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Onlytruth:
I only used ONE example of a GREAT strategic military strategy to illustrate my position. Few men can actually think like that because most men are beholden to pride and puff.
I see issues of military and war as a matter of life and death. So, pride has no place in it!
G.H Bush could have gone to war alone and still won. He didn't.
You have to import my analogy to the Biafran scenario because we could have put that war beyond reach by juggling things in ways that would even baffle the enemy.

BTW Dede1 there is an inconsistency within your position about our neighbors. On one side you talk about you preferring and fighting for an Igbo only country; then on the other side you say you would welcome some minorities.
Bros, we have to make measured concrete steps. You either want them or you don't.

Bros, Onlytruth of the world, I have maintained a stream of consistency in my approach to possible disintegration of Nigeria. Republic of Igbo land is and will remain my first choice. However, due to geographical terrain and proximity in culture and tradition Ndigbo share with certain ethnic groups in the area coupled with efforts of certain Ibibio, Annang, Ogoni and Okirika/Kalabari during the Nigeria/Biafra war, I would not mind to share nationality with them. I have said that Nigaria/Biafra war remains the amalgam of my political philosophy. If accepting to share nationality with those mentioned is a crime, I am ready to plead guilty if indicated.

Biafra was defeated in order to produce present day Nigeria, a country without progressive future. At the cradle of Biafra, tactic was more in the mind of a Biafran than strategy. The foreign powers which made sure Biafra was defeated did so not because of love they had for Nigeria but what they perceived Biafra would become.

I am quite sure if Biafra was allowed to exist for one (1) year, the strategy you seem to reference in your posts would have been in the cards.

Onlytruth:
You see my brothers, the bolded is the problem with most of your positions. Almost all of you are arguing based on sentiments and not based cold pragmatism; and unfortunately, that was the major flaw in our Biafra's strategy in 1967, and would likely be the same flaw in 2012 and up, assuming there are no people like me around. 

This is really an oppotunity to hammer this point home, and I would use it handsomely.

Let me reharsh what I believe some of you want us to do, which is basically what Uwazuruike wants us to do.
(1) Go back to Igboland
(2) Declare Biafra comprising of only Igboland
(3) Sing Kumbaya and live happily ever after. 

Now, let me show you what would certainly happen.

(1) Everybody gangs up against Igbo, from Sokoto to Calabar, Damaturu to Forcados
(2) We surrender in FAR SHORTER time this time.
(3) We start another journey in the wilderness for another 40 years, assuming we are not cleansed from our lands this time.

My brothers, in the period I have lived to observe great leaders, perhaps the greatest leader I know is President George Herbert Bush ( father of Pres George W, Bush).
Why do I pick him. I pick him because of the masterful and legendary way he planned and implemented the first gulf war in 1990. He could have fought the first gulf war alone or with few allies, he chose to build a broad coalition.
For about 6 months before the war started, he consulted widely and kept sending diplomats to all strategic countries of the world: Russia (the USSR), Britain, France, China, Japan, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others.
Let me just cut a long story short by saying that George H. Bush sent emisories  to even Saddam Hussein who went with clear instructions: leave Kuwait unconditionally. I speculate that they may even have proposed deals to him; ALL IN ATTEMPT TO AVOID WAR, but nevertheless the building of international coalition continued non-stop. By the time he was done, ALL strategic countries were on his side, and Iraq was alone. Then he lauched the famous Operation Desert Storm, and told Saddam Hussein in his war speech that he (Hussien) must learn that NO NATION CAN STAND THE MIGHT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. When the war was over, it was as if the Iraqies fought God.    But no, they did not fight God, they fought against a man who had his head firmly on his shoulder. They fought a losing war.

The worst strategy for anybody to adopt in the emancipation of Igbo people, is to isolate us using sentimental reasons and make us a sitting duck for a certain gang up. That is why the Uwazuruike doctrine is very dangerous for Igbo people.
Smart countries of the world ensure that they are at peace and even love, with their neigbors. It is a strategic suicide not to be.

Finally, I want to say that I don't know Igbo people to be tribalists even though we may be the most discriminated tribe in Nigeria governent circle.
I believe that the only reason Biafra happened is because the North was orchestrating a genocide against innocent Easterners in the North, and we had to defend ourselves as Easterners and Biafrans -TOGETHER. Of course some sabotaged that both as individuals and as groups, but it never changed the fact that it was NEVER an Igbo thing. That history has been almost revised to make it an Igbo thing, sadly enough.
Igbo leaders of 1967 could have carved out only Igboland and declared it Biafra; but they didn't. They didn't because we Ndigbo are not tribalists and racial supremacists. Even today, the only real reason why I may want Igbo to secede is because of that same constant mudering of innocent people in the North. If people cannot live in the North, then we have no business being one country.
Apart from that, I would stay in Nigeria. So, I cannot afford to think this way whereby today it is an Igbo only country, tommorrow it may be an Anambra country, day after it may become an Nnewi country, and so on. I would get angry first at the Ikwerre who may still be denying being Igbo, before I get angry at the Ijaw who thinks he owes me no love or loyalty.
There are two sides of the Ijaw nation, those with the Clerks and those with the Briggs and Dokubos. I believe that the Clerks are dying off, and that the future belongs to the Dokubo's and Briggs. 

