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DerideGull: Bros please relax. Achuzie was never a soldier before the war. As Ben correctly stated, Achuzie can not be in every battle front at the same time. It gives reason to ask want unit of Biafran army did Achuzie commanded.

DerideGull: Bros please relax. Achuzie was never a soldier before the war. As Ben correctly stated, Achuzie can not be in every battle front at the same time. It gives reason to ask want unit of Biafran army did Achuzie commanded.

fluteman: Lol...

You are actually the slowpoke with very limited brain matter (probably less than that of a fish), if you cannot understand that they were formally in the same prison but moved to separate prison after the imbroglio. Why are you acting so dumb.....gosh

Katsumoto: Some folks are so ignorant and foolish in thoughts; don't mind the chap. He is dead and buried and he is still trying to wriggle out.

1. When people are arrested and imprisoned. Is there a law that states that they can't be moved to other prisons? How can Ademoyega lie about fighting Ifeajuna let alone that he was in the same prison with Ifeajuna? Even more so, when he mentioned a witness to the fight. Ademoyega can lie about winning the fight but he can't lie about having a fight.

'The 18th battalion took Warri without incident. Major Chukwuka released Major Adewale Ademoyega from Warri prison before making his radio broadcast to the people of the Delta (9). Discerning listeners knew that Chukwuka was one of the January 1966 coup plotters in Lagos who had killed Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, a son of Warri, Federal Minister for Finance and arguably the Midwest's most influential politician at that time. Ademoyega had been transferred to Warri from Uyo prison after a fistfight with Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna over the ultimate failure of their coup in Lagos.'

http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm

Another source from Max Siollun's book

http://books.google.ca/books?id=S1s9EqmAN1IC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=ademoyega+ifeajuna+prison&source=bl&ots=kC3YQs_s3I&sig=0QJsMl9ydKdp6NUsw4453NKXZR4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=emeGUsH-K-X4yQGsh4HoAw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=ademoyega%20ifeajuna%20prison&f=false

2. Only the most dishonest fellows would include Kpera amongst plotters when Kpera, along with others such as the murdered Oyegoke, were misled by Nzeogwu. The Special Branch Report also states that the junior officers were threatened with death if they didn't cooperate. And one dullard here is arguing that there was representation from all sides in the coup. There are 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria. One group produced 23 out of 27 plotters and these plotters killed others outside of their group. Those are the facts.

Another Dawodu.com

give us an independent source that collaborates the prison fight, is it too much to ask?
show us any other account that states categorically that Ademoyega was conned into the coup plot?

stop quoting Dawodu.com for me please, i ve read what he is writing he is quoting the book "why we struck"

tell us why the then regional heads who tried all of them could not absolve his complicity rather jail him? do you think you can just lie and i will believe it, bros, think again.

I am waiting.

BTW you have changed mouth that he was transferred because i told you he was in Enugu prison, now transfer don enter your mouth, it wont take long before that story will change.

Ifeajuna was in UYO while ADE was in Enugu, abeg na spiritual fight?

fluteman: jp Philips, you are not making sense. First you alleged that they never met, but when Kats gave references from Ademoyega himself and from an acknowledged site, you changed directions again.

I know your type. It will be fruitless engaging in intellectual discussions with someone like you who are not intelligent and wise enough to accept when they have been punctured, full of hot air and very little substance .......no honor at all.

I will advise Kats not to waste his precious time with you

This matter later brought a serious argument between myself and Ifeajuna when we were both detained together at the Uyo Prison. That was in early April 1966, a few weeks after he had been repatriated to Nigeria. This argument became so serious that both of us exchanged blows and it was Dr Mbanugo, then a political detainee in the same prison, who separated us.

Katsumoto: 2. Stop flogging a dead horse. No one is stating that Ademoyega wasn't part of the coup. What they are saying is that the inclusion of Ademoyega doesn't make it a non-Igbo coup. 23 out of 27 for Igbo is a significant majority. You say they made a list of who should be killed/arrested and that each commander should use his discretion about whether to kill or arrest. Well, we know that Igbo commanders made a decision to kill and arrest non-Igbos and that the same Igbo commanders did not kill or arrest Igbos except for Unegbe. As for your comments about the prison account see below for excerpts of pages 142 to 143 of Ademoyega's book. Instead of you to pick up books to broaden your knowledge, you come on here and make an a.s.s of yourself.

