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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by PHijo(m): 2:53pm On May 24, 2020
Bonessaw:
So na 2015 election video you carry come here — Wike vs Amaechi/Peterside. You come use black and white design am like say na old documentary.
If you want to trend your yeye Kalabari YouTube TV ask for help. Don’t come out to spew trash with the interview of your village people.

Something must be wrong with you!

Where did you see Jonathan, Wike or Peterside?

Stop trying to deflect this issue.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by PHijo(m): 2:54pm On May 24, 2020
UdechiHD:
Mods the Op posted false information with this video. Someone has called your attention to this fact. Watch the video and you see fake news painted in black and white.

What is the fake news?

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by RuggedSniper: 3:29pm On May 24, 2020
7lives:


Their own na to suppress, repress, subdue and subjugate.
Now you understand why the people of Ore battled them to a stand still.
The opression started even before the civil war, this was why professor Sam Aluko, who was employed by Ojukwu as a personal adviser, advised Ojukwu to win the trust of his neighbors before the declaration of Biafra or else his mission will fail.
The leaders that were later rounded up, were the same people who welcome Victor Banjo and the Biafran troops under his command, to SS.
Banjo wrote in his letters to his wife, that he and his troops captured the current land mass under SS, without firing a single bullet.
Banjo said having explained to them that these leaders shall be allowed to be in charge of their people in the new country, they co operated and joined Biafra.
This was a strategy suggested by Victor Banjo, to Ojukwu, this is the only way to make the people feel at ease and co operate with the Biafran authority, or else they will sell out if their existence is threatened.
But while at Ore, begging Obj for passage into SW, the Biafran army stationed in SS, begins to assault the people of SS.
And they cry genocide as if they were handing out soft drinks and cakes during the war.
Brilliant post! Did you know that some young Edo females living in the Ibo enclave as of 1967 were repeatedly raped by the Ibo rebels who got them pregnant and they were later expelled to Benin with their other Edo kinsmen. The story of the babies born via rape of Edo females can be read for free online as a PDF research on biafra rebel atrocities against Nigerian ethnic minorities. Get it via Google. Cc:PHijo

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by OfoIgbo: 4:32pm On May 24, 2020
This will not be the first time, trumped up charges are leveled against the Igbos.

Sir Willink, the former Cambridge university vice chancellor spotted this trend, when the eastern minorities came with various frivolous claims against Ndigbo. These eastern minority reps must have thought that all they needed to do was to make allegations. Unfortunately for them, Sir Willinks did not just depend on mere hearsay. He investigated the allegations and his committee came to find out that these were just malicious tales put together by these reps for their own ends.

Sir Willink also noticed the willingness of SW almajiris to open up SHADOWY fronts, in their attempt to undermine the Igbos. The committee noted that in their report for posterity sake. Every Igboman must always refer to that, whenever these sort of articles and video clips come up. Remember what Willink wrote about Yorubas.

So I am not at all bothered by this.

Now going to the point that deals with a multi-ethnic Biafra. If this whole SW almajiri shenanigan, with a few of their willing tools in the SS, is meant to intimidate Igbos out of seeking Biafra, then they have totally misfired.
Quite a lot of Igbos are not even interested in a multi-ethnic Biafra as that will introduce back into Biafra, a huge chunk of the suspicions that were given birth to, in Nigeria. It will also bring in some of the minority characters, that have made themselves willing tools of the north and SW into destabilizing Biafra. I don't need another Ken Saro Wiwa character in Biafra, so it makes absolute sense for Igboland to go it alone. If the minorities want a nation of their own, as is likely to be the case, they will have unadulterated support from Biafra.

When I write Igboland, I mean Igboland in both the SS and SE

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by PHijo(m): 6:22pm On May 24, 2020
OfoIgbo:
This will not be the first time, trumped up charges are leveled against the Igbos.

Sir Willink, the former Cambridge university vice chancellor spotted this trend, when the eastern minorities came with various frivolous claims against Ndigbo. These eastern minority reps must have thought that all they needed to do was to make allegations. Unfortunately for them, Sir Willinks did not just depend on mere hearsay. He investigated the allegations and his committee came to find out that these were just malicious tales put together by these reps for their own ends.

