awolowo who was imprisoned for treason and coup plotting until he was released by Odumegwu Ojukwu just before the 1967-70 war?
Hypocrite, what did you and your Yoruba tribe do when Igbos where being massacred across the North in 1966? Did you and your people come to the aid of the people of Igbodo and Asaba in 1967 when genocide was being carried out on them by your wicked Yoruba tribesmen and their co-travellers?
Just like the chameleon, the Yorubas can change the colour of their skin at will and can vacillate at random between Christian and Muslim worlds whenever the evil spirit begins to operate them. Little wonder they are descendants of a fallen demon! The vacillation is akin to the abracadabra of a sworn homosexual who might screw a man today, a woman tomorrow, or an animal the next time. You never can tell.
The level of Yoruba treacheery and betrayal is second to none. Finding a reliable and trustworthy Yoruba person is like searching for a pin in a haystack. Yorubas who possess these good characters are rare. Yorubas are not only treacherous but always at the servitude of the Northerners which is very worrisome. ...
tonytony208: ... Awolowo visited ojukwu few weeks before the war to appeal to ojukwu to allow dialogue instead of war, but ojukwu refused, no thanks to his pride, arrogance and lack of foresight.
So, you were expecting we Yoruba's to join with you and fight against the northerners? That will be very foolish. It is also unreasonable. Ojukwu's reason for going into that war was one of the stupidest reasons on earth. Ojukwu was selfish and self-centered. Why did I say that?
1. When aguiyi ironsi removed, by the way of coup, a civilian president, ojukwu did not say a thing, because things were working for the igbos LIE!
2. When your Igbo brothers in the army were killing Hausa and Yoruba soldiers and leaving Igbo soldiers unhurt, ojukwu kept quiet, because igbos were not hurt.
3. When the northerners were asking ironsi to punish perpetrators of the January 15 coup and ironsi was acting reluctant, ojukwu never said a word, because things were moving fine for the igbos.
4. But the moment ironsi was killed in retaliation by the northerners and a northerner in the perosn of General Gowon took over, that was when ojukwu suddenly woke up from his slumber. That was when he realised that igbos were being marginalised and killed. He only noticed that when the table turned against the igbos. ...
At every turn in event frustrated Yorubas have tried in vain to distort history by fabricating lies upon lies to assuage their impending doom.
Hypocritical liar, I kind of understand your fears and the miseries you're currently passing through, that the thing you most dreaded is about to happen in your life time when you least expected.
But for the sake of your readership you can do well by providing the credible sources of your cooked up stories.
Here are the members of Yoruba tribe that participated in the January 15, 1966 coup: (See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).
*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:
*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).
*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’
*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.
* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.
* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.
* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2
* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega
* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108
* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998.
* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)
* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain.
[size=14pt]It is on record that there were series of polemical and aggressive verbal exchanges between Northern Representatives and the Action Group Members during the Lagos Conference. But the fuse that really set off the explosion in May, 1953 was the proposed visit to Kano of an Action Group (AG) delegation led by Mr (afterward Chief) S. L. Akintola, “an Ex-Minister with all the Odium of anti-Northerner Action Group propaganda and the Lagos incidents attached to him”.[/size] (The Report on the Kano disturbances, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th May, 1953 (Government Printer, Kaduna, 1953) Paragraph 15, page 4). The organization and preparation of Northerners for the riots did not suggest to Easterners that they would be the main object of attack incidentally, as they have now done again in 1966, Northerners denied in 1953 that the massacres were ever organized or premeditated. But it is on record that two days before the disturbances began on Thursday, May 14, 1953, Mallam Inua Wada, then Secretary of the Kano Branch of the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) and later Federal Minister of Works, convened a meeting of the Native Administration sectional heads at the works Department in Kano during which he made “a very ill-advised and provocative speech” against the proposed visit of the Action Group delegation led by Akintola. Inua Wado said inter alia “having abused us in the south these very Southerners have decided to come over to the North to abuse us, but we have determined to retaliate the treatment given us in the South we have therefore organized about 1,000 men ready in the city to meet force with force. We are determined to show to Akintola and his group what we can do in our land when they come the Northern People’s Congress has declared a strive in all Native Administration Offices for Saturday, 16th May, 1953. We shall post sufficient number of men at the entrance of every office and business place we are prepared to face anything that, comes out of this business” These exhaustive kaleidoscopic quotations from various journals/publications and releases by Easterners, Northerner’s propaganda machineries and the findings and report of the commission on this disturbances of 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th may, 1953 is aimed of showing to Nigerians the historically long and deep streak of hate and acrimony existing between the Northerners and the Easterners especially the Igbos in Nigeria that has given rise to intermittent macabre and bellicose carnages and decimations ultimately leading to the Nigeria/Biafra Civil War.
wecan: Raw truth from elderly Yoruba man [size=18pt]JUST BEFORE THE DAWN; LET BIAFRA GO, LET BIAFRA BE. By Okesola Ajibola Olayemi[/size]
The United Kingdom (Britain) consisted of 5 kingdoms in the begining but today, the Welch, the Scotish, the Wales have gone their own ways and independently there are, ditto the old USSR. You dont impose it on people to live as one if they so decided to go, its a marriage of force by Lord Lugard when he (he wont rest in peace) amalgated us as a Nation. [size=14pt] I repeat here the Igbos have suffered in this country, let them be. The Yorubas must support the Igbos clarion calls of freedom and self independent for one good reason. The Northern oligacy jailed our revered father and the Asiwaju of the Yorubas by the power that be then. Gen Ironsi was the head of state, late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu (a war lock and my hero) gave Ironsi so many troubles to release Awo, Gen Gowon then the 2nd in command from the Northern part of this country will not hear a thing of this. Gen Ironsi courtesy of Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu persisted Awo must be released.
Gen Ironsi signed Awolowo released papers and he Gen Ironsi was murdered same day before the papers could reached the then Eastern Governor Odumegwu Ojukwu. He Ojukwu unilataterially release Awolowo and ordered the Eastern Region senior police officers to deliver Awo...the avater to his Ikenne home save and sound. ( Pls see this in Fredrick Froster book entitled 'Emeka' at page 62) For this singular act, i belong to Biafra. My age mates and i were educated free of any charges by the late sage free.
Let the Biafra be and stop shedding their bloods for God sake. The Oracle at West End, Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, South West Nigeria have spoken.[/size]
I can place a bet that if the Biafra struggle tend to succeed, it is the igbo elites that will crush it. There is too much too lose by the Igbos with the actualization of Biafra because 95% of the Biafra wealth is in the "Zoo".
tonytony208: ... Your Igbo brothers up north were so steupid to the extent of printing a bread label depicting how nzeowgu killed sadauna of sokoto. That is very wrong and insensitive. And do you expect Yoruba's to identify with such ungodly and unreasonable, insensitive, proud, arrogant and puffed-up set of poeple, who have no control over themselves and their emotions? In fact, I look back right now on the issue and I thank God that the Yoruba's never joined you.
The same thing is being played out today, making one wonder if igbos ever learn from history or will ever change:
When GEJ was president, there was nothing like IPOB. But IPOB suddenly came to limelight the moment GEJ lost. What does that teach us? IGBOS ONLY WANT TO SEPERATE FROM NIGERIA BECAUSE THEY LOST CONTROL OF THE PRESIDENCY. YOU ONLY REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE MARGINALIZED WHEN YOUR PREFERRED PRESIDENT IS REMOVED FROM POWER
Listen; I don't regret that Yorubas left you alone in each of your battles against the Hausas. Your motives, dispositions, ideals and driving forces are very wrong,
Instead of you to even seek dialogue this time around, you are baying for war. A reasonable person who has his brain well functioning, will know that all the Hausas have to do is to recruit almanjiris in large number and place an experienced soldier as their unit commander. They will also turn it to a religion war and will never desist until they kill all kafirs. This is exactly how a second Nigerian civil war will play out.
