shymexx:

Tie-breaker!!

I guess I'll have to vote for the both of them...

First ballot hall of shame!!

I'll propose you vote the liar.

afam4eva:
I don't know why some of you just lack common sense. I don';t think anyone has said Awolowo never reached out to the est and advised them not to go to war. That's not the point. Obviously, Ojukwu and the east defied the advise and went ahead to declare Biafra(now war). Now, we're talking about Awo's hand during the war and not before the war. Address that and stop moving goal post.

Foo.l listen to yourself. What about "Awo's hand during the war"? Awolowo was a Nigerian, he had no responsibility for Biafra and Biafrans from that point on.

ballabriggs:

That is a freaking lie. Awo had such an ambition. Before and after the first coup, there was a "we against them mentality" in the country. It was not and never limited to the Yoruba people alone. The North had that mentality and same with the east.

It was a mentality of hate built by selfish politicians including Awo. You cannot exonerate him from those events. So some of you here coming to accuse the man of being a bigot without an understanding of the environment at the time are absolutely daft.

We know the role everyone played in the 2nd republic, Awolowo however went to jail and there and then was where his role ended. What role did Achebe and his likes played? Was he a peace maker? Wasn't Achebe the one on Radio Biafra fueling the fire? Yes Achebe was and is still a bigot.

ballabriggs:

Am I Ibo? Do I agree entirely with Achebe? No.

But I read with an open mind that is the difference. Just because he mentioned Awo is not a reason for you idi0ts to disrespect him.

He did not just mentioned Awolowo's name. He explicitly accused him of genocide.

ballabriggs:

That I don't know, I can't say what is in Awo's mind. Achebe had his view and that is his view. But for some of you ignorant idi0ts to jump up and poor insults on a man who has paid his dues is absolutely stupid.

I see. Its ok for Achebe to pour unwarranted accusations on Awolowo, who tried all he could to prevent the war but if we respond to Achebe's nonsense we are the bad guys

ballabriggs:

That is the problem with most of you. You do not sound like someone who has read the book. You just hear Awo's name being mentioned and you spring up. Did Achebe ever state that Awo never made such visits?

Go and read the book and read it properly with an open mind before typing your trash here. Achebe may have gotten some things wrong but one thing you cannot deny is the fact that Awo had an ambition and he went about it playing the tribal card. It is not different from what we see in today's politics.

Do you believe Awolowo deliberately tried to kill Igbos so he could become president?

Sad. RIP

Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. Shameful calling this expressway

Ifeanyi Uba, the controversial owner of Capital Oil and Gas, now regarded as the largest beneficiary of the multi-billion fuel subsidy scam, led a small band of company staff to rip the nation of several billions of naira through falsification and forgery, a police report into the scheme says.

The Special Fraud Unit-authored report, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, affirms in part, earlier accusations of large scale fraud brought against Capital Oil and its management by the Presidential Committee on Verification and Reconciliation of Fuel Subsidy Payments.

But the report also provides new details about a scheme that blossomed for years, involving several oil importing companies that made similar receipts, while draining the nation of hundreds of billions naira in 2011.

The presidential panel identified 25 companies that allegedly, through multiple fraudulent ploys, received payments for fuel products they never delivered.

But the panel’s composition- with Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Managing Director of Access Bank, the scheme’s major financier, as chairman- drew criticisms with many citing a potential conflict of interest in the committee’s work.

The panel listed Capital Oil and Gas as the number one amongst the fraudulent firms, sparking months of wide-ranging controversies between Mr. Uba and the committee.

Mr. Uba has accused Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede of bias, claiming Capital Oil was “witch-hunted” over a failed business pact it undertook with Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede.

The case remains in court, and at Mr. Uba’s behest, the House of Representatives Petitions committee is also reviewing the allegations.
The police report

The 23-page report by the Police Special Fraud Unit, dated November 5, 2012, said Capital oil received N43.291 billion for a supposed importation of 538.74 million liters of fuel, through fabrication and forgery of documents.

Vital import and clearance documents including Import duty certifications, Bill of Lading, Letters of Credit/form Ms and others were faked with the connivance of officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Administration, NIMASA, bank officials and other port clearing agents, police said.
The PPPRA was singled out for scathing criticisms.

The report said besides implementing terribly lax regulations, officials of PPRA, whose board is chaired by Ahmadu Ali, the former chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, colluded to forge papers to clear Capital Oil.

