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PoliticsRe: PDP Chairmanship: Wike Owes No Apology To South-west - Ogunlewe by ipodstinks: 12:51pm On Dec 16, 2017
DonVikings:
But Pigs, Idiots, Prøstitutes, Kidnappers, Developers, Flatinoes, Urine Drinkers, Baby Factory Operators, and Drug Couriers would surely agree with him. cheesy
Dont mind that cretin... Go to google and search cannibalism in Nigeria, then come back to tell me the race they will bring out.
PoliticsRe: PDP Chairmanship: Wike Owes No Apology To South-west - Ogunlewe by ipodstinks: 12:48pm On Dec 16, 2017
[s]
stephanie11:
@POLITICSNGR

Former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe has reacted to recent reports that the South-west was being mistreated by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP following the results of the party's national convention.

Ogunlewe believes that Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike who is alleged to have influenced the emergence of Secondus and accused of making derogatory statements about the South-west, should be left alone. He said that Wike owes no apology to the Yoruba nation. In his words;

"The election has been won and lost and Prince Uche Secondus has emerged the new party chairman. It is a welcome development. In any election, a winner and loser must emerge.

The most important thing is that we politicians must imbibe the spirit of sportsmanship. We should not see or view elections as a do-or-die affair.

Secondus has emerged the winner, my appeal is that everybody should rally round him in the interest of the party, PDP. People should stop crying over spilt milk – let’s forget about the acrimony during the build-up to the election. Now that Secondus has won, we should forget the past and be forward looking. We should all cooperate with Secondus and other members of the new PDP national exco.

Nobody should shed tears for Southwest. PDP Southwest PDP leaders deserved what they got. They were the architects of their own downfall.

What do you expect from a divided house? The Yoruba are too arrogant. We are too full of ourselves. We don’t have respect for leaders. Everybody believes that he is a leader in his own little corner, and it is this arrogance and attitude that cost the Yoruba the PDP national chairmanship position.

They should stop blaming Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike or PDP state governors for scheming the Yoruba out of the PDP national chairmanship race. It is Yorubas that schemed themselves out. Wike should not bother to offer apology to anybody."

