Basking from the pyrrhic uncivil war of 1967, Nigerians have been threatening to unleash another round of barbarity to prevent another secessionist bid by the Igbos.

But are the events and factors of 1967 in anyway comparable to what we have today?

Comparing what led to Biafra declaration back then and today we can discern a whole lot of differences.

The Igbos had no choice to declare Biafra after they were chased out of Nigeria. The pogroms in Northern Nigeria and general anti-igbo sentiments from the rest of Nigeria forced the Igbos to withdraw back to their ancestral homelands.

The declaration of war wasn't even an act of the newly created Biafra nation but by the same Nigerian govt bent on continuing their genocidal war on the Igbos.

The Igbos between 1967 to 1970 had to put aside their emotional trauma, financial incapacitated state, contend with starting life anew at the same time building a nation from scratch and to respond to a jihadist war declaration.

The Igbos had virtually no financial institutions or industrial base but for 3 yrs had to develop a military complex to build their own weaponry against a hostile nation state that was spoilt with an abundance of world war 2 military surplus by their foreign allies.

No mean feat.

Biafra did not lose the actual ground war but on the diplomatic front.

With a kill ratio of 5 to 1 and going against an army of 250,000 to just under 30,000 Biafran troops, the Igbos not only excelled valiantly but were able to influence the Nigerian war cabinet to assume other non-conventional methods such as the hunger policy of Awolowo and the eastern blockade to force a surrender agreement.

Today, things are not the same as in 1967.

The Igbos have a flourishing manufacturing industrial base. Propaganda by the Ibadan expressway press has since tried to downgrade Igbo industrialisation in place of the packaging plants in the Ogun free trade zone. This is where propaganda has biten back because the average Nigerian has come to assume Igbo industrial Base as non-existing.

In the event of another war, the industrial base of the Igbo states can be commandeered to support a war effort. Recall the Igbos had to build factories from scratch back in 1967 as there were virtually no industries in Igbo land. Can Nigeria afford to fight an enemy who produces her own weapons of war while they hang around Washington begging for arms?

In the event of a full scale war, the Igbo nation with its teeming highly professional diaspora can influence the war effort in favour of the Igbos from the diplomatic standpoint. This same Igbo diaspora has been highly active and influential in campaigning overseas for a Biafran State as can be seen with the highly dedicated and coordinated effort of IPOB members and their increasing support base abroad.

The financial contribution of this same diaspora will be another factor which the Igbos of 1967 did not have.

Most importantly we have to consider the psychological disposition of your average Igbo man in 1967 and in 2017.

As earlier started, the Igbos had to suppress all traumas and daunting doubts to build and defend their new nation state.

The Igbos of today are not on that psychological disadvantage. They are angrier and more determined. They are not going to fight from a defensive point but with an aggression to avenge all the wrongs metted on the Igbo people since 1960. IPOB hate narrative was a war cry and it has brought about a defiant and angry Igbo man that has since forgotten and abandoned the Nigerian project. Counter hate speech from other groups (notably the Yorubas) and govt sponsored propaganda and military clampdown have not in any way benefited the Nigerian govt agenda of suppressing Igbo agitation but has made these generation more angry and defiant.

I believe anyone threatening another war on the Igbos should consider that this time around the Igbos will not go down easy and any war will showcase the already failed state and expose the unprofessionalism and cowardice of the corrupt Nigerian army.

BlowBack:
Basking from the pyrrhic uncivil war of 1967, Nigerians have been threatening to unleash another round of barbarity to prevent another secessionist bid by the Igbos.

But are the events and factors of 1967 in anyway comparable to what we have today?

Comparing what led to Biafra declaration back then and today we can discern a whole lot of differences.

The Igbos had no choice to declare Biafra after they were chased out of Nigeria. The pogroms in Northern Nigeria and general anti-igbo sentiments from the rest of Nigeria forced the Igbos to withdraw back to their ancestral homelands.

The declaration of war wasn't even an act of the newly created Biafra nation but by the same Nigerian govt bent on continuing their genocidal war on the Igbos.

The Igbos between 1967 to 1970 had to put aside their emotional trauma, financial incapacitated state, contend with starting life anew at the same time building a nation from scratch and to respond to a jihadist war declaration.

The Igbos had virtually no financial institutions or industrial base but for 3 yrs had to develop a military complex to build their own weaponry against a hostile nation state that was spoilt with an abundance of world war 2 military surplus by their foreign allies.

No mean feat.

Biafra did not lose the actual ground war but on the diplomatic front.

With a kill ratio of 5 to 1 and going against an army of 250,000 to just under 30,000 Biafran troops, the Igbos not only excelled valiantly but were able to influence the Nigerian war cabinet to assume other non-conventional methods such as the hunger policy of Awolowo and the eastern blockade to force a surrender agreement.

Today, things are not the same as in 1967.

The Igbos have a flourishing manufacturing industrial base. Propaganda by the Ibadan expressway press has since tried to downgrade Igbo industrialisation in place of the packaging plants in the Ogun free trade zone. This is where propaganda has biten back because the average Nigerian has come to assume Igbo industrial Base as non-existing.

