KelleneOkonkwo:
May the soul of Effiong rest well. A very brave soldier unlike the pedophille ojukwu that ran away after losing 3m souls.

berrystunn:


You already poor before coming to this earth

That why nothing stays in your account.
You know what am talking about.

Young man keep your head down, I can feed you and your family.... If only your generations past, present and to come can achieve what I have achieved. Walking dead

MrMcJay:
For those saying Ojukwu fought and lost,

1. The ONLY Biafran offensive throughout the war consisted of more than 5,000 Biafran Soldiers was led by Yoruba man named Col. Victor Banjo.

2. The Biafran offensive of more than 5,000 soldiers was stopped at Ore by 179 Yoruba Soldiers led by Colonel Oyinlade Iluyomade.

3. The 3rd Marine Commando, that eventually spearheaded the end of the three-year war in January 1970, was led by another Yoruba man named Benjamin Adekunle.

4. After Ojukwu ran away to Abidjan dresses like an aunty, the Biafran army surrendered to another man named Olusegun Obasanjo.

Let no one distort history, while none of Ojukwu's children or relations died of starvation during the war, Millions of Biafran children died of kwashiokor and other malnutrition-related diseases. When food supplies were dropped by airplanes, instead of distributing the food to the hungry Biafrans, Ojukwu and his soldiers sold these food to those who could afford it.

When the relief agencies dropped used clothing for the Biafran population, these same Biafran Soldiers seized and sold these clothes to those who could afford them.

The true heroes of Biafra are men like Banjo, Men like Effiong, Biafran men who fought with just a rifle and two bullets and not opportunistic and cowardly turncoats like Ojukwu who led his soldiers into slaughter and ran away only to came back to collect pension from the Nigerian Government.

NICENEDU29:

In fact, in addition to what you said, the Afonjas are a typical illustration of the saying that "Cowards die many times before their real death". Lol!

BjDreamchaser:




Young man keep your head down, I can feed you and your family.... If only your generations past, present and to come can achieve what I have achieved. Walking dead

berrystunn:



Hahaha you sound so poor... Rich guy will never response like that...

Seat up man..
You know what am talking about.

That's just the fact. And am sure you will apply to clean my shoe if you get to meet me offline. I doubt that tho... Because I don't roll with people of your caliber. Let me know if you need any financial assistance, I will be glad to help you.. True talk u

omofunaab:
The fact that most igbos here on nairaland don't know the true meaning of hero is worrisome .

You called someone that took a plane meant to airlift sick biafran children a hero..

Someone that was never at the war front.. SMH for you guys.

Phillip effiong was actually the true hero

Malawian:
its like we need war today.

gidgiddy:


Forget Yorubas. They couldnt do anything when their own son, Brigadier Ogundipe, who should have been head of state was chased out of Yoruba land to London by the Notherners

They couldnt do anything when when the Northerners went to Ibadan and slaughtered their Governor, Lt Colonel Fajuyi.

All they could do is clap their hands and shout 'one Nigeria' as the North held them hostage in their own land, then turn around and call Ojukwu who had the guts to fight, a coward.

I laugh in Igbo

20 years later, the North once again abducted and slaughtered their bright political star, MKO Abiola. They kept on singing and clapping to the same tune.

AnonyNymous:

I don't think you know what war entails or you won't ever say that nonsense. Please just go and do your research, find an elderly person who fought/witnessed the Biafran war and let them tell you about it. Maybe, then, your sense will start to return gradually.

giles14:
mumu like u had Britain n Russia not to Nigeria aid ,ojukwu would have achieved wot he boasted of

giles14:
mumu like u had Britain n Russia not to Nigeria aid ,ojukwu would have achieved wot he boasted of

SuperStriker:


