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| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 10:48pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
Obiodunukwe: Agbameta, hope your hate doesn't send you the way of your wicked fathers, because that's the path you tread. This is no advice, just a statement. 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by Obiodunukwe: 10:50pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
xtrorry: Chessboard You are just displaying the same arrogance that your people are known for They hawk wares on the streets of Yorubaland and yet boast on the internet You live in PH and yet the natives have disowned you. Your tribe is now considered inconsequential in Nigeria. Even an Ijo drunkard was able to bamboozle your entire tribe Yorubas are too much jor Go and sleep and update your CV, if you need help to tidy up your CV and profile, send me a PM 5 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by kayfra: 10:50pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
anticabal1: Hitler fought the defenseless jews with the goal of exterminatimg them. The jews did not fight Hitler nor capable of ordinary self defense. There was war between Nigeria and a breakaway province. Both sides fought with bad intentions and one side won. If victory went the Biafran way would we be having this conversation? Learn the difference and stop making false analogies. 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by anticabal1: 10:50pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
tombraokoto: That's what IPOB in Rivers have been calling it and rightfully so. Why didn't you challenge them whenever they held rallies. If you think you have the mind, go on the street of Iguocha and burn the Biafran flag. You and your yoruba taxi driving father at mile 3 will smell pepper. 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by Nobody: 10:56pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
anticabal1:Hahaha. The same ph that wike promised to crush you guys. Hahahha. Pls tell me another story. Don't you think this yoruba joke virtually you and your fellow ipob jokers call everyone is becoming stale? Why not try another joke? |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by MayorofLagos(m): 10:57pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
xtrorry: Are you aware there were Ibos who fought on the Nigerian side against Biafra? So using your logic of error displayed above we should conclude forthwith that damages done to Iboland and Ibos were orchestrated by their own brothers in Nigerian Army uniform. 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 11:03pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
Obiodunukwe: Frustrated Agbameta, I can volunteer to feed your generation but first go clean your shit-ridden bumbum and smelly toilet. With all the political 'sophistication' of Yorubas yet Tinubu pocketed many Yorubas mentally and economically. Your loud obnoxious noisemaking attitude attributing sophistication to yourselves whereas all that can be seen is idiocy and bunch of simpletons been brainwashed and led to perdition by The Greatest Looter of the Century. And the likes of your very self who only but sheepishly follow him is here forming consequential to attempt to divert attention from the very obvious... FYI, Igbos are not responsible for you selling off your father's properties to organise owambe parties. Now you're perpetually condemned as a tenant to an Igbo man... 3 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by checkolatunji: 11:12pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
xtrorry: Your post didn't mention any Yoruba states, so why any apology for you guys after you killed some of our leaders. Pls face people you think they killed your people and don't you ever ask for any apology from Yoruba again. Bastard!!!!! 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 11:15pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
checkolatunji: **** chesterlee post: Madam Kemi Nkem Omololu-Olunloyo BLOCKED: Almost no yorubas left on my FB page. I will not SUBSCRIBE to tribalism against the Igbos and #Biafra . We killed THEM and boasted about it. Gen Obasanjo, Col Rotimi, Gen Ibrahim Taiwo etc etc. Oluwole Rotimi was fired by Yaradua as NG Ambassador to USA for his Biafra comment to Ojo Maduweke NG Ambassador to Canada, OBJ still boasting "We will do to Boko Haram what we did to Biafra-OBJ 2015", Ibrahim Taiwo assassinated same day as Gen Murtala Muhammed on a Friday the 13th an evil day in 1976. I no longer spend the N20 note in Nigeria. These were not heroes. Ojukwu was the real hero we were told to hate. It took years for me to know that. My father was the only Yoruba leader at his funeral. Those yoruba youth who say they saw Tinubu there were hallucinating. Both Taiwo and MM ordered Nigerian Army into Asaba and killed 700 innocent civilan men, raped their wives, daughters and ruined the town. Google Assaba massacres on Wikipedia. U are on your internet. We as Yoruba youth were brainwashed into seeing them as HEROES. Today's youth must be told the truth. History is no longer in schools. It must be told. If you were not born 1967-70 and watched 3 years of the war on WNTV now NTA, u need to STFU. Those begging me on Twitter will be ignored. The Igbo children dancing in this collage at KJ's school event are Yoruba. STOP YOUR TRIBALISM! To my Biafrans on social media, ABSOLUTELY no violence or advocating violence on #socialmedia . Do not play into the hands of King Buhari, Father Mbaka Mfaker and the DSS. #NnamdiKanu we hear u! 30 days and counting, armored carriers in front of your parents home, all unnecessary! Stay strong! #MadamKOOBiafra is the SM hashtag. Keep Talking on FB and Twitter @HNNAfrica. Im reading all tweets and posts. #HNNAfrica is the only media giving u the voice. Never mind the international media. They are now too busy with France. 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by MayorofLagos(m): 11:16pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
