Let me tell u a story...from my mother's mouth.

She was about 10yrs old living with her parent's and siblings in Zaria when the war broke out...

the killings of igbo people was massive in Zaria.. mum and family managed to escape to the railway station where they boarded a train to Enugu.

They spent 3days on the train travelling with no food and little water and the train had many dead and injured people in it.

They arrived Enugu after 3days and Ojukwu personally received them he catered for them all gave them food medicine and water ...and he put them on a ride to Onitsha ...with armed escort .

From Onitsha they took a boat and crossed the river to (Asaba). Anioma land.

When words spread to the anioma villages that many have died up north (ugwu Hausa) and war have broken out .....brave young men left home and joined the Ojukwu (Biafran army) with the aim to fight back and defend their freedom.....

many great Sons of Anioma joined the battle and fought against the evil..... Unfortunately Biafra lost 80% of its forces at Ore enroute to Lagos ...and the Nigerian army matched towards Onitsha ..

Ojukwu advised my people to flee warning them that the Nigerian army would kill them. Some Aniomas people panicked they ran and crossed to the other side for safety.

Ojukwu was forced to blow up the bridge to prevent the enemy from entering Onitsha.

The Nigerian soldiers camped at Asaba and called out all the men to assemble at the township stadium.

They told my people that they have come to liberate them from Ojukwu and the head of state wishes to address them at the stadium.....

All men young and old whom were still around believed them and they assembled at the asaba stadium

The Nigerian army brutally opened fire and hacked them to death.... It was a blood bath.


Anioma will never forget.

Delta ibos will forever remember what happened to our people ....

Ojukwu didn't kill us ....
Nigerians did ....

Ojukwu gave us shelter
Nigerians burnt it down....

Today they tell us lies and try to convince us that the Igbos hate us .....they tell us Ojukwu is our enemy....they try to distant us from being igbos.

They tell us we are not Igbos ... They renamed us to from Midwest to Bendel then delta then they call us Niger Delta and now they call us south south.....

maybe tomorrow they will rename our ancestral IBO language to Fulfulde / fulani language ... just to erase our igbo identity.

Anioma ....wake up and accept your igbo identity
Igbos are not your enemy.

UnclePati:
Let me tell u a story...from my mother's mouth.

She was about 10yrs old living with her parent's and siblings in Zaria when the war broke out...

the killings of igbo people was massive in Zaria.. mum and family managed to escape to the railway station where they boarded a train to Enugu.

They spent 3days on the train travelling with no food and little water and the train had many dead and injured people in it.

They arrived Enugu after 3days and Ojukwu personally received them he catered for them all gave them food medicine and water ...and he put them on a ride to Onitsha ...with armed escort .

From Onitsha they took a boat and crossed the river to (Asaba). Anioma land.

When words spread to the anioma villages that many have died up north (ugwu Hausa) and war have broken out .....brave young men left home and joined the Ojukwu (Biafran army) with the aim to fight back and defend their freedom.....

many great Sons of Anioma joined the battle and fought against the evil..... Unfortunately Biafra lost 80% of its forces at Ore enroute to Lagos ...and the Nigerian army matched towards Onitsha ..

Ojukwu advised my people to flee warning them that the Nigerian army would kill them. Some Aniomas people panicked they ran and crossed to the other side for safety.

Ojukwu was forced to blow up the bridge to prevent the enemy from entering Onitsha.

The Nigerian soldiers camped at Asaba and called out all the men to assemble at the township stadium.

They told my people that they have come to liberate them from Ojukwu and the head of state wishes to address them at the stadium.....

All men young and old whom were still around believed them and they assembled at the asaba stadium

The Nigerian army brutally opened fire and hacked them to death.... It was a blood bath.


Anioma will never forget.

Delta ibos will forever remember what happened to our people ....

Ojukwu didn't kill us ....
Nigerians did ....

Ojukwu gave us shelter
Nigerians burnt it down....

Today they tell us lies and try to convince us that the Igbos hate us .....they tell us Ojukwu is our enemy....they try to distant us from being igbos.