Sir Willink also noticed the willingness of SW almajiris to open up SHADOWY fronts, in their attempt to undermine the Igbos. The committee noted that in their report for posterity sake. Every Igboman must always refer to that, whenever these sort of articles and video clips come up. Remember what Willink wrote about Yorubas.

So I am not at all bothered by this.

Now going to the point that deals with a multi-ethnic Biafra. If this whole SW almajiri shenanigan, with a few of their willing tools in the SS, is meant to intimidate Igbos out of seeking Biafra, then they have totally misfired.
Quite a lot of Igbos are not even interested in a multi-ethnic Biafra as that will introduce back into Biafra, a huge chunk of the suspicions that were given birth to, in Nigeria. It will also bring in some of the minority characters, that have made themselves willing tools of the north and SW into destabilizing Biafra. I don't need another Ken Saro Wiwa character in Biafra, so it makes absolute sense for Igboland to go it alone. If the minorities want a nation of their own, as is likely to be the case, they will have unadulterated support from Biafra.

When I write Igboland, I mean Igboland in both the SS and SE

Your attempts at rewriting history won't work! Chief Harold Dappa Biriye, God bless his soul. The grand Bonny kingdom, the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta region needs to do more in remembrance of him. He was a visionary, he saw the Igbo problem long before the rest of the society caught up with it.

The sad thing is, like your grandfathers and fathers, there is no remorse in you for the crimes you committed. Today Nnamdi Kanu makes it known to anyone who cares to listen that you will adopt same human rights abuse methods.

You keep on living in denial! Willinks report encompassed Ijaws in both the Eastern and Western region. Why is it that the Igbo were strongly against a region for the Ijaw? Willinks admitted that the Ijaws had genuine concerns due to their peculiar nature.

To their credit, the resistance from Awolowo's action group was indifferent. Azikiwe was the one who forcefully opposed Biriye.

That eventually led to Biriye leaving the NCNC to form the NDC.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Chimaraymond455: 7:10pm On May 24, 2020
America describes the Igbo tribe as the smartest tribe in Africa. A scratch of history about the rise and rise of the Igbo man in Nigeria.
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Let ME explain an Igbos man to you all, the Igbo man is that man that survived a regional genocide that lasted for 3 complete years, glory to God.
The Igbos man is that man that just after the years of genocidal attack on his region, his companies where seized up from him and was give to the Yoruba man to own it and run it as his own rightful ownership.

As if that was not enough, the Igbo man is that man that all his money in the bank were seized up, his millions and billions in the banks were all seized from him, and he was given only 20 pounds out of his own millions and billions, the Igbo man was told to start his life back just 20 pounds.

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As if that was not enough, the market of the Igbo man that was known as one of the largest market in Africa was brought down by fire, all these happened to the Igbo man in the analogue age.

The idea was to take away the Igbo man's right to survive from him but today the entire Igbos are still known to be the richest of all tribes, based on what history has to say about the attack on the entire existence of the Igbos and how each and everyone of them has individually made life better for them selves, you will be in total shock of not left with tears rolling down from your eyes, and I will not be surprised if you happen to be surprised about how come the Igbo man is doing much better than every other tribe in Nigeria.

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IN FACT it is now known that if you do not find an igbo man in any particular part of the world, then there is no better way to know that there is no light or life in that place.

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My dear friends, NIGERIANS and beyond, its a honor for you to have such people around you in your time, this is a good thing to write home about, to teach about, to document and to put in the mind of up coming generations.

what ever title the individual Igbo man attaches to his or her name, no matter what title it is, you should address him with that title, give him that honor, the Igbos don't wait for people to praise them, if you don't want to praise them, they will praise them selves just according to how they have raised them selves.

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If you think that it's not right for the individual Igbo man to attach to many titles to his or her name, you can as well do your correction politely and not by making a mockery of him because am so sorry to let you know that the igbo man so not even care to know what you think of him and his title, it gives him joy and it reminds him of where he comes from, how far he has come and where he is heading to.