An earlier investigation by the House of Representatives into the subsidy fraud recommended Mr. Ali’s removal and prosecution. Mr. Ali has retained his post despite the indictments being passed to the executive.

The key actors in the Capital Oil scheme were Mr. Ubah; the company’s Executive Director for Operations, Orji Joseph; the General Manager Operations, Chibuzor Ogbuokiri; the Depot Manager, Godfrey Okorie; and the Head of Training, Nsikan Usoro.

The police report said all the accused persons and officials from all the named government agencies were questioned.

Those interrogated were asked questions related to sourcing of documents, canal channel depths/width and storage capacity of their tank farms, retail outlets invoices and trucking activities from the tank farms.

The SFU however said investigations were continuing, and efforts were being invested to establish criminal liabilities against the officials of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, and others who conspired in fabricating documents.

“We have requested certified copies of all letters of credit, bills of lading covering PMS cargoes brought by Capital Oil and Gas,” the report said. “All these documents are needed to consolidate our proof of evidence. Investigation is ongoing to unravel all criminal infractions in the transactions, the report emphasized.”

The documents will enable case of conspiracy to commit felony, money laundering, forgery, stealing, obtaining by false pretence and economic sabotage to be filed against Capital Oil and Gas, Mr. Uba and the rest, the police said.


The Access bank connection

The report also indicted the bankers of Capital oil, saying they were complicit in the deals.

“These cloudy transactions of Capital Oil and Gas Limited was anchored on credit facilities provided by the bankers, which make the banks party to the transactions as original copies of the bills of lading were kept by banks as consignees of the cargoes, also proceeds of this fraudulent act were domiciled in banks,” the reports adds.

The report confirms earlier PREMIUM TIMES stories of how bank officials allowed their banks to be used to illegally receive billions of subsidy funds.
Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede’s ACCESS Bank financed a large chunk of the subsidy imports including those of Capital oil.
With more than a month since the completion of the document, it is not clear to what extent the police final investigation has reached.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/how-ifeanyi-uba-capital-oil-access-bank-fraudulently-cornered-billions-petrol-subsidy-fund

ACM10:
I don't want to go into back-and-forth debate with you guys on the topic of starvation policy. Awo himself admitted to it in his interview, but u choose to ignore that part. You can use any warped logic which suits you to support you argument. No nation has enough food to sustain them in a war. So telling me that Biafra should have stored enough food to sustain them in the war is ludicrous. You may go through our earlier debate with Katsumoto on the starvation policy. I don't like mindless repetition.

Well we just have to agree to disagree.

ACM10:
Did Ojukwu ask Nigeria to feed Biafra? Hope you can distinguish between deliberate starvation policy and appeal for food aid?

Biafra was landlocked. A general should know how untenable this is. If you're blaming Awolowo for starvation because of the blockade, then you're basically saying Nigeria was responsible for feeding Biafra.

The "deliberate starvation policy" is from your own imagination.

ACM10:
Awolowo himself admitted to have masterminded the starvation policy in his 1983 interview. . . It is too late to put a spin on that.

"Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort.
No spin here. Just the fact.

The Nigerian government blockaded Biafra from importing weapons. Awolowo masterminded no starvation policy. Awolowo was not a Biafran. He was not the leader of Biafra. He was not the Biafran minister of agriculture. He was not responsible for Biafrans in any way shape or form. Biafra was supposedly a sovereign country with supposedly big minds who supposedly knew what it take to establish a sovereign and viable nation. If the blockade was causing starvation it should have been obvious to these great minds, Achebe included that maybe, just maybe Biafra was a pipe dream and should have led the people back to the safety of the Nigerian federation. What did the Biafran leaders do instead? They decided on a stalemate and watched as people they were supposed to be leading to freedom starved to death. Wrong choice.

That is the truth. You know it.

Dede1:


I am not surprised the above came from your skewed stream of thought. Who is he in your useless response?

Who is the big elephant in the room? Are you even following this thread?

Dumping PDP is already yielding result after just one year.

So na begging dem dey do now? I thought ibos own everything.

