Lushore1:


Why do you as a biafrans want to associate with nigerias that you claimed to hate.

Rotimi47:
We won't buy them as your CFO's will be revoked & you will have to auction your remaining properties/businesses at give away prices.

You're on a long thing if you think you can eat your cake & still have it.

jpphilips:



If you have never heard Lunatic Nnamdi Kanu referring to Niger delta as Biafra land then you are Deaf by default.
He said that Buhari was bombing Calabar Biafra land, what exactly does he mean by that?

Yujin:

If we can't sell them then we will destroy the immovable ones.

rhymaster:


Now you are talking with sense for the first time of any Ibo. Just leave, destroy it, carry it on your head, burn it down, etc; we don't just care or give a damn. Just be gone to iboland where you will be surrounded 360 degrees by a stronger, militarily conscious Nigeria while Biafra will not be allowed to produce any weapons, just table knives. No raw materials or facilities for military purposes will ever be allowed to fly in or out. We will destroy any flight out of Biafra that is not authorized to enter Nigerian airspace, searched and cleared before take off.

Rayhut:
Nigeria as a country was built on wrong foundation, even the British, US knew that Nigeria will break up one day. UK has 4 countries in it, eg Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Island, then ask yourself why they cannot be one country like Nigeria, USA has all it states operating as a semi independent country, immigration law in Texas is not the same with California, China has Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and Macau as part of China which are all semi independent, without confederation in Nigeria there will be no peace, Nigeria need to go back to Aburi peace accord, Nigeria will never be a progressive country because Nigeria is made up of irreconcilable entities that cannot align, Nigeria suppose to have 4 countries eg Arewa, Biafra, Midland, Oduduwa under confederation just like UK, China, Netherlands etc, without this Nigeria will never know peace.

ItsMeAboki:


Wrong!
Nigeria was built on sound foundation with four regions (North, West, East and Mid West) as its confederating units, much in the manner you are advocating for, until they were abolished and replaced with the unitary system that we have evolved till today, by one J.T.U. Agui Ironsi for his selfish political reasons - and guess what, he wasn't Hausa or Yoruba.

In fact if I were you I'd wake him up from his grave and give him a dirty slap for being the cause of your current pain.

In other words, the same Igbos who are complaining were the same ones who spoilt this country and the ones currently blaming everybody and anyone but themselves for it.

Its about time you guys re-evaluate yourselves and exorcise the evil from within - its not by chance that Igbos are fast becoming the most detested group in this country and beyond.
Ever wonder why wherever you settle, you eventually fall out with the host community - not just Nigeria but also abroad: SA, USA, Malaysia, India etc; you inevitably always constitute yourselves as pests and nuisances especially due to your criminally developed mindsets.

ItsMeAboki:
^^^^^Typical Odechukwu, PhD without intelligence, educated illiterate; it is obvious you had never come across Decree no. 34 of 1966 otherwise you would known that it was promulgated to effectively dismantle the existing federal structure by taking away the semi autonomous powers of the regions - yes he may not have physically dissolved the regions per say but decree 34 functionally did so.

If in doubt kindly refer to Wikipedia Ironsi's 194 days in office - an edited extract of which I have taken the trouble to paste below for easy reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Aguiyi-Ironsi

Though Ironsi tried to dispel this notion by courting the aggrieved ethnic groups through political appointments and patronage, his failure to punish the coup plotters and the promulgation of the now infamous "Decree No. 34"—which abrogated the country's federal structure in exchange for a unitary one— crystallized this conspiracy theory.[11]........

.... He also as per the proposals of a single man committee[13] passed the controversial Unification Decree No. 34 aimed to unify Nigeria into a unitary state. This decree effectively gave preferential treatment to the Igbo in Unified State were the Regions no longer had any sort of autonomy from the Federal Government.[i][/i]

Unfortunately, no; Igbos are by no means respected abroad, having one or two who may have aspired and done well for themselves does not automatically equate to Igbos earning respect in the diaspora.
Quite on the contrary, Igbos only attract notoriety for the various crimes they are known for, to the extent that police in some countries in Asia have developed specific profiling to now single them out from the rest of Nigerians.

The only kind of respect you guys get is prison welcoming with standard issue of steel bracelets (handcuffs) and clean uniform in preparation for a short journey through death prior to execution.

I find this your submission pretty much ignorant and lacking in cognitive reasoning.

The Ikwerres are human beings, and would want the best deal from the Biafra- Nigeria issue, they will try to milk the situation to the fullest, the oil in Rivers will no longer belong to Jigawa Like Arewa-Oduanistans once boasted. The only way they will dump Biafra for Nigeria is if Nigeria will grant them 100% resource control. I envisage the other ethnic groups in the SS doing the same. They have always wanted full control of their resources in Nigeria, and with Biafrans offering them full control of their resources in Biafra, the only way Nigeria can keep them is by offering them the same.

Either way, Biafra is a hurricane that will wreck Arewa-Oduanistans, the exodus of Biafra will redraw the socio economic map of what ever is remaining of Nigeria, the conditions Niger deltans will give Arewa-Oduanistans for continued co existence with them will give you lots heartattack. I can only imagine where states like Osun, Niger, Sokoto, Jigawa will be without crude oil allocations. It will be a cruel awakening to Arewa-Oduanistans.

Again I find this part of your essay ignorant and senseless.

To begin with, there is no group known as Kwale in Anioma, what we have is Ukwuani/ Ndokwa.

Secondly, Ukwanilands is continuous with the rest of Anioma( Ika and Enuani), Ukwuani borders with Isoko and Urhobos are clear and not ambiguous. Ukwuani/ Ndokwa lands belongs to indigenous people of Ukwuani and Ndokwa, the only interest that matters in Ndokwa/ Ukwuani crude oil and natural gas wealth is that of Ukwuani and Ndokwa indigenes, and not those of their Isoko and Urhobo neighbors, and it will be extremely naive of you to think that Ukwuani people will choose a Nigeria without ( Enuani and Ika) over a Biafra with Ika and Enuani, when they know that the only reason you want them in your Nigeria is because of their crude oil and natural gas reserve.

As usual, Biafra will be offering all Biafran groups full control of their resources, the only way you stand a chance of keeping Ukwuani in Nigeria is by offering them the same deal, but if you do, your sole aim of wanting to keep them in your zoological republic, which is to exploit their resources and use them to build up Lagos and barren lands like Abuja and Kano will be defeated, as you will never have access to their resources, with 100% resource control in their hands.

The way I see it, it's a lose-lose scenario for Arewa-Oduanistans. The game is over. You have been checkmated.

Yujin:

I might not have witnessed it but no matter the magnitude of damage it can never be compared to what Ndigbo have lost in the north. At present you sit comfortably in southern Nigeria thinking that you have a future in Nigeria. I just laugh at you. You don't know what plans are being hatched to hound you. Already politically you have been murdered. PDP has zoned the presidency of 2019 to the north. What does it tell you? Unu ga-ano na achughari oke ebe uno unu na-agba oku.

So the whole Biafran agitation is another version of election wailing from the wailers

jpphilips:


I will Ignore your insults for now, but be advised that nobody has the monopoly of insults on Nairaland hope we have an understanding.
Back to the Issue pro tempore.
one fact that most of you are ignoring is that not all Niger delta areas produce oil, from the statements of Nnamdi Kanu, he does not say "Niger delta oil" or "SS oil", he calls it "Biafra oil", in other words, Nnamdi Kanu's body language does not agree with you that Biafra will allow Niger delta with 100% resource control.
In History, Ojukwu had the same body language, that was why things fell apart between him and Awolowo when Awolowo asked him "If I secede the South west to help you, what is in it for us"?
It is believed that both regions breaking away at the same time will force the Nigerian side to fight the same war in two fronts thereby overwhelming their capabilities. Ojukwu never answered that question till he died.
Ojukwu is from the SE part of Nigeria where not even a single drop of oil has a chance of flowing same for Nnamdi Kanu, yet both of them (by body language) have an eye on SS oil, How are they different from the Northerners feasting on the SS oil?
I speak from facts not fiction.

Another fact that you misplaced is that Niger delta never presented 100% resource control, it was an activist on the radio just like Nnamdi Kanu that mentioned it, at the time they submitted a proposal for the conference, they proposed 50%, even at that, the Nigerian side had a superior argument, The Nigerian side argued that if that should happen, they will cease to benefit 13% from offshore oil, NDDC and Ministry of Niger delta will cease to be funded from the National budget & if they want to have total control of all the oil fields, they will be ready to pay exploratory cost beyond 2004 (when we signed the PSC) and Operating tax in arrears post 2004 till whenever.
They quickly reverted to the 13% status quo.

It may equally interest you to note that Jonathan a son of the soil whose land is floating on oil and gas in literal terms smuggled in 10% community funds into the PIB hoping that the Niger delta will get 23% in cumulative sum, these are the cards the Nigerian side already have on the table, can you tell me exactly what Biafra is proposing? outside claiming all Niger delta areas as Biafra land and intimidating the SS to accept their terms over a fraudulent radio broadcast, give me a break!!





Opinion is like the @rse hole, everyone is entitled to one, SS can not lay claim to offshore oil which is the new kid on the block, so long as Nigeria has it under her control, trust me, Sokoto and Osun will be just fine.

Your aguement to keep your fraud of a nation together is completely baseless. Biafra is coming and there nothing anyone can do about it

Your feeble attempt to to to justify the British invented fraud known as Nigeria makes interesting read because it is laughable beyond comprehension. What even makes it more funny is your aguement to keep the Southern minorities in Nigeria if the Igbos secede so they can remain perpetual cash cows of Odua/Arewanistan alliance.

Biafra is about the common man on the street. It's about thise you bus conductors, shoe makers and so on. It's not about Ibetos and other Billionaires and politicians. So if you think this is some elitist movement, think again.

As for the 3000 barrels of Oil I talked about being produced at Aguleri Otu,this was confirmed in the news not long ago when Chairman of Orient Oil, Emeka Anyaoku, paid the Wille Obiano a courtesy call.

You said that the Tributuaries at Oguta and Ubuaka in Abia are not viable. What made you an expert on Viability of the tributuaries? Have you got a degree in dredging and widening that we don't know about? Or are an ecological expert? Are you an authority on inland waterways?There is an inland river port in Onitsha where I have have seen smaller vessels discharge goods. There is even another waterway from Ebonyi that empties into Ocean. All you did was read unsubstantiated reports and came to talk nonsense. You probably don't even know that under

Under international law, no independent country can be with access can be denied the means to bring good and services.

As I said before, no amount of Biafran investments outside Biafra in Nigeria is worth our sovereignty and freedom. It will be up to the Ibetos, Athur Ezes to know the next line of action after Biafra is achieved. If Nigeria should sieze their assets or deny them control of it, then maybe it is the eyeopener they need that Nigerians were never their friends in the first place.

To say that the SS does not qualify for referendum is the myopic conclusion of someone looking for oil money. What is the SS? A geographical expression not even recognised in the contitution? You are trying to say the Ijaw nation,the Oron nation, the Ogoni nation have no right to self determination? Don't be daft. They have the right to secede and they have the right to decide where they are going. As I said earlier, any of the minorities that are not comfortable with Biafra have our best wishes. Another thing, when you talk about Igbos, do not reduce us to 5 states.

There are many indigenous Igbos who are proud of their Igboness in Delta state and Rivers and all of them are going with us. When it comes to Ikwere people, some say they are Igbo some say they are not. Remarkably, the Ikwere Man is the only person who thinks he is not Igbo while everyone else like the Okrikas,the Ogonis, Ijaws etc consider the pure unadulterated Igbos. Even a Yoruba man would not know the difference between me as an Anambra man and an Ikwere man. Unless and Ikwere man actually says he is Ikwere, everyone will think he is Igbo because his language is Igbo and his surname is Igbo too. The important thing here is not what the Ikwere man thinks he is, what is important is this. Faced with the choice of remaining in Nigeria and seeking a new beginning in Biafra with their Igbo brethren, which would the Ikwere choose?

What brings the Ikwere Man together with the Hausa man or the Yoruba man? I have no doubt what the Ikwere man would choose. Which is the lesser of the two evils? Ikwere will not leave their oil rich ancestral land to join Igbos but prefare to remain in Nigeria and share that Oil with Igbos,Yorubas, Hausas and everyone else? Don't make me laugh

Your aguement to keep your fraud of a nation together is completely baseless. Biafra is coming and there nothing anyone can do about it

pazienza:
"... the Gowon regime dissolved the regional structures and created 12 states in their place.14 Shortly afterwards, the country became embroiled in a civil war which ended formally on 15 January 1970". http://books.openedition.org/ifra/634?lang=en

ItsMeAboki:


Dindirin!
Why do you Flat heads seem to always have a problem with comprehension?

Always boasting about education but when it comes to mental dexterity, you are invariably left stranded with a fixated rigid inflexible mindset (seemingly all mixed up and permanently set like concrete) unable to process information towards arriving at a local objective conclusion - your arguments are often forceful and lacking in merit.

Pls explain what you did not understand; for the sake of clarity let me rephrase what I said in my earlier post.

Yes, Gowon may have replaced the regions with states but by the time he did they were merely names on paper; because Ironsi had already taken away their autonomy via decree 34 of 1966; in other words they ceased to function as federating units but were instead made to become completely subservient to the central government under the new unitary system - that is why till date, all the history annals will continue to accredit Ironsi's legacy with removing the regional system of governance and replacing it with a unitary system (that had subsequently evolved to its present form).

To help you understand a little more, kindly do a bit of research on the meaning of UNITARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT and on decree 34 of 1966; find out the purpose of this decree and how Ironsi used booth to shape the future of Nigeria (google is your friend).

BTW, if you thought you had insulted me by referring to me as an Almajiri, then you are quite wrong; in Hausa it simply means; a pupil, student or scholar; yes, an accolade I am very happy to bear - so feel to call me an Almajiri anytime - if only it will keep you ignorantly happy.