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Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by MosheDayan: 2:34pm On Feb 12, 2022
blancsn1:
Live in the best estate ..lol
How many Igbo de Eko Atlantic or banana island.lol.


ALL YORUBAS ARE FROM LAGOS. grin grin grin grin

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Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by adamsmith914: 3:31pm On Feb 12, 2022
MosheDayan:
[s][/s] i have never seen a an ethnic group in which 95% can lie and distort facts like he Afonja. even the minister for information lai Mohamed lies more than the devil. nut you cannot blame him, its the talent god gave them. lie and never be trusted. chaii
It must have been donkey years ago, since you last took a good look @ yourself in the mirror?, ipobians lie more.
Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by MosheDayan: 4:46pm On Feb 12, 2022
adamsmith914:
It must have been donkey years ago, since you last took a good look @ yourself in the mirror?, ipobians lie more.
was it not the afonjas that said buhari was the messiah?? they lie more than the devil grin grin grin

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Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by Tingotoe: 5:13pm On Feb 12, 2022
foryourmindnow:
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So, Northerners revenged on a military coup carried out by soldiers from different ethnic groups by killing 60,000 Igbos in a pogrom?

You mean, members of the military killed some northern politicans and military leaders, then in relaliation, Northern Nigeria felt it was right to wipe out 60,000 non-political, non-military Igbo people, despite killing Aguiyi Ironsi and other Igbo military and political leaders in the North? And you felt this is right?

Nigeria can never be one country. You already know this. If you like, flog your head from Ogbomosho to Cairo. I don't have anything in common with an Hausa or Yoruba man.

You people can lie and kill more than Boko Haram. We don't want you. I want my own separate Igbo country. You can continue killing yourselves with your lies and rituals in your Nigeria.
You won't get your own country until we say so. We control your destiny

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Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by foryourmindnow: 6:01pm On Feb 12, 2022
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Tingotoe:
You won't get your own country until we say so. We control your destiny
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Control your own destiny first and be free from poverty, hunger, skull mining/rituals and Boko Haram Islamic terrorism first before seeking to control people who are far educated, richer and better than you. cheesy. Hahaha.

See chronic delusion stemming from painment grin grin

Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by Tingotoe: 7:52pm On Feb 12, 2022
foryourmindnow:
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Control your own destiny first and be free from poverty, hunger, skull mining/rituals and Boko Haram Islamic terrorism first before seeking to control people who are far educated, richer and better than you. cheesy. Hahaha.

See chronic delusion stemming from painment grin grin
And you're the one who's doing the crying cheesy
Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by BoBiafra(m): 11:42pm On Feb 12, 2022
Christistruth00:




The People of the Niger Delta were definitely excluded from that Referendum and still dragged into Biafra by Ojukwu

There was no Referendum

The Eastern Assembly Which was hand picked by Ojukwu was not democratic or representative of the Eastern Region

Im from the so-call Niger/Delta region;South/South they call us for exploitation;but Nyamiri they call us ;in there secret rooms;Why dont the Fulanis create a North/North ?
My village produces crude oil;but I reject the Fulani name and divisions ;I know my root ;A proud Biafran,like my fore fathers.

Your fore father wasnt a Nigeria ;He was a Biafran;
You have to know thyself and your roots;not a falsified name given to you ;by a nomadic tribe from Futadjalon for exploitation ;furthermore encourage you to hate your neighbors ,brothers ,sisters and cousins,we all are geographically united ,and the Portuguese used a bastardize Ijaw language in 1500 AD ; to name and unite us as (The Bight of Biafra) ;We are united by God;divided by the invaders; to destroy and expliot us;

Ojukwu knew this;we all; are brothers ,sisters ,and cousins,united by culture ,and intermarriages ; We all agreed ; simultaneously ,to move away from the false union Nigeria;we all fought and die; in battle ;hand in hand.
Blood ;and soil of Biafra.

This is how Ojukwu ;and his brothers; from the Bight of Biafra united and agreed.
Do not let our enemies to use propaganda's ;to keep us divided ;in this false union ;the poverty capital of the world.

, THEREFORE, in consideration of these and other facts and injustices, we, the Chiefs, Elders, and Representatives of all the twenty provinces of Eastern Nigeria, assembled in this Joint Meeting of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs and Elders and the Consultative Assembly, at Enugu this 27th day of May, 1967, hereby solemnly:

MANDATE His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, to declare at the earliest practicable date Eastern Nigeria a free, sovereign, and independent state by the name and title of the REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA.
RESOLVE that the new REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA shall have the full and absolute powers of a sovereign state, and shall establish commerce, levy war, conclude peace, enter into diplomatic relations, and carry out, as of right, other sovereign responsibilities.

Re: Biafrans Voted In A Referendum To Leave Nigeria On 26th May, 1967. by christistruth01: 12:24am On Feb 14, 2022
BoBiafra:


Im from the so-call Niger/Delta region;South/South they call us for exploitation;but Nyamiri they call us ;in there secret rooms;Why dont the Fulanis create a North/North ?
My village produces crude oil;but I reject the Fulani name and divisions ;I know my root ;A proud Biafran,like my fore fathers.

