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WetinConsignMe:
Nzeogwu was set up. They told him the town was under Biafra control when it wasn't

Not true at all.
Here is Nzeogwu's death.
Note the bolded.


Who Killed Major Nzeogwu?
By
Max Siollun
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A Grim Anniversary

Last week marked the 42nd anniversary of the death of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu. Nzeogwu died in the final week of July 1967. While there is consensus that he died, exactly how he died and at the hands of whom has remained in dispute. In conspiracy rife Nigeria, all manner of rumours and apocryphal stories have alleged that Nzeogwu was murdered in a Machiavellian plot engineered by Ojukwu to eliminate him or perhaps that he was killed while trying to defect to join the federal army. As always, the truth is much more mundane.

Nzeogwu in Prison

For his role in Nigeria's first military coup, Nzeogwu was imprisoned by the military regime of Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi at the notorious Kiri-Kiri maximum security prison in Lagos. His co-conspirators were also initially detained there but many of them were later moved to prisons in the Eastern Region: including Majors Ifeajuna (Uyo prison), Ademoyega, Onwuatuegwu (Enugu prison), Captain Gbulie (Abakaliki prison), Major Chukwuka, Captain Nwobosi (both Owerri prison). Nzeogwu was the only officer among the plotters that was moved to Aba prison. After Ironsi was overthrown in July 1966, Nzeogwu remained in prison until he was released in March 1967 by the Eastern Region's Military Governor Lt-Colonel Ojukwu.

Nzeogwu’s Rift With Ojukwu

However after his release his activities were curtailed. He and Ojukwu did not see eye to eye.
Nzeogwu was never enthusiastic about secession. As late as 1967 he articulated in an interview with Dennis Ejindu his view that:

“secession will be ill-advised, indeed impossible. Even if the East fights a war of secession and wins, it still cannot secede. Personally, I don’t like secession and if this country disintegrates, I shall pack up my things and go. In the present circumstances, confederation is the best answer as a temporary measure. In time, we shall have complete unity."

The interview did not go down well with Ojukwu and Nzeogwu’s words to Ejindu were the last official statements attributed to him before his death. Relations between Ojukwu and Nzeogwu deteriorated further as Nzeogwu made no secret of his desire for a united Nigeria. Even though war between Nigeria and Biafra was imminent, in April 1967 Nzeogwu was suspended from all military activities by Ojukwu. The immediate pretext was Nzeogwu’s involvement in a battle simulation military training exercise in Abakaliki and other towns in the Eastern Region. Recalling that Nzeogwu had turned the night time training “Exercise Damissa” into a full blown coup the previous year, Ojukwu banned all such further exercises. Relations between Ojukwu and Nzeogwu got bad enough for Ojukwu to consider putting Nzeogwu back in prison.

In a June 17, 1967 letter to his friend Olusegun Obasanjo, Nzeogwu confessed:

“You have no doubt heard a lot of rumours about my relations with Ojukwu. We obviously see things quite differently after what he did to my supporters in January 1966. He is also worried about my popularity among his own people. I was to be put back in prison, but he was afraid of repercussions. Right now I am not allowed contact with troops nor am I permitted to operate on the staff. One gentleman’s agreement we have is that I can carry on with what ever pleases me.”

Amazingly even at this late stage, Nzeogwu was still entertaining fantasies of Nigerian unity and reintegrating the Nigerian army:

“I will create a new Nigerian army inside Biafra!! With Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and all other ethnic groups.”

Nzeogwu inspired and frightened with equal measure. A personality cult bordering on hero worship grew up around him in the Eastern Region and he was being feted as an immortal indestructible warrior. Although Ojukwu gave Nzeogwu the Biafran rank of Brigadier, he was not given any formal command in the Biafran army.

Despite not officially being part of the Biafran army command, Nzeogwu was not the type of character that could remain idle. His impulsive nature and rebelliousness towards superior officers has been documented. Lt-Col Patrick Anwunah went so far as to describe Nzeogwu as:

“a radical and an inwardly insubordinate young officer…..(who was) full of his own ideas and probably thought he had the answers to all problems. His statements and comments at that time gave me the impression that he could become insubordinate as he had no regard for senior officers.”

