Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by Nobody: 9:37am On Dec 16, 2017 |
ipodstinks: Just negodu, what crab is this one saying? You shouted hatred. But we all watched you on YouTube looking for Hausas in the bus. Those hausas you were looking for, you want to play with them or show love to them with cutlasses in your hands ba. Kanu telling you to attack Yorubas when you see them is act of love and humanity ko. You want to eat your cake and have it. Same way you killed western n northern in the past, still mocking them that you killed their leaders like chicken that infuriated them and made them killed you in hundreds, only for you to come to Lagos that didn't have any attack on you to bomb the Yorubas inside casino. And you expect us to forget even though we didn't react cos of that. You are joking. You people planted seeds of hatred but want to harvest love, who does that. You want to sell a Sandy goods but not ready to collect a stony money. You must be a comedians. Abeg, who hold you down? If you are really ready to leave, all of you should leave west and go back home. Abeg carry your victim cry away from here. You think the world did not see your handwork. And you never wondered why God did not answer your prayers. Commot abeg. Receive sense |
Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by Nobody: 9:42am On Dec 16, 2017 |
Hmmmmm........
We all know nigeria won't work again.....never never never
Is also a pity that seun and mods still have sympathy for a dead country that why they always neglect my post ot push it to front page because is always truth of the current FAILURE called nigeria......
This is a result of my constant condemnation of genocidal and batrayal actions of the hausa fulani oligarcy and their eternal slaves from futa jallon....
But they can't suppress me .....not possible.....
The zoo can come physically with python dance or seun and his mods with his own nairaland python dance but it will all die.....u can't kill or suppress biafra....
God willing, we will continue to agitate, violently within us, inwardly and and outwardly for the full restoration of biafra.....
And for the disintegration of nigeria.......
Till Nigeria fails and cease to exist........
Biafra has come to stay and must be a republic....no powers beneath the earth can stop what GOD has already declared to be.......
Is Isreal today...... Tomorrow will be biafra..... 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by Nobody: 10:08am On Dec 16, 2017 |
ipodstinks: Just negodu, what crab is this one saying? You shouted hatred. But we all watched you on YouTube looking for Hausas in the bus. Those hausas you were looking for, you want to play with them or show love to them with cutlasses in your hands ba. Kanu telling you to attack Yorubas when you see them is act of love and humanity ko. You want to eat your cake and have it. Same way you killed western n northern in the past, still mocking them that you killed their leaders like chicken that infuriated them and made them killed you in hundreds, only for you to come to Lagos that didn't have any attack on you to bomb the Yorubas inside casino. And you expect us to forget even though we didn't react cos of that. You are joking. You people planted seeds of hatred but want to harvest love, who does that. You want to sell a Sandy goods but not ready to collect a stony money. You must be a comedians. Abeg, who hold you down? If you are really ready to leave, all of you should leave west and go back home. Abeg carry your victim cry away from here. You think the world did not see your handwork. And you never wondered why God did not answer your prayers. Commot abeg. Prove to me that Kanu said what you posted or that there was a mob action on any stranger or any plans for mob action. You have no evidence. Even if there was we can put it on miscreants of which there is abundance of them in your fold. Your moral code permits and forgives miscreants in your society. The Igbo can never sit as a group and hatch a plan to kill another. But giving what heinous crimes you guys have done against us it is best you first remove the putrid pool of mud in your eyes before you talk about the insignificant spec of dust in our eyes. We are not leaving anywhere. Nigeria is a place of equal opportunity for all Nigerians who are free to reside wherever they choose. We will stay in Nigeria and we will get justice no matter how long it takes. After the race we will count our miles. And please do not desecrate the name of the Most High. HIS JUSTICE might grind slowly but it grinds surely. |
Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks: 11:17am On Dec 16, 2017 |
jomonic:
Prove to me that Kanu said what you posted or that there was a mob action on any stranger or any plans for mob action. You have no evidence. Even if there was we can put it on miscreants of which there is abundance of them in your fold. Your moral code permits and forgives miscreants in your society. The Igbo can never sit as a group and hatch a plan to kill another. But giving what heinous crimes you guys have done against us it is best you remove the putrid pool of mud in your eyes before you talk about the insignificant spec of dust in our eyes. We are not leaving anywhere. Nigeria is a place of equal opportunity for all Nigerians who are free to reside wherever they choose. We will stay in Nigeria and we will get justice no matter how long it takes. After the race we will count our miles. And please do not desecrate the name of the Most High. HIS JUSTICE might grind slowly but it grinds surely. Are you not