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(the last three States from the former Eastern Region). Then on the 30th of May 1967, Ojukwu declared the former Eastern Nigeria as Republic of Biafra. The Federal government regarded Ojukwu’s declaration of Republic of Biafra as a rebellion that should be crushed and therefore set up a naval blockade of the East. Meanwhile, the minorities from Ogoja, Calabar, Port Harcourt and Rivers began to show up in Lagos to join the Federal Army. Exhibiting a very great wisdom, Gowon invited Awolowo on 3rd June 1967 to become Vice Chairman of the Federal Executive Council and Commissioner for Finance. Beside Awolowo, Gowon saw to it that each of the twelve states had a civilian representative in the Federal Executive Council which among others featured Anthony Enahoro, Okoi Arikpo, Joseph Tarka and Aminu Kano. On the 6th of July 1967, the Federal government initiated what was called a police action to arrest Ojukwu and shooting broke out along the border between the North and the East. The police action was later changed to full scale war by the Federal government when the Biafran army invaded Mid-West on August 9, 1967.
War as everyone knows is not humane, it is brutal. War cannot create life, it can only take life. However, when Gowon was forced to declare war on the secessionist in the Eastern part of the country, he issued a Code of Conduct to the armed forces in which he reminded them, “You are not fighting a war against a foreign enemy. Nor are you fighting a religious war. You are only subduing the rebellion of Lieutenant- Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu and his clique.” The Code of Conduct contained also detailed instructions about how civilians, prisoners of war, foreigners and mercenaries were to be treated. And the Code of Conduct ended, “You must remember that some of the soldiers Lieutenant-Colonel Ojukwu has now forced to oppose you were once your old comrades-in-arms and would like to remain so. You must therefore treat them with respect and dignity except anyone who is hostile to you. Good luck.” Ojukwu, on his part, was in no doubt that a proclamation of secession from Nigeria by him amounted to a declaration of war, therefore, he went on to assure his so called Eastern Consultative Assembly at Enugu on the 26th of May 1967 that the East was fully prepared to defend itself and that no power in Nigeria or in Black Africa could subdue the East by force. The civil war, which officially ended on the 12th of January 1970 with the surrender of Philip Effiong to whom Ojukwu had handed over power before deserting his troupes has recently become a subject of impression for Chinua Achebe. Achebe’s impression made him to associate Jack Yakubu Gowon and Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo with Islamic Jihadists who had a design to exterminate the Igbo people from the face of the earth. In pursuance of the plan to exterminate the Igbo people, Achebe maintained that Gowon’s federal military government imposed economic blockade that prevented what he termed ‘shipments of humanitarian aid, food and supplies to the needy in Biafra’. Both Awolowo and Gowon, and in fact two-third of the federal cabinet, were Christians and in the case of Gowon it is on record that he married his Igbo wife (Victoria) from Asaba in the middle of the civil war. Therefore, the attempt to link Awolowo and Gowon to Islamic Jihadist in the prosecution of the civil war that ended forty-two years ago is totally unintelligent. In contrast to Biafra, Nigeria as a signatory to the Geneva Conventions was bound to follow the Conventions’ rules pertaining to relief supplies to civilians in a beleaguered territory. Chinua Achebe could not have been ignorant of the fact that Nigeria in compliance with the Geneva Conventions actually offered to create a land corridor between Nigeria and the Biafran enclave to transport relief supplies to civilians in Biafra under the supervision of International Red Cross Committee and World Council of Churches. Biafra (Ojukwu) rejected this offer on the grounds that food supplies through Nigeria could be poisoned and transport passage through Nigeria was an infringement on Biafra’s sovereignty. Ojukwu dictated that food and relief supplies were unacceptable to Biafra unless they came from sources and through channels that had no connection with the federal government. It is remarkable that at the time Ojukwu arrogantly rejected the offer of land corridor for transportation of relief supplies to civilians in his Biafra, Nigeria had already captured the whole of the then South-East State with its capital in Calabar and Rivers State with its capital in Port Harcourt. The capital of East Central State, Enugu, (the seat of the Government of Biafra itself) was captured in October 1967 forcing Ojukwu to relocate his rebellion’s headquarter to Umuahia. Obviously Ojukwu’s Biafra or East Central State could not have suffered any sea blockade as claimed by Achebe since it was landlocked by Rivers State and South-East State which had been liberated by the federal forces earlier in the war.
