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Ojukwu employed Col Victor Banjo and also set a trap for him..he accused him.of.mutiny and later killed him...through a firing squad

Nnnnmyamiri's hatred towards Yoruba people started even before the independence...

I blame Col Victor Banjo for admitting to supporting the Biafra struggle....and this is a lesson for all the Yoruba people supporting Obi Peter....you will be used and be killed after their mission has been achieved....an average Nnnnnmyamiri doesn't trust any non-Yiibo tribe person.....be wise......

Journalist Rufai of Arise TV is being used now. by the Nnnnmyamiri people and he is doing their bidding and supporting Obi Peter Blindly...he will be betrayed. after they have used him. to achieve their aim....

Also, Seun Oshewa should. learn from Col Victor Banjo's story....those Nnnnnmyamiri aground you so not. like you...they are just using your platform to. project their hatred and wicked comments......


Eni kuuure

https://guardian.ng/opinion/banjo-the-accidental-biafran/

The arrest and trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed IPOB, is going to dominate the news for many months to come. The trial promises to be a cause celebre, one of those rare cases in which politics, criminality and sensation are mixed with high drama. It is indeed a fitting irony that Kanu, despite his frenzied rhetoric, including referring to his country as a zoo, he was still sober enough to carry a Nigerian passport. We look forward to many more sting operations that would bring to justice leaders of Boko Haram terrorist group and other outlaw organisations.

Many of the young supporters of Kanu roaming the streets of Igboland, believe that they are campaigning for the rebirth of the ill-fated state of Biafra. They think that the last Biafra War has ended. It has not. The last Biafran War cannot and would not be truly concluded until the leaders of the Igbos decide to return the body of Colonel Victor Banjo to Yorubaland. Banjo was an accidental Biafran. He died for Biafra.

Banjo was executed on September 22, 1967 at the end of a secret trial ordered by Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Head of State of Biafra. He was 37. Banjo’s dark end was the sorry denouement of a brilliant career in the Nigerian Army. Those executed with him were Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Phillip Alale and Sam Agbam.

Banjo was at the centre of a web of events that climaxed in the Biafran invasion of then Mid-West State (formerly Mid-West Region and later known as Bendel State and now divided into Edo and Delta states). Ojukwu, the Head of State of the Republic of Biafra, had asked Banjo to lead the invasion as the commander of the Biafran 101st Division. The invasion ended badly and that may have been what earned Banjo his death sentence.

By 1966, Banjo was one of the few Yoruba officers in the Nigerian Army, which was then dominated by soldiers from the North and officers from the East. After the first coup of January 15, 1966, Major-General J.T.U Aguiyi-Ironsi, became Nigerian first military Head of State and the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He decided to work with younger officers of the rank of lieutenant colonels whom he appointed as military governors. That action might have been due to the fact that all the senior officers of Northern Nigerian origin have been killed in the first coup. The lone survivor was Lt Colonel Yakubu Gowon whom Ironsi quickly appointed the Chief of Army, a position that was vacated by Colonel Adeyinka Adebayo who had now gone on an overseas course.

All the surviving colonels and senior lieutenant colonels were retained in the Defence Headquarters in Lagos to work with Ironsi. Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe, the most senior officer, became Ironsi’s deputy. Colonel Shittu Alao moved to the fledgling air force. Banjo had earlier been appointed as the first Nigerian commander of the Engineering Corps of the Nigerian Army. That appointment was to be his passport to hell.

On January 17, 1966, two days after Ironsi came to power, Banjo was invited to State House Marina, ostensibly, to meet the new ruler. There he was seized by soldiers, led by Lt. Colonel George Kurobo and Major P.A Anwuna and detained at the Army Officers Mess. He had told his wife and children that he was going to work. He never returned.

For some days, he was kept in the comfortable environment of the Army Officers Mess. Then he was transferred to the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, Apapa. Banjo felt he had been unfairly treated and he petitioned Ironsi. Ironsi ignored him. Then on July 29, 1966, Ironsi was in Ibadan for a meeting with traditional rulers across the country. After the meeting, Ironsi retired to the Government House, where his host, Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, the young military Governor of the West, treated him to a lavish dinner. That night a group of coup makers, stormed the Government House and kidnapped both Ironsi and Fajuyi


For three days, Nigeria had no government. Then on August 1, 1966, Lt. Colonel Yakubu Jack Gowon, a lanky bachelor of 32, was announced as the new Head of State. Banjo was happy with the development. Gowon was his friend and old mate. He believed he would soon be out of prison. He was wrong. He petitioned Gowon for his freedom, but Gowon ignored him also. Instead, he was moved from Kirikiri Prison to a prison in Eastern Nigeria. When Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria as the independent Republic of Biafra, he ordered the release of Banjo and made him the General Officer Commanding a Biafran army division.