Your fore father wasnt a Nigeria ;He was a Biafran;
You have to know thyself and your roots;not a falsified name given to you ;by a nomadic tribe from Futadjalon for exploitation ;furthermore encourage you to hate your neighbors ,brothers ,sisters and cousins,we all are geographically united ,and the Portuguese used a bastardize Ijaw language in 1500 AD ; to name and unite us as (The Bight of Biafra) ;We are united by God;divided by the invaders; to destroy and expliot us;

Ojukwu knew this;we all; are brothers ,sisters ,and cousins,united by culture ,and intermarriages ; We all agreed ; simultaneously ,to move away from the false union Nigeria;we all fought and die; in battle ;hand in hand.
Blood ;and soil of Biafra.

This is how Ojukwu ;and his brothers; from the Bight of Biafra united and agreed.
Do not let our enemies to use propaganda's ;to keep us divided ;in this false union ;the poverty capital of the world.

, THEREFORE, in consideration of these and other facts and injustices, we, the Chiefs, Elders, and Representatives of all the twenty provinces of Eastern Nigeria, assembled in this Joint Meeting of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs and Elders and the Consultative Assembly, at Enugu this 27th day of May, 1967, hereby solemnly:

MANDATE His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, to declare at the earliest practicable date Eastern Nigeria a free, sovereign, and independent state by the name and title of the REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA.
RESOLVE that the new REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA shall have the full and absolute powers of a sovereign state, and shall establish commerce, levy war, conclude peace, enter into diplomatic relations, and carry out, as of right, other sovereign responsibilities.



Eastern Non Igbos were Victims of Ethnic Cleansing by the Biafran Soldiers

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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097919


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/the-unknown-victims-ethnic-minorities-1967-1970/

https://m.facebook.com/naijainfoman/posts/1139807712715827

2 ). Enough Of This Biafran Nonsense!!! By alabo abiye Akkio-abbey


As a Rivers man who saw the events of 1967-1970 and who was old enough to understand them, this protest in Port Harcourt is a slap on true Rivers indigenes. and the memory of ALL the Rivers men and women who were slaughtered in the pogroms and ethnic cleansing committed during the civil war by the Biafran Army.
Let us remind ourselves of the TRUE facts and REAL reasons behind the secession and subsequent civil war. Ojukwu and his cohorts decided to secede from Nigeria because Gowon broke up the regions and created Rivers State among the 12 states he created. Remember the Aburi accord? Article 4 of that accord had to do with the breaking up of the regions. On the 27th of May, 1967, Gowon broke up the Regions, from the then Eastern Region and carved out Rivers, South-Eastern and East-Central states. 3 days later on 30th May, 1967 Ojukwu seceded citing the Aburi accord. ON ABURI WE STAND!! The rallying war cry of the day. How anyone who calls himself/herself a Rivers indigene support tacitly or otherwise the so-called Biafra cause when Biafra seceeded just because Rivers State was created and the Rivers people for once had a right to self rule?
In the quest for a sovereign country did the Igbo majority seek, discuss with or solicit the support of the minorities in the Oil Rivers and South-East?? Where is Biafra? How do you seek for a country which was susequently named Biafra WITHOUT involving the indigenous people of Biafra? Isn't that supreme arrogance or maybe they were not included because they were meant to be wiped out later. Events proved the latter to be true.
Late Chief (Dr.) Nabo Graham-Douglas who was the Attorney General of the Eastern Region was sent on compulsory leave and exiled to his home town Abonnema with orders for him to be executed. Fortunately the plans leaked and he miraculously escaped. He didn't draw the Articles of secession and only heard about Biafra from the BBC journalists who came to interview him in Abonnema.
He was one of the lucky ones.
The ethnic cleansing began in earnest. Our intelligentsia; top civil servants, technocrats and other able bodied men and women were rounded up and summarily executed in Enugu, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia, Degema, Buguma, Bakana, to mention but a few towns/cities. In Port Harcourt, Rainbow town and Igritta, became killing fields. the bones of those victims still lie there
These atrocities were committed by the Biafran Army, against people who were supposed to be fighting the same cause with them.
In a bid to wipe out the minority tribes, our towns and villages were evacuated, our men put to slave labour and later on shot (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), our women taken as sex slaves, young boys shared the same fate as the men. Bakana, Bille, Abonnema were all forcefully evacuated.
Finally, when the Nigerian Army counter attacked and liberated Port Harcourt, the retreating Biafran Army, burnt Kingsway (now Supabod building), Nabo Graham-Douglas's law library (which was the best Law library in the whole of West Africa) and other land marks in the Garden city. Of what military significance were these acts??
I don't blame the misguided ill-informed people for trampling on the graves of those who were murdered by the Biafran Army, by protesting in Port Harcourt. I blame Gowon for forbidding accounts of the war being published after the war, but more importantly for not trying war criminals (like Col Ojeh of Degema) within the Biafran Army and holding them accountable for their inhuman and murderous actions during the war. 70 years after World War 2, we are still reminded on a daily basis the atrocities that the Nazi's committed. If Gowon had done what he was morally and duty bound to do, this matter of Biafra would have been put to rest once and for all.
By the way, in May 1968, my uncle (my mother's younger brother) was shot in his Warri street residence in Port Harcourt, his corpse butchered, his flesh sold as Biafra meat in Mile 1 market. That same day the Nigerian Army opened up and started shelling Port Harcourt, which was ultimately liberated
Are those protesting and the other supporters of "Biafra" aware of these facts??
The war has been over these past 45 years, we are forging on as a country, setting aside our ethnocentric issues. That Ex-Biafrans have been assimilated into all spheres of our society (as they should), without any punishment meted out to the war criminals among them, doesn't give anyone the right to re-write history or bring these painful memories back.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

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