xtrorry: Have you heard news about Odua Investments lately? This is setting up competition with DAWN to accelerate development and corporate acquisitions....capital investments and security! Yorubas have been running parallel governments since 200AD. Very shrewd and sophisticated!  I hope this is provocative enough to further elicit your venom against Tinubu. 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 11:20pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
MayorofLagos: Ah, you may soon go the way of your god... Have you forgotten that soon after the civil war how you wicked bigots and hypocrites connived and robbed Easterners of their hard earned money in banks and gave £20 to only those who could prove they had bank accounts? You parasitic ingrates proceeded to use the stolen funds to buy up the numerous companies established by the colonial masters, looting the companies and rendering them bankrupt. And that was the beginning of the collapse of the Nigerian economy. Till date the economy is yet to recover. Instead of developing the Eastern region after the war subsequent evil governments diverted Gowon’s 3Rs to your regions for rapid development while neglecting and under-developing the Eastern region. https://www.nairaland.com/2847624/biggest-steel-factory-west-africa MDG for SE: https://www.nairaland.com/2785068/biafra-struggle-disgruntled-elements/3 https://www.nairaland.com/2851265/jude-nkama-appointed-judge-new http://www.onlineleaks247.com/index.php/2016/01/08/photos-nigerian-makes-history-in-the-us-as-the-first-appointed-african-judge-in-new-jersey/ https://www.nairaland.com/2760376/ernest-obiejesi-donates-world-class https://www.nairaland.com/2550536/reflection-ndiigbo-eastern-region#37305184 https://www.nairaland.com/2767644/anambra-state-billionaires-state-highest https://www.nairaland.com/2724451/dominance-igbo-tribe-nigeria-football https://www.nairaland.com/2729734/must-see-airplane-constructed-nigerian https://www.nairaland.com/2690726/looking-top-30-richest-nigerians FYI, Imo airport was built by the people of Imo state; almost everyone contributed even little kids to make the airport a reality. Acknowledge the simple fact that Igbos fare better than your tribe despite your numerous treasury lootings and federal government presence. The Igbos have the highest concentration of middle-class citizens while squalor and penury pervade your enclaves. You can see the reality in the shocking manner many of your States are in comatose with many of its civil servants surviving on the good gestures of concerned Nigerians. FYI, the Igbo States are the least affected by the falling crude oil earnings. Go and ask Fayose why Ekiti government had to send some of its citizens to the SE to learn a skill/trade in a bid to grow the economy of Ekiti State. Feed your eyes and stop being mischievous and bitter that a people you defrauded and cheated are doing excellently and even competing on the world stage: https://www.nairaland.com/2576371/eastern-neighbourhoods-streets-made https://www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statistics http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pages/download/254 https://www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment https://www.nairaland.com/2522113/omitted-truth-debunking-lies...nigeria-states https://www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statistics https://www.nairaland.com/2690726/looking-top-30-richest-nigerians https://www.nairaland.com/2671323/anambra-students-win-science-exhibition https://www.nairaland.com/503406/nigerian-student-achieves-best-2010 https://www.nairaland.com/2613463/igbos-most-brilliant-black-african The full study can be found here: http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/ https://www.nairaland.com/2614116/uzoamaka-aduba-wins-emmy-role#38226903 https://www.nairaland.com/2658131/biafra-urhobo-eulogizes-igbo-says https://www.nairaland.com/2638157/igbo-appreciation-thread Failures? You only wish. Try harder https://www.nairaland.com/2691418/photos-igbo-village-built-virginia 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by kayfra: 11:37pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
xtrorry: All these are good if it will develop the SE and reduce the flight of easterners to the west. I'd love for all regions of the country to be developed so the citizens will have choices like it is over in developed countries. The East can be California and the west New York. All is well in the Just don't bring st.upid war stories that none of us are involved in. 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by raumdeuter: 11:40pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
noblezone: Political violence that made Ibo soldiers kill other region leaders while sparing theirs? Well, it was the same political violence that killed 3million of your people 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 11:41pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