You could be forgiven for seeing future spate of contingencies in Nigeria from the prism of yesteryears. Today’s Nigeria is definitely not Nigeria of 1960 where the common focus was set on a certain ethnic group that seemed to have achieved more than its fair share of accomplishment for a very short period. Everybody assumed consciously or unconsciously that this particular group was out to dominate others. Unfortunately, the January 15, 1996 coup did not help matters either.

Today, the political gauge in Nigeria reads a total different result. Although in certain feudalistic circles, this particularly referenced ethnic group is still viewed as a worthy competitor.

My people say that when a woman is married twice, she can easily discern which of her husbands is better than the other. In addition, my people equally said that a person stung by a bee seems to be afraid of Greenfly.

If Nigeria should disintegrate today, nations shall be formed based on cultural and traditional proximity of ethnicities within a given zone. One of the deciding factors to the formation of a country or nation is numerical strength and ability to organize people into fighting squads to defend natural boundaries or assist neighbors to ward off eminent attacks. Also, there shall be a strategy for territorial expansionism. On both counts, I do believe Republic of Igbo land has the will-power to emerge as a nation.

It is unfortunate you tend to forget both Nigeria and Biafra in 1966 were almost at per baring numerical strength advantage which Biafra was able to stale with strategy. However, it was tactics or lack thereof rather than strategy that saw Biafra retreating from all sectors. By the time the tactics were revamped, the effect of constant retreat has already taken its toll on the fighting spirit of Biafrans.

Again, it is much skewed analogy for one to attempt to juxtapose the instances between Biafra/Nigeria with the condition of wars fought by USA or even Germany. Biafra was not even a country a mouth before the civil war started. It is disingenuous on the part of anybody who seemed to assume that eastern region of Nigeria, which has been politically conned as a result of all Nigerian military installations and depots stationed in northern and western regions of Nigeria, would have the pleasure and comfort to organize a plebiscite seeking the support and opinion of every dimwit or stiff in the region if it should fend off the aggressor at Gerkam and Obollo Afor who had shown  traits to kill, mane, ra.pe, pillage and arson in the name of Allah. For umpteenth time, Biafra was a month old as country and, in fact, an accident of unforeseen contingencies which should not be placed in a silly analogy with USA.

I had tried to avoid the issue of crude oil and other natural resources in Nigeria. When coals, Iron ore and Limestone were the main stay of life wire in eastern region, there was no sense of minority in eastern region. Port Harcourt, Calabar, Enugu, Aba, Umuahia, Owerri, Orlu, Abakiliki, Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, Okigwe, Afam, Eleme, Nsukka, Nakalagu and Afikpo were developed by the government of eastern region with equal commitment. The moment crude oil was struck in Olobiri in 1956, then detractors of eastern region went to work by informing any gull there is a minority in eastern region of Nigeria. It must be recalled that before and earlier part of the Nigeria’s independent, eastern region was also towing southern Cameroon. 

I must inform anybody that Olobiri oil fields that preceded Owaza by few years did not pump more crude oil than Owaza in 1965. Due to the fact there were more offshore crude oil fields in Igbo land than so-called minority, hence 1976 boundary adjustment. Has the discovery of crude oil in minority land or ceding crude oil fields in Igbo land to the so-called minorities uplifted them into majority? I say think folks.

Again, if Nigeria will cease to exist as a country today, which I pray everyday, I must spend the last pint of blood in my body to advocate for the pursuit of Republic of Igbo land. By the same token, I would not mind a nationality with Ibibio, Annag, Ogoni and Okirika/Kalabari.

quest55:
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Typical Ibo logic train. Faulty as eva. A quick consultation will have told that in 1965 Awolowo was a god in Nigeria. But an arrogant culture always place his own logic before others as superior. Only a few Ibo leaders are applying this lessons taught by Ojukwu's foolish paradise!

You have every right to flaunt your ignorance in public but leverage to insult entire group of people due to your dimwittedness. It is only in your moronic world a prisoner is regarded god. In 1965, Awolowo was a prisoner in Nigerian Prisons in Calabar where he nearly wore his knee cap out while praying to “Oluwa” for a bowl of cooked black-eyed beans.

Onlytruth:
My brothers Eziachi, Dede1, Obiagu1 and others,

I love this debate because at least no one in SS would think that we have sang kumbaya and gone home. lol 
I love the fact that we have a divided opinion on this. So, let us continue the debtate!

I have a lot of things to say, but obviously I can't say all of them here; but I would still say everything that captures my core believes about our relationship with our neighbors.
I will state some unimpeachable facts, and then I will make some political statements.

