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rhymz:
@Dede,pls I beg U,pay no mind to that idiot,the kid knows nothing.Pls just make Ur post like the idiot does't count or exists.

I have never, for once, responded to that deranged maggot. I can not lift myself to join issue with a piece of dirt.

Bros, you know very well that the truth tends to induce bitter flavor.

sherry lo:
@ Dede1, you need some pills,I will recommend something for growing up, you fool. Your view is different from mine and that makes you naughty head go gaga? TRASH.

It takes one drooling fool to recognize another. In subject of growing up, if you continue with this trend of display of ignorance as you had demonstrated on this tread you might meet your demise as ill-informed midget.

A trash will always appear better than a twisted eyesore such as you.

We do not come to the forum to solicit for pity. There were more than one dead Igbo man or Igbo man with terminal medical condition that were insulted with a goofy comment by platinumnk.

@ Onlytruth

My friend, I do not intend to constitute a negative stumbling block to such perceptive idea of Ndigbo's participation in discourse about the so-called Niger Delta. However, the only thing that will remain constant in the region is majority of the inhabitants who seemed to remain ungrateful to Ndigbo.

My people say that when a person is stung by a bee, the person tends to run on sight of a greenfly.

@ Poster

The answer to the question is capital negative affirmation. There is nothing that would have attracted Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Nupe to the so-called Niger Delta that Igbo lands do not have. The only common attraction is termed crude oil.

And even with draconian boundary adjustment policy adopted by the federal government of Nigeria, primarily to cede crude oil producing areas in Igbo land to the minorities, Igbo land has much crude oil as does the so-called Niger Delta, if not more.

This is one of the main reasons the jungle called Nigeria will never see a better day. How could any person with correct and good functioning social order clamor to immortalize a person known as ITT (International Top Thief)? The inhabitants of the colonial contraption called Nigeria do not have functional lined-phones because MK Abiola’s dubious and irreparable corrupt practices fostered on the masses in cohort with ITT group of companies.

@Ibime

Please come on, my friend Ibime. You know as well as I do that by 1964, the only functioning crude oil well in Oloibiri was not pumping more crude oil than the crude oil well in Owaza, Asa County Council. The pipe lines that fed Okirika refinery ran from Oliobiri as well as Owaza and Bori.

What is it about this Ijo crude oil crap? In fact, the last time I checked, the onshore crude oil production in Imo State alone trumps those of Rivers or Bayelsa States.

How could all Ijo people agitate for region when most of the top government functionaries were Ijo?  It must be recalled that more than three regional ministers were Ijo, including the attorney-general.

@ nues aweso

The debate should not be dragged to the point of throwing challenges recklessly. However, I should try to contribute the little I know about military parlance. Even the link you posted points to an essay written by Maxsiollun who is also a contrarian to the bold face fallacy about Fajuyi willing to die with Ironsi. I suggest you checkout Maxsiollun’s post on page one.

Please be informed that enlisted men who have attained the ranks from corporal to sergeant major, depending on the age when such ranks were received, could be sent to officer’s cadet training at MOMs, Aldershort, UK. This training is termed short service course. Also, individuals with university degree are headed to the same short service course as the do enlisted men.

However, young secondary school leavers, with at least grade II, who had satisfied all the necessary requirements, were sent to Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK for what the military called regular course and the duration is three years.

Please check the veracity of your source before opening a can of warm. For example, the link you posted had a section tagged “Bookish People” refereeing to soldiers who were university degree holders as of 1966. The section listed only six individuals but this is furtherer away from the truth than the eyes could see. It appears you hardly indulge in research of facts.

Again pal, we all venture to this forum to learn as well as correct certain wrong notions that have been nurtured as truth.

[quote author=na_so link=topic=302497.msg4278613#msg4278613 date=1249056628]Adaka boro is no hero to the ibos as Ojukwu is seen as a rebel/crminal by the north.

Adaka boro "sold" (if you say so) his region in an attempt to get a better deal for his kith and kin in the same manner that Ojukwu rebelled against the FG to "emancipate" the Ibos.

Adaka is as much a hero to the IJAWS as Ojukwu is to the Ibos.

Some of you have shown enough hate for Adaka boro , saying that he was just a common crimnal who had a band of touts and did not in any way influence the outcome of the war ,while at the same time branding him a sabotuer that betrayed his brothers. This in itself flies in the face of logic .