If you like, go and die for biafra; your death will be inconsequential. Your tribe even has more to lose by war. Do not forget you are the ones that have investments all over Nigeria.
Demented fetish inbred savage of dirt and slavery, you must be relentlessly sniffing your own fart thinking you can get high with it to ever stand a chance to withstand Igbos. Sorry, you're on a wild goose chase...
Biafra agitation has been on for many years now. FYI, Radio Biafra had began operation since 2009. Such sophisticated outfit cannot be built overnight.
Radio Biafra predicted that GEJ will lose 2015 election and it even went ahead to tell IPOB members not to vote and many obeyed.
Biafra is more than Jonathan or 2015 elections. It's an ideology permanently inscribed in the heart of every Biafran even those you think are not in support.
See comments that proved that the agitation was strong as ever:
It was even under GEJ administration that some Biafra agitators tried to seize a radio station in Enugu. PMB regime has nothing to do with the struggle; it only fueled it the more.
You can continue spreading falsehood and misinformation because you dread to be left alone. The earlier you channel your negative energies towards consolidating your Odua Islamic Republic of Ritual-killers and Cannibals the better for your survival.
Police arrested 20 protesters during the last protest that took place in PH.. About 18 of the are Riverian indigenes..
https://www.nairaland.com/2727742/fearless-biafrans-protest-despite-being This is a one on one confrontation between Soldiers and Pro Biafran protesters, The army tried to stop them and they resisted and the next thing was serious gunshots into the air from the soldiers, Some of them initially refused to run and I could hear a man shouting ''Kill me''....
Attached herewith is the snapshot the said loaf of bread and its label, with the pixs of Nzeogwu and Sardauna, which you parasitic ingrates and liars broadcast online and claimed it was produced in 1966 by Igbos all in a bid to justify the pogrom carried out against Easterners from 1966 to 1970 by Yorubas, Hausa-Fulani and their co-travellers.
Readers can flashback and recollect that the quality of photography of that bread label was not in existent in 1966.
Just like the chameleon, the Yorubas can change the colour of their skin at will and can vacillate at random between Christian and Muslim worlds whenever the evil spirit begins to operate them. Little wonder they are descendants of a fallen demon! The vacillation is akin to the abracadabra of a sworn homosexual who might screw a man today, a woman tomorrow, or an animal the next time. You never can tell.
The level of Yoruba treacheery and betrayal is second to none. Finding a reliable and trustworthy Yoruba person is like searching for a pin in a haystack. Yorubas who possess these good characters are rare. Yorubas are not only treacherous but always at the servitude of the Northerners which is very worrisome.
Ethnomusicolist Charles Keil, who was visiting Nigeria in 1966, recounted:
"The pogroms I witnessed in Makurdi, Nigeria (late Sept. 1966) were foreshadowed by months of intensive anti-Ibo and anti- Eastern conversations among Tiv, Idoma, Hausa and other Northerners resident in Makurdi, and, fitting a pattern replicated in city after city, the massacres were led by the Nigerian army. Before, during and after the slaughter, Col. Gowan could be heard over the radio issuing 'guarantees of safety' to all Easterners, all citizens of Nigeria, but the intent of the soldiers, the only power that counts in Nigeria now or then, was painfully clear. After counting the disemboweled bodies along the Makurdi road I was escorted back to the city by soldiers who apologized for the stench and explained politely that they were doing me and the world a great favor by eliminating Ibos.”
Here's actually an excerpt, albeit it was written by Emeka Esogbue but it is a direct summarization of Emma Okocha books.
"It was this battle that gave birth to Murtala, a “Local champion” called Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo of the Nigerian Army. Africans first had the practical experience of the word “genocide” in Igbodo where hundreds of lives were lost in the Nigerian civil war. In Isheagu, the case was not different. It was here that the ulterior motive of the Nigerian troop clearly unfolded.
The people were now scampering for the safety of their lives having experienced what happened in Igbodo and some other places. In the Midwestern region, able bodied men went into hiding leaving women and children at the mercy of advancing soldiers. The people of Benin went identifying their Ibo-speaking neighbours from house to house for executions."
BLOOD ON THE NIGER: THE FIRST BLACK ON BLACK OCTOBER 1967 GENOCIDE OF ASABA PEOPLE BY MURTALA, GOWON AND AWOLOWO
...Like my father and elder brother that were part of the over 1000 youths that were killed on October 7, 1967, in Asaba, most of them were members of the Action Group (AG). The people that believed in the NCNC at that time left for the east. My father who worked in Enugu, Nsukka, Uzuakoli and Kafanchan as a civil servant could have gone to the east. But he believed in that war. He was an apostle of the Awo ideas-free education and free medical services. In fact, the Asaba General Hospital that is now a Specialist Hospital was brought to us by the AG led by Nduka Eze, another AG hardliner who left the Zikist Movement to join Awolowo. But Nduka Eze's wife was killed by the federal troop under the command of Murtala Mohammed because she refused to be touched because they were defiling women at random when they came in.
The genocide against the Igbos has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the apology made to Asaba people by General Gowon when he came there after the release of the Blood On The Niger. The genocide against the Igbos was proved beyond reasonable doubt at the Oputa panel which the federal government has up till now refused to publish the findings. Bishop Desmond Tutu chaired the Truth and Justice tribunal in South Africa to find out what happened in South Africa during the apartheid period. It was accepted by both sides and just look at the peace that has prevailed there since then. Why would Nigeria not publish the findings of the Oputa Panel where it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that pilots were throwing bombs at random into market places in Uzuakoli, Uzuitem and Nsukka, where bottles and implements were also used against women during the war.
History is an account of the actions of actors in a community or in a state recorded that made impacts during their time. Awolowo was a great leader; great politician and great performer in government but his activities during the civil war were negative. If you are a writer, you cannot defend his position that starvation is an instrument of warfare. Starvation cannot be an instrument of warfare when you are fighting a civil war.
Nigeria was being supplied arms from all countries. For the first time there was an unholy alliance between the Soviet Union and the West. It had never happened before. Any place that there was a war of revolution, the USSR is always taking the place of the revolutionary. How come that the USSR for the first time allied with the West against Biafra? So, let somebody go and disprove Achebe; that is what we want to see not that somebody did not commit genocide. Genocide has been proved to be committed. If there were no genocide, the World Council of Churches, the Caritas wouldn't have come in droves. If genocide was not committed, why did Biafra lose two million casualties, most of them civilians and children? And if people are not apologising to Igbos, why should they now come out to talk because one man has been put to where he belongs in history. He was the principal protagonist of using starvation as an instrument of warfare against his fellow citizens. Remember that Nigeria was fighting a war of unity. They were not as desperate as the other camp that was fighting a war of secession. So, in international convention Geneva included, you don't use starvation against civilians, you don't use firearms against civilians and you don't use bombs. Are they saying they didn't bomb civilians during the war? The Nigerian Air Force was very pronounced in its use of bombs on civilians and their targets were churches, market places and hospitals. These were recorded by missionaries and foreign journalists.
