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VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by saintopus(m): 7:07am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Some Igbo leaders, yesterday, blasted former Chief of Army Staff, General Theophilus Danjuma (retd) over his comments that if former Biafran Leader, late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, had conceded defeat quickly during the 1967-1970 civil war like President Goodluck Jonathan did after the 2015 presidential polls, Nigeria would have been saved one year of bloodshed. Danjuma spoke on Wednesday shortly after a closed-door meeting with President Jonathan, who visited him at his Abuja residence. He said the President averted civil war in the country by timely conceding defeat and congratulating Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a move he said Ojukwu failed to make and thereby causing the country avoidable blood shed. Coming at a time the Igbo are still seething over Oba of Lagos, HRM Rilwanu Akiolu’s threat that Igbo living in Lagos would drown within seven days in the Lagos Lagoon, if they did not vote his governorship candidate in tomorrow’s election, Danjuma’s comments elicited caustic criticisms. Reacting to Danjuma’s comments yesterday, some Igbo leaders accused him of ridiculing the president, insulting Ojukwu and continuing the genocide against the Igbo by other means. Among those who berated Danjuma are former Secretary- General of Ohaneze Ndigbo and officer in the Biafran Army, Col Joe Achuzia; Second Republic Politician, Chief Guy Ikokwu; botched Third Republic Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife and former Deputy National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chief Abia Onyike. He is no longer strong mentally – Ezeife Piqued at the comments, Ezeife said: ‘’I know Danjuma is not very well. So I am not surprised.’’ Igbo will respond – Ikokwu Alleging that Danjuma killed Nigeria’s first military Head of State, General Ajuiyi Ironsi (an Igbo), Ikokwu said General Danjuma will get a full response after the elections because by talking about Ojukwu, he is talking about the South-East and South- South geo-political zones, which constituted most of the former Eastern Region and later the defunct Biafra. His words: ‘’I don’t think we should take issues with Danjuma until after the elections. Jonathan went to him and not him to Jonathan. We shall respond to him.’’ Danjuma’s comments confirm the genocide against Igbo – Achuzia In his reaction, Col Joe Achuzia said: ‘’I am happy that my friend Danjuma owned up that there was bloodshed and pogrom against the people of Biafra. I don’t understand what he meant by Ojukwu conceding defeat. If the Federal Government had implemented the Aburi Accord, the bloodshed would have been avoided. ‘’Ojukwu believed in Aburi as the road map for peace at the time of the crisis but the Federal Government reneged on the agreement reached in Ghana. One does not concede defeat half way into a battle. Doing that would have amounted to cowardice. I don’t know where Danjuma got the idea of Ojukwu not accepting defeat from. He has little knowledge of the intricacies of the war. He didn’t even know the terrain of the Enugu that he talked about. If the necessities of capitulating were there, why did the war last for three years? I fought the war for three years and I know that the necessities were not there. Sometimes people talk for talking sake. ‘’The President’s visit to him was a private one and he should not have used that opportunity to insult all that Ojukwu stood for. To say publicly that the President was defeated was even a mockery of the President. It does not portray the President in good light. Of course what he said was an insult on Ojukwu. His reference to the fall of Enugu is laughable because the war was just starting then. Which military officer will surrender in that kind of situation even before firing a bullet? When some people make wrong comments on the civil war, I wonder what often inform their judgement. Ojukwu was a General and was right on all the decisions he took in the interest of the Igbo.’’ His comments ‘re diversionary – Onyike In a chat with newsmen in Abakaliki, Onyike, one-time commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ebonyi State, said it was most unpatriotic of Danjuma to make such comments at this point in the country’s political history. He alleged that Nigeria’s problem now is not from the Ndigbo but from Danjuma’s North-Eastern zone occasioned by the Boko Haram and Hausa/Fulani herdsmen insurgency, insisting that the General’s comments were mere diversionary tactics deployed to denigrate the integrity of Ojukwu. Onyike said: “In the first place, it was Danjuma that backed the spilling of the blood of the Igbo, with the killing of Aguiyi Ironsi in Ibadan in 1967 and we want to say that Danjuma belongs to the group of Army Officers who led the gruesome genocide and massacre of over three million Igbo during the Nigerian civil war. “We want to say that the problem with General T. Y. Danjuma is mainly psychological because at a time when some of them felt that they had become great statesmen and patriots for presiding over the attempted extermination of the Igbo, unfortunately for them, the Igbo people survived and have come to assert themselves and their identity in the Nigerian federation. “Secondly, a twist emerged in the Nigerian scene where people like Danjuma and the minority group where he comes from in the Northern have been subjected to the same gruesome murders by militant elements of the same northern oligarchy which they serve, and to that extent Danjuma cannot go to his village. “So, let him go and resolve that problem first because when Ojukwu was making them understand the nature of the Nigerian federation and the dangers inherent in the politics that was emerging, Danjuma preferred to be a surrogate. So let him stop using the Igbo to hide his inadequacies.” http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/criticism-of-ojukwu-achuzia-ezeife-ikokwu-blast-danjuma/ 7 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by VickJames(m): 7:17am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Don't mind him, Danjuma has passed the age of making sense. 