At the beginning of hostilities, the West and the Mid-West had tried to maintain some neutrality, not allowing troops to be deployed from their territory against Biafra. However, Ojukwu ordered a blitzkrieg against the Mid-West and within 24 hours almost the entire region was occupied. The invasion was led by Colonel Banjo.

The mission of Banjo however was beyond Mid-West. He was to lead the Biafran invasion of the West and Lagos and proclaim the independence of Western Nigeria from the Federation. The success of that invasion was to cause serious rift between Ojukwu and his old friend Banjo. Banjo objected seriously to the appointment of an Igbo man, Lt. Colonel Albert Okonkwo, as the Military Governor of the new Republic of Benin. Banjo felt a soldier of Mid-West origin should have been appointed. Ojukwu disagreed.


In his letter to Banjo, dated August 22, 1967, Ojukwu had made it clear that he intended to hold on to all the aces. Three points in the letter were especially disagreeable to Banjo:
1.You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator of the Mid-West territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West.
2.During the period of Biafran’s troops presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees, shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.
3. Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a military administrator for the territory.

Ojukwu promised that Banjo would be proclaimed the military governor of the new Republic of Western Nigeria. Banjo believed that such a governor should be a partner and not a subordinate to the Head of State of Biafra. Ojukwu disagreed. Of course, Banjo would not concur that Ojukwu should appoint a military administrator for Lagos. He regarded Lagos as part of the West.

The disagreement between the two men was protracted and ultimately costly. Ojukwu insisted on having his way and in the end Colonel Okonkwo was made the Head of State of the new Republic of Benin. The delay in Benin allowed Gowon to rally Federal troops and Colonel Murtala Muhammed led the Second Division to confront Biafran forces at Ore, Ondo State. They were joined by troops from the Ibadan Garrison Command (IGC), led by Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo. The Biafrans were routed and the new Republic of Benin was quickly buried.

It is time for Igbo leaders to identify where Banjo was buried and return his body for proper burial in the land of his ancestors. Despite the travails and tragedies that befell him, Banjo stood for principles that only heroes could have espoused in the face of serious personal peril. No true lover of freedom would agree to all those conditions that Ojukwu tried to impose on Banjo. Rather than the lion carrying the hunting bag of the tiger, let each hunter hunt alone.

DeadCountry:
Binis founded Lagos and Lagos is for the binis

Oyo people. founded Anambra state and Anambra state is for the Oyo people...

Ogene001:
How do they drive to their houses? No inner streets

Thank God none of the southwest lands has been disturbed by erosion...erosion is the major reason some of the billionaires refuse to invest in their nnnnmyamiri region.

But.all.these Senators and.Honourable member of the house of rep. Collected SUV from.Tinubu....


Ask.your representative if he or.she didn't.collect....

Nnmyamiri people will evade this story because...it has extricated Yoruba people....all they want to hear is the downfall. of Yoruba people and Tinubu.....I pity whoever is a Yoruba person who still has Nnnmyamiri people as friends...because some.of.them.you have as friends are the ones commenting hate-filled text on socioa. media....one day you'd be their victim of evil deeds. ..they may be laughing with you but inside them...they hate you with passion...

Seun Oshewa, protect yourself or be a victim...of Nnnnmyamiri revolution of hatred....to Lagosians and the entire Yoruba people

Nnnmyamiri sadist will soon rush this thread like hot indomie noodles....and by their comments, you will. know them....nothing good comes out from their comments but evil...
They will twist the comments and evil flows in their heart naturally.....

raumdeuter:
Bazooka

So as of 1960 some people were still running naked

I remember during the first republic...Pa Awolowo visited Nnnnmyamiri land and region with lots of clothes and he distributed these clothes to them.by helicopters... He saw the people living naked...going to their farms naked....so, ..because most of their roads are not. motorable.....all these bastards Nnnmyamiri people who think they are somebody who are really local and brutish and beast in the first republic.....are forming indispensable in Lagos state and yet they refuse to. leave....
Ask any British citizen to relocate to Nigeria...they will. refuse but these Nnnnnmyamiri people said their region is a small London and Africa Dubai and yet they refuse to. return back to their Dunai in Anambra state...as we are speaking....Peter Obi has his permanent residence in Lagos State...
I dare him to go back to Anambra state where he served as governor for 8 years....