The Ibos say that "someone's neighbour could be more of a brother". The saying is hinged on the fact that the proximity associated
with neighbourliness promotes mutual understanding and empathy. However the actions of the regional eastern government was louder than this saying , the Ijaws and other minorities saw that they were just neighbours , WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING OR EMPATHY FROM THE IBOS.

@Niajaking1

You said not fighting for ones region was criminal not to talk about crossing enemy lines to fight against his region. But you seem not to appreciate the fact that the war was undertaken primarily for the benefit of the Ibos with an eye on the oil from the ND to develop and run the new government. It was not for the region or the minorities that peopled the oil producing communities. If a regional government that was crying foul was in itself propagating injustice in its sphere of control , then I will jugde that government more sinful. why? because the eastern leaders knew the right thing and the underdevelopment of the oil communities stared them in the face. In the story of the good samaritan in the bible Jesus made it clear that empathy and understanding are the 2 most important ingredients of neighbourliness. Not necessarily location or music of REX lawson as some would want us to believe. My boss iS yoruba and he is a core rex lawson fan.

When people like you call Adaka boro traitors it reminds one of how new political parties these days find it difficult to practice internal democracy but expect IWU to be a fair umpire when general elections are held. To Ijaws the traitors were the few of our sons that supported Biafra.

The struggle for identity and political space by ijaws predates indepedence and this was by every means frustrated by our "Ibo brothers". This led to a mass exodus to AG from NCNC and later the formation of the NDC etc. The lesson for the ijaws is simply that the major tribes only want the minorities to survive on their( ibo,yoruba,hausa) goodwill.

Your statement that the movement of PTI to kaduna 42 years after indepedence justifies a passive disposition to injustice as you would have expected ADAKA boro to act . It does not in any way diminish the the weight of the evils of the eastern government.

If you ask me the Ibos have not fared better in status in the nigerian project than it was in the pre-civil war days. The minorities though still bedeviled by developmental challenges have made marginal progress. Would it have been better in the Biafran government? That is a thesis for polical scientists , but I doubt.

There is no record anywhere that the Ike nwachukwus of this world have apologised to the ibos for their role in the civil war , but now they are the igbo elders been celebrated everywhere. However Boro is the devil that should be exhumed and tried. selah[/quote]From the advent of Europeans to coast of Africa to the development of Port Harcourt when crude oil was an unknown substance to most Nigerians, there was no agitation of the so-called Niger Delta.

When the coal money was used in the development of Port Harcourt, the only urban city in eastern region of Nigeria comparable to Enugu, which was the capital, there was no agitation for the so-called Niger Delta. When oil was struck in Owerri and Ikot Ekpene vicinities, there was no agitation for Niger Delta.

However, when crude oil was struck in Oloibiri in 1956 and following the demand of NCNC for creation of two more regions out of the north and one out of the west, the so-called Niger Delta was born. Please could you inform the year Nigeria took first stock of its crude oil exportation?

In 1964 federal election, Brass and Rivers provinces, two of the several provinces that made-up genuine Niger, Benue, Imo, Urashi and Utamiri delta, fielded 9 candidates. Out these 9 seats, NCNC won 8 seats while NDC won 1 seat. It must be recalled that winners of the 8 seats comprised of Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni. This election spoke volume for the so-called Niger Delta agitation by all Ijo folks.

What you called Ibo brother’s frustration of Ijo or any other minority in eastern region of Nigeria was a simple seed of political discord planted by detractors of eastern region. I can conclude that the manifestation of such discord created the indelible enmity between certain the ethnic groups in the former eastern Nigeria.

If my history is not blurred, NDC did not join Action Group in any alliance. I recalled that AG, NCNC, NEPU and UMBC formed alliance known as UPGA while NPC, NNDP and NDC formed alliance known as NNA. I am surprised how the Ijo leadership has suddenly realized how it was lured into deep slumber by their Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri/Nupe masters.

I urge Ndigbo to remember what had transpired and educate the young generations to avoid the colossal blunder committed by Ironsi.

@ nues aweso

Please take note that some of us who knew the facts from right sources about the allegation of Fajuyi choosing to die with Ironsi and termed it as ridicilous and conjectural crap where not born yesterday. It appears that you slid into over-sweeping assertion and pleasing mode with the old soldiers being trained in UK.