The unimpeachable fact are that we (Igbo and non-Igbo) of Eastern Nigeria are DIRECT neigbhors, and as result, we are in unique positions to do some very good, or very bad things to each other (the civil war treacheries proved that).
The other unimpeachable fact is that both Igbo and non-Igbo lands possess things that others want, things that if we don't use our heads, can lead to our annihilation by others.
Once we understand these two unimpeachable facts, we can now try to prognosticate a political strategy that would lead to good things happening to BOTH peoples (Igbo and non-Igbo).
What happened in the lead up to the civil war, was that our leaders (Igbo and non-Igbo) did not FULLY understand the reality of our situation represented by those unimpeachable facts about the Eastern region. If they did, that war would never have been fought at all. If it was to happen at all, then the Igbo would NEVER have led it.
Like I keep saying, I am determined to ensure that Ndigbo never repeat past mistakes.

I understand the point raised by Obiagu1 about some of the minorities only wanting to be with us when they want to use us, and are only happy when they are leading us.
However, I don't think it is as simple as that. If anything, I see their situation as I see that of African Americans in the US scenario. The minorities felt that we (Igbo) were dominating them politically and felt marginalized. Now the same with AAs, but guess how the whites solved that problem, they overwhelmingly voted a black man to become president. Now, do you think that AAs would make similar claims tomorrow? Nope. I think that Ndigbo can do the same (thank God we've already done so with GEJ). No matter how bad a person is, he/she never forgets certain things. I would bet my money that our neigbhors would not easily forget our gesture in electing GEJ. That does not mean that everything is well now. It only means that we are getting closer to a unity of purpose. In fact, I can almost touch it!. 

Now, on the issue of forming an Igbo only country, all I have to say is that it is easier said than done! 

The way I see it, Nigeria is like a cage, and if I learned anything from Yoruba fighting along Hausa/Fulani to stop Biafra, it is that CRAB MENTALITY is the most dangerous obstacle to the realization of an Igbo only country because these minorites also want to leave Nigeria but they can't on their own. Do you think they would just say ok bye with Igboland only and stay under Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba hegemony for ever? You've gat to be kidding me!  Guess what they would likely do? Join the rest to stop us. . .AGAIN.

This is part of why I don't value Uwazuruike's opinion on this issue. He failed to prove to me that he is a good strategic thinker when he first called on Igbo in the North to return.
Someone said here that Uwazuruike knows these minorities that is why he is only talking about Igbo nation. I say that Uwazuruike is the problem because he failed to understand that because the Ijaw controls MEND (an armed group), that they would not respect him (an unarmed man in the Nigerian jungle). Have you ever seen where an armed man respects an unarmed man? Nope. So, it is a mistake to conclude that because Ijaw (MEND) disses Uwazuruike, that they hate Igbo or belittle Igbo. Uwazuruike should go and arm up first and come back and talk to Ijaw. I assure you all that the result would be almost opposite!

Personally, when I think about our emancipation in Nigeria, I ALWAYS start from the North. That is why I stated that Ndigbo must find a way to demistify the boogeyman called Hausa/Fulani in Nigeria. The least we can do is to stay in their lands whether they like it or not, because they are in ours. There is more to this which I won't discuss more here.
Bottomline is that if we prove our mettle with these murdering Hausa/Fulanis, nobody would mess with us in our own backyard.
This is why I think that Uwazuruike's MASSOB is achieving the opposite for us. If Uwazuruike is serious about MASSOB, he should not try to hunt lions bare handed. It is obtuse to do that.

So, I maintain that we can still have a Biafra with all the East intact plus Anioma (and even Beaf's Delta sef!). 

Like our brother Mikeansy quoted: Consensus is about winning converts, not driving away heretics.  

If we want an Igbo only country, let us be realistic about the possibility of its existence.

Now, the political statement.
We (SE and SS) should (due to the circumstances of the undisputed facts raised) move together politically in Nigeria.
If we really understand those facts, we have no choice because any other choice would be political suicide. 

I have argued relentlessly about the avoidance of the civil war. Yes, it could have been avoided but not through subjugation of Ndigbo in any form or manner. Even Ojukwu alluded to this fact in one of the few interviews he gave to certain news media. I shall not dabble into the lengthy history of Nigeria with Igbo statesmen at certain leadership positions as it pertained to the civil war. The northern region never believed in the cesspit called Nigeria and I believe Uche Chukwumerije could attest to it as his position in RMA, Sandhurst, UK remains vacant till today because of nepotistic attitude of Tafawa Balewa’s government towards northerners.

Of course, the civil war would have been avoided if the so-called elites of Igbo peeps, such as Ironsi, in Nigerian armed forces had listened to few junior staff officers such Lt Col Patrick Anwunah. It is unexplainable manner of attitude found among certain Igbo peeps in corridor power to have unflinching trust on non-Igbo people around them which eventually saw us in a terrible war where we fought defensively throughout duration of the war.