Awolowo was the Minister of Finance under Gowon. He was the de facto prime minister of Nigeria during the war and he performed. I don't grudge him for winning the war for Nigeria; for changing the currency. He can win the war by all means but the fact that he prevented massive aid from coming is genocidal.
There was an inhuman instance. There was an incident where a Red Cross plane coming with medication and food was blown off the sky for the beleaguered people of Biafra. Even after the war, what was the purpose of denying Igbos their primary source of protein-stockfish? How can you defend the policy of giving people who have lost everything only 20 Pounds? If there is anybody that should have been given more, the returning war battered people of Biafra should have received more.
The Igbos have always accepted Awolowo as a great leader but his activities during the civil war shocked them. BY THE OBJECTIVE OF THE JANUARY 15 COUP, as quoted by Odia Ofeimun, the poet, the boys believed he was the greatest leader.
THE LEADERS OF THE COUP, WERE TO MAKE CHIEF AWOLOWO THE PRIME MINISTER OF NIGERIA. These coup leaders didn't go for Azikiwe or Balewa. They wanted Chief Awolowo as quoted by Odia in a 1999 edition of The Guardian. Awolowo was supposed to be released by the Nzeogwu coup, which didn't have its assumed ending; it was aborted half way. It was Nzeogwu's colleague, Major Nzegwu that was supposed to pick him from Calabar prison and release him. So, I'm proving to you that the Igbo literality have always accepted Awo as one of the best and great leaders the country has ever produced but his activities during the war did not only shock them but betrayed the trust they had in.
During the whole peace conferences from Niamey to Kinshasha, Awolowo, Enahoro and Alison Ayida, who was a permanent secretary, always took a hawkish stand. That was why in the Niamey conference of 1968 Alison Ayida quoted Awo exactly that starvation is an instrument of warfare. This was at a time when millions of Biafran children were dying off. And death by starvation is not an ordinary death. It is for you to experience it. It was horror and the photographs are there but Awolowo and his henchmen never batted an eyelid even after the war. That is why we glorify other great literality like Wole Soyinka who told us in his book A Man Died that extermination was committed in Asaba. He was the first courageous soul in Nigeria that told the world about the Asaba massacre.
You better start packing your bags because this ain't happening
pazienza: [b] 1. Close down Lagos ports and Open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri. 2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports...only local or minimal connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights...direct and major connecting flights. 3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar. 4. All federal governments agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC,e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu. 5. All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to PH, Calabar and Enugu. 6 Relocate the Nigerian capital to Calabar, PH, Enugu or Asaba
7. If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented, we can try one Nigeria and let's see if you Hausas and Yorubas will like it for a month. Meaning, Yorubas and Hausas needing to get visas shall travel to PH, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights, same with shipping and importing their goods, e.t.c. [/b]
If the guy is not retarded but instead interested in the future of his generation unborn rather than on the price of shawarma, the above is the sense he should be talking into his Arewa-Oduanistan friends.
N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs. The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures. "Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.
Fetish inbred slave from a juju-infested enclave, remember that your god, Awo (frog), ended his life in a most miserable manner by suicide. Did you not hear that Awo drank rat poison? The frustration was unbearable for him as he had treacherously sold his Yorubbish people into eternal servitude. There's no Yorubbish god that can deliver you verm1ns and vagabonds, no matter the number of gods you call upon for help - Sango, Ogun, Yemoja, Ifa, Esu, etc. Your fate is sealed. To make the matter even worst you are all noisy, bloody cowards...
If indeed the mouth can be used as AK-47 guns, Yorubas would have been a world-power by now. A moment you bigots stutter "Igbos Must Leave Lagos" when you're high with sniffing excess of your farts. The next moment after relentless ass-licking your slave masters you shout "One Nigeria" "Nigeria Will Not break". Why do Yorubas stand for nothing?
In Nigeria of today, Yoruba tribe have mainly survived and flourished by relentless ass-licking of their masters. And right now with the terroristic tendencies of their masters the Yorubas appear too helpless and scared to be on their own. Do you know why? Read on...
To ensure that they are not left alone with their masters in OduaArewanistan republic Yorubas have become too desperate for survival in the phantom 'One Nigeria', and therefore resorted to campaign of calumny and fabrication of lies, falsehood and propaganda to malign the Igbos, with a view to quenching the call for self-determination by IPOB.
It's really a pity that the so-called 'sophisticated' tribe now stand for nothing...
Lying bigot, in the 1990s, Yoruba elites capitalised on the June 12 brouhaha to champion the unlicensed and inciting Radio Kudirat. They proceeded to cause chaos and acrimony in the country. People where maimed and killed and properties destroyed by the militant OPC.
YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude. * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics; * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics. My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)... Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999. http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/
REMI FANI KAYODE, AKINTOLA, AWOLOWO, WESTERN REGION AND THE CRISIS THAT TRUNCATED THE FIRST REPUBLIC
These captains of the “tribalism industry” have good incentives to always omit the causes of the January 1966 coup preferring instead to dwell only on the coup itself. The reason is simple; It was in their own Western region then known as the “wild wild west” that election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness that occasioned the January 1966 coup took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.
Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi Awolowo became embroiled in a protracted crisis. By 1962 the crisis led to sustained violence and acts of lawlessness with law makers engaged in vicious physical combats in the Western regional parliament. Amongst serious injuries and other damages, the mace of office was broken. The federal government intervened to curb the lawlessness and violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointing Dr Moses Majekodunmi as interim premier of the Western region on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of lawlessness. Following an alliance between Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Ladoke Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Ladoke Akintola.
By 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed. By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).
In 1964, federal elections became due. As usual ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Remi Kayode and Akintola’s campaign was as usual almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, it was massively rigged in the Western region. Indeed deputy premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections. Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.
Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.
The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966. At the same time that the Western region was aflame the Eastern region was calm and democratic. Unlike the Western region there were no cases of election rigging, thuggery or other such acts of lawlessness in the East. In the North there was sporadic violence in the TIV division which was put down by the military. Of all the regions, the western region was torn the most by crisis and acts of lawlessness which eventually occasioned the coup. If the leadership of the Western region had played by the rules and avoided the infighting, the election rigging, the thuggery, the planning of a coup in 1963, the arson, the mass murders and other such corrupt acts and vices many of which were being introduced for the first time in Nigeria and which incidentally continues to haunt the nation to date, there would have been no coup and Nigeria would no doubt have immensely benefited from a functional democracy devoid of election rigging, thuggery and violence as it obtains in many progressive nations around the world.
The leadership of the Western region in conspiracy with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello are singularly responsible for the events and crisis that truncated the first republic and ruined the nation.
Those who carried out the coup choose to act out of genuine anger and frustration at the carnage in the Western region. Whatever the demerits of the coup, It is obvious the coupists had nothing to gain other than the patriotic urge to end the corruption and lawlessness that had taken hold of the nation particularly the Western region.
Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers who peddle the propaganda of colouring an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals very similar to that of Flt Lt Jerry Rawlings in a tribal garb. In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings led a coup that eliminated three former heads of state, top military officers and top members of the judiciary. Not one of those killed was from Jerry Rawlings Ewe tribe, but Ghanaians didn’t spew tribalism into the coup and Ghana is better for it. With too many vultures and opportunists...preying on tribalism in Nigeria the story was bound to be different and thus a coup driven out of patriotism and obvious anger at the state of affairs was reconstructed as an Igbo coup and the worms were let out from the woodwork.