his follower, why will you know when he told you to attack Yoruba pastors because the truth is out. You are asking for evidence. Can you give me any evidence where Yoruba killed igbos in the western part of Nigeria, and I will give you evidence where you bombed casino where thousands of Yorubas are. Bla bla bla. Igbo cannot plane to kill other people, I think those we watched on YouTube are from Eritrea looking for Hausas to hack to death. No Yoruba man ever attacked you or kill you in the west, you can prove me wrong if there is any but with concrete evidence like the one we saw on YouTube. Keep deceiving yourself in the name of the most high, you think he's a biased God ba. He knows your tactics that is why he didn't answer you. Stop comparing yourselve to Israel, Israel never killed anyone other people's leader and mocked them too, they never ordered their citizens to attack others and never for once look for Egyptians to kill. They never do any victim cry, that is why God is on their side. You hate others but you are the first to cry if hatred. People are wiser. No one falls for that anymore. Mind that. 2 Likes |
Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by Nobody: 11:31am On Dec 16, 2017 |
ipodstinks: Are you not his follower, why will you know when he told you to attack Yoruba pastors because the truth is out. You are asking for evidence. Can you give me any evidence where Yoruba killed igbos in the western part of Nigeria, and I will give you evidence where you bombed casino where thousands of Yorubas are. Bla bla bla. Igbo cannot plane to kill other people, I think those we watched on YouTube are from Eritrea looking for Hausas to hack to death. No Yoruba man ever attacked you or kill you in the west, you can prove me wrong if there is any but with concrete evidence like the one we saw on YouTube. Keep deceiving yourself in the name of the most high, you think he's a biased God ba. He knows your tactics that is why he didn't answer you. Stop comparing yourselve to Israel, Israel never killed anyone other people's leader and mocked them too, they never ordered their citizens to attack others and never for once look for Egyptians to kill. They never do any victim cry, that is why God is on their side. You hate others but you are the first to cry if hatred. People are wiser. No one falls for that anymore. Mind that. At the end of the day you will see the real victims are you people. |
Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by nijabazaar: 11:42am On Dec 16, 2017 |
imhotep:
Just admit that you hate Chinua Achebe and be done with it.
Your arguments are rather weak.
Don't mind the Cretin... 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks: 12:37pm On Dec 16, 2017 |
Guestlander:
Or Josef Goebbels giving unbiased account of Nazi Germany. Imagine, the man even said Benjamin adekunle committed genocide against unharmed igbos. Of which, Benjamin was in Lagos and no even on the war front. Adekunle only stepped in when the war enters ore. That man can lie ehn 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by Konquest: 3:45pm On Dec 19, 2018 |
ipodstinks: Chief (Dr) Chinua Achebe wrote a book titled “There Was a Country” which had sparked a lot of discussion on the pages of many of our National Newspapers of the resent. The pity of it was that Achebe had touched on the raw parts of the Yoruba People of this country and many had commented promptly and appropriately.
My comment to you today, has very little or nothing to do with the tribal issues but as affecting the military, the 3MCDO operation area during the civil war and to Sector 3 of 3MCDO of which I was the commander in particular, from 1967 to 1969. I was also the Chief of Staff of 3MCDO during this same period. This book will be out there forever, and I need to defend myself and my actions during the civil war for posterity. Nothing but the truth will be good enough for today and tomorrow. My account therefore will not be what I was told or what I heard as contained in many parts of Achebe's book. This is on the spot account of events described in Achebe's book. I have just completed reading it. Chief Achebe wrote about the following military situations, which I know are inconsistent with the truth:- a Asaba Massacre – Page 133
b The Calabar Massacre - Uyo – The brutality and blood lust of the Nigerian Soldiers Page 137 c. The capture of Afikpo d The Capture of PH - After several weeks of sustained air, land and sea pounding, a period reportedly characterized by military atrocities - rapes, looting, outright brigandry – Port Harcourt fell to the Nigerians on May 12, 1968. – Page 137 e. The Economic Blockade and starvation- pages 209 – 210
I will therefore take these issues one by one and expect that there will be questions at the end of my discussions with you on the points made or generally on the book, since I have read it.
Asaba Massacre. This was on the night of 8th August, 1967 at about 10pm. I was the commander of the Federal troops of 4th Area Command at Asaba. The Biafran troops broke the barricade on Niger River bridge and went straight to a place called “Ogbe Hausa” at the cable point; where the Hausa community lived. Biafran troops pounced on them and killed many of them. The few that escaped were moved down at Onitsha end, the people jubilated. Before my troops could reach me to report the situation, about 20 Biafran troops attacked me at the catering Rest House where I was living at the time. I fought my way through, and overpowered the 20 Biafran troops and reported the situation to my boss Major Henry Igboba at Agbor.
