seunmsg:
Gowon and Awolowo were too magnanimous as far as I’m concerned. The insult they receive from the same people they did everything for is as a result of their magnanimity. Henceforth, any part of Nigeria that wages war against the country better win. If not, they will be subjected to unimaginable sufferings after defeat. The days of good guys like Gowon and Awolowo doing no victor no vanquished is over.

MinorityOpinion:




TWENTY POUNDS POLICY






– Excerpts from an interview Awo granted during a town hall meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, in 1983
(2012)

seunmsg:
Gowon and Awolowo were too magnanimous as far as I’m concerned. The insult they receive from the same people they did everything for is as a result of their magnanimity. Henceforth, any part of Nigeria that wages war against the country better win. If not, they will be subjected to unimaginable sufferings after defeat. The days of good guys like Gowon and Awolowo doing no victor no vanquished is over.

MinorityOpinion:


"when the war was over, I saw to it that the African Continental Bank, ACB, got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given.

I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as commissioner for finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the ministry of economic planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas."

Kingseex1:
According To Late Awolowo He Gave The Southeast Region Almost A Million Pounds Monthly And OfCourse He Did That For Other Region Too. I No Understand This Kind Help, the only help i see here is funding of the ACB with 3.5 million pounds which is commendable
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maestroferddi:
So we should take uncorroborated assertion made by Awolowo, a staunch enemy of the Igbos as anything worth investing listening time on?

For your information, we know what really happened. Our people spoke and we can't forget...

omonnakoda:


He made that assertion while he was alive.

Produce any evidence of any Ibos that came out to dispute his claim before he died

maestroferddi:
So we should take uncorroborated assertions made by Awolowo, a staunch enemy of the Igbos as anything worth investing listening time on?

For your information, we know what really happened. Our people spoke and we can't forget...

MinorityOpinion:


Tell me then where the Biafran got money to start their trade again if not that they weren't helped.

Your money was worhtless
You used all your reserve to buy weapons
Your city devastated

You should be more angry at people that is keeping the truth away from you.

seunmsg:
Gowon and Awolowo were too magnanimous as far as I’m concerned. The insult they receive from the same people they did everything for is as a result of their magnanimity. Henceforth, any part of Nigeria that wages war against the country better win. If not, they will be subjected to unimaginable sufferings after defeat. The days of good guys like Gowon and Awolowo doing no victor no vanquished is over.

maestroferddi:
Good question.

Most Igbomen who ventured outside Igboland after the war started all over again from the scratch.

Take for instance, markets like Alaba International and Trade Fair used to be waste/marshlands before the Igbos built them to the international standards they are today.

Many Igbomen began life as artisans and labourers and even hawkers.

Today, Igbos are derided for hawking goods on major roads, but do you know how many Igbomen have worked/toiled/saved their way to millions from hawking?

There is this Igbo spirit to make lemonade from lemons, it is innate...

His lies that the Igbos wanted to exchange Biafra notes with Nigerian pounds is too ridiculous and laughable to elicit my response...

MinorityOpinion:


Tell me then where the Biafran got money to start their trade again if not that they weren't helped.

Your money was worhtless
You used all your reserve to buy weapons
Your city devastated

You should be more angry at people that is keeping the truth away from you.

gwafaeziokwu:


Is there no adult in your home to collect that new phone daddy bought for you.

You are damaging your brain trying to understand what professors and business experts are amazed at.

Pick up Chike and the river or Guilliver's travel if your text books no longer make sense to you.

Many have travelled this your route in this forum and got burned out when the initial adrenalin had dissipated following frequent orgasms on issues far above their intellect or understanding.

The body count abounds, yours is too light weight to matter.

#mytwocents

MinorityOpinion:


Bullshit. Where did they get the money? If they weren't set up from money Awolowo gave to them.

The started from scratch is a story a child will believe. You were help by Nigerians. You had no money, no capital, nothing! You were given loan, where did the loan come from. Awolowo.

You keep recycling the bullshit story your dubious elders told you.

maestroferddi:
You should try and do some thinking dude and not acting like a robot ...

Go to Lafipo and Alaba market and see self-made Igbo millionaires who have never borrowed a farthing from anyone.

Your deluded mind also should explain how some people made millions of dollars/pounds in foreign countries in spite of the fact that they arrived empty-handed.

You really need to come up to speed: I don't enjoy debating with infants...it is deleterious to cognitive well-being...

Tranquillity360:
Prove wrong a Quote written by a yoruba man around 2012.


If you can't answer the questions i asked then am done with you.

MinorityOpinion:


Your two cents is trash and you should ashamed for dragging family into this.

MinorityOpinion:


Lmao at the bolded. You're the infant here. Who arrive empty handed to foreign counties with no capital? Are you for real? You're a liar

Unless you are going there to commit crime. Are you a criminal?

maestroferddi:
You should be paying me for giving some solid schooling that you never got despite wasting rresources in some faceless institution...

I know a number of naija guys who are doing well for themselves all over the world.

They arrive their host countries empty-handed. Some were homeless for months.

Something came up in my sec school alumni recently...One of the most bouyant guys among us is actual an auto mechanic in Spain.

The guy is not doing drugs. He buys used and accidented cars, fixes them and resale at a massive profit.

Get you lazy behind to think and stop being a leech who believes that he needs government intervention to even sneeze.

gwafaeziokwu:


Glad you have realised that you are disgracing the people who invested time and energy to raise you.

I am sure they taught you about respect for human dignity, and not to make light through mockery a human tragedy such as Biafra, but peer influence made you forget.

It's not too late to retrace your steps. Honour their efforts and quit dancing naked in public.

MinorityOpinion:


Thank you for the wisdom.

MinorityOpinion:


I'm not here for some moonlight story from aba. You yourself said someone is helping.

Don't quote me again.

maestroferddi:
Next time exercise requisite circumspection before coming to make a fool of yourself.

TRASH

maestroferddi:
Next time exercise requisite circumspection before coming to make a fool of yourself.