In his book on the Spanish Civil War, *Homage to Catalonia,* George Orwell remarked, “One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war propaganda, all the screaming lies and hatred comes invariably from people who are not fighting (p 67).” Achebe was never a fighter in the Civil War but a propagandist, and forty-two years after the war has ended he is still embroiled in the propaganda of designs by certain Nigerians to exterminate or commit genocide against the Igbo people. Yet, when the rebel soldier himself, Lieutenant-Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, addressed the Biafran Consultative Assembly in September 1968 on the hypothetical extermination of the Igbo people, he said, ”Our real victory lies in our ability to prevent the extermination of our (Igbo) people by a heartless enemy. In so far as these aims (to prevent the extermination of Igbo people) are concerned, we have not failed (see Biafra: Ojukwu’s Selected Speeches; Volume 1, p. 353).” In this piece, Ojukwu did not consider him-self heartless, rather he saw himself as a compassionate leader who had successfully repelled the extermination forces against his Igbo people. In the same volume of Ojukwu’s selected speeches page 357, he told the Consultative Assembly in September 1968, “Those governments motivated by humanitarian considerations have a responsibility now to ensure that Biafrans are enabled to defend themselves by providing them (the Biafrans) the wherewithal so to do.” From the foregoing, it is evident that Ojukwu wanted weapons as humanitarian gifts from foreign governments and not food. And if Biafrans were dying of starvation it was the responsibility of the government of Biafra whose primary objective of seceding from Nigeria was to provide security of life and property for the Igbo people, to provide food for her citizens and failure to fulfil their primary objective should lead to immediate capitulation and surrender. Instead of seeing it that way, Achebe harped on the statement of Awolowo, “I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder,” as if he (Achebe) has ever heard or read of any history of warfare where a belligerent send food to the beleaguered soldiers. Achebe knows quite well that the enemies referred to were Biafra’s soldiers and not the whole Igbo people. Achebe continued his swipe on Awolowo, “Awolowo was driven by an overriding ambition of power, for him-self in particular and for the advancement of his Yoruba people in general. However, Awolowo saw the dominant Igbos at the time as the obstacle for that goal...” Awolowo did not seek to rule Nigeria just for his own sake or for the sake of Yoruba people alone. In June 1960, when Awolowo was leader of opposition in the Federal Parliament, he published his autobiography, *AWO* which he dedicated to A NEW AND FREE NIGERIA WHERE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND A MORE ABUNDANT LIFE ARE GUARANTEED TO ALL HER CITIZENS. He was not wishing him-self or his Yoruba people alone freedom and more abundant life but all Nigerians. Then on page 172 he quoted from Nnamdi Azikwe’s Presidential address to the Ibo State Assembly held at Aba on Saturday, June 25, 1949, and republished in the West African Pilot of July 8, 1949: ...It would appear that the God of Africa has specially created the Ibo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of the ages... The martial prowess of the Ibo nation at all stages of human history has enabled them not only to conquer others but also to adapt themselves to the role of preserver.. . In the same vain Awolowo drew attention to another Ibo leader and a member of the Nigerian Legislative Council who declared in 1948 that the domination of Nigeria by the Ibos is a question of time. Reacting to this, Awolowo wrote in his autobiography, “A situation in which one ethnic group would dominate the others does not accord with my conception of a united and happy Nigeria. I am implacably opposed to dictatorship as well as the doctrine of Herrenvolk (Master-race) whether it was Hitler’s or Dr Azikwe’s.” Contrary to Awolowo who believed in the equality of all the ethnic groups in Nigeria, Achebe believes in the superiority of his own tribe over all other tribes in Nigeria. Consequently, Achebe proudly and arrogantly chose Awolowo as the enemy of Igbo domination over all other tribes in Nigeria. Even if Awolowo did not like dominators, should that be a crime? Which mankind loves to be inferior and dominated? Achebe has never provided any concrete evidence that Igbo people, at any time of Nigeria’s history, has been dominant and one finds it very difficult to understand why he has chosen to attribute this negative character to the entire Igbo people. It may be that there is some truth in what Dr Thomas Ozodi Osuji (him-self Igbo) postulated in www.nigerianvillagesquare.com of 15 October 2008 thus, “Generally, they (Igbos) assume that they are superior to other Nigerians. They look down on other Nigerians, insulting them, right and left.” He continued, “It is delusion disorder (a partial psychosis) for any human being or group of human beings to see themselves as better than others (as superior to others). All human beings are the same and equal; to look down on another human being is a sign of insanity. Insanity is inability to deal with reality as it is but to insist that it accommodates ones wishes. In this case Igbos wish that they were superior to other Nigerians; they are not but they behave as if they are hence are deluded (are partially psychotic; full psychosis requires the presence of delusion and hallucination).” Achebe’s inability to accept reality, according to the Geneva Conventions, that a belligerent in a civil war has the right to inspect and monitor transportation of relief supplies to civilians in a beleaguered territory has made him to insist that Awolowo should be held responsible for starvation in Biafra even though it was Ojukwu who had rejected the application of Geneva Conventions. By September 1968 any rational military man would have seen the hopelessness of continued military resistance by the Biafra’s forces as they have been pushed and confined to a very small enclave. Instead of capitulating and surrendering, Ojukwu despatched on the 7th of September 1968, Nnamdi Azikwe, Michael Okpara, Kenneth Dike, Francis Nwokedi, C. C. Mojekwu and others to Paris to solicit for increased French military and financial assistance to Biafra. The French decided to keep the level of support to the same level and the Biafran delegates decided with a dissenter that