Of all the histories that as recorded around the then common existence and the Now living Igbo man, all I have said here about the Igbo man is nothing but a scratch.

The Igbo man is not the type of man that has come this far just to come this far.

Of all titles that the Igbo man attached to his name, based on the history around the traditional, religious, great, powerful and bright igbo man, has inherited to him self the title that goes thus.

THE LION OF AFRICA.

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May God almighty keep on leading the Igbo man, may God almighty keep on blessing the Igbo tribe and the rest of other tribes.
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wish I knew my tribe
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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Malawian(m): 8:30pm On May 24, 2020
If igbos really coveted SS lands, the civil war was a good pretext to have wiped them out at once. Anyways, those that liberated them, why are you still holding on to their resources? Time never reach to go your house?

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by ahaz: 8:44pm On May 24, 2020
MinorityOpinion:
Below are the violence inciting statements Nnamdi Kanu allegedly made;

1. "...When we speak, the Zoo trembles, that is what happens when a cattle rearing terrorist and paedophile is your ruler."

2. "If you find anybody in your village asking after Radio Biafra kill the baboon Awusa Fulani or Yoruba bastard. Let them keep searching as we keep tweeting for #Biafra."

3. "Buhari is a shameless Paedophile and rapist."

4. "Buhari is a Terrorist he should be killed."

5. "Nigeria is a zoo and everybody living in that
Godforsaken zoo deserves to die."


6. "Kumuyi should be stoned and dealt with thoroughly if he comes to Aba for his planned crusade."

7. "The imbecilic Goodluck Jonathan is a disgrace to humanity and deserves to be skinned alive for handing over to an Hausa goat."

8. "By the time we finish dealing with the animals in the zoo, there'll be none left to tell the story."

9. "We are assembling weapons and we need some more money to thoroughly equip our military to enable us unleash mayhem on Nigeria."

10. "Niger Deltans are cowards; we know what to do to them. Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Edo and Cross Rivers State are our territory and anybody who tries to oppose us will be crushed."

11. "Buhari married his wife after raping her several times, the records are there."

12. "No Ibo man should attend any Church where the pastor is a Yoruba man, they are criminals and fools."

13. "Nigeria should prepare for war, we are coming to annihilate you, my secret service are already studying the zoo and strategising."

14. "Its either Biafra or death..."
this Yoruba goat you are here again

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Dedetwo(m): 8:51pm On May 24, 2020
PHijo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd0Ycz5ZWOk

Anybody who believed this nonsensical attempt to be relevant is a basement fool. The dumbass narrator said it was in 1968. Sometimes falsehood bearers forgot one of the major tools of their trade which is retentive memory. By July 26, 1967, Ubani (Bonny) was already in the hands of Nigeria's 3MCDO. By the January 10, 1968, Port Harcourt was under severe threat by Nigerian combined forces of Navy and Army. It is on record that people of Opobo, Okrika, Kalabari especially Degama division which I guess included Bakana, as well as Brass division were in support of Biafra therefore had drawn the ire of other Ijo groups which deemed them saboteur. They were evacuated to avoid the intended reprisal from turncoats among Ijo groups and marauding Nigerian soldiers. Let us not forget that Ijo man suggested the name Biafra and another Ijo sang the song titled "Hail Biafra the land of Freedom". The were many Ijo peeps who drew their stripes fighting for the survival of Biafra.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by PHijo(m): 8:56pm On May 24, 2020
Dedetwo:


Anybody who believed this nonsensical attempt to be relevant is a basement fool. The dumbass narrator made it was in 1968. Sometimes falsehood bearers forgot one of the major tools of their trade which is retentive memory. By July 26, 1967, Unani (Bonny) was already in the hands of Nigeria's 3MCDO. By the January 10, 1968, Port Harcourt was under severe threat by Nigerian combined forces of Navy and Army. It is on record that people of Opobo, Okrika, Kalabari especially Degama division, which I guess included Bakana as well as Brass division were in support of Biafra therefore had drawn the ire of other Ijo group who deemed them saboteur. They were evacuated to avoid the intended reprisal from turncoats among Ijo groups and marauding Nigerian soldiers.

