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enemybulldozer:
I want you to clarify me clearly on what you wrote up here. Because I don't really understand what you mean by south Africans hate igbos, Indonesia hate igbos, Malaysian police hate igbos and so on and so forth.

Let me start by asking you some questions...
When south Africans started their xenophobic attacks in their country, were they asking their victims if they are Igbo before killing them? Were they killing only Igbos or were they killing nigerians in general??

When did you consult the Malaysian people or their government concerning Igbos living in their country and they tell you that they hate Igbos?
All the countries you mentioned that hates only igbo, how did you come about that?
You can only answer these questions if you are a truthful person.

Lastly, you and reno should tell Igbos why the northerners killed igbos in 1945 and 1953 was there any Igbo coup as of then?

onumadu:
Don't mind these people.
You see, they would go to any length to mask the truth, trying to confuse issues by making it look like Igbos are hated by everyone.
Fact is, without Ndigbo, Nigeria is not better than Benin or Central African republic.
That is why they HOLD unto Igbo for air. Without Igbo Nigeria becomes like the carcass of a giant animal.
Igbo THRIVE in almost ALL countries of the world. How possible is that if they are hated as they are hated by their so called "countrymen"?
Prof Uju Anya made it because she didn't grow up in Nigeria. She grew up in a country that understood merit, hate or not.
The Reno that I mentioned earlier NEVER showed his hate when we had lunch together. The coward never showed it whatsoever!
In fact throughout the time we hung out, he pretended that he was a normal human being. His Igbo hate only started to show after Jonathan left office.
That he successfully hid his Igbo hating, to me, is a lesson that all Igbo should learn.
That is the main issue.
Scratch the surface of your "countryman" before having lunch with him. O di mkpa.

TotalRunter:
*HISTORY NEVER DIES....*

*By Reno Omokri*

What Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Exposes About Biafra

First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in today’s ThisDay.

When on Thursday, September 8, 2022, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed on into ancestor-hood, I was not particularly moved. I like England. I schooled and worked there and those years were some of the best of my life. The English people are by far some of the most decent peoples on planet Earth.

However, I am rather indifferent about their monarch. I did not like or dislike Queen Elizabeth II. The only thing I can think of that I admire in her is her stoicism. Her ability to take pain and pleasure with equanimity. She is the epitome of duty and a stiff upper lip.

But I doubt that I bothered much about her and her goings on. I was just aloof.

So, while I was not one of those mourning, it was not because I had some grudge against the House of Windsor. No. It is just that the House of Ginuwa (the first Olu of Warri), mattered more to me than Buckingham Palace.

The above not withstanding, I was absolutely mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate things that were said about the Queen and her family by a Nigerian woman living in America, whose name I will not dignify by mentioning.

I later got to find out that this woman has other issues, which made me understand her bitterness better, though I still vehemently reject her indecorous words.

She was one of the people who famously celebrated the death of TB Joshua and called him all sorts of unprintable names when he died. So it is no big surprise that she has turned her vitriol in the direction of the late Queen.

And so now, let me tackle what the death of Queen Elizabeth II reveals about Biafra. It shows us as a people not aware of our history, and because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo history has been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it, and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.

That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and for some strange reason decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

But of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, there are millions of people who believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.

One fellow named Uche Nnaya even tweeted at me that the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria had a right to rail against the British monarch and the rest of Nigeria, because “you can’t push people to the wall and dictate how they react.”

Really? But do those who hold such views not know that some other persons were FIRST pushed to the wall? Uche’s response will also justify how those who were first pushed to the wall reacted.

We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.

My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should my people carry that grudge forever?

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to LUTH and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.

This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?

I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.

So, please let us stop pretending as if the late Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria and ignited a war. The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of mostly Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.

Many people now spewing vitriol against the late Queen Elizabeth II for her alleged role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during the Biafran occupation of the Midwest.

After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed. Please research it before you insult me.

I need to add that the killings by the liberating forces were worse than the killings of the Biafrans, and should truly have been declared war crimes.

Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.

The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today!

There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East.

That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.

So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!

It is only those who are ignorant about how the British government works that will blame the late Queen for the actions of the British government. She was a titular and ceremonial head of state, whose actions were limited to appointing the candidate who has won election directly or indirectly as prime minister, and declaring open the parliament. She was a symbol. She was not the initiator of the policies of the British government.

And even the British government are not to blame for the Nigerian Civil War. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions. That war was the result of the ill advised January 15, 1966 coup.

The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:

1. Kaduna Nzeogwu
2. Emmanuel Ifeajuna
3. Timothy Onwuatuegwu
4. Adewale Ademoyega
5. Chris Anuforo
6. Humphrey Chukwuka
7. Donatus Okafor

Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.

Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say that have learned very little since the civil war.