The soldiers like Ironsi, Bassey Ogundipe, Ademulogun, Fajuyi, Efffiong, Adebayo, Olutoye, Wey, etc rose in rank as enlisted men. They were standard six pupils when they joined the rank and file of Queen’s regiment. The six month training they received in MOMs, Aldershort, UK was mainly for military regimentation as an officer and in no form prepared them for essay competition. These groups of soldiers could not be compared with their counterparts who either graduated from famous secondary schools with Cambridge certificates (Cantab) or universities. 

I had hoped you work closely with USA kids who had high school diploma and joined the armed forces. It is not gain-saying that majority of them can not string two correct sentences together.


@gReenmAn

If their qualifications are based on academic paper, OBJ, TY Danjuma, Abacha and Babangida were more qualified than Fajuyi. At least, OBJ, TY Danjuma, Abacha and Babangida had high school diplomas. Fajuyi and Ironsi did not see the four walls of high school.

@max

I appreciate your detailed input because it has also widened the depth of my knowledge on the subject matter.

@sherry Lo

Nonentities such as you had Africa in a perpetual downward spin. Get off your lazy ass and indulge in serious reading.

@illusion2
Even if you were dragged by the nose to Jesus, you still not recognize the prophet and probably call him Judas too.

@ sandee575 and Tpia.

I applaud both of you for having a considerable intellect to discern that a mere elementary school graduate could not concoct such a prose.

I have nothing against Fajuyi who was a progressive personality but would not hesitate to bring the truth to bear on the self-pleasing cowards that are trying to drag his name to the mud. I had to say that if Fajayi had been alive and still the governor of western region after July 29, 1966 coup, the civil war would have been averted and Nigeria would have been either divided into two or three countries.

nues aweso:
THE first Military Governor of the defunct Western Region, Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, willingly surrendered to be killed alongside the late Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, who was on a visit to Ibadan where both of them were assassinated in a counter coup attempt.


This was categorically stated on Wednesday in Ibadan, by a veteran journalist and one time Executive Director, National Concord, Mr. Sina Adedipe, at a lecture commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of the Yoruba hero entitled: “The Life and Times of Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi,” organised by the Oyo State chapter of League of Veteran Journalists.


The seasoned journalist, who described Fajuyi as the third pan-Yoruba hero after Oduduwa and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, given his heroic deeds, said, contrary to the insinuations in the Northern part of the country that Fajuyi was assassinated because of his role in the January 1966 coup, which led to the killings of many Northerners, including the Prime Minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, Colonel Fajuyi, playing host to Ironsi, who came to Ibadan to address the traditional rulers, decided to die with his boss, thus showing a rare mark of loyalty, heroism and bravery.


Making reference to Sanmi Ajiki’s biography on Fajuyi, Adedipe quoted Fajuyi to have said on the night of their assassination: “I make bold to declare to you that I am with you soul, spirit and body. And mark my words, whatever happens to you today happens to me. I am your true friend like the dove to the pigeon, and by the grace of God, so will I humbly, yet proudly, remain till the very end,” to which Ironsi replied.

Yes, Francis, I retain my absolute confidence in you. I have never doubted your integrity.” Adedipe, who lamented several years of silence on the heroic deeds of the Yoruba icon by the South-Western people, commended the veteran journalists for organising the lecture of Fajuyi who, he said, had built his big castle in the hearts of his people rather than on the soil, as today’s politicians would have done.


The ace journalist urged the league to reach out to their counterparts in Osun, Ogun, Ondo and Ekiti states to set aside July 29 of every year to commemorate Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, just as the Americans, honoured Martin Luther King yearly, because, according to him, a day devoted to remembering Colonel Fajuyi” is the best way to celebrate him, as it would make people every year to hear and know about him and the heroic sacrifice he made for the dignity of the Ekiti people and the Yoruba race.”

http://www.tribune.com.ng/30072009/news/news5.html

This is a blatant falsehood that was created by the propaganda machine of western region of Nigerian government publication of 1967. After what clearly looked as inability to spit on the faces of those who marched onto Ibadan and killed the son of the soil, the western region of Nigerian publishing houses pulled out this ridiculous and equally deceptive stunt and associated it with the name of Col Fajuyi. I bet Mr. Sina Adedipe, who is referenced as a veteran journalistic in this article, could have been one of the people that initially concocted the crap from the western Nigerian based publishing houses.

