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freshdude99:
At least I tried something! You wat have you done to remedy the situation?

doublewisdom:
Turn garri that wooden stick which can be converted to a weapon of discipline.

freshdude99:
Typical Nigeria mentality. How are you even sure George is alright as we speak or it's just the car that matters to you eh rock head? At least I tried calling two of his numbers I have, you rock head wat have you done to remedy the situation or you just here drinking Panadol on someone's headache. Mumu

Cjrane2:
Igala and Idoma people have closer cultural affinities to Efik and Igbo than to Fulani.

Calling Kogi and parts of Benue "North " is part of the misnomer called Nigeria where groups are used to furthet the interest of fulani people.

Statsocial:
Feel free to attend Babcock and CU. PG is top notch at both Universities

freshdude99:
You started ur yarn as if to say you are the employer/car owner but ended it like another scanty nlander. You don't speak for the employer sinx u not him. Dude I checked twitter and discovered that issue's gone viral, meaning the op might even not be the employer either. But this dude in question is someone I know too well. Circumstances might has changed, true! But this dude has got family and brothers here in Abuja that definitely knw his where about if actually he made away with the car which uptill now I doubt it. So just read my comment and pass like other nlanders and avoid spewing trash on my mention

kingzizzy:
Stop twisting what I said. I didnt say Mr Apkan was irrelevant, I said what he said in his book about the unarmed civilians is irrelevant.What knd of Army shoots unarmed people? There is no Army in the world trained or authorised to kill unarmed people, they are trained to kill armed combatant enemies. The rules of engagement prevent the Army from shooting unarmed people.

So it doesnt matter if it was Mickey Mouse or Ojukwu who sent the unarmed civilians against the Nigerian Army. If the unarmed civilians were killed, it is murder.

In civilised countries, any member of the armed forces who shoots or kills an unarmed person without good reason will face a tribunal and if found guilty, will face anything from a death sentence to years of jail time or dismissal.

So Akpan actually destroyed the reputation of the Nigerian Army, exposing them as terrorists from 50 years ago.

Funny thing is that the Nigerian Army is still denying killing unarmed civilians to this day.

I think the Nigerian Army should hold a press conference and let the world know that they support the killing of unarmed civilians, that way, the international community, IPOB and other civil liberty organisation can know what they are up against

ConcNiggress56:
heritage bank is the only bank without atm>> or have you ever seen an heritage bank atm before?

freshdude99:
Exactly! This guy is da realest of guys back in our school days, stays in garki and has parents who are civil servants. I really doubt this news. And the employer should have try other means of reaching the family instead of this going viral. Unemployment Na bastard honestly

nikkyharry:
We have d best moment together , best call conversation that he wouldn't wanna end , that is y it looks weird when he changes all of a sudden agaim

kentochi:
how do you mean sir?

kingzizzy:
Nigerians are funny people. It is only a Nigerian that will see red and call it orange.

There is a binding agreement that was signed sealed. You have not yet called out Gowon for not living up to his end of the deal, you are calling out Ojukwu for not accepting a reduced version of the deal? I laugh in Igbo

So if you sign a contract with a contractor to build you a house, the contractor later comes back to tell you that he can only build 80% of the house despite a signed agreement being in place, what happens?

You will accept a house built 80%?

Well thats what you expected Ojukwu to do

I wonder what you would have said if it was Ojukwu who said he could only implement 80% of his end of the Aburi deal? You would have been shouting and blaming Ojukwu for causing war by going back on a signed deal.

The simple truth of the matter is that the North wanted political and economic control of Nigeria and they were not about to let Aburi or anything stop them from from implementing 'divide and rule' that would give them what they want.

The only thing the North never counted on was that Igbos were not going to take it laying down.

Biafrawillcome:
Can u swear that you're not agonja

kingzizzy:
Dont change what I said. I said that the Nigerian Army "should" never shoot unarmed people.

It is irrelevant what My NU Akpan said in his book about Ojukwu sendig unarmed people to face the Nigerian Army.

Lets take the worst case scenario. Lets assume that indeed Ojukwu did send unarmed civilians to face the Nigerian Army. Did anyone tell you it is the job of the Army to shoot unarmed people? There is no National Army or Soldier that is mandated to shoot unarmed people, infact, they are not even allowed to shoot unarmed enemy soldiers. This is what separates the Army and a terrorist organisation. Terrorist organisations dont care who the kill, the Army should care.