In January 15, 1966 coup, soldiers from every region of the federation (Nzeogwu - Mid-West; Ifeajuna -East; Ademoyega - West; Kpera -North) had staged a coup in which soldiers and politicians from every region of the federation (Akintola: West, Balewa: North, Unegbe: East, Okotie-Eboh: Mid-West) were killed. Their ultimate aim was to install and make Chief Obafemi Awolowo the ruler of the country and quell the 'Operation Wetie' that was ravaging SW region where Lagos, the seat of power, was situated.
Unegbu was the GOC of one of the major army barracks. He was Igbo, and he was also the guy who almost frustrated the first coup of 1966 by refusing to release weapons. For his refusal, the Nzeogwu group killed him.
Recall that soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil, codenamed “wild wild west” characterised by election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness, that occasioned the January 1966 coup, took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.
Remember, prior to the first coup, by 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed. By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).
When Northern soldiers staged a revenge coup in July 1966, soldiers from one region of the federation and their people (North: Danjuma, Murtala, Martin Adamu etc) singled out soldiers and civillians from one region (East) in the federation as their targets.
Gowon, Awolowo, Ejoor, Adebayo, Mobolaji Johnson, Katsina, Wey and all the groups that supported and advised the Federal Government of Nigeria to renege on the accords agreed upon in Aburi, Ghana were responsible for the 1967-70 Civil War, alongside their murderous kinsmen who killed innocent Easterners in revenge for an act done by a misguided group of soldiers comprising both Southerners and Northerners.
Ojukwu tried making peace, and called for peace-talk in a neutral ground hence the Aburi Accord, but Gowon and his co-travellers violated the agreement reached. If Ojukwu wanted war he wouldn't have called for peace talk in Ghana but the declaration of Biafra was inevitable as the killing of Easterners continued across the country. Ojukwu never asked for war! Ojukwu only declared Biafra when over thirty thousand corpses littered the Northern region in the aftermath of the January 15 1966 coup. Gowon and his cohorts declared the civil war! And Benjamin Adekunle, one the Nigerian soldier, later attested to the fact that Nigeria declared war because of oil in the Eastern region and not for the unity of the country!
Why didn't the July 1966 counter-coup plotters just wipe out the Eastern political class and call it a day. Aguiyi Ironsi did nothing deserving death yet they killed him. Ironsi was too much of a peacemaker and he died making useless peace, appeasing the Northerners. The counter coup plotters simply wanted a war and they sure got one. Bear in mind there was no war before the pogrom of 1966 started in the North. So why resort to maiming and killing innocent Easterners cum civilians. Has the killings stopped till date? NO!
The February 13, 1976 Dimka-led coupists came from Benue and Plateau region. They assassinated Murtala Mohammed then Head of State, yet there was no genocide carried against the Middle-belt people. Why was same treatment not given to the ethnic groups of the Dimka-led coupists that committed same offence? It's simply hypocrisy! It is even against the military rule to harm the innocent civilians during coup.
According to the warped logic of hypocritical Yoruba and their co-travellers anytime there is a revolution or a coup the ethnic groups of the coup plotters should be singled out for ethnic cleansing!
Bloody, treacheerous, lousy noise-maker, you think you can cover up the atrocities of you saboteurs and your god, Obafemi Awolowo, who was the chief proponent of hatred, bitterness, tribalism, nepotism, propaganda and wickedness in this country? The same power hungry and greedy Awolowo who was imprisoned for treason and coup plotting until he was released by Odumegwu Ojukwu just before the 1967-70 war?
Hypocrite, what did you and your Yoruba tribe do when Igbos where being massacred across the North in 1966? Did you and your people come to the aid of the people of Igbodo and Asaba in 1967 when genocide was being carried out on them by your wicked Yoruba tribesmen and their co-travellers?
Just like the chameleon, the Yorubas can change the colour of their skin at will and can vacillate at random between Christian and Muslim worlds whenever the evil spirit begins to operate them. Little wonder they are descendants of a fallen demon! The vacillation is akin to the abracadabra of a sworn homosexual who might screw a man today, a woman tomorrow, or an animal the next time. You never can tell.
The level of Yoruba treacheery and betrayal is second to none. Finding a reliable and trustworthy Yoruba person is like searching for a pin in a haystack. Yorubas who possess these good characters are rare. Yorubas are not only treacherous but always at the servitude of the Northerners which is very worrisome. ...
You are an unrepentant fool sha!
So it is Yoruba that perpetrated January 15 coup? So ironsi was Yoruba? So it was Yoruba that gave Kaduna nzeogwu the gun he used in murdering unarmed sadauna of sokoto? So, it was Yoruba who forced you into civil war?
You igbos will tell yourself anything just to make yourself look righteous.
I promise myself never to respond to any of your comments again. Your tribe is a very useless tribe. You only thrive on lies and self deceit. This lie is sure to send u into another civil war that you will lose. I wish there is a way of blocking monickers on naira land and I would have blocked you.
tonytony208: [center][/center] You are an unrepentant fool sha!
So it is Yoruba that perpetrated January 15 coup? So ironsi was Yoruba? So it was Yoruba that gave Kaduna nzeogwu the gun he used in murdering unarmed sadauna of sokoto? So, it was Yoruba who forced you into civil war?
You igbos will tell yourself anything just to make yourself look righteous.
I promise myself never to respond to any of your comments again. Your tribe is a very useless tribe. You only thrive on lies and self deceit. This lie is sure to send u into another civil war that you will lose. I wish there is a way of blocking monickers on naira land and I would have blocked you.
Miserable scratched face ritual escapee from Odua Islamic Republic of Ritual-killers and Cannibals, you didn't suck your mother's bosom.
You came online with the smells of a concoction of gbegiri, ewa agoyin and ewedu soup oozing out from the gutter you call mouth.
Disgruntled set of cretinous savage of dirt and slavery whose region is replete with ritual killings and cannibalism as ways of life.
Frustrated Oluwole tout, if the truth is anathema to you and your miserable generation then consider scratching yourselves to your Waterloo!
However, hypocritical liar, I kind of understand your fears and the miseries you're currently passing through, that the thing you most dreaded is about to happen in your life time when you least expected. Whatever a man sows that he shall reap. It's your cross. Go deal with it!
If you can borrow a leaf from me and for the sake of your readership you can do well by providing the credible sources of your cooked up stories.
Here are the members of Yoruba tribe that participated in the January 15, 1966 coup: (See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).
*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:
*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).
*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’
*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.
* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.
* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.
* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2
* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega
* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108
* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998.
* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)
* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain.
wecan: Raw truth from elderly Yoruba man [size=18pt]JUST BEFORE THE DAWN; LET BIAFRA GO, LET BIAFRA BE. By Okesola Ajibola Olayemi[/size]
The United Kingdom (Britain) consisted of 5 kingdoms in the begining but today, the Welch, the Scotish, the Wales have gone their own ways and independently there are, ditto the old USSR. You dont impose it on people to live as one if they so decided to go, its a marriage of force by Lord Lugard when he (he wont rest in peace) amalgated us as a Nation. [size=14pt] I repeat here the Igbos have suffered in this country, let them be. The Yorubas must support the Igbos clarion calls of freedom and self independent for one good reason. The Northern oligacy jailed our revered father and the Asiwaju of the Yorubas by the power that be then. Gen Ironsi was the head of state, late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu (a war lock and my hero) gave Ironsi so many troubles to release Awo, Gen Gowon then the 2nd in command from the Northern part of this country will not hear a thing of this. Gen Ironsi courtesy of Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu persisted Awo must be released.
