₦airaland Forum

Bkayyy:
Fake news Peddler and history re-writer. Adaka Boro fought against the Nigerian armed forces not Eastern region armed forces (if there was anything like that).
And who are the Nigerian armed forces again?

Don't mind the op. He is a late entrant to this discussion

FSBoperator:
Then why did Azikiwe block the minority report wanting to leave the eastern region?

Why did Ironsi send Ojukwu to crush Adaka Boro's revolt to leave Nigeria all together to be free from you Igbos ?


You used the resources from the minority regions to develop your Enugu .


Isn't this what led to western Cameron leaving Nigeria citing neglect and flagrant pillaging of their resources to develop Igbo towns and cities?


You were leaches back then and still are.

Even the north did not squander the resources of the minority people like the way you Igbos did in the eastern region.

Why did you not respect yourselves like the Yorubas who did not object to Mid Western region being carved out even though till this day people from the old Bendel still regard Awolowo as being fair minded with his free education policies and development strides in their region. Was this the case in the eastern region under you Igbo Jews?

I hope you won't hang yourself if fulani dont give ND the VP slot in 2023 Walàhi the South West and the Niger Delta are the problem of the South. The Niger Delta is the biggest loser of the 1966 alliance with the north.

Yorubas at least gained infrastructure and Corporate tax base including oyel companies from hosting the capital in Lagos.

The north took ND oil courtesy of Gowon whos created states and left the land polluted and very poor.

Today Zamfara can sell its gold to who it wants in USD but after 50 years oil is becoming useless and the Niger Delta is still very poor, undeveloped and now you have narcotic infested smoking militants and cultists all over the place.

Bkayyy:
They can't keep on hiding the truth and re-writing history.
We have survived the Civil War and it is time to set records straight.
Below was Enugu (1,2) and Onitsha (3,4) before the Biafran war

The internet spoiled show for them

I recently found out that the current Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria was originally called Nigeria Building Society. A collabo between the Commonwealth and the Eastern Region in 1956. The housing deficit in the east was the lowest in the country

FSBoperator:
With COR region set to be carved out of the old eastern regon, the region would have been both the poorest and least politically relevant.

Azikiwe was stirring at his political irrelevance.

Rejected in the west and now the Niger Delta, Azikiwe would have been relegated as a minority leader in the federal Parliament.

This is why they struck on Jan 15 , 1966.

The Eastern region was the fastest growing economy in the country. Some commentators even say in the world at the time. You think we would spoil our own picnic?

Have you read "Why we struck" by Ademoyega?

This Umahi should get title of odogwu efulefu of ndi Igbo uwa nile. He's a very irresponsible person

Even if he wants to fight his opponents why should he use allegation of IPOB against them knowing that the army of police like to use any suspicion of IPOB member as an excuse to kill and terrorise innocent igbo youth in the east?

This set of SE governors is the absolute worst. Very useless ponmo men

GBTYO:
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So by collapsing all regional civil service into one which the Igbos dominated was what again?

Did the Sarduna not threaten to end employment of Igbos into the niethern civil service ?

This was the Igbo attempt at controlling governance from the center.

When the regions no longer held control of their civil service , how can they govern effectively?

Stop making lame ass excuses.

Camel will pass through the eye of a needle before Niger Delta man agrees that his alliance with the north was a planet sized fiasco and that Gowon took your oyel Keep chasing shadows

no kee me with laugh this morning

Kestolove:
The man that spoil nigeria...his people are paying for it

His people don't have one million boys and Badoo cult in their place

GBTYO:
I am making this thread specifically to address the Igbo liars who in another similar thread claimed that it was Gowon and not Ironsi that dismantled the regional government structure and in place ushered in a Marxist Centrist forced unity one Nigeria with Igbos overly represented.

Calm down and study the fine print of what you posted.

"It has become apparent to all Nigerians that rigid adherence to ‘regionalism’, was the bane of the last regime and one of the main factors which contributed to its downfall"

Ironsi did not say it was bad he said "rigid adherence" to regionalism was bad. So he unified the civil service and retained regional governors. Fajuyi (West), Ojukwu (East), Katsina (North) & Ejoor (Midwest).