With all due respect sir, it is unacceptable indictment of Nidgbo for anyone to insinuate minorities in eastern region were not carried along in Biafran course. The SSG was a minority, second in command was minority, ambassador of Biafra in UK was a minority, most Baifran brigade commanders were from the minority, Biafran propagandist was a minority, minister of natural resources was minority and the representative of Biafra in Canada was a minority. How else will a minority be carried? I guess they would have been happy if Ojukwu was a minority too.

It is unfortunate a person of well-organized social order such as you will draw diametrically opposed analogy between Ndigbo/minorities in eastern region of Nigeria with European/African-Americans in USA. Ndigbo did not enslave the minorities in eastern region. Ndigbo were equally unfortunate as the minorities in eastern region to found them selves in a country such as Nigeria. Ndigbo can not change their aggressiveness, hardworking nature, industriousness, business acumen and willingness to compete with anybody even when the playing field is not level, in fact qualities that attracted hatred from their neighbors.

If Nigeria should disintegrate today or suddenly found itself in a slippery path of balkanization, I shall adamantly call for Republic of Igbo land. There are things nobody can modify in Nigeria and one of them is geographical location of certain things. If Ndigbo could not fight to defend them selves in a situation in Nigeria where Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa, Kanuri, Tiv or Nupe are fighting to stand as a nation, then Ndigbo should remain vanquished. 

I shall state unequivocally there are absolutely nothing the minority ethnicities possessed Ndigbo crave. However, I shall not reject the idea of sharing nationality with Ibibio, Annang, Ogoni and Okirika/Kalabari.

igbaodun:
No, they are all incompetent modafuukers

I guess Igbo men have fvcked your mother so crazily for you to know Ndigbo are, according you, incompetent modafuukers. Next time when an Igbo man visits your mother’s hut for the usual jig, please inquire if he is a competent modafuuker.

T8ksy:
Dede, can you make your point without being downright coarse and obnoxious.

Remember, you do not have a monopoly on invectives- two can play that game but i let you off for now.

Anyway, back at the ranch i thought Ojukwu's grouse and by extension the ibos was the pogrom unleashed

on them by the northerners. At the beginning of all these wahala when all the actors were grandstanding,

Awo definately categorised the neutrality of the yorubas and Ejoor even went as far as to get assurance

from Ojukwu that his region will not be turned into a battle front between the ibos and the hausa/fulanis.

Ojukwu also told Awo at their enugu meeting that the only way he would dialogue with the north is on the

battlefield however when the war started, instead of him to head north, he chosed to invaded his

neighbours and annexed their land. Yet you and your ilk wondered why the yorubas fought back at Ore.

You even instigated another propaganda against us that we betrayed you 'cause we didn't fold our

hands and watch as ibos turn our ancestral land into a warfront between them and the north. Maybe, you

expected us to join you ibos in destroying our region in your fight with the north.

Gosh! You guys are just so damn clever!

I really do not understand what you are talking about with reference to Awolowo, neutrality, Yoruba, Ejoor and assurance. People, due to unavoidable weight of tribalism, tend to forget the time frame of the events, constituted authority and manner of protocol as it happened in Nigeria during 60s.

Sometimes, the things people post on this forum appear childish and lacked substance. Awolowo was nobody in scheme of things during the era in discuss. He was not a federal minister, regional governor, regional minister nor permanent secretary. He was ex-convict just released from prison by Ojukwu.

Ejoor was the military governor of mid-western region who had publicly expressed his support for Gowon and attended Aburi, Ghana conference as a member of the team representing federal government of Nigeria under Gowon.

Adebayo, like Ejoor, was the military governor of western region and publicly supported Gowon and attended Aburi, Ghana conference as a delegate representing Nigeria. Johnson, administrator of Lagos and Katsina, governor of northern region, indicated support for Nigeria under Gowon. Only Ojukwu and eastern region opposed Gowon and Nigeria.

How could a sane person talk about neutrality when the governor and the region are seen publicly supporting one side of conflict and even procuring arms and ammunition too?

I guess universal and standard meaning of certain words do not apply to Nigerians.

Cowered yes, but betrayal has never been used by me to condition what happened during the periods from 1966 to 1970. Yoruba and certain ethnic groups in southern Nigeria made the decision to join northern region of Nigeria to prosecute a war against Biafra. It is now a history we shall live and die with it.

olabukola:
If he is good why did your brother sue him to court.(As you claimed).

You really have comprehensible deficiency. I guess suing for electoral fraud is different from suing for mismanagement and embezzlement. If I remember correctly, I wrote not claimed that my younger brother and his group sued Ohakim for electoral fraud.

macjive01:
^^^^ silly PDP Tout.

Imo budget for this year is at 180 billion. with capital expenditure of 73.6 % 

free education for secondary n primary school is been assisted by World bank.