Biafran soldiers decimated your Nigerian soldiers that is a recorded FACT!!!! Nigerian with over 120,000 had a military casualties of 40, 000 men while biafran with only 30,000 men (all ill equipped unlike the Nigerian soliders) had 15,000 men. Infact, it's documented that 40,000 members died from your side..the soliders announced that it was in fact (500,000 men). Alabi-Isama himself stated that the Nigerian soliders/army was at least a million


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/biafran-soldiers-protest-in-ibadan/

Meaning your own government lied on it'so number just to save face...no wonder they removed history from school curriculum. Anyway, this means that men of 30,000 slapped men of a million which had more weapons than them so silly that they pathetically avoided them to seek their civilians like the cowards they are (evidence supports that weak tactics considering obasanjo attacking the bayelsa village, killing several innocent civilians when he couldn't defeat Massob. Similar to how your Buhari is currently attacking civilian communities when he couldn'the get to NDA)
Your loser ass army have always been the WEAK mofo they are even with assistance. If not for Western nation assisting Nigeria and the Nigerian army didn't pathetically go after Civilians and fought like real men, Biafra soliders would have slaughtered those men and this is a fact.

Btw: Next time you want to wrote jargon stories, be smart enough to make sure NONE of the participants of the war have not spoken regarding the discussion

Here's a quote from Alabi-Isama who was one of Nigerian Army greatest assert back then

https://www.google.com/amp/thenationonlineng.net/how-murtalas-error-caused-death-of-1500-federal-troops-in-a-day-alabi-isama-in-memoirs/amp/?client=ms-android-verizon

Even your obasanjo lost 1000 men in ONE HOUR against the biafran soliders

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/06/19/civil-war-the-many-lies-of-obasanjo/

Example of real men, not the bunch of cowards who got defeated by women, as well as their land taken from them and till date, theyou still being ruled over. Must such to be yoloba Savage. No wonder una are still Norths b1tch till this very day.

The statistics
http://wars.findthedata.com/l/105/Nigerian-Civil-War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

AnonyNymous:
For the ones calling Ojukwu a hero
GEJ is also a hero to them
Even if the person is a failure
If I were Igbo I'd be really mad at Ojukwu
And happy with this guy who did the right thing

**When Robert E. Lee saw that he was losing, he decided to put an end to the bloodiest war in US history by declaring the surrender of the Confederate States of America, making the country cease to exist and joining back with the United States of America. He was respected because he did the right thing. Ojukwu on the other hand abandoned his people by cowardly dressing up as a woman and fleeing.

AnonyNymous:

@the bolded
Get your facts right. The North didn't hold Yoruba's hostage. Although Awolow betrayed Ojukwu by refusing to secede at the same time Ojukwu did, it was because he did what he thought was best for his people. Nigeria had discovered new resources and only a fool would miss out on his region's share in Nigeria's new found wealth.

gidgiddy:


Naturally, Ojukwu who was public enemy no 1 could not have handed over the way Philip Effiong did. Nobody was chasing after Philip Effiong. Ojukwu leaving paved the way for a peaceful end to the war.



Ojukwu did not initiate any war , Gowon did. It was Gowon that came down to the East to fight. It was Gowon who broke the Aburi agreement he signed with Ojukwu and that caused all the trouble.



You people are strange. When Ojukwu was for Biafra, you people hated him. When he now returned from exile and was for 'one Nigeria', joined politics to play his constitutional right to vote and be voted for, you people still are against him. What is it you people?

Doesnt matter what elections Ojukwu won or lost, nobody can replace him in the hearts of his people and thats what matters

Betty1899:
This man is no hero

SuperStriker:


Biafran soldiers decimated your Nigerian soldiers that is a recorded FACT!!!! Nigerian with over 120,000 had a military casualties of 40, 000 men while biafran with only 30,000 men (all ill equipped unlike the Nigerian soliders) had 15,000 men. Infact, it's documented that 40,000 members died from your side..the soliders announced that it was in fact (500,000 men). Alabi-Isama himself stated that the Nigerian soliders/army was at least a million


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/biafran-soldiers-protest-in-ibadan/

Meaning your own government lied on it'so number just to save face...no wonder they removed history from school curriculum. Anyway, this means that men of 30,000 slapped men of a million which had more weapons than them so silly that they pathetically avoided them to seek their civilians like the cowards they are (evidence supports that weak tactics considering obasanjo attacking the bayelsa village, killing several innocent civilians when he couldn't defeat Massob. Similar to how your Buhari is currently attacking civilian communities when he couldn'the get to NDA)
Your loser ass army have always been the WEAK mofo they are even with assistance. If not for Western nation assisting Nigeria and the Nigerian army didn't pathetically go after Civilians and fought like real men, Biafra soliders would have slaughtered those men and this is a fact.

Btw: Next time you want to wrote jargon stories, be smart enough to make sure NONE of the participants of the war have not spoken regarding the discussion

Here's a quote from Alabi-Isama who was one of Nigerian Army greatest assert back then

https://www.google.com/amp/thenationonlineng.net/how-murtalas-error-caused-death-of-1500-federal-troops-in-a-day-alabi-isama-in-memoirs/amp/?client=ms-android-verizon

Even your obasanjo lost 1000 men in ONE HOUR against the biafran soliders

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/06/19/civil-war-the-many-lies-of-obasanjo/

Example of real men, not the bunch of cowards who got defeated by women, as well as their land taken from them and till date, theyou still being ruled over. Must such to be yoloba Savage. No wonder una are still Norths b1tch till this very day.

The statistics
http://wars.findthedata.com/l/105/Nigerian-Civil-War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

seunmsg:
God bless Philip Effiong's soul wherever he is today. At least, he was brave enough not to abandon the soldiers when defeat became imminent unlike a certain coward that ran away to Cote d'ivoire.

laudate:


Erm... how did Awolowo betray Ojukwu??

laudate:


Erm... how did Awolowo betray Ojukwu??

LorDBolton:


To be honest your analysis is greatly flawed.

#1- ojukwu didn't flee to ensure a peaceful end to the war, what war was left to fight? When they were closing in on him? He fled cos he didn't want to 'concede defeat' and also 'didn't want to die'. He is a coward.

Wanna know a brave man? Google saddam and gaddafi not a spineless rotting corpse called ojukwu

#2- the governor of the east(ojukwu) declared independence, thus he declared war...or did u expect naija to say Ok? Reannexation was the normal course of action.

#3- do u dispute the fact his kids were well fed during the war? Or that he executed ifejauna ( a man with more credibility than him) and banjo who tried negotiating a surrender earlier? (thus ojukwu prolonged the war). Yet still fled!

#4-. If he had any self respect he wouldn't have contested those elections, he would have quietly and honorably sit back but NO he still wanted power.


Most Igbos will always love him tho...but to the rest of us (non-igbos) who know history we'll forever see him as a failure.

lakhadimar:
ibos think they are clever. They always accuse Awolowo of betraying them, but I ask, just as someone did on the FP, how about nnamdi azikiwe, the one who composed the biafra anthem but later ran away from biafra. Azikiwe wrote the biafra anthem but he did not belive in biafra to the latter. Azikiwe is a betrayer and Ojukwu is a coward.

AnonyNymous:

That's to show you don't know your facts. Before the war, Ojukwu and Awolowo had agreed to secede at the same time. Ojukwu seceded and Awolowo remained.

oglalasioux:
Ojukwu tried for us but he executed the war poorly. Testimonies from his own Chief of General Staff, Alexander Madiebo, Cyprian Ekwensi (Divided We Stand), Tony Ubesie (Isi Akwu Dara n'ala), and others suggest he ran a one man show. Unfortunately he didn't learn from the mistakes of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte who were both defeated by England : same England that made sure Gowon used their system of dispiriting the populace to win the war.

Once the enemy achieves the objective of starving the civilian population, the war is as good as over. Ojukwu lost the war to hunger and not the Nigerian military.