Pass11:
Ijaw people have started again maybe they need it hot hot

And hot they will receive including big head Tonye opening threads anyhow with his monikers.

Igboid:


https://www.nairaland.com/6612331/ijaw-nationalism-boro-biriye-biafra

True.
When in truth, crude oil has not even started yielding revenue for Eastern region at this period in history, and crude oil were already being explored at Igboland as well in Afam ukwu and Owaza!

Oloibiri which was not even an Ijaw community was the excuse he used to pick up arms forgetting that Afam was also producing oil.

Even with his educational exploits, dude didn't tell his fellow imported Ghanian Ijaws that Coal & Palm Oil run the Eastern region economy at that time. Yet he pushed his renegades to overrun Yenagoa province before Ironsi stopped him.

Igboid:


https://www.nairaland.com/6604357/betrayed-adaka-boro


Of course, Adaka Boro was an evil bird the North used to destabilize the Eastern region.

Even Adekunle knew how senseless he was hence his elimination before the war ended.

Honest Ijaws knew that Adaka Boro was evil. Deep Inside they know he was consumed by evil. I have heard them say in their groups in hushed tones that it was the gods that cursed Boro for killing so many of his own people.

You are right. History seems to label him a saint and freedom fighter. But most communities in present Rivers and Bayelsa where he carried out his brutal killings will disagree.

Boro used his lies that Igbos were marginalizing oil communities in the Niger-Delta to implement northern agenda in the eastern region. When late Sadauna said he'll drop the koran in the atlantic ocean, he was being metaphorical. He meant he had stooges in the persons of Boro and Biriye.

Eastlink:
I just got some sources.

Why didn't you tag me despite using my sources?

tutudesz:

Asari was IYC president and not INC

Mistake. I’ll make correction.

Eastlink:
The Section that talks about Isaac Boro

Now, it's obvious that NDC by Dappa Biriye and Isaac Boro’s Niger Delta revolution was sponsored by Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello.

Imagine, so Boro mourned the death of Balewa the calling him the “Protector of the Ijaws” after the coup and began his rebellion against Ironsi in retaliation to the killing of his northern allies.

Allies might be anyone. Don't forget that Ahmadu Bello had accused Awolowo and Zik of sponsoring the Tiv rebellion in the north. Any wonder why Balewa also sponsored the Mid-West Referendum in the west and the subsequent COR agitation in the east.

Because Balewa choose to sponsor Boro, does not negate the truth that Ijaws were fighting against perceive ill-treatment on them. Boro for me took his anger in the wrong manner. Biriye might be blamed for his political decisions but don't forget not all Ijaws sided with NDC, majority were with NCNC.

At least Asari Dokubo didn't follow Boro’s path and tried to make corrections to such parasitic northern alliance by siding with MASSOB during his tenure as the IYC leader in the early 2000’s. Asari questioned the rational of Boro who he said betrayed the Niger-Delta struggle by fighting in the ranks of the federal army.

Heroes & Villians: Ijaw Nationalist Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War

By: Kathryn Nwajiaku - Dahou

No book has narrated succinctly Ijaw nationalism from the time of Dappa Biriye’s NDC to the arms struggle of Issac Boro. British born Igbo scholar did justice to her book on the the history of Ijaw nationalism from the 1940’s to the time of IYC/MEND militant activities.

The research published in 2009 gives much insight to hidden angles never told before about the Niger-Delta agitation. Written in English, the book features sub-sections in French language for international grasp. It was written in collaboration with the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa, and it's one of the book those interested in knowing about the hidden vestiges of Ijaw struggle before and after the war.

For those interested in understanding more about Ijaw nationalism, Isaac Boro’s short-lived Niger-Delta republic, Igbo antagonism as well as Ijaw political-cum economic ideological leanings, this book is for you.

The Author is an ESRC Research Fellow Department of Politics & International Relations, Oxford University UK.

Below is the link for further reading.
https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.4314%2Fad.v34i1.57356

Summary of the book.

1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. Ijaw Identity Before the war — Political Awakenings
4. Ijaw and the Unravelling of the First Republic
5. Ijaw Responses to Coup, Counter-Coup and the War
6. Ijaw Elites and the Creation of Rivers State
7. Supporters of Curcumstance and Saboteurs
8. Concluding Remarks
9. Notes & References.