Frustrated at his exclusion from military duties, Nzeogwu took to informal ad hoc guerilla raids against the federal army. He would impulsively conscript other soldiers to join him during these raids. It is not certain that these raids and conscriptions were authorised by Ojukwu.

Nzeogwu was admired and feared in equal measure. He was admired for his intelligence, warmth and charm. He was feared because of his suicidal courage. Junior Biafran foot soldiers were reluctant to be conscripted by Nzeogwu. Conscription by Nzeogwu meant being taken to the front line and faced with grave danger. Nzeogwu was brave enough to cross behind enemy lines, carry out reconnaissance and engage the federal army in close quarter combat. In late July 1967, his courage took him a step too far.

The Death of Nzeogwu

Nzeogwu had gone out on a reconnaissance mission in the Nsukka sector. He was travelling in an improvised armoured vehicle (known as a "Biafran Red Devil" that had been converted by the ingenious Biafran engineers from a Bedford truck. The vehicle was cumbersome despite its impressive ingenuity. The vehicle became immobilised and was surrounded by federal troops of the 21st battalion at a roadblock near the University of Nigeria Nsukka campus. The troops were led by Captain Abubakar Gora, and they opened fired on it. The vehicle's improvised armour withstood their bullets until it was attacked with the fearsome 106mm recoilless rifle which pierced its body. Ironically, the 106mm recoilless rifle was the same anti-tank weapon that Nzeogwu and other soldiers used in January 1966 to attack and destroy the official lodge of the Sardauna of Sokoto.

At this point, the accounts diverge. Olu Mamdap (former military driver to General Domkat Bali) witnessed the incident and claims that Nzeogwu and the other “two or three” occupants in the vehicle were killed while still inside the vehicle. Mamdap claims that it was not known that Nzeogwu was inside until the corpses were dragged out.

However Major-Generals Mohammed Shuwa and Abdullahi Shelleng (who were not present when Nzeogwu was killed but saw his corpse) claimed that while being fired on, Nzeogwu jumped out from the vehicle, shouted in Hausa and identified himself as Major Nzeogwu but was shot dead anyway. Ojukwu's mixed race half brother Tom Biggar was also killed along with Nzeogwu. Biggar was the child of Ojukwu’s mother after she divorced Sir Louis Odumegwu and married a European named Biggar.

Nzeogwu's corpse was identified by Lieutenant Abdullahi Shelleng who ordered that it should be stored firstly in the University of Nigeria campus at Nsukka. However, by the time Shelleng arrived, Nzeogwu's eyes had been plucked out in what appears to have been a ritual mutilation. According to Shelleng the soldier who shot Nzeogwu was ironically Nzeogwu's former batman. The corpse was later sent to 1 division headquarters in Makurdi where the 1 division commander Colonel Mohammed Shuwa informed the head of state Major-General Gowon. Despite the fact that Nzeogwu was now technically an enemy soldier killed in combat against the Nigerian army, Gowon ordered that Nzeogwu's body should be flown to Kaduna and buried with full military honours – even as the war raged on in the Eastern Region.

Even in death, Nzeogwu was still respected by federal and northern troops. Domkat Bali referred to him as:

“a nice, charismatic and disciplined officer, highly admired and respected by his colleagues. At least he was not in the habit of being found in the company of women all the time messing about with them in the officers mess, a pastime of many young officers then….we believed that he was a genuinely patriotic officer who organised the 1966 coup with the best of intentions who was let down by his collaborators….If we had captured him alive, he would not have been killed. I believe he probably would have been tried for his role in the January 15 coup, jailed and probably freed after some time. His death was regrettable.”

bakynes:
Is like most of y'all don't know what $31.4m Cash means, not her Net worth but Cash. Damn!!! that a lot of fucking money at hand.

She is a very big thief.

Not only that, that was money she had STILL left in the banks when the EFCC finally moved in. She knew they were coming so she had been disappearing money as fast as she could.