Ironsi is not the one that took your oyel money and started siphoning it all to build massive infrastructure all over the north in the name of "Federation account" It was Gowon that did that one to you while keeping the Niger delta poor af and polluting the environment

ijawcitizen:
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This is also from the source you're quoting.
How do you plead to the charge brought against the igbo nation?

Have you abandoned your previous lies? I like how you are dismantling your childish propaganda by yourself. From claiming that the old eastern region seized Ikwerre land to saying it was Ijaw land that Igbos took

The portion you encircled shows that the only time that the Eastern region appropriated land in PH was when they took the land that is Zamani Lekwot barracks to prepare for the civil war in 1966. This was even in a military regime and not under the 1st Republic as you have been lying non-stop about on this thread. The FG took it over and still does till tomorrow

gidgiddy:
Colonel Emmanuel Nwobosi has just passed on. In 1966, as Captain Nwobosi, he was a participant in Nigerias first coup. He is also the last surviving member of the inner caucus that hatched and executed the coup. When Biafra was declared, he became a Biafran officer and fought for his people. Some time in late 2018, Nwobosi travelled to Israel to meet IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. On the 15th of January 2019, exactly 53 years after the coup, Nnamdi Kanu allowed him to read out a statement on Radio Biafra. This is what Nwobosi said:

There were nine of us that planned the January 15 Revolution: Majors Nzeogwu, Anuforo, Ifeajuna, Ademoyega, Chukwuka, Okafor, Onwuategwu, Obienu and myself. However, four of us started it. Major Ifeajuna and Major Ademoyega in the South; and Major Nzeogwu and myself in the North. We then united as a single revolution. I am the last of the four original revolutionaries. None published the complete truth. Only me, Colonel Nwobosi, is alive today, to tell the Final Truth, so that the lies will not triumph forever.

They used us to repress the Middle-belt and the Yorubas. When we saw genocide, we began to disobey orders and swore to stop them. For instance, Major Anuforo refused to release mass murderers caught with weapons, and was court martialled. He was replaced by Major Hassan Katsina, a Northern Muslim, willing to act. I was in Abeokuta but refused to repress Yorubas, instead I opened our barracks as a safe place for them to run to. They told many lies about the January 15 boys, to justify their genocide, but it is those of us that planned the revolution that they should have killed, not the three million innocent Biafrans that knew nothing.

For years I kept quiet, blaming myself and wondering whether at 27, I was too radical that my actions led to the deaths of millions. Today, the same evil in 1966 is being unleashed. As I watch, my sense of guilt has vanished, because we were not the evil. We were trying to stop the evil. That Evil is Radical Islamism. I have decided to speak out and warn the world of the impending disaster if we do not stop it.

Each time Radical Muslims plan a Jihad, in their religious mission to conquer the world, they will fail, but in the attempt, thousands and even millions will die. That happened to us in Biafra. At this point let me differentiate between peaceful, law-abiding Muslims and Radical Muslims who want to kill others to force their religion on them. The problem is that wherever peaceful Muslims are, there are some Radical Muslims amongst them. That is why they began a Jihad in 1966. That is why we had to stop it. That is why they killed millions of our people. That is why we declared Biafra, because we are a peaceful people and oil and water can never mix.

My story is a warning to Nigerians. For years, I was prevented from speaking the truth by exile, prison, harassment, poverty, surveillance and death threats held over many of the actors like Ojukwu, Zik, Awolowo, Ibiam and the January 15 boys that survived. But as I watch today, many of the events that led to our revolution are happening again: Boko Haram, Fulani Militia, Niger Delta Militants, Shiites, IPOB and mass murders.

Some people think we acted wrongly in carrying out the January 15 revolution, but they may not be fully aware of the realities then. We were trained by the British to be patriotic, to give the ultimate sacrifice for Nigerian and to stop anyone acting against the nation.

