Ngodigha1: This is interesting. Please can you give us a clickable link.
If I see a yorugbaman and a snake, which one do you think I will kill first?.

CyberG: Iboz come to cry Nigeria another ocean! Pathetic lice! Cry until you are dead but when you try your madness of war again, you will beg for Chief Awolowo but you will NEVER find! To say that rebellious iboz will be annihilated would be an understatement. All this caritas, red cross, food corridor nonsense will never happen. There will be no time to capture ibo POWs. Every inch of iboland will be removed from the earth and bombed into craters!!

ACM10: I want to pay General Madiebo a visit. Can anyone link me to the general? I would want to discuss a whole range of issues with him. Our elders knows a lot, but chose to keep mum. Now, they are dying with the truth. Since information abhors vacuum; other tribes are cashing in to fill the information gap with their revisionist version.

I learnt last week that Awolowo was secretly negotiating with NPC while he was in active negotiation to form a coalition government with NCNC. Can you imagine that depraved character?! Yorubas including Katsumoto were telling us that Awo offered Zik the position of Prime minister but he chose to align with NPC. Now we've seen that Awo was a split personality and bold-faced liar who cannot be trusted.

Dede1 recently exposed Katsumoto by quoting a British document on 1957 constitutional conference which negates their claim that Zik threw away the seccession clause and chose to wait for the north to be ready before the independence.

I'm bewildered on why Ndigbo chose to sit on top of the truth and allow Yorubas to assign us many damaging roles in the historical events. I'm disappointed with our elders.

Dede1:


I lived in Yoruba land for years and had the opportunity to study personal demeanor of the people. Yoruba people are very crafty, noisy, pompous and cunning. Also, they are much focused and will do anything to achieve their personal ends especially when the pride of the ethnic group is at stake. If propagating a blatant falsehood will swing the advantage to Yoruba, even the Oba will support such idea.

Ndigbo are quiet, clever and calculated. Also Ndigbo are number one enemy of them. It is most likely that Igbo person could be the first to deny his\her cultural identity to impress an onlooker. He\she will be the first to challenge a story told by another Igbo person while providing the most fallacious rebuttal to the original story.

I remembered when you wrote that Francis Fajuiyi was hero because he, Fajuiyi, wanted to die with Ironsi. Nothing could be farthest from truth than the ridiculous conjecture accredited to Fajuiyi by the 1967 western Nigeria regional government publication. When I met Flt A Nwankwo, ADC to Ironsi, in Lagos, and called his attention to such crap, he laughed and told me that Fajuiyi would have disowned such crap if he, Fajuiyi, was alive.

One of the worst things you want to do is fight for the love or attention of a young and beautiful girl with a Yoruba peep. The Yoruba peep will mortgage his father’s house, volunteer to wash the girl’s undergarments and cook amala and ewedu for the girl in order to win the attention of the girl.

inufele2: Igbos chase away the south Camerounians by their bad behaviour, greediness and domineering attitude. The same attitude that make them execute the Igbo coup of 1966, these south Camerounians see ahead what many other Nigerians fail to see about Igbos, I'm sure the people will be thanking their fore fathers saving them from these persistent leeches.

Katsumoto: Why won't these chaps let history be? They blame everyone else but themselves. Southern Cameroun was tied to the Eastern Region. If Southern Cameroun had been treated fairly by the Eastern region, they would have voted to remain with Nigeria just as Northern Cameroun did. The vote by the Southern Cameroun was a rejection of the Eastern region but these guys keep lying.


British Cameroons was ruled from Nigeria until 1954, when members of the Southern Cameroons in the Nigerian Eastern House of Assembly walked out and returned to Buea, capital of Southern Cameroons, where they formed a thriving parliamentary democracy which lasted until 1961. From 1954 then, the Southern Cameroons was self-governing, with its government, Prime Minister, parliament, judiciary and House of Chiefs. It conducted its first free and fair election in which power changed hands peacefully in 1959.

In pursuance of this idea of “independence by joining”, a UN-organised Plebiscite was held in the Southern Cameroons on 11 February 1961 in which the following questions were put to the Southern Cameroons people: “Do you wish to achieve independence by joining the independent Federation of Nigeria?” or “Do you wish to achieve independence by joining the independent Republic of Cameroon?” The People of Southern Cameroons voted to “achieve independence by joining the Republic
of Cameroon”.

Of course, the Plebiscite was merely a mechanism used by the United Nations to discover the intention of the People of Southern Cameroons. The proposed partners for joining, Nigeria and Republic of Cameroon, were not part of this consultation and quite clearly also, the determination of this choice by the UN could not be the implementation of the choice.
Another link

Southern Cameroons was therefore administered from Enugu, which was the headquarters of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. Under this administration Southern Cameroons suffered ‘Ibo domination.’ The Ibo established control over Southern Cameroons who were then badly discriminated against.

When the first parliamentary elections were organised in the territory to choose representatives to the Eastern Regional House of Assembly and Federal House in Lagos, Southern Cameroonians walked out in protest at the inequalities and declared Benevolent Neutrality in Nigerian politics.

This then led to the holding of the first Southern Cameroons Conference in Mamfe in 1953. Attendees at the Conference adopted a petition which they addressed to the United Kingdom Government demanding separate regional status in conformity with Southern Cameroons’ status as a UN Trust territory. It was from this point that Southern Cameroons nationalism sense of born.

http://lydiaandbernard./cameroon-a-brief-history/


Another Link

Following a dispute within the Eastern House of Assembly in Enugu in May 1953, nine out of 13 delegates from the Southern Cameroons, who had originally been elected on the platform of the National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), opted for ‘neutrality’, claiming that they were not Nigerian. Mr. S. T. Muna, the only Southern Cameroonian in the Eastern Executive Council at that time was actually dismissed. This crisis led to the name change from “National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons”, as the NCNC was then known, to “National Council of Nigerian Citizens.”

ak47mann: Meanwhile, the Igbo do not seek his permission or anybody's permission for that matter to live and thrive in Lagos. Igbo who came to Lagos, and who reside everywhere in Nigeria do so because they can. They are Nigerians and have a right to live and prosper anywhere in Nigeria and be protected under the laws of Nigeria.

