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LegendHero:
Many things led to the civil war Chief Osoba, do you want to say you don’t know history or you’re just trying to be politically correct?

Often many people believed the killing of Saraduana and Balewa are what led to the North uprising against the Ibos in the North but this is half truth. The Unitary decree of Aguiyi Ironsi caused as much harm as the coup. Infact, it was what led to the initial killing of Ibos in the North, and gave the fertile ground for the counter-coup.

I will give timelines of events below, if anyone need proof of any of the point I raise I will provide it.

Besides the killings of other tribesleader by the majorly coupist of Jan 1966 which everyone knows, the below are some other side of the story.

Decree of 1966:
--May 1966, Ironsi announced that the regions are dissolved and there will be unification of the Public Service.
-- Note: The Ibos have the highest number of civil service candidates then and they are more itinerant than other group, which implies that decree will favor them.
--That decree was popular in the East and the Northerners received it as a blow on them and an act of marginalization against them because they have low number of civil servant. Remember Saraduana video that was trendy then.
--To crown the fears of the Northerers, General Ironsi announced the unification decree while the constitutional report group he set up under the chairmanship of Chief Rotimi Williams haven't concluded their report yet. So he acted on this own.

Riots due to the Decree:
--May 28,1966, A massive demonstration of about 20,000 people held against Ironsi decree in Kano which was organized to present a petition by the military authorities through the Emir of Kano. Slogans used were "Pure Federalism or We Bust", "We denounce abuse of power", We Separate Clearly". Infact that was when the North preached secession. 7 people were reportedly killed that day

Kano, Kaduna, and mining centers of Jos and Bukuru again protested with violence with placards saying "Let there be seccession". Infact over 92 people were killed in that weekend demonstration. They burnt Southerners quarter, houses and over-turned cars. Ironsi replied to the protest by saying he will declare certain area military areas, replace civil court with military court, and death penalty to anyone causing destruction in the North. He also accused the Arab world of being behind the protesters coz they are friends to Saraduana.

In June 1966, The government declared Dusk to Dawn curfew and these riots and killing still continued with rumors in the North that the Ibos will counter-attack. I don't know if Chief Osoba is referring to this.

--Over 100 emirs and Chiefs in the North gave an ultimatum to the Ironsi government to reject the decree. The resolution was presented by the 65-year old Sultan of Sokoto then who is also the uncle of Saraduana where they demanded Nigeria should stay Federal, and old boundaries should remain as before.

--The progom continues with several Ibos being killed across the North. The North sensed domination of the Ibos because the constitutional study group haven't submitted their report yet but Ironsi still abolished the system. Then the sentiment is that Ironis is running a Ibo regime just like people are talking about Fulani regime now. Gombe, Katsina, Bauchi also joined in the attacks mainly against the Ibos.

Counter Coup:
--July 1966, the mutineers arrested Ironsi and later killed him which set the ball rolling for more violent attacks here and there. Brigadier Ogundipe who is the Chief of Staff to Ironsi made a broadcast saying the military is still in control with but what happened in few days after showed that the mutineers want none of Ironsi regime and are all out for revenge. Cut story short, Gowon took power.

--Aug 1966, Gowon took power as a Northerner, first it is decisive, he is a Christian and he is from the minority so he is seen as a great asset not only in Uniting the North as a common force but also to appear to the South as being relatively acceptable. Then he ordered the release of Awolowo, Enahoro and other political prisoners which was a masterstroke, now you have the buy-in of some Awo symphatizers who are by far the vast majority of the Yorubas and some of the Edo areas.

All these contributed to other riots, killings, thousand Ibos killed in the North, Ibos retaliated in Port Hacourt killing 25 Hausas, plane evacuating Ibos, and eventually the civil war as the ending game.

u wrote rubbish...the igbos are gradually fanning another ember of war against them in the north again........bit when someone is destine to loss nothing can bring him to light...........that igbos coup birthed all this thrash u wrote...cos if u want to do coup u have to target all the politicians across board..u spare some and think their won't be revenge?continue writing history about to repeat is self again

NwaAmaikpe:




Point of correction Mr Osoba, do not try to rewrite history.

Fake news did not trigger the 1967 civil war because the pogroms were already ongoing in the North before the war.
The civil war was triggered by the Hausa-Fulani leaders' decision to jettison a perfect resolution to the volatility that was agreed upon at Aburi, Ghana.

Sadly, this breach of agreement was encouraged by the Yoruba elites like Awolowo, Mobolaji Johnson and Adebayo who never considered that the accord was to their favour as well.
Today Sanwo-Olu is fighting for a special state status for Lagos State. Would he have to do that if his kinsmen didn't sabotage the struggle for a federated nation of sovereign areas?

The civil war could have been prevented if only Yakubu Gowon kept to his side of the bargain.

Just like as in January 4th of 1967, the escalations going on right now can only be defused by regionalizing the nation and abolishing the 1999 Constitution to create one that won't encourage the impoverishment of him who should be rich to enrich him that should be poor.