READ THIS PDP BOI




Following the introductions, the Governor sat down with his principal officers and the journalists for a breakfast during which he explained his bearing. Excerpts:


What is the scope of the work going on in the state?

We have dabbled into federal government projects and that is why we are being slowed down. We are dualising the Airport road, we are dualising the Okigwe road, we are dualising Orlu road, we are dualising the Mbaise road so as to make the whole state a one city state.

For us, completion is already planned. We have a chart we are following and we have tarred most of the roads. If you go to Ekinegbo road you will see it, but we intend to have all the roads tarred before the end of September. If you go to Oguta, what they used to call water-lake, you will see that we are turning it into a Bar Beach now and we are turning it around, even the hotel has been completely renovated. It is not something I think I can take credit, I think there is hand of God in it. I think Angels are beginning to award contracts themselves. But there is the monumental project, which you are not seeing yet. In the last two weeks we awarded a contract of about N31 billion naira for the ‘Hand of God’? The ‘Hand of God’ is going to be the tallest tower in Africa, if not in Africa and Europe.



It is an issue of vision and sacrifice, and prudent utilization of resources. In the time past, the last administration had about N280 billion that came into the state. And 95 per cent or 90 per cent of that money went on recurrent. But we have reversed the trend of recurrent, that is the  secret. Now we have 27 per cent recurrent and 73 per cent capital.


How did you do it?

How we did it is that we introduced what is called “Commercialization”. Take for instance, Concord hotel for the past thirty years never yielded one naira profit for government. Concord, since its inception! When I came in, I met a debt of N450 million owed to the Lebanese company running Concord, plus the N850 million given to the man to renovate the place. So, we spent N1.2 billion in 12 years and no one naira came out and we still owed.

When I came in, I reversed the trend, I sacked the man and I started the renovation of Concord, set up a new management team and then handed it over to Ministry of Tourism. Their salary is about N12 million every month. Now, for the first time, Concord made N40 million. And now it is taking care of paying all the salary of Ministry of Tourism and that has reduced recurrent from our budget. So, every ministry has something similar to Concord allocated to them.

Eventually, we may have a state where money that come from the federal government appropriation will be used (wholly) for capital projects. While the internally generated revenue, plus the commercialization effort take care of staff welfare and everything.

We have brought business acumen today into governance and removed all the waste and closed down all the pipes of waste. Like for instance, I removed N4 billion out of my security vote back to the conference. This N4 billion would have been money unaccountable.

Insecurity has dropped by almost 70% in Imo state, I mean crime has dropped. These are some of the things making the difference. It’s just sacrifices, prudence in the utilization of resources, bending the laws of due process without breaking it.

If ministry of tourism has Concod Hotel, ministry of education will have Imo State bookstore selling books titled “Economic and Political Abracadabra” by Okorocha. This governor is funny indeed. Imo State will also commercialize the office of governor so It could accrue funds from spreading innuendos and fallacies.

alj harem:
conspiracy

that also explains why the hausa and their yoruba counterpart gave lagos to yoruba when it was clearly Igboland before the war.

You need a brain regardless how dilapidated.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=879329.msg10272338#msg10272338 date=1330185312]@OP, I have not read your post or all of the responses to it. I'll simply point out that States do not own Oil Wells. Oil wells are owned by corporations or joint partnerships of corporations/FG. So what oil wells is your foolish governor talking about?

This is the kind of ignorance which enables your 'leaders' to continue to screw you up.

BTW, Omoigui is a revisionist who has been running his mouth with unsubstantiated 'facts' as his customary way of selling books after Babangida stopped providing financial support to him. His credibility on these matters are questionable, at best.[/quote]You are beginning to create ominous doubts in me about you. The plank of argument you presented on the alleged Francis Fajuiyi’s heroic standard during his arrest in government house, Ibadan left me to wonder if you really passed through Zaria.

Have you heard about revenue allocation formula in Nigeria before now? The governor is spot on with the issues of crude oil well because it could go a long way to modify certain nomenclatural nonsense in Nigeria.

@POST

I concur with every bit of concerns and factual facts the author of the article had raised. I had known that Ginikana is part of LE MONDE, an outfit owned by Okorocha, which inherited ITC. 

There is no doubt I have to disagree with the author when he expressed the idea that Imo citizens are intelligent and enlightened. They are not intelligent and enlightened as far as Okorocha is concerned. I often ask myself is Ohakim so bad a governor that Imo citizens can not see the joker in Okorocha.

naijaking1:
Never knew Ondo folks benefitted from Justice Nasir's post civil war largesse of oil wells

Come on, pal. Obasanjo, Yoruba and both northern region political and military elites made sure Yoruba land was relevant when crude oil is discussed in Nigeria immediately after the civil war. The 1976 boundary adjustment program instigated by Obasanjo’s regime and executed by Mallam or Alhaji Nasir was both punitive and compensatory measures. I can never forgive Nigeria and certain people that inhabit it. It is good to notice the shells of propaganda have begun to fall off some peoples’ eyes.