The accounts given by three individuals who were physically present during the ordeals that took place at the government house in Ibadan had categorically refuted such self-pleasing nonsense. Flt. Lieutenant Arthur Nwankwo, the air force ADC to Ironsi, emphatically told me in Lagos that such conjectural crap never took place.

Also, in the Gowon’s biography written by Eliagwu, the interview given by Lt. William Wulbe categorically stated that such nonsense never transpired. He rubbished the claim by calling it a bold face lie. He further stated that Lt. Col. F. Fajuyi was as good a target as Ironsi because the coup plotters of July 29, 1966 had alleged that Fajuyi was implicated in January 15, 1966 coup.

Again, for those who will knowingly fooled themselves in a quest to create a hero or attempt to justify their inability to stand up against aggressor through falsehood should understand that during coup d’état options to live or die do not exist.

naijaking1:
I remain disappointed, because Ibime seems to be one of the most articulated posters on Niger Delta issue after maybe Ono, but for him to fall so flatly on his his face on this important issue is very disheartening.
Until we get to a point where some people would openly and bravely say" I was wrong", we would never really move on as people God created on the eastern side of the Niger in Nigeria.
"Celebrating" the lives of traitors like Adaka Boro in an attempt to re-write history is exactly the wrong move towards reconcilliation.

You could not be more right.

LadyT:
Then why are you still responding you nitwit?

You dont fool me alakori oloriburuku pataki aburo oloshi why are you hanging onto Aloy Emekas testicle hairs like the STD crabs you have?
Do you know it him her (who even bloody knows) or are you actually it him her?

Omo waka pass jor

It is very unfortunate that you have sunken to abysmal depth of inherent stupidity. By the way, I do not know how you got to know about Aloy Emeka’s testicle heirs are like STD crab? I am of the view that this allusion of STD crabs is predicated on the organisms that have taken residence in your foggy bottom.

Please borrow a tip from handle identity. For once in your miserable life on earth, conduct your ugly self as a lady.

naijaking1:
@Ibime
The question or evidence I asked you is not about the creation of the 12 states, or Gowon wartime strategies, it's an evidence that Ojukwu singled out Ijaw people, disrespected them and drove them into betraying their people. So far , nothing from you, you smart researcher

Ibime is showing sign of desperation in his attempt to mute history or skew facts.

There is no question that Ijo defection to Nigerian side was treacherous as it could be. By the same token, we must not fail to include the Efik as the sell-out artists like the Ijo.

The raising of state creation by Gowon as a trump-card for the massive support the Ijo gave to Nigeria side is very lame. How about the Ogoni, Ibibio and Annag people?  Despite the creation of Cross River State and Rivers State, the leadership of these ethnicities supported Biafra to the end.

In fact, the support the Ijo gave to Nigerian vandals remains a nemesis but the greed that led to the confiscation of the properties that belong to Ndigbo in Port Harcourt will forever remain a scar on the palm of Ndigbo

Ibime:
Can you please elaborate on Korubo and Njokus defection? I am unfamiliar with their story and why they defected.

Besides that, I have always maintained that the creation of Rivers State was the dividing line between the likes of Adaka-Boro, Elechi Amadi, Sao-wiwa and Biafra.

Njoku did not defect because he was the son of Ikeduru near Owerri. However, my source informed that the defection of Korubo and the imprisonment of Njoku precipitated from the arguments both senior army officers had with Ojukwu over the decentralization of Biafran military chain of command and government functionaries.

I am not sure about Korubo’s seniority to Ojukwu but Njoku was certainly Ojukwu’s senior in the army. It must be recalled that George, ex-student of Government College, Umuahia, was the first easterner to graduate from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, United Kingdom.

As for that goofy Elemchi Amadi, he was only as good as a school teacher when he resigned his Nigerian army commission and ran back to eastern region of Nigeria in 1967. Please do not mention his name among Biafran leaders. The highest he rose in Biafra was a high school acting principal.