https://politicsngr.com/2017/12/16/pdp-chairmanship-wike-owes-no-apology-south-west-ogunlewe/
cc: lalasticlala, mynd44
[/s]Trash, Wetin concern me with respect for robbers, I should respect those that eat my sweat. We don't care about pdp here. They should go to hell.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 12:37pm On Dec 16, 2017
Guestlander:
Or Josef Goebbels giving unbiased account of Nazi Germany.
Imagine, the man even said Benjamin adekunle committed genocide against unharmed igbos. Of which, Benjamin was in Lagos and no even on the war front. Adekunle only stepped in when the war enters ore. That man can lie ehn
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 11:17am On Dec 16, 2017
jomonic:
Prove to me that Kanu said what you posted or that there was a mob action on any stranger or any plans for mob action. You have no evidence. Even if there was we can put it on miscreants of which there is abundance of them in your fold. Your moral code permits and forgives miscreants in your society. The Igbo can never sit as a group and hatch a plan to kill another. But giving what heinous crimes you guys have done against us it is best you remove the putrid pool of mud in your eyes before you talk about the insignificant spec of dust in our eyes. We are not leaving anywhere. Nigeria is a place of equal opportunity for all Nigerians who are free to reside wherever they choose. We will stay in Nigeria and we will get justice no matter how long it takes. After the race we will count our miles. And please do not desecrate the name of the Most High. HIS JUSTICE might grind slowly but it grinds surely.
Are you not his follower, why will you know when he told you to attack Yoruba pastors because the truth is out. You are asking for evidence. Can you give me any evidence where Yoruba killed igbos in the western part of Nigeria, and I will give you evidence where you bombed casino where thousands of Yorubas are. Bla bla bla. Igbo cannot plane to kill other people, I think those we watched on YouTube are from Eritrea looking for Hausas to hack to death. No Yoruba man ever attacked you or kill you in the west, you can prove me wrong if there is any but with concrete evidence like the one we saw on YouTube. Keep deceiving yourself in the name of the most high, you think he's a biased God ba. He knows your tactics that is why he didn't answer you. Stop comparing yourselve to Israel, Israel never killed anyone other people's leader and mocked them too, they never ordered their citizens to attack others and never for once look for Egyptians to kill. They never do any victim cry, that is why God is on their side. You hate others but you are the first to cry if hatred. People are wiser. No one falls for that anymore. Mind that.
PhonesRe: Margaret Omobolawa Opeyemi Dies Of Phone Triggered Gas Explosion by ipodstinks: 9:38am On Dec 16, 2017
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 9:33am On Dec 16, 2017
jomonic:
There is no point in arguing with you. What i believe is that one day our bondage shall end. I am happy that much of the developed world knows about what is happening in Nigeria. To you rascals the status quo is forever, but you will be shocked as to how help will come to the Igbo from sources that understand the way of bullies and how to deal with them. Just one day.
Just negodu, what crab is this one saying? You shouted hatred. But we all watched you on YouTube looking for Hausas in the bus. Those hausas you were looking for, you want to play with them or show love to them with cutlasses in your hands ba. Kanu telling you to attack Yorubas when you see them is act of love and humanity ko. You want to eat your cake and have it. Same way you killed western n northern in the past, still mocking them that you killed their leaders like chicken that infuriated them and made them killed you in hundreds, only for you to come to Lagos that didn't have any attack on you to bomb the Yorubas inside casino. And you expect us to forget even though we didn't react cos of that. You are joking. You people planted seeds of hatred but want to harvest love, who does that. You want to sell a Sandy goods but not ready to collect a stony money. You must be a comedians. Abeg, who hold you down? If you are really ready to leave, all of you should leave west and go back home. Abeg carry your victim cry away from here. You think the world did not see your handwork. And you never wondered why God did not answer your prayers. Commot abeg.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 9:15am On Dec 16, 2017
Duru1:
I guess you are the butt of the jokes in this discourse. Alabi-Isama is the only sector commander who seemed to be in every sector during the war. I read from his crap how his troops captured Afipko and handed it over to the elements of 1st Div and withdrew to Calabar to plan the invasion of Port Harcourt. Anybody who was around knew that Calabar, Port Harcourt and Nsukka were the first major cities in Biafra to be captured by Nigerian troops.
This one must be at that war front. You really tried.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 10:38pm On Dec 15, 2017
russellino:
Abeg leave my mentions. I don gree. Alabi-Isama singlehandedly overpowered 2000 biafran soldiers grin grin
Childish taunt. I didn't remember inviting you to comment in the first place. Let agree what Achebe heard or was told. cheesy grin
PhonesRe: Margaret Omobolawa Opeyemi Dies Of Phone Triggered Gas Explosion by ipodstinks: 10:16pm On Dec 15, 2017
HtwoOw:
Gas cylinder ignited by phone?


It must be village people
Are you this ignorance? Why do you think receiving call on site is prohibited.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 9:55pm On Dec 15, 2017
jomonic:
You have said the fact. They simply want the Igbo decimated. But they will not succeed.
For saying the truth. Now tell me, what is anything hatred in what was posted here. Why are you people love playing victim? Happy no one is falling for that anymore. We are only discussing the past, but cos you people have no point, you decided to put emotion. Keep wallowing in ignorance.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 8:51pm On Dec 15, 2017
patrick89:
Take your rubbish inside red rusted zinc. Your history distortion is well known everywhere ..
Lol, OK, I will start believing what I was told. Achebe, Achebe. I was told, I heard. Very laughable grin
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 7:07pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
Because you really dont know how to respond abi grin grin
Respond you, so I should tell you what I was told also grin
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 6:54pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
You are creating strawmen, not really arguing.

The typical strawman argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of the opponents proposition with a different proposition
I am just laughing at you grin.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 6:50pm On Dec 15, 2017
russellino:
Is that all? I thought you would show pictures of alabi-isama singlehandedly defeating 200 biafran soldiers with his bare hands

Lies lies lies grin grin kontinu
You can continue to drink the I was told fallacy that chief revisionist Achebe gave you. grin
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op):
imhotep:
Just admit that you hate Chinua Achebe and be done with it.
Your arguments are rather weak.
Oh, hate cos I said he lied in his book. So if I love him, I should believe in what he said he was told?
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 6:16pm On Dec 15, 2017
T9ksy:
LOBATAN!!!

