Jaymaestro:

I am only curious but how did England win wwII? I read US entry changed the war with historical facts. In fact, WWll saw the change in world power from France and Britain Empire to US and then Soviet Union.

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

pazienza:


Go on! Keep on laughing at your own folly.
Like I care.

Newmanluckyman:
... If not for anything, you supposed to be the reason why History as a subject supposed to be thought in the school.

Not every war u get to formally be prepared for. For instance, if the rampaging fulani herdsmen is leaving destruction and death along their path moving like a bloody thirsty vampire into the heart of South West to reduced it to smithereens will you tell them that "please give us some time to get prepared so that we can resist your occupation"?

Ordinarily, I wouldn't have responded to you. So next time you see an igbo man or woman around you, hug him, dough your cap for him because s/he fought like a hero, warrior to stop the evil rampaging forces of darkness marching eastwards to cause genocide, apocalypse and destruction.

Rest in peace all the eastern heroes(death and alive) ,eastern martyrs that lay their beloved lives for the values, dignity and sanctity of Justice we all cherish.

Princedapace:


are u a kid?

he couldnt have stayed!

He was a leader and he must av been protected by his soldiers.. there is no way u expected him to stay.. he lost, yes but u expecting him to stay means u dont understand war or u are kidding..

i know what i said will still not make sense to u! Or u like the way Awolowo was jailed and humiliated and died? No, a wise leader will never allow that.. a wise leader chooses to die by his own gun rather to be captured or shot by his enemy.

jaybee:
Are you insinuating that the coward-in-thief had no gun to do the needful?

KelleneOkonkwo:
Trash and lies. So you were avoiding destructions when you invaded the midwest down to Ore. You people lie so easily, ojukwu remains a coward and may he rot in hell. Phillip Effiong, Joe Achuzie, and Victor Banjo are the true biafran heroes.

Lucasinho:
B*I*A*F*R*A will Rise AgaiN

jaybee:



Are you insinuating that the coward-in-thief hadno gun to do the needful?

KelleneOkonkwo:
You this jobless man. You have abandon your Igboid moniker and switch to this one again. That was how you told your kinsmen here to leave nairaland during the Rule 9 saga but you quickly switched to a new handle. Typical descendant of the coward Ojukwu. lol

Ngozi123:


I don't know any Igbo person who has refused to acknowledge Philip Effiong as a hero. Calling Ojukwu a hero doesn't in any way belittle Effiong's heroic status. He stood up for his people just as Ojukwu did and most of us (Igbos) will always be grateful to him for that. Stop being so divisive.

Ojukwu: Hero or Villain? | By Max Siollun on December 16, 2007

The federal government attempted to implement the Aburi agreement in diluted form by enacting a modified Constitution (Suspension and Modification) Decree which turned Nigeria into a de facto confederation. Ojukwu declined to accept the initial draft and insisted on a full and complete implementation of the accords reached at Aburi.

Nonetheless as the weaker party he could still have showed greater pragmatism to spare further suffering for his people. At this point Ojukwu’s decision making must be questioned. Ojukwu would have saved many lives had he shown a greater degree of flexibility by accepting the Decree as it gave him 90% of what he wanted. In the “winner takes all” mentality that is so symptomatic of Nigerian politics, Ojukwu unrealistically held out for 100% of his demands and in the end, received 0%.

His intransigence placed him and his people in a worse position than they started in. Rather than turning Nigeria into a confederation (which is what Decree 8 did), Ojukwu ’s intransigence gave the federal government an opportunity to overrun the Eastern Region, carve the country into several states and concentrate massive powers in the central government. Forty years later many Nigerians now call for the restructuring of Nigeria, and for devolution of power to its regions.

Ojukwu had a golden opportunity to achieve this over 40 years ago but squandered it. Had he shown some patience he may have achieved his objectives – albeit at a later date. The old adage is that “the best comes to those who wait.”

Ojukwu could have taken a leaf from the book of another infant country named Israel. For several decades Jews fought to be given their own state in what was then British Mandate Palestine. In 1947, they were granted their state but only on half the land that they wanted.

Realizing that it is best to accept what is achievable today, rather than risk holding out for 100% and getting nothing, Israel’s first leader David Ben-Gurion accepted a state but cleverly did not enunciate the borders of this state – this leaving the door open to agitate for more land at a later date. Today the “green line” borders of Israel encompass more land than it originally had at independence. [/color] https://maxsiollun./tag/ojukwu/

KelleneOkonkwo:


You this jobless man. You have abandon your Igboid moniker and switch to this one again. That was how you told your kinsmen here to leave nairaland during the Rule 9 saga but you quickly switched to a new handle. Typical descendant of the coward Ojukwu. lol

omofunaab:



Ojukwu doesn't deserve to be called an hero.

How can someone who took a plane meant to airlift sick biafran children to escape to cote d ivoire. Children malnourished, dying of hunger. His own life was more important than that of those innocent children and yet you call such person your hero.. .SMH

you guys have redefined heroism

gidgiddy:


Go and read Nigerian history well before coming online to show your ignorance. The whole trouble started when Gowon broke the agreement he signed in Ghana with Ojukwu. What kind of 'police action' requires 3 Divisions of the Nigerian Army? Long before Ojukwu invaded the mid west, the Nigerian Army was already bombing parts of Nsukka and Ogoja. The war was already on before Ojukwu got into the mid west.

The 3 million people you are talking about were killed by Nigeria just because the people said they dont want 'one Nigeria' any more. Ojukwu fought a war to liberate his from Northern controlled Nigeria. There is no shame in anyone fighting for their freedom, even at the cost of millions of lives. The allied forces kost nearly 40 million people in the second world war to get freedom in Europe.

Ojukwu was a freedom fighter who fought the combined military might of Britain, Russia, Nigeria and Egypt and held firm for 3 years. When the end was near and the center coukd no longer hold, he exited. If you were waiting for him to stay back and get himself captured and killed in other to prove he is brave, keep waiting. Ojukwu would have been a fool to let this happen.

Ojukwu fough and lost. When you cant beat them, you join them and thats what he did by returning to join politics.

There can never be any shame on Ojukwus part for fighting for the freedom of his people.

Ngozi123:


It is not in your power to determine whether another group should call someone their hero or not as you are an outsider. On the one hand, people like you call Ojukwu a coward because he delayed surrendering for as long as possible, enabling many children to have been evacuated. On the other hand, people like you say that he was a coward because he surrendered too quickly, claiming that he thought his life more important than the lives of Biafran children. Which one is it?

Imo, he isn't a coward in any sense of the word. Cowardice would be him choosing to stay in his comfortable role as the leader of the Eastern region and enjoying his family's wealth whilst his people were being slaughtered in the North. If he didn't care about his people then why not just declare war from the offset? Why go to the effort of signing the Aburi Accord and trying to go through diplomatic means to alleviate the situation? Before you try to say that it was always Ojukwu's intention to go to war, let me tell you that the Biafran side was no where near ready for war when Nigeria declared war on them. Anything that Ojukwu said regarding the strength of the Biafran army at the start of the war was only said to raise morale for the civilians cum soldiers.

T9ksy:
GBABE!!!

He's an ardent student of DEDEISM school of thought though at times i believe, it's a genetic trait.

Ngozi123:


I don't know any Igbo person who has refused to acknowledge Philip Effiong as a hero. Calling Ojukwu a hero doesn't in any way belittle Effiong's heroic status. He stood up for his people just as Ojukwu did and most of us (Igbos) will always be grateful to him for that. Stop being so divisive.

omofunaab:




You haven't addressed the issue that i raised instead you wrote long epistles

I repeat again.

I said ojukwu commandeered a plane meant to airlift hundreds of sick biafran children for his own personal safety.. Tell me does that shows heroism?

If you can't answer that question then please don't even bother to quote me

laudate:


Hehehe, don't mind him. His middle name is 'Revisionist.' He always writes from a skewed & warped perspective. Take everything he tells you, with 10 pinches of salt. Because by the time you go back & verify what he has written, you will see that it is filled with half-truths, riddled with conjecture & twisted to suit his weird brand of propaganda. By the way.... what is 'DEDEISM School of Thought?' Can you shed more light on this?

T9ksy:
Haba! Have you forgotten the mad old prof(?) Dede with his big grammers devoid of any iota of substance never mind fact, so soon? Every discourse he jumps into, is always filled with inanities and sheer obfuscations, that's, when he's not trying to rewrite history with

the mind of a wounded soldier who's got a shrapnel stuck in his frontal lobe since the biafran (Nigerian) oil war.

Ngozi123:


When has two paragraphs ever been considered an epistle?

By leaving at that moment, he probably saved millions more children so when you look at the bigger picture, it was indeed an act of heroism. It was also a very pragmatic course of action; had he stayed in the country, he would have been assassinated. If he had died at that moment then the Biafran dream would have died with him.

omofunaab:




Chai And you are a lady.

Okay what has ojukwu being alive for so many years done to the biafran dream?

Ojukwu denounced biafra as a condition to come back from exile

He was given his father's properties but millions of biafrans died in the war..

Ojukwu preserved and cherish his life more than the so called biafran war.

You need to read up on war heroes.
Heroes are meant to make sacrifices and not sacrifice sick innocent children for their own safety.

Ojukwu cared more about his own safety than the safety of millions of biafran children dying everyday of hunger.

You guys have just redefined heroism.

Well you are free to call ojukwu your hero sha