LadyT:
You and your senseless grammer shutup it would not suprise me if this was another of Hotfunmis/Aloy Emekas multiple forum names. slowpoke

I had to reiterate the fact that you and your dilapidated posts do not tickle my fancy. I had better things to do than responding to a misguided cock sucker such as you. If anything bears scripted headlines of imbecilic idiocy on this forum, it is sincerely yours.

Ibime:
(1.) With regard to the bolded part, I think your faulty knowledge of Rivers State geography hinders your argument.

Firstly, Eleme refinery is in Okrika and nowhere near Port Harcourt or even Eleme town. My village house is directly opposite Eleme Refinery (which is situated in a land called Samanga) and all my neighbours are Okrikans drawn mostly from Kalio village which is also opposite the refinery and Ogan village which is a little further away. THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE ELEME MAN LIVING NEXT TO THE REFINERY. Right on the left hand side of the refinery is Okrika Grammar school. Eleme town itself is 20 minutes drive from the refinery. I do not know who called the refinery Eleme refinery and have never cared to ask. If as you say, Adaka-Boro was in Eleme refinery area, then his command must have been preparing an assault on Kirike Town, which is a 5 minute walk across the bridge. Adaka-Boro was killed in Kirike Town, as part of his duties, not because he branched off back into Kirike. You cannot branch off into somewhere which is only 5 minutes away. 3rd Marine Brigade were the ones who attacked Kirike which was under Biafran occupation at the time and shortly after this time, Boro was killed. I can divulge further anecdotes about the Nigerian invasion of Kirike cos my father was in Kirike at the time, but lets just leave it there for now.


(2.) Suddenly attracted war of attrition? Come on now, dont play chess with me. Ojukwu declared Biafra in May 1967, after which he had time to fly to Ghana to draw up the Aburi accord with Gowon and hold several other consultative meetings, but had no time to draw up a similar accord with minorities of the former Eastern Region? No constitution, no memorandum of agreement, and not even a verbal promise in the 2 months that elapsed before the start of the war proper? You cannot be serious. This is another strategic and tactical mistake on the part of Ojukwu to go along with all the other tactical mistakes that you believe he made.

(3.) As I have said, fair treatment of minorities in Biafra cannot be assumed under a wishy-washy approach to fair play. The fact that Ijaw men were in the Biafran army is not a signal of mutual cooperation when at the same time, all calls for an agreement to protect the autonomy of minorities are summarily dismissed. Besides, I expect all soldiers in Biafra to occupy positions based on the heirarchy of the former Nigerian army, and I expect Bayelsa State to produce top members of the Biafran military as Bayelsa State have always had a strong presence in the Nigerian army.

(4.) This contradicts your statement on the Ken Saro-Wiwa thread that Adaka-Boro was nothing but a ragtag militant who had little or no effect during the war. The likes of OBJ wrote in his book that Boro's brigade was the most effective brigade in the Niger-Delta and the Niger-Delta could not have been captured without Boro.

Please understand that I was born and raised within that neighbor too. Who referenced Eleme refinery? I think the first sentence in my post clearly stated Okirika Refinery Jetty. I did not know that Eleme is Okirika instead of Ogoni. However, the information open to me had maintained that Eleme or Tai Eleme is one of the four communities or local governments that made up Ogoni including Gokana, Kana and Bori. Again, in military parlance, the final assault on the Port Harcourt was readied by the capture of Obigbo, Eleme, Afam and Okirika.

Of course, the Brigade commanded by Adaka Boro was ill-trained, not up to Brigade strength sea-school-boys, indiscipline social misfits and never captured an inch of real estate from the Biafrans. The main function of the Brigade was scouting because some of boys in the Brigade knew the terrain of the area, especially the creeks, at the back of their hands.

Ibime, I would want you to, at least, give example while you are on the mission of throwing wild accusations and innuendos, especially about the defections of Ijo leaders. To date, the only Ijo leader that defected to Nigeria side was Lt. Col. George Korubo. Even when he defected for the same personal reason that saw Lt. Col H. Njoku ended up in Biafran prison, he remained Biafran in spirit. If Njoku had been Ijo man, you would have invoked his spirit to support your skewed argument.

mightlove:
@dede1 and @hbrednic

I dont know why we act or talk like our thinking is retarded.
We all know that there is no need bringing ethniticity into this. A Nigerian is a Nigerian, but the trust remains that what Aloy.Emeka did is veeeeeeerrry wrong and there is no how it can correct the wrong platinumnk did. Afterall,  platinumnk is Igbo too, so its not as if she is saying her ethnic group is superior.

please, if you people dont have an important contribution to make to the dicussion, why the waste of space?