Instead of our leaders using us to defend Nigeria they were using us to suppress citizens. We, decided to arrest them for their atrocities because no one was willing to act. Not Zik, the President, who was powerless, not Ironsi, the Head of the Army, who was a conservative. There were many reasons why we had to act:

1. To stop the killings in Yoruba land and the Middle Belt by NPC the ruling Party;

2. To stop the invasion of Yorubaland on 17th January, 1966;

3. To correct the massive rigging of the 1964 elections;

4. To free Awolowo from Prison and make him the Prime Minister;

5. To stop the terrible corruption, nepotism of the NPC, the Ruling Party;

6. To stop Ahmadu Bello’s planned Jihad.

It was good that we acted to save the Yoruba and the Middle Belt people, and we thought that was enough to stop the Jihad. We could not foresee that they would massively attack innocent Igbos. Blame those who decided to massacre our people for their evil. Today we are fighting Buhari. He is killing Shiite Muslims and IPOB members. With the benefit of hind-sight we can see other ways of dealing with such evil, but for us in 1966, we just wanted to save the people from massacre.

Number 6 was what made them strike on January 15, 1966. They planned the revolution for a later time but when they discovered that Sardauna was about to level the Western region they rushed into action. That's why so many mistakes were made

GBTYO:
Of all the decrees enacted in Nigeria, none is more controversial than Decree No 34 of 1966. It was promulgated on May 24, 1966 by then Head of State, Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi (1924-1966) . It was called Unification Decree while some critics at that time labelled it the De-unification Decree.
It was the decree that started the death of regionalism – an issue which is still generating controversy till now. Although the next head of State General Yakubu Gowon repealed the Decree 34 on August 31, 1966 through Decree 9, a large portion of the Decree is still effective till today.
General Gowon further compounded it by promulgating Decree 14 of 1967 which broke Nigeria into 12 states and provided for military governors for each state. With Decrees 34, 8 and 14 regionalism was finally buried.

So Ironsi's decree which unified the civil service but retained resource control is worse than Gowon's which abolished resource control? chai

GBTYO:
Stop lying abeg.


Ironsi even made a broadcast defending the end to regional governance claiming it was what was fueling national disintegration.


See my second post on page 1 of this thread


You should know who is this.

ODB what was Fajuyi's official designation when he was killed. What was Ojukwu's designation when he refused to recognise Gowon in Lagos.

Degree 34 unified the civil service it didn't dismantle the regions. Go and read it. You obviously have not

ijawcitizen:
Listen,
Ikwerre land as of the time of Eastern region were largely rural villages which has very little to do with Port Harcourt.

The Port Harcourt you know now is very different from the Port Harcourt of the time of the eastern region.

Which areas were seized abi they have no name? Michael Okpara built Trans-Amadi Layout in Obio-Akpor. Is that Ijaw land too?


Let me even humour your primary school lies

"Rivers State and Nigeria was generally subject to a traditional system".

GBTYO:
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Decree 34 dissolved the regional governments and placed supreme authority on the Head of State.

It was this same Decree 34 that was the main issue at Aburi which you Igbos wanted receded.

It did not dissolve the regions. You haven't even read Decree 34 before. So which job were Ojukwu, Hassan Katsina and Adekunle Fajuyi doing before Ironsi's overthrow?

You are a very late entrant to this discussion

ijawcitizen:
You feel this is an argument? I am sorry you are clearly out of your depth.

The igbo kingdom of Eastern region government declared PH government lands and allocated every plot to igbos only, even our streets were named after igbo migrants overlords-wannabes or did we sell our lands to igbos and sold the names of our streets too to be changed to igbo migrants' names?

THIS IS A FACT, your childish attempt to deny this glaring fact that can be verified even from Pluto only makes you look more miserable.

"Ikwerre people had unrestricted access to their lands before the Land Use Act of 1978"

Your beer parlour gist is DOA

So you know more about Rivers State land history than an Ikwerre historian academic. If we check well you aren't even from the South-South

ijawcitizen:
The igbo government of Eastern region confiscated all lands in Port Harcourt and arbitrarily allocated (only about 20% of those lands were actually paid for) every plot to IGBOS ONLY, denying the richer Port Harcourt natives (Ikwerre & Ijaw) the right to even own a plot in their own land, but rather offered to buy some miserable plots inside Igboland for outrageous amounts.

We have gladly recovered our territory forcefully and systematically stolen from us by igbos.

Given this fact, who is the thief between the port Harcourt natives and the igbo migrants overlord-wannabes?

Kidnapping has always been an integral part of the igbo culture. You guys have been kidnapping and selling yourselves to us at the coast even before the white men came...ask our errand boys, your revered Aro people.

