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I am completely disappointed with people of Imo State. In this year and age, the sum of N458, 000,000.00 (four hundred and fifty eight million naira) can not disappear into the air. The lack of honesty, transparency and crude nepotism has become the hallmark of the Imo State current administration. I beg the federal government of Nigeria to assist in locating the sum of N458 millions which belong to the people of Imo State.

ijaw citizen: LOL!!!!!
Mr. Odede, you dull oh!

Ijo fool, are the so-called Ijo not referred as “boat people”?

I have to reiterate without equivocation that most of people who parade themselves as Ijo are decedents of European potters. They are in no shape or form related to Ndigbo.

Katsumoto: I know your style; anytime you are cornered and can't find a way out. You start trying to be clever with words and introducing irrelevant information. Whether it was called Supreme Military Council, Lowest Civilian Administration or African Union, Gowon was the head. No one was above him. The troops that subdued Biafra reported to Gowon. End of discussion.

If you were trying to make another point, then be direct. Obfuscation is for individuals who aren't honest and sincere.

If Gowon was accepted as the Head of State by the eastern region, would there be any peace conference in Aburi, Ghana? There was an unsuccessful coup on July 29, 1966 and the leader of coup plotters was not recognized by a section of the country hence the peace talk in Aburi, Ghana. During the peace conference in Aburi, Ghana the fates of Head of State and governor of western region were not known to the public.

It is unfortunate you have a crush on decree #8 that was grandfathered by illegality.

ckkris: That's how it became an army of any-thing-goes, that threw up the likes of Babangida, Abacha, and does anyone remember one Adisa, aka, adisaster. There were many who should never have risen above the rank of Major. But Nigeria quietly waited for their ill wind to pass, and it has for good.

You could not be more right with above post. Tafawa Balewa had stuffed Nigerian army officer’s cadre with high school products from northern region of Nigeria who could still not remember the name of their schools. The so-called leaders of Nigeria such as Buhari Babanginda and Abacha were not fit to attend RMA Sandhusrt, UK yet the government found a way to absorb them into the army.

Katsumoto: That is nothing. What matters is that at the end of the war, the last region was brought under the control of the Head of State, Gowon, through the use of force.

History is littered with examples of individuals or states who dispute the rule of another over them. If Biafra suceeded in its secession bid, then you will have the bragging rights of saying the East didn't recognize Gowon. Unfortunately, you don't have the bragging rights. It's only in Nigeria where the losers in a conflict continue to have a superior stance over their victors/betters.

Just chill and jejely eat your humble pie.

I can not fathom how many times you could have been thrown to the ground during the era of wrestling matches called Kiriji wars. You sure have the habit of putting the wrong foot into the ring.

It does not surprise me to notice you have tenaciously clung to an irresponsible assumption that the issue of Head of State was resolved in Aburi, Ghana. Aburi Accord admitted that the functions of making government policies shall be vested on the supreme military council not the supreme military commander.

In addition, Ojukwu had insisted that in the absence of Head of State, the chief of staff supreme headquarters becomes the C-in-C. In one instance during the deliberation, Ojukwu inquired from the conferees that who commands the army in eastern region.

Have you asked yourself who constituted the supreme military council that issued Decree #8? This type of reckless assumption is the bane of progress in Nigeria.

Successful secession of Biafra could not have been regarded as bragging right for the eastern region but a case of the right to freedom in a country called home. The easterners did not feel their right to free movement in Nigeria was guaranteed with Gowon as Head of State. If eastern region had recognized Gowon as Head of State, we should not have this discussion.

The Gowon’s undisputable claims to the position of Head of State of Nigeria started on January 10, 1970. Throughout the saga of Aburi, Ghana, Gowon was just an arrowhead of juntas who have succeeded in killing the Head of State and had no control in one of the four regions that constituted Republic of Nigeria.

The fact that most Nigerians are intellectually lazy does not make poster of this thread wrong. It is a brazen display of idiocy to say or write Hausa-Fulani ethnicity.

Prof Corruption: A fool can, sometimes, make an interesting statement.

I dey laugh. Operation occupy ya resources has come to an end.

Why have you not yet made interesting statement?

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[quote author=Prof Corruption]A fool can, sometimes, make an interesting statement.

[quote]Why have you not yet made interesting statement?

[quote author=Prof Corruption]A fool can, sometimes, make an interesting statement.

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Why have you not yet made interesting statement?