Like I have stressed in my previous post, this forum is not a place where drooling morons venture to hawk their trade. I would not have noticed a post by the jackass if not for unwarranted attacks on Aloy Emeka. I do not waste my Internet time on stupid stuffs such as contributing to indictments. Please knock yourself out with this piece of junk.

Whether the poster is Igbo or not is simply irrelevant. Not every Igbo person has well organized social order.

LadyT:
Utter and complete RUBBISH! If you wanna insult people direct the comments to them. Aloy.Were.Emeka.Idont knowwhoIam. Had no right to insult innocent people in someones profile pic!

This is a complete and moronic erring of personality. Who the hell are you to adjudge that the Aloy Emeka’s response to the poster is improper? 

If you have deduced that the responder had no right to insult the innocent people in the poster’s profile, I pray your lordship to send Aloy Emeka to jail. By the way, how about the collective insult your ward has heaped on the innocent Ndigbo? Or are you insinuating that any Igbo man is indictable? I guess what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.

You have attributed my post as utter and complete rubbish. I am happy it is just another goofy opinion coming from her lordship. Yet, my post is born out of my intuition.

Ibime:
Correction - Adaka Boro was killed during the capture of my hometown, Okrika.

I cannot feign surprise at the utterances of the esteemed gentlemen above.

The fact remains that it is not on every occasion that Igbo and Ijaw interests converge. The fair treatment of minorities under Biafra should not be expected out of a mutual understanding of fair play (as many Igbos argue), but should be enshrined in a written constitution that gives them a say in their own affairs. One does not swap one oppressor for another, because whilst Ojukwu had pleaded with Nigeria to implement the Aburi Accord, he totally refused to apply the same Aburi Accord to Biafra to allow minorities some semblance of autonomy.

The above is a simple statement of fact, and as usual we should look to learn from the lessons of history. There is no doubt that the minorities of the former Eastern Region taught Biafra a lesson about diplomacy and this lesson has been learnt, for no Biafran now talks about Biafra without deliniating the boundaries to exclude all minority lands. Of course, minority lands SHOULD be part of Biafra, but only under true federalism, which is a lesson which is starting to be hammered home to all and sundry in the jungle called Nigeria.

I have no intentions of opening a can of warm with Boro’s demise but to share little information I had from very reliable and informed sources. It was not a coincidence that the death of Boro’s compatriots; George Amangala, Bodman Nyanayo and Nothingham Dick took place in Bonny under the watchful eyes of 15th Brigade of 3MCDOs. It must be recalled that in exception of Lt. Bello, who was the first commander of the Brigade, all the subsequent commanders were of Yoruba extraction.

The Brigade commanded by Adaka Boro never joined fight in the capture of Okirika Refinery Jetty that saw the occupation of Okirika by Nigerian vandals. I must say that Brigade under Boro made it easier for the capture of Opobo, Andoni, Obodo, Oranga and Buguma.

There were four Brigades readied to assault Port Harcourt. The Brigades included 14, 15, 16 and the Brigade under Boro. I intentionally omitted the number designating the Brigade under Boro bacuse it was summarily disbanded after the death of its commander. The first move to capture Port Harcourt was all out assault on Eleme which fell into vandals hands after bitter fighting. It was at this juncture that Boro decided to branch to Okirika on a private visit when the ambush was set and his faith was sealed.

Following the death of Boro, the Nigerian propaganda machine attributed the killing to fleeing Biafran soldiers. However, at the time of Boro’s death, there was no Biafran unit operating in Okirika axis. It was the same 15th Brigade yet under the command of another Yoruba extraction that carried out the massacre of the civilians at Ogba-Egbama.


Ibime, bros, there is no simple fact about your accusing fingers on Ojukwu. Believe you me, I am not a fan of Ojukwu not because he stood up against the aggressors but the manner he prosecuted the war. We were in a war of attribution where chance and surprise make or break it. In most cases, Ojukwu chose to gamble. For example, the appointment of Col Banjo as the commander of 101 Division was one of the most ridiculous blunders in annals of military history.

