₦airaland Forum

kpolli:
when wud these igbo ppl wake up?

lucy1:
Yes, i agree musiwa that Ikemba should be given full Presidential burial with 21 gun salute. Not sure of Gowan doning Biafra uni. We are all Nigerians at the end of the day and things happens dat should not have in the first place but we move on and make amends.

Some on this thread are poison like jason, bluetooth and namfav, the guy has no love wat so ever. He pass  hate for logic and screws it up everytime.

TRUTHTELA u are too much and make alot of sense. May God bless u, never stop telling true.

TRUTHTELA:
I cannot believe the IGNORANCE of people. How come young people refuse to see ask questions and see things objectively? OJUKWU is BAD. Ibos lost the war. Ibos are marginalized. IBOS are everything bad you can think of, Have you asked yourself who is the HERO in Nigeria & what are his legacies. Gowon has a bigger war going On at the back of his house. Has the civil war ended in Jos? Nigerian federation defeated Biafra in 1970, from that date till today? Where is the PEACE? where is the PROGRESS? All the people that saw EVIL during the civil war & said that it is GOOD. How did they end up? Ibos LOST the war, but Northern Nigeria remains the WRETCHED of the earth. SOUTHWEST did not lose any war, Obasanjo ruled for 8years, whatever lacks interms of development inn the SOUTHEAST, is in abundance in the SOUTHWEST. You speak ill of Ojukwu, this same Ojukwu asked a QUESTION in 1966, "Why Brig. Babafemi Ogundipe will not take charge of Nigeria. Ogundipe was Ironsi's deputy & going by military command,he was suppose to take over, but it did not happen & Ojukwu asked WHY

Show me who is a Nigerian, and I will show you who is a COWARD, POVERTY STRICKEN, UNDERDEVELOPED, LIVES IN DARKNESS, UNHAPPY, A TABOO IN THE EYES OF THE INT'L COMMUNITY and will FOREVER BE HELD HOSTAGE by the same forces that Ojukwu and Nzeogwu fought.

Ojukwu is THIS & THAT, but, how far have you, your family, tribe & the Nigeria country fared better after the civil war?? Tell me one LEGACY Obasanjo left for the yourbas or how much did he empower the yourba race? People that are suppose to BURY their head in SHAME, FEW HAUSA/FULANI enslaved you all. You all will continue to live in MISERY called Nigeria. Ojukwu has done his BIT

FYI, Ojukwu was born RICH, it is on RECORD & was never in WANT before he died. Obasanjo & his likes were born poor, and have been stealing piblic funds all their lives. If Obasanjo walk on the street, people will stone him.

Quote from: Uchek on Today at 12:58:55 AM
Jason123: It is not because of him that Nigeria is like this.

He never ruled Nigeria so he is not part of the political and military class that looted and pillaged Nigeria.

He never planted coup or usurped federal power or used access to Nigeria resources to enrich himself and his cronies like IBB, Abacha, Obasanjos, Dangumas, etc.

He did not fight against Nigeria. He fought against the issues which Nigeria is facing today. Example is the massacre and killing going on in Jos, Gowons hometown.

History - not our comments on Nairaland or dailies has rendered verdict on Ojukwu.

Ngodigha1:
Why Edo state. What has Edo state got to do with Yoruba language. Nothing.
What an insult to Edo state. Anyway, Edos will resist this idiotic move as usual.
Nonsense.

0lumide:
Let me hear one of you nutjobs talk trash again


If Awolowo hated Igbo people, there won't be any Igbo in Lagos or any other part of Yoruba land today.

He was a leader and a god of his people, he could have easily spread propaganda of hate against the Igbos in Yoruba land but what do we get? The Igbos spreading propaganda of hate against the same people that helped during and after the war,

Your leaders deceived you, your leaders looted your future, you leaders now pointed at a struggling people as your enemy

Ojukwu deceived you guys and he is no hero in my book. Same way Obasanjo is no hero in my book. Azikiwe didn't tell the truth before he died!!