So if indeed what Mr Apkan said is true, it only goes to show that the Nigerian Army commited murder and that the Biafrans were right to defend themselves from such an uncivilised Army.

It also goes to show the Nigerian Army and its long history of killing unarmed people, something they are not allowed to do.

Biafrawillcome:
Afonjas can't u use your life without the Igbo's oil?

Menendez:
Call now..

Cire80:
does it give you some forms of pleasure being a nuisance? Ain't you ashamed of being a clown?

scholes23:
Form all you've said, you haven't made sense

kingzizzy:
You are listening to too much Yoruba propaganda. If Ojukwu was not a man of peace, he would not have gone to Aburi in the first place.

But he went. An agreement was reach and signed. When they went back home, Gowon started deciding which percentage to give Ojukwu? What is that? How can someone sign an agreement then decide what percentage to implement? When you sign an agreement, you implement it 100% or dont sign at all!

If Gowon felt that Aburi should be renegotiated, he should have recovened another meeting with all parties to ammend the existing contract. But to sign an agreement and start deciding the percentage to implement was pure foolishness on the part of Gowon and an insult to Ojukwu.

If Ojukwu had accepted 80% like you said, what would have stopped Gowon coming back next week to say it is now 60%?

No matter what percentage Ojukwu accepted or didnt accept, the fact that Gowon was going to abolish the 4 Regions and creste 12 states anyway made peace impossible. That singular act by Gowon is what led to war.

When people say Ojukwu led his people in a war he could not win, I laugh. Ojukwu was in the best position to win the war. He had the man power and the Oil money. Had British Warships not blockaded Biafra preventing Ojukwu from selling Oil and importing arms, Ojukwu would have won. Britain won the war for Nigeria by blockading Biafra.

Ojukwu fought a war to liberate his people from Hausa-Fulani controlled Nigeria. He may not have succeded but the fact that he tried where all other gave up is why his people respect him. Nobody said freedom is cheap, it costs a lot of lives to achieve

kingzizzy:
In Madiebos book, he debunks all that. But lets assume it did happen.

The Nigerian Army should never shoot unarmed people. Anyone telling you that Soldiers are allowed to shoot unarmed people isnt telling you the truth. It is actually murder.

To this day, the Nigerian Army are still shooting unarmed IPOB anyway so nothing has changed.

kingzizzy:
This isnt about argument, this is about what the history books tell us. History cant be twisted because all of it has already happend.

Starting with the overthrow of Ironsi, there was a 6 months period where thousands of Easterners, men, wimen and Children were being massacred all over Nigeria particularly in the North. With the disappearance of Ironsi, Ojukwu supported that the next highest ranking officer of the time, Brigadier Ogundipe should take over. The Northerners refused and installed Gowon who was junior to Ojukwu as head of state. Over 50,000 Easterners were killed, millions fled back home. The people of Eastern Nigeria besieged Ojukwu to pull them out of Nigeria since they were no longer safe in that country. With tensions mounting, a meeting was arranged on neutral grounds in Aburi Ghana. After 2 days of negotiations, Ojukwu and gowon signed the documents. The agreement provided that Ojukwu would recognise Gowon as head of state and accept 'one Nigeria'. But in return, Gowon was not allowed to change or make any far reaching decision on the 4 Regional structure of Nigeria unless all 4 Regional Military Governors agreed.

Barely 5 months after this agreement was signed, Gowon broke this agreement by abolishing the 4 Regions and creating 12 states without informing anyone. This was the start of 'divide and rule' the Northerners have used to dominate Nigeria to this day

With the Aburi agreement broken and the Eastern Region abolished, Ojukwu had only two choices. Accept Northern domination or seek independence. Ojukwu chose the latter. There was nothing like negotiating secession, not with Nothern Nigeria.

If you must blame Ojukwu for causing the war by seceding, then you must first blame Gowon for breaking the Aburi agreement that forced Ojukwu to secede. You have to be fair to Ojukwu, he didnt get up one morning and declare Biafra for no reason. Ojukwu only started stockpiling weapons after he had declared Biafra. Ojukwu never declared war on anybody. Gowon felt it was his duty to keep Nigeria one and Ojukwu felt it was his duty to protect his people.

At the end of the day, Nigeria is still the illegal colonial creation of the white man. Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba never agreed to come together for 'one Nigeria'. We were all forced together against our will by the British. That unholy union is still what Igbos have been fighting to get out of to this day.