Lies!
In case you don't know. I am from one of those Ijaw clans you listed. Bakana, Abonemma, Ogu etc can't be saying the same thing about Biafran rebels and you call that lies.

The victims of the evacuation say it was a land grabbing move.

You people disrespect the memories of our loved ones you murdered in a gruesome manner by denying it.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by 7lives: 8:57pm On May 24, 2020
RuggedSniper:
Brilliant post! Did you know that some young Edo females living in the Ibo enclave as of 1967 were repeatedly raped by the Ibo rebels who got them pregnant and they were later expelled to Benin with their other Edo kinsmen. The story of the babies born via rape of Edo females can be read for free online as a PDF research on biafra rebel atrocities against Nigerian ethnic minorities. Get it via Google. Cc:PHijo

Thank God for the internet, I'm reading this for the first time.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by IGBOSON1: 9:07pm On May 24, 2020
Malawian:
If igbos really coveted SS lands, the civil war was a good pretext to have wiped them out at once. Anyways, those that liberated them, why are you still holding on to their resources? Time never reach to go your house?

Hehehehe grin grin grin

Ken Saro-Wiwa, Annkio Briggs and a host of other ‘liberated’ Niger-Deltans are asking the same question! wink

Take a look at the ‘liberated’ oyel rich Niger-Delta today and just weep!

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Dedetwo(m): 9:11pm On May 24, 2020
PHijo:


Lies!
In case you don't know. I am from one of those Ijaw clans you listed. Bakana, Abonemma, Ogu etc can't be saying the same thing about Biafran rebels and you call that lies.

The victims of the evacuation say it was a land grabbing move.

You people disrespect the memories of our loved ones you murdered in a gruesome manner by denying it.

Sometimes I wonder if certain Nigerians ever subject their thoughts to critical analysis before they vomit them. How could anybody think about land grabbing when Nigerian soldiers were fast advancing to Port Harcourt from land and sea? The Port Harcourt was already under bombardment from Nigeria war ships off the coast. There is something I have learned in life. Those who firstly and usually accuse other of certain deviant behavior are themselves neck deep in such acts. Ijo have been know for land grabbing therefore any move is an act of land grab to them. This reminds of Chief Daniel Kalio and Chief Gabriel Yellow (Yallowe).

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by RuggedSniper: 9:26pm On May 24, 2020
PHijo:


It is a pity Igbo people are still living in denial of the crimes they committed. Apart from Bakana, senator George Sekibo's community suffered similar fate. His father, a non-combatant was killed by the Biafran rebels. He documented all of that in his autobiography. Lots of different accounts pointing to horrendous war crimes committed by the Igbo.
They have even started posting that the video is fake instead of being sober and apologising... By saying never will this crime happen again.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by vanunu: 9:31pm On May 24, 2020
[quote author=Malawian post=89922062]If igbos really coveted SS lands, the civil war was a good pretext to have wiped them out at once. Anyways, those that liberated them, why are you still holding on to their resources? Time never reach to go your house?[/quotel]


The good intention of the Biafra soldiers, have now turned to evil. The Nigerian soldiers liberated them, and took away their oil, living them in abject poverty and confusion. Before the Biafran genocidal war, the derivation formula was 40 percent , but Gowon reduced it to 5 percent. All the prominent men in Niger Delta kept quiet. Is a big shame.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by sageb: 10:22pm On May 24, 2020
PHijo:


Your attempts at rewriting history won't work! Chief Harold Dappa Biriye, God bless his soul. The grand Bonny kingdom, the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta region needs to do more in remembrance of him. He was a visionary, he saw the Igbo problem long before the rest of the society caught up with it.

The sad thing is, like your grandfathers and fathers, there is no remorse in you for the crimes you committed. Today Nnamdi Kanu makes it known to anyone who cares to listen that you will adopt same human rights abuse methods.

You keep on living in denial! Willinks report encompassed Ijaws in both the Eastern and Western region. Why is it that the Igbo were strongly against a region for the Ijaw? Willinks admitted that the Ijaws had genuine concerns due to their peculiar nature.