Gen Ironsi signed Awolowo released papers and he Gen Ironsi was murdered same day before the papers could reached the then Eastern Governor Odumegwu Ojukwu. He Ojukwu unilataterially release Awolowo and ordered the Eastern Region senior police officers to deliver Awo...the avater to his Ikenne home save and sound. ( Pls see this in Fredrick Froster book entitled 'Emeka' at page 62) For this singular act, i belong to Biafra. My age mates and i were educated free of any charges by the late sage free.
Let the Biafra be and stop shedding their bloods for God sake. The Oracle at West End, Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, South West Nigeria have spoken.[/size]
globalresource: I had rather advice my igbo brother to let go of this biafra ambition and join hands to make nigeria better. If at all biafra becomes a reality...it wont be a bed of rose...our politicians not yet mature for that
I will advice you never to make this statement in a public place in Biafra republic! Its stinking!
tonytony208: [center][/center] You are an unrepentant fool sha!
So it is Yoruba that perpetrated January 15 coup? So ironsi was Yoruba? So it was Yoruba that gave Kaduna nzeogwu the gun he used in murdering unarmed sadauna of sokoto? So, it was Yoruba who forced you into civil war?
You igbos will tell yourself anything just to make yourself look righteous.
I promise myself never to respond to any of your comments again. Your tribe is a very useless tribe. You only thrive on lies and self deceit. This lie is sure to send u into another civil war that you will lose. I wish there is a way of blocking monickers on naira land and I would have blocked you.
Miserable and demented Ab0ki ass-licker a.k.a frustrated disciple of anger, slavery, hate and propaganda from a juju-infested enclave, whining, weeping, wailing, yelling, cursing and gnashing his teeth in perpetuity at the mere mention of Biaf... [size=18pt] I Regret Fighting The Civil War [/size]-Akinrinade by mekusxxx:7:58pm On Nov 11, 2009
By Olayinka Oyebode, Assistant Editor and Emmanuel Oladesu, Deputy Political Editor
FORMER Chief of Defence Staff, Lt-Gen Alani Akin-rinade (rtd), yesterday regretted his role in the 1966 civil war.
He described the sacrifice as a waste of time.
Lt-Gen. Akinrinade said the post-civil war Nigeria was not a country of his dream.
The former Minister of Agriculture warned that the country risked imminent disintegration "unless true federalism is practised."
The retired officer joined other stakeholders to condemn corrupt practices in the country.
It was at the "New Nigeria Dialogue" organised as part of the activities marking the 55th birthday of the founder of Latter-Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos.
The ceremony was organised by the International Centre for Reconstruction and Development, a Non governmental Organisation (NGO).
Speakers, including Prof. Ropo Sekoni, Mr. Alfred Ilere, Chief Fred Agbe-yegbe and Mr. Tony Nnadi spoke on the theme: "The Nigerian Federation: Fundamental Flaws and Creative Reforms."
The event, which was chaired by the former governor of Lagos State, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd), was witnessed by former Governor Bisi Akande of Osun State, Dr Amos Akingba, Hon. Wale Oshun, Mrs. Jumoke Anifowose, Mr. Tokunbo Ajasin, Mr. Bisi Adegbuyi, Pa Adedapo Adeniran, Mr. Sam Ayedogbon, Mr. George Eke, Shettima Yerima and Mr. Yinka Odumakin.
Lt-Gen Akinrinade and other speakers rejected the 1999 Constitution, saying it was foisted on the country by the military.
To avert the collapse of the fledging federation, he canvassed restructuring of the country along the terms of the component units and a constitution that will promote true federalism.
The former minister said: "We must do constitutionally in Nigeria what Rawlings did in Ghana."
Reflecting on the journey from independence, Bakare agreed that the prediction about an imminent break-up of the country might be fulfilled "if urgent steps are not taken to address the grievances of the ethnic nationalities. "
He said Nigeria must learn from the disintegration of Soviet Union and Yugoslavia because they could not meet the expectation of the units.
Akande peeped into the future, saying perilous days were around the corner owing to the collapse of schools and health institutions.
Sekoni traced the tragedy of the nation’s federalism to the post-1966 period when the military foisted on the country a centralised system of administration.
Quoting the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, he said: "A multi-ethnic country can only realise its potentials when it embraces true federalism."
So it is Yoruba that perpetrated January 15 coup? So ironsi was Yoruba? So it was Yoruba that gave Kaduna nzeogwu the gun he used in murdering unarmed sadauna of sokoto? So, it was Yoruba who forced you into civil war?
You igbos will tell yourself anything just to make yourself look righteous.
I promise myself never to respond to any of your comments again. Your tribe is a very useless tribe. You only thrive on lies and self deceit. This lie is sure to send u into another civil war that you will lose. I wish there is a way of blocking monickers on naira land and I would have blocked you.
Miserable and demented Ab0ki ass-licker a.k.a frustrated disciple of anger, slavery, hate and propaganda from a juju-infested enclave, whining, weeping, wailing, yelling, cursing and gnashing his teeth in perpetuity at the mere mention of Biaf...
How I wish that the Nigerian people had their own Odysseus’ , Achilles’, Agamemnons and Hectors. How I wish they had their own ancient poets and great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Homer who could remind generations to come about our past exploits with their inspiring, compelling and historic prose.
Yet I look at the Nigeria of today and I am not encouraged or inspired. As a matter of fact I am deeply saddened. I see no heroes on the horizon but only questionable pretenders and fallen caricatures that have sold their heritage and destiny for a mess of porridge and that couldn’t give a fig about what history or posterity will say about them or their
Many have asked why I should say such things. Permit me to answer that pertinent question by posing a few of my own.
I start by asking: is this the Nigeria of Murtala Mohammed and Theophilius Yakubu Danjuma? Is this the nation that helped to liberate Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa?
Is this the nation that restored sanity and stability to Sierra Leone, that brought an end to a civil war in Liberia, that fought so gallantly in Burma and Somalia and that quelled a military coup in Sao Tome and Principe? Is this the nation whose wealth once knew no bounds and whose middle class once owned the finest cars and properties in London, Paris and New York? Is this the nation whose beautiful people once graced the streets of Belgravia, Chelsea, Hampstead and Knightsbridge?
Is this the country that once nationalized BP and that gave Margaret Thatcher sleepless nights over apartheid South Africa?
Is this the nation that once stood up to the mighty Boers and whose ancestors studied at Oxford and Cambridge as far back as the 1800’s?
Is this the nation whose inhabitants and various ethnic nationalities once ruled vast empires and whose progenitors contributed so much to the traditions, religion and culture of Ancient Egypt? Is this the country that once fought a bitter and brutal civil war, yet declared ”no victor, no vanquished” and, in the spirit of love, came back as one? Is this the country which has been through thick and thin and yet whose people remained ever so resilient and always put a smile on their faces?
Is this the country where giants once held court and where the greats of old once presided? Where did we go wrong? What has happened to our people and what has afflicted our country? When did our leaders become spineless cowards and deceivers? When did the green white green of our nation’s flag become soiled with human faeces and when was it torn to shreds?
When did we shy away from fighting our own battles and prosecuting our own wars? When did we start bowing our heads in shame as events unfold in our country? When did we start sitting down silently as international newscasters speak about our nation in painful, disdainful, hushed and condescending tones? What has happened to the ever courageous, ever smiling, ever confident and ever dependable Nigerian who shook the world with his arrogance and confidence and who spoke of his nation with pride and joy? What has happened to our great army that was once the pride of Africa and that once made us so proud? What has happened to our great intellectuals and our men and women of courage and vision who once, like a collosus, bestrode the world?