Why should an Igbo man be negotiating or asking for his freedom frim Nigeria if he never agreed to be part of Nigeria in the first place? Makes no sense.

Thats why IPOB are right in what they are doing, they are protesting their illegal inclusion into Nigeria by Lugard in 1914.


Any union kept together by the barrel of gun rather than the free will of the people is bound to end in disaster. That is the story of Nigeria so far.


By the way, if Igbos achieve Biafra and any.of the minorities which to secede tomorow, they are free to do so. Igbos have no historical record of holding anyone against their will like Nigeria has

allrightsir:
I'm not going to argue with you as your mind is made up and nothing anyone can say will make a difference. Nobody is arguing with a people's right to self determination but sometimes you have to accept when you made a bad strategic decision. if Gowon was just going to allow Biafra to leave without firing a shot, why bother with Aburi accord? Get real!!!!! if you want to blame someone, blame Ojukwu. There are 2 ways to seceede, by peacefully by negotiation of forcefully, Ojukwu chose the forceful route and your people paid for it, it was reckless of him. Please stop hiding behind this he fired 1st shot nonsense, why was he stockpiling weapons if he didn't expect a war?

Make up your mind, you are the same people that complained when Obasanjo peacefully ceded Bakassi to Cameroon but forget Cameroun spent years fighting peacefully for it through established legal channels, if they declared war on Nigeria or tried to annexxe it forcefully they would have lost and people will have died, because their army is no match for Nigeria's. There are ways to do things!!!!!

The reason why people sometimes find it difficult at times to sympathize with the East is the blame game, at least accept responsibility for your tactical errors!!!! The same mistakes you made in 1967 is the same mistakes you are making now with IPOB and the result will be the same, people will die and nothing will happen, you will still be in Nigeria. If you don't accept your mistakes, you will continue repeating them.

if you had declared Biafra and South South decided to secede, would you have just allowed them to just go? Stop all the hypocrisy!!!

kentochi:
it give you 50 hours only

IpobExposed:
.... A person cannot be a jamboree learn English before u quote me sorry

kollynxofodile:
God y did I even reply u at all, u can't even comprehend a simple thing.

Hmmmm 4u oooh.

Re u a daft or just intentionally being stupid?

If u can't understand a thing in all these my reply, pls I beg u in d name of God. Go back to high school.

Dis will be d last time I reply u.
Since u seems to be a piece of stone.

kingzizzy:
Ojukwu was a man of peace. Despite being senior to Gowon and great risk to his life, he went to Aburi to get peace. Gowon made peace impossible by breaking the agreement he signed in Ghana. By announcing the dissolution of the 4 Regions, Gowon destroyed the structural arrangement of Nigeria, forcing Ojukwu to secede. Ojukwu did all he could do for peace. The reality is that there were only two choices, 'accept domination or war'. Everybody except Ojukwu chose northern domination. As an Igbo man, Im proud of Ojukwu for not going down without a fight .

....Those were the words of the Governor to his strategic committee..."Nothing can frighten the professional soldiers more than the sight of civilian masses confronting them. They will kill them no doubt, but would soon be tired. I have brought down to Enugu, thousands of civilians from all over the republic. The aim is to throw them in waves against the enemy, who would thereby be confused and frightened by the prospect of mowing down thousands of civilians and incurring world condemnation."

So that was the aim of the Governor, I said to myself. He did not care; human lives did not matter as long as it suited his objectives. I shuddered and grieved inwardly. Some people were given the charge of deploying the masses of civilians now assembled in the field of Enugu university campus.... none of them had been told why they were brought to Enugu. It was not at all easy to organise the movement of such enormous crowds. Most of them had been without food for over twenty-four hours...

They were loaded into lorries, given a pound each and told to they would have to kill, reap and eat, wherever they found themselves.... Nothing much was heard of the hordes of people sent out...

As far as I was concerned, the very idea of sending unarmed and innocent civilians to be slaughtered was heinous and considerably destroyed my respect for the Governor, as a human being and as a leader...
https://books.google.com.ng/booksid=9ISrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=ntieyong+akpan+civil+war+secession&source=bl&ots=IZxeVEixXE&sig=Js86khEQ_z0_Gk5qb2ZKjorE98&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGi_zbpcjSAhXHqxoKHfFtDKwQ6AEIHjAB#v=onepage&q=ntieyong%20akpan%20civil%20war%20secession&f=false

scholes23:
as a matter of fact, there's nothing good about you to be seen. The only thing I can see is a