"The next most important cause of our failure was the behaviour of Ifeajuna himself. Having seen that Ironsi had got loose and was already raising troops against us, Ifeajuna took Okafor with him and both of them suddenly disappeared from our midst. This raises the serious question of whether or not there was a common collusion between the two of them, and whether Okafor's failure to arrest the GOC was not a case of deliberate or willful omission. To my mind and to be quite honest, Ifeajuna should have been angry with Okafor the same way that I was angry with him. Then, if Ifeajuna had been faithful to me like I was to him, he should have stuck to me and both of us together would have planned the next line of action. This ought to be the natural course of things because Ifeajuna and I had worked together alone on this Lagos sector project for the previous three months, and more or less to the exclusion of the other majors who were brought in individually as the need for them arose. Why the sudden change of front? This matter later brought a serious argument between myself and Ifeajuna when we were both detained together at the Uyo Prison. That was in early April 1966, a few weeks after he had been repatriated to Nigeria. This argument became so serious that both of us exchanged blows and it was Dr Mbanugo, then a political detainee in the same prison, who separated us.

3. There is a word 'katsumoto' in Igbo? Now we are making things up like little kids. Your comparison of Kpera to Walbe is daft and moronic. Period. Kpera was part of a group that weren't arrested with their leaders in January while Walbe was part of a group of killers in July. The july group succeeded in their task. Katsina was not in Aburi to discuss Kpera and he was at liberty to respond or not respond. We know Kpera was sold a dummy by Nzeogwu and Kpera was not arrested. So only in your deluded mind would Kpera be a coup plotter.

1. They could all see through Ojukwu's attempt at making the coup one Nigeria. They weren't at Aburi to decide the guilt of Kpera or anyone else. It was Ojukwu who was worried by a guilty conscience. As far as the Northerners were concerned, they had corrected a wrong, from their perspective, and didn't need to correct Ojukwu's tomfoolery. When real men are dicussing, they don't focus on irrelevant things.

2. Ademoyega was involved in the coup. A Brazilian playing for the Spanish national team doesn't make the Spanish team a Brazil-Spain team. Ademoyega was sold a dummy and that was why Ademoyega and Ifeajuna fought physically when they saw each other in prison after the coup failed. Ifeajuna had a list of those who were to be killed. This list included Mbadiwe, Wachuku, Okpara, Osadebey, Mbu. But lo and behold, Ademoyega realized that he was conned as none of those people was arrested let alone killed. The plotters were overwhelmingly Igbo and the victims were almost exclusively non-Igbo. They would have been forgiven for being almost exclusively Igbo if the victims included prominent Igbos as well. And then after the coup was over, Orizu refused to swear in the NPC candidate to replace Balewa saying he needed to consult with Zik first. After the consultation, he handed over to Ironsi, who was also Igbo.

3. Comparing Walbe and Kpera is really daft. Walbe was a part of a coup plot that succeeded. Not one of those who took part in the July coup was tried. Why would Walbe be singled out? Arresting Walbe would mean arresting everyone else - Mohammed, Adamu, Danjuma, etc. Who would arrest them? Kpera on the other hand followed instructions of his senior officer. The coup failed and his senior officer was arrested. Kpera wasn't the only one freed in any case.

try69: The things you find interesting and in line with what jesus taught are labelled demonic by protestants..what does that suggest to you? Confusion? pull-down-attempts at the church of christ as predicted by christ?

For the ones you still term "insults", continue your quests in prayer and open mindedness to how they are taught.

The church of christ does not err in what she teaches..God bless you

debetmx: Like I said in my earlier post, the Special Police Branch report and Kpera's interview Katz referenced Kpera would have been killed if he declined taking part in the putsch.

ojukwu knew about the coup but he did not take part in the coup. Read Ademoyega's book "Why We Struck" and ojukwu's book "Because I Am Involved"

Katsumoto: And what part of that piece illustrates that the participants at Aburi agreed that Kpera was a part of the coup? Ojukwu was being sly in mentioning Kpera in the same breath as Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu. It is the same stupid and dishonest approach that you are taking right now. There were 27 officers in the coup plot and approximately 23 of them were Igbo. All the junior offiers like Adeleke were PROMISED death if they didn't go along.