What has happened to the stubborn and proud yet warm, friendly and profoundly good people that Nigerians once were? What has happened to the people that were once regarded as the hope of Africa and the pride of every black man on the planet?
Where and when did we go astray? How and when did it all go wrong?
When did we lose our strength, our wealth, our honour and our power? When did we lose our excellence, our confidence, our dignity and our self-respect? When did we become so weak and so helpless? When did we turn into killers, savages and barbarians When did we become so pitiful that the whole world mocks us and heaps insults on us so easily? When did they start saying that we have ”no serious government”, that we have ”lost control of large portions of our nation” and that we can’t even protect our own children? When did we become incapable of defending our borders and protecting our people?
When did we turn into a laughing stock and a reference point for incompetence, stupidity, cowardice, ignorance, evil, cluelessness and all that is bad to the rest of the world?
When did other nations start giving us lessons on how to fight insurgency and how to prosecute our wars? When did our people start clamouring for foreign armies to enter our land, violate our sovereignty and march on our sacred soil? When did we start having to ask others to come and solve our local problems? O Nigeria, how are the mighty fallen. Truly ours is a nation afflicted. She is finished and there is little hope of any form of redemption or resurrection.
The honeymoon is over and the glory has departed. One hundred years of a forced and failed marriage has ended in a bitter yet undeniable divorce. We have lost it all and there is no going back. Those that wish to break up our nation for sport and bring our people to their knees have had their way.
Those that wish to watch us slaughter one another in an orgy of mindless violence and that wish to establish their AFRICOM in our shores will soon be here and we shall be occupied forever O Nigeria, how are the mighty fallen. I loved Nigeria but now I have stopped believing in her. She is saddled with many different sub- nations that were simply incompatible right from the start.
She is plagued and cursed with one particular sub-nation whose ruling elite are dangerous and unyielding, whose guile and deceit is second to none, who treat their own people with contempt and derision, who believe that they were born to rule, who think that power belongs to them, who suppress the religious and ethnic minorities within their ranks and who were taught from an early age that there was none besides them. Those people have killed Nigeria. They and those who have consistently bowed and trembled before them and who have always allowed them to have their way. Our nation has become a cruel joke- she is a maliciously contrived contraption that has shattered many dreams and frustrated many ambitions and aspirations. This was a country that was created for the benefit of just a few at the cost of the misery and pain of so many.
I will never accept the idea of living in a nation side by side with religious extremists who slit the throats of children, who habitually slaughter the innocents and who abduct and fornicate with small girls. Animals have no place in the homes of men.
It is time for us to stop pretending: let the terrorists and their friends in high places break away and establish their own country where they can marry as many young girls as they please and chop off as many limbs as they want. Let them form a nation where they can stone adulterers and turn women into chattels that are not even worthy of life.
Let those of us from the west establish Oduduwa and let us celebrate and enjoy our freedom from the bondage and ineptitude of a cruel failed state that has no soul and that lacks humanity and compassion.
Let us be liberated from the deceit that is known as Nigeria: a nation that once was but that is no more. Let us be free of Nigeria: a nation where injustice, evil, persecution, insensitivity, impugnity, terror, graft and wickedness reign supreme. Let us be rid of Nigeria: a country where those of us that had the misfortune of being born on the ”wrong” side of the regional divide or who are adherents of the ”wrong” religious faith are butchered for our heritage and can never be treated as equals. Give us Oduduwa or let us die. Yet we will eventually take our freedom by force if it is not freely given to us. We shall take it by fire: by the shedding of blood and by our own bleeding if necessary. We will take it by fire and by sacrificing our lives if that is what we are forced to do.
What we will never do is continue to live in perpetual slavery in a nation called Nigeria that is afflicted with feeble rulers and peopled by religious bigots, sexual deviants and bloodthirsty terrorists.
We shall not allow ourselves to be consummed by the weakness and ineptitude of our present-day rulers and the sheer incompetence of those that do not have the courage or the moral authority to crush the beasts that have abducted and enslaved our girls.
I have had enough. I say goodbye Nigeria: give them Biafra; give us Oduduwa or let us die.
tonytony208: ... Awolowo visited ojukwu few weeks before the war to appeal to ojukwu to allow dialogue instead of war, but ojukwu refused, no thanks to his pride, arrogance and lack of foresight.
So, you were expecting we Yoruba's to join with you and fight against the northerners? That will be very foolish. It is also unreasonable. Ojukwu's reason for going into that war was one of the stupidest reasons on earth. Ojukwu was selfish and self-centered. Why did I say that?
1. When aguiyi ironsi removed, by the way of coup, a civilian president, ojukwu did not say a thing, because things were working for the igbos LIE!
2. When your Igbo brothers in the army were killing Hausa and Yoruba soldiers and leaving Igbo soldiers unhurt, ojukwu kept quiet, because igbos were not hurt.
3. When the northerners were asking ironsi to punish perpetrators of the January 15 coup and ironsi was acting reluctant, ojukwu never said a word, because things were moving fine for the igbos.
4. But the moment ironsi was killed in retaliation by the northerners and a northerner in the perosn of General Gowon took over, that was when ojukwu suddenly woke up from his slumber. That was when he realised that igbos were being marginalised and killed. He only noticed that when the table turned against the igbos. ...
At every turn in event frustrated Yorubas have tried in vain to distort history by fabricating lies upon lies to assuage their impending doom.
Hypocritical liar, I kind of understand your fears and the miseries you're currently passing through, that the thing you most dreaded is about to happen in your life time when you least expected.
But for the sake of your readership you can do well by providing the credible sources of your cooked up stories.
bolabolakemi: [size=18pt]The Agitation Will not Stop Until Nigeria Recognizes Biafra – General Joe Achuzia [/size] 14th November 2015
The Agitation Will not Stop Until Nigeria Recognizes Biafra – General Joe AchuziaAchuzia-JoeGen. J.O.G. Achuzia (rtd) is a former officer of the Biafran Army. Now an elder statesman, he told PAUL OSUYI, in this interview in Asaba that it is time the Federal Government recognised that there was once a nation called Biafra. Excerpts:
Looking back, what do you think has changed between the time you along with others fought the civil war and now?
I am formerly of the Biafran Army and like all those that participated in the struggle, after the pogrom that took place in Nigeria in the late sixties, we thank God that that grueling war was over, and today we are trying to fashion a new Nigeria which unfortunately does not seem to click. And I believe that the problem is not a problem of knowledge of how to package the country but greed which is the common human disease that has infested the totality of Nigerian government, that is the problem we are facing at the moment.
You were on the side of Biafra during the civil war, what was the agitation like at the time?
In my days, there were no agitations, events were just happening. First, the issue was not that of the civilian public, it was merely a military problem. The politicians were busy politicking, out of the civilian politicking, the problem of the Western House started which led to a lot of blood letting by civilians in the West, that was around 1963/64. We considered the matter a Western regional political issue as at then. Before that could end, the military who had been to abroad for operation in the Congo came back and before you could say Jack Robinson, a coup took place. The mis-interpretation of the coup because of the Nigerian attitude which continues to persist till today, that Nigerian attitude is ethnicity. It is because of the ethnicity that has always been at the background that made our Northern brothers to ascribe the coup as an Igbo coup. Mis-management on the part of the military because of inexperience led to another counter-coup that cost the life of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces who in his zeal brought about the end of the coup, and those young officers that carried out the coup were quickly gathered up and incarcerated. All these were the background of events in my days when I was just in my early thirties, in fact, I was just stepping into my thirties.