13 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by AgentMS: 7:23am On Apr 10, 2015 |
I thought Ibos usually say they killed more soldiers? Is that not genocide in a way too? 20 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by micolaj: 7:26am On Apr 10, 2015 |
...people are naturally emotional rather than rational. Criticism is their greatest foe. They hate listening to the catastrophic tales of their self-caused war. 18 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by abduljabbar4(m): 7:35am On Apr 10, 2015 |
But Danjuma is right. These people are stupid 20 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by xpac01(m): 7:35am On Apr 10, 2015 |
We all have freedom of speech, but freedom after a speech (like this) I can't assure you -Idiamin 5 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Mynd44: 7:43am On Apr 10, 2015 |
VickJames:You do realize that Danjuma was right right? If the war ended faster less people would have died 18 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by macpetrus(m): 7:45am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Hmmm |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by lovat(m): 7:46am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Danjuma is getting a large dose of what they did from these Hausa Fulani herdsmen and BH. People like Danjuma are the real problem of this country 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by lovat(m): 7:53am On Apr 10, 2015 |
abduljabbar4:cramjones, why are you still acting stupid with this your new moniker, go get a life and start acquiring sense cos you need it in quantum 12 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by VickJames(m): 7:54am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Mynd44: For humanitarian reason, yes. The Biafran army had a fair chance a year before the end of the war. 1 Like |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Mynd44: 7:56am On Apr 10, 2015 |
VickJames:Look let's stop being nice and fave the facts, there was no way Ojukwu would have won that war. It was implausible. The entire might of the FG against them? 12 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by omenka(m): 7:59am On Apr 10, 2015 |
People talk too much. The noise is getting deafening in Nigeria honestly. |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Menace2Society(m): 8:03am On Apr 10, 2015 |
No comment |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by VickJames(m): 8:03am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Mynd44: Yes, based on the fact that they were fighting 1 against 4. But you will still give them a plus for pushing the Nigerian army as far as Ondo. It wasn't a war to win, it was a war to be free. 14 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Sibrah: 8:04am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Why is it that the Igbos always try to align with the south-south? 10 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Nobody: 8:13am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Sibrah:they want to attach to our oyel. Bloody thieves. 20 Likes 1 Share |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Mynd44: 8:17am On Apr 10, 2015 |
VickJames:Did they really push the Nigerian army back or was the Nigerian army not willing for an all out war against their own? Whatever the answer was, to be free, you have to win. Winning was not possible, sacrificing people to slow down defeat was pointless and silly 13 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by pazienza(m): 8:18am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Segeggs: Yoruba man talking about oil, perhaps you mean the rotten oil in your Gbegiri and Amala soups. *grins* Meanwhile, the SE/SS will remain inseparable, as long as we have Igbo speaking indigenous tribes there. Achuzia and Nzeogwu are bonafide SS men! Even Wike is going back to his roots, calling for SS/SE unity. 16 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Samchelsea(m): 8:21am On Apr 10, 2015 |
