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READING THIS MADE IT CLEAR THAT GOWON PLAYED A IMMATURE CHARATERS THAT LEAD TO THE CIVIL WAR.BRETHREN READ THIS AND CONCLUDE IT

Anybody who was present at the Aburi meeting or has read the minutes, the communiqués, statements, and verbatim reports would be surprised that a person who calls himself a head of state could so deliberately mislead accredited representatives of foreign governments by saying that the implementation of each item of the conclusions required prior detailed examination by the administrative and professional experts in the various fields. The conclusions in Aburi were no proposals but decisions taken by the highest authority in the land.

What happened in fact was that specific matters, namely, the decrees and sections of decrees to be repealed, the mechanics of army reorganization, and the question of rehabilitation of refugees, were referred to experts. The meeting of the financial experts to consider the question of rehabilitation of displaced persons has not been held because the Ministry of Finance does not think that such a meeting would serve any useful purpose. The army experts met and reached agreements, but these were rejected.

Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon told the Heads of Missions that the agreement about returning the regions to the positions before January 17 also meant in effect that the Federal Government in Lagos would continue to carry on its functions as before. He failed to inform the world that the decisions taken at Aburi, the Federal Government meant no more than the Supreme Military Council. No one of course who knows the sort of advice Lieutenant-Colonel Gowon is receiving in Lagos would be surprised by this suppression and distortion of the truth.

The actual Aburi decisions read as follows:
Members agree that the legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government should remain in the Supreme Military Council, to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided that where it is possible for a meeting to be held the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence.
Specifically, the council agreed that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic, and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporation must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.

The regional members felt that all the decrees passed since January 15, 1966, and which detracted from previous powers and positions of regional governments, should be repealed if mutual confidence is to be restored.
It is difficult to understand the introduction of the word “veto” into the matter. The Aburi Agreement was that any decision, which affected the whole country must receive the concurrence of all the military governors because of their special responsibilities in their different area of authority and so to the country as a corporate whole.
On the reorganisation of the army, it is for Lieutenant-Colonel Gowon to explain to the world what he means by the “army continuing to be under one command,” when in the very next sentence of his statement he also speaks of an agreement to establish area commands corresponding with the existing regional boundaries. This contradiction in itself tells the truth, and one does not need to belabor the point.

The actual decision of the Supreme Military Council as recorded in the official minutes reads as follows:

The Council decides that:
(i) on reorganization of the army:
(a) Army to be governed by the Supreme Military Council under a chairman to be known Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Head of the Federal Military Government.
(b) Establishment of a military headquarters comprising equal representation from the regions and headed by a Chief of Staff.
(c) Creation of area commands corresponding to existing regions and under the charge of area commander.
(d) Matters of policy, including appointments and promotions to top executive posts in the armed forces and the police, to be dealt with by the Supreme Military Council.
(e) During the period of the military government, military governors will have control over area commands for internal security.
(f) Creation of a Lagos garrison, including Ikeja barracks.

It is clear from the Aburi decisions that what was envisaged was a loosely knit army administered by a representative military headquarters under the charge of a Chief of Staff and commanded by the Supreme Military Council, not by Lieutenant-Colonel Yakubu Gowon, as he claimed in his present statement to the diplomats.
According to the Aburi Agreements “the following appointments must be approved by the Supreme Military Council; (a) diplomatic and consular posts; (b) senior posts in the armed forces and the police; (c) superscale federal civil service and federal corporation posts.”
Everyone with even the most superficial acquaintance with the Nigerian civil service knows what those expressions mean and connote.

To confuse issue, Lieutenant-Colonel Gowon gave the impression that the main difference between him and me on this particular decision was that I insisted on canceling the appointments of existing civil servants. I can think of nothing more slanderous.

It is clear from Gowon’s statement in question that he is prepared to distort the verbatim reports of the Aburi meeting. To keep the public informed, the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting Service will be playing the tape records of the proceedings live at scheduled times, Arrangement have been completed to transform those tape recordings to long-playing gramophone records , We are also going ahead to print and publish the documents and records of Aburi meeting. We in the East are anxious to see that our difficulties are resolved by peaceful means and that Nigeria is preserved as a unit, but it is doubtful, and the world must judge whether Lieutenant-Colonel Gowon’s attitudes and other exhibitions of his insincerity are something which can lead to a return of normalcy and confidence in the country.
I must warn all Easterners once again to remain vigilant. The East will never be intimidated, nor will she acquiesce to any form of dictation. It is not our intention to play the aggressor. Nonetheless, it is not our intention to be slaughtered in our beds, We are ready to defend our homeland.

Fellow countrymen and women, on Aburi We Stand. There will be no compromise. God grant peace in our time.

well, in all may his soul r.i.p

The pains of Biafran/Nigerian civil war had made us to be more cautious and  loosly united, if not, the Nigeria of today would not have been better than present day Sudan, DRC or Somalia,   think about it

Amokwe

The pains of Biafran/Nigerian civil war had made us to be more cautious and  loosly united, if not, the Nigeria of today would not have been better than present day Sudan, DRC or Somalia,   think about it

@^^ Do you sincerely believe the above bolded? Do you think Nigeria is actually better than Sudan, DRC Congo or even Somalia? In these three countries mentioned, the citizens are not having a feeling of pervasive insecurity in the day let alone after sunset as most Nigerians in the south of the country feel. They may be materially poorer because of some obvious reasons, but they are much more relaxed as normal human beings in their own land should be, outside of the actual war zones. The DRC Congo, Sudan and war torn Somalia incidentally have the lowest robbery rates if any, than "cautious and loosly united" Nigeria in your view. We should all be a little mindful and humble when looking and comparing Nigeria with other countries. It's not always black and white or obvious as we may think it is. Nigerian media is very much like the British and parochial U.S.A media in a lot of ways - gross propaganda for internal consumption that make the citizens feel very good and 'blind' to anything inherently better than their own. Our collective aspirations after over fifty years  should be better than comparing Nigeria to War torn countries. Nevertheless, we still have our own internal actual low intensity wars raging on - Fulani herdsmen invading/trespassing/ killing farming communities almost everywhere they go, BoKo Haram, Niger Delta and trigger happy and contemptuous police men on our roads etc.  Do such crises not matter or count as[b] wars[/b] and source of immeasurable insecurity to every Nigerian including the so called ruling elite? it's no wonder Nigerians are amongst the leading places where Religious fervour has risen over a thousand fold than anywhere else in the world. We are truly lost and confused indeed.

R.I.P Ikemba.

Ola one:



Buzugee in the houseeeeeeeee




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Chief how body wetin you chop remain

buzugee:

Chief how body wetin you chop remain

Chop remain for a big guy like u? Nothing ooo .


You had the guys in here the way you like it. Bet they will never cross your path again.

Ghosts are supposed to be objectionable
But if we must liken Ikemba to a ghost permit me to say he is a friendly ghost

He was like an angel to the Igbo race
The only slur I ever found on him was formation of Ikemba Front
Situation, then, I believe can exonerate him-he was gunning 4 the senate & rigging was starring him in d face

In spite of all, he is close to what Shakespeare said about Julius Caesar:::::
All the elements are so well mixed in him
& I am happy the world saw all these, and are giving back to him
If Gowon had measured up to expectations as then head of state Aburi talks could have helped us
B4 long he wl pay us the huge debt-thats Gowon, by apologising for failing on agreements reached @ Aburi