OtemSapien:
Never in your life think that someone is mad if what he knows about spirituality is different from your own view. Will you say that your ancestors were mad and need psychiatric attention because they don't have the same view or belief as what you are having today? Will you go to Japan and call them mad people because they don't practise your religion? Your ancestors are ashamed of you right now

Has nothing to do with different beliefs or spirituality. Has to do with believing outrageous stuff with no basis whatsoever

Who cares?
Just kidding. I give a f---

velai:
Agadi okpo! Agadi ekwenka!
Where is her farm kwani?

Yo mama

What a gem! How come I never heard of her before.
And all natural too. A role model for me.

GhanaMustGoo:
How do u know. She never said so

How do I know?
Where do u think "Diaris God o" came from?
This is God's own woman
As in God's own country

PrecisionFx:
Patience Jonathan, Our very own mummy didn't steal a dime during the years her husband was in power, did she hold any political office?? How could she steal wen the nations money does not come thru her account. .

She made over 100 million dollars as gifts from 1999 till now. She always says she doesn't like people buying her gifts wen her husband was in power. He always said she wants dollar accounts...... Digg it.

Leave her for us like that.

Precision, good to see u on this thread. Didn't even check the moniker.
Why didn't u educate me more as requested?

OtemSapien:
I have also told her this. Because I know what she doesn't know, she has nothing more to say than to bring the topic of psychiatrist into the matter Her case is like that of a dull student who thinks that her teacher is mad for teaching her quantum physics which sounds meaningless to her.

See, you r talking of things and people that happened millions of years ago (you said so yourself) with no atom of basis whatsoever. All I'm saying is that it's likely a sign you've gone off the deep end.

geoworldedu:
I see you needing a psychiatric attention more than the Op. That he doesn't believe the same thing with you does not warrant referring him to a psychiatric hospital. Now do yourself a favour, go to China with your religion and tell them to go and see a psychiatrist because they have other beliefs different from yours. Isn't that weird?
Once again, I see you needing a psychiatrist more than Otem.

U misunderstand. It's not because we have different beliefs. I talk with atheists and agnostics all the time. This OtemSapien is different. Be totally honest, seriously, don't u think he needs psychiatric help?

WetinConsignMe:
Same thing happened to Nzeogwu. So let not the kettle call the pot black

Nzeogwu was not killed in a liberated Biafra city, was he?

McBeal10:
it's only in this country thieves are celebrated. I still de wonder why that woman neva enter jail.

The problem is: who will jail her when they are all aiding and abetting other thieves. The only thing is that, out of excessive greed, she stole too much

FTC

GhanaMustGoo:
Well I'm not. Being a follower of a certain Jewish carpenter precludes my ever becoming one.

Well, a certain Mama Thief is a also a follower of the same Jewish carpenter

GhanaMustGoo:
I am not a potential thief. People should speak for themselves

Don't assume u r not until u r exposed to millions of $. After that u can.talk

raker300:
Ugwuanyi is taller than obasanjo...

He just stoops to talk to him to better hear him.
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@least that’s what it looks like from my perspective.

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He is simply automatically respectful of a legend like OBJ and his age. Which is part of how he achieved governorship

NwaChibuzor:
Its something of a shame for an Igbo man to bow to a yoruba man. It should be the other way round because if you start mentioning great people in the country we the igbos take the lead from sports , entertainment, poetry, agriculture, business, politics , education etc.. After all , a man called Abraham Maslow once said ''The most stable and therefore most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external forms or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.''

That's why Ugwuanyi is gov and u r not. He is a naturally respectful of a legend and age. Not everybody views everything through tribe, like u.

WetinConsignMe:
Of course she is a thief.
But then you, 9jaDoc, you are only complaining because
you haven't had a chance to steal your own, let's be honest


DIARIS GOD OHHH

Though Nigeria is a kleptocracy and we are all potential thieves, if you steal so much it becomes too obvious and on top of that u want to keep the stolen loot when caught, I have a right to call you a THIEF

vedaxcool:
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tribal maggot had to open a new account for this job

Re-orientation and re-education. Let those be your watch words. In the long run it's much more fun being a lover than a hater

PrecisionFx:
He was killed in a city the Nigerian army liberated.
I hope the biafra part of SS have learned their lessons, the north n their conspirators will use them n dump them.