Ijo is not an ethnic group. The word Ijo is derived from the term Portuguese used to describe the people they met at the banks of Oil River. What is known as today’s Ijo remain the combination of Oil River bank dwellers-Igbo(Aro, Ndoki, Asa, Ngwa, Ikwerri), Annag, Ibibio and Andoni, European potters from Gold Coast and Shipmates from India and Philippine.

The so-called Ijo are not called “Boat People” for nothing.

Mobsync: Nigeria should and MUST remain one. If the s/easterners think d ijaws would readily want 2 remain under them after separation, they're mistaken. D ijaws want complete freedom in dat area. No govt activities at all. They want to sell nd spend d oil money alone. Nigeria unite. united we stand, divided we fall @

You are the most idiotic poster ever seen on this forum. What spurred you to vomit the above crap? Republic of Igbo land must exist and it must be nonnegotiable. Ndigbo do not want Ijo and I personally do not know if Ijo will have a place in divided Nigeria.

shymexx: Lmao @dede1 still acting like he witnessed the war - it's played out like myspace...

shymexx

I am not called Dede for nothing.

Andre Uweh: Major gen Madiebo wrote extensively about Major Uchendu on that book, page 225. ''The Nig Rev and the Biafran war''.
Major Uchendu is a great hero but has not been giving his rightful place in Biafran history. This is according to my friend and Col Okwechime.

I do not doubt the bravery of one Major Uchendu as I will not take anything from Madiebo as gospel. After all, it was Madiebo who claimed in his book that 68th Brigade of “S” Division of Biafran army was a battalion.

Andre Uweh: @ Dede.
The Biafran command on that fateful day that ambushed Nigeria's second div at Abagana was led by one certain Major Uchendu. He is the hero of that ambush and I've recently discussed that with Col Okwechime. Do you want his contact?.

Please tell Col Mike Okwechime that Dede 1 said that the Abagana did not involve entire 2nd Division of Nigeria army. It was elements of 4th and 6th Brigades led by Murtala Mohamed and Musa Yar adua who attempted to breach the stronghold of Biafran 11th Division at Onicha through Idah. While the major force was allowed to proceed toward Onicha, the Biafrans ambushed the major S&T columns and cut off the link to Idah.

greygoblings: i see that many people here doesn't know what's going on in imo state. The former deputy issued a 1 billion naira contract for a road construction. The contractor made away with the money and gave the deputy 400 million. Now the contractor is nowhere to be found and Rochas signed the contract with trust in his deputy. They were talks about impeaching Rochas for his signature in that fraudulent contract but his deputy got the axe instead.

It will serve as a case of prudence if you can check the facts before posting. The allegedly impeached deputy governor was not even in Nigeria when the said contract was awarded by Rochas Okorocha.

Maxlaw: Is dat why imo state must b turn 2 rochas group of companies? D new deputy governor has been his paid worker for long also d commissioner for lands. So wat next? Maybe d sec. 2 d state government.

Imo State has been long turned into Rochas Okorocha group of companies. Okorocha’s chief of staff is his younger brother- Barr. Okorocha, the commissioner for lands is his son in-law and deputy governor is his errand boy. The Speaker, Deputy Speaker and 13 members of the House of Assembly were elected PDP members who turned APGA and now APC.

Rochas Okorocha has not only turned Imo State into laughing stock politically, it has proven that Ndi Imo are behind the political curve since Mgbakpa or Habe trained street tout is taking them for a rough ride.

Katsumoto:

To be honest, I have been very disappointed that Dede1 couldn't be more original in his jabs. Instead he plagiarized.

Katsumoto

You should remember it takes one moonlight wrestler to know another. Actually when you used that jab, I figured wrestling was much about Kiriji wars. I mean the scenario could not be more at home than Kiriji jokes.

^^^I guess Rochas Okorocha expected serious profit when he allegedly bought the Imo State gubernatorial ticket for 300 million from the older Agbaso. Imo State is in serious bargain.

It is funny to notice that Yoruba peeps always start what they can not finish.

Andre Uweh: You are right, but at some point Amadi was relocated to another sector and Major Uchendu took charge. As at the time of destruction of Nigeria's second division at Abagana, Major Uchendu was temporarily in charge and he deserves the credit. Not Amadi or Achuzia.

I do not know where you are pulling the notion that Major Uchendu was a Divisional commander. The ambush at Abagana did not involve entire Brigade talk less of Division. At best, Major Uchendu could have been a battalion commander. It is not the issue of who should get the credit or not but arrange historical facts accordingly.