Can you compare what is happening today, with respect to the agitation, to what happened in your days? [b] I will say there is a vast difference. Take for instance what happened a few days ago throughout the whole of the South-Eastern region. When I say South-Eastern region, it affected all the states in the South-East, all the states in the South-South. So, it is not a question of Biafra being a South-East problem or a South-South problem. It is the South-Eastern region of Nigeria because Nigeria was originally on a tripod of South-East region, South-West region and the Northern region. So, you can see that what took place, took us back to what Nigeria was during the first republic. It also has a different coloration because in the lower part of Benue and Adamawa, the areas in the north bordering the South participated, but this has a different coloration. Why I say that it has different coloration is that those who carried out the demonstration which was of course their right because the Constitution says so that every Nigerian has the right to freedom, of association and freedom to demonstrate so long as the demonstration is orderly are Nigerians. The people who demonstrated were from the ages of 40 downwards. The war ended over 40 years ago, that gives you, without much thinking the type of people we are talking about. These were children, half of them were born in Biafra at the time, and their birth certificates say they were Biafran citizens. When the war ended, Nigeria did not address this issue, reasons being that our counterparts who took it upon themselves to manage the affairs of reconstruction, rehabilitation and so on, made a terrible mistake. That mistake was that they did not look into the situation that existed because most of those born during the three and half years the war was going on were babies with Biafran birth certificates and exited the country as Biafrans. Now they are adults, and as far as they are concerned, where is Biafra? The Eastern region of the territory called Nigeria. They visited, saw the hostility and things not going right. Based on their perceived knowledge and intelligence, they felt the best thing is to reclaim our territory, maybe we will make it a model for the rest of Nigeria to follow, hence the agitation.[/b]
From your analysis, is the agitation or protest justified?
The justification of a situation depends on perception, one’s perception. Why I say one’s perception, I have just given you, told you who are the Biafrans and who are the people demonstrating. You will not see me or people that fought in the war of Biafra parading the streets in an attempt to bring back the hand of the clock, no. I repeat these are children whose identity, background and what makes a human being is your name, where you were born, the citizenship that you belong, that you were born in, that is what makes a human identity. So, are we trying to say that they are no more human beings or that they, all of a sudden, if they come back to Nigeria as they have come down now, for them to get that identity changed makes them virtually alien.
You said the Western House crisis of the sixties was a regional issue, there is the Boko Haram ravaging the North-East at the moment, and now how do you classify the pro-Biafra agitators?
It is a regional issue.
What should government do about it?
Without having to be repetitive in my recounting of events, I have said time and time again that there should be a round table conference where all cards from all the regions should be placed on the table with no question of no-go area. You see, the issue of ‘no go area’ is because of the dishonesty within the armed forces who crafted a Constitution within the military system. And when they came into government and perceived the lucre that exists within the civil governance, now translated from military to civil, it is almost like Myanmar, the country near India where we call Burma during the First World War and the Second World War. Myanma got independence through the military but the military made sure that any election, they say we give you right of election but after each election, they have a right to nominate 25 persons into the government whereby they choose which side they will support and give that 25 per cent to make it a majority party. That is what Nigeria has been suffering, Nigeria since 1966, after the coup had been subjected to the pressure of military Constitution. The military said they have suspended the Constitution, mark the word ‘suspension’ not abrogated. When you suspend something, it means that in the future, you will resuscitate it but the military exited without resuscitating the Constitution. My country men, the civil populace rushed into governance using the same military Constitution. The answer is very simple, the Constitution we are using till date is a military prepared Constitution. The civilians were so naive that instead on being told that the military has exited and they are now ready for civilian rule, the first thing they should do is suspend or abrogate the military Constitution, resuscitate the civil Constitution which was suspended. Constitution goes in succession, so the first thing is to abrogate the present military Constitution, no matter what favours who and what did not favour who. Resuscitate the original Constitution that we had, examine it, know how to amend it so that we know where we went wrong in the first place and stop tinkering with military Constitution which will take us nowhere.
The renewed agitation by the pro-Biafra groups came up after Buhari was sworn in as president, could it be a fall out of the March 28 Presidential Election which Goodluck Jonathan lost?
No! It is easy to attribute it to that but it is not. The agitation was going on while Jonathan was on seat, the agitation was going on while Yar’Adua was on seat. In fact, at one time, it was said that it was the MASSOB who were supporting the Ijaw militants. Like I said, the agitation is that there are certain people in the South-East and South-South who were born during the three and half year war, who did not know Nigeria, it is Biafra that they know. And it is difficult to wipe it off their psyche, these are the leaders of the demonstrations.
What is the place of Nnamdi Kanu in the Biafra configuration?
Nnamdi Kanu is one of these young men that I talked about, I doubt if he saw his father carry gun during the civil war but he has heard of it just as you have heard of it. Having heard that your father carried gun in defense of his territory called Biafra that belongs to them, are you going to exclude yourself? No!
The protest appears to be peaceful at the moment but where will it lead to, will it end up in arms struggle?
Nobody prays for arms struggle, it is only somebody who has never seen a war that clamours for war. And usually, it is only cowards that die many times before their death. Having participated in a grueling civil war, I would not wish it for anybody neither do I wish it for my children. Like I tell my children, the answer is not agitation but I will not ask you not to participate, to demonstrate, to show or to orchestrate your inner frustration. Frustration bottled up when it explodes, it is catastrophic. For that, even in civilized world, all over the world today, you find demonstrations going on, it is people who could not be pro-active to manage the demonstration that you find where problem arises – killings, fighting, destruction takes place. But I am glad and I will say kudos to the Nigerian Police this time. You see, I like people who keep their words and I believe the present crop of police officers, commissioners who are at the helm of affairs are more educated, better oriented and understands what it is all about. But most importantly there are children that were born immediately before the civil strife, and some born within the civil strife, who are Nigerians or Biafrans within the civil strife, and those born immediately after the civil war. So, they understand one another. I have the pleasure and opportunity of having interactions with some of these commissioners, my request is simple, it is the inalienable right of every citizen to demonstrate when they want as long as that demonstration does not lead to civil strife, the demonstration does not lead to destruction of public property. Once it is a peaceful demonstration, sheathe your sword, let your men be on the outside and watch events, if anything is destroyed, those demonstrating will pick the culprits and hand over to you. We are a civilized country, don’t let us behave as if we are in Dafur. This time, they obeyed the instructions, and do you know what I was hearing, people were calling me saying that they do not understand, so much crowd out for demonstration with the police walking side by side and nothing happening. You see, people thought that there would be explosion and killings, no! All they were asking the Federal Government was for the government to release our compatriot that you detained, have dialogue with our elders, our fathers are still alive, have dialogue with them and let us re-package Nigeria to accommodate everybody. If we do not get Biafra as an independent country, we can answer Biafra by name instead of being called South-Easterners.
How do you answer Biafra by name?
Is Arewa not northern-based? But they answer Arewa. All we ask is that the ancient name by which our forefathers were known when the Portuguese arrived within the 13/14th century that the people they met were Biafrans, hence the bight of Biafra. That name should not be lost because it is our heritage, we are not asking to exit Nigeria, of course not, we have a lot at stake in Nigeria. It is up to the government whether they change the name Nigeria to what it should be or what it should not be. But being called North-East, North-West, South-East is un-African.