time had come to make peace with Nigeria. Thus the delegates forwarded a telegram to Ojukwu that due to the limitations of French assistance and unsafe military situation and the appalling suffering of the Biafran civil population a new peace initiative was imperative. Ojukwu fired back and ordered the delegates to return home forthwith. He stated that Biafra’s sovereignty was not negotiable under any circumstances. It was at that stage that Azikwe abandoned Biafra and exiled self in London. The war could have ended in 1968, but some people saw political advantage in prolonging the war. Hence for fifteen months thenceforth the federal forces were made to turn blind eyes to the illegal night flights of arms into Biafra through the Uli Ihiala air strip which was within the federal forces shelling range. It was the same Uli Ihiala air strip that Ojukwu used when he fled Biafra on Saturday 10 January 1970. For the sake of Achebe and his ilk it is noteworthy that Nigeria was highly commended for her unique and civilising contribution to the history of warfare when she voluntarily invited International Observer Team drawn from Britain, Canada, Poland, Sweden, and OAU so as to inspect the behaviour of the Federal troops at the war fronts and to investigate the Biafran charge of genocide. The International Observer Team was in Nigeria for sixteen months and wrote volumes of reports that totally exonerated Nigeria from any war crime including genocide. Achebe has ascribed to him-self the right to estimate (or is it just an impression?) that over two million people died of starvation in Biafra but before that figure can be accepted as being correct he should furnish the world with the estimated population of Biafra before and after the war. Already in the autumn of 1968 Awolowo had frowned on the fact that foods sent to Biafra to feed civilians were being hijacked by Biafran soldiers. Almost a year later, Africa Correspondent of Los Angeles Times, Stanley Meisler , corroborated Awolowo’s statement in Africa Report, November 1969 thus, “More significant and depressing cruelty and meanness have come to Biafran Society. Soldiers sometime evict refugees from camps and seize whatever food has been planted there, or they beat up relief-agency drivers and commandeer their trucks to transport arms. Army deserters use their weapons to waylay relief trucks and steal food.” What do you say to that Achebe?
Awolowo has been vilified by Achebe and his ilk for giving only £20 to Biafrans irrespective of what individual Biafran claimed to have lodged in the bank before the war. Achebe, as a head of external broadcasting service in the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos before he fled to the East during July 1966 coup, was on super scale salary. Based on that fact Nigerians will like to know if he had any saving in the bank at the time he fled Eastward; How much money did he have in his bank account and what happened to the money? Without waiting for Achebe to answer the questions I venture to assert that those who fled to the East in 1966 and had money in the bank withdrew them in cash and travelled with them to the East as money was the easiest of all physical properties they could travel with. And even if one assumes that those who fled eastward left their savings and deposits behind un-withdrawn, the simplest thing for claimants to do after the war was to present their bank account books or last statements of account from the banks to reclaim their savings or deposits. Legally that should be private affairs between the banks and their customers with which Awolowo as the Minister of Finance had nothing to do. Before Awolowo died, he explained that it was a committee set up by him that recommended a social welfare package of £20 to everyone from the war affected area that desired it since Biafra’s currency was not legal. Thus, the £20 was not a payment in lieu of what individual Igbo had in the bank before the war but a survival gift to those who requested for it. It might interest Achebe and his ilk to know that when Awolowo was Minister of Finance a Nigerian Pound (£) exchanged at one British Guinea (21Shillings or £1. 1Shilling) while a Nigerian Pound exchanged at one US dollar eighty-two cents ($1.82). £20 was a big money then!!
Another excerpt from Achebe’s book states, “The original ideal of one Nigeria was pressed by the leaders and intellectuals from the Eastern Region. With all their shortcomings, they had this idea to build the country as one. The first to object were Northerners led by the Sardauna, who were followed closely by the Awolowo clique that had created the Action Group.” Historically, while it is a fact that Awolowo founded EGBE OMO ODUDUWA (A Society of the Descendants of ODUDUWA) in London in 1945, the Ibo state Union under the Chairmanship of one Mr. Chuba Ikpeazu had existed in London since 1943. When Egbe Omo Oduduwa was formally launched in Lagos in 1948 by Adeyemo Alakija, Akinola Maja, Kofo Abayomi, Bode Thomas, H O Davies, Akanni Doherty etc, Awlowo was not there and the Ibo state Union in Nigeria had been in existence for over two years. Awolowo only helped later to inaugurate a branch of Egbe Omo Oduduwa in Ibadan. It was not until May 1948 that Jamiyyar Mutanen Arewa (Northern People’s Congress) was founded in Zaria by Dr R A B Dikko. In fact the Northern People’s Congress was a regional organisation that embraced all the tribes in the North while Ibo State Union and Egbe Omo Odudua excluded all minority tribes in their region from membership. While one could be a member of Egbe Omo Oduduwa and join any political Party in the country, all members of the Ibo state Union were affiliated to the NCNC. For instance H O Davies was one of the founders of Egbe Omo Oduduwa and he belonged to the NCNC party until he died. It is indisputable that the first