If they believed Kpera was part of the plot, then he would have been tried.

May be, just may be you are smarter than all the people in that conference who raised no objection when ojukwu set the record straight of Kpera's involvement, in your words he was being "sly"

was Ademoyega's participation at gun point too? or is Ademoyega an Ibo man too? i know you must have read his own confession from his book "why we struck", being the slave to books i presume.

lastly, talking about Kpera's Amnesty, what about Gowon’s ADC Lt William Walbe, who tied Aguiyi ironsi to a range rover and equally shot captain Andrew nwankwo (though unsuccessfully) , did he face any court martial in Gowon's Govt?
if no, so why should you be expecting Kpera to be tried?

Katsumoto: Stop lying

The decent thing to do would be to provide evidence that the participants agreed that Kpera was part of the coup. Did they go to Ghana to discuss whether Kpera, a second lieutenant, was part of the coup? Please do the needful and provide proof quick and stop referring us to imaginary parts of the transcript.

Ojukwu now explained and reasoned that against the falsehood been spread but in January 1966, soldiers from every region of the federation (Nzeogwu: Mid-West, Ifeajuna-East, Ademoyega: West, Kpera: North) had staged a coup in which soldiers and politicians from every region of the federation (Akintola: West, Balewa: North, Unegbe: East, Okotie-Eboh: Mid-West) were also killed.
Whereas when northern soldiers staged a revenge coup in July, soldiers from one region of the federation only (North: Danjuma, Murtala, Martin Adamu etc) singled out soldiers from one region in the federation as their targets. Katsina took this opportunity to remind Ojukwu of the effort he had put in to prevent the murder of Igbos. Katsina told Ojukwu that "If you know how much …we have tried to console the people to stop all these movements and mass killings, you will give me and others a medal tonight."

debetmx: Kpera was only informed about the coup on the morning of the coup and if he had declined taking part in the coup he would have been killed. You remember what happened when Nzeogwu went to Hassan Katsina's house after killing the Sardauna. You also remember the fate of Sgt. Oyeleke who had stalled when they were bombing the gate to the residence of Sir Ahmadu Bello.

People on the Federal Side agreed with every proposal put forward at Aburi by ojukwu just to reconcile with him. Even if ojukwu had said their fathers were mad they would have concurred with him. That was why Gowon hastily signed what he did not fully understand.

You failed to respond to my question about Ademoyega understanding ibo.

debetmx: Who are or were the enemies of the cantankerous coward?

95% of soldiers who took part in the January 15, 1966 coup were ibo or ibo speaking.

What was the rank of Kpera as at January 15, 1966 and was he among the planners of the coup?

Did Ademoyega understand ibo language?

Ojukwu now explained and reasoned that against the falsehood been spread but in January 1966, soldiers from every region of the federation (Nzeogwu: Mid-West, Ifeajuna-East, Ademoyega: West, Kpera: North) had staged a coup in which soldiers and politicians from every region of the federation (Akintola: West, Balewa: North, Unegbe: East, Okotie-Eboh: Mid-West) were also killed.
Whereas when northern soldiers staged a revenge coup in July, soldiers from one region of the federation only (North: Danjuma, Murtala, Martin Adamu etc) singled out soldiers from one region in the federation as their targets. Katsina took this opportunity to remind Ojukwu of the effort he had put in to prevent the murder of Igbos. Katsina told Ojukwu that "If you know how much …we have tried to console the people to stop all these movements and mass killings, you will give me and others a medal tonight."

adejoro75: .............Ben Gbulie

Still an Igbo coup?

nafiachi: On a very serious note, my opinion on this 1966 coup isn't if it was necessary or not, but WHY MURDER THIS GREAT LEADERS!!!
Is a bloodless coup a taboo in the Army then? So I don't blame us Northerners for seeing it as an Igbo Coup, no matter the type of explanations they give. May God Bless Our Country

kingoflag: According to him, the coup was planned, and supposed to be carried out, in 1961. In the same vein he says the coup was for Awolowo to be placed in power---less than a year after independence (Oct-Jan).... what am I missing here?

ballabriggs: That oil prices are rising, yet this criminal, incompetent, mentally lazy, cluless, docile and useless regime still has to dip its hands into the savings from earlier regimes instead of ploughing the revenue loop holes gives you enough reason to doubt these people's sanity.