He was? That means he was intentionally eliminated.
Same as Saro Wiwa. These people don't play when it comes to oil.
Is there a Biafra SS?

wickyyolo:
Stop all this politics. It's all corruption money.

Similar kind of money in the accounts of all our so called politicians including Buhari.

Igbos, a very wise tribe indeed, have a saying (they seem to have an insightful proverb for any imaginable scenario): "All dogs eat poo, but the one that eats so much that it goes around with poo visible on it's mouth, is referred to as 'that dog that eats poo'."

PrecisionFx:
Patience Jonathan, Our very own mummy didn't steal a dime during the years her husband was in power, did she hold any political office?? How could she steal wen the nations money does not come thru her account. .

She made over 100 million dollars as gifts from 1999 till now. She always says she doesn't like people buying her gifts wen her husband was in power. He always said she wants dollar accounts...... Digg it.

Leave her for us like that.

Please educate me some more...
Why didn't she put the money in her own name, why houseboys?
Did she pay gift tax on the gifts?
Don't you think that's a lot of gifts for doing absolutely nothing, esspecially in our economy?

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vedaxcool:
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Your puny brain has protected you from comprehending pathetic inconsequential tribal maggot

Doesn't it feel terrible being a hater, tribal or otherwise.
You are only hurting yourself. Why not come into the sunlight. Re-orient yourself. Accept some re-education.

vedaxcool:
You need a functional brain pathetic tribal maggot!

Correction. I am a DANite. You are the tribal bigot. A pathetic little one at that!

yeyerolling:
she is a learner where stella, Obj nd IBB wife dey

Igbos, a very wise tribe indeed, have a saying (they seem to have an insightful proverb for any imaginable scenario): "All dogs eat poo, but the one that eats so much that it goes around with poo visible on it's mouth, is referred to as 'that dog that eats poo'."

(Note the bolded)

The admission by Patience Jonathan that she owns the whopping $31.4 million recently discovered in four bank accounts that were frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed her as the richest First Lady that Nigeria ever had, investigation by Daily Trust on Sunday has shown.
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You have read of countless, jaw- dropping plunders in the order of billions of naira, of loot packed in septic tanks, and of some salted away in offshore tax havens. But you are shocked by this umpteenth scandal, notheless. You are appalled – in spite of yourself – by reports that former first lady, Patience Jonathan, has gone to court to lay claim to ownership of $15 million deposit in four bank accounts frozen by the EFCC.
She is standing on the premise of her constitutional right to “own property” to assert that the curious accounts opened and maintained in the name of the houseboys of her former domestic aide were hers, in actual sense.

And, while you are trying your level best to process this obscenity without compromising your sanity, a corrective arrives to complicate matters: The EFCC has found a fresh $5 million in another Patience bank account. Which means that the balance of her deposits in the Nigeria banking system, as we know it today, stands at $31.4 million –‘only’! You remind yourself that you know the Patience in question. She has never been, at any time, a household name in the Nigerian business environment or elsewhere. The highest position she ever attained in her almost non-existent civil service career was permanent secretary. Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson gave her a ludicrous ghost worker appointment for the sake of his own political survival.


Beyond that, she was nothing more than the wife of a man who became president by a stroke of fate.
So you find yourself wondering how she managed to earn $31.4 million. Has she been paying her taxes? What investment yielded her such abundant profit? Where might one locate a trail of sweat or handprints of labor or any in-demand product or service that could account for her Olympian dollar heap?

Her so-called $31.4 million balance, mind you, is not a picture of the total leafage on her money trees. It’s only a pruned remainder. Patience had been cutting off many Branches since the Nigerian electorate evicted her husband and her from Aso Rock. She had been disappearing money from those accounts up until when they were frozen. EFCC placed a No Debit Order on the four accounts on 7th July, 2016.