checkolatunji: Neanderthal savage of dirt and squalor from a juju-infested enclave where smelly culture of insolence, extortion and toutism are upheld with so much pride and kingship sold to the dogs cum celebrated miscreants. Incestuous product from Odua Islamic Republic of Ritual-killers and Cannibals! 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 11:45pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
kayfra: See epic misery from a guilty conscience! Who brought silly war stories on this tread? Hopeless bigotry of confused hypocrites! 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 11:48pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
raumdeuter: By the interview conducted on Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole, 77, a Nigerian Military Officer of the Yoruba stock, fought on the side of Biafra during the ncivil war, the following lies were exposed: Ojukwu was kind enough to give safe passage to Northerners and others to join the federal side while Easterners were being slaughtered in the North. 1.) The lie that it was an Igbo coup 2.) The lie about soldiers starving civilian; it was civilians fed the Biafran troops. This is the Infocentury, yoruba lies can't survive for long, they die as soon as they rear their ugly heads https://www.nairaland.com/2854914/why-fought-side-ojukwu-biafra Retired Lt. Fola Oyewole, 77, a Nigerian Military Officer of the Yoruba stock, fought on the side of Biafra during the ncivil war. Before then, he was, because of the first coup 50 years ago, imprisoned in Lagos and in the Enugu but was released by Lt Col Ojukwu. He wrote his own war account too, entitled “The Reluctant Rebel”, which joined other civil war narratives like ‘The Biafra Story’ (1969) by Frederick Forsyth, ‘Why We Struck’ (1981) by Adewale Ademoyega, ‘Sunset In Biafra’ (1975) by Elechi Amadi, ‘The Nigerian Revolution And the Biafran War’ (1980) by Alexander Madiebo among others. In this interview with Ademola Adegbamigbe and Femi Anjorin (Idowu Ogunleye snapped the photos), the retired army officer narrated what happened during the first coup, his participation in it and why he, despite being Yoruba, fought on the side of Biafra like other non Igbo officers like Lt Col. Victor Banjo, Major Wale Ademoyega and others. Q: In what area did you take part in that coup? A: Arrest, seize facility and others… Q: You were at a point, according to your book, with Captain Adeleke, another Yoruba soldier, who was he? A: He was a colleague. He is the one who said he wanted to consult the family and we were friends, we both worked in Apapa before the crisis. Q: I want you to describe what happened to other Yoruba people or non Igbo who fought on the Biafran side – Lt Col. Victor Banjo, Major Wale Ademoyega, then Major Kaduna Nzeogwu an Igbo from Opanam in Delta? A: They were detained like myself, and Nzeogwu was detained, that was a common factor. Q: In the book, you applaud Ojukwu’s performance in Aburi, explain to us what actually happened because there is this argument that he bamboozled Gowon A: If you listen to the Aburi accord or the proceedings as a whole, you will duff your cap for Ojukwu whether he is a villain or whatever you want to call him, call him. He really dictated the pace of the discussion, he was prepared for it, he kind of put together all the things and if you listen, the moment he started talking, others kept quiet and when he finished, they will say ok ok ok. To give you a full grasp of what the theme was, you need to read the comment of the super perm sec who led us to were we are today. Q: Was it Philip Asiodu? A: The group – Asiodu, and the rest. Their recommendations, what they brought back from Aburi was agreed to be implemented but when they came here they tore it into pieces/. Q: Ok, was after the agreement was signed in Aburi? They came back to Nigeria…. A: To put it in whatsoever you can say political implementation. They desired to analyse it, it was an agreement not suggestion, that’s where our problem sort of started. If you listen to the Aburi accord or the proceedings as a whole, you will duff your cap for Ojukwu whether he is a villain or whatever you want to call him, call him. He really dictated the pace of the discussion, he was prepared for it, he kind of put together all the things and if you listen, the moment he started talking, others kept quiet and when he finished, they will say ok ok ok. To give you a full grasp of what the theme was, you need to read the comment of the super perm sec who led us to were we are today. Q: Kindly let us into what the agreement was? Because there was this talk of confederation, federation…And some critics said that was where Ojukwu bamboozled Gowon… A. At the conference, Ojukwu spoke his own views, and they were entitled to theirs too, and fortunately or unfortunately they agreed. So what do you bamboozle? Q: Do you have any reason to disagree on the war accounts of people like Frederick Forsyth, Wale Ademuyoga, Elechi Amadi? A: It is their opinion. I only sympathise with them, they were writing after so many years after the event and in all modesty I will say I wrote more accurately than many of them. I wrote immediately after the war. I have nothing to refer to. I did not copy anybody and I wasn’t getting wiser after the event. I only reported what I saw. They have their own opinion, that’s how they see it. Q: Whats your view on the war accounts by Ojukwu himself and even Obasanjo? A: I refuse to read, I don’t want to read. You cannot say Obasanjo was not telling the truth or Ojukwu was not, but if you want to value or know the value of Obasanjo’s book, go and read Alabi Isama, you find the difference. I am proud to say nobody has come up to say anything opposite in what I wrote. It was more or less reporting. Q: Awo defended himself . I want your reaction to that. He argued that the Biafran soldiers (you were with them), were seizing food meant for the civilian population, that’s why the civilians were having kwashiorkor and soldiers were looking robust. How will you react to that? A: O ma se oo (It is a pity!). I didn’t look robust anyway. If anything, civilians were donating food to the soldiers. It is not true. It is the civilians. They know they have a stake, and they said, lets maintain these soldiers so that they can fight for us. And where is the food anyway? In Biafra, Ojukwu introduced what we called land army because there was no food. So land army will say, yes we have this area now, it will be good for cultivating corn-if it is corn, plant. I wouldn’t subscribe to the argument that soldiers were taking food from civilians, where is the food? The ones available it was like let us share, for instance which was an argument I put up on fuel price, fuel subsidy. I used to produce petrol for Biafra-I, Fola Oyewole. Yes. It is like brewing ogogoro, put it in something, fire it, and it would produce steam, pass it through cold water. So if you have a small river around your camp, about one third of the crude you put is petrol, the second third or there about is kerosene, without doing anything and the next is diesel, because we didn’t know what to do, we threw away the rest, but people who do know can tap it into something. The point is the kerosene I got, I didn’t need. I gave to people of Owerri Nkwo Orji, the village where my camp was. Then I was chief so to say, I gave them anytime I boiled- petrol, kerosene, so everybody was looking after everybody so to say. If you snatched food from civilian, who do you want to control? Who do you want to command? It doesn’t make sense. 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by kayfra: 11:48pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
xtrorry: Guilt is when one is party to an act. Maybe you should think of something more apt. I told the op the same thing. There was a war and with that are victors and vanquished. Move the $uck on. |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 11:51pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
kayfra: Your delusion is that you think a butterfly supposedly acting smart is a bird! Now run along, miserable butt-licker! 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by StOla: 11:58pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
raumdeuter: Very informative audio broadcast by Akintola. Imagine out of 112 new hires at University of Ibadan then, only 3 were Yorubas. Ahmadu Bello has always been right about the Igbo greed for everything it is allowed to desire. 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by kayfra: 11:59pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
xtrorry: Seen. |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 12:01am On Jan 24, 2016 |
kayfra: Better! 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 12:09am On Jan 24, 2016 |
MayorofLagos: You think you can cover up your atrocities and that of your god, Obafemi Awolowo, who was the chief proponent of hatred, bitterness, tribalism, nepotism, propaganda and wickedness in this country? May I remind you that Awolowo was imprisoned for treason and coup plotting until he was released by Odumegwu Ojukwu just before the 1967-70 war. Ethnomusicolist Charles Keil, who was visiting Nigeria in 1966, recounted: "The pogroms I witnessed in Makurdi, Nigeria (late Sept. 1966) were foreshadowed by months of intensive anti-Ibo and anti- Eastern conversations among Tiv, Idoma, Hausa and other Northerners resident in Makurdi, and, fitting a pattern replicated in city after city, the massacres were led by the Nigerian army. Before, during and after the slaughter, Col. Gowan could be heard over the radio issuing 'guarantees of safety' to all Easterners, all citizens of Nigeria, but the intent of the soldiers, the only power that counts in Nigeria now or then, was painfully clear. After counting the disemboweled bodies along the Makurdi road I was escorted back to the city by soldiers who apologized for the stench and explained politely that they were doing me and the world a great favor by eliminating Ibos.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War Here's actually an excerpt, albeit it was written by Emeka Esogbue but it is a direct summarization of Emma Okocha books. "It was this battle that gave birth to Murtala, a “Local champion” called Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo of the Nigerian Army. Africans first had the practical experience of the word “genocide” in Igbodo where hundreds of lives were lost in the Nigerian civil war. In Isheagu, the case was not different. It was here that the ulterior motive of the Nigerian troop clearly unfolded. The people were now scampering for the safety of their lives having experienced what happened in Igbodo and some other places. In the Midwestern region, able bodied men went into hiding leaving women and children at the mercy of advancing soldiers. The people of Benin went identifying their Ibo-speaking neighbours from house to house for executions." BLOOD ON THE NIGER: THE FIRST BLACK ON BLACK OCTOBER 1967 GENOCIDE OF ASABA PEOPLE BY MURTALA, GOWON AND AWOLOWO ...Like my father and elder brother that were part of the over 1000 youths that were killed on October 7, 1967, in Asaba, most of them were members of the Action Group (AG). The people that believed in the NCNC at that time left for the east. My father who worked in Enugu, Nsukka, Uzuakoli and Kafanchan as a civil servant could have gone to the