Logic Mind:

You really have no leg to stand on.

I was talking of western Yoruba betrayers, and saboteurs from the minorities inside Biafra.

Where did I mention Midwesterners?

Do yourself a favour and stop these lies.

T9ksy:


Please, do tell us, how did the yorubas betrayed the ibos?

ak47mann: Thats the the truth spirit of Ndi Igbo: always moving from nothing to something thats why everything we touch turns gold. we can come to your backyard and dig out gold....

T9ksy:

Pity, you guys can't repeat the same feat in your OWN backyard

ak47mann: we are already doing it our land got so many potentials have you forgotten?or you get short memories.........

T9ksy:

Oh good and about bloody time too!

Does that mean we can expect to see a huge movement of ibos from my region to the "Land of the rising sun", shortly?

T9ksy:

Oh good and about bloody time too!

Does that mean we can expect to see a huge movement of ibos from my region to the "Land of the rising sun", shortly?

ak47mann: you dont need our help when the time comes..............

Logic Mind:

No igbo is in your land.
Lagos is not Yoruba land.

Oh sorry, my bad!!!

Of course, Lagos is Iboland

T9ksy:

We have NEVER needed ibo's help and we shall NEVER do. So you know what you can do with your unsolicited help.





Oh sorry, my bad!!!

Of course, Lagos is Iboland

Logic Mind:

So wetin concern you with igbos in lagos?

T9ksy:

nothing o!

Logic Mind:

Good. So shut up and mind your own business.

T9ksy:

If i don't, why don't you shut me up, then?So Lagos na ibo business?

Eventually you bloody ingrates will surely climb your tree beyond the leaves and that's when we shall definately give you

the "northern " treatment. That's when you 'll know that Lagos is not "no man's land".

ak47mann: are u awori??

T9ksy:

am ijebu!!! You nko? Are you awori?

ak47mann: ijebu people are migrant in Lagos now!!!!

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...

Onlytruth: I often frown at "wholesale attacks" against southern minorities on the civil war issue, especially EASTERN minorities, because people like [b]Dede1 should know better about the TRUTH of what happened back then.
Careytommy for example is from Akwa ibom state, and a HUGE chunk of the people from there fought for Biafra and suffered alongside other Biafrans. The Biafran second in command was an Ibibio man. No twisting of history can ever change that. The attack on Careytommy was uncalled for. [/b]

As for bbreye, the Ijaw were split too (especially the Eastern Ijaw), so I cannot tongue lash him either.
I wish my brother Dede1 would calm down for once about his views on these groups.
As for the Mid-west, I believe that Biafra failed to do a good job BEFORE the war. The incursion by Biafran special forces (the S- Brigade) was only a defensive offense (after the war had already started), so that is understandable. The strategic damage was done BEFORE the war. Let no one forget that, lest a mistake is repeated.

Every Biafran adult (anyone above 18 years during the war) should make it a DUTY to be very honest about what happened during the war. Today's Nigerian politics shouldn't make anyone twist facts.
I've said my peace.

kinnex: Seriously, I hate to see Nigeria break-up, abi na split-up.. But if its the way to experience d much desired sanity.. Let's go there..
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hitechmax: NIGERIA IS STRONGER, BETTER AND MORE INFLUENTIAL TOGETHER THAN BROKEN UP!!!
STAY TOGETHER; UNITED IN LOVE AND JUSTICE.

ACM10: The fact remains that minority groups are what iz keepin Nigeria united. They are willin toolz in the hands of those that aims to keep the country united. Minorities are very scared of the breakup of this country because they know that they cannot unite to form a country of their own. Their blind patriotizm to Nigerian entity iz borne out of the fear of the unknown. They fear what will become their fate if the entity called Nigeria ceases to exist. Thatz why they are the only group that clamoured for the unitary system of government with strong centre in 1967 conference. If the fear of the minorities are not properly attended to. I don't forsee any scenario of peaceful separation

Onlytruth: I didn't know that this thread would go past 4 pages. Well well.
Agbachakwa egwu o naa n'ukwu -every dance moves must culminate in hip movements.
I advised that we should leave revisiting the past as far as minority (especially the eastern ones) involvement in the war is concerned. My reason remains simple, and it seems that only few of my brothers understood it.
I love Ojukwu and would fight anyone dissing his legacy. I would also be foolish if I say that he was infallible. He was a man too.
The midwest incursion (as every good historian already knows) was a mistake and a miscalculation. Simple and short.

As for the Eastern minorities, as early as August 1966, there was already an Eastern consultative assembly formed to bring everybody on board in the East. It did not achieve much. The next in October of same year didn't achieve much also. There was no SOLID agreement in the East until the shooting war started, and there could not have been that agreement because there were Ijaw elements such as Dappa Biriye and Isaac Adaka Boko who were mentally allied with the Hausa/Fulani North, and there was nothing anyone could have done to persuade them otherwise. For me, after that assembly in 1966, I would have gone to seek an alliance with a STRONG foreign country who would agree to support Biafra with a naval and air force, knowing that these elements were already planning to sabotage Biafra.
If I couldn't get that foreign support, I would have dropped ALL plans of secession and called it a day.

Someone on this thread raised a strong point that southern groups were not Biafra's biggest threats initially. It was Hausa/Fulani. If Biafra had focused on them and dealt with them seriously, no southern element would have even thought about fighting Biafra. All these accusations and counter accusations to me sounds like nothing more than lame attempts at revisionism.
I warn my Igbo brothers to always think strategically.
When I hustle for international airports in SE, join me in that campaign and use the vigor you have wasted here to hustle along with me. Those are strategic investments. I wish you would give 10% of the energy you gave on this thread to such strategic efforts, instead of abandoning it, making it to look like an Onlytruth venture. Save your energy for efforts that would empower us. Campaign for worthy empowerment of our section of Nigeria. When we get empowered, all things shall be added onto us.
You cannot get that empowerment without international access. You are all keeping quiet when you see all the international airports located outside Igbo land. Tomorrow you will start complaining that those people did not join our efforts. When you plan a war, you put it WAY BEYOND THE REACH of failure. That is how we should be thinking, not cherry picking history and cutting and dicing fault-lines.