To their credit, the resistance from Awolowo's action group was indifferent. Azikiwe was the one who forcefully opposed Biriye.

That eventually led to Biriye leaving the NCNC to form the NDC.
lucidly said bro, i am glad you understand these things. It is time for Niger deltans to debunk the lies of these hypocrites.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by EzeAro: 11:27pm On May 24, 2020
PHijo:


Your attempts at rewriting history won't work! Chief Harold Dappa Biriye, God bless his soul. The grand Bonny kingdom, the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta region needs to do more in remembrance of him. He was a visionary, he saw the Igbo problem long before the rest of the society caught up with it.

The sad thing is, like your grandfathers and fathers, there is no remorse in you for the crimes you committed. Today Nnamdi Kanu makes it known to anyone who cares to listen that you will adopt same human rights abuse methods.

You keep on living in denial! Willinks report encompassed Ijaws in both the Eastern and Western region. Why is it that the Igbo were strongly against a region for the Ijaw? Willinks admitted that the Ijaws had genuine concerns due to their peculiar nature.

To their credit, the resistance from Awolowo's action group was indifferent. Azikiwe was the one who forcefully opposed Biriye.

That eventually led to Biriye leaving the NCNC to form the NDC.
Brother as an Igbo I'm not exonerating my people from any war crimes they committed even if it was far and in between. Definitely war crimes were committed by troops on BOTH sides, the Biafrans weren't saints either but if the documented files on the crimes are anything to reckon with, then the Federal soldiers definitely committed far more war crimes than the Biafrans. The Asaba massacre of more than 700 civilians alone beats any documented records on the Biafran side. Are you also trying to imply that the Nigerian soldiers didn't kill, pillage and rape minorities that they "liberated" in places like Calabar, Uyo and Rivers? cause I have loads and loads of available facts on that... I just find it strange you are trying to paintbrush the Biafran side in a bad hue, as if the Nigerian soldiers were any better if not worse on your people.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by OfoIgbo: 11:48pm On May 24, 2020
PHijo:


Your attempts at rewriting history won't work! Chief Harold Dappa Biriye, God bless his soul. The grand Bonny kingdom, the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta region needs to do more in remembrance of him. He was a visionary, he saw the Igbo problem long before the rest of the society caught up with it.

The sad thing is, like your grandfathers and fathers, there is no remorse in you for the crimes you committed. Today Nnamdi Kanu makes it known to anyone who cares to listen that you will adopt same human rights abuse methods.

You keep on living in denial! Willinks report encompassed Ijaws in both the Eastern and Western region. Why is it that the Igbo were strongly against a region for the Ijaw? Willinks admitted that the Ijaws had genuine concerns due to their peculiar nature.

To their credit, the resistance from Awolowo's action group was indifferent. Azikiwe was the one who forcefully opposed Biriye.

That eventually led to Biriye leaving the NCNC to form the NDC.

That I am forcefully against something is not necessarily a bad thing, but for the Ijaws to then go put up a huge batch of made-up stories, and anti-Igbo concoctions, so that the white man Willinks would give them a state was a new low of depravity. If you cannot see this point then there is no reason us carrying on in these exchanges.

Zik was within his rights to still want a united east, afterall the NCNC government (according to Willinks report) was fair to all, and there was no attempt by NCNC to favour just the Igbos. If the reverse was the case, then Zik will have no right to seek a united east. Fortunately, the Willinks report remains an article that has vindicated Zik's opposition to the balkanisation of the east.

Zik was oldskool and was amongst the set of Igbos that thought that justice was justice, be it Igbo or UnIgbo. That was why he joined a Macaulay-led party, not caring that the guy was not his fellow Igbo. He could have easily formed an Igbo party and still be very successful at it, but he didn't.

So if you want to judge Zik, you have to do it through the prism of his own beliefs and the way he led his life. Zik's Achilles' Heel was his addiction to this unity, with people who don't even have the same fundamental beliefs with you. Awo and Sardauna understood this. He was like a candle in the wind, from that point of view, and that is why most Igbos are not really "feeling him" of recent.