Pa Omoigui had hinted to this issue in one of the interviews the octogenarian gave to certain newspaper.

igbaodun:
Everyone but the lazy Ibos.

What a moronic imbe.ciles such as you forgot to understand is Ndigbo do not have lazy ones. You could have been correct if you were intended to write “Everyone is ready for the useless SNC but Igbo”. Any conference without serious agenda on the disintegration of the cesspit called Nigeria is a bloody waste of time.

danielarem:
Here lies a traitor to his country Nigeria

a rebel leader and a coward to the core

At the height of the Biafran rebel war

he dressed like a tramp

boarded a cargo plane

and in the middle of the night

abandoned his ragtag Biafran rebel army

and his Igbo kinsmen to their fate

ran to far away Ivory Coast

to escape capture

by the brave Nigerian soldiers

His story goes like this

First he tried his trade in his father's failed transport business

but did not find way

then he went offshore

to search for academic laurels

in a prestigious colonial university

and just managed to pass out

He joined the Nigerian Army

for his Igbo kinsmen to dominate Nigeria

or dismember Nigeria

he did not succeed

he only succeeded in dismembering a phantom dream

the Biafran state

He now sought for fame

in Bianca's beauty and wrapper

still no way other than the fanciful

The Biafran sun that rises with him

is the Biafran sun that now sets with him

In his last hour his kinsmen cry

that the Nigerian military he sought to desecrate in his life time

and not Biafran Army

to bury his dead body
with full military honour

what an irony and absurdity

though living an inglorious life

now seeking a glorious exit

Nevertheless may Almighty

grant him perfect peace

and forgive his transgressions

leading to the loss of many Nigerian souls

children and women

traders and farmers

young men and old men

north to south and east to west

including my late uncle

who was killed by an Igboman

while he was trying to assist a 60 year old Igbo man

to cross a stream near Orlu

a town in Igbo land
Adiew Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

May his soul rest in peace

You are probably one of the most knuckleheaded empty barrels Nigeria has ever produced. I do not blame you but the UPE (Universal Free Primary Education) in Nigeria. It is plain ridiculous to have someone in a classroom who is destined to be an attendant of wheelbarrow.

The simplest thing this hemp rocker could do is to understand the meaning of English words he or she tends to string together in a sentence. For this marooned lapper to remotely think Ojukwu was a traitor and coward explains the miserable life this junkie had lived on earth.

A person who has cocoyam peasant farmers for parents still has the audacity to discern who had glorious or inglorious life. I bet this punkarse never saw a Rolls-Royce in his or her entire inglorious life talk less of riding in one. If you uncle was killed by an Igboman, your uncle must be a saboteur.

Do I need to look for further explanation as the reason for this trash you posted here? The act of sabotage runs deep in your family and thanks to anonymity provided by Internet else you and your entire family would have become bull’s-eye.
What a sloppy jackass.

@POST

One of the tenants of democracy is equality. There are 6 political zones in the cesspit called Nigeria. Each of these political zones has certain number of states and the states constitute the denominator through which economic grants are channeled.

It is very undemocratic if some zones have 7 states while others have 5. It is either Nigeria bumps zones with 5 states to 7 or reduces zones with 7 states to 5. No country runs democracy on the principles of inequality and injustice.

hercules07:
@Nchara

Kolanut, Cocoa and other things only sold by Yoruba people, SW people only go outside of their region to buy what those people have in abundance, going to buy goods imported via Lagos does not make sense, first of all, one of your brothers would have offered it to them right there in Ibadan and will just charge a premium as he is saving them from travelling to aba (afterall his container can pass through Ibadan and cut off at ife towards Ore and Eastwards, also, other yorubas would have bought it from your people in Lagos thereby acting as middle men, the traders have come to buy what is local to you guys and have a market for it shikena.

This is the mindset I had alluded in my previous post. You would be surprise the volume of goods that are not imported through port at Lagos. Yaoundé, Cameroon, Calabar and Port Harcourt, Nigeria are seaport often and quietly used by Ndigbo.

The moment the natural deepwater seaport is completed in Akwa Ibom State or the construction of Opobo (Opu Obu) seaport, Lagos will see less than usual traffic volume of imported stuffs.

@OP

I do not care if a person travels to Mamfe or Idi-araba, network of roads should be upgraded and maintained. This is an exemplary outcome event when we do not cry and demand services from the government with one voice as Nigerians. A road in the east should be as good as the road in the west, north or south.

Nonetheless, the article reeks of Nigeria big time. It is not even Aba-Owerri road or Owerri-Onitsha but Aba-Onitcha road.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=878189.msg10258258#msg10258258 date=1330010341]There is nothing wrong with the historical fact in bold above. This fact has withstood the test of time and remains very valid. Revisionists will not be allowed to distort our history without challenge. The fact remains that Fajuyi's action was heroic and very commendable.