Tolexander: ok sir, grandpa!
There were also oyo, igbomina, ife, ijesha, ekiti, ijebu, egba e.t.c.

Weren't you the man that said yoruba neva existed until 1912?

Third grader, toddler!!!

Are you dumb and daft? Why would anybody with average intellect refer to Kiriji as great Yoruba war? Or have you totally forgotten the context in which the issue of the wrestling matches arose?

joeyfire: One and the same. He's the eldest brother of ben murray-bruce. Its amazing how that mini-con squad was made up of some well-to-do folk

It is unfortunate that Flt. Lt Johnny Brown, from Nambe, died in Helicopter crash. He was another ace in the Biafran Air force.

Andre Uweh: Nigerian and later Biafran Army.
He was the commander of the 11 tactical division with headquarters at Oba.

Major Uchendu could have been a battalion or brigade commander. However, he was never a commander of 11th Division Biafran Army. The commander of the division was Brigadier Patrick Amadi.

ACM10: I wanted to leave this thread for, but your wild claims keep drawing me back. You made a claim yesterday that all Aburi provisions but one were honoured by Gowon. I asked you to produce the Aburi agreement in your possession , so that we could analyze the provisions that were honoured and the ones that were left out. So far, you've not produced any.

You keep regurgitating the internet claims without any proof to back it up. If I may ask you, how did you arrive at 90% and 10%. At your level, I expect you to read internet write-ups like a critic, but all you do is to swallow every internet claims hook, line and sinker. Have you ever bothered to research if those claims from your sources are based on truism?

I pledged within myself to let you be on this thread, but I feel that the first bolded is an indirect jab at me, thereby necessitating my response.

I'm back from work and ready to have a debate with you on Aburi provisions that were honoured and the ones that were left out/watered down if need be.

He intentionally forgot that in Aburi and elsewhere, Ojukwu insisted that Gowon was not the Head of State. Ojukwu insisted that in the absence of the Head of State, the 2ic, in this case Brigadier Ogundipe, shall become the Head of State. Now, it is mute point for Gowon to arrive in Lagos and began to promulgate a decree, the function agreed on Aburi shall be vested on Supreme Military Council not supreme military commander.

Katsumoto: It has been almost 20 hours, yet no Biafran can articulate the provisions of Aburi that were not addressed by Gowon's Decree 8 of 1967. After 45 years of blaming Gowon for the Civil war, Biafrans should know the provisions of Aburi by heart.

All they have been pointing out is that not all provisions from Aburi were implemented. Gowon, from a position of strength, acceded to most of Ojukwu's demands. Yet Ojukwu, from a position of weakness, rejected approximately 90% of his demands to hold out for 10% (HOS not having the power to fire regional governors). And in the process millions of people died with Ojukwu escaping to avoid capture. Biafrans need some deep introspection.

Do you listen to yourself at all? What do you mean about the crappy positions of strength and weakness? From the transcript of Aburi Accord, Ojukwu made it absolutely clear that Gowon was not Head of State. It was action in futility that Gowon promulgated Decree #8. Furthermore, Col Adebayor was not Military Governor of western region. A person to such position can only be appointed by the Head of State.

Tolexander: grandpa, good evening sir!
From your post above, you asked who yooba fought? Yoruba is an entity like nigeria is also an entity.
Can we now say nigeria also didn't fight any war in 1967-1970 since nigeria didn't fight any country?
Thank you sir as you are thinking of answering me with humility.

There was a country. The name remains Biafra.

Ngwakwe: Imo State House of Assembly approved N6.5 Billion per year for Governor Rochas Okorocha's Security Vote, the same that was collected by the former Governor Ohakim.

Rochas gave up N4.0 Billion per year amounting to N16 Billion for four years.

You still think giving up N16 billion is a scam, tell that to Jude Agbaso who went for N400 million at the detriment of his office and honour.

Rochas Okorocha never gave up anything. Have you bothered to ask where did Rochas Okorocha channel the aforementioned N4.0 Billion? Rochas Okorocha is a street-wise political tout.

joeyfire: From left Gunnar Hagland, Willy Murray-Bruce, Carl Gustav Von-Rosen , August Okpe, Martin Lang.

Did you read book by August Okpe? Is Willy Murray-Bruce the same guy from Bayelsa State?