₦airaland Forum

jomonic:
That was enemy territory. Let's say the truth. Were there no Benin or Yoruba soldiers one the federal side. You hate and fight the biafran troops but pretend to be a great friend. What will they do to you when they find out. Your guess is as good as mine.

I know it is a waste of time responding to you since logic is generally not the strength of people where you seem to come from; but once again Biafran soldiers occupied Midwestern Region uninvited. They were not wanted. Maybe that's what friendship means where you come from, but I sure know a man who forcefully enters your house is not a friend; he is rather an intruder or even worse a thief. If the Biafrans felt they had the right to retaliate by using mass murder, killing women and children, then it appears they were too dense to realize that they didn't have monopoly on violence. So, yes, the Federal troops paid them back in their own coin. The only reason we are having this discussion right now is because the Biafrans are still the ones crying over the matter; Mid-Westerners had since moved on with their various lives. Shikena.

jomonic:
Please read the post below quoted verbatim from Wikipedia:

"On August 17 Governor Okonkwo installed a dusk to dawn curfew in which only citizens with passes would be allowed to move freely at night. Non-Igbo citizens, especially the Hausa community, were subject to harassment from Biafran soldiers while women were often molested and sometimes raped, this in retaliation for the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom. Resistance groups began springing up constantly consisting of mainly ethnic Urhobos and Ijaws. Because of a series of uprisings against the occupying Biafrans in Benin City, General Okonkwo began raising a force of loyal native inhabitants to combat the rebels. By August 18 Okonkwo had assembled a force of 780 reliable volunteers to keep natives from attacking or killing Biafran soldiers. Loyal inhabitants donated whatever weaponry they has to the Biafrans, which consisted mainly of single-shot rifles and double-barreled shotguns. Cooks began poisoning Biafran soldiers whenever they had the chance to and it was because of this that Biafran soldiers began only eating food that was cooked by ethnic Igbos or self-cooked. Rebellious natives who did not wish to fight would often seduce Biafran soldiers to get information out of them and tell Nigerian authorities. On August 20 a group of Urhobo/Ijaw rebels raided a Biafran camp and were successful in killing 50 soldiers while 16 rebels were killed in the skirmish. Due to these rebellions Biafran soldiers began raiding and pillaging villages throughout both the Mid-Western Region and Niger Delta inhabited by anyone other than Igbo civilians. The Biafran government began broadcasting Biafran propaganda in the region while the Nigerian government broadcast anti-Biafran propaganda as well. On September 19 President Ojukwu declared Governor Okonkwo President of the Biafran puppet-state, the Republic of Benin, in an attempt to make citizens of the Mid-Western Region loyal to a government other than Nigeria."

Eh ehn? What is there to read? You want to justify the atrocities committed by Biafrans in the Mid-West? Did the Mid-Western region ask Biafrans to come occupy their territory? If the people you occupy their territory don't want you there, then you leave PEACEFULLY. Simple. But no, Biafrans had to "revenge" forgetting they were the ones who made the first wrong move in going to occupy a territory where they were not wanted. Now, after the Biafrans revenge which was the usual killing of defenseless civilians where even women and children were not spared, the Nigerian Army paid them in kind. End of.

jomonic:
If the story of Biafran massacre in Benin exists, why was it never told, documented. Why not tell it now because it can never be too late.

"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 Mid Western 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]

http://rethinkingbiafra..com/2012/10/biafran-war-crimes-horror-in-midwest.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Invasion_of_1967
http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm

By the way, The Midwest Invasion of 1967 lasted from August 9 – September 20, 1967; the Asaba massacre occurred in October, 1967. Obviously, it was retaliatory.

steveeeee5:
Blah blah blah...pile of tosh from a fried brain

Lilly livered baboon.

ProphetUdeme:
So the center point of my gospel is populating Heaven and depopulating Hell.

So, how does your initial post depopulate Hell? All the things you outlined - failure in career, marriage, etc - are they occurring in Hell, or are they not on this Earth? Typical Christian fear mongering with zero logic.

OfoIgbo:
I am not aware of any official documentation of massacres carried out by Biafrans in Benin. However if it really happened, then Col. Banjo should be held responsible, afterall he was the commander of that force

"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 Mid Western 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]

http://rethinkingbiafra..com/2012/10/biafran-war-crimes-horror-in-midwest.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Invasion_of_1967
http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm

By the way, The Midwest Invasion of 1967 lasted from August 9 – September 20, 1967; the Asaba massacre occurred in October, 1967. Obviously, it was retaliatory.