If you can provide us with evidence to dispute the said historical fact, lets hear it. I will not entertain wishes and revisionism on this matter.[/quote]You have sent a dose of a chill crap through my spine with this ill-informed post. Did you once say you passed through Zaria? Anybody who passed through the regiment of Boys Company must know that coup plotters do not give their targets the option to live or die.

It is rather silly to even insinuate that Francis Fajuiyi stood up resistance against coup plotters when the only persons armed among them during time of their arrest were Flt Lieutenant Andrew Nwankwo, Ironsi’s ADC, and group of soldiers with Danjuma. Again, Nwankwo was numerically outgunned and numbered.

At the moment when Ironsi and Fajuiyi were arrested, Fajuiyi has no gun or command of a soldier. Even Fajuiyi’s ADC, Lt Umar, was among the coup plotters. It was an idiocy of highest order the western regional government publication of 1967 had the audacity to spew such propaganda. What a shame. I know Yoruba are very classical in such childish prank but to reduce innuendos to this depth is criminal. 

[quote author=Dudu_Negro link=topic=308016.msg10266116#msg10266116 date=1330100674]. . . . you hear that, those interpreting Bali/Nzeogwu/Obj allegiance to cushion and soften the atrocity commited by that bastard. He killed a family with whom he ate from the same pot. Their children called him uncle! How worse can it get? Yet, you are all seating here, wooed by some semantics to fall in line with a silly propaganda. fvckng bvllshyyt!! [/quote]I suggest you shut your putrid mouth for the good of your miserable life. As usual, you have written like a person without a brain cell. Both Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun and Major Nzeogwu knew military has no place for petty sentiment, olodo.

[quote author=Okija_juju link=topic=878870.msg10266025#msg10266025 date=1330099882]I would suggest renaming "Whatever terminal" the flights from Cote de Ivorie uses in Murtala Mohammed international Airport lagos, ODIMEGWU TERMINAL _{(night flights only)}. . . .  [/quote]I would suggest renaming "Whatever terminal" the flights to Cote de Ivorie use in Murtala Mohammed international Airport lagos, ODIMEGWU TERMINAL (point of no return) (night flights only). . . .      

And shall be reserved for the likes of Okija_juju

@OP

If the all these allegations are remotely true, the moronic rogue should not be allowed a minute of sun shine until the entire money is recovered then he should be shot.

T8ksy: Yeah right! I guess he was defending his people when he invaded the mid-west region
and impose a mid-west ibo on them as their military administrator.

Just as he was defending his people when he sent his rag-tag soldiers into yorubaland

If I call you a ninny it should be an insult to dumbasses.   As usual, you have spoken like a person who had no rudimentary education about Nigeria before it was partitioned into states. For umpteenth time, mid-western region was part of Nigeria not Republic of Dahomey in 1967.

Onlytruth:
My brother Dede1

I always respect the opinions of some of you that are older than myself, and may have experienced the civil war. So, I take your opinions very seriously.
However, I am also a very talented strategic thinker. 

I believe that is it not possible to understand the positon of our non-Igbo neighbors, until one has fitted into their shoes in the lead up to the civil war.
Also, I believe it is a grave mistake to judge most of them by the circumstances of 1967, because a WHOLE LOT has happened between then and now.
Let me leave that for now and focus on more salient points.

Personally, I believe that Eastern Nigeria +Anioma is ONE. Take a close look at Nigeria's history, not just during the civil war, but BEFORE, AND YEARS after the civil war.
Each time I look at it, I marvel at how we (both Igbo and non-Igbo) Easterners fell so easily to cheap blackmail and divide and conquer tactics.
I look at PH and Calabar for instance, and conclude that there is no reason on earth why these two cities could not have rivalled or even surpassed Lagos in greatness today, had our past leaders been more strategic in thinking.

For me, one of the biggest mistake of the Biafran war effort was that it never seriously carried the non-Igbo along.
We were unlucky not to have such leaders, but then, who is perfect on this earth.
A perfect strategy would have been to allow the whole Biafran secession effort to be led by non-Igbo almost completely (win or lose), with us prividing the needed numbers when necesssary.
The North did it successfully  by foisting Gowon. Why couldn't we do the same?
Why is the North still one today, while our region was balkanized into SE and SS?
We have to start using our God given brains.
Extraordinary situation always calls for extraordinary strategies.

I would not mind a Dokubo or any seriously minded Ijaw or Ibibio leading MASSOB for instance. Igbo "smart folks" can be his advisers and guide in that effort.
The end result is the only thing that matters.

This is where I differ from some of my brothers.
I often say here that if someone like myself was in the Biafran war planning team, THERE IS NO WAY WE WOULD LOSE THAT WAR.
I'm serious.

So, I reject the idea that our neighbors cannot be an priceless asset to the emancipation effort.
On the contrary I even think that our dream will remain a dream if we fail to carry them along. 

Here I stand! 

I appreciate your concerns about the future of Ndigbo in conjunction with the level of understanding of our past. However, the history of northern, western and eastern region is much unparalleled. The Fulani and Kanuri are looked upon as the conquerors, for direction and leadership. If I am correct, the none major ethnic groups in the northern region had been known to have acted on the orders of Fulani and Kanuri who were regarded as the so-called overloads. Otherwise, how could a Tiv man joined the Fulani/Hausa/Kanuri to persecute a war against the very people whose sons partook in coup because of a reason, among others, that a Fulani gave orders to Lt Col James Pam, Tiv, to annihilate his people during Tiv riot of 1964.

If you have opportunity to look into the ministerial appointment of northern region in the 50s, an Igbo person made the list before any minority from north was remembered. The same scenario happened in western region of Nigeria where Oba of Benin was regarded as second class Oba. An Edo man had to cross carpet to be dashed the position of deputy speaker.
   
It was a different jig in eastern region where Ndigbo treated their neighbors as equals and siblings. Eastern region was once under the leadership of Ibibio and Efik when Prof Eyo Ita was head of the government and Obong of Calaber was the president of House of Chiefs. Ministerial positions were spreaded among the ethnic groups. Yet the ingrates who termed themselves as minorities will never pass up a chance to stick a dagger at the back of Igbo person.

I shall not play Zik or Ironsi in my future dealing with any part of Nigeria that is not Igbo except Ibibio, Annag, Ogoni and Okirika/Kalabari. I shall be brutal as a stiff.

If I am being allowed to decide the faith of Ndigbo in future, I shall always pursue the idea of Republic of Igbo land. In absence of such republic, I would not mind a nationality with Ibibio, Annang, Ogoni and Okirika person. The idea of Igbo and Niger Delta crap is none starter to me because there are absolutely nothing these jokers have that Ndigbo need. I hope the Efiks are enjoying the toilet paper treatment the Yoruba, Fulani, Hausa and Kanuri controlled federal government of Nigeria handed down to them in Bakassi.

noiseless:
Bros i disagree with you oo! on this one infact you know millions of us support her and ASARI DOKUBO,so bros you are on your own and you know you don't wanna delay our zion train. Whatever differences between the IJAWS and IGBOS however sad,you must agree with me that it was fabricated,planted and forced down people's throats by the usual suspects, the "OWNERS OF NIGERIA" and now people are seeing who the real enemy is,so pls this is time to show our mature nature. And 99.9% of us will choose the ijaws and other neighbours around us instead of those violent lots up north, we need our neighbours and they need us too to be in the same place or country with them afterall life can really be boring if it centres only around the families,so please we are one and have always been,even though the enemies forced their way in uninvited with their guns and threat of violence and starvation for over 40yrs the truth remains we both (IGBO,IJAW) and others have suffered alot in the hands of those who came between us, as all they ever cared for is only their own comfort and it is not gonna keep going forever. SO LET THE ZION TRAIN COME TAKE US HOME

My name is Dede nke Izizi and I do not endorse the message powerfully.  .  I am borrowing from my brother, “the Onlytruth”, in the whole world. 

I am not ready to repeat the blunders of 1914 amalgamation. I have not yet accepted the definition of “Niger Delta” as handed down to us by the so-called owners of Nigeria. Madam Briggs should come clean on this issue before I could give her my first ear.

There is no doubt she habors the element of denial of untrustworthiness linked to Nigeria/Biafra war.

@OP

Everything in the post is worthy of second glance except this fallacy – “The Danjuma-led coupists also killed Fajuyi who had attempted resisting the killing of Gen. Ironsi as his official guest”. This is a damnable fallacy created by western government publication of 1967. Please edit out the position from you post because it almost the article worthless

oduasolja: and then they would call us parasite.

10 percent of the national oil reserves are found in ondo onshore and offshore.

huge cocoa producer

huge bitumen deposits.

http://mci.ei.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/KPMG_OndoState-1%5B1%5D.pdf

You are a very funny and prodigal chap. Even a sex-starved junkie in Akure knows too well Ondo State does not have a marked point for future sand exploration talk less of crude oil. All the offshore wells belong to entire Nigerians baring none. It is very shameful to note that Ondo was the cradle of crude oil exploration in the Protectorates in 1948 yet nothing to show for it excerpt idiotic comments from a moronic lappers such as oduasolja.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=877893.msg10257693#msg10257693 date=1330005651]Is still Annkio Briggs still walking around as a free person, she should have been arrested and put in jail already.[/quote]You should be forced to wear a “shame on you” t-shirt for owning up to this irresponsible comment. I guess you understand what democracy is all about and mere statements or wishes do not constitute treason.

@Annkio.  The only thing I disagreed with Madam Briggs is wide reference to Niger Delta. I have no iota of intentions to assume the same nationality with certain peeps that walk in the so-called Niger Delta.