As to the remaining claptrap about the Ijaw nation honouring Biriye, be my guest, as that won't even remove a strand of hair from the Igbo people. I won't be surprised, if this so-called rights activist, benefited from the abandoned properties episode. So much for his humanity. Benefiting from an injustice meted out against other people. So he ain't my hero as you can imagine.

And that he or his ancestors were settlers in Ubani-land should not be the reason for him to drag Ndoki-Igbo territory into his gimmick. Forget all that clever wikipedia moves to help eradicate the Ndoki Igbo ownership of Bonny Island. Those that own the island know themselves.
I also noticed you have attached PH to your moniker. Dream on

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by PHijo(m): 8:38am On May 25, 2020
OfoIgbo:


That I am forcefully against something is not necessarily a bad thing, but for the Ijaws to then go put up a huge batch of made-up stories, and anti-Igbo concoctions, so that the white man Willinks would give them a state was a new low of depravity. If you cannot see this point then there is no reason us carrying on in these exchanges.

Zik was within his rights to still want a united east, afterall the NCNC government (according to Willinks report) was fair to all, and there was no attempt by NCNC to favour just the Igbos. If the reverse was the case, then Zik will have no right to seek a united east. Fortunately, the Willinks report remains an article that has vindicated Zik's opposition to the balkanisation of the east.

Zik was oldskool and was amongst the set of Igbos that thought that justice was justice, be it Igbo or UnIgbo. That was why he joined a Macaulay-led party, not caring that the guy was not his fellow Igbo. He could have easily formed an Igbo party and still be very successful at it, but he didn't.

So if you want to judge Zik, you have to do it through the prism of his own beliefs and the way he led his life. Zik's Achilles' Heel was his addiction to this unity, with people who don't even have the same fundamental beliefs with you. Awo and Sardauna understood this. He was like a candle in the wind, from that point of view, and that is why most Igbos are not really "feeling him" of recent.

As to the remaining claptrap about the Ijaw nation honouring Biriye, be my guest, as that won't even remove a strand of hair from the Igbo people. I won't be surprised, if this so-called rights activist, benefited from the abandoned properties episode. So much for his humanity. Benefiting from an injustice meted out against other people. So he ain't my hero as you can imagine.

And that he or his ancestors were settlers in Ubani-land should not be the reason for him to drag Ndoki-Igbo territory into his gimmick. Forget all that clever wikipedia moves to help eradicate the Ndoki Igbo ownership of Bonny Island. Those that own the island know themselves.
I also noticed you have attached PH to your moniker. Dream on
I do not have the intention to reply all the nonsense you wrote here, but let me correct that false claim to the Ibani Islands like Bonny and other Ijaw communities like Ndoki the Igbos owned no strip of land along the Niger River. It is unfortunate people like you always need to be reminded of your history and place in Nigeria. That Ijaw Islands like Bonny and a host of other Niger-Delta Ports were vital exchange Ports in the transatlantic slave trade doesn't make them Igbo settlements. You still do not own the Americas because your forbearers were shipped over there. That is why after hundreds of years we still speak of the indigenous people of the Americas. Get it into your skull while African Americans were involuntarily resettled in the Americas Ndigbo never owned nor settled in any of the Islands, Ports or Pennisulas you are trying to claim. We Ijaws don't dream you have been dreaming Biafra since the 60s Porthacourt will become your nightmare. Shameless lowlifes that had to agitate for a country using other people's identity.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by PHijo(m): 8:48am On May 25, 2020
EzeAro:

Brother as an Igbo I'm not exonerating my people from any war crimes they committed even if it was far and in between. Definitely war crimes were committed by troops on BOTH sides, the Biafrans weren't saints either but if the documented files on the crimes are anything to reckon with, then the Federal soldiers definitely committed far more war crimes than the Biafrans. The Asaba massacre of more than 700 civilians alone beats any documented records on the Biafran side. Are you also trying to imply that the Nigerian soldiers didn't kill, pillage and rape minorities that they "liberated" in places like Calabar, Uyo and Rivers? cause I have loads and loads of available facts on that... I just find it strange you are trying to paintbrush the Biafran side in a bad hue, as if the Nigerian soldiers were any better if not worse on your people.
There were abuses by the Nigerian army but never on the scale of the Biafran Army. The Nigerian Army did not bury civilians alive as the Biafrans did. They did not wipe out communities. Nigeria said so a new nation can be built we should not speak about experiences on either side. The Biafrans have been the ones to continually break this agreement claiming to be victims when they perpetuated far worse crimes. It is about time their victims speak up.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Nobody: 8:59am On May 25, 2020
1964-1970 gone...

