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MayorofLagos:
Why are Ibo leaders famous for fleeing pressure zone

Ojukwu fled twice, once to avoid confrontation with Murtala, then second when his Biafra collapsed.

Azikiwe fled and refused to come back until Ironsi had taken over government.

Mbadiwe fled and his whereabouts could not be ascertained after the July coup.

Now Kanu has fled and refused to come back and speak like a man.

Filthy Five Percenters!! Cowards!!!

OPCNAIRALAND:
Because he is acknowledging what we already know about ourselves. We love to be your trouble in Nigeria.

We shall continue to be your headache....if you dont likeit jump out of Nigeria!!

OPCNAIRALAND:
Inputs are welcome.

Mohammed Junaid said Buhari does not owe Igbo anything. I was expecting to hear a response but alas.....silence!!!

If it had bren a Yoruba that said Ibos will already be signing petition to UN complaining of hatred and marginalization.

Bloody 5th class citizens!!

Ezenwammadu:
Op go through this video and show us where kukuh said GEJ should not be probed


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUc27DlXuM0&feature=youtube_gdata_player


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF5gtft-Sc0&feature=youtube_gdata_player


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVn0AvfMYj4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Duru1:
If the alleged author of the above crap is a renowned history professor at Uniben, I pity the students that took a course from him. One of the reasons Nigeria is in sorry state points to goofy figures such Stanley Orobator. The bolded is the same crap espoused by Nowa Omogui and probably copied from his series. I can recall that when Nowa was tasked to name a brigade or even battalion of Biafran army that committed the alleged atrocities, the dumbass drew blank. Till date, Nowa Omogui has failed to come up with even a shoulder insignia worn by Biafran soldiers. The funny part of the saga is that these imbecilic dingbats turned quark historians were able to remember the dates, places like Boj-Boji, Agbor, Asaba, Ibuzor and even rubber plantation along Uromi-Agbor road yet could not remember any unit of Biafran army or sector commander. The Biafrans are not worried if certain basement fools from southern Nigeria chose to play slave to northerners but appreciate the fact if they leave Biafra out of public foolery.

Mayflyman:
where do you train

princdebola201:
Orobator was in Benin, the capital of the
Midwest, at the time of the Biafran invasion,
and describes himself as keenly aware of
developments during the period . He later
conducted research on the invasion and went
on to become a professor of
history, specializing in international relations.
The essay is "The Biafran

Crisis and the
Midwest".
Published in African Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 344
(Jul., 1987), pp. 367-383.
Published by: Oxford University Press on
behalf of The Royal African Society.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/
stable/722748 .
The entire essay on the Biafran misadventure
in the Midwest is moving in its analysis of what
the Biafrans lost through the invasion in
terms of goodwill as well as in creating a
situation that united the Midwest with the
Federal forces against Biafra in the
subsequent events that marked the turning
point of the war.
I will present Orobator's summation of the
cost of the invasion to Biafra in another mail .
I post below an extract from the essay.
The most relevant sections on Biafran war
crimes are highlighted:
"
The relationship between the two
sides deteriorated progressively and
the Biafran efforts to secure the
people's support failed.
The battle front reports were
equally unfavourable to the
Biafrans who then resorted to
extensive witch-hunting against
suspected saboteurs.
The Biafran forces, who were
relatively calm during the first one
month of the occupationperiod,
became progressively edgy,
tightening the various governmental
gadgets of societal control.
As the Biafran hostility developed to
crisis proportions, the dusk to dawn
curfew was further enforced, the
Vigilance and Security Councils
given additional powers, and the
Biafran Army and Militia became
more ruthless in their dealings with
the civilians.
The civilian collaborators doubled
their spying activities to callous
dimensions. [45]
The situation drifted for the worse.
Taking the MidWestern refusal to
support the secessionist movement
as a demonstration of an anti-Ibo
and pro-Hausa stance, the Biafrans
intensified their search for
suspected saboteurs as every set-
back on the battle front was
invariably blamed on sabotage.
Heavier reprisals followed.
At Abudu, over 300 bodies,
including those of children, were
found in the Ossiomo river as the
Biafrans withdrew. [46]
Similarly, on 20 September 1967,
'there was a mass killing of non-
Ibo MidWesterners at Boji-Boji
Agbor', and on 23 September,
'non-Ibo speaking MidWesterners
were apprehended by rebel
soldiers at Asaba, Ibusa and
Agbor and taken [in two lorries]
to a rubber plantation along
Uromi-Agbor road and
massacred'.[47]
The more minor cases of rape,
extortion, seizure of properties,
and other punishments featured
abundantly.

For instance, a Warri-based
lawyer, E. K. Iseru, testified at the
Tribunal that he was stripped
naked and detained for three days
without food for agitating for the
Rivers State, and, when he
complained of hunger, he was
promptly told: 'there is no food
for Hausa friends'. [48]
45. Author's personal file. Also see
Press Release No. MW 215 of
1/2/68, p. 5.

46. This disclosure was made at
the Tribunal[ Rebel Activities
Tribunal of Inquiry (Ministry of
Information, Benin City)] by Chief
D. N. Oronsaye, formerly Principal
of the Provincial Teacher Training
College, Abudu. See also Press
Release No. MW 157 24/1 /68, p. 4.
47. Press Release No. MW 410
23/2/68, pp. 6-7.
48. Press Release No. MW 157 of
24/1/68, pp. 2-3.
Saturday, 27 October 2012 22: 30 "
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patwilly:
Exactly! I was amazed that with all the military knowledge he touted, he could get this all wrong. Absolute muppetry I tell ya..

Francis5:
I will send these images to non- Nigerians to gauge their opinion. I do not want to be biased because I may be too naïve not to know that people need to praise themselves, by themselves, and for themselves.

POLITICAL CAMPAIGN AND ELECTION ARE OVER, OBIANO

Abagworo:
It is obvious and needs no further explanation. I believe envy is the major reason. There is a fear of the next Igbo President being from Imo State and the need to do everything possible to stop it. It is quite shameful. They have done all they could to downplay Okorocha's unmatchable track records but reality stares them in the face. They found able partners in gullible Mbaise people I must admit but greater population of Igbos know the truth. All the fake news about Imo State is from them and many Imo people just keep shut. I am not the type that sees evil and keep quiet.

patwilly:
@bidexii I think this is a deliberate misrepresentation of facts. you got that from wikipedia maybe- dumb site. one has to be careful with the information we post on public forums because I fear a generation one day, will wake up and recount history as it NEVER happened!! What I'm saying is, O. Obasanjo was nowhere near the Nsukka front (1st division AOR) as at 1967. He entered the war quite late in 1969 and even then was handed the command of the 3rd marine commando division ( Adekunle's division) whose area of responsibility stretched across the Atlantic theatre from calabar to port Harcourt, bonny and all those areas.

hakeem4:
Shortly before the 1983 presidential election, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo fielded questions from a panel of journalists at a town hall meeting in Abeokuta.

egift:
Be you Militant, Terrorist, Kidnapper, Armed Robber, Corrupt Politician, Separatist or a Drug Trafficker - the message is simple, change your ways OR you will be dealt with. We want a united and prosperous Nigeria where the law of the land is respected.

lygn19:
One Nigeria till I die...