In the event of another war, the industrial base of the Igbo states can be commandeered to support a war effort. Recall the Igbos had to build factories from scratch back in 1967 as there were virtually no industries in Igbo land. Can Nigeria afford to fight an enemy who produces her own weapons of war while they hang around Washington begging for arms?

In the event of a full scale war, the Igbo nation with its teeming highly professional diaspora can influence the war effort in favour of the Igbos from the diplomatic standpoint. This same Igbo diaspora has been highly active and influential in campaigning overseas for a Biafran State as can be seen with the highly dedicated and coordinated effort of IPOB members and their increasing support base abroad.

The financial contribution of this same diaspora will be another factor which the Igbos of 1967 did not have.

Most importantly we have to consider the psychological deposition of your average Igbo man in 1967 and in 2017.

As earlier started, the Igbos had to suppress all traumas and daunting doubts to build and defend their new nation state.

The Igbos of today are not on that psychological disadvantage. They are angrier and more determined. They are not going to fight from a defensive point but with an aggression to avenge all the wrongs metted on the Igbo people since 1960. IPOB hate narrative was a war cry and it has brought about a defiant and angry Igbo man that has since forgotten and abandoned the Nigerian project. Counter hate speech from other groups (notably the Yorubas) and govt sponsored propaganda and military clampdown have not in any way benefited the Nigerian govt agenda of suppressing Igbo agitation but has made these generation more angry and defiant.

I believe anyone threatening another war on the Igbos should consider that this time around the Igbos will not go down easy and any war will showcase the already failed state and expose the unprofessionalism and cowardice of the corrupt Nigerian army.

chestbeater
1967 igbos have advantages in military compare to 2017.
War is not moi moi ojukwu had to learn in the hard way, tell me the resources you have that can attract world powers or mercenaries on Biafra sides?!

Where is the battle ground if war breaks out ?

At the end of the when Biafra is achieved through war , how do u cope with your ravages zone, economic resources has been destroyed?

Will you still go back to Nigeria enmass as refugees of war when u declare Biafra ??

Kk u will be getting humanitarian help from UN , by sending reliefs materials such as food, bed, toiletries,
Then u have a mini-liberia in Biafra utopia dream

Dream on lol

Those that fails to learn from history re fools - osibanjo

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ArmedRobber:
chestbeater
1967 igbos have advantages in military compare to 2017.
War is not moi moi ojukwu had to learn in the hard way, tell me the resources you have that can attract world powers or mercenaries on Biafra sides?!

Where is the battle ground if war breaks out ?

At the end of the when Biafra is achieved through war , how do u cope with your ravages zone, economic resources has been destroyed?

Will you still go back to Nigeria enmass as refugees of war when u declare Biafra ??

Kk u will be getting humanitarian help from UN , by sending reliefs materials such as food, bed, toiletries,
Then u have a mini-liberia in Biafra utopia dream

Dream on lol

Those that fails to learn from history re fools - osibanjo

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I didn't see you leading the OPC osogbo division to save yorubas from Hausa's during the mile 12 battle.

You know Hausas won that war in Lagos and they used it as inspiration to attempt a sack of Ife.

ArmedRobber:
chestbeater
1967 igbos have advantages in military compare to 2017.
War is not moi moi ojukwu had to learn in the hard way, tell me the resources you have that can attract world powers or mercenaries on Biafra sides?!

Where is the battle ground if war breaks out ?

At the end of the when Biafra is achieved through war , how do u cope with your ravages zone, economic resources has been destroyed?

Will you still go back to Nigeria enmass as refugees of war when u declare Biafra ??

Kk u will be getting humanitarian help from UN , by sending reliefs materials such as food, bed, toiletries,
Then u have a mini-liberia in Biafra utopia dream

Dream on lol

Those that fails to learn from history re fools - osibanjo

Cowards die many times before the real fight. Nigeria was super rich back then, she's broke now and can't afford to war.

Niger Delta will never side Nigeria again, after the North hijacked her oil wells, rather they will sabotage Nigeria oil companies.

Nigerian will need to starve to if Nigeria will fight again.

England is not a European state again, and so... wouldn't join you again.

People are ready to die for Biafra, even can't die for Nigeria.

What has changed is that there at least 350,000,000 illegal firearms in Nigeria. Let that number sink in Three Hundred and Fifty Million pump action rifles, pistols, ak-47s etc.

War now would be a very different matter because EVERYBODY is armed to the teeth. Abi people think that its ghosts that are importing all the guns that customs manage to seize sometimes

Anybody still drunk on 1967 would be in for a shock

nku5:
What has changed is that there at least 350,000,000 illegal firearms in Nigeria. Let that number sink in Three Hundred and Fifty Million pump action rifles, pistols, ak-47s etc.

War now would be a very different matter because EVERYBODY is armed to the teeth. Abi people think that its ghosts that are importing all the guns that customs manage to seize sometimes

Anybody still drunk on 1967 would be in for a shock

Exactly what i am saying? 1967 is not and can never be 2017.

GuyWise:

Exactly what i am saying? 1967 is not and can never be 2017.

And believe me when I say that the Muslim North, afonjastic SW and current FG knows this.

This is why they had to kill Nnamdi Kanu.