How can such a person who is also a world accalimed "Story teller" be expected to write the absolute truth about the biafran war without his bias rearing its ugly head? He can't as it is a natural human phenomenon ! However, our brothers swalliwed achebe's BS, hook, line and whole stinker even when most of his "story telling" account were from 2nd unveriable sources but are quick to debase Alabi's 1st hand account, as pure lies.



Hmmmmm i sincerely bow to ibo's logic 101 grin
I just weak for them. Achebe that always put in his book 'I was told'. Saying someone that was in the war front is lying but beloved in I was told someone.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 6:12pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
So you expect a world acclaimed Prof Achebe to "debate" with a korofo quota-system recruit known as Isama ? grin grin

Kai, Nigger Area.
World acclaimed that Swim in lies and deceit ko?
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 5:26pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
Olodo Isama is a pained foot soldier that has nothing tangible to say.
He should return to his cassava plantation before hunger takes him.
Is this the best weapon you have cheesy. Even your revisionist Achebe never mentioned the bombing of casino in Lagos by biafrans. He only shout what he was told. I shame for that man. Still wondering why he refused to come out when isama dared him to come out in 2012 so they can confront themselves.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 5:10pm On Dec 15, 2017
konoplyanka:
How I wish Alabi Isama could not by your whole generation including Achebe's.

Poor people like you think everyone else is poor.
What does he know. Can he stand his last kid. grin
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 5:09pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
And so you conclude that the account of Olodo Isama must be correct because he is from Nigger-Area grin grin grin
Isama was in the war front, he was never told. He is in the picture. Was Achebe that stired lies for you to drink ever been to the war front. He wrote bullshit story based on hearsay. I was told this, was told that. Chai. This is so laughable. Even as isama said his own, we here never believed him totally despite been at the war front. But you people. Make i close mouth as I dey shame for una cheesy
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 5:04pm On Dec 15, 2017
patrick89:
There is no prove to show those random pictures...
Why will there a prove. But if it was Achebe that posted the pictures, there would be enough prove cheesy grin. Even with the one having guest house having aba in the pics. No be ipob again, they will be saying fake but will never bring facts to destroy the fake post. Just negodu grin
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 5:00pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
fake pictures with fake captions.

Do not let the illiterate general deceive you grin grin
You think I am a fool like you that digested what Achebe told you. He's not even ashamed, he still said, 'I was told', ' we were told'. And the way he packaged the lies, one would think he was on the war front. grin cheesy
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 4:53pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
tell your dull@rd general to go back and complete his education
One thing I love about the guy is the pictures he used to killed the lies told by Achebe about an event he never participated in. grin
PoliticsRe: PDP Needs South-west To Succeed, Says Dickson by ipodstinks: 4:45pm On Dec 15, 2017
Amarabae:
Why all these wailing over the PDP chairmanship ?
You called PDP a dead party yet you are wailing and gnashing your teeth because you were defeated at the pdp chairmanship election..
You want to be chairman of a "dead party "
Their latest tactics is trying to blackmail pdp into giving them VP in 2019.
Jokers.
The likes of ike ekweremmadu and co will watch you take a VP that has been zoned to south east?
Lolz comedians.
Peter obi is PDP VP 2019.
If you want to vote pdp you vote, if you don't like, you leave.
SE/SS are PDP stronghold,all they need is to get 40% in the whole north and 30% in southwest.
That's all
What is this one saying? Do you think they are talking about bed warming here?
CrimeRe: Wife & Her 2 Sons Kill Her Husband In Anambra, Bury Him Under A Tree (Graphic) by ipodstinks: 4:38pm On Dec 15, 2017
[s]
nawtyme:
All those brown roof Republicans who would always be the first to shout "say no to tribalism" "must we attach tribe to everything" when their people are been roasted. I hope you can see how hypocritical you all are.
I was waiting for anyone of you to call your tribesmen to order and though not surprised it didn't happen throughout the first page.
The next thread I will see any of you asking others not to be tribalistic because they are roasting your tribesmen, I will be on a ban.