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tribal interest organisation in Nigeria was Ibo State Union and others just copied them. How then can one reconcile the idea of building Nigeria as one country through Ibo state Union of which Nnamdi Azikwe was its President since 1949 upwards? Rummaging through Nigeria Year Book, 1956, published in Lagos when Nigeria was still a colony, it was stated that Egbe Omo Oduduwa remained just a reply to the Ibo State Union; in other words, as an assembly which catered for the social and cultural progress of the Yorubas. On the Action Group the Year book stated, “Today the Action Group is as important as any other political party in the country; it is certainly better organised than the rest. The Action Group believes in a socialist commonwealth but also in the solidarity of the parts and the unity of all.” In Achebe’s lecture at The Guardian Silver Jubilee on October 9, 2008, in Lagos Dr. Osuji was irritated over the claim of Achebe that Igbos, more than other Nigerians, worked for Nigeria’s independence. And Dr. Osuji remarked, “That claim is arrant nonsense. Nigeria’s independence struggle, as it was, began with the 1920s Lagos crowd, with such non-Igbo folk as Herbert Macaulay, H. O Davies etc. It is part of Igbo misguided arrogance for them to always see themselves as working more than other persons for common good. If truth be said, we all know that Igbos have many character flaws, including selfishness. Igbos are generally unprincipled and opportunistic and work for their individual self interests not social interests.” Much as one would strongly object to Dr Osuji’s sweeping generalisation of painting negative characters on Igbos it is worthwhile to know that, in the history of warfare, General Chukwu Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was the first commander in chief in the world that ever deserted his soldiers in an ongoing war to seek asylum abroad. After over ten years in exile, Ojukwu returned to Nigeria in early 1982 having been pardoned by the *Jihadist,* President Alhaji Shewu Shagari, of the NPN led government. While wounded, maimed and crippled Biafra’s war veterans roam about in Igbo towns and cities to beg for alms in order to live, Ojukwu negotiated and got his monthly pension as a retired Lieutenant- Colonel (the rank he held in the Nigeria Army before secession) from the Federal Government until his death! Ojukwu was never a revolutionary but a petty bourgeois and a reactionary. If Achebe’s tribal belief and expression is applied to the historical events narrated above, it will be correct to say that the Igbo leaders in the NCNC, Benjamin Nnamdi Azikwe and Michael Ihenokura Okpara hated Yoruba people and their leader Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo who also happened to be the leader of Action Group Party that controlled the government of Western Region in 1962. The hatred of the Igbo leaders, Azikwe and Okpara, for the Yoruba people caused them to conspire with the Jihadists, Ahmadu Bello and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of the NPC to declare a state of emergency in the Western Region and thereby overthrew the government of the Action Group elected by the Yoruba People. The purpose of Azikwe and Okpara in overthrowing the elected government of Yoruba land was to pave way for their own Igbo people to dominate the Yoruba people. The thirteen Emergency Acts signed into law by the Igbo Governor General Azikwe made it possible to restrict and put under house arrest members of the Action Group and its leader Awolowo from 29 May 1962. Awolowo was restricted and put under house arrest at an Island called Leki until November 2, 1962 when he and some members of his Party were charged to court for planning to overthrow the federal coalition government of Igbo (NCNC) and Hausa (NPC). Awolowo was remanded in prison until he was convicted in September 1963 to ten years imprisonment. Soon after Awolowo had been convicted the leader of Hausa’s NPC, Ahmadu Bello, and the leader of Igbo’s NCNC, Michael Ihenokura Okpara, began to quarrel among them-selves over who should dominate Yoruba land and its people. Yoruba people demonstrated violently against their subjugation and demanded the release of the Action Group leader and his comrades from prison. Protests persisted until 15th January 1966 when some Army Majors struck against the civilian government. The Army Major’s coup was hijacked by Igbo infiltrators who betrayed not only the coup planners to would be Igbo victims but failed to execute their own part of the coup against fellow Igbo. Consequently, all the people killed in the first coup both civilians and military officers, except one, were non Igbo Nigerians. Had the Igbo Acting President Nwafor Orizu, Igbo Premiers of the East and Midwest, Okpara and Osadebey, been killed just as the coup executors did to the Hausa Prime Minister of the Federation, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Hausa Premier of North, Ahmadu Bello and the Premier of the West, Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the coup would have been seen by Nigerians in general as having been carried out in the national interest. There was no valid reason either why all the military officers killed in the coup, except one, were people of Northern and Western Regions only. According to Captain Gbulie (see page 66, Nigeria’s Five Majors) Captain Goddy Ude was issued with a .38-calibre pistol and ample live ammunition by the plotters in Kaduna on Thursday, 13 January 1966 and sent him by road to the 5th Battalion in Kano where Lt. Colonel Ojukwu was the Commanding Officer. The idea was not to kill Ojukwu but to thwart any attempt to subvert the coup by the 5th Battalion, but Captain Goddy Ude played game with Ojukwu. However, the Igbo man that hijacked the coup of the Five Majors, Major-General Johnson Thompson Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi appointed an Igbo man Pius Okigbo as his economic adviser, another Igbo man G Onyuike became the Attorney General and Francis Nwokedi an Igbo man was appointed a one-man commission of enquiry on the establishment of an administrative machinery for Nigeria and the unification of the five public services (four regions and the federal) and judicial services in Nigeria. At the same time Igbo traders in the North made postcards out two different cartoons that were published in the West African Pilot newspaper owned by Nnamdi Azikwe. One had the picture of Ahmadu Bello lying with the face up and a cock, the party symbol of NCNC, standing on his chest crowing. The other postcard featured Ahmadu Bello, Balewa and Akintola knocking at the gate of heaven and an Angel coming out saying, this is heaven no rigging. These cards were being sold by Igbo traders throughout Northern Nigeria and they helped a lot to create the impression that the coup was an Igbo takeover of Nigeria. Moreover, while General Ironsi refused to release political prisoners, especially Awolowo, he promulgated the unification decree no. 34 amalgamating the federal and regional civil services on the 24th of May 1966 and riot broke out in the North on the 29th of May 1966 in protest against the decree. Two months later a coup d’état by Northern soldiers in the army occurred and many Igbo army officers including Ironsi were killed. On August 2, 1966 and after three years, nine months and one day in Prison in which the coalition government of Igbo NCNC and Hausa NPC had put him, Awolowo was released by the Middle-belt born new military Head of State Lieutenant –Colonel Yakubu Gowon.