Ekpa Simeon boys have turned all. of them to refugees in their country.....mad people

NOwazobia:
An Idiot trying to shame my grammar with even worse grammar.


The typical Tinubu supporter/Agbero.

You are really a brain-dead and fish-rotten brain personality.....Have you heard of the words " code-switching" and "code-mixing" in the English Language...?

Set awon omo ofo...oni kuure

agulion:
But local Yoruba Muslims fought Jonathan till finish

And local Nnnnmyamiri Christian is fighting Tinubu till.finish....

Eni kuure

Kalakulu:
Yaribanza monkeys and their incurable hollowness! with or without 20 💷 Igbos would still have recovered from the ashes of the war with remarkable resilience. These are the same people who re-built their ravaged cities and resources to what they are today from the very rubbles and ashes of war relics, you think say we be your mates? Onitsha market was razed to dust and yet rebuilt single-handedly by Igbos to one of Africa's biggest markets today with absolutely no Federal help, Yaribas fit run am? Yaribanzas didn't see the devastation of war yet majority of their urban cities look like throwbacks of dwellings for savages from the Kiriji war era, thank the British for giving you monkeys a face-lift with their colonial imprints in Lagos (which belongs to the Bini people sef).

I've always said that of circumstances were reversed and Yaribanzas were in the place of Igbos where they had to defend themselves against the might of the entire Nigeria + UK/Russia backing + facing starvation and genocide, Yaribas would have been extinct as a race today, and even if they survived the horrors of the war, they would have been reduced to a complete beggarly state today with no cities of their own. Infact no ethnic group in Nigeria today would have faced half of what Igbos faced in that war and come out unscathed today, dem never born that ethnic group yet.

and Thank God for the federal government's monthly allocation since 1970...on Nnnnmyamiri region.....the place could have been a dessert....even with the federal. government allocation....we still have lots of Nnnmyamiri refugees in Lagos state who would rather die in Lagos than go and develop their region...

All these accursed people from Nnnnnmyamiri region scattered across the globe with the majority of them carrying out all kinds of illicit trading activities...like a prostitute, Online fraudster business, Yahoo -yahoo plus...., the organ harvester, Baby factory, human trafficking selling hard drugs like cocaine, heroin, selling substandard and fake or spoilt products in the country, etc...

In their region...some think of ritual money, blood money, kidnapping, banditry, cannibalism, etc..

Sadwaste:
Amobi Kachi
@Kachi_Amobi
I AND MY IGBONESS

By Chetachukwu Wokoma (Ikwerre Son)

I and my Igboness is a reality that I can never regret to pursue. My Igboness is inherent and also runs in my veins.

As an Ikwerrian, I can not deny my Igboness no matter the pressure mounted on me. Those who, by nature, are Igbos with Igbo names, culture, language, and tradition, but stupidly deny their Igbo ancestry are glorified "fools."

If you are very desperate to question me, you must first off question your [Igbo] name. I work with superior arguments and not unnecessary arguments.

It is interesting to note that the foundation of Nigeria and her citizens are wickedly demostrating their persistent hatred of Igbos. Any Rivers man or woman bearing an Igbo name should consider his or her selves as "Igbo," not by mistake but by nature's design.

Go and check the history of how the Port Harcourt people came about nnnmyamiri names.......I'm sure you will weep bitterly....all.this Millennial and Genz are not good students of history....and it is upon this you keep sacrificing your lives on lies that anybody on social media feeds you...

I will advise you to go and do some. research on this.....it will give you a better perspective on things...

Ogene001:
Excuses for low achievers

Achievement of illicit trading. A great achievement indeed...Ekweremadu and his wife are currently serving jail terms in a UK prison...a good Nnnmyamiri Ambassador....who thrives in organ harvester businesses...

Baba.Awolowo. Impoverished the Nnnnmyamiri people and later gave them .20 pounds to start another life...

They were chanting "Nnnnnmyamiri"//many died...more than 3 million nnnnmyamiri chanters....die of starvation...

That is why an average nnnnmyamiri can never pray or wish any Awolowo family well.....and the reason they hate Yoruba people more than Aboki people.....