Useless hypocrites.
[/s]Trash, how many times have you called your tribesmen to order. Victim criers oshi. At the news. I dust my hand for these people.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 4:03pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
General Olodo Isama is an idle broke man that cannot pay house rent.
Ok, he's a broke man. But has been able to send his wards to schools abroad. How broke can pass that one. He debunk your lying Achebe in 2012 and challenged him to come out to confront him but your lying boss couldn't cos he won't be able to defend himself. He even lied about when PH was captured. cheesy grin

PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 3:55pm On Dec 15, 2017
imhotep:
So Alabi Isama helped to bring Igbos back to Lagos grin grin

Igbo amaka grin grin grin grin grin
The truth shall prevail no matter the lies Achebe put down on the war he never participated or he said himself he was told.

PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 3:46pm On Dec 15, 2017
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PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 3:42pm On Dec 15, 2017
russellino:
This is weapon grade bullshit and arrant nonsense. So at his age Alabi-Isama dey tell small pikin lie like this.

1.Which barricade is he talking about? Who set up the barricade on the Niger Bridge? After hearing for years that the midwest was supposedly "neutral" we are now hearing about barricade. So in that period of uncertainty and civil war we are supposed to believe a Hausa community was chilling across the river from onitsha. The silliest lie here is that after the imaginary Hausa community was attacked, the survivors ran across the bridge into Onitsha shocked Lies lies lies

So the Victor Banjo led Biafran force left the federal soldiers they had to face in a life or death battle and went STRAIGHT to kill some members of the Hausa community. Smh

2. So the man claims he single handedly fought and destroyed 20 men grin grin no need to continue

PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 3:41pm On Dec 15, 2017
C. But here is what happened.
Achebe’s book page 171
(1) Food was short, meat was very short, and drugs
were short.
(2) Thousands - no millions by then-had been
uprooted from their homes and brought into safer
areas; but where they really had no relatives, no
property, many of them lived in school buildings
and camps.
d. Here are my points.
(1) They ran from all over Nigeria to safety in their
homes
(2) The war got there, they were uprooted again
for safety.
(3) This time where they had no homes or relatives
(4) I think that somebody is warped and with low
IQ.
(5) It was all talk and no substance

e. Here is how Udenwa nicely put this in his book
pages 97 and 98.

....By the middle of July, 1968, I received a signal from
battalion headquarters asking all units to evacuate all
able-bodied, civilian,
young men to the battalion headquarters at Abua
Central.
.....This arose from the fact that wherever the
Nigerian troops entered, they recruited the local
people into their own forces and because they
were good swimmers, this made fighting in the
riverine areas very difficult for the Biafran troops.
In view of my good relationship with the local
people, I had difficulty passing this information to
them as I knew that they feared being refugees........
I had taken the step of first evacuating the soldiers
before informing the Dappa because I was not sure
what his reaction would be.
.....On hearing this, the Dappa broke down and all I could console him with was that our journey was
temporary and we would soon be back to
Otaba.........
My stay in Otaba was very memorable and my
leaving was very sad as I had developed a very
good relationship with the local population. I felt guilty
that I had disappointed a people who depended on
me for their safety........


8. A lot had been said in this book written by
Achebe. He is a titled Chief, he is a red capped
chief and He is an elder of his people and for all of
us in this country and across the seas. When elders
like him talk, we listen, but I say here that his story
here is inconsistent with the truth. Many words had
been used to describe Nigeria’s situation as at
today many years after the civil war. Unfortunately,
I am not sure if my dear elder feel the same way
as I do right now.