How could you accuse Ojukwu of not dividing Biafra into autonomous entities when the birth of country suddenly attracted war of attrition? If you had accused Ojukwu of not including all the minority peeps in decision-making, I would have say that is debatable. But I am afraid such argument could still not fly in the face of scrutiny.

The leadership of Biafra, to the best of my knowledge, comprised many minority stalwarts that one such stalwart was an Ijo who gave the name Biafra to the country.

In fact, the use of word baffled is an understatement. Alfred Isaac Adaka Boro was a common criminal, traitor and a seed of destabilization planted in the eastern region of Nigeria by combined efforts of NPC and Action Group when NCNC put a motion to carve addition regions out of northern and western region of Nigeria in order to inform sense of equality among the regions. 

After the show of shame in kaiama which depicted that the dude was not only politically myopic but intellectually unstable, the masters issued an order to all the agents of northern and western region, both civilians and uniform people, to constantly trail and liquidate him at the right time. The punk’s time came up after the capture of Port Harcourt by the Nigerian vandals and was led into ambush set by the elements of 15th Brigade, 3MCDO, Nigerian army. The Biafrans were also on hot pursuit of knucklehead but I guess Nigerians got to him first.

Sometime I can not resist myself from laughing at our fellow inhabitants of southern Nigeria especially when they haul insults on the northern Nigerians. The northern Nigerian political cabals, including their able agents from western region of Nigeria, had tossed out suicidal pills in the forms of South-south and Niger Delta. Due to apparent lack of vision and inherent stupidity, the suicidal pills were swallowed by certain ethnicities in southern Nigeria in the midst of festive fanfare.

Anybody who had an iota of geographical perspective of the colonial contraption called Nigeria would not be fooled about certain part of Delta State buried in delta formed by Escravos and Forcados Rivers. By the same token, it amounts to geological travesty to include highlands of Obudu and Ogoja as Niger Delta.

My people say that when someone gives a toddler gift that is beyond the toddler’s imagination, the toddler has always queried the giver whom the gift belongs.

My thought level is getting restless from reading about education or lack thereof as pertaining to the recent sectarian riot in northern region of Nigeria. Why should any right thinking person attempts to rationalize the consistent odd behaviors by those dolts in northern region of Nigeria?

I request to be informed about the type of education that is being referred by some peeps on the forum. By Webster’s dictionary, “education is the process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment”. Now, what type of education is the subject matter?

As much as I could comprehend, those hoodlums up north are well educated. At least, they could process a thought and form a judgment. Even if the twisted judgment is to embark on mayhem, burn churches, engage in a gun battles with security agents and rape infidels, I simply deduced that they are educated but chose be idiots.

Aloy’s respond to the cock sucker' post is perfectly in order. The gold digger of abysmal depth should have weighed the consequence of such reckless post before bring it out in public. By beginning the sentence with the phrase “if im not mistaken” does not absolve him/her from the collective insult the poster has leveled on Ndigbo.

Why did she/he not reference Yoruba man, Hausa man, Fulani man, Kanuri man or Efik man in the ill-informed post? Even if the accused person is an Igbo man, he/she is still innocent until proven guilty. 

This forum is not playground for goofy stuff. I am of the view that the fool should refrain from implying because the implication could be very consequential.

It is unfortunate that people such as Kobojunkie would like to eat their cake and have it. Any approach short of disintegrating the jungle called Nigeria is simply naïve and disingenuous. The politico-sectarian riots have been a common scene in the northern Protectorate cum northern Nigeria since 1946.

The young leader of the NPC youth wing that saw mayhem and protracted riot of 1946 in Kano later became a minister and very prominent. The person is no less a person than Alhaji Inua Wada. It pays dividends to organize Islamized religious riots in the northern Nigeria.

The resident peeps on the Nairaland are becoming damn right ridiculous or absolutely naïve. Any place in the world, including USA, people who ascended to higher political positions had existed richer than they came.

If the people yarning for prosecutions against any office holder wished to leave higher political position poorer than when they assumed office, I appreciate you go quietly.

Almost all the governors who did not challenge Obasanjo on any political issue were not made notorious through the witch-hunting style of EFCC under Ribadu.

I am afraid that the issue of Nuhu Ribadu has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that the dude, Ribadu, is human fraud. Anyway, he is a typical Nigerian.