east. But he believed in that war. He was an apostle of the Awo ideas-free education and free medical services. In fact, the Asaba General Hospital that is now a Specialist Hospital was brought to us by the AG led by Nduka Eze, another AG hardliner who left the Zikist Movement to join Awolowo. But Nduka Eze's wife was killed by the federal troop under the command of Murtala Mohammed because she refused to be touched because they were defiling women at random when they came in. The genocide against the Igbos has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the apology made to Asaba people by General Gowon when he came there after the release of the Blood On The Niger. The genocide against the Igbos was proved beyond reasonable doubt at the Oputa panel which the federal government has up till now refused to publish the findings. Bishop Desmond Tutu chaired the Truth and Justice tribunal in South Africa to find out what happened in South Africa during the apartheid period. It was accepted by both sides and just look at the peace that has prevailed there since then. Why would Nigeria not publish the findings of the Oputa Panel where it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that pilots were throwing bombs at random into market places in Uzuakoli, Uzuitem and Nsukka, where bottles and implements were also used against women during the war. History is an account of the actions of actors in a community or in a state recorded that made impacts during their time. Awolowo was a great leader; great politician and great performer in government but his activities during the civil war were negative. If you are a writer, you cannot defend his position that starvation is an instrument of warfare. Starvation cannot be an instrument of warfare when you are fighting a civil war. Nigeria was being supplied arms from all countries. For the first time there was an unholy alliance between the Soviet Union and the West. It had never happened before. Any place that there was a war of revolution, the USSR is always taking the place of the revolutionary. How come that the USSR for the first time allied with the West against Biafra? So, let somebody go and disprove Achebe; that is what we want to see not that somebody did not commit genocide. Genocide has been proved to be committed. If there were no genocide, the World Council of Churches, the Caritas wouldn't have come in droves. If genocide was not committed, why did Biafra lose two million casualties, most of them civilians and children? And if people are not apologising to Igbos, why should they now come out to talk because one man has been put to where he belongs in history. He was the principal protagonist of using starvation as an instrument of warfare against his fellow citizens. Remember that Nigeria was fighting a war of unity. They were not as desperate as the other camp that was fighting a war of secession. So, in international convention Geneva included, you don't use starvation against civilians, you don't use firearms against civilians and you don't use bombs. Are they saying they didn't bomb civilians during the war? The Nigerian Air Force was very pronounced in its use of bombs on civilians and their targets were churches, market places and hospitals. These were recorded by missionaries and foreign journalists. Awolowo was the Minister of Finance under Gowon. He was the de facto prime minister of Nigeria during the war and he performed. I don't grudge him for winning the war for Nigeria; for changing the currency. He can win the war by all means but the fact that he prevented massive aid from coming is genocidal. There was an inhuman instance. There was an incident where a Red Cross plane coming with medication and food was blown off the sky for the beleaguered people of Biafra. Even after the war, what was the purpose of denying Igbos their primary source of protein-stockfish? How can you defend the policy of giving people who have lost everything only 20 Pounds? If there is anybody that should have been given more, the returning war battered people of Biafra should have received more. The Igbos have always accepted Awolowo as a great leader but his activities during the civil war shocked them. BY THE OBJECTIVE OF THE JANUARY 15 COUP, as quoted by Odia Ofeimun, the poet, the boys believed he was the greatest leader. THE LEADERS OF THE COUP, WERE TO MAKE CHIEF AWOLOWO THE PRIME MINISTER OF NIGERIA. These coup leaders didn't go for Azikiwe or Balewa. They wanted Chief Awolowo as quoted by Odia in a 1999 edition of The Guardian. Awolowo was supposed to be released by the Nzeogwu coup, which didn't have its assumed ending; it was aborted half way. It was Nzeogwu's colleague, Major Nzegwu that was supposed to pick him from Calabar prison and release him. So, I'm proving to you that the Igbo literality have always accepted Awo as one of the best and great leaders the country has ever produced but his activities during the war did not only shock them but betrayed the trust they had in. During the whole peace conferences from Niamey to Kinshasha, Awolowo, Enahoro and Alison Ayida, who was a permanent secretary, always took a hawkish stand. That was why in the Niamey conference of 1968 Alison Ayida quoted Awo exactly that starvation is an instrument of warfare. This was at a time when millions of Biafran children were dying off. And death by starvation is not an ordinary death. It is for you to experience it. It was horror and the photographs are there but Awolowo and his henchmen never batted an eyelid even after the war. That is why we glorify other great literality like Wole Soyinka who told us in his book A Man Died that extermination was committed in Asaba. He was the first courageous soul in Nigeria that told the world about the Asaba massacre. http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/73341-most-those-murdered-asaba-muritala-gowon-awo-were-action-group-members-emma-okocha-author-blood-niger.html 2 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by MayorofLagos(m): 12:09am On Jan 24, 2016 |
xtrorry: Your spirit had been so battered and thoroughly defeated, you were all hanging on the edge and few more months there would not have been a single Ibo left in the land. You had escape route on the Eastern border to flee into Cameroon but even the Cameroonians put a block and refused to admit your refugees in their land. So your spirit was gone, your ego was gone, your dignity had departed, you could not turn North, East or South.... you were worth nothing! Nothing! Not even a pound! The only place you refugees could run for succour and life was WEST! Awolowo rescued you in his kindness by giving 20pounds. You were not worth a quarter of 20pounds. What Awo gave you was not a substitute for your bank savings...but a rehabilitation package. The banks in which you had savings were responsible for returning your money to you. Law statutes that cover bank deposits is on your side and in your favor to employ and drag those banks to court for stealing your trust. But the truth of matter is you dont have a case against the banks because when you left Nigeria you did so with determination never to return, therefore you emptied your bank savings and took with you. To aggravte the issue even deeper, Ojukwu changed Biafran currency and directed all Ibos who had bank savings anywhere to request it be forward deposited with Bank of Biafra. There is a good test for this truth. You had Ibos in East whose bank savings were not in Nigerian territory before, during or after the war.... They kept all their money in East. What happened to their savings in the bank...where is their assets? Gobe! All Ibo money was deposited in Bank of Biafra....in its propaganda war, the bank and its currency was trumepeted in the best of faith as a viable legal tender worth far more than the Nigerian currency, and so it was seen as an emblem of pride as well. When Bank of Biafra collapsed....guess what? All Ibo savings went woooff into the wind! So the proper account of history is that Awo in his magnanimity was a father of benevolence to the returning pauperized and broken spirit Ibos. The best of you looked worse than Oliver Twist. Awolowo's kindness and warm heart and rehabilittative social policies is the platform upon which you Biafrans stand today. You have abused it and we will soon yank it from underneath you. Hope you have the name of the bank your father had hid savings in....contact that bank and initiate a legal action using bank deposit statues as tailwind in your effort to recover stolen legacy from the bank so you can voluntarily step off this Awo social platform on your own before we yank it. You cool? 5 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by Ugonnax: 12:14am On Jan 24, 2016 |
tombraokoto: A very stupid fool. I spit on you. 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by raumdeuter: 12:30am On Jan 24, 2016 |
StOla: Listen to part 2 and 3 also to understand why Ibo soldiers killed Akintola 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 12:38am On Jan 24, 2016 |
raumdeuter: Battle Between Awolowo, Akintola Led To 1966 Coup- Yakassai https://www.nairaland.com/2867045/battle-between-awolowo-akintola-led https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S0F_5ma4lM pentag0nal post: Facts have emerged of the factors which led to January 15, 1966 coup. This, according Dr Tanko Yakassai, an active political player in the First Republic having held several national positions in the defunct Northern Elements Peoples Union, NEPU, was as a result of the battle between the Awolowo and Akintola factions. In this interview published by Vanguard, the former National Financial Secretary, National Youth Leader, National Organising Secretary and subsequently National Secretary of the Aminu Kano led party expatiated on the factors that led to the January 15, 1966 coup and the consequences thereafter. You were very much around in 1966. Was there any need for the coup of that year? No, and I said it in my autobiography because, the only argument was that there were political crises in Western Nigeria between two factions of the Action Group AG -the Awolowo group and that of Akintola. Of course, that crisis was serious but it was only limited to areas around Ibadan and Ijebu-Ode. Then, in Tiv division, there was crisis between supporters of the AG and UMBC and the result was that the crisis in these two places led to some killings, but the rest of the country was in peace. The pretext the military used was that they took over power in order to quell those two crises in those areas. But if you look at the consequences of their actions -all they wanted to do was to save lives, but the coup led to the civil war and a rough estimate of the number of people killed on both sides during the war was five million which was not even the accurate figure. So, if you came to save less than a hundred lives and you ended up killing over five million people, would you call that intervention justified? The coup was not necessary, but it was part of the process of development. You see, what brought about it was the quarrel in the Action Group, but even that quarrel, according to insiders, was not “national”. People said it was a quarrel between the wife of the AG leader, Chief Awolowo and the wife of the man who succeeded him, his deputy, Chief Akintola and the reason for the fight was that when Awolowo was the Premier, the allegation was that his wife was getting contracts for the supply of exercise books and reading materials in primary and secondary schools and that when he left power and was succeeded by his deputy, the wife of the deputy insisted that the contract should be shared between her and Mrs Awolowo. That led to a quarrel between the two wives and eventually it became a quarrel between two giants which led to the break-up of the party, but the public view of the crisis was that Akintola was of the opinion that the only way for the Yorubas to be in the mainstream of Nigerian politics was to cooperate with the northern leaders. Awolowo was opposed to that and the crisis led to the split of the party at their convention in Jos, I think in 1962 or thereabout. That was what led to the crisis and also that was the excuse given by the military to take over power. In essence, could that be the beginning of our setback in our quest for true democracy? In our march towards perfecting democratic rule, the military intervention was the main cause of our setback. The first one of 1966 and the second one of 1983 when Buhari overthrew Shagari. We have had 16 straight years of civilian rule. Do you foresee any possible military incursion in the nearest future? Well, I am not God; only God can tell what would happen in the future but, at times the disenchantment and dissatisfaction within the society at large, could affect the psyche of the different segments of the society, the military also included. For instance, there is widespread poverty and lack money in circulation in the country now. People, hardly are able to have enough to take care of themselves and their dependents. The military took over in 1966 believing that they could stop the killings in some parts of the West, but in the end they created a condition for the civil war. When the price of oil came down from $45 to about $7 per barrel in 1982/83, Buhari and his group thought that if they took over power, they would be able to handle the situation. This was exactly why they overthrew Shagari. I read Buhari’s broadcast and he talked of corruption but there was no corruption because I just went through the list of members of Shagari’s cabinet, aides, ministers, advisers, assistants and others, and I think we were 75 or so. Throughout the two-year period of the military tribunal, only five people were indicted. Most of those convicted were state government officials but people at the centre, the majority of them, were not indicted and so we cannot describe that regime as corrupt. The corruption that we are now talking about was exacerbated by the military from 1983 to date. Even the misfortune we had was that when this country was going back to civilian rule, power was handed over by the military to a retired military officer and therefore he ran the system with a military psyche. Now, he handpicked Yar’Adua and after he died, he (Obasanjo) manoeuvred to get Jonathan to take over with the hope that he would continue to dictate from the background. He amended the constitution of his party to make himself the life-chairman of the Board of Trustees BOT. This was after he had sold everything salable to his kitchen cabinet boys and when Yar’Adua came, he realized that life could not continue that way and he decided to reverse the sales of many of those properties and other policies. When Jonathan succeeded Yar’Adua, Obasanjo also hoped that he would stay in his Ota Farm to be dictating things to Jonathan because dictatorship is part of the military psyche and they live by directing their subordinates. https://www.naij.com/697044-must-read-tanko-yakassai-reveals-battle-awolowo-akintola-led-1966-coup.html 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by Weedcrusher: 1:03am On Jan 24, 2016 |
anticabal1: Do you want to compare Unegbe to the likes of Maimalari and Ademulegun that were top ranked military officer in the North and southwest? The question is why did Ifeajuna run to Ghana instead of killing Aguiyi Ironsi? 1 Like |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by MayorofLagos(m): 1:14am On Jan 24, 2016 |
raumdeuter: Raum, The anniversary ...50yrs...was just recent and is not late to rebroadcast those audio messages in all its parts. In fact, it is a message that must be kept alive in the Yoruba conscience. This is Yoruba Ronu in its raw form! Can you kindly open a fresh thread with all the three parts so we can bring to reminiscing memory. |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by MayorofLagos(m): 1:19am On Jan 24, 2016 |
Xtorry, Yakassai stressed in that statement of reason for the coup that...."it was alleged the conflict between Awo and Akintola caused the coup". If the allegation is true then why go kill Ahmadu Bello, Balewa? This is the point a Yakassai is making. You missed the rhetoric, did you not? There is another coup sympathisers that say thi e January coup was payback for killing of Ibo in North since 1945. Then we ask, why Kill Akintola and Ademulegun and Sobanjo? Yet a third camp says the reason is corruption amongst politicians. To them we ask were the Ibos in politics corrupt free...why were they not killed? Ibos like you dont know which camp to lay in because your allegations and lies are not resonating with truth. You throw spaghetti on wall hoping it will stick. It is failing to stick! 4 Likes |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by hab1612(m): 2:10am On Jan 24, 2016 |
noblezone: TELL US WHAT YOU WANT THAT NIGERIA IS YET TO GIVE YOU. |
| Re: I Apologize For The Civil War by xtrorry: 3:25am On Jan 24, 2016 |
hab1612: Shymm3x post: .. I honestly don't know why some Yoruba folks can't let these people be. It seems a lot of folks are oblivious to the fact that Nigeria is bankrupt and it's only a matter of time before it implodes. So if certain folks want to leave the cesspit, either by hook or by crook - why can't you let them be? Or are Yorubas so messed up these days that they don't believe that they can survive without Igbos cos it is starting to look like that? You have a people who have been stuck in the 60s cos of Nigeria, yet they are the biggest proponent of the shiithole. If that isn't a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome, I don't know what it is. Or what have Yorubas achieved collectively since the 60s cos pictures of all Yoruba states, apart from Lagos aren't nothing to be proud of. Then almost all the states are heavily indebted and it is only going to get worse due to how bankrupt Nigeria is right now. Anyway, there are tons of Yorubas out there who wouldn't mind donating in whatever capacity to the Biafran cause, if Igbos can develop a proper strategy that won't alienate those in the South and maintain territorial integrity. Igbos need to start reaching out cos apart from the cows and cow jockeys feasting on free grass in the zoo - the country is a disaster. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here is a list of some of your greedy kinsmen who looted and ruined the fortune of this country. And this is your idea of 'One Nigeria' where you persistently rob Peter to perennially pay parasitic Paul, and still continue to spill innocent blood to maintain the status quo in the polity. simtosul: The question here really is the role these men and women played in the current state of Nigeria. The List of Top 20 Most Corrupt Nigerian Leaders (dead/alive) below: 1. Oluesgun Obasanjo – He stole $25 billion from 1999-2007 ($16.4 from power sector alone) 2. Ibrahim Babangida – He stole $15 billion from 1985-1993 ($12.4 billion from oil wind fall in 1990) 3. Abdulsalam Abubakar – He stole $9 billion from 1998-99 4. Sani Abacha – He stole $7 billion from 1993-1998 5. Ahmed Bola Tinubu – He stole and continues to steal from Lagos State treasury since 1999 till date. It’s estimated that he has stolen $6 billion so far. 6. Muhammadu Buhari – He stole $2 billion from NNPC accounts in the ’70s and the money was traced to Midland bank (now HSBC), London. Under his watch as PTF Head, N25 billion got missing according to PTF Situation Report submitted to Abdusalam in 1999. 7. TY Danjuma – He fraudulently got enriched through oil blocks from the Niger Delta worth $20 million in the 70s after the counter coup. Those oil blocks worth billions of dollars in today’s value. 8. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – He stole $1.2 billion as CBN Governor from 2008-2014. 9. Bukola Saraki – Through his father, Olukola Saraki, their bank, Societe Generale and as a governor of Kwara State (2003-20111) he stole $1.1 billion 10. Nasir El Rufai – Before he was made the FCT Minister, El Rufai was broke, homeless and was looking for loan to import taxis from the UK. After he was made the minister, he seized landed properties that belonged to Nigerians and resold them with huge profit. It’s estimated that he stole $1 billion from 2003-2007. 11. Tunde Fashola – He is the poster boy of Tinubu. Boht of them looted Lagos dried and left it in debt of about N1 billion. Fashola, among other thing built his personal website for N78 million, drilled borehole for over N100 million per each and built a kilometre road for N1 billion. He stole $900 million from 2007-2015. He’ll soon be a minister to continue the looting. 12. Chubike Rotimi Amaechi – From 2007 to 2015, he stole $700 million and $150 million from that money was used to sponsor Buhari and APC. 13. Atiku Abubakar – When he as asked by our reporter how he made his money, he simply said “he was always at the right place at the right time.” Atiku is an astute businessman, but through shady deals, he stole $500 million from 1999-2007. 14. James Ibori – He stole $150 million from 1999-2007 as governor of Delta State. He’s serving his term for money laundering in the UK. 15. Amina Mohammed – This woman was the founder of Afri-Project Consortium (APC) that was in charge of all PTF Projects during Abacha’s regime. About $125 million was stolen from PTF accounts from 1994-1998. Buhari has just nominated the same woman as a minister to continue to stealing. 16. DSP Alamieyeseigha – He stole $120 million and was arrested for money laundering. He pleaded guilty and long served his term. 17. Sule Lamido – He stole $110 million between 2007-2015 and out of that amount, $50 million was found in his sons’ bank accounts. He was arrested and detained for days together with his sons. 18. Rabui Kwankwaso – He stole $100 million as a governor of Kano State. EFCC has arrested many of his aides and they are “singing” how they siphoned the money 19. Kashium Shettima – this governor has stolen about $80 million and still counting. 20. Rauf Aregbesola – he has milked Osun State to the tune of $60 million. 21. Kayode Fayemi – this former governor stole $40 million and stashed some part of the loot in Ghana. He was reportedly bought a bed for N50 million. Note: The likes of President Goodluck Jonathan and key members of his administration including the former Minister of Petroleum are missing. Source: NewsDay |
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