Many of the readers of this book never saw or
experienced the war. Those who saw it and were
really involved like myself are over 70 years old, I
was only 27 years old then; and on our way now to
meet our maker – many had gone.
Are we really telling the truth to the next generation
of what we did wrong?
Awolowo, according to Achebe wanted to stop
second hand clothing. Maybe Achebe was not there
in 1978 when this came up in Aba during Awolowo’s
campaign. He saw products of Aba textile mills
unsold; and he said that he will stop second hand
clothes being imported into the country to save the
textile mills and get our people employed. Do we
have Aba textile mill anymore today? And indeed
all textile mills in the country folded up today. Is
second hand clothing not flourishing today?
These unemployed youth did not cause this. All of us the elders did.
Read more about this in my book on how we killed
the Railways, the Shipping line, The Nigerian Airways,
The roads, the importation of Petrol, oil, and
lubricants.
Many pages of Achebes book, perhaps he did not
mean it that way, but had sown the seed of
discord between the progressive youth across the
country. In the book, Achebe wrote about the
following:-
a. Ibo marginalization
b. Ibos not fully integrated into Nigeria
There is no way to discuss these without sounding
tribalistic. My mother was from Kwara – the
backyard of the West or the front yard of the North
when it suites those concerned. So also was my
father from Kwale area which also is back yard of the West or the front yard of the East. I know that I
have been detribalized in such a way that I can
discuss Nigeria with the truth that the youth deserve
with no apology to anybody.
In my opinion, Achebe’s book is tribalized and
inconsistent with the truth. The Hausas did not deny
killing the Ibos, and as Gen Haruna said at Oputa
Panel in 2001, he has no apology for that. Bringing
the 3MCDO into it and Awolowo in a derogatory
way is evil and ungodly.
You will need to read my book where in 3MCDO,
we did the following:-
a. Fed Biafran POW
b. My troops fed once at 5pm daily in order
to have enough for the natives, and Biafran
POW too.
c. Captured Biafra POW were kitted and put
back into 3MCDO
d. In 3MCDO, I opened hospitals for women and children and international observers
went there to see.
e. We opened markets, schools and
particularly girps’ schools.
f. We opened Churches
g. From 1967 when Calabar and Bonny were
captured by 3MCDO, the Children took their
final year high school examinations.
* You will need to read my book to get the
full story.
Since independence in 1960, the Ibos had
always been in the ruling class.
- 1
st Republic – NPC / NCNC (Hausa / Ibo)
- 2
nd Republic - NPN / NPP (Hausa / Ibo)
- 3
rd Republic – PDP / PDP (Hausa / Ibo)
- 4
th Republic which is ongoing it is PDP
majority in the North, in the East and Delta
State, Again Hausa / Ibo. So who are we
talking about here that Achebe wrote
about?
-Banality
- Mediocrity
- Corruption
- Debauchery
- Tribalism
- Nepotism Etc.
- dismantling the system of excellence by the
ruling class. I agree with these but is it not the
Hausas and Ibos who had been ruling this country
since independence?
In Balewa cabinet of 1960, there were 12 Hausa led
NPC ministers and 11 Ibo led NCNC ministers. The
Army, the Police, the Navy, the Airforce were all
from the East.
In todays 4th Republic, Check and see which tribe is
marginalized.
Chief Achebe said a lot of many words that are
inconsistent with the truth. The paper here is
Revenue Allocation picked randomly for the month
of July 2011 where a total sum of 1.5 Trillion Naira was shared in the country that month of July 2011:-
- 19 Northern states got #247,149,093,285.89
(Less two not in the ruling party)
- 9 Eastern States got #211,006,269,125.12 (Less
two not in the ruling party)
- Delta State got # 45,135,728,733.04
Total for the ruling states #503,291,091,144.05
(Less four states)
- 5 Western states got (Not in the ruling party)
#67,341,311,583.80
- Lagos State got (Not in the ruling party)
#22,821,435,409.32
- Edo State got (Not in the ruling party)
#13,709,711,061.89
Total for states not in the ruling party...
#103,872,958,055.01.
From these, how were the Ibos marginalized?
Please read my book on pages 352, 353, 356, and
357 for more on these and many issues. Which
tribes are in Government today?
After the civil war, did the Ibos not rush back to the
same North that they called names. Then they were
killed again. It is so easy to kill the Ibo people
because they own the sales of attractive items of
cars, electronic items, building materials and others.
The Yoruba man in the North or East is a low-lifer.
The man drives a taxi, while the wife sold Amala. As
soon as there was unrest the wife puts the cooking
pot in the taxi and home they went.
I am sure that we all know the numbers of Ibos in