It is not fair that it is okay for someone from Kebbi who scored 110 in JAMB gets admitted on merit for Medicine in a prestigious university while another from Anambra who scores 360 can't get into the same school for the same course.

It is also not fair that it is okay to see a Fulani man clutching daggers and machete while a Yoruba man who holds a pen-knife is arrested for being in possession of dangerous weapons.

Is it fair that the proceeds of Crude oil gotten from the Niger Delta region are spent in the North while the proceeds of Gold mining only belong to Zamfara?

Is it fair that Kano State should benefit from proceeds of alcohol sale through the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) despite sabotaging the profitability of Alcoholic Breweries and threatening their existence by destroying alcoholic drinks?

To think it is okay for Bagudu to get some of Sani Abacha's recovered loot but the Federal Government has the exclusive right of that of James Ibori and not even Delta State whose funds it is in the first instance.

If different laws apply for different people, then it is only fair to split the country so as not to make anyone feel disenfranchised.

This is common sense but my suggestions can't be taken seriously since my only forte is in masturbationn.

so the first military coup isn't the fundamental reason that trigger the war? remembered it was a selection killing

Northernblood3:
I DONT KNOW WHO HE IS BUT THE NAME SOUNDS MORE LIKE A TERRORIST AND TERRORISTS ARE NO LONGER TOLORATED

tinkia. akuya banza....zaka come uwarka in baka daina ba.......shege shasha sha

chatinent:
Please confirm this news.

he has changed address o na true gulak done change address

gmo10:
How true is this information

over true ....

helinues:
It's not good for someone to surround himself with too much negative energy...

No positive messages from Farooq for years now apart from wailing, attacking and pull them down epistle...

the and am sharing the same country with u abi?

hope u all can see why buhari refuses to make them head any security agency?buhari no get brain but he know igbo man wel wel

Sebastine1994:
Iran and Saudi Arabia wants to settle their beef. because they see that the world is fast changing.

Oil sale is droping globally. They want to adapt to current reality on ground. Israel is the super power of the middle East without having oil.

Saudi Arabia made it legal for women to drive, Iran is investing heavily in education. They shunned Islamic police

But you see my brothers in the north will never learn. They want to export religion instead of science. they want to export Sharia to Africa as a whole.

America has tolerated Islam for long because of oil, now Islam will be back to the 13th century.


While my northern brothers want to introduce Islamic police that has been proscribed in Saudi Arabia, the home of islam. can you be more Catholic than the pope.


Even the crowned princess of Saudi Arabia didn't wear the Abaya. she does not even like wearing hijab. Google it.

Mark my words. Most of the topics in Nigeria would be about religion and ethnicity.


Religion is what would end Nigeria quickly.



I foresee a religious crisis,

Watch how china will overtake the world, they don't have religion, they don't do election, they don't have political parties to compete with each other.

and most importantly, china controls information

otondo with mumu write up

benue people only knows how to the and become drunk...while drunk sleeping by, Fulani will come and butcher them and go scot-free ......until u learn how to defend ur self by taken the attack to them u will never know peace...the best form of defence is to attack...........mumu people.....

fombi:
To all you idiots who commented based on the title instead of reading the content, it literally said a brown new constitution and restructuring are needed.

Afenifere believed in the restructuring of the country and true federalism as he emphasized that the National Assembly must also be discussed in the process of restructuring.

God bless u sir....the NA ..TO must be discuss too.. preferably to become a unicameral on part term basis..we will only pay day on sitting..let see how politics become do or die affairs..all those useless benefits be taken away from them...any fed law maker must get side hustling too

blackpanda:
I have always said it, there's nothing wrong with nigerian constitution. Let's stop wasting time chasing shadows. Our real problems are greed and mismanagement. Is it governor's that have refused to pay common minimum wage that u now want to give power over police, aviation, mineral resources etc

Nigerians should wake up

interloper,,u are not supposed to be here in the first place ......this ur opinion loath me

PrinceOfLagos:
Not in my Lagos

na ur papa get Lagos?sharia law must go round nigeria

joycegurl:
I know now d other gender are in a hurry to.............check her videos

shame on u..porrrn addict like u

I want the Gen abdulsalami Constitution to be kept under lock and key for all time.......they a new Constitution be negotiated and must be subject to referendum before signing into law...then....then remove the abdusalami documents from under Lock to national museum where people will have to pay money to look at one of our national tragedy....some will be like,,is more than a book..it dangerous than abubakar shekau

Nonexisting:
UN will soon kill this one.

otondo talk..wating concern UN with am now...how they go take kill am now?