We first took up arms against the evil igbo kingdom of Eastern region and the greedy, blind and demonic Ironsi government who abolished secession, regionalism and resource control for a unitary system where igbos control everything.

Igbos were no where close to the average Niger Deltan family in wealth before the British created eastern region. Eastern region effectively transferred the wealth of Niger Deltans into igbo hands.

This is false history. If you want to lie at least try and put in some effort.

1. There was no "Igbo government" in the Eastern Region. The cabinet also had none Igbos in it. Besides there was a traditional land system in force peculiar to each locality in Nigeria until the land use act of 1978. Families owned land so It was impossible for Igbos to seize land so forget this beer parlour propaganda it has already failed woefully. Igbos bought property from you people and then you stole it back in the name of abandoned properties. Yet you are worse off today

2. The only thing that gave you people a little boost was being by the coast and interacting with the white slave traders who paid you to capture Igbos in the interior. Yet an Igbo slave turned king (Jaja) is the most popular name from your region Today poverty and lack of development reigns supreme. You are no longer in the Eastern region why are you still poor?

I am not surprised at all. Gowon's regime was the most corrupt in Nigeria's history. IBB's regime is second

“They came to the street where people were and I saw everybody as they were locking their shops. I was rushing to lock mine when a bullet pierced through the iron door of my shop. I saw particles all over me but the bullet hit my fiancée and she fell.

“I did not even care if they would kill me. I carried her to the hospital with the help of a person who brought a bike. It was at the hospital, Divine Light, that she was confirmed dead. Nobody was confronting anybody in that area. I am not IPOB. I don’t meet with anybody. You can only see me at my house and church and that shop"

It's good for the cause. Let no one man be too powerful

Short sighted and clannish as usual. Tinubu that Daura cabal has put inside pocket

ijawcitizen:
Abandoned property or RECOVERED TERRITORY?

Actually stolen property. The lazy kai-kai drinkers invoked a curse on their land and themselves by stealing people's hard earned property and aligning with the north

A few decades later the children of the kai-kai men introduced kidnapping, took up arms against the state claiming that the north had cheated them Minorities sef

AwkaFinest:
Now you are not with them leave them alone and focus on yourself.

Even a monkey in the bush knows we are not together. However we will never allow ignorant ppl with inferior intellect to twist history to fit their kai-kai joint agenda.

The South-South minorities prospered in the old eastern region which was the fastest growing economy. Today they have deteriorated into a region crawling with lack of development, criminality, poverty and environmental pollution since their alliance with the north.

If this history is too much for you go and drink water from a polluted river in Ogoni river

pazienza:
Yes. It has been there simply because we shared Eastern region with them.
It will stop being there the moment we unentangle ourselves from them and treat them like they don't exist as well as ruthlessly pursue our own agenda irrespective of how much it might hurt them in return.
I remember not long ago the minorities in Bamenda were all crying about Igbo domination too and making up propaganda to perpetrate them. They would be great once they got rid of greedy Igbos they said. Today they are in Cameroon and because they don't share same administrative unit with Ndiigbo, they can't direct their hate towards us anymore.

The older Igbo politicians were savvy people. They understood the minorities very well. When Zik was running for presidency in 1979 and 1983, he knew he would not get votes from the minorities in the East and so he concentrated on Northern minorities. And as predicted even Awolowo got more votes in old Rivers( Bayel, old Cross River (Cross River and Akwaibom) than Zik did . That's how deep the Igbo resentment there is.
However it never stopped NPP from getting the juicy posts in FG by forming a coalition with NPN.

Ekwueme understood them too which was why he proposed the six geographical zones taking care to carve out the minorities from SE.
The sensible thing a wise person does is to carve out toxic people from yourself and keep them away from you.
Ekwueme was also against Ohanaeze Ndiigbo endorsing GEJ bid to become president in 2011
We all remember how Ohakim working for GEJ shut out Ekwueme and other Igbo leaders from Concorde hotel in Owerri in 2010 where they planned to convey and promote a Northern candidate.
Ekwueme logic was that GEJ must step down and allow the North complete Yaradua remaining 4 yr tenure of the North that was supposed to run from 2010 to 2015, so that an Igbo president could emerge in 2015.
Ekwueme also argued that if we allowed GEJ truncate the North tenure, we would have buried zoning arrangement of PDP and would not be able to argue for the president to be zoned to Ndiigbo in the future. That future is now upon us. We all can see how difficult it is for us to argue for zoning today for PDP presidency.

Bottom line is that we dented our chances of Igbo presidency on the altar of emotions , sticking out for GEJ, whose people are Igbo phobic and will never repay such sacrifice if the roles were reserved.

Going forward we must learn from these past mistakes and to me, any Igbo out there who is yet to see these minorities for what they are, is not worth a leadership post. To even think of someone envisaging adding these lots in future Igbo country, smacks of ignorance on the part of those doing that, which is why I have lost all respect I use to have for IPOB or Nnamdi KANU.

I go send you one carton of stout for this post. Very educative

AwkaFinest:
[s]Stop poke nosing into another man's business. Leave them to run their affairs the way they want.[/s]


Ask yourself what have you and your leaders done for you in igboland (SE)

When we were together we did better for them than anybody has done for them since. If you don't have the intellectual capacity for discussions of this level just hide your ignorance and keep quiet

AlexBells:
Yes we made him governor but now we feel betrayed and since he is claiming a distinct ethnic identity, some igbos may prefer the narrative that the Niger Delta minorities had betrayed us, the story keeps changing as it keeps changing hands, I know for sure that you don't hate Igbos but you feel uncomfortable around us and I understand, I will feel same if I were our neighbours but look at the fact, apart from Isaac borro when had Igbos had issue with Niger Delta and even at that did he die in the hands of Igbos, do you know why we feel betrayed honestly we dont see borrow as a betrayal, Kaduna Nzogwu was not a mainland Igbo, we loved him, same as ifeajuna, we loved him despite their mistakes that resulted in the death of thousands of Igbos we never denied them, when every one denied Jonathan we stood side by side with other tribes of Niger Delta despite his weakness we chose to sink with him, where is the harm that we had ever done to the Niger Delta, did we take the oil wells no, we don't discriminate against our brothers in the Niger Delta, but look at Wike. So all these put yourselve in our shoes, if you were Igbo how does it feel

I am very happy that Wike has shown his true colours. Igbos have been too naive politically. We show love too easily to people that hate us. This has taught Igbos a very important lesson that we should teach our children. Yorubas showed us their true colours when Jonathan became president and now Niger Delta minorities who were pretending to be our brothers under Jonathan are showing their true colours to impress Buhari.

We are better off focusing on ourselves like others do

Elvictor:
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Yoruba are reaping the sins of Obasanjo, if the Hausa|Fulani win't run away from Nigeria after 2023 general election they will reap theirs.

Yorubas are reaping Tinubu's sins. It is Nigeria as a whole that is suffering Obasanjo's sins to be honest.

AwkaFinest:
Your father built it... I hope you are happy now

The Eastern Nigeria Development Company under the youngest Premier, Michael Okpara built Trans-Amadi Layout, one of the most successful industrial zones in the country and the area that gives Rivers State most of its tax money until tomorrow

It was built under the 1954-1964 Reconstruction Plan. Nobody has done for the minorities what Okpara did in the Eastern Region

After following the north since Boro what have they done for the region except destroy the environment and turn the youth into militants?

AwkaFinest:
Rubbish chest beater. We built trans Amadi , Chai my igbo people, soon we go hear say we build heaven.

But come oo, why are we building other places without building our home states?

Who built Trans-Amadi Layout? Isaac Boro or Tompolo?

engrchykae:
but who killed Boro and Ken Saro wiwa?

Killed Boro and Saro-Wiwa, Rewane etc Kept the Niger Delta in the 19th century and devastated their land and waters with oil pollution.

But it's the people that built Trans-Amadi Layout in PH and other things they are enjoying till tomorrow that they have mouth to insult. Minority tribe behaviour

pazienza:
Not if IPOB don't stop puting them in Nnamdi KANU delusional heterogeneous Biafra map.
Nope. The rubbish will not stop if we don't find a way to render IPOB and MNK obsolete.

It did not start with Nnamdi Kanu. Was there an IPOB when Rivers State declared "Abandoned properties"? The sentiments by some minorities have been there and will always be there.