Malawian: @ Tunnytox, thanks for your answer, i suppose half bread is better than none. I am still waiting for cyberg to answer my questions. (1) 20 Pounds: ofcourse i didnt expect an iota of truth from any yoruba mouth as regards the 20 pounds policy. While your hero was robbing our monies blind (while shouting "egbe omo oduduwa" he found a way to balance the books with his 20 pounds policy. Now it is gowon that did 20 pounds and not awolowo, Abi?. (2) Poison: dont you think awo knows all about poisons seeing that he drank the tea of life himself? This is not heresay, google it. There are even U.N reports about that episode. The only person going to hell is the person who refuses to accept his sins and seek atonement for them. (3) Companies: so yoruba turned nigeria owned companies; hitherto dominated by igbos into yoruba owned companies and fully occupied by yorubas? Was this also gowon's policy? Now for the question all of you have been skipping, i ask again, did banjo avoid northern soldiers to be killing fellow yoruba civilians? Yes or no.

Malawian: @ Tunnytox, thanks for your answer, i suppose half bread is better than none. I am still waiting for cyberg to answer my questions. (1) 20 Pounds: ofcourse i didnt expect an iota of truth from any yoruba mouth as regards the 20 pounds policy. While your hero was robbing our monies blind (while shouting "egbe omo oduduwa" he found a way to balance the books with his 20 pounds policy. Now it is gowon that did 20 pounds and not awolowo, Abi?. (2) Poison: dont you think awo knows all about poisons seeing that he drank the tea of life himself? This is not heresay, google it. There are even U.N reports about that episode. The only person going to hell is the person who refuses to accept his sins and seek atonement for them. (3) Companies: so yoruba turned nigeria owned companies; hitherto dominated by igbos into yoruba owned companies and fully occupied by yorubas? Was this also gowon's policy? Now for the question all of you have been skipping, i ask again, did banjo avoid northern soldiers to be killing fellow yoruba civilians? Yes or no.

Tinyemeka:

I've followed your every single post right from when you originated this thread and it's a pity that despite your self-acclaimed pseudo-education, you still can't tell the difference between a common and a proper noun. I pity your parents in their old age. That's if they are still alive. I wonder what other deceptions you've been passing on to the people around you.

Keep forming neutral argumentator. I was not around in 1967 and from what I read about the war, your greenish, slimy, mono-chromatic figment of a reasoning faculty can't comprehend anything I wish to state in response to your dumb cesspit of a question. I can't dignify your demented reasoning with any response.

Keep up the deception bro. You really represent and do your people proud. Thumbs up.

CyberG:

A curse follows you and your generation for EVEN mentioning my parents! Do you have parents at all or you are just a bastard born by a sow or bit.ch?? What a cretinous reptile! If you were not born in 1967, then sit yo ass down and maybe you will learn something in your miserable life! That you are tiny and short in life does not mean your brain must be tiny and you will wipe your tiny existence with your useless mouth! What kind of response does a self-admitted ignoramus give to a question like this that is so, so above your paygrade!? Never open your putrid mouth near my post again! Anuofia! Fvking black Reptile!

Tinyemeka:

I've followed your every single post right from when you originated this thread and it's a pity that despite your self-acclaimed pseudo-education, you still can't tell the difference between a common and a proper noun. I pity your parents in their old age. That's if they are still alive. I wonder what other deceptions you've been passing on to the people around you.

Keep forming neutral argumentator. I was not around in 1967 and from what I read about the war, your greenish, slimy, mono-chromatic figment of a reasoning faculty can't comprehend anything I wish to state in response to your dumb cesspit of a question. I can't dignify your demented reasoning with any response.

Keep up the deception bro. You really represent and do your people proud. Thumbs up.

Dede1:



Please do not waste your precious time on Cyberfool.

afam4eva: On a more serious note, I would have loved If Banjo had not been killed. I feel he was doing what he thought was best for both parties but unortunately he was dealing with the military who had a code and failure to live by the code would get one killed, so he got what he bargained for.