Factfinder1:
That 1999 constitution is a demonic agreement that only favours the top citizens and allows them to rule this nation just exactly the way they want

who and who sat to had that agreement?is a demonic document not agreement...it it agreement them every region go get am inside the document

the president is the most useless individual in the continent of he actually said this......cos the buhari I know is too feeble in mind to even know about the asaba declaration

Kaduna1stson:
Mass grave? For a whole coas.

use ur brain....we are equal be in the sight of God.....the same ground will eat all our mortal body... nothing whole about him that differentiate him from others...only a Pius man and God fearing fellow that has special be status in the sight of God........

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC]In 1944, the Principal Planner in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Habour was shot down alongside his staff deep inside Japanese territory by dare devil US pilots who braved the long distance and enemy radars as well as fighter escorts...Attahiru's death should count as The Universe's avengement for those without Tanks,Jets or even Gunships but are willing or have shed their blood for the struggle for freedom.[/color]

fool like u idiotic fellow..but u are against freedom for Palestinians but u believe buafrans deserve a state hood and Palestinians don't...u have not seen any thing..let see how u get biafra.....donkey

nonhuman:
You see, no single igbo high ranking military officer

I observe that too

donbachi:
Dis man should calm down....if dem wan qualify am,using english expression..dis man na past tense in imo state.

no politicians can beat his popularity in I'm state and no igbo politician can beat his popularity on national stage

ablejesus26:
All this Igbo muslim ya all are talking about I am yet to see one,just one in reality.
Islam is strange to Igbo Nature,but notwithstanding an Igboman is free to be whatever he chooses as long as he doesn't troubles anyone.

free on Facebook to practice and on ur keyboard...na the same u go show am pepper....if Islam is strange to igbos,,, christainity was once strange to them too...before they come accept am.......I can't imagine the kind oppression we biafra go do if they get country

Armaggedon:
Nothing in the article remotely suggest persecution or denial of religious freedom. This look like a govt sponsored article that is being repeated on front-page.

Christians call themselves names on daily basis. Pentecostals are usually called ndi "uka akuluma aka" meaning a church of 'over clapping' people, sabatharians or Jews are mocked for always offering sacrifices along the road and even lot of nollywood movies showvCatholic church in bad light. The worst hit are traditional Igbos which some people including Muslims call idol worshippers. Infact some people just get up and burn idol regarded as people's place of worship but nobody complains about.

If you wear hijab and you're called a masquerade, it's normal. Swallow it! You can't bully a society into treating you specially.

Finally, this is a propaganda article. Those interviewed may not have taken it harshly but the abokis who wrote it.

forget..igbo is the the most worst neighbor anyone could have...my eye see fire...I was almost evicted from my house during nysc the day they know am a Muslim...the man regret renting the apartment to me ...useless tribes...make we see how biafrans go come

Crazychris:
I'm a Yoruba guy but this is barbaric, why always the East? These coward hausas and foolanis in government are silently fighting igbo people everyone is seeing it clearly. At first I wasn't in support of nnamdi kanu and his Biafra stuff but this will make me support him 100% I don't mind joining hands with igbos to teach these dimwits some lessons.

Mehn I hate oppression

100% support behind keyboard...enlist into ESN.....Wawa akuya

Valkrie:
The IG should also further advise his men to prepare their will and let their wives and family know where all their landed and other properties are incase they don't make it back..cos many for sure would never return with breath...!!

Same old approach that has been failing since independence...!!
These people would never learn..!! You can't fight the population and win...!!

With these order all those people even hiding the force men when the heat is up won't even do that again...The bloody IG is sending his men to their early grave fighting the whole population...!!!

we stand by our ig. kill all the ipob terrorist

RagaMufeen:
I've not seen a country where the police chief tells his men to go out and kill indiscriminately.

u will see it soon......ipob are cancerous cell that most be uprooted from the southeast and nigeria atlarge.....I hate the group with great passion

3lovelyflowers:
Jonathan shouldn't even think about it. It is better to go for councillorship position than inheriting Buhari mess as his successor.

lols who are the youth asking him to come back?may be Southeasterners your....that he where his support base is that is where they decieve him from telling him that kano is for him in 2015....they have state again......

Idiotseverywher:
. You are a fool by saying this, your brain is akamu, because you are not using it, akamu is even useful because people drink it, so what your useless brain can deduce is he bashed his people and that your brain didn't tell you he was referring to the writer of the rubbish post

akuya....can't u see that its a sign of bad omen....see as the man fire em own people.....he say na bridge una sabi burn una no Sabi built..he call una children of hate..Kai..iyamiri go get presidency so?even person like Joe igbokwe no go agree

tandy2013:
This is a smart move . This is the only way to defeat fulani hegemony. The hausas and Yorubas gave the fulanis power to lord it over others Time has come to take that power back n collapse Nigeria

United South is the key to unlock our freedom

only ontodos will call the nonsense declaration smart move....

flat head people think Niger deltans are not smart....they are jews they claim,,with what Palestinians are facing after allow Jews to join them..so all this flat head think we will do Palestinians mistake?they are jews they will suffer us like their brother are doing to Palestinians..we will push for our own country we will never allow one country with them..na oyel. they want to still