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aribisala0:
the narrative is old immediately after trauma there was a need to find closure with a story acceptable to the psyche within the far from neutral political space. people told themselves and their children stories my quetion is this how many of those stories involve NAMED military personnel??

Awo admitted to two things:

1. That he signed the 20-pound policy
2. That he stopped the supply of foreign food into Biafra, thereby starving children to death

That is enough to know who was pulling the strings.

dayokanu:
Who did Ademoyega kill?

Nzeogwu killed Bello, Ifeajuna killed Balewa, Nwobosi killed Akintola, Anuforo killed Okotie-Eboh, Tim Onwuategwu killed Ademulegun and his wife in bed

In  a coup what matters, the one who pulled the trigger or those who were active in coup plottingan dexecution? As to who pulled which trigger, you have no evidence for all your claims.

Aribisala:

Those military men had the brawn and the gun but without the brain. Awo supplied the brain power which was most effective compared to the brawn. Without his evil policies, the outcome of the war would be different, I guess.

What was he angry with the Igbos about that led to the actions he took against them?

aribisala0:
please do not generalize who is you guys? did you read what you just copied. if you copy my post that means you want to have a sensible discussion so do me the courtesy of reading and comprehending what you copy. do not ascribe to me that yoruba or igbo nonsense. you are projecting your own prejudiced emotions.because you are like that does not mean everyone else is i said awo was targeted because he was a civilian. immediately after the war could anyone come out and raise their voice against gowon.

We have long been in democracy where there is no fear of the military men. Why do people still not blame Obasanjo, Gowon, Adekunle and the others? Why do they still blame Awo even in death? You have a lot of questions to answer for yourself. Bye.

aribisala0:
immediately after the war ended there was a sense of deep hurt in the east .
sadly they had lost the war and quite painfully too with lots of lives lost BUT
none of the post war narratives dared to villify any characters from the North
NOT ONE
e.g. Yakubu Gowon
    Hassan Katsina
    Murtala Muhammad
     T. Danjuma to name a few

even from the west Olusegun Obasanjo and
  the so-called Black Scorpion were all spared any
popular criticism


These were after all principal actors in the whole debacle. why does no one point the accusing finger at these lot.

The answer is quite simple really they were all military figures and in the prevailing mood the Nigerian military were greatly feared as such coming to terms with the psychological trauma has entailed transference of angst and so we observe the  casting of  Awolowo as the villain in chief. He was civilian and was a readily available scapegoat for all evils.
i will not come to his defence but whatever he did there were others who did a lot worse
what is striking is that the victims cannot even name them much less or more confront them or villify them . a very complex, psychology not dissimilar to that observed in victims of intimate abuse. fascinating

You know what? Those were soldiers and we know what soldiers do in peace times, let alone in war times

Was Awo a soldier? If it was a Yoruba-Igbo thing as you guys see it, we would also blame Obasanjo and Adekunle. Ask yourself why all the blame goes to Awo. It is not for nothing.

dayokanu:
When Ibo soldiers were killing other regional leaders while sparing theirs they should have used their common sense but I guessed they had none.

War is war and Benjamin Adekunle knew what war is about not a juvenile Ojukwu who thought it was a friendly match??

Was Ademoyega also an Igbo Soldier?
After the counter coup in which Igbo soldiers were killed, what happened to Igbo civilians who had no hand in the first coup? Where they spared?

dayokanu:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?25442-Nigerian-Army-blunders-during-the-civil-war-Part-1

Yet it was Awolowo who starved them.

Did Awo not starve them with food that did not belong to him to begin with?

Did the statement you bolded ever come to pass? If so, can you kindly share with us the evidence?

Can we separate factual events from wishes?

As for Adekunle I have this question for you: where are you today? Where are your family members today? How come no member of your family is in reckoning either in the SW or Nigerian politics? Are you finished even before the time? I dey laugh ohh

This statement is bold. It is better than Awo's slippery slope claims. Awo committed war crimes and wanted to sugar-coat his way thru.
Imagine Awo lying that he supplied food to Biafra
Imagine Awo admitting that he gave Igbos 20 pounds each despite how much they had
Imagine Awo lying that Biafrans looted and burnt the CBN in Biafra
Imagine awo claiming that Igbos love him- Awo was stoned in Aba years after the war.

