₦airaland Forum

Odunayaw:
Acids?

I swear to God the Nigerian military used acid to dissolve the corpses of IPOB guys they killed in 2017 what was is more shocking is that some where bathed with acid while still alive. I worked for an NGO that documented all this and we even visited some of the victims at Nkpor, ABA area.
What we are seeing today is largely caused by their actions most of this boys are unemployed and Kanu has presented himself as a Messiah, leadership in the east is absent and nature abhors vacuum. People we met with grievous body injuries inflicted by the military were on their hospital bed still shouting Biafra or death, that was the time I knew we are in a very grave danger of entering into another ideology inflamed insurgency if not properly managed and with what I saw if those guys have something doing, many of them wouldn't have been radicalised to a point of no return.

iboboyswag:
As much as the happenings in the South East are regrettable, pinning the blame on the military is not only malicious but also suspect.

What do you say of the idiots who have chosen to set there own house on fire?

War and strife is sweet in Commando movies until starvation and unrest hits. Or do you think it is the military that would suffer?

As much as I support the agitation of Biafra, but my brother, not in the manner MNK has preached it (in fact to me he does not represent the soul of the great movement). And again, what is to say are the gains of Biafra that cannot be the gains of the South East in the current construct?

I have written a lot about this on my old Facebook account since the days of Soludo as CBN Governor and what we have obtainable then still is today. As a bloc, we the South Eastern have refused to ask the right question, subscribing rather to blame game, herd mentality and outright blackmail.

When one give a contrary perspective to government position automatically one is seen as a sympathiser of Kanu or IPOB. I have always condemned his utterances, neither have I supported his quest for Biafra am not even from the South east. What IPOB is today is because of the highhandedness of PMB and the military in the first place before they took up arms they were shot point blank, this same army used acids on many of them just for waving flags, we warned that this will only harden them, we should learn to offer political solutions rather than the military options to certain issues. Now they've taken up arms if you ask them they will say the army kills them without holding any arms that it is better for them to die fighting with weapons as they have nothing to lose. We are now stuck in a bubble, same way Bokoharam started and we refused to learn.

Rivers state gov't has declared curfew in all land borders in the state because of the recent development in the state, AkwaIbom is also heating up.
I remember making a post here that the crises in the south east can potentially spill over to some south South state but a certain troll jumped in to disgrace himself. The military keep opening new fronts all over the country unnecessarily when we are not capable of managing the one already created, we should keep on complicating issues till the country caves in.

EgusiShankly:
you guys tell too much lies..

Than playing the lies card why not come up with facts to counter me? I don't blame you, it's the swines that removed history from our curriculum I blame. Unfortunately, you people don't have the mental wherewithal to make research on your own

christopher123:
Very apt....you captured it


50% of Niger delta are igbo...Igbo are indigenous in all the Niger Delta from Akwa Ibom to Delta, From Rivers to Bayelsa, we all have igbo speaking Villages there


So when they parrot Niger Delta, I laugh at their stupidity...Niger Delta isnt a tribe

When you say 50% I don't agree maybe you're referring Rivers with huge Igboid speaking areas and delta north (Anioma areas).

DubaiLandLord:
Can you back this up with a source please? Thank you

Frank Opigo you can google him.
Infact rivers state polytechnic land is owned by an Ijaw man it was consfisticated by the federal government because he fought on the Biafran side. What many people don't know is that alot of Ijaw sons lost their properties to Ikwerres during the abandon property saga in Rivers.

Whyem15:
War will never benefit both sides, wars never happen as planned. The support of the people you have today may dissappear tomorrow and the war ESN is clamoring for will take several decades on their own land with their own people being the most casualties. The several tribes you are counting on might betray you when it all starts(exactly the way Ojukwu counted on Awolowo). In the end whether win or lose, the cost will be too great and that region will be set back by several decades.

Also the vast majority of Nigeria's gas reserve is offshore.

I agree with you war is never an option and will do no one good that is why some of the reasonable people amongst us is urging for a change of strategy only an idiot do the same thing and expect different result.

jpphilips:
You sincerely think an Ijaw man on his amnesty breakfast will allow an Igbo man much less a runaway goat from Afara-ukwu to destroy the pipelines? lol,
I want to make this clear, the next Biafra war will be between Igbos & Niger delta, that score must be settled in this lifetime.

Keep on fantasizing till reality hit you. You people just mouth Niger Delta as if it's a tribe, maybe you don't know that the same Igbos are also Indigenous to the Niger Delta. It was an indigene of Niger Delta that led the first coup now termed Igbo coup for convenience and culminating into the civil war. Even the so called Biafra was a coinage from an Ijaw chief. I hope you know the military are having confrontations in AkwaIbom and sooner or later Rivers state would join the fray, many of you especially those from outside the region don't know whats going on. Rivers and Abia have some of the most extremists elements of IPOB if you don't know. I won't even want to drag the matter of a Biafra republic with clowns like you because you people easily bring up this argument when serious issues are being discussed but if you think the Niger Delta region comprising of hundreds of ethnic groups would want to be a part of Nigeria and not be on their own assuming they don't even want biafra then the joke is on you.
You think a destabilised South east region wont harm the economy of the country? most especially when Imo state has a proven gas reserve of over 6 trillion cubic ft(A resources of the future) energy coys are tussling to build refineries & win mouthwatering gas deals this govt wants to lay pipes down to Morocco under the guise of AKK project. Those giants gas pipelines to the north you think they don't pass through the region & are buried in the air ? not to talk of the oil exploration in parts of Abia & Imo and the proven reserves in the Anambra trough.
All well and good let's watch how things pans out, you people will soon learn that the South east is a major gateway to the economic hub of the country whatever affects it with will spill over. For a government that negotiates with bandits, but don't want to see talking as an option for agitations. Everyone knew that IPOB guys picking up arms today is as a result of the high handedness of the military, by the time they win 100% sympathy of the populace it will be interesting to see how the army will overcome a group that will easily recruit 50k at a go to launch guerilla warfare against an already overstretched and Ill equipped military, that even have IPOB sympathisers within their Officer cadre.

JOSCOFELIX:
special force leaving eungu right now, 82 divion more solider esn don buy market. two combat helicopter to do God work. they went war they should be ready. south east be ready

To the hammer everything is a nail. Nigerians are very poor at learning from history, the army will only worsen things they proscribed and killed them when they were unarmed it didn't stop anything and you think a military intervention is the solution? Opening fronts all over the country when you have a full blown insurgency you can't seem to contain seem to be a genius approach. Let's see how far they will go with confrontations especially when they start attacking pipelines and the economic hub of the country.

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Kingtim:
swears.... I just got too o. Telling me my interview is tomorrow 9am.. I just came to nairaland to confirm because I was even skeptical about the mail.. I could recall I never applied for anything of such.

Did you attend? How did it go