T9ksy:


And would that, perchance, be the same "military code" which allowed a general to abandon his soldiers and people

on the battlefield as he fled for his DEAR life, in the middle of the night to another country?

He returned years later and was hailed a HERO!!!

afam4eva:
Ojukwu understood the code very much and that's why he handed over to his second in command(Effiong) before going on exile.

Of course, Ojukwu understood the military code to the letter T, afterall he is a military man.

That must explain why he hid in the bush for hours on end before eventually boarding the plane that took him to abidjan.

That must also explain why he dressed as an ugly bearded T-girl to facilitate his escape from biafra.

T9ksy:


Of course, Ojukwu understood the military code to the letter T, afterall he is a military man.

That must explain why he hid in the bush for hours on end before eventually boarding the plane that took him to abidjan.

That must also explain why he dressed as an ugly bearded T-girl to facilitate his escape from biafra.

afam4eva:
Isn't it your favourite pastime to turn everything into a comic relief when everything else fails. Soothe yourself.

T9ksy:

Pardon me, i didn't mean to joke about it however I just want to clear the ambiguity in your post.

You claimed failure to live according to the military code necessitated Banjo's death and i wondered out loud what is the punishment

for a general who also failed woefully to live by the military code. Unless of course, you want to convince me that a general going AWOL

(during fierce battles and when his life is clearly on the line), is permissible in our military code, hence ojukwu was and is still hailed,

an HERO.

remark D: is it in you guys' nature to double speak and not make sense? especially when trying to talk down on another tribe? i really wonder atimes, immediatgely after being told he officially handed over to his second in command, then you write that he went on AWOL... i mean... is it that you dont know the meaning of awol or you are just so desperate to score tribal points?
is why some people just ignore you guys and i wont even be responding if not that i have sworn not to see a lie and let it pass on nairaland (about Igbos) becausee this was how i believed all the lies i was reading in the papers while in Nigeria (because people - Igbos - werent coming out to refute them), only to now start realizing they were all false. i wont keep quiet anymore to let you deceive any gullible minds by p osting lies on the internet.

so the moment i point out your lies, i'll let you be because i know you wont take the truth, since you've made up your mind to believe falsity.

and have you, by the way, found what in my previous post made you call me a tribalist? if you couldn't find any, dont you think you should at least apologize?
(i aint holding my breath though...)

When Biafra's military resistance collapsed, [size=28pt]Ojukwu fled to Côte d'Ivoire[/size].

Efiong assumed leadership in this situation of turmoil, starvation, and collapse. He became Head of State of Biafra on 8 January 1970 and on 12 January announced surrender.[1]

At the time of the surrender, Efiong believed that the situation was hopeless and that prolonging the conflict would have led only to the further destruction and starvation of the people of Biafra. At that time Effiong said, "I am convinced now that a stop must be put to the bloodshed which is going on as a result of the war. I am also convinced that the suffering of our people must be brought to an immediate end."[1]

Nnaemeka L. Aneke wrote, "General Efiong’s handling of Biafra’s surrender is one of the most tactical and devoted maneuvers ever seen on the Nigerian scene. Those who do not appreciate the depth of it may not have appreciated what was at stake as Biafra capitulated."[2] Many observers had expected wholesale retribution at war's end.
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Later life


In a 1996 interview, Efiong reflected on those events:

I have no regrets whatsoever of my involvement in Biafra or the role I played. The war deprived me of my property, dignity, my name. Yet, I saved so many souls on both sides and by this, I mean Biafra and Nigeria. . . .

I felt that I played a role which has kept this country united till today. . . .