Western States and Lagos versus the numbers of
Yoruba in Eastern States. Lets get real. If the union
of Ibos and Hausas are not working since 1960 till date then change your direction. You cannot
repeat the same thing and get a different result.
We, the elders should read more of the Holy Bible
particularly Proverb 6 v 19. I am sure the Hausas
and the Yoruba can defend themselves which I
was told that they are doing particularly the
Yoruba on the pages of some National Newspapers
on this subject; since I have been away for a while.
I pay my tribute to the youth of today who did not
understand the problem caused by elders but had
to bear the brunt of it anyway. To these youth,
leaders and elders like Achebe, and Obasanjo and
many more like him narrated the untruth part of the
story, communities exaggerated situations to them,
some elders sowed the seed of disunity and
discord. Many of these youth at ages of between 5
and 15 years during the civil war, saw their parents brutally killed and buried in a dishonourable way.
They looked, saw and could not do anything about
it. Many cried their eyes out. They were unable to
help their parents. I still feel your pain. I was there, I
saw it all. They are living with it till today; because
they saw how their father, mother or loved ones
were brutally killed and they just stood there
looking and helpless. How can they forget? It is
unnecessary to remind them with tales that are not
true.
I am sure those of us over 70 years old know how
the Ibos came to live in the west and prospering
until today. I tell you, it was because of Awolowo
who in the Fifties and Sixties started “Free
Education and Compulsory” for all, life more
abundant and freedom for all, and the rest of it.
The progressives moved to the west and Lagos.
The minimum wage was 7½ shilling while the
Federal Government paid 5 shillings. I rest my case, I am tired. You will need to read my
book. It is about 500 pages and more with 25
maps, 10 documents and 500 pictures depicting
various situations and mood of the Nigeria Biafra
civil war.
PoliticsRe: Reply To Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country. By Alabi Isama. by ipodstinks(op): 3:10pm On Dec 15, 2017
6. I was the Chief of Staff of 3MCDO, during the
period of 1967 to May 1969. The plans, strategy and
the tactics applied were by me as directed by Col
Adekunle the General Officer Commanding the
Division. The rest of the story is contained in my
coming book. [b]Achebe is a story teller because on
many pages of his book, he said – “The story I
heard” on page 133, on page138 he wrote – “I yas
ropd” on page 150, he wrote– “We were told” while on
on page 157 he said cattle preceded troops
advance. [/b]Well, in 3MCDO we had not enough cattle
to do that. I am only concerned on the Atlantic
sector of the war. The other Sectors, if they wish
may defend their honour for posterity.
When Achebe spoke about bombing markets and
many more, he forgot the first bombing of the war
in Lagos in early 1967 when despite the fact that
the Ibos were killed in their hundred in the Northern
part of the country during the unrest at the time, it
was Yaba market and Casino, the most populated part of Lagos that the Biafran B-26 bomber came
to bomb at civilians. [/b]Nigeria had no planes to bomb
at that time and in any case, 3MCDO operation
area while at Calabar had no planes capable of
bombing beyond Uyo and Eket not even Ikot –
Ekpene or Opobo and beyond.
7) [b]Starvation in Biafra

Ojukwu called all the Ibos to return to the East for
safety and security. He also boasted that no force
in Black Africa would defeat Biafra.
a. Why then did you have to order the evacuation
of people from their towns and villages for another
safe area?
- Here is how Achebe put it in his book on page 169,
170 and 171 – “Life in Biafra”
(1) Refugees fleeing the Chaos and conflict
(2) Refugee camps dotted the landscape
(3)Many refugees were heading in whatever direction the other was headed; propelled by the
latest rumours of food and shelter.
(4) Refugees travelled by foot, by trucks cars
barefoot, with slippers, in wheel barrows and many
in worn out shoes.
(5) Many walked so long their soles were blistered
and bleeding.
(6) For the refugees, hunger and thirst grew, so did
despair, confusion and desperation.
b. Please let me write here that the Ibos suffered
but only from incompetent and inefficient
leadership. Leaders boasting without substance,
and the people believed.
It was like a soap bubble-beautiful but empty.
(1) The refugees abandoned their children which we
picked up anywhere and every where
(2) Those that suffered most were children from
ages of 3-5. They were too heavy to be carried by their parents and too young to walk the distance –
but to where. The aged, pregnant women and the
disabled suffered more.

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