Achebe’s personal impression about the Nigerian civil war is an unnecessary distraction from the main problem confronting Nigeria today. With the geographical area of nine-hundred and twenty-three thousand, seven-hundred and seventy-three square kilometres, Nigeria will conveniently contain Belgium, France, Netherlands, Italy, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein and Malta altogether and still have three-thousand four-hundred and twenty-four square kilometres extra space of land left. In contrast with many countries of Europe, Nigeria is endowed with abundant rain forest, Savannah grassland, fertile soil for agriculture all the year round, verse mineral resources (liquid & solid) and a climate devoid of major natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons or cyclones. Educationally, there is no academic degree in this world, real or honorary, that one would not find at least five Nigerians possessing it. That is why Nigeria’s index of manpower is the highest in the world and which explains why there are more PHDs and professors in the government of Nigeria than anywhere else around the world. By nature Nigeria is a readymade paradise on earth but hitherto her rulers have succeeded in transforming the Nigerian state into carrion and turning one of the richest diverse geographies in the world into most embarrassing atrophy.
Whenever Nigerian rulers collude to loot the national treasury and take care of one another at the expense of the masses, they always use ethnic and religious smokescreens to blindfold and deceive ordinary Nigerians to accept and support their loots. When it comes to money, religion and tribe are just weapons with which the rulers fight amongst themselves so as to decide who gets the largest share of the loot. Thus, their political quarrel is always about whom among them should hold the spade to share, within themselves, the cake that none of them but nature has baked for Nigeria. The rulers of Nigeria are neither benevolent to the citizens nor feel responsible for their welfare. In 1966 when Achebe was head of external broadcasting service, Nigeria had a government run by Local Purchase Order, which produced goods and services even though at ten per cent inflated price. Since 1985 and hitherto, Nigeria has had governments by consultancy, producing only heavy economic jargons and beautiful acronyms. The consultants are the rulers of Nigeria and the civil servants who have become millionaires and billionaires in terms of dollar and pound sterling as they steal public funds appropriated for industrial and infrastructural developments of Nigeria. Thus the typical ethnic chauvinism with which Achebe was acquainted in the ‘60s has been replaced with Federal Character in stealing, robbery and theft of national patrimony by people from all tribes in Nigeria. Although all federal characterised thieves retain stolen funds only for themselves, they fraudulently turn around to say that the positions they hold in government are on behalf of their specific tribe. The federal characterised thieves in Nigeria wrongly classify their acts of appropriating public funds to themselves as corruption instead of stealing therefore we find thieves talking about fighting corruption. Why is it that ordinary Nigerians who can barbeque his/her fellow Nigerian for stealing one Naira look with indifference when public servants and rulers steal trillions of Naira budgeted for infrastructures, Schools, Health care deliveries, electricity, water and oil refineries? The reason is that Nigeria is being governed in English Language which ninety-eight per cent of Nigerians cannot read, write or understand properly. Yet, Awolowo warned in his book, Path to Nigerian Freedom, published in 1947 that, “The existence of a microscopic literary class would lead to exploitation of the great majority of illiterates by the intelligentsia.” That was why Awolowo invested so much on free primary education in the Western Region but his enemies who thought that education should be exclusive right of privileged few destroyed it. Therefore the literary class at federal, state and local government level in Nigeria has now become millionaires not because they are industrious and hard working but because of their connections with oil money through the so called revenue allocations, oil block gifts and fuel subsidy’s rackets. No Nigerian language has a word for million, billion or trillion. Hence, there is no equivalent monetary quantity calculated in millions, billions or trillions in any of Nigeria’s ethnic languages. Since millions, billions and trillions are beyond the arithmetical imagination of most Nigerians who are illiterates, it means that absolute majority of Nigerians do not have financial understanding of what constitutes a million-, a billion- and a trillion Naira whenever the rulers of Nigeria are exposed of stealing such huge amounts from the public. That is the main reason why majority of Nigerians are passive onlookers to the robberies perpetrated by their rulers.
After the civil war in which the slogan from the Federal side was one Nigeria, one people, the question of who governs Nigeria should not be based on regional, religious and ethnic belongings. Yet, the rulers of Nigeria inserted into the constitution what was called ‘Federal Character’ in appointments to public service. Through ‘Federal Character’ individual Nigerians have been able to masque their self interest as tribal, religious or regional interest. Whereas, competence should be the deciding factor while choosing a Presidential Candidate, it is predetermined in Nigeria that the President and his deputy should come not only from specific areas of the country but that any of the candidates should either be a Euro-Christian or Arab-Islamic God’s worshiper. In spite of the fact that the next Presidential election will be in year 2015 intensive campaigns have already begun about whether the current President should contest for second term or not. Since the defining issue about a President in Nigeria is not if he has ruled justly and efficiently to the benefit of the populace but which tribe or part of the country he comes from, some are demanding that a Northerner should take over as President in 2015. Some Northerners joined in to say that since all previously elected Presidents of Nigeria were Muslims they demand that the next President should be a Northern Christian. On his part, the former Governor of Abia State (1999 – 2007) declared that the civil war would not be regarded as having ended unless Good-luck Jonathan is succeeded by an Igbo man as a President (see www. Vanguardngr.com/2012/10/2015-igbo-presidency-will-finally-end-the-civil-war-kalu/). Actually the masses of Nigeria do not care if their President has his face carved up with tribal marks horizontally and vertically or if he speaks Ijaw, Urhobo, Ibibio, Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba or if he is a Christian or a Muslim. They rather care for the President who will give them a fair share of amenities and who is not possessed by the primitive passion of greedy acquisition of Nigeria’s patrimony for himself, his family and his cronies.