What should the present Federal Government do to leave its footprints in the hearts of the people of Biafra?
What the Federal Government should do for us, we are not asking him to make all Igbos ministers, giving us ministerial appointment means nothing, that is individual acknowledgement, it does not reach the hearts of the people. First, we repeat, restructuring of Nigeria, Nigeria should be restructured and when we say restructuring, we mean exactly restructuring. At the moment, we have a lot of problems going on, initially, since the Boko Haram issue, things have been going wrong. The past government did not want to address it, it seems as if there are people who want strife to be going on this country. Suggestions have been made and I believe as I am speaking now, that there are people being killed in Berom and all those places in the Middle Belt by Fulani herdsmen. One soul lost either in the North, west or east is one soul lost in Nigeria. Any government or any leader that is insensitive to that is not a proper leader. What we need is a leader who is sensitive to our problem, our problem is not really what they say, corruption was inherited from the people who packaged Nigeria. They made it so, hence the introduction of ‘dash’ into our lexicon. When you do something for somebody, he gives you something and you say he dashed me, you partake in the proceeds of corruption under the guise of dash. If you imprison all the people that they say they cornered all the millions and billions, how do you get the money back? The countries where these monies were deposited can only promise that they will help you to collect the money. Reasons, those countries were unable to get their hands on those monies but through the efforts of the home government who tries to clean up corruption, it is the home government that tells the government outside that X person deposited so much money in your bank but banking procedure forbids even that country from tampering with the money. What they are waiting is for the home country to force their man to release the key that opens the treasure that had been lying in their vault. Once, that is there, it is a question of negotiation, we will take some and give you some. To us, that is not good enough, first of all let us try to put our country in order. It is only in Nigeria that we do not know the number of Nigerian citizens because no census exercise has been carried out that is reflective of the population. And each successive government tries to shield the corruption that existed in that enumeration. So, corruption is not cash only, corruption is in the approach of governance. Our civil service is extremely corrupt because they corrupted the civilian politicians.
In other words, the Federal Government should tackle corruption to leave an indelible mark in the hearts of Biafrans?
[b]Yes, because for a Biafran, a child of 40 years old, government says no matter what is your qualification, for you to get to certain employment, your must state name, age, sex, citizenship, local government, place of birth and so on. Having filled those forms, on interview, you are asked to bring your certificate of birth, and you produce it that you were born in Biafra, automatically you are rejected. Hence I said that the government must accept that Biafra existed, qualify it, give it a place within the ethos of Nigeria just like the Western region is asking for Oduduwa. Once this is done, we are all Nigerians but my territory where I come from, where I was born is Biafra. For a westerner, where he was born is known as Oduduwa. In the North- West, I am a Nupe man and so on. Why are we ashamed of answering the ancient names of our forefathers? Nigeria is a British concocted name, it does not reflect what and who we are, and as long as it does not reflect what and who we are, all hands can never be on deck to move it forward.
As the protest continued to be sustained, what is your advice for the young men and women involved?
My advice has always been same thing, I can’t tell them to stop protesting but most importantly, my advice will go to the government. For those you hold in detention, free them, let them go, let them emulate the way their compatriots who demonstrated on their behalf did this last weekend because if they are freed there will be no need for demonstration. That did not say that they will not demonstrate until they have their rights to call themselves Biafrans within Nigeria. We don’t like the word South-Easterners, we don’t like the word Eastern region, and we don’t like the word South-South zone. A people must have a proper identity. Why don’t they call Adamawa North-Eastern zone, it answers Adamawa, others answer Taraba and so on. Let us answer Biafra and we will hail the leadership to high heavens for just doing that, it is better than giving us millions, billions and trillions.[/b]
Miserable and demented Ab0ki ass-licker a.k.a frustrated disciple of anger, slavery, hate and propaganda from a juju-infested enclave, whining, weeping, wailing, yelling, cursing and gnashing his teeth in perpetuity at the mere mention of Biaf...
If you like, curse your father and mother. If you like, hit your already flat head against the wall. Na you sabi. I've made up my mind never to give your cursed self any attention anymore. You don't deserve attention.
The shows how idiotic anti-Brafra goons could think. The capital of Biafra could be situated at Opu Obu (Opobo) for all I care, the bottom line remains not to nation state that will include the idiotic goons that formed anti-Biafra clique.
can you just re-read what you just wrote , you want to situate your capital in rivers state , rivers is nt part of biafra , stay away from the oil , go and farm on our erosion infested land ,* BIAFRA IS NOT Feasible *
tonytony208: If you like, curse your father and mother. If you like, hit your already flat head against the wall. Na you sabi. I've made up my mind never to give your cursed self any attention anymore. You don't deserve attention.
Accursed fetish inbred savage of dirt and slavery, you most likely grew up without knowing who sired you. That should be the sole reason you rave wild like a castrated dog, without regards or manners.
But for the time being, just before your case gets out of hands, help yourself by engaging that your oblong cone-head and learn from other sensible beings.
Remember, a hypocritical liar is not worth living amongst mankind...
bolabolakemi: A Nigerian by the name of Kanmi Ola Falase, fed up with his people’s unusual obsession with anything anti-Igbo or anti-Biafra, took to social media to express his frustration and dislike at such mentality from South Western Nigeria:
“How about carrying placards and taking bullets for Oduduwa Republic, in lieu of denigrating Biafra? It’s one thing to be riled vehemently against the agitation for Biafra on Yoruba soil; it’s another thing to be reminding the Igbos of the borderline fictitious benefits they’d regret to relinquish if they rightfully remain implacable about Biafra and break away from nigeria; it’s a different thing to always abuse, taunt and threaten the Igbos with war and total annihilation for being rightfully hellbent on exercising their inalienable Natural Right to Self-Determination, as a landed or indigenous people looking to control their own destiny; hence desirous of calling it quits with the coerced, stifling, fruitless, irredeemable MI6/CIA joint venture, aka one nigeria.
Rightfully, the Yorubas may not be favourably disposed to Biafran agitations within the Yoruba space, but why rather is the tendency too common amongst the Yorubas to always howl and yelp against the Biafra agitations that are initiated and carried out in some other terra-firmas different from an organic catchment of Yorubaland? Ewo ni gbeborun-un ti Yoruba ninu oro? Why is it a concern for the Yorubas whether or not the Niger-Deltans would eventually allie with the Biafrans? Why are the numerous lots of latterday “directionless” Yorubas easily counted amongst the loudest choristers belching recurrent hymnals of putting up with the nigerian charade — on the appeal to cowardice discredited platter of being cautious of inevitable war? If some Yorubas don’t support Biafra, it would be rather much better to necessarily observe some humane and rational measure of neutrality, and not blindly copy the new fad of suicidal support for the prevailing grievous and utterly dire overcentralized political alternative in a useless one nigeria, as to be found miming the discredited chorus of corruption is the single main problem. Corruption is but a symptom of something far more foundational and treacherous: the irredeemable systemic miasma of an overcentralized multi-ethnic nigeria. The main and fundamental problem is the valueles ideal of an indivisible useless nigeria. There’s no point howling against any people who, by any means necessary, seek the resolution of the nigerian question into various truly independent, workable and vibrantly organic Pan-African republics; even less so for the beleaguered, yet disoriented, Yorubas to stand at the forefront of issuing out cowardly reprimands against the rightful agitations of any people desirous to foremostly take charge their own destiny, as against rather taking charge the Yoruba destiny.”