An Abuja Federal High Court has been asked to disqualify the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the Anambra governorship election, Chief Willie Obiano.

The plaintiffs – Ugochukwu Ikegwuonu and Kenneth Moneke - asked for Obiano’s disqualification on the grounds that he possesses two voter cards, having allegedly engaged in double registration.

At a hearing in the matter on Thursday, Justice Ahmed Mohammed ordered the service of court processes on Obiano.

Justice Mohammed made the order after counsel to the plaintiffs, Ifeanyi Nrialike, moved an exparte motion.

The judge granted leave to the plaintiffs to serve the court processes on Obiano outside jurisdiction.

He also ordered the plaintiffs to paste the processes on the entrance or any other parts of Obiano’s residence at 1 Chief Willie Obiano Street, Aguleri Otuocha, Anambra State.

The other defendant in the suit is the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The plaintiffs claim that the voter card Obiano tendered before he was cleared to participate in the party’s screening exercise was not the same as the one he submitted to INEC.

The plaintiffs raised three questions for the court’s determination, and are also seeking five reliefs, including an order disqualifying Obiano from contesting the election.

They also seek an order of mandatory injunction compelling INEC to strike out Obiano’s name from its record as a candidate in the election.

The plaintiffs equally want the court to declare that Obiano is unqualified to contest the election on the grounds that he allegedly possesses more than one voter cards and for engaging in multiple registration.

They equally accused the APGA candidate of supplying false information to INEC.

They want the court to determine whether, by his alleged conduct, Obiano is still qualified to contest the election by virtue of the provisions of Sections 12(2), 16(2)(3) and 31(5) of the Electoral Act.

In a supporting affidavit, one of the plaintiffs, Ikegwuonu, averred that Obiano allegedly possesses two voter cards – the one he purportedly obtained in Lagos, which he tendered during his party’s screening exercise in August, and another one he claimed to have obtained in Otuocha, Anambra State, on September 3, 2013, which he allegedly presented to INEC.

According to the plaintiff, the Voter’s Identification Number on the first card is 90F5815E7D3738200332, while the second one is marked 90F5B12B01296204172.

He averred that Obiano’s claim to having a single voter card, as contained in the documents he submitted to INEC, was false.

Ikegwuonu also queried the date contained on the birth certificate which Obiano tendered and which was issued by Awka South Local Government Area, Anambra State.

Hearing in the case continues on December 18, 2013.

Also, the Federal High Court sitting in Awka on Thursday adjourned hearing in a suit filed to disqualify the APGA candidate till January 16, 2014.

The suit filed by an Onitsha-based lawyer, Mr. Jezie Ekejiuba, is seeking the disqualification of Obiano from contesting the election for apparently registering twice as a voter, an offence punishable by the Electoral Act.

The case was later adjourned till January 16, 2014, two months after November 16, governorship election for hearing of motion to produce documents, nomination form, affidavits sworn to by Obiano and his voter card for the election by REC and INEC.

THE Federal Government has withdrawn the sum of $1bn (N160bn) from the Excess Crude Account.

President Goodluck Jonathan gave the withdrawal approval to augment the shortfall in revenue to the federation account.

The Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, while briefing journalists on Thursday in Abuja on the outcome of this month’s Federation Account Allocation Committee meeting, confirmed the drop in revenue.

He said the N443.052bn received in the month of October fell short of the budgetary amount of N465.057bn.

The shortfall, it was learnt, led to the withdrawal of the $1bn from the ECA, thus bringing the new balance in the account to $3.59bn.

The amount in the account as of the beginning of this year was about $10bn.

The country had experienced persistent decline in oil revenue owing to oil theft and pipeline vandalism.

The government had said if crude oil theft continued, revenue loss could rise to $12bn.

Ngama said, “In the month of October 2013, the total mineral revenue that accrued to the federation account was N443.052bn.

“This is a little short of N465.057bn that is in the budget for the month of October 2013; hence, we have a negative variance of N22.005bn.”