Victor Banjo was arrested by the "Biafran Police" on the 18th of September, 1967. He was executed on the 22nd of September, 1967. So how could he have been responsible for atrocities committed by Biafran forces on 20th of September, 1967?

So I hope you now see the official documentation.

LOL. I see the hands of the Igbo moderators. So you can hide posts stating historical facts, but leave posts where they as usual scream "genocide" as they cry buckets.

Toofan007:
So because Banjo, a Yoruba man was the commander, he shld be held responsible? Was he not commanding a BIAFRIAN ARMY? You mean he gave that order as a yoruba man? Duh, you're a mor*n!

Please, check your facts before you respond to such posts. Banjo had already been arrested and was no party to the atrocities committed by Biafran soldiers in the Mid-Western Region. Also remember Mid-Westerners were Banjos people. I am sure it was one of the regrets he took to the grave: aligning with Ojukwu.

Wahlz:
Nice piece of history, so how come the guy was executed when he said he was friend to Ojukwu

LOL. That should tell you the kind of friend Ojukwu was.

steveeeee5:
you have better things to do like gathering your whole leprous village to help you fight behind keyboard. its getting late go to school b4 you get whip-ped by primary 3 teacher. son of a shrine owner.

LMAO. Obviously this monkey has lost track of time in his ramshackle shed. Otherwise he will know today is SUNDAY. So even if I am in Primary School, surely there won't be school today, or will there? Speaking of sawdust filled skull.

steveeeee5:
what took you so long to reply i was almost getting worried blah blah blah...

Oh, unlike you I have better things to do. I have social activities to attend to. I am not confined to a shack somewhere on the side of a dirty road selling singlets and Aba-made shoes. So get worried about your MOTHER's stinking cvnt which is making her lose customers; and where you will get food to eat today. M0r0n.

LMAO. So all the billionaires who commit more adultery than kings SOLOMON and DAVID nko?

omonnakoda:
If you cut her brain open this is what you will see

LOL. The m0r0n actually wanted to argue that no proof exists of Ondo being the top producer of cocoa. Some mothers do have them.

steveeeee5:
dyslexic gobbledygook". did your mother finally say that? that means she is responding to her mental treatment, what an improvement

You this son of a gibbon and Australopithecus misadventure. You sure like being beaten up. No surprises; no wonder the back of your father's head is flat. Don't worry, soon yours will be concave.

steveeeee5:
...dyslexic gobbledygook.

What the fvck are you trying to express? You better type it in Igbo. You are not communicating. Were you shot in the head?

steveeeee5:
see this gambari o. who is stopping anyone from speaking in whatever language they feel like speaking. i just told you what my uncle hates thats all. nawa o, always trying to get alies, sons of baal. how did you come about your statistics that aba is the dirtiest city in nigeria, from your mother's c*lit or are you no longer living in the zoo? even if you stay in togo there is still internet where you can do your reseaches and findings b4 bringing yourself out in public. so you now want to strip lagos of the position it has worked so hard to reach and has been retaining back to back. places like mushin, isaleko, agege, ajegunle(the worst), somolu, isolo makes it clear that lagos state still remains the dirtiest place on planet earth, non contest. if you can not read maybe picture illustrations can save you the headache

Apparently, Aba stinks like your pr0st1tute mother's puss oozing, maggot infested pu$5y. And since you regularly stick your head up that stink-pit, you would feel so much at home in Aba.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/inside-abia-nigerias-dirtiest-state/
http://www.punchng.com/opinion/letters/welcome-to-aba-west-africas-dirtiest-city/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/aba-battle-rid-abias-commercial-city-filth/

And if you were not just a m0r0n, you would have known that those areas you called dirty in Lagos are some of the areas most populated by Igbos. What does that tell you?

brand new notes (probably robbed banks) and guns belonging to Nigerian Police?

By the way, how are they going to stop them? By hiring hackers to block the websites?

ALL from Southern Africa.

ElekeNtioba:
How did the name of a dictator wife end up in the name of an institution. Is it that Nigeria or northern nigeria has run out of worthy leaders. Who's next....Shekau?