At the end of it all when I saw they (Biafran soldiers) could no longer continue and [size=28pt]Ojukwu had fled[/size], I did what was ideal after wide consultation . . . [2]

Efiong died 6 November 2003, at the age of 78 less than two weeks before his 79th birthday.

dayokanu:

The b1nch fled the war front and left the populace to die

What a shame to war generals

dayokanu:

The b1nch fled the war front and left the populace to die

What a shame to war generals

afam4eva: I can't believe people actually entertained the tomfoolery of Nairaland's resident f00l in the person of Cyber G. One would have thought that the 1diot in him will address the honest replies given by people in the best way they understand what went wrong between Ojukwu and Banjo but the pseudo animal in him would not let him behave normal. He resorted to dishing out insults like someone who's a product of a low-sperm-count and bad upbringing put together. I guess that's why he's still washing dead bodies or a living in london. What job is let or someone who's level of mental poverty is higher than the total number o medals won in the olympics.

On a more serious note, I would have loved If Banjo had not been killed. I feel he was doing what he thought was best for both parties but unortunately he was dealing with the military who had a code and failure to live by the code would get one killed, so he got what he bargained for.

CyberG:

Gremling-dumpling reptile, who are you again? Haaa....the 4eva loser! LOL...why not haphazard a guess at the question since you cannot even tell your left from right to save your life. Now, go and answer the question and then open your own thread where we can discuss your permanent foolishness! This thread was to collate knowledge but losers like you and co have nothing to offer...no need for abuse anyway. Just answer the question!

afam4eva:
What have you done with the answers that has been provided by numerous individuals on this satanic thread created by one of his demons. You're a sadist and a bigot that deserves at least three bullets in close range but I doubt anyone would waste a bullet on a nonentity like you considering the fact that you wash dead bodies for a living and also have a part time job of spraying people perfume for a living after they've used the toilet.

CyberG:

A curse follows you and your generation for EVEN mentioning my parents! Do you have parents at all or you are just a bastard born by a sow or bit.ch?? What a cretinous reptile! If you were not born in 1967, then sit yo ass down and maybe you will learn something in your miserable life! That you are tiny and short in life does not mean your brain must be tiny and you will wipe your tiny existence with your useless mouth! What kind of response does a self-admitted ignoramus give to a question like this that is so, so above your paygrade!? Never open your putrid mouth near my post again! Anuofia! Fvking black Reptile!

CyberG:

A curse follows you and your generation for EVEN mentioning my parents! Do you have parents at all or you are just a bastard born by a sow or bit.ch?? What a cretinous reptile! If you were not born in 1967, then sit yo ass down and maybe you will learn something in your miserable life! That you are tiny and short in life does not mean your brain must be tiny and you will wipe your tiny existence with your useless mouth! What kind of response does a self-admitted ignoramus give to a question like this that is so, so above your paygrade!? Never open your putrid mouth near my post again! Anuofia! Fvking black Reptile!

blocker:


CyberG na wa to u oh!

CyberG:

Why don't you be fair and see his comment was a direct attack, even mentioning my folks he CANNOT look in the eye in real life? It is hard to let those things go. In any case, I am still open to reading different views on this innocuous question and your comments are appreciated.

Noiseless2: Crime loving YORONGBATICO like LOCOMOTIVO,why not ask malam farouk who has been striping wuru wuru awolowo naked recently.While you are on in ask him to speak out on why tunde idiagbon was poisoned at babangida's residence for "tea gathering" with blessing of obasonjo,only a person with a thicker cowardly blood do turn around to scream at Igbos about the nigeria-Biafra war, and keep mute when the hausa/fulani continue brag about how they have been keeping by force in their very abusive marriage with you. Continue your predictable YORONGBATICO noise or sound na you go tire.

That the troops were in no condition to fight because they could not be controlled anymore

CyberG:

You make no sense! In fact noiseless = SENSEless!!

Noiseless2: You sound so id!otic and cowardly NOISE making as usual and no surprise about since it's the nature of 99.9% of Yorubas, that's what i meant by YORONGBATICO/LOCOMOTIVE TRAIN,i hope i have made myself clear.

CyberG:

Even more senseless! Stupi.d reptile, try again!! While at it reduce taking ibos name to the gutter!!!