They tell us we are not Igbos ... They renamed us to from Midwest to Bendel then delta then they call us Niger Delta and now they call us south south.....

maybe tomorrow they will rename our ancestral IBO language to Fulfulde / fulani language ... just to erase our igbo identity.

Anioma ....WAKE UP AND ACCEPT YOUR IGBO IDENTITY
Igbos are not your enemy.

Your post is nice , but the boldend wasn't necessary

Anioma ....WAKE UP AND ACCEPT YOUR IGBO IDENTITY

More like forcing...

All this because them no gree join bayafla ...
Funny pipo.. erosion won't allow them farm nd they know it so they are stylishly begging for unity with oil rich delta to join the eroded waste lands.


That last line was a slapp on the face of deltans : "wake up nd accept your igbo identity" as if you own them or no other ethnicity can exist in the south south / south east unless blanketed under igbo?

Anyways na family matter dis one be , i just came to read comments nd laugh.

helinues:


More like FORCING...

Yeah.. somehow. But he said the truth shaa

nairalandankrah:

Yeah.. somehow. But he said the truth shaa

The real truth is SS region was a lost battle .

The real question is can't the 5 SE states survive without the minority Igbo in SS?

helinues:


The real truth is SS region was a lost battle .

The real question is can't the 5 SE states survive without the minority Igbo in SS?

For me, I'd suggest a referendum to answer that beautiful question of yours

nairalandankrah:

For me, I'd suggest a referendum to answer that beautiful question of yours

Me I believe SE should focus on how to achieve biafra first before thinking about the minority.

SS lands are lost but not the people

helinues:


Me I believe SE should focus on how to achieve biafra first before thinking about the minority.

SS LANDS ARE LOST but not THE PEOPLE

The people are MORE IMPORTANT

nairalandankrah:

Is that sooo

The reality that's hard to swallow.. Yes.. Finally lost

helinues:


The reality that's hard to swallow.. Yes.. Finally lost

So you value land more than the people!!

nairalandankrah:

So you value land more than the people!!

I didn't get that...

Funny how the first set of people who are commenting and attacking the @op are yorubas.
I wonder why

Noerection:
Unity beggar accept the fact that shout yeast is landlocked with just 5 erosion states.

Read the message. Don't be quick to type rubbish. I also heard of that story. It is called the "Asaba Massacre ". Very terrible. Many dead bodies were thrown in the river Niger, which was why the book "blood on the Niger "was written by emeka okocha.

If smart phones were guns some tribes in Nigeria would have been wiped out.
These hated filled debates makes me want to throw up.
Even the Rwandans have learnt their lessons.

tricksters:
You foolish Igbos never cease to amuse me.
A story from your mother's... Lol. Pls I can not laugh, you are trying to attach legitimacy to the lies you want to tell n because every Nigerian respect their mother u chose to disguise your propaganda as your mother's mouth.

Your same mother we all know is a chronic diehard mudafuqing LIAR.

So any fool can wake up cook up a story tag it as his pathetic mother tales of woes with recourse to any verifiable source n suddenly lost jew suffering from acute dementia lace with chronic bigotry n extreme foolishness cal label as "the truth". I swear I no sure say your head correct.

Are you this ignorant or you just want to cause mischief by tagging the op liar.
Whether the story came from the op's mother or not, everything written there are historical facts.
Firstly most people who escaped the pogrom in the north ended up in Enugu via the Eastern rail line before proceeding to their different provinces/divisions.
the Asaba massacre by major taiwo is well documented . what op failed to add is that both men and women came out to welcome their "liberators", that after separating the women from the men, all the men were shot.
And morever.you lots have always used these sad events to mock the igbos , so I wonder why they have suddenly became lies.

AngryIgboMan:
The anioma people I know even claim more Igbo than the average Igbo man.

They have never for one day denied there Igbo identity.

So why beg them? Am really beginning to believe that there is a conspiracy against Igbos on Nairaland

Oil soup men feel a kind of inferior to Igbos,so they keep creating these phoney Igbo threads for relevance.

Chia...no offense but you Igbos can really beg o! Show some dignity. You are a majority tribe. STOP acting like desperate failures.