22 people were killed during the coup, including

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Ahmadu Bello
3. Ahmed Ben Musa
4. Hafsatu Bello
5. Ahmed Pategi
6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola
7. Festus Okotie-Eboh
8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun
9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari
10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde
11. Col. Kur Mohammed
12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema
13. Lt. Col. James Pam
14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe
15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun
17. Zarumi Sardauna
18. PC Yohana Garkawa
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo
20. PC Akpan Anduka
21. PC Hagai Lai
22. Philip Lewande

As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria. . (I have since learned that Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe was Igbo. He was in charge of weaponry in Lagos, and was killed when he refused to cooperate with Major Chris Anuforo).

After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.

However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.

These are facts that we all should address, rather than blaming the late Queen Elizabeth II for a war she did not cause, nor had anyway of stopping. And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.

The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of soldiers and civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore.

We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming Queen Elizabeth II 50 years after the war?

And when you point this out, the very same people castigating the late Queen will accuse you of creating ethnic tension? Do you want to be victims and victors at the same time? Leave the woman and her family to grieve in peace. By celebrating the Queen’s death, you are giving Nigeria a very nasty reputation that will affect all of us and not only you. We cannot afford to be seen as a nation with anti British and American sentiments, when we are not able to get a better deal from China and Russia.

Reno’s Nuggets

*©️Reno Omokri*

hammerT:
THIS WRITE UP BY RENO OMOKRI IS A COMPLETE REVISIONIST HISTORY.



I DONT KNOW WHY THIS MAN, FEELS THE NEED OR URGE TO ATTACH HIMSELF TO EVERY IGBO AFFAIR IN NIGERIA.



HE KEEPS DISPLAYING HIS IGNORANCE.


THE 1966 COUP WAS NOT THE ONLY COUP IN NIGERIA.



WE HAD SEVERAL OTHER COUPS, INCLUDING THE GIDEON ORKAR COUP.




DO WE LABEL THEM FULANI COUP, TIV COUP, ETC.



THE 1966, COUP IS NO EXCUSE FOR GENOCIDE AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST, AFTERALL, THE PEOPLE DID NOT COMMIT ANY COUP, THIS WAS A COUP BY POLITICAL ACTORS, FOLLOWED BY A COUNTER COUP AND SEVERAL OTHER COUPS.



YES, LET ANOTHER WAR HAPPEN, WE SET THE DATE FOR 2023.

Mufakirnaqdiun:
Blast,baba finish work abeg,if I hear fem about any Biafra nonsense na to count una lost.
When una dey do am e dey sweet una but payback time reach na tears and victim card.

Dem no go calm down read this wan oo,na to dey wail everywhere,see as Dem go still insult this man.
The mumuni wey start war without provision una no blame am,the one wey kill prime minister and other top men una no blame,the ones wey support naija una no blame,una leader wey run leave una to die una no blame,when una dey carry out Ina forceful invasion una no talk,now una come dey cry.
Ogbeni it's called war, people must die,blood gats stain everywhere, Britain supply ammunition to their colony just like every other ally will do,and no be Elizabeth supply am.

2elliot:
Rhino Omokri, like a typical one Nigerian, is a sad example of the black man–and why the black race is what it is, total failure. God will speak for the Igbo man in His appointed time. From the days of slavery, the Igbo man's strength and fearlessness has attracted hate and jealousy. His strength was the gold that attracted the British to have made them go for him. And that is evidently why the Igbo made up the larger chunck of slaves. And likewise his fearlessness is what Britain and the rest of the colonial master are scared of if the Igbo man is free.

To Rhino Omokri, why is nobody talking about Emmanuel Kotoka of Ghana? Why aren't Ghanaians hating his tribe for carrying out the first coup? Hundreds of coups happened in Africa, but except Nigeria, no one is blaming the tribe any of those coup plotters came from. Something is really wrong with the Nigerian man.
And again, Rhino omokri lacks the knowledge of the true history about the coup and the war. Why aren't Nigerians Christian taking the blame for the coup since it is obvious that most of the partakers where christians? And again, why should the Igbo man in Anambrabor Enugu take blame for the actions of another from Mid West? Clear enough, Ademoyega, a Yoruba man gave his account as to why they struck, so why i are you all willfully playing ignorant?

enemybulldozer:
I want you to clarify me clearly on what you wrote up here. Because I don't really understand what you mean by south Africans hate igbos, Indonesia hate igbos, Malaysian police hate igbos and so on and so forth.

Let me start by asking you some questions...
When south Africans started their xenophobic attacks in their country, were they asking their victims if they are Igbo before killing them? Were they killing only Igbos or were they killing nigerians in general??

When did you consult the Malaysian people or their government concerning Igbos living in their country and they tell you that they hate Igbos?
All the countries you mentioned that hates only igbo, how did you come about that?
You can only answer these questions if you are a truthful person.

Lastly, you and reno should tell Igbos why the northerners killed igbos in 1945 and 1953 was there any Igbo coup as of then?

2elliot:
Why are you idiots willfully ignorant? That coup was meant to bring Owolowo to power. It had nothing to do with Igbo domination. There were hundreds of persons who participated, and all regions were represented. You have nothing on the Igbos except bigotry.

hammerT:
THIS WRITE UP BY RENO OMOKRI IS A COMPLETE REVISIONIST HISTORY.