The story of how I did that is contained in my book. b) When the tide turned and the Federal Troops recaptured the Midwestern Region and Asaba, the Hausas among them retaliated by killing the people at Asaba. The Hausa who were there had never denied doing that. c) Please read the excerpts of this story in a book written by a Midwestern Asaba Ibo author titled “The Blood on the Niger” - pages 28 and 62
[b]Excerpts[/b]: Lieutenant Wokocha of the invading forces awakened one of the commanders of the Midwest Fourth Area Command in Asaba, Major Alabi Isama from sleep at the Catering Rest House. Major Alabi escaped arrest by shooting his way through and headed straight to Agbor...... Elsewhere at the ’Ogbe Hausa’ settlement (the equivalent name to the northern ‘Sabon Gari’ residential quarters of migrant elements living in the traditional Muslim Hausa states), a former teacher of 35 years experience, tells an equally hair-raising story. But before then, let us backup to the scenario at Ogbe Hausa the day Biafrans crossed the Niger. The Hausa settlement at the end of Cable Point is as old as Asaba Township itself. It developed during the trading boom of the Royal Niger Company. Trade on the Niger had brought a lot of Nigerians together buying, exchanging and selling goods. Most of these stranger elements from the North – Hausas, Fulanis, Nupes, Tivs and Igalas decided to stay on in Asaba. Many were born there and did not have deeper ties with their own Northern roots, and during the crisis, did not quite know where to run back to. These were the Nigerians that a group of brigands from Onitsha fell upon on the morning of 9th August, 1967. These youths, mainly aggrieved refugees from the North apparently had not forgotten the 1966 debacle in the North. In vengeance, they accompanied the Biafran Brigade and before the Asaba indigenes knew what was happening, a lot of damage had been done in Ogbe Hausa. Many were rescued and given safe conduct through Auchi by road while others proceeded by boat through the river Niger. This group never made it, for they were ambushed at Onono near Onitsha and dealt with. This was the situation as the Federal troops, now on the offensive and in command, approached Ogbe Hausa quarters, Asaba
* In short the Hausas were all killed. The rest of the story is in my book now being published which hopefully should be launched in January / February 2013. The Calabar Massacre – page 137 of Achebe’s book. I was the Chief of Staff of 3MCDO and Col Benjamin Adekunle was the commander. Achebe’s story here was that the Nigerian forces over ran Calabar in early 1968 without much resistance or investment. He further wrote that the Nigerian Forces decided to purge the city of its Igbo inhabitants and that by the time the Nigerians were done, at least 1,000 and perhaps 2,000 Ibos had been killed.
a. This is a very unfortunate comment. Intelligence report showed that Biafran troops had alienated the Efik people of Calabar, did not recruit many into the Biafran Army and had lousily defended the town and the beach area of Atimbo. 3MDCO therefore led by Col Adekunle had an amphibious landing at Calabar which proved that the town and the beaches were not defended by Biafran troops with the seriousness that it deserved; and the natives welcomed 3MCDO with all the enthusiasm and the support it deserved.
b. I landed 3 days after the amphibious landing and the natives gave us all the support we needed – medical, casualty evacuation, food, off loading the ship of our supplies and heavy weapons. These stories and relevant pictures are contained in my book.
c. Achebe then said, on the same page 137 that the Nigerian forces opened fire and murdered fourteen nurses and the patients in the wards in Uyo.
Here is an excerpts from a book titled “The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War” by AlexanderA. Madiebo, the commander of Biafran Forces on page 240 and 242 of his book.
....On the 9th of March the enemy landed at Oron and then on, no one including the Brigade Commander Aniebo, really knew what was happening until Ikot-Ekpene, 50 miles from Oron, also fell. However, within hours of enemy landing, there was firing in many towns and villages between Oron and Uyo. Thereafter, wherever our troops tried to deploy in the area, they fell into an ambush. That confusion continued until the 11th when firing started inside Uyo town and we soon discovered that the “enemy,” whoever he might be, was there. In short Uyo had fallen! Our own troops were pulling back in disarray, absolutely unable to establish a defensive position anywhere along the route. Having lost complete control of his brigade with no prospects of regaining it, Colonel Aniebo was dismissed from command and summoned to appear before the Head of State, Ojukwu...
Here also is an excerpt of the book titled “Nigeria and Biafra my Story” by Phippip Effiong, the Chief of Defence Staff of the Biafran Armed Forces on page 220 and 221 of his book:
.....When I visited the Brigade shortly before the invasion, particularly in Uyo and Calabar areas, I received a lot of complaints from the local people about unsavoury treatment by our (Biafran) troops. I drew Colonel Eze’s attention to these complaints and urged him to improve relations with the civilians. At Uyo, military/civilian relations were so strained that I had to personally intervene to release a local newspaper editor from detention. Such acts on my part were not just a question of feeling alone for my people, but also a question of justice and sense of belonging in an emergent Biafran State. Were these arrests, false accusations, and detentions a sign of things to come in an independent Biafra? These issues bothered me as they would anyone else in my position then.....
..... With the fall of Calabar, Itu , Uyo and Ikot Ekpene the rest of the mainland was militarily threatened. Before this threat became imminent, I had strongly suggested to Ojukwu that as Ikot Ekpene was a vital junction town. It should be strongly defended. All he did was to sarcastically remind me that in fact we should also put a battalion at Nnewi. Nnewi was Ojukwus’s homerown as Ikot Ekpene was supposed to be mine, because I lived and grew up there. However, I am from Ibiono in Itu, and not Ikot Ekpene. After I received his sarcastic message, I did not mention the subject again. As it eventually turned out, the fall of Ikot Ekpene hastened the collapse of the Biafran 12th Division and, consequently, of Biafra....
d) More of the story and pictures of the capture of Calabar, Uyo Ikot – Ekpere are contained in chapter 5 of my book. 1. (Pictures) – Building Bridges – Page 85 of my book. 2. (Picture) Natures helping to build the roads and bridges – page 86 of my book. 3. Map for the capture of Obubra – page 87 of my book.
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Brilliant perpectives from Brig. Gen Alabi Isama! |