However, Ngama, who is also the chairman of FAAC, said the revenue collected in October exceeded the amount collected in the previous month by N11.979bn.

For the non-oil mineral revenue, a total of N96.501bn was collected, which was also N62.21bn lower than the budgeted N158.711bn.

He said, “We have the total actual revenue collection of N539.553bn which is less than the N623.768bn that is in the budget by N84.215bn.

“The total funds available for distribution have been adjusted with transfers to excess crude.

“And this month, we transferred N80.651bn to excess crude, thus leaving N458.901bn after the cost of collection to Federal Inland Revenue Service of N2.097bn and the cost of collection to Nigeria Customs Service of N3.085bn.

“There is also a refund to NCS of N0.713bn. So, after these deductions, we had N453.006bn left for distribution to the three tiers of government, which was done as follows: Federal Government, N213.825bn ; all the states put together are going to share N108.455bn; then the local governments are going to share N83.614bn.”

The oil-producing states, he added, would get their 13 per cent derivation, amounting to N47.112bn.

The Chairman, States Finance Commissioners’ Forum, Mr. Timothy Odah of Ebonyi State, expressed appreciation to the President for the intervention.

He said, “We are grateful to Mr. President for his magnanimity in the approval of this $1bn. This is not revenue augmentation because we have stopped that since August of this year. What the President just did is to boost our take-home revenue following the dismal financial performance by the NNPC.

“This intervention will greatly boost our revenue bases and enable us to meet some of our obligations.”

Chomzy19: U mst be dating a masochist or u re a sadist or both or too much American masochist movies hv corrupted ur mind

nw lemme paint d real pic of hw it ends, u slap her n perhaps she faints or if she doesnt, u pour d hot food on her n she automatically begins to shout n roll uncontrollably on d floor n her skin begins to peel b4 ur very eyes, u either run away or u rush her to d hospital, or if d food is nt hot as u advocate, u fink she'll meekly stay on d floor n wait for u to lock d kitchen n bring a belt n come back, she'll run out screaming u must kill me today oo, or even go to d streets if na werey n bgin shout, if u do succeed in doing all d above, u bliv she'll leave u to kiss her, caress her carry her to d bathroom bla bla bla lol sorry ur story ends here, its only gonna b followd by months of malice n taunts as to hw u re a weak man who only has power wen it comes to his wife n ofcourse depending on d woman starvation of sex on medical grounds of course, as d doctor will pescribe she stays away frm such sexual activities to give her injuries time to heal... its nt a novel bro its real life n please do nt try d contents of those sadist novels at home, unless of course madam enjoys it

Chomzy19: u fink they are nt real because u blieve everyone is like u; truthfully i dunno d kinda circles u move in buh frm where I come 80% of men will simply walk away to cool off, ignore her for smtym perhaps b4 warning her sternly never to try such sh.t, or will simply restrain her b4 d slap ever gets to their face... So d comments abt playing calm are more real to me actually than d ones of tying her up n beating her; but heck dis na naija everybody hs gat d way they roll; if playing calm is nt ur style don't assume most pple dont play calm

ileobatojo: Spoken like a true sociopath.

chukwudi44: Oga mod so you cannot understand a simple bible passage? Did that passage forbid us from praying for one another? Do your pastors who pray for you violate this passage? T[b]he same way you and your pastors pray for one another is the same way Mary and other saints pray for us
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We do not pray in Mary's ,Peter's or anyother person name but all our prayers are directed to Jesus wo is the mediator.Mary ,the Apostles and other saints pray to Jesus for us same way your pastors pray to Jesus for you

naija noni: And later dem go say these boys bi 35yr olds.

obayaya: Lucky? they know they can't kill GUO.. kill him and you are as good as dead.. because his boys and drivers and the entire Onitsha traders will hunt you down.

GUO is the first President of OMATA and FYI, he's one of the most respected people in anambra state as many of the boys that served him has gone on to become wealthy Men Too.

pro01: GUO is a strong man in the darkest sense imaginable. Ruthless OMATA kingpin. His reputation precedes him, and he is well known across Anambra to be a hardened and stubborn character. Dem no dey chop the man money ooo. I imagine he offered N1b to taunt those nincompoops. After that ordeal, the man has taken extra measures to re-fortify himself.