People tend to forget that what Ojukwu did was to defend his people from the oppressors who wanted to exterminate the Igbo race from Nigeria, it wasn't a fight to win but a fight to freedom and tell them that the igbos are not cowards and slaves but a people who knows what they stand for and go for what the believe in.....An Aburi peace accord was signed in Ghana but the Nigeria govt refused to sign and abide by it instead they wanted to destroy the Igbo people and yet someone says Ojukwu should have surrendered. The evidence of what Ojukwu fought for in that war is still happening in Nigeria Today 21 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by pazienza(m): 8:24am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Mynd44: Only Cowards surrender in a war without giving it their best shot! The world history is littered with disadvantaged armies winning their more advantaged opponents, they didn't win by surrendering. The casualties in Biafra war wasn't soldiers, it was civilians being killed by the Nigerian soldiers, and the rest being starved by the food embargo. Those are unconventional means of fighting a war, that was not supposed to happen, but the British sanctioned it! Ojukwu decision to fight to the end remain legitimate. 18 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by VickJames(m): 8:25am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Mynd44:You might think that fighting wasn't the right path to take but the available option on ground then, fighting was best. How do you explain almost 30,000 igbos killed in the north? These men were out to exterminate them from the north and they said we should remain as one? Who does that? If not for the help of "super-powers" supporting the Nigeria end, we would've atleast created a border to hold them away. I think that was the plan. The war wasn't fought to defeat Nigeria, but atleast create a border to stop them till we find a way to create a proper sovereignty. 11 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Nobody: 8:27am On Apr 10, 2015 |
pazienza:there's oil in ondo, ogun and lagos, but we don't like to talk about it. Google up pazienza:when are you going to get over the falsehood of a SS/SE alliance? It was just a one night stand cos GEJ the fuckerr has abandoned SE the fuckee. Or have you seen him visit your region to thank you use and dumps? pazienza:wike is using you thesame way Just kidding is. These men don't give a fvckk about ndigbo. Ndigbo is like a prostitute, use and dump. 14 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Samchelsea(m): 8:27am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Segeggs:that is the problem with you SS people, look at how your son was kicked out of the presidency by the western and northern alliance whom have been using your oil to enrich themselves, the SE you hate so much were the only region who stood and went down with the president, until you people realize whom your real enemies are then you will continue hating the SE, mind you a northerner is in power now and in 2016 when the allocation of the oil wells are allocated you will know what the northerners have in place for you people 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by koma1(m): 8:28am On Apr 10, 2015 |
It's a pity that people like ojukwu are celebrated in this country. 7 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Mynd44: 8:31am On Apr 10, 2015 |
pazienza:No. Only cowards decide to keep throwing bodies at the enemies in the hope of slowing them down. You can not fight a war with a power bigger than you and you think you can win based on bravery alone. Ojukwu was totally unprepared for that war and to have kept on throwing lives was not just right. 14 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Nobody: 8:32am On Apr 10, 2015 |
pazienza:@bold. Are you serious? Thesame ojukwu that fled to abidjan in a female attire? 20 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Mckennedy: 8:32am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Danjuma could have talked when ojukwu was alive? I never heard Danjuma coughed a day..that reminds how Ojukwu beat hell out of him.. 8 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Mynd44: 8:35am On Apr 10, 2015 |
VickJames:30,000 killed in the North is not forgivable I give that but throwing more lives and risking that of women and children to prove a point is also unforgivable. Forget the "Super powers" outside support comes with war, America had support going into Iraq and Afganistan. There was no way they could have created a border that wont be eventually taken down the the federal forces decide to unleash the entire army. Remember they took Delta back in waht was described as a "Police action" General Ojukwu went into a gun fight with a letter opener and was too damn proud to run away so he can fight another day 4 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by MugabeRobert: 8:39am On Apr 10, 2015 |
pazienza: The coward used innocent and hopeless children as human shield and propaganda tool at the beginning while his kids were feeding fat but when Black Scorpion was closing on him he ran to Abidjan. We saw Gaddafi fighting side by side his people and equally saw Saddam Hussain riding till the end but Ojukwu said he running to Abidjan to seek for peace. Uh! What peace are going to seek you coward after watching a record 3 million souls wasted? No wonder his father inlaw C.C Onu tagged him the cantankerous coward in his book. Fighting to the end, indeed. 14 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by Nobody: 8:39am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Mckennedy:danjuma was among the soldiers that made ojukwu flee to abidjan. Go and read the history. 10 Likes |
Re: VANGUARD: Danjuma’s Comments Confirm Genocide Against Igbo – Achuzia by MugabeRobert: 8:48am On Apr 10, 2015 |
Mckennedy: If there's any single individual that can lay claim to winning and beating the Biafrans during civil war that person is T.Y Danjuma! Stop talking midnight folktales passed onto you by your parents serious. 11 Likes |
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