The fourteen months between May 29, 2015 and July 7, 2016 is an ample period for her to significantly reduce her lodgments to a pittance.
There is no way to make sense of the phenomenon of a Patience Jonathan boasting $31.4 million as part of her net worth. More so, you cannot understand the surpassing stupidity of her public declaration that she is the owner of an amount of money she is absolutely incapable of earning legitimately. Her coming out of the closet as an amazon of money laundering is as outrageous as it is stupefying. The Patience Jonathan that Nigerians know cannot make a clean $1 million except through a lottery.

Her claim to ownership of $31.4 million she obviously stole from the Nigerian treasury is the salt of a lie on the wound of a heist. Her preposterous possessiveness resembles the spectacle of a thief pleading that the stolen goods that represent the collective wealth of an entire neighborhood belongs to him! It’s clear that keeping those millions of dollars for too long gave Patience a false sense of ownership. Possession is nine-tenths of the law. But, the truth is that the number of years she has had the spoils doesn’t make her the rightful owner. Neither does it make her less a thief. If anything, every new day she kept the stolen goods made her a more impenitent thief! And talking of repentance, Patience is impervious to it.
Even a close shave with prison has not transformed her covetous core. In 2006, during her husband’s term as governor of Bayelsa state, EFCC caught her twice trying to launder money.

First time, Patience tried to launder 104 million naira through her ‘business associate’, a certain Nancy Ebere. Ms. Ebere implicated Patience in a sworn affidavit. Second time, Patience was intercepted at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport while trying to smuggle out a baggage of $12.5 million cash. She escaped prosecution on the two occasions.
She was allowed to go home and sin some more. Obasanjo had, before then, decided to make her meek-looking husband the running mate of Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. So he declined to authorize EFCC to expose the wife of the future vice president as a kleptomaniac! The free pass gave Patience the impression that she was above the law. She could steal without fear of any repercussion. If she was caught, she would not do the time. She would be set free to relearn the art of stealing and escaping with the booty!

It turns out that the companies Patience used to launder money were fairy tale entities. They had no earthly address, no staffer, no robot. The firms did not exist. She conjured $31.4 million out of nothingness – by sheer magic!
Patience Jonathan’s $31.4 million is the stuff of occult fortune. What makes this case very grievous is that Patience is insisting on her right to squander all the money she has stolen. She says she has a right to ‘own property.’ She implies that the Nigerian people have no right…not even to the right to reclaim what is left of her loot! Patience Jonathan once requested Nigerians to call her by the new name of “Mama Peace.” Her concept of ‘peace’ is totally divorced from justice. She wants to be left alone. Her definition of ‘peace’ is a state of respect for her ‘right’ to consume millions of dollars of Nigerian taxpayer money!
Mostly from
Daily Trust on Sunday and
Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu

OtemSapien:
On a more serious note, I am a god and I know your mind. You are actually thinking that you can be of help to me. But sorry, I am sent to help you and to save the world from mind slavery so that your descendants won't remain as gullible as you are. Peace.

Since u know my mind, u must know my name. What is my name?
Seriously consider seeking psychiatric help.
Shalom.

OtemSapien:
He doesn't need to convince people to be martyred, rather, he fictitiously wrote down stories of people who are martyred and those who got the craze began to desire becoming a martyr too. It's very deep for you to understand. Hmm.

And what was his MOTIVE? What a genius he was, coming up with some if the most inspired language on love. And how do people "get the craze and desire becoming a matyr" based on fiction. The question is HOW?

WetinConsignMe:
Eureka! Eureka!!
I FOUND IT!!!
Here is Charles Taylor in the WAR FRONT!!
QED
How does it feel to lose, ma'am?

Na you sabi.

I was looking at this photo.
Notice war criminal Murtala in the background with his oval face probably already planning a coup.

OtemSapien:
Eusebius is the liar who made things up. You can't understand anyway.

On a more serious note, have u considered seeking psychiatric help?