I DONT KNOW WHY

THIS MAN, FEELS THE NEED OR URGE TO ATTACH HIMSELF TO EVERY IGBO AFFAIR IN NIGERIA.



HE KEEPS DISPLAYING HIS IGNORANCE.


THE 1966 COUP WAS NOT THE ONLY COUP IN NIGERIA.



WE HAD SEVERAL OTHER COUPS, INCLUDING THE GIDEON ORKAR COUP.






DO WE LABEL THEM FULANI COUP, TIV COUP, ETC.



THE 1966, COUP IS NO EXCUSE FOR GENOCIDE AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST, AFTERALL, THE PEOPLE DID NOT COMMIT ANY COUP, THIS WAS A COUP BY POLITICAL ACTORS, FOLLOWED BY A COUNTER COUP AND SEVERAL OTHER COUPS.



YES, LET ANOTHER WAR HAPPEN, WE SET THE DATE FOR 2023.

Haywhy3579:
That was a big lie and why did awolowo not becomes the president after the successful coup. The coup was based on ethnicity. The 1st coup was Igbo agender while the second coup was northern agender.

GodsOwnMan:
Reno should quit this anti-eboe nonsense that he is embarked on. Mind you, I am not eboe (or a supporter of obituary) but even I think it is becoming too much. Pipe down bro.
Also, that eboe woman was right about the british monarchy. It destroyed countless lives and stolen uncountable resources. Nobody disputes these facts!

TotalRunter:
*HISTORY NEVER DIES....*

*By Reno Omokri*

What Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Exposes About Biafra

First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in today’s ThisDay.

When on Thursday, September 8, 2022, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed on into ancestor-hood, I was not particularly moved. I like England. I schooled and worked there and those years were some of the best of my life. The English people are by far some of the most decent peoples on planet Earth.

However, I am rather indifferent about their monarch. I did not like or dislike Queen Elizabeth II. The only thing I can think of that I admire in her is her stoicism. Her ability to take pain and pleasure with equanimity. She is the epitome of duty and a stiff upper lip.

But I doubt that I bothered much about her and her goings on. I was just aloof.

So, while I was not one of those mourning, it was not because I had some grudge against the House of Windsor. No. It is just that the House of Ginuwa (the first Olu of Warri), mattered more to me than Buckingham Palace.

The above not withstanding, I was absolutely mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate things that were said about the Queen and her family by a Nigerian woman living in America, whose name I will not dignify by mentioning.

I later got to find out that this woman has other issues, which made me understand her bitterness better, though I still vehemently reject her indecorous words.

She was one of the people who famously celebrated the death of TB Joshua and called him all sorts of unprintable names when he died. So it is no big surprise that she has turned her vitriol in the direction of the late Queen.

And so now, let me tackle what the death of Queen Elizabeth II reveals about Biafra. It shows us as a people not aware of our history, and because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo history has been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it, and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.

That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and for some strange reason decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

But of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, there are millions of people who believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.

One fellow named Uche Nnaya even tweeted at me that the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria had a right to rail against the British monarch and the rest of Nigeria, because “you can’t push people to the wall and dictate how they react.”

Really? But do those who hold such views not know that some other persons were FIRST pushed to the wall? Uche’s response will also justify how those who were first pushed to the wall reacted.

We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.

My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should my people carry that grudge forever?

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to LUTH and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.

This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?

I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.

So, please let us stop pretending as if the late Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria and ignited a war. The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of mostly Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.

Many people now spewing vitriol against the late Queen Elizabeth II for her alleged role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during the Biafran occupation of the Midwest.

After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed. Please research it before you insult me.

I need to add that the killings by the liberating forces were worse than the killings of the Biafrans, and should truly have been declared war crimes.

Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.

The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today!

There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East.

That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.

So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!

It is only those who are ignorant about how the British government works that will blame the late Queen for the actions of the British government. She was a titular and ceremonial head of state, whose actions were limited to appointing the candidate who has won election directly or indirectly as prime minister, and declaring open the parliament. She was a symbol. She was not the initiator of the policies of the British government.

And even the British government are not to blame for the Nigerian Civil War. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions. That war was the result of the ill advised January 15, 1966 coup.

The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:

1. Kaduna Nzeogwu
2. Emmanuel Ifeajuna
3. Timothy Onwuatuegwu
4. Adewale Ademoyega
5. Chris Anuforo
6. Humphrey Chukwuka
7. Donatus Okafor

Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.

Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say that have learned very little since the civil war.

22 people were killed during the coup, including

1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
2. Ahmadu Bello
3. Ahmed Ben Musa
4. Hafsatu Bello
5. Ahmed Pategi
6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola
7. Festus Okotie-Eboh
8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun
9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari
10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde
11. Col. Kur Mohammed
12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema
13. Lt. Col. James Pam
14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe
15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke
16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun
17. Zarumi Sardauna
18. PC Yohana Garkawa
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo
20. PC Akpan Anduka
21. PC Hagai Lai
22. Philip Lewande

As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria. . (I have since learned that Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe