I think it is high time I propounded my opinion about this Biafra dementia that has been unfurling all across the nation by some inebriated and ignoramus group of Igbo people. I will express my views no matter whose ox is gored.
I would have been a Biafran if the war had succeeded. My father was in the army during the war and I have read and heard, and seen evidences of the atrocities committed against the Southerners just before the Civil War in what is now called "Igbo Pogroms". My father told me everything that happened.
But what I still do not understand is why Igbos still went back to the same North after the War. Some of them still live there even after all the atrocities that are regularly committed against them! Why can they not live in the East and develop it? I just do not get it.
Two possible answers -(1) 'hubris' or the belief that you are so special and above all others that you will soon pull the wool over their eyes and have one on them (obviously not working on the Hausa north) (2) as I said earlier, a masochistic streak that wants to be hit again and again by the same person.
So somewhere in your pithy little brains you think the answer to all of your home-made problems is the creation of Biafra and the installation of 1 man so long as he originates from what you call Igbo nation. You know I would have even given your postulation a 5 second thought if not that I remember that all Igbo states are led by an Igbo governor and all their cabinet would also typically be all Igbo; yet not one Igbo state now or in the past has been any more distinguished than any other state in Nigeria.
Let me tell you a little more you need to know about OJUKWU, BIAFRA and the WAR. It may interest you to know the history, origin and events that sprung up that declaration "Republic of Biafra. This was not because of the love Ojukwu had for the igbo people, rather than his love for power and embitterment that power eluded him. Ojukwu wasted so many promising and prominent young Nigerians. These Youths were brainwashed by Ojukwu just what Nnamdi is doing. Immediate causes of the war included a military coup, a counter-coup, and persecution of Igbo living in Northern Nigeria. Control over oil production in the Niger Delta played a vital strategic role.
It may also interest you to know that the first Nigerian coup d’etat that resulted in the assassination of 11 senior Nigerian politicians and two soldiers as well as kidnapping three others was led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (an igbo) and General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (another igbo)then used the coup as a pretext to annex power, ending Nigeria's nascent democracy. Then along came a counter coup led by Lt. Col. Murtala Mohammed which resulted to murder of Gen Aguiyi Ironsi as a reaction to the killings of Northern politicians and Officers by mostly Igbo soldiers.
Ojukwu felt Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe was the highest in the hierarchy of power and should be made head of state. But when the coup plotters insisted and made Gowon the head of state, Ojukwu got pissed and this led to the civil war. Brigadier Ogundipe opted out peacefully, but pride did not allow Ojukwu to let go. Apart from the Aburi Accord in Ghana, there were a lot of other accords to settle issues amicably, but Ojukwu was bent on ruling his own oil rich country “Baifra”.
There was nothing like the "REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA " it's an illusion. That assertion was made on 30th may 1967, and was just for a selfish purpose (leadership ) Why did you think Ojukwu fought?, Who was he fighting for. Now another self-centered Nnamdi Kanu wants to take advantage of your sentiments . Ojukwu fought because he could not allow Gowon who was in the same rank as he was be head of state. Taking advantage of his father's wealth, he arrogated himself to a god of war without minding how many lives he would destroy.
Did you think Biafrans rebels combated openly with the Nigerian army? Apart from some cheap ambushes like the Abagana, where could they have confronted the Nigerian armies. Biafrans dealt with Biafrans. The rebels captured Igbo cities and tormented innocent lives. Raping young women and forcefully taking wives from their husbands. Recruiting boys between the ages of 13-15 and above into their army. Killed any person suspected of sabotage. The saboteurs were worn the Nigerian army uniform, killed and termed Nigerian soldiers. Igbos suffered, but Nigerian armies rescued the captured cities one after the other, until all was rescued.
Benin City was captured by the Biafran soldiers alongside Auchi, Agenebode, Okene, Asaba, Agbor , Iloshi and Atani while indiscriminately shooting and killing armless civilians in the process. Unbeknownst to General Banjo (the leader of this mobilization who was a Yoruba) a unit of Biafran soldiers under Lt. Col. Oechi attacked the government residence of Mid-Western Region governor David Ejoor at the behest of President Odumegwu Ojukwu to capture Ejoor dead or alive. Not wanting to appoint an Igbo over non-Igbo citizens General Banjo suggested that either David Ejoor, Sam Ogbemudia, or Col. Trimnell be made governor but Ojukwu refused and ultimately placed the Igbo medical-officerAlbert Okonkwo governor.
Ojukwu would finally execute Vitor Banju, Emmanuel Ifeanjuna (The first black African to ever win an international gold medal) and one Alale following a plot to agree a ceasefire with Nigeria. Let me try to make it short. I think some of these so called pro-Biafrans should know that the only solution is to try to accept a modus vivendi and let’s live in peace and unity, and stop living in cloud cuckoo land with the stupendous misbegotten idea of Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu is an illiterate who sat in some classrooms, but it did not have any positive impact on him, and he has succeeded in brainwashing some gullible and incredulous igbo group to joining his selfish cause.
Now he has been lionized, praised, reverend and worshiped. That is exactly what he wants. Can anyone remember the names the igbos who have died for this Nnamdi madness? No! Only Nnamdi Kanu is the cynosure.
The truth is that Biafra was an Ojukwu Scam!

@OP,

I am a Biafran.

some Africans and their little brains. You know more than over 50 million Biafrans. Yoruba man claiming Igbo.

Mtchewww I doubt if your father is Igbo. You ought to have known that the Igbo''s don't speak ill about the dead..... Imagine calling Ojukwu a scam.

the so called biafrans make the miss hit that they have oil............also they fail to understand that they have the least number of 40's to 50's age grade, they have the least number of farmers in Nigeria, very high tendency of betrayal and the assumption that the runaway youths in the diaspora will come to their aid............i have always heard about the biafra state from my age of 5 and after 20 years same set of old family friends are still waiting for some super power aliens to help them..........
and if you ask them why they wanna leave u will hear a very dumb answer that we are being marginalized.......as if thats not the definition of democracy

As much as i support Biafra, i do not support the manner they (igbos) are going about achieving their aims. However, Its either we adopt a true Federal System of Government or we go our ways. My sure believe is that we can all survive together as much as we will survive without eachother. So whoever wants to dinintigrate, let them go else we adopt the report of the Confab in utmost good faith. Proudly Oduduwa God forbid am another tribe aside Karo... Ojire bi.

zuchyblink:
some Africans and their little brains. You know more than over 50 million Biafrans. Yoruba man claiming Igbo.

people perish for what they don't know! I'm igbo, my mother is yoruba. My step father is also yoruba & I proudly bear hz name. Get a life! You definitely want war, war is for the weak & jobless!

Are you saying your Igbo father died in the war?

Bubewilson:
Mtchewww I doubt if your father is Igbo. You ought to have known that the Igbo''s don't speak I'll about the dead..... Imagine calling Ojukwu a scam.

yes he is igbo, he fought, he lost! All for what? A selfish disposition? As it been achieved? Would it ever be achieved? only if you knew better... I saw the war, that's why I can speak now. I repeat, only If you knew better

zuchyblink:
some Africans and their little brains. You know more than over 50 million Biafrans. Yoruba man claiming Igbo.

O ti ya were.

Bubewilson:
Are you saying your Igbo father died in the war?

I never saw him again after he left home to fight...

I think IPOB is for young people and MASSOB is for old daddies. Just my thinking.

tylerbraid:
yes he is igbo, he fought, he lost! All for what? A selfish disposition? As it been achieved? Would it ever be achieved? only if you knew better... I saw the war, that's why I can speak now. I repeat, only If you knew better

your father fought for what he believed will give you a better future... He was never selfish neither was he brainwashed... Perhaps your saw the war from the angle of the vanquished that's why you feel the way you do. I am glad you mentioned you have taken a new name of your Yoruba step father and I believe you have been accepted there.... Don't grieve for the Igbo's this is a course they not tired of pursuing. If that is what they want they will definitely get it soon. And pls never use derogatory comments about the dead more especially your Igbo father. The tradition there abhors it.

interesting reason. But I'm afraid, is too late. The zombies have being cloned already.

Bubewilson:
your father fought for what he believed will give you a better future... He was never selfish neither was he brainwashed... Perhaps your saw the war from the angle of the vanquished that's why you feel the way you do. I am glad you mentioned you have taken a new name of your Yoruba step father and I believe you have been accepted there.... Don't grieve for the Igbo's this is a course they not tired of pursuing. If that is what they want they will definitely get it soon. And pls never use derogatory comments about the dead more especially your Igbo father. The tradition there abhors it.

wrong...many biafran soldiers were forced to join the army. many Don't even know what they were fighting for.

naijapips02:


wrong...many biafran soldiers were forced to join the army. many Don't even know what they were fighting for.

I beg to disagree with you.

Bubewilson:
I beg to disagree with you.

it's true. my father told me tales of How he had to hid each time the army recruitment van came around. ask any elderly person that was present at the time and they would tell you about it.

OP need i say that all u wrote dere is a helluva nonsensical garbage i mean if that is an argument it is totally baseless.So all u cud come up with after ur long post is that Biafra was ojukwu's scam and u even compounded d whole tin by saying u are igbo lol...One thing wit u yorubas is that u blive evry lie and den u fabricate mur lies in ur schools nd thru d press even wen d truth is so glaring.No wonda NnamdiKanu said der are no schools in d Zoo

tylerbraid:
people perish for what they don't know! I'm igbo, my mother is yoruba. My step father is also yoruba & I proudly bear hz name. Get a life! You definitely want war, war is for the weak & jobless!

All that initial epistle you wrote, but you and your Yoruba compatriots still don't understand that Biafra was never about Ojukwu, nor is it about Nnamdi Kanu or Uwazurike. Biafra is about the inalianable right of a people to decide for themselves if they want to be Nigerians or not. A choice that Lugard never gave you before he set up his money making venture called Nigeria. It's unfortunate you went the way of your mothers people, the Yorubas who have no sense of self determination. No matter how hard I try, you probably won't believe that it pure evil for the White man to come all the way from Europe to bastardise you with the name "Nigerian"

naijapips02:


it's true. my father told me tales of How he had to hid each time the army recruitment van came around. ask any elderly person that was present at the time and they would tell you about it.

that is a version out of many of the Biafran civil war.

Bubewilson:
that is a version out of many of the Biafran civil war.

it's the truth, man. Just that i have forgotten the name they called those vans then. If they come to a town, all the boys above 18 would go into hiding.

naijapips02:


it's the truth, man. Just that i have forgotten the name they called those vans then. If they come to a town, all the boys above 18 would go into hiding.

ok

your dad must be a coward for hiding, my dad enlisted and fought gallantly, he bleed on the battle field and survived..... he will still defend Biafra if called upon, but I will take his place.....because he fought a good fight and I will come late it....for the generations yet unborn.

sochima1989:
the so called biafrans make the miss hit that they have oil............also they fail to understand that they have the least number of 40's to 50's age grade, they have the least number of farmers in Nigeria, very high tendency of betrayal and the assumption that the runaway youths in the diaspora will come to their aid............i have always heard about the biafra state from my age of 5 and after 20 years same set of old family friends are still waiting for some super power aliens to help them..........
and if you ask them why they wanna leave u will hear a very dumb answer that we are being marginalized.......as if thats not the definition of democracy

I find this joke of a quote highly irrelevant. I'm an igbo man and i used to believe so much in 1 nigeria. Alas, it looks like the more you wish to believe in nigeria, the more it gives u the reason not to. I believe in the republic of igboland not because we're marginalized in nigeria but because nigeria is not going to get developed any time soon. I need good roads, pipe borne water, jobs, good health care and quality education in igboland. Nigeria is not going to get there anytime soon, hence the need to balkanize the country.

hmmmmmmm do you then believe in Biafra to provide you all this, and what are u doing to biafra's actualization off the media. i also stay reserved on certain issues cos i still wanna make Nigeria a great place.....i wanna speak for the like minded not just my fellow igbos but everyone in Nigeria that needs same thing as u mentioned. my guy how are u even sure the dream biafra will give u that cos our state governors are not plying the path of development

SilverSurfer:
I find this joke of a quote highly irrelevant. I'm an igbo man and i used to believe so much in 1 nigeria. Alas, it looks like the more you wish to believe in nigeria, the more it gives u the reason not to. I believe in the republic of igboland not because we're marginalized in nigeria but because nigeria is not going to get developed any time soon. I need good roads, pipe borne water, jobs, good health care and quality education in igboland. Nigeria is not going to get there anytime soon, hence the need to balkanize the country.

sochima1989:
hmmmmmmm do you then believe in Biafra to provide you all this, and what are u doing to biafra's actualization off the media. i also stay reserved on certain issues cos i still wanna make Nigeria a great place.....i wanna speak for the like minded not just my fellow igbos but everyone in Nigeria that needs same thing as u mentioned. my guy how are u even sure the dream biafra will give u that cos our state governors are not plying the path of development

Honestly bros, i was actualy tinkin like u until late. I actualy wanted to make Nigeria great. However, there is no national consciousness. Nobdy believes in this country. A country where its best brain are al broad nd r doing well becos her country couldnt make them reach dere full potentials, a country where joblessness, poverty level are very high. When i look at my fellow youths nd future generation i weep. A country where leaders will loot and loot until economy goes nosedive. A country that kills talents. A country that doesnt produce anytin bt depends solely on oil and does not know that its oil reserve is likely to finish in 2060 is completely hopeless!

TruthisGOD:
Honestly bros, i was actualy tinkin like u until late. I actualy wanted to make Nigeria great. However, there is no national consciousness. Nobdy believes in this country. A country where its best brain are al broad nd r doing well becos her country couldnt make them reach dere full potentials, a country where joblessness, poverty level are very high. When i look at my fellow youths nd future generation i weep. A country where leaders will loot and loot until economy goes nosedive. A country that kills talents. A country that doesnt produce anytin bt depends solely on oil and does not know that its oil reserve is likely to finish in 2060 is completely hopeless!

I get u bro....we share similar plight...but I can't lose fate on Nigeria...not even now cos it's too early...

sochima1989:
I get u bro....we share similar plight...but I can't lose fate on Nigeria...not even now cos it's too early...

i wish u luck, keep chasing air

am IBO. we need confed. system of government or biafra