₦airaland Forum

BlackPikiN:
You are not making any sense.
what's ur arguement again? that no Ekanem was killed right.

As for Akintola, i still wonder if He was a devil incarnate or the devil himself.
How can a premier give a hate speech. Most Nigerians who arent from the SW dont know the gravity of that speech because He spoke in his language.
That speech should rank as the greatest hate speech by any leader in Africa. If it were a man from the SE who made that, mehn, I just wonder.

Onlytruth:
As Gowon struggled to stabilize himself in power, random murders of Eastern Region soldiers continued to occur. On August 12 (1966), several NCSs from Eastern Region were rounded up and killed by Northern soldiers in Apapa, Lagos. Less than two weeks before that, the army's Provost Marshal, Major Ibanga Ekanem (as Eastern officer of the Annang ethnic group) and his driver were shot dead at a checkpoint on Carter Bridge by sergeant Lapdam while en route to an errand for Gowon.

Source: Oil, Politics and Violence (Max Siollun).

alj-harem, your brothers were very much at home killing ALL Easterners.  

alj harem:
And it by my brothers.

According to Onlytruth, South-southerners were targeted. Always trying to draw company with una

Major Ekanem was just another solider killed during the eve of the baifra war that was cause by Igbos themselves

so what gives

Now my turn, let me show you the people your brothers killed because of ethnocentric reasons

1. Bello

2. Akintola

3. Ademounga, wife and unborn child

4. Tafa balewa in lagos (yes you killed all those people in their respective turf)

etc

Now here is one for you as well

Fajuyi felt quite safe. However, on the 25th of July, a contingent of heavily armed troops, all of the Northerners, speeded from a nearby Barracks to The Governors Lodge Ibadan. The time was about 8pm. Fajuyi was entertaining his guest, General Agui-Ironsi. The troops easily got access to the sitting room. Without being announced, they forced themselves into the sitting room. They knew their victims. Without any ceremony, they ordered General Ironsi to stand up and be searched. With no struggle from Ironsi, he obeyed. One of them began to handcuff Ironsi. Fajuyi could not comprehend what was happening. "You can't do that” he bellowed.  "Why? You keep away “The most senior officer of the troops ordered Fajuyi.  “He is my guest, and you can't do that to him right in my house” "We've come to take him away” Responded one of the officers. "Take him away to where?” "That's none of your business; you keep away and sit down”, ordered the most senior of the rebel officers. But Fajuyi continued " I am a Yoruba; and we Yorubas do not allow gangsters to kidnap our guests from our home I can't let you hurt him “Fajuyi insisted. “Very well; Yoruba man; we'll teach you a lesson. We'll take both of you, “said the senior officer as he administered a hard blow on the face of Fajuyi. Then the troops pushed him and Ironsi into a waiting Land Rover.
(J)    Both men were then driven to a nearby bush and shot. The time was only nine o’clock.

http://www.ndrm.typepad.com/

Abagworo:
The creation of the Mid-West was constitutional and followed due process. That 0f 1967 was clearly a war weapon as it was hurriedly done.

BlackPikiN:
Dnt be too excited agwo!
Major Ekanem was shot dead on carter bridge in Lagos by your brothers.
You will always remain a criminal!

Abagworo:
That 12 State structure was hurriedly drawn at the dawn of the war obviously as a war weapon. I do not know the basis on which the division was done. Some claimed ethnicity but I believe oil played a key role.

Onlytruth:
^^
Okay, let me save you. 
His name is Major Ekandem.

Google his name and come back. 

tellmemore:
It seems ones it comes to an Igbo issue a good number of non Igbos on Nairaland gets irritated. I thought Igbos too had the same right as every other Nigerian to express his/her thought as an Igbo person on this forum.

Onlytruth:
^^

What is the name of that "Calabar" army officer killed on top of Carter Bridge in Lagos?
Was he Igbo?
Was he not killed in the West?

Look for the link yourself.
Freaking hyena.

Beaf:
Really? As soon as I read ephomoghia's post, a single word popped into my mind; ndu_chucks.
If you are sentimental, then the ephomoghia's and ndu_chucks will wrap you around their little finger.