How dare you feed the soldiers when your population is starving? ,  Nonsense.   They will all settle it among themselves in the after life.

By Edruezzi
To start I must note that I’m of Igbo descent, from Anambra State.
I think it’s really sad that Igbo people uncritically look at Ojukuw as their great hero. Let’s review his so-called antecedents.
1.   He singlehandedly maneuvered the Igbo and Nigeria into the war. Aburi gave him more than 90% of what he had wanted, and most of his advisers, including Hilary Njoku, the highest ranking Igbo officer at the time, advised him to accept it. Njoku was initially the commander of the Biafran army. He opposed secession. Ojukuw had him under house arrest until the end of the war for that opposition and for being of higher rank than him.
2.   Ojukwu started planning secession as early as in May 1967. The so-called authorization he got from the consultative assembly was a sham. The decision was already made and the assembly was a rubber stamping body. His argument was that if he could not be president of Nigeria then he would be president of something else. Proof of that is that a man who Nigeria should have tried for treason has run for Nigerian president three times. The fool even collected his pension from the Nigerian army.
3.   There was no genocide plot to wipe out the Igbo after all Igbos had fled from the North in late 1966. Genocide by the way is a difficult task to carry out. Either you build special facilities for it, as the Nazis did, or the two sides have to live in close contact with each other, as in Rwanda. The North had no Auschwitz death camps, and, as I noted, most Igbo had returned to the East and were safe.
4.   Biafra was probably the most underequipped nation to go to war in history. By the latter half of the 20th century the penalties for being the technologically backward side in a war had escalated astronomically. Ojukwu, against the advice of most people in the East with military training still went to war.  Asked about meeting the North again for talks only about three weeks before the start of the war he pompously told Awolowo that the only place he wanted to meet the North was on the battlefield. This was when Biafra had less than two hundred machineguns.
5.   He sent “civilian volunteers” out to meet the Nigerian army near Nsukka in July 1967 armed with only machetes. They were mown down and the survivors fled.
6.   Refused to allow donated food aid from abroad to Biafra overland across Nigerian territory, although Gowon gave a guarantee. His argument was that Nigeria would poison the food. Why poison food when it was clear that you were winning? The Red Cross offered to inspect the food and Ojukwu still declined.
7.   He ran Biafra as a dictatorship. Anyone who got too popular was demoted. Opposition was ruthlessly silenced. Ifeajuna wanted to negotiate with the Federals and got executed for what may have been a fictitious coup plot.
8.   Of course, famously, he ran away. Not many people know that he commandeered a plane meant for the evacuation of sick children to get out of the ruin he created.
9.   The war set the Igbo back by decades. Without Biafra an Igbo man would have been president long ago.
10.   Biafra was founded ostensibly to protect Igbos. Is the proper protection from riots and pogroms in the North exposing the Igbo to the full firepower of wartime while sending out kids to fight with sometimes three bullets each, while cold and hungry?
11.   Joined the NPN, the party of his alleged former Northern enemies, mainly to avoid Zik’s shadow. He had to beat Zik in the contest for Igbo leader.
12.   Igbo people, think.

alexleo:
So sad he has joined his colleagues Awolowo, Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello etc.  to spend eternity in hell after being a hero in this life. Too bad. No matter the achievement you make here on earth, once you miss heaven you have missed all and except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God. I love ojukwu as a person and as a hero but its a pity he is gone a lost soul. Except he repented before dying (which i doubt) but if he did, thank God (also any of his colleagues). If not, then he is doomed forever. All this rest in peace nonsense that we say here to the dead doesn't matter anything to God's judgement.

Relax101:
Mehn You are so scared. You be woman wrapper! Even women no fear dey u dey fear. It's very embarrassing.

Chyz*:
I dey laugh!


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Aigbofa:
Our warriors on Nairaland are most likely decked in their pyjamas camouflage and armed to the teeth with their keyboards and probably a wrap of joint. Nothing more.

ak47mann:
so this BRT are TATA make? Indian company

Onlytruth:
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My friend sharap dia!