Awo is a blatant liar. Were I to choose (God forbid though), I will take Adekunle any day for being bold enough to admit his evil, unlike Awo.

LFJ:
I have heard this story over and over again; the allegation against Awolowo was always center around these two issues of food and 20 pounds. If this is the case, what do we expect the man to do? Do we expect him to continue to supply food to the enemies? I don’t want us to be sentimental on this issue; what happen during the civil war are not strange; those are the consequence of war.

Did he actually supply food to the enemy? Was he actually in any position to do so? He simply stopped the supply of food by foreign agencies using Nigerian land/air space. Let's be factual, okay?

The threat was a strategy that worked for Biafra to get arms. You can threaten heaven and earth, but another thing is to actually carry out the threat.
Here, Ojukwu threatened, and Awo carried out the threat.

Eko Ile:
Please answer yes or no.

Was the fuel for your starving people to eat or drink?

What's more important for your starving people? Food or fuel?

Onlya foolish , heartless and cold blooded leader places conditions on food delivery for his own dying people.


Btw, please dont tell us it's was never enforced because you dont know, the fact that he put such disastrus policy out there while his own people are dying was cold blooded.

You still do not get it. He asked for both and never one. You are mentally unable to listen to and digest your own video?
Both were supplied. The war went on
No enforcement of the threat was made, otherwise we would have seen it just like we saw evidence of the threat itself. Okay?
But Awo enforced it and killed millions of children. That, my friend, is the difference.

jason123:
But the war ended in 1970 
Moreover, how Awo have stopped the supply of food?? I think you are giving a "finance minster" too much credit.

Yes, I was coming to that. That was probably his saving grace that the 1979 regulation was not proactive.
Did you read his interview where he claimed he was supplying food to Biafra and that had to stop because the food was being hijacked by soldiers? He, not Gowon, said it, no?

1. He lied about Nigeria supplying food to Biafra
2. He had no moral right to stop foreign food supply to Biafran civilians for whatever reason.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/world/africa/odumegwu-ojukwu-leader-of-breakaway-republic-of-biafra-dies-at-78.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

Odumegwu Ojukwu, Breakaway Biafra Leader, Dies at 78
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: November 26, 2011

 
Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Oxford-educated Nigerian colonel who proclaimed the Republic of Biafra in 1967 and led his Ibo people into a secessionist war that cost more than a million lives, many of them starved children whose skeletal images shocked the world, has died at a hospital in London. He was 78.
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International news reports quoted Maja Umeh, a spokesman for the All Progressive Grand Alliance Party in Nigeria, as confirming Mr. Ojukwu’s death. The Associated Press said he died on Saturday, but Bloomberg News said the death occurred on Friday. The cause was not cited. Mr. Ojukwu had a stroke at his home in Enugu, Nigeria, in December 2010, and had since been under treatment in London.

Mr. Ojukwu was an unlikely militarist and a reluctant rebel: the sports-car-driving son of one of Nigeria’s richest men, an urbane student of history and Shakespeare who read voraciously, wrote poetry, played tennis and, with his wealth and connections, might have been a business mogul or a worldly rouge-et-noir playboy.

But he spurned his father’s offer of a business partnership, joined Nigeria’s civil service and then its army in the turbulent last years of British colonial rule. And as maps of Africa were redrawn by forces of national and tribal self-determination, he became military governor of the Ibo homeland, one of three tribal regions, at a historic juncture.

At 33, he found himself at the vortex of simmering ethnic rivalries among Nigeria’s Hausas in the north, Yorubas in the southwest and Ibos in the southeast. The largely Christian Ibos were envied as one of Africa’s best-educated and most industrious peoples, possessed of much of Nigeria’s oil wealth. Tensions finally exploded into assassinations, coups and a massacre of 30,000 Ibos by Hausas and federal troops.

While he denounced the massacre and cited other Ibo grievances, Colonel Ojukwu for months resisted rising Ibo pressure for secession. He proposed a weak federation to separate Nigeria’s three tribal regions politically. But Col. Yakubu Gowon, leader of the military government in Lagos, rejected the idea. A clash over federal taxation of the Ibo region’s oil and coal industries precipitated the final break.

“Long live the Republic of Biafra,” Colonel Ojukwu proclaimed on May 30, 1967.

Five weeks later, civil war began when Nigerian military forces invaded the breakaway province. It was a lopsided war, with other nations supporting federal forces seeking to unify the country and Biafra standing virtually alone. Nigeria was Africa’s most populous nation, with 57 million people, of which 8 million to 10 million were Ibos.

Poorly equipped and outnumbered four to one, Biafra’s 25,000-member army held its own for months, supported by a[b] citizenry that donated food, clothing and supplies. Colonel Ojukwu ran Biafra as a wartime democracy, fought alongside his troops and was said to be revered by his people.[/b]

He gave orders in a slow, deliberate baritone: native Igbo with an Oxford accent. Fond of Sibelius, he chose “Finlandia” as Biafra’s national anthem. And he read Shakespeare. “Hamlet was my favorite,” he told a New York Times correspondent. “I wonder what the psychiatrists will make of that.”

Over a battle map he looked like a brooding Othello, with solemn eyes and a luxuriantly bearded countenance. He slept irregularly, sometimes working nonstop for days, taking a meal now and then, rarely touching alcohol but chain-smoking English cigarettes.

Tanzania, Zambia, the Ivory Coast and Gabon recognized Biafra, and France and other nations provided covert aid. But the Soviet Union, Egypt and even Britain, after a period of neutrality, supplied weapons and advisers to Nigeria. The United States, officially neutral, provided diplomatic and relief coordination aid. But after 15 months of war, Biafra’s 29,000 square miles had been reduced to 5,000, and deaths had soared.

As crops burned and refugees streamed away from advancing federal forces, much of the population was cut off from food supplies. As the 30-month civil war moved onto the world stage as one of the first televised wars, millions around the globe were stunned by pictures of Biafran babies with distended bellies and skeletal children who were succumbing to famine by the thousands daily in the war’s final stages.

Colonel Ojukwu appealed to the world to save his people. International relief agencies responded, and scores of cargo planes ferried food in to the encircled Biafrans, but airlifts were woefully inadequate. Deaths from starvation were estimated at more than 6,000 a day, and postwar studies suggested that a third of Biafra’s surviving preschoolers — nearly 500,000 — were malnourished at war’s end.


In January 1970, secessionist resistance was crushed and its leader, by then a general, fled into exile in Ivory Coast and London. Granted a presidential pardon after 13 years, he returned to Nigeria in 1982 and was welcomed by enormous crowds. He became a Lagos businessman and ran unsuccessfully for president several times, but remained a hero in the eyes of many of his countrymen.

The legacies of the war were terrible. Deaths from fighting, disease and starvation were estimated by international relief agencies at one million to three million. Besides widespread destruction of hospitals, schools, homes and businesses, Ibos faced discrimination in employment, housing and political rights. Nigeria reabsorbed Biafra, however, and the region was rebuilt over 20 years as its oil-based economy prospered anew.

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (pronounced chuk-woo-MA-ka oh-doo-MAG-woo oh-JU-kwoo) was born on Nov. 4, 1933, in Zungeru, Nigeria. From modest beginnings, his father, Sir Louis Phillipe Odumegwu Ojukwu, had made fortunes in transportation and real estate, and was Nigeria’s wealthiest entrepreneur when he died in 1966.

The boy nicknamed Emeka attended Kings College in Lagos, Nigeria’s most prestigious secondary school; Epson College, a boys’ prep school in Surrey, and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with honors in history in 1955. Classmates said he was popular, dressed stylishly, drove a bright red MG sports car and loved discussions of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Louis XIV and Shakespeare.

He had three wives. His first, Njideka, a law student he met at Oxford and wed in 1962, died in 2010. His second, Stella Onyeador, died in 2009. He married Bianca Odinaka Onoh, a former beauty queen and businesswoman 34 years his junior, in 1994. Returning to Nigeria in 1956, he rejected his father’s business overtures, worked on development in remote villages, and in 1957 joined the army. He called himself an amateur soldier, but rose rapidly in the ranks after Nigeria gained independence in 1960. In 1966, he became military governor of the Ibo region, and declared Biafran independence after repression enveloped his people.

He sometimes compared Biafrans to Israelis. “The Israelis are hard-working, enterprising people,” he told a visitor to his besieged field headquarters in 1969. “So are we. They’ve suffered from pogroms. So have we. In many ways, we share the same promise and the same problems.”

Where de food we Awo claim to have supplied?

Eko Ile:
lol, Very cold blooded indeed. Watch the video I posted, apart from ojuku demanding bribe for food, the aid food people said he told them to loading their planes with fuel instead of food.

Are you that unable to listen? It implies[b] load fuel in addition to food [/b]not load fuel instead of food.

It says ''If you do not bring fuel you would not be allowed to bring in food''. As clearly stated as crystal. Nothing was said like bring in fuel instead of food.

Again, there was no time that threat was carried out as both food and money were sent in by the aid agencies. Awo was the one who carried out his own of stopping food supply to civilians.

By stopping food supply to the civilian masses, Awo committed genocide on the basis of the 1979 Protocol II of the Geneva Convention to regulate internal conflict.

Eko Ile:


I am still waiting to see the video where Ojukwu stopped food from landing in Biafra
I want to see your evidence that Biafra was asking food from Nigeria
Those things are not in the video you flaunt around with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqhqP3U-t4&feature=related

I want to see evidence of Awo's claim that Biafrans looted and burnt the Central Bank in Biafra


Ojukwu did threaten that food supply would be stopped if not accompanied with fuel and money and he explained carefully what the money was to be used for.

The narrator in the video did imply that without the aid (money, food and ammunition (ammunition from France) the war would have long been over.

Your attempts to interpret that in your own selfish way has failed.

From Awo's interview three things are clear:

1. He did sign the 20-pounds policy
2. He lied about Nigeria supplying food to Biafra
3. He stopped foreign food supply to Biafra via Nigerian air space, thereby committing an act of genocide according to the UN regulations

Eko Ile:
The man said If they didn't do it, they wont be allowed to bring in food.

That was bribery, extortion and blackmail.

How do you justify telling aid workers if they don't pay you, they wont be allowed to bring in food when your people are starving?

It clearly means the money was more important to him than his starving people.


Your thinking dey crooked and bogus sha, just like ojukwu's

That is your own interpretation. Even the white man did not interpret it that way. If Ojukwu had not used that strategy the war would be over. The white man made that clear too.

lagcity:
Nchara Nchara Nchara. how many times wey i call u? these lies and denials are not going to get you anywhere.

I do not know about you, but the video I watched did not show, neither did I hear anything about bribe money. Ojukwu asked for money in addition to food. When Red Cross Hedged, he threatened and money was then sent in addition to food. Listen carefully, both Ojukwu and the white guy used the words ''in addition to food'' in their explanations. Is there any evidence elsewhere that food was stopped by Ojukwu? I did not see that in this video.

In retrospect can we say that Awo would be happy today for the Nigeria he fought to keep together? Tinubu can be easily said to be the Awo of today. What does he think about Nigeria's current situation in relation to Ojukwu and the biafra war?

Tinubu: His death reminder of Nigeria’s federalism problem
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Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) national leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday said the death of Ojukwu marked the passage of one of the movers of Nigerian history in the 20th century.

The former governor of Lagos State described Ojukwu’s death as a reminder of “Nigeria’s unfinished federal business and the urgency to fix the problem, once and for all.”

“Ojukwu’s death once again reminds all of us of the unfinished business of Nigerian federalism.  If only for his memory, and to ensure that Nigeria never has to suffer again any crisis like the Civil War, we must all rise as a people to fix Nigeria’s special challenges.  That is why,” he insisted, “Nigeria must, as a matter of urgency convoke a sovereign national conference, where all these issues would be resolved.”

He said that federal-related tensions still persisted 31 years after the Civil War (1967-1970), underlined the depth of the feeling of marginalisation and perceived unfairness by critical stakeholders in the Nigerian union.

Tinubu extended his condolences and sympathies to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu, the widow and the entire clan Ojukwu, as well as the entire Igbo race on behalf of who the Ikemba lived, fought and died, in the context of an equitable federal Nigeria.

The former governor said though Chief Odumegwu-Ojukwu was a controversial figure, he made his mark during the era of the titans of Nigerian politics and governance.

“Ojukwu, the Ikemba and Eze Igbo Gburugburu, meant many things to many people.  But his greatness was that he stood his own such that, even with the constellation of stars of his age and time, he still made his mark – and profoundly so.  You might love Ojukwu and you might hate him.  But you could never be indifferent about him nor could you ignore him,” Tinubu said.

He said the late Biafran war leader was a revolutionary, almost from the womb.

“While his father, the rich and the illustrious Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu insisted his son should go into the civil services as was fit for an Oxford graduate in history that his son was, the young man had other ideas.  He opted for military service, even offering to join as a recruit, when his way was blocked.  That decision,” Asiwaju Tinubu added, “not only made him the first graduate to enlist in the Nigerian Army, it also changed the course of Nigerian history.”

Asiwaju Tinubu said the Biafran episode, the civil war and Ojukwu’s role in the Second Republic when, fresh from exile when he dived head-long into the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN) to contest a senatorial seat, which he eventually lost, was still a subject of historical analysis.

So, is his controversial stand on the June 12 question, when the late Ikemba campaigned against the mandate of Basorun MKO Abiola, when it was annulled by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.”

But Asiwaju Tinubu insisted all these actions were, in his opinion, not driven by any personal motives, but the need to give the Igbo fair representation in the Nigerian commonwealth.

“The Civil War was unfortunate.  Ojukwu was one of the young men at the helms who took one decision or the other, that led to the unfortunate war,” he said.  “But whatever the circumstances were, I don’t think Ojukwu’s actions were driven by  personal motives.  It would appear to me they were driven by efforts to give the Ndigbo fair representation in a federal Nigeria.”



http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/27705-tinubu%3A-his-death-reminder-of-nigeria%E2%80%99s-federalism-problem.html




Lt-Gen Akinrinade Regrets Fighting Civil War

Akinrinade raises fear of Nigeria�s disintegration
By Dayo Benson & James Ezema
Thursday, November 12, 2009

LAGOS�A former Chief of Army Staff and ex-Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant-General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), yesterday warned that the country risks disintegration unless true federalism is restored.

He also regretted his participation in the Nigerian-Biafran civil war.

Akinrinade said if he had known that the country would find itself in its present state, he would not have fought in the war to keep the country together.

He spoke at a forum, �The New Nigeria Dialogue� organised by the International Centre for Reconstruction and Development to mark the 55th birthday of Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly in Lagos.

According to him, �If I had known that the country would turn to what it is today, I would not have fought the civil war to keep Nigeria one.�

He stressed that as a soldier he would fight to defend the country against external aggressors but would never fight internal war again.

He described the sacrifice and patriotic duty as a waste of time and efforts, declaring that post-civil war Nigeria is not a country of his dream.

Speakers, including Professor Ropo Sekoni, Mr. Alfred Ilenre, Chief Fred Agbeyegbe and Mr. Tony Nnadi spoke on: �The Nigerian Federation: Fundamental Flaws and Creative Reforms.�

At the event, chaired by ex-governor of Lagos State, Rear-Admiral Ndubusi Kanu (rtd), were ex-Osun State Gov, Chief Bisi Akande; Dr. Amos Akingba, Mr. Wale Oshun, Mrs. Jumoke Anifowose, Mr. Tokunbo Ajasin, Mr. Bisi Adegbuyi, Mr. Adedapo Adeniran, Mr. Sam Ayedogbon and others.

http://odili.net/news/source/2009/nov/12/318.html

What did the Yoruba, led by Awo, partake in the Biafra war for? Did they achieve that aim?

Eko Ile:
So you watched the video, but you just conveniently missed where ojuku admitted taking bribe and denying food


HOW DISGUSTING,

You are a liar. It was not bribe money but a clear request for money, in addition to food, to run the military. No time did I hear that food supply was stopped in this video because money was not sent. They were threatened but never were stopped. Eventually money came with the food. France also granted that request by sending arms. Watch your own video. Keep lying for Awo.

Okay!!! Enough of old history that will only keep going in circles. In retrospect can we say that Awo would be happy today for the Nigeria he fought to keep together? Tinubu can be easily said to be the Awo of today. What does he think about Nigeria's current situation in relation to Ojukwu and the biafra war?

Aigbofa:
How would you know who sent the food? And if no food came from Nigeria, then the reports of babies dying from food poisoning was fabricated. Lies, one of many told by the Ikemba.

The food was sent by agencies overseas. The videos are all available. Awo sent no pint of food, not that anyone asked him to. Okay?

Aigbofa:
So there was some food coming through Nigerian territory? And there was fear some may be poisoned. The question then is not whether food was coming from Nigeria, but the real origin of the food, which Ojukwu or any Biafran had no way of confirming.

How then can you say with all certainty that Awo did not send any food.

Perhaps Ojukwu was taking the food, divert it to the war front and then tell Biafrans the food was poisoned and therefore destroyed.

Watch the link provide by Eko Ile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqhqP3U-t4&feature=related and see how the white guy there described how food was distributed. You have no clue what you are saying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqhqP3U-t4&feature=related


Fast forward to 2:22 and listen to Oyinbo AID group describing how ojuku asked for bribe and extorted money from them. Even saying unless they pay, their planes filled with food no go land and they should take their food away, while his own people are starving as claimed by you lying folks blaming everybody outside your borders but not your war leader turning away food planes for his people. He even asked the to bring in  fuel instead of food.

Obviously he care less about starving ibo people.


You ojuku sat their and admitted, he didn't deny it.

So how many ibo did he starve to death with his bribery and extortion policies.?


You a free to blame other people for your misfortunes, ojuku himself created a whole lot of it. It's there in black and white, video don't lie and these are white folks from abroad, not Nigerians or Yoruba people

Eko Ile, I do not see this in this video. Did you post a wrong one or you are just plain lying lying Awo?

dayokanu:
I prefer the Benjamin Adekunle way

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These people who think in warfare you have to feed your enemies? Is this Mortal kombat?

Indeed, better a brave truth than solicitous, lily-livered bare-faced lies.

Okay!!! Enough of old history that will only keep going in circles. In retrospect can we say that Awo would be happy today for the Nigeria he fought to keep together? Tinubu can be easily said to be the Awo of today. What does he think about Nigeria's current situation in relation to Ojukwu and the biafra war?

Eko Ile:
But Ojukuw denied biafra food.


You are yet to address that, instead you are going on and on about the man with zero responsibility to feed you while ignoring the man responsible that actually denied you food.


Your argument is bogus and disingenuous, it's even laughable.

Ojukwu may have denied entry of foreign food via Nigerian soil because there were strong evidence of food tampering and poisoning from the Nigerian side. That claim is not beyond what Nigeria can do, even today. Still, that does not warrant Awo telling barefaced lies that Nigeria was supplying food to Biafra, does it? Biafra was getting food via Biafran boarders until those boarders were closed at the instigation of Gowon/Awo in order to enable them inspect and probably poison food that will come in via Nigerian soil.

Aigbofa:
And am supposed to believe you because you said so?

Why would I believe Awo, especially when he lied blatantly?

Aigbofa:
The Federal Government gets its money from all parts of Nigeria, some do contribute more than the other, but that is not a reason to declare secession and loot the central bank.

From this response, I gather that secession was declared because of money in the central bank located in Eastern Nigeria, right? New history lessons for me, indeed.