KnowAll:

[b]I think " Fela" as a phenomenon is above the trivial tribal bickerings of some SEasterners especially Igbo's,   the whole concept of Biafra is totally out of sync with Fela's pan-africanist movement, for anyone to think Fela can be so belittled to support an agitataion and proclamation based on greed and stubborness is a slight on the phenoenon known as " Fela".

I think some of us don't know when to draw the line by dragging the name of one of African's most celeberated pan -Africanist into a none issue, the whole Biafran agitation and conception is marred in greed, envy and out-right insubordination by some officer's who should know better.

I hope the culprit who is still alive who is assumed to have blown the whilstle for the pillaging and theft to commence in the land is a lot happier man today,  obvioulsy seeing his handiwork play to the gallary, his unprecedented  mutiny has  caused the nation enough pains in the last 40 years.

But does the absconding commander have any remouse hell no !!!, what and how about him inviting the chief Pillager of the nation to his backwaters and not only conferring on him an exclusive Igbo name but his unsavoury proclaimations that every Igbo's far and wide should support his candidacy this more than anything is the sorry state of Igboland in 2010.[/b]

cap28:

you are talking pure trash, first of all to dismiss the tragedy of biafra as an agitation based on greed and stubborness shows you up for the tribalistic bigot that you are.  Would you speak like this if your entire family had been wiped out by hausa soldiers during their murderous rampage? If you have nothing constructive to say keep your mouth shut.  

Are  you unaware of the fact that igbos were being massacred by lynch mobs in the north, how does that equate to tribal bickering in your deranged mind?  

Fela was a phenomenon there is no doubt about that but to state that he was above the tribal bickerings going on between igbos and hausas during that tragic stage in our history is beyond the pale.  Fela was not a tribalist he beleived in Pan africanism but he also understood where nigeria's problem was coming from, he could see that igbos had been victimised and brutalised by a handpicked group of puppets and he condemned the murderous and brutal way in which the nigerian army dealt with the igbos.  

You have the nerve to talk about pan africanism when you have no love for your fellow nigerian, if you cant even love your igbo brothers and sisters is it someone from another african country that you will be capable of loving?

For you to now try and rope Ojukwu into this whole debate shows you up for the complete i.diot that you are, is Ojukwu the architect of nigeria's downward spiral as we know it today?
oh boy go and look for a transformer to hug, rubbish.  

cap28:

Fela was a phenomenon there is no doubt about that but to state that he was above the tribal bickerings going on between igbos and hausas during that tragic stage in our history is beyond the pale.  Fela was not a tribalist he beleived in Pan africanism but he also understood where nigeria's problem was coming from, he could see that igbos had been victimised and brutalised by a handpicked group of puppets and he condemned the murderous and brutal way in which the nigerian army dealt with the igbos.  

For you to now try and rope Ojukwu into this whole debate shows you up for the complete i.diot that you are, is Ojukwu the architect of nigeria's downward spiral as we know it today?

tensor777:

You are a curious guy.
Oddly enough until this post I had never associated Fela with tribal or sectional politics in Nigeria. He had a much greater vision than that and in any case he was much too clever  to get involved with that kind of dead-end reactionary ideology.

EzeUche0:

Murtala Mohammed was another beast.

However, I am glad he met his end the way he did. The massacre at Asaba will always go down in infamy! Then as he tried to invade Biafra proper, the brave Biafran soldiers sent him packing after his disastrous defeat at Abagana. Biafran army won their biggest batttle. by ambushing and destroying a 96-vehicle column of Nigerian soldiers with locally hand made bomb called [Ogbunigwe or bucket bomb].

KnowAll:

That cannot be further from the truth, we need to look at the big picture. A country just don't just wake up and go downward spiral overnight. It starts from somewhere. Nzeogwu sowed the seed of discontent, Ojukwu made it a currency by allowing the un-necessary conflagration of a solvable problem, Abacha and IBB turned it into a relay race where they can keep on changing batons at random, whilst promising heaven and earth and delivering nothing.

KnowAll:

That cannot be further from the truth, we need to look at the big picture. A country just don't just wake up and go downward spiral overnight. It starts from somewhere. Nzeogwu sowed the seed of discontent, Ojukwu made it a currency by allowing the un-necessary conflagration of a solvable problem, Abacha and IBB turned it into a relay race where they can keep on changing batons at random, whilst promising heaven and earth and delivering nothing.

Yes Abacha, IBB and the other northern theifs turned nigeria into their personal fiefdom but please explain why you are roping in Ojuwkwu and Nzeogwu.

KnowAll:


That once united institution the "miliatry" which was  seen as the last bastion of unity in Nigeria was destroyed by the over-zealousness of Nzeogwu in Jan 1966, but Ojukwu by declaring a republic within Nigeria made any other crime commited present and past pale into insignificance. The worst kind of crime one can ever commit is to take on the state. The same reason why Gideon Orkar's coup failed removing some states from Nigeria.

tensor777:

Did Nzeogwu really know what he was doing? No
Did he have real understanding of the Nigerian polity? No.
Was he even aware of the deep rooted tribalism of his accomplices? No

At the end of the day he was just another reactionary military officer without the self- knowledge and vision that it would take decades of education, Godliness and enlightenment to turn Nigeria towards the path of development.

However the selected killings did trigger a wave of revulsion and anger that only abated with the the flight of Ojukwu to Abidjan in 1970

Did Nzeogwu really know what he was doing? No
Did he have real understanding of the Nigerian polity? No.
Was he even aware of the deep rooted tribalism of his accomplices? No

At the end of the day he was just another reactionary military officer without the self- knowledge and vision that it would take decades of education, Godliness and enlightenment to turn Nigeria towards the path of development.

However the selected killings did trigger a wave of revulsion and anger that only abated with the the flight of Ojukwu to Abidjan in 1970

cap28:

Okay now that Nzeogwu and other progressives are dead how further forward have we moved? 

KnowAll:

Fortunately for me and unfrotunately for Nzeogwu, I can benefit from hindsight and have a bird's view eye of the events of the 1960's, which you also can benefit from except if you choose otherwise.

The childish bravado of Nzeogwu and the stubborness of not losing face to a perceived inferior officer in the person of Gowon made Ojukwu to go the long haul to wage a war which was not only suciadal but futile and avoidable. This singular event open the ugly sore's insurgency and counter- insurgency in the Miliatary, I would like to believe this cancer has finally been exorcized from our polity.  

cap28:

, this particular one was borne out of a legitimate desire to wipe out a corrupt puppet regime.  Subsequent coups have merely been a succession of kleptocrats struggling to get their paws on nigeria's oil revenue.   

You can't get away with making such unguarded statements. He actually was so idealistic as not to have any true conception of what he was doing.

What corruption are we talking about anyway at that time?

tensor777:

You can't get away with making such unguarded statements. He actually was so idealistic as not to have any true conception of what he was doing.

What corruption are we talking about anyway at that time?

The one in high and low places where civil servants take bribes and demand 10%? lol. That would be stopped by killing the likes of Balewa who was a very clean ascetic politician?
No trials or convictions just random shootings of politicians and even apolitical military officers.

A so-called puppet regime that broke away from the Queen in 1963 by declaring a republic and rejected the Anglo Nigerian defence agreement?

alj harem:

u igbos are deillusional

Ileke-IdI:

^^^ Please remove the eye sore. Thanks

Ileke-IdI:

lol No.

EzeUche0:

Do not make me go down there.