We will keep using our Yoruba wisdom.to deal with you and frustrate you...Tinubu is your tormentor for the next 8 years...and thereafter another Aboki again....

Validated:
Yyz, BINI people own Lagos sha, that is all that parcel of land deleanated and described as from Okokomaiko in the West to Epe in the East, and from Akpapa(va) near (Eko)-Oshodi and Mushin in the North to Akuwonjo/Oba-wole area in South.

Benin people own Lagos....state...but they still bring their money to buy land from.the real. landowner...and administrator....
I remember how I took one Benin title holder person to.Alagbon because he sold land that doesn't belong to.him.to.me.....the police dealt with him....

Nnamdi Azikiwe and Aguyi Ironsi are the cause of all the new Nigeria....if you think of any evil thing Nigeria has gone through from past generations till date. It is traceable to these two ignoble people...
We had regional government till Aguyi Ironsi came with his greedy attitude of an average Nnnnmyamiri..he came. with decree 34 to destroy the regional government.....because of Cocoa in the southwest and other farm products in the north.....
Erosion is the inheritance of Nnnmyamiri kingdom...nothing good grows in their land...but blood and sacrifices of evil things....

Azikiwe is the cause of civil war..he is the major instigator of Ojukwu....He died unsung till death...his grave in the eastern region is like a commoner grace.....nothing great about him to his death...

I pity South South if they allow these Nnnnmyamiri people to merge with them...

SouthEastFacts:
Bring 100 Igbos into Lagos for every single one the children of hate, jealousy, and perdition frustrate out of Lagos.

So, if 100 leaves, 10,000 will replace them until sophisticators get sense.

We are already working on it.

They will cry taya

😂😂😂

Keep sending your mentally challenged people from.Nnnmyamiri region to Lagos state...if your region is comfortable and conducive...you don't need to prove a point by sending them....I doubt if the German or UK government will ever think of sending any of its citizens to country like Nigeria because their country is better off....
But since your state is worst off....you need a comfortable place like Lagos state to whittle down the suffering some of your deluded people are going through in your region...
As we are speaking some of your nnnnmyamiri people are full-time Olosho in Lagos State....collecting 300 -500 naira for all-night sex in a brothel..some of your brothers are selling gala and soft drinks on the third mainland bridge...some of them are turned themselves to touts at Alaba, Ladipo, market looking for what to steal in the market.....
Keep sending them. coming...and keep disgracing your people in Lagos State...while.you can take the time.to develop your region so that people will come and pay tax to your government......and build your region.....

Ogene001:
Obiora Okonkwo is a well known Russian based businessmen.

...who deals with hard -drugs...and illicit trading....and online fraud.......

Above not mentioned....

God bless Nnnmyamiri people globally

The youth are not even interested..as long as they can see Maga online to swindle....most students in the Universities are full-time Yahoo boots..the ladies Olosho personified.....who are only proud of their Gucci bags and shoes...and how many followers they can gather on social media...

Wasted generation...I have not seen any wasted generation as this generation...who live on illusion and disillusioned lives.....

All these nnnmyamiri never-do-well people have started peddling lies on social media...



8 years of wailing and this is just the 6th month....the journey far....una go wail tire....and keep wailing till eternity

Tetrahedron:
You supported someone that doesn’t have a single source of prove-able income but is a billionaire and you are expecting him to turn Nigeria to El-dorado!
You are all delusional especially the urchins

You think say Tinubu is as wretched and a poor thinker as your father. you may be blinded to the truth and deaf to the reality but the truth and reality about Tinubu before he enters into politics and after serving as governor in Lagos state is seen....

Contact me privately if you need more tutoring about Tinubu investing and income...

NOwazobia:
I swear, you no fit correct my grammar.


Try it, let's see how smart you are.

He is boastful of this incoherent grammar. ..Secondary School English composition...lowlifer. .Shior!!!!

Bobloco:
you are applauding Seyi Tinubu for imposing a 48 year old as NANS president through the use thugs, hoodlums, bandits and describing it as being in the forefront of the struggle and would want Peter Obi and Atiku's children to emulate.

Honestly, you have lost it all. Shame on you

Do you know the history of NANS president past me. Oya, Show me. one person in his 20s-30s amongst the NANS past presidents...and show me any NANS exco election where the election was peaceful....shoe get size..
all these never-do-well people who just comment on the story they do not know....god go punish you...