To the best of my knowledge, the Briggs' and Dokubo's are well respected leaders and are listened to in the ND.
I am truly interested to know who you imagine would shape the ND's future (or speak for it) outside of its current leaders.

achi4u:
just as they control the media,we control the cashflow.

afam4eva:
I wish they had taken you great grand parents as slaves so that we won't have your kind in Nigeria. You're a hypocritical bigot. You spend 24 hours everyday on Nairaland causing commotion and deceiving people. You're better of an Almajiri or dead. Just pull the trigger and end your miserable life so that we can rest. Anuofia 2012.

afam4eva:
It's unfortunate that this incident has been reduced to a tribal affair. The OPC guys that killed the guy did not do so because the guy is Igbo. They did it because he's a Nigerian. I want to believe they've killed more Yorubas than Igbos in lagos. Even the Igbos that retaliated did not do so because OPC is a Yoruba group. They did so because someone killed their friend and brother. If it were to be an Igbo guy that killed Eze, the same thing would have ensued. It's unfortunate that the half-baked graduates who work in our media houses twist stories like this to play on the tribal emotions of Nigerians. If a Yoruba person kills his fellow Yoruba person, you'll see something like "Man kills friend", but if an Igbo man kills a Yoruba person it becomes "Igbo man kills Yoruba man - Yoruba retaliate". We need to get this tribal superiority and idiocy out of our thinking faculty or else we shall keep retrogressing. God bless Nigeria. RIP Eze.

executinal:
Why  can't you just grow up for one day?? were you caused from birth. Always acting like child, can't you overlook some tribal way, i always see you responds like grown up man, some time you act like 16 yrs old man. This is year 2012

VellyG:
@lasinoh, you should be proud to know that igbos made your darling lagos what it is today, lagos is the commercial nerve centre of the west due to the large population of igbos dere.hope u know ibos are fast becoming commisioners and LGA chairmen as well as special advisers in the west, Ode like u,

Kc3000:
Yoruba una don start with the reckless talk again!!!! Meanwhile, Fulanis have killed everybody in Ogun state

ayusman16:
Wonder why some so called educated bigotry will not read the tribal inclination in this dude's comment but are quick to respond when another does contrary to their own feelings.

If your people are being killed elsewhere. Go back to your villages so that kidnapping and armed robbery can progress. Haba!

ziga:
In the same vein, I do not understand why some Igbo posters come on Nairaland to say that Yorubas betrayed them and are therefore backstabbers.

If the war was between Biafra and Nigeria (which includes the Yoruba region which they invaded) WHY should they expect that the Yorubas/Nigerians would have been their allies and therefore support their war against Nigeria.

You don't betray someone you are at war with. You crush and defeat them!!!

dayokanu:
Dont try to be smart by half. If thats your reasoning for invading Ore, Then why cry that Yorubas which were part of Nigeria fought back Biafra and actually crushed the Biafra forces with our able son Benjamin Adekunle aka Black Scorpion leading the charge

Biafra attacked Yorubaland because it was part of Nigeria abi?

Also Yoruba men since they were part of Nigeria joined to fight back to protect their land which was still part of Nigeria

First to do no dey pain

onyewec3:
@ALJ_HAREM, i will say that both the hausa leadership and followership are doomed because how can a follower allow his/leader to exploit them to tghe extent that there is no human and capital development at all,no schools to attend,no enlightenment of any sort,they only darken dere brains by sending dem to arabic/quaranic schools.
look at the igbos,after the civil war they still gather there pieces together and forged ahead. today,those without formal education engaged in something productive by doing trading/commerce, what have the hausas followers done to address dere pooooor situation? pls reply, is it by contesting  with resource owners on how the allocation shuld be shared, dats parasitic method of feeding, dont forget ojukwu even brought abt the 13percent oil derivation to oil producing states during the constitutional committee set-up by abacha, even tghough he's not frm an oil producing state, i still spit ok

onyewec3:
This is to show that the HAUSAS are indeed useless folks, the southeast with lesser allocation are not even complaining yet they will record a beta development than the northern heediots.
thats to tell you how clueless and useless the hausas are. no wonder alimajiri is a legitimate process in there plce.i spit on there grave.

NorthSharp:
It really amazes me how some Igbo and other posters on this forum STILL believe, most naively, that Alj Harem is a Hausa-Fulani from the North, in spite of all the many clues in his posts that so clearly point to the contrary! And, even more importantly, in spite of the fact that he so categorically stated, on more than one occasion, that he is NOT a Hausa-Fulani!

For the first time, I feel compelled to let everybody on this forum know that ALH HAREM IS NOT A HAUSA-FULANI NORTHERNER; any full-blooded Hausa-Fulani like myself could effortlessly figure that out after reading just a couple of his posts.

Alh Harem must have his own personal reason(s) for not coming out clearly, unambiguously and proudly to reveal his true ethnic background, and I am personally not interested in finding out what his ethnic group is, or why he chooses to behave the way he does; it is up to you guys who want to continue to engage him in ethnocentric debates to find out his true ethnic background, but PLEASE count us (Hausa-Fulani Northerners) out of it.

You (Igbo and other posters) are free to continue with your favourite pastime of hurling all sorts of unprovoked hateful and malicious ethnic insults against us, as venomously as you like, [b]but you should stop insulting the Hausa-Fulani northerners in response to any of Alj Harem's comments, because HE IS DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF US (and no offence whatsoever is intended by this emphasis).