S. Kadiri

Achebe’s I Before Others Fairy Tales By S. Kadiri
Published in Sahara reporters on Nov 13, 2012

Christistruth00:
Cc Sarrki
The above Article on Nigeria's Political History by S Kadiri was first published in Sahara Reporters on Nov 13, 2012 in reply to Chinua Achebe's book "There was a Country"
It was such an impressive gem on Nigeria's Political History that I have reposted it for the sake of todays Nigerian Youths and Posterity.
There are a lot of lessons in it for all Nigerians to learn.
I amended the title slightly for inclusiveness of all Nigerians.
It was posted on this forum some years ago but i have not been able to find the Thread so i reposted this again.

Philipponzaghi:
I like how Amotekun, OPC, and VGN are working hand in hand.

The SW governors should invest more in these guys to curb the menace of insecurities.

We won’t burn policemen buildings in the SW, we will reason with the police for them to see that we are all in this together and there is need to secure our land.

The police have their families in the SW, if they betray the state then their family will share in the insecurities. We are together in this.

Most Policemen, Amotekun, OPC, and VGN are fellow Yorubas and we must all come together as one to curb the insecurities.

Odua land must be secured and God bless the Yorubas.
God bless lovers of the Yorubas.

OdudwaR:
Was America a terrorist state for covertly supporting IRA against the British government? Was NATO a terrorist organization and Clinton a terrorist for supporting the Balkanization of Yugoslavia?

It’s about interests. I support Oduduwa Nation and since UGM also support the same with Biafra, we have mutual interests.

And you don’t expect them not to pick up arms when they stay killing them for asking for freedom. Even a goat would bite you if you push it to the wall. If jaw jaw doesn’t work, we would have to war war till you have no other choice. The only language Fulanis understand is violence. Fulani tribe is a cowardly tribe that thrives in deceit and attacking from behind. When you take violence to them, they will run. And that’s what UGM is doing.

DeltaFire:
Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOBigots/ESN are continuing to bring death to Ndi Igbo.

Those abroad in western countries who Fund Nnamdi Kanu (Through WIC, World Igbo Congress) or however you do it. Your details are being recorded and you WILL be held RESPONSIBLE for your aiding and abetting the death of Ndi Igbo in the homeland.

God knows who you are and you think your own children are safe because you live among civilized White people? Think again! Remember how George Floyd was killed in cold blood on the streets of USA?

Since you pay for killing of Ndi Igbo in Igbo land be prepared for blood for blood. You kill Ndi Igbo by funding Nnamdi Kanu. You shall live to see karma return to you and your own children. That is the prayer going around now in Igbo land against all those abroad who fund Nnamdi Kanu to kill and destroy Igbos at home.

DeltaFire:
WE WILL AVENGE THE DEATH OF OUR MEMBERS KILLED IN SOUTHEAST ~ MIYETTI ALLAH
by Segun Adegbite
NewsLeaks
April 29, 2021


One of the umbrella bodies of herdsmen in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has called on the security agencies to deal with “terrorists killing” Fulani herders in the South-East.

Spokesman for the group, Saleh Alhassan, spoke on Thursday in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH.

He was reacting to the killing of one of the commanders of Indigenous People of Biafra gunned down by security operatives last Saturday.

Recall that a joint security task force last week Saturday killed an IPOB leader, one Commander Ikonso and six members in Awomama, Imo State.

IPOB has since threatened “madness”, saying the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, will “pay dearly” for the killing of its commander.

But speaking with The PUNCH on Thursday, the Miyetti Allah spokesman lauded the security agencies, adding that they should “intensify efforts” in dealing with all terrorist elements in the country.

He said, “The security agencies should intensify efforts in dealing with all those terrorists killing Fulani herders, burning police stations, prisons and destroying institutions in the South-East.”

Alhassan said at least 50 herders have been killed in the South-East in the last one month, adding that his group would avenge the death of those members.

He said, “So far, more than 50 herders have been killed in the South-East in the last one month, we have the record and the Igbo terrorists led by Nnamdi Kanu will pay for everybody they killed.

“It is unfortunate that they have forgotten history, how we saved a lot of Igbos in the North during the Civil War but now they are killing our people. They are making a grievous mistake. We will take necessary steps both legal and cultural steps to avenge the killings of our members.”



https://newsleaks.info/2021/04/29/we-will-avenge-the-death-of-our-members-killed-in-southeast-miyetti-allah/

SATANICALLY666:
Aborigines in Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River (BRAC) have warned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to leave their communities, saying the attacks in their communities are provocative and unacceptable.

The organization said that within the last couple of weeks they have witnessed the invasion, harassments, raping and killings of innocent citizens, and disruption of peace and socio-economic activities in BRAC coastal territory by IPOB elements.

The General Coordinator of BRAC, Doris McDaniels, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the attacks first witnessed last year at Oyigbo and the Port Harcourt areas of BRAC territory following the instruction of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu through incessant, inflammatory radio broadcast.

“Recently, in Essien Udim LGA of Akwa Ibom State wanton destruction of properties, raping, killings and total institution of anarchy were enacted in some communities there, hence paralyzing the socio-economic life of our people.

“In the last few days, Omuma, Elele, Omagwa and Abua Odual areas of Rivers State were visited leaving a trail of tears, blood and horrific killings. All the unprovoked violence was not necessary.

“These attacks on BRAC territory are provocative, totally unacceptable and highly condemnable. These are likely acts to lead to another angle that will affect the cordial relationship and peaceful cohabitation between the coastal minorities and the Igbos,” Mcdaniels said.

According to her, it should be noted that their traditional fathers, leaders and the generality of their people have severally and at one time or the other distanced themselves and their territory from IPOB and their Biafra dream State.

She said, “We are not Igbos. We are completely distinct sets of people in character, culture and all, from the Igbos.”

She said that it is annoying and offensive for the Igbos to continue to assume their territory as part of their dream nation.

“We consider such posture of greed and annexation an insult, overbearing and disdainful arrogance. We here put it to them that their oppression, killings, dominance and disruption of the lives of our people during the Erstwhile Eastern Region of Nigeria ended on 27 May 1967, 54 years ago, when South Eastern and Rivers States were created following decades of perpetual agitations and protests from our ancestors and forebears, under the umbrella of Various Minority States Agitators and COR State Movement, to be delineated from the Igbos into a separate State. COR represents Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers Provinces.

“As a warning therefore, let them note that their investments in our territory could be preliminary target. Would they in all honesty have allowed our people own stalls or shops in Onitsha or Ariaria markets? But we have been magnanimous to reabsorb the Igbos back to our BRAC states despite their brutal attack on us. IPOB should not allow old wounds to reopen,” McDaniels said

https://dailytrust.com/brac-tackles-ipob-over-attacks-in-rivers-others

DDDEnterprises:
Really?

You have proof for this sir/madam?

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sarrki:
Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu is the National President Gan Allah Fulani Development Association of Nigeria, who lives in Osogbo, Osun State. In this interview, he explained how a family of 19 Fulani herders were recently killed by militants suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) at Igbariam village of Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State.

How did you learn of the incident in Anambra State?

I was called in the wee hours of Monday, April 26 that the house of Ibrahim Medium was attacked and 19 of his family members were killed including him. The gory event occurred on Sunday night so I was called around 2 am on Monday that IPOB members attacked the house. It was only one person who escaped. I was called because Ibrahim was married to my wife’s younger sister. The wife was not at home when the attack occurred. There were 20 people in the household and the attackers killed 19. The person who escaped went out to get something before the attackers stormed the house.

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He was on his way back home when he heard voices from the house and he hid somewhere. When the attackers left, he went on to discover that all of them were killed. Also, calves belonging to the family were mutilated. They were secured in confinement and did not pose any danger to the attackers but still, they were killed. The other cows were killed in large numbers.

What is the atmosphere like now?

I just spoke with a big personality there. He told me that the family of the women killed would find it hard to forgive the attackers. However, on our part, we are trying our best to look into how we can pacify their anger. But the act is despicable.

How many women were killed?

They killed nine women, six children, an elderly man (Ibrahim) and three adult males. Ibrahim had been living in the place for a long time.

Did you report the case to security agencies?

Yes, we did but we have not heard anything from them yet.

What is the situation of the Fulani there now?

There is tension among the Fulani due to what has been playing out in the South East. Even though some of them feel that if some people were asked to leave, they will not be included due to the years they had spent in the place. Over time, they have mingled and assimilated with the ways of the indigenes but now they have been condemned and no one knows who is next. Every Fulani in the state is now living in fear and most of them have left.

The man who was killed, Ibrahim Medium, has he lived there for long?

Yes. He used to say it proudly that he is safe and will not be chased away from the area because of how long he had lived there. Before his death, he saw himself as one of the indigenes of the place. He had been there since he was 25 years old.

Interviews by Abbas Dalibi, Ibadan & Faruk Shuaibu, Abuja



https://dailytrust.com/how-family-of-19-herders-were-wiped-out-in-anambra

optionalY09:
Nigeria Need a well orchestrated distabilization by the people of Nigeria to open negotiation for the future of their children.

I think the Nigerian Government need to listen to the citizens instead of begging China, US, Germany and UK to come and kill the citizens of Nigeria.

Since the Boko Harram menace did you invite the US China and all these foreign countries to come and help you. But you want to kill the Yoruba and Igbo people for demanding for what’s rightly theirs

I think these countries would just be pawns in this game, the primary plan is to eliminate millions of indigenous people in Nigeria and replace them with the Fulanis from the Sahel. Which the Buhari government wish to accomplish with the United States, China and United Kingdom support, it would be fair if these countries advise the Nigerian government to listen to it’s people instead of making theirselves a tool against innocent Nigerian people

What kind of madness is this

baralatie:
that is the best decision!
the essence of this is to continually drive in that notion .it is not the way of the fulani to be lawless or to think they can escape their crimes.
as long as amotekun has done that good job of getting the evidence and witnesses against the culprit handed over to police to prosecute the better.
if the police does not prosecute the fulani assailants and let's them go on the loose.it is the police that will loose face in the end by the time it is blown wide open that the police with evidence to prove that it has been aiding crime!
you guess on what happens next.i don't think the police won't another #end something

mekaboy:
Normal.

sagitariusbaby:
KNOW YOUR HISTORY.

*THIS IS SIMPLY THE REASON WHY HAUSAS, YORUBAS, EDO AND THE NIGER DELTA MAN WILL NOT TRUST THE IBO MAN AT THE CENTER AND WHY THE HAUSAS MAY NOT WANT TO RELINQUISH POWER IN NIGERIA*

Any historians in the house to vet this but no insults or character assassination please:

Forgotten History Of Igbo Tribe And Northern Alliance.

Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;

Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence Staff was from SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
The University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!

Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.

Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!

We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.

*What follows are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"*

Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

*“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.”*.

WHAT BIAFRANS WILL NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL CAUSE OF THEIR WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:

The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria. In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation. The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating.

However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914. I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.

Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300. This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.

To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as "The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".
Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future. According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance. But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria. At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution. While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.

Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis). As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:

"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).

"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949). Anascopeterson: As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate. Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria. With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.

But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region. But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region. While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.

While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.
When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts. Here is how:

In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address. But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard. Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government. However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony. Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exhuberance.

On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.

Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint". After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.

The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers. That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.

Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day. In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.

In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes. This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.
But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.

Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.

Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers. Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.
Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra. But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty? Be the judge. Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:

After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging. Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.

Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest of Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.

First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle. Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process. Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.

Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference. Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.

In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.

That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians. On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise. But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft. That was the height of Irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.

So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
Anascopeterson: Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.

Anytime i hear or watch NNAMDI KANU talk i never take it serious but only as a noisemaker.

Thank God for this author. The Lord will bless him for us all! Everyone needs to know this for real. Knowing the truth sets free. We need healing as a Nation. We need to face facts, admit the stupid errors of history and eventual forgive ourselves for the sins, enormous sins committed by our forefathers.
Love covers a multitude of sins.

Jasoncy:
We have made some researches and decided to bring up the good deeds and talks some notable men on the Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo.

It appears to be that people are really against Yemi Osinbajo and they have been plotting bad against him, people have been trying to bring him down.

The reasons and those who said it are;

“You kept your country together in peace while President Muhammadu Buhari was away. That is a good model for other vice presidents to follow,” - President George Weah of Liberia.

“Through the exemplary dedication to the service of humanity, humility and the godly disposition to leadership of Osinbajo, Nigeria will find solutions to its challenges”. – CAN President

VP Osinbajo Has Revolutionised Judiciary in Nigeria" - Emir of Lafia, retired Justice Sidi Bage Muhammad

Osinbajo leadership is given to him by God. - Sultan of Sokoto

Osinbajo is the most trustworthy vice president Nigeria ever had because of his interest in the nation”. - The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruk Umar

Continue reading...
https://www.callydgists.com/2021/04/5-reasons-why-yemi-osinbajo-remains.html

helinues:
As long as the monster remains in your hut, nobody give a damn

thebosstrevor1:
One of the most sadistic event happened in igboland yesterday, a massacre of fulanis took place in igboland, not only that Ipob terrorists have been attacking the hausa community in igboland and also the police and military installations killing our police and armies on duty, someone should have expected that the highest igbo group in igboland called Ohanaeze Ndigbo would have come out to condemn the attack but they have decided to keep shut and let the killings continue.

But when ipob goes about destroying lives and properties, this same group will come out and tell us that the reason is because of igbo marginalization. If they could condemn the new IG and other appointments of Buhari, why are they silent on violence in their land.

Sometimes, i wonder, if Ohanaeze Ndigbo is now a puppet of ipob terrorist group? Are they scared that if they speak up, they will be a target of ipob. Can this group man up and tell us who they are in support of? Can they man up and condemn the atrocities of Ipob and Nnamdi kanu? Whose side are they loyal to Nnamdi kanu or Igbo people.

Jollylolly:
Myn444 Lalasticlala

Front page.

This article is Say no to unrest. this is the time to come together and not allow politicians divide us because of their selfish gains and show of powers in the land

mekaboy:
Lol. Normal expression of people whose brains have been cancelled by kanu.

owobokiri:
As far as I'm concerned, the only way to prove to some folks what the easterners have gone through, in this hell, is for certain concrete actions to be taken to visit other parts of Nigeria with the same actions they have visited the east with, so that folks can feel what their so called 'fellow country men' go through on daily basis.

Close all the sea ports in the west and ask them to go and use Calabar Sea ports! Since 1970 , the evil Nigerian government has made sure that every Import to Onitsha, Enugu and Nnewi has to land at Lagos then trucked hundreds of kilometers to the East at the cost of life and property!

Get the whole country to use the Anambra airport Only, for international travels and businesses!
The only international airport easterners could use until recently was the Lagos airport! Inspite of the fact that they're heavy travellers, the government refused vehemently to improve airport facilities in the east! Even when Imo state decided to build an airport, the federal government insisted that it must be a cargo airport, then started fabricating all sorts of policies to forestall it's progress and usage!

I know of several people who have died in that Onitsha-Asaba-Benin-Lagos highway on their way to catch their flights in Lagos or while returning to the east after landing in Lagos! Very preventable deaths!

If south westerners refused to use Calabar ports and northerners refuse to use Anambra airport, solely for their activities, then they have absolutely no right to worry you when you're fighting institutionalized Marginalisation..

Defash01:
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, has said the APC is loved by Nigerians and has bright chances of ruling the country beyond 2023, NAN reports.

Read details. >>>>> https://thekokospot.com.ng/2021/04/27/tinubu-apc-has-bright-chances-to-continue-to-work-for-a-better-nigeria/

Omoslim26:
Are you Igbo??

mekaboy:
See the same kanu supporting them. Look up.

helinues:


So I asked my friend Emeka

Do UGM/ESN create job opportunity?

Do they build schools and health centre?

Any plans of creating an empowerment program for Igbo youths?

Are they embarking on any road construction soon?

Rich4god:
First of all, I want to believe that these UGM are different from ESN. Probably they are a bunch of criminals that emanated of recent in the east. But if UGM are same with ESN, then seriously, they are not doing the right thing. You dont go about killing innocent officers in the name of agitation.

These officers are more or less our brothers, they are just hustling like every other person just that their line of wrk is different. So why kill them in the name of agitation. I hope we all know how Boko Haram started. After they finished killing officers, they turned on non indigenes now every civilian up north is a potential target. Let UGM not turn out to be like BH. After targeting officers, who else will the target. Even if Nigeria is going to divide, we still need the present day setting of Nigeria to be intact for efficient trading and business. A lot of Igbo have businesses outside the East. So UGM not use this attacks and stir up confusion everywhere to the extent that the igbos will be made to leave other region and return back home. That is not what we wish and pray for.

Those of us who are supporting the action of UGM should think twice. Nobody is better of dead. And on a second note, all these stations that they are attacking and burning down, if we actualize our own country, its not out of place to use that station as our own police formation. So why destroy them now.

If am in the helm of power. I will give the police officers in the East a compulsory 6 months leave. Then vacate and disarm all stations in the east except for state HQ. And that state HQ will hold a surprise for anyone that feels he will want to attack it. Am sure when the UGM have no other place to attack, when they start attacking the citizens, by then they will be ready to resist the movement of UGM.

But one thing that baffle me is, how come in all these attack against police and army, non of the UGM have been gunned down or arrested. We need to knw their identity. At least, we have seen ESN in videos and so we know how they dress. Probably arresting on of the UGM will lead us to know who they are or if they are same with ESN.

helinues:

longetivity:
receive sense IJN

mekaboy:
Lol. Normal expression of people whose brains have been cancelled by kanu.

jimi4us:
Clowns clowns clowns



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