The university is not located in Nigeria; it is in Niger Republic which has been said to be where her husband really comes from anyway.

midolian:
no, u shldnt have stopped there. u for continue to dey f00l yaself. Empty chest-beaters!

LMAO

Sweetlemon:
Lol. I'm not saying I don't believe you. Just wanna know if you're from Imo as they are the ones with the most liberal minds. Dazoll.

LOL. Dunno where the guy is from, but he was one of the tribal warriors. Apparently he turned over a new leaf.

iphanyiuma:
Nigerian film....the disflowered virgin!! starring emeka ike

LMAO

M0GIDI:
Expect Lagos State govt to dash the place to Lagos Landlord Lord Tinubu of Borgu.

LMAO

chukwudi44:
Which good political calculations did the yorubas do that gave them the presidency?

Obasanjo in 1979 got to power by luck after Mohamed's assasination.20 years later he was returned to the presidency by the north(against the wish of majority yorubas) so whither the so-called yoruba political sophistication

I don't quite expect you to see the sophistication (it takes sophistication to even know what sophistication is about; game recognize game).

When MKO's win was annulled in 1993 the country was unstable and your people were gloating expecting a war. Well, the Yorubas played the diplomacy game to the tee. Eventually, MKO was murdered in jail, but the other one whom they couldn't get (Obasanjo) emerged the president in 1999. This was achieved without the loss of millions of Yoruba souls. And guess what, even though Obasanjo due to his antecedence was not the preferred Yoruba candidate, he ended up surprising the Yorubas because he tamed the North and the Nigerian Army. He was no longer anybody's puppet. If you can achieve this level of sophistication, you will be dancing in the streets.

steveeeee5:
that is exactly what your ass licking fathers said in the 60s and when we took them for their words and declared biafra they instead of declaring their own oduwawa they declared war. Boo hoo hoo...boo hoo hoo

Lamentations...

YakubuA:
However I must tell you the truth that by the end of Buhari's tenure we are going to vote for a Yoruba man not because we hate Igbo or anyone but because the hate campaign against the North by your people has turned the entire North politically against you.

There is nothing wrong for us to disagree on any issue but when you continue to curse and abuse us and inciting other regions against us, as we see in the social media, thinking that we will give in to your threat and blackmail then we will show you our stand on the polling day.

Beautiful. I hope the bush Igbos creating problems for Ndigbo are reading this. You cannot antagonize people and then when they return the favor you start crying. Grow up. You get what you give.

steveeeee5:
do you think igbos like intermarriage like other tribes do? hmm nawa o. it is the igbos that virtually refuse to marry outside their tribe. my uncle lived most of his life in lagos and still could not pronounce any word in yoruba language, he hates dirt and so he hated yoruba. as for your posts about one akwa ibom imposter, i know the igbos have good relationship with their efik/ibibio brothers well well so i debunk that trash. akwa ibomites like living with the igbos cos we teach them entrepreneurial skills and they blossom with it. i have not dated efik lady before but i have some friends who married them, even their men all want to marry igbo girl at all cost, i swear no be lie. do your research. thanks. igbos love the word biafra just as the jews love the word israel so it runs in the blood. sorry yoruba. one love

LMAO. Your uncle doesn't like dirt, yet if we check he's probably from Aba; crowned the dirtiest city in Nigeria. So your uncle can't speak a word of Yoruba? Who begged him to speak Yoruba? Na him wahala na. Just don't blame the Efik man who learned to speak Yoruba and learned the culture of his hosts; and is therefore loved in the community while your uncle can only restrict himself to Ladipo and Alaba market.

Sweetlemon:
Maybe because of the way you guys make them believe we are the same (attache by force) it's just recently after this radio biafra nonsense that some SSners are now distancing themselves.

You are responding to that m0r0n? Look, even the most uneducated Yorubas can tell Efik from Igbo. Even just from the mere carriage and manner of speaking (English/Pidgin and not the local dialect), we can tell. As if Efik and Igbo even sound alike. Attach by force.

ArodewilliamsT:
So your "wife" accepted you because she was warned against marry Igbo. So you were an alternative. Can you see how worthless. Your "wife" was right, yorubas are alternative and second-hand men compared to Superior Igbomen who everybody pray to marry including your smelly sisters.

Logic is not your forte; so don't try and understand before your Neanderthal brain heats up and burns in your skull.