ACM10:
Refer to this thread on our debate with Katsumoto on starvation policy masterminded by Awo
https://www.nairaland.com/1112476/chinua-achebe-82-remember-differently/16

Awolowo masterminded no starvation policy. There was a blockade decided by the Nigerian government to curb Biafrans access to weapons. Biafrans welfare was firmly in the hands of the Biafran leaders. Igbos who remained in the federal territory were neither threatened nor starved nor killed. If the blockade was causing starvation in Biafra what did the Biafran leaders do?

Dede1:


In your damnable wild imagination, you did not think it is oddity to put someone who enjoyed freedom of expression into your idiotic Nairaland’s hall of shame? Probably, your psychotic skull have not heard people are free to express opinions freely.

First you all claimed he was speaking the truth, now it was his opinion? Which is it?

He should tell them next time they meet to chop money at the state council

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Dede1:

Yoruba are bent on messing with people in the cesspit called Nigeria. They tend to point filthy fingers at other people. Sometimes, they seemed delusional and fall for everything and it shows. In one instance, they are for a fellow descending from sky and in another they are for another drunk ascending to the sky. Yet in another instance, Yoruba are for another addict heading to Mecca.

Sorry to break it to you but Yorubas are not a monolith. People are free to believe whatever they want. Its called freedom of religion. Heard it before? Now how is this relevant to Achebe and his ongoing possible induction into the Nairaland Hall of Shame again?

ACM10:

I challenge you to point to a single lie in his memoir if u've actually read it.

That Awolowo committed genocide on ibos so he could rule Nigeria.

”It is my impression that Awolowo was driven by an overriding ambition for power, for himself and for his Yoruba people. There is, on the surface at least, nothing wrong with those aspirations.

“However, Awolowo saw the dominant Igbos at the time as the obstacles to that goal, and when the opportunity arose–the Nigeria-Biafra war–his ambition drove him into a frenzy to go to every length to achieve his dreams. In the Biafran case it meant hatching up a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation — eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

Senseless

Dede1:

I knew it will get to a point where European\Roman religious myth will be equated to Igbo religious myth. You started off by revealing my frustration over Yoruba creational myth to none Igbo. Suddenly, you find a way to join Igbo to Roman’s religious myth.

Weren't you posing ibo rationality against Yorubas' "conjectural crap" in your earlier posts?

Soon other states will copy copy. Here we dey.

Tusky44: ^^^

Oh so you mean you agree your tribal marked gays and ngbatis are proud of it? What a useless amala you are. Come on get out of here b4 i damage you irrecoverably.

No I don't agree with tribal markings now. Their time have passed. But you've got to agree the Yoruba markings are better done than that ibo ichi marks.

ugly ibo ichi mark

Tusky44:

The reason is simply because this site is run and controlled by the dirty brigade of ofenman*s with their tribal marked face and very bad body odour. Achebe is a hero and it will continue to pepper the bunch of oloshi black pigs in the SW

At least Yoruba tribal markings are well done unlike the ugly ibo ichi scratch face

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petrov 10: oya lemee see ur face..show me those pussy cat whiskers of urz oya lemee see ur face..show me those pussy cat whiskers of urz

ugly ibo scratch face marking ichi


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gratiaeo:
A person of his caliber that ll swallow truth and die? Or do you think that Achebe him self cares about people like you with low IQ before writing his memoir? The man is an icon which you ll never be even in your dream

He also doesn't care about Nigeria either. What kind of icon tries to destroy his own country? Now he is a persona non grata every where in Nigeria. A literary icon heading to a Hall of Shame. Pity.

Small dem go say Aba is industrialized. LOL. Patch patch roads.

eze ndi-igbo1:
Foools.
The man came and pack dollars to america,and you expect him to say anything less?
Even the people that sponsored the show are not yorobbers.

Eko o ni baje.

You all go hear wen.

gratiaeo:
Fake news? Guy this is war and war is for men not for woman like you female yoruba man

Id.iot it is fake. The link is fake. No such news.

Meanwhile more people continue to vote for Achebe into the Hall of Shame.

Aigbofa:

I assume you are a catholic. Don't you believe another fellow that died and rose up after three days and then ascended to the sky?

Talk of being rational!

Don't mind the i.diot.

The monkey should forfeit all benefits.

Dede1:

You are a renowned ill-informed and frustrated toddler who had been meant to believe that Oduduwa fell from the sky, olodo.

I understand why you're frustrated by this Yoruba creation myth, since ibos have no deep ancient history to speak of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth