Beaf:

I told you to go find out who a particular name was, but you obviously want to avoid the discomfort of the truth in its plain nak'edness.
Biafra bungled their war effort terribly in the Midwest and that is the reason for the heaps of unjust lies. They felt the minorities were too small to talk to. You don't just invade a mans territory, execute people, cart some off to Enugu, hunt for the governor dead or alive and naively think that bad blood would not be generated.

Dude, someone phucked up and felt it was easier to tell a lie (afterall, it was against minorities who barely had a voice). That lie became propaganda and has since been repeated from father to son. Regardless, it remains a lie.
Take time out to study what really transpired in the Midwest; look at it with completely fresh eys and you would conclude that the story you have grown up to believe is ridiculous and cannot have any stretch of truth in it.

Dede1:
In fact, with urging of David Ejoor, Gowon relocated LGO under Adekunle to Escravos to be bloated into a brigade or possible a division.

Also, David Ejoor procured the sea-craft LGO needed to launch amphibious operation on Ubani (Bonny) in eastern region of July 1967

Dede1:

Please check with Nigerian army

Logic Mind:

Which is why we wanted to be on our own!
MASSOB!

Leave us alone.

[size=55pt]LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA![/size]

Beaf:

Oga Dede, nobody did anything in Escravos before the invasion of the Midwest.

It does not pay you and neither does it pay me to be liberal with dates.
Dates and sequence are extremely important in any recounting of historical events.

When you put sequence in, your account above becomes a distortion of history. The Midwest had nothing against Biafra until the invasion. In fact, as I mentioned earlier, Ejoor even sent the troops under his command to Nsukka, leaving the Midwest totally open, At that point or before, Biafra should have consulted with him.

re@lchange:
if biafra had defeated aboki soldiers inside the middle belt area, maybe yorubas could have mustered courage to chase aboki soldiers from lagos and the west
again we may never know because yoruba na coward, but at least they would hesitate before joining any invasion from the west

these are the thoughts going through my intelligent mind

Dede1:


I am of the view you are better than this disingenuous and despicable display on the thread. After the unsuccessful July 29, 1966 coup, due to the fact eastern region was no-go area for Gowon and northern soldiers, Nigeria (which include northern, western and mid-western regions) and Gowon decided to invade eastern region. In fact, with urging of David Ejoor, Gowon relocated LGO under Adekunle to Escravos to be bloated into a brigade or possible a division. It was at Escravos, Mid-western region that less than a battalion LGO was built into a brigade with young men from Yoruba, Edo, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Eshan and Isoko. Also, David Ejoor procured some of the sea-landing crafts LGO needed to launch amphibious operation on Ubani (Bonny) in eastern region of July 16, 1967. By the time Bonny was captured on July 26, 1967, LGO has grown into a full division with designated name of 3rd division.

I do believe you are intelligent enough to discern that July is a month ahead of August. Since Nigeria, including Mid-western region, had been attacking eastern region from July 6, 1967, a person wonders what instigated you to deduce that Biafra punitively launched a military attack against a country such as Republic of Mid-western Region.

As matter of fact, Biafra would have launched military attack on Nigeria through mid-western region earlier than August 8, 1967 when it did. I guess in your neck of wood, they count the months of year from December to January that is reason you thought Biafra first initiated attack through mid-western region.

re@lchange:
beaf raised an important point here
supposing biafra faced the north only and not march westward, could gowon have attacked from the west and south since adaka boro was already restless to support aboki soldiers?
i'm just wondering
we just may never know

Logic Mind:

did you read everything dede1 posted about the chronology of invasions?

biafra was being attacked from the north and invaded from the south west before the incursion to midwest.

Dede1:


I am of the view you are better than this disingenuous and despicable display on the thread. After the unsuccessful July 29, 1966 coup, due to the fact eastern region was no-go area for Gowon and northern soldiers, Nigeria (which include northern, western and mid-western regions) and Gowon decided to invade eastern region. In fact, with urging of David Ejoor, Gowon relocated LGO under Adekunle to Escravos to be bloated into a brigade or possible a division. It was at Escravos, Mid-western region that less than a battalion LGO was built into a brigade with young men from Yoruba, Edo, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Eshan and Isoko. Also, David Ejoor procured some of the sea-landing crafts LGO needed to launch amphibious operation on Ubani (Bonny) in eastern region of July 16, 1967. By the time Bonny was captured on July 26, 1967, LGO has grown into a full division with designated name of 3rd division.

I do believe you are intelligent enough to discern that July is a month ahead of August. Since Nigeria, including Mid-western region, had been attacking eastern region from July 6, 1967, a person wonders what instigated you to deduce that Biafra punitively launched a military attack against a country such as Republic of Mid-western Region.

As matter of fact, Biafra would have launched military attack on Nigeria through mid-western region earlier than August 8, 1967 when it did. I guess in your neck of wood, they count the months of year from December to January that is reason you thought Biafra first initiated attack through mid-western region.

Dede1:


This is laughable indeed. For all intent and practical purpose, Ejoor was a mere figure-head in mid-western region during the period Ironsi was declared missing. The military show in mid-western region was ran by army headquarter in Lagos or Lt Col Nwawo with team of Igbo officers posted to Benin City.

In fact, with urging of David Ejoor, Gowon relocated LGO under Adekunle to Escravos to be bloated into a brigade or possible a division. It was at Escravos, Mid-western region that less than a battalion LGO was built into a brigade with young men from Yoruba, Edo, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Eshan and Isoko. Also, David Ejoor procured some of the sea-landing crafts LGO needed to launch amphibious operation on Ubani (Bonny) in eastern region of July 16, 1967. By the time Bonny was captured on July 26, 1967, LGO has grown into a full division with designated name of 3rd division.

Dede1:

You sound funny talking about Biafra and minorities yet you forgot that minority ran the show in Biafra. From secretary of government, second in command, division commanders, brigade commanders, ambassadors, head of propaganda to commissioners were people from minority. I know one Urhobo Major who was a brigade commander in Biafra and was very close to Ojukwu. The major’s kids still live in Enugu as write this post. Please stop the crap about minority.

You have the same wrong notion about a mere permanent secretary in the ministry of trade and industry. If Biafra really wanted to do numbers on minorities in mid-western region, permanent secretary should not be the target.

re@lchange:


what [b]date [/b]did the midwest division (3mco) begin to assemble at escravos?
what [b]date [/b]did biafra march into midwest?

shymmex: This beaf guy is a corny and deceitful guy.. You're an igbo guy who probably grew up in the SS - please, stop faking the funk... I don't know why you always include yoruboid groups in SS - in your SE/SS brotherhood charade.. It's boring now, speak for yourself, and how you're an igbo guy raised in Warri..

As for the topic, the issue has been overflogged on this forum... There was no victor, and no vanquish - please move on... And to those calling yoruba, cowards - atleast those cowardly yoruba chased you guys from Ore - back to biafra land, within a week.. If that's cowardly, I'm proud to be from a tribe of cowards...

PhysicsQED: Lt. Igbinosa came from Lagos to Benin to get boats from Ejoor (and is it not stated why or when he originally procured those boats 'from the Delta' in Omoigui's account! - yet another sloppy and misleading omission from an otherwise good writer) in order to escort them to Bonny (which were his orders and his job, not Ejoor's) and was turned back by Ejoor's (Igbo) subordinate officers, and neither Igbinosa nor Ejoor did anything about this. Yet the one person who supposedly deserves blame or who is not neutral is claimed to be Ejoor. Amazing!

PhysicsQED:
Dede1, if I accept that the Escravos group was teeming with tons of young men from every non-Igbo ethnic group in the Midwest save one or two groups that you didn't mention, what exactly is the conclusion I'm supposed to draw from that?

And since we seem to actually agree that Biafra was going to invade the Midwest, boats to Bonny or no boats to Bonny, what exactly is the significance of repeatedly bringing up boats to Bonny? It wasn't even a factor in what would have inevitbly happened.

re@lchange:


what date did the midwest division (3mco) begin to assemble at escravos?
what date did biafra march into midwest?

Beaf:
Maybe PhysicsQED is an Igbo guy too?
Dude, phuck off. This is not the place for toads and fungi.

Dede1:

Fact: LGO later 3rd division later 3MCDO launched an amphibious attack on Ubani (Bonny) in eastern region on or later than July 12, 1967 and on July 26, 1967 Bonny was captured.
Fact: Two weeks later on August 8, 1967, Biafra launched counterattack on Nigeria through Mid-western region .