Everybody answer your papa name and mind your business. That's the 21st century slogan.

Anything on Nigeria is simply on business basis aside that nothingelse.

Ijaw to your own Ijaw republic or anything you can call it.


If u jam any useless fool attaching Ijaw to biafra don't hesitate to call the person a fool, an Idiot and an Ipob Miscreants because that's what they are.


Ipob Miscreants and uselessness can't be equal to anything in this world.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by PHijo(m): 9:03am On May 25, 2020
OfoIgbo:


That I am forcefully against something is not necessarily a bad thing, but for the Ijaws to then go put up a huge batch of made-up stories, and anti-Igbo concoctions, so that the white man Willinks would give them a state was a new low of depravity. If you cannot see this point then there is no reason us carrying on in these exchanges.

Zik was within his rights to still want a united east, afterall the NCNC government (according to Willinks report) was fair to all, and there was no attempt by NCNC to favour just the Igbos. If the reverse was the case, then Zik will have no right to seek a united east. Fortunately, the Willinks report remains an article that has vindicated Zik's opposition to the balkanisation of the east.

Zik was oldskool and was amongst the set of Igbos that thought that justice was justice, be it Igbo or UnIgbo. That was why he joined a Macaulay-led party, not caring that the guy was not his fellow Igbo. He could have easily formed an Igbo party and still be very successful at it, but he didn't.

So if you want to judge Zik, you have to do it through the prism of his own beliefs and the way he led his life. Zik's Achilles' Heel was his addiction to this unity, with people who don't even have the same fundamental beliefs with you. Awo and Sardauna understood this. He was like a candle in the wind, from that point of view, and that is why most Igbos are not really "feeling him" of recent.

As to the remaining claptrap about the Ijaw nation honouring Biriye, be my guest, as that won't even remove a strand of hair from the Igbo people. I won't be surprised, if this so-called rights activist, benefited from the abandoned properties episode. So much for his humanity. Benefiting from an injustice meted out against other people. So he ain't my hero as you can imagine.

And that he or his ancestors were settlers in Ubani-land should not be the reason for him to drag Ndoki-Igbo territory into his gimmick. Forget all that clever wikipedia moves to help eradicate the Ndoki Igbo ownership of Bonny Island. Those that own the island know themselves.
I also noticed you have attached PH to your moniker. Dream on
The 1st question you should have asked is what political parties existed at the time? What clout did Zik have then? Who gave him his 1st political platform? When you have these questions answered 1st you will know there was no Igbo Party he could have used for his career. The North you look down on today was better poised politically than the Ndiigbo. Zik by the circumstances of his birth and career path should have been a unifier of the different regions of Nigeria but he went on to be a bridge burner. He sowed the seeds of discord and mistrust the Country is plagued with it is one thing to claim to be pan-African and another to act solely in the interest of tribe and tongue in a multiethnic Country.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Nobody: 9:11am On May 25, 2020
Wow. This is eye-opening.

Some of these atrocities were recorded by the war veteran Alabi Isama in his book too.

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Nobody: 9:18am On May 25, 2020
Chimaraymond455:

America describes the Igbo tribe as the smartest tribe in Africa. A scratch of history about the rise and rise of the Igbo man in Nigeria.
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Let ME explain an Igbos man to you all, the Igbo man is that man that survived a regional genocide that lasted for 3 complete years, glory to God.
The Igbos man is that man that just after the years of genocidal attack on his region, his companies where seized up from him and was give to the Yoruba man to own it and run it as his own rightful ownership.