They do not need the magnanimity or permission of Ayo Opadokun who himself is a settler in Lagos much like the Igbo residents. Ayo Adebanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, Biyi Durojaiye, and Ebenezer Babatope all threw their hats in the ring in challenge of Chinua Achebe's view of their idol.
But it seems as though against Achebe's articulate and textured views, these are Calibans learning their first curse-words against their master! They "cuss out" the writer, Achebe, but they are yet to contradict him. It is not just enough to defend Awolowo. It is important to defend him with facts; to show that Achebe has lied against him. But the evidence is too compelling. Achebe has not lied against Awo.

Katsumoto:

ak47mann: Meanwhile, the Igbo do not seek his permission or anybody's permission for that matter to live and thrive in Lagos. Igbo who came to Lagos, and who reside everywhere in Nigeria do so because they can. They are Nigerians and have a right to live and prosper anywhere in Nigeria and be protected under the laws of Nigeria.

They do not need the magnanimity or permission of Ayo Opadokun who himself is a settler in Lagos much like the Igbo residents. Ayo Adebanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, Biyi Durojaiye, and Ebenezer Babatope all threw their hats in the ring in challenge of Chinua Achebe's view of their idol.
But it seems as though against Achebe's articulate and textured views, these are Calibans learning their first curse-words against their master! They "cuss out" the writer, Achebe, but they are yet to contradict him. It is not just enough to defend Awolowo. It is important to defend him with facts; to show that Achebe has lied against him. But the evidence is too compelling. Achebe has not lied against Awo.

The Wilson invitation, Haffner said, came after the Commonwealth Ministers Conference which took place in Nigeria the week preceding the coup.

Ironsi, he said, also allowed people like Francis Nwokedi, a onetime Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and his colleague, one Eneli, to mislead him. Ironsi, he said, had the nail in his coffin when he, in a nationwide television broadcast, declared Nigeria a unitary military state.

He also questioned why people of Eastern origin such as Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dennis Osadebey, and Michael Okpara were spared. In Azikiwe‘s case, he supported his assertions by making references to a write-up in The Guardian of May 18, 1999 written by Kafundu Ajuluchukwu in which Ajuluchukwu alleged that Azikiwe was warned by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, his nephew; and one of the brains behind the coup.”

ACM10:
When Madiebo's account favours your line of argument, he becomes a credible historian. But when it conflicts with your line of thought, he becomes a liar.

You claimed that it was Zik who struck out the seccession clause from the constitution. You could not put up a credidble defence when you were exposed as liar.

You started a thread to assail Sanusi claiming knowledge of economics. Yet you don't know the economic indices which affects the strength of a currency.

You claimed that Awolowo offered Zik the position of prime minister when Awo was secretly negotiating with Sardauna to form a coalition. When you were busted; you labelled Awos trescherous act "politicking". You later went eeriely silent on that issue.

You continue to shamelessly dance unclad in this forum with your revisionism. You can never make your point without diminishing the other person. You must call the other historian liar as if you have a first hand account of the event. Only your account is correct cos you have monopoly of history.

You claimed that Ifeajuna is a cousin to Zik, much to the chagrin of some of us who grew up in Onitsha. When you were challenged, you called on Ajuluchukwu as if he he has an exclusive knowledge of the two families.

You went berserk yesterday, quoting article from nigerdeltacongress and dawodu. I only felt sorry for your outward show of desperation. Why can't you research deeper on a topic instead of spamming the thread with junk articles?

You continue to dance around on the forum from one position to another like your demi-god Awo. Shifting the goalpost whenever you are busted. You only deserves our pity.

Dede1:


Please do not pay any attention to the usual “copy and paste” crap the poster is noted. It is unfortunate most Nigerians can read but comprehend the underlying issue of the subject matter. If the southern Cameroonians looked up to Enugu instead of Lagos, the political patronages due to them would have been readily available. British, in their cunning and deceptive ways, annexed Southern Cameroon to Eastern region and administer it from Lagos. It was after 1953 London Conference that Southern Cameroon was granted regional autonomy and administrative headquarter moved from Lagos to Buea. It could take a very competent and unbiased reader to figure out the deceitful mechanism setup by British to engender instances discord between easterners and southern Cameroonians.

Olaolufred:

Dayokanu,
Kindly try to make reference.
As they will not believe your point untill you prove it with references.
When a man chose to believe lies, you need to naked that lies before He can be fully disarmed.
You know the people you are dealing with.
Just try.

Katsumoto:




I suppose the British were also responsible for the Easterners removing the only Camerounian in the Eastern executive council from office. Those damned British and their mind tricks.

Dede1:


I guess you have lost your mind on this issue. It would have been proper if you had supplied the name of regional minister in your reference. I hope he was not whom I thought.

Katsumoto:

Another Link

Following a dispute within the Eastern House of Assembly in Enugu in May 1953, nine out of 13 delegates from the Southern Cameroons, who had originally been elected on the platform of the National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), opted for ‘neutrality’, claiming that they were not Nigerian. [b][size=14pt]Mr. S. T. Muna, the only Southern Cameroonian in the Eastern Executive Council at that time was actually dismissed.[/size] This crisis led to the name change from “National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons”, as the NCNC was then known, to “National Council of Nigerian Citizens.[/b]”