As if that was not enough, the Igbo man is that man that all his money in the bank were seized up, his millions and billions in the banks were all seized from him, and he was given only 20 pounds out of his own millions and billions, the Igbo man was told to start his life back just 20 pounds.

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As if that was not enough, the market of the Igbo man that was known as one of the largest market in Africa was brought down by fire, all these happened to the Igbo man in the analogue age.

The idea was to take away the Igbo man's right to survive from him but today the entire Igbos are still known to be the richest of all tribes, based on what history has to say about the attack on the entire existence of the Igbos and how each and everyone of them has individually made life better for them selves, you will be in total shock of not left with tears rolling down from your eyes, and I will not be surprised if you happen to be surprised about how come the Igbo man is doing much better than every other tribe in Nigeria.

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IN FACT it is now known that if you do not find an igbo man in any particular part of the world, then there is no better way to know that there is no light or life in that place.

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My dear friends, NIGERIANS and beyond, its a honor for you to have such people around you in your time, this is a good thing to write home about, to teach about, to document and to put in the mind of up coming generations.

what ever title the individual Igbo man attaches to his or her name, no matter what title it is, you should address him with that title, give him that honor, the Igbos don't wait for people to praise them, if you don't want to praise them, they will praise them selves just according to how they have raised them selves.

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If you think that it's not right for the individual Igbo man to attach to many titles to his or her name, you can as well do your correction politely and not by making a mockery of him because am so sorry to let you know that the igbo man so not even care to know what you think of him and his title, it gives him joy and it reminds him of where he comes from, how far he has come and where he is heading to.

Of all the histories that as recorded around the then common existence and the Now living Igbo man, all I have said here about the Igbo man is nothing but a scratch.

The Igbo man is not the type of man that has come this far just to come this far.

Of all titles that the Igbo man attached to his name, based on the history around the traditional, religious, great, powerful and bright igbo man, has inherited to him self the title that goes thus.

THE LION OF AFRICA.

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May God almighty keep on leading the Igbo man, may God almighty keep on blessing the Igbo tribe and the rest of other tribes.
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wish I knew my tribe
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What's this one talking about?

Indulging in self-glorification just because you feel bad about the truth?

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Nobody: 9:20am On May 25, 2020
IGBOSON1:


Hehehehe grin grin grin

Ken Saro-Wiwa, Annkio Briggs and a host of other ‘liberated’ Niger-Deltans are asking the same question! wink

Take a look at the ‘liberated’ oyel rich Niger-Delta today and just weep!

Does that excuse the crime against humanity you meted out upon them?

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by RuggedSniper: 9:37am On May 25, 2020
PHijo:


Your attempts at rewriting history won't work! Chief Harold Dappa Biriye, God bless his soul. The grand Bonny kingdom, the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta region needs to do more in remembrance of him. He was a visionary, he saw the Igbo problem long before the rest of the society caught up with it.

The sad thing is, like your grandfathers and fathers, there is no remorse in you for the crimes you committed. Today Nnamdi Kanu makes it known to anyone who cares to listen that you will adopt same human rights abuse methods.

You keep on living in denial! Willinks report encompassed Ijaws in both the Eastern and Western region. Why is it that the Igbo were strongly against a region for the Ijaw? Willinks admitted that the Ijaws had genuine concerns due to their peculiar nature.

To their credit, the resistance from Awolowo's action group was indifferent. Azikiwe was the one who forcefully opposed Biriye.

That eventually led to Biriye leaving the NCNC to form the NDC.
Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Taba21: 11:18am On May 25, 2020
Juliusmalema:



That great.

Name one way you are better than those that are licking your asses.

If you can't beat the reach, then stop crying...


You guys are just shadows to Igbos.




And you people are chasing the shadows begging the shadows to be one with them?

Are you people normal

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Re: Ijaw Side Of The Biafra-nigeria Conflict-must WATCH!!! by Nobody: 11:43am On May 25, 2020
Taba21:

And you people are chasing the shadows begging the shadows to be one with them?
Are you people normal
I don't regurgitate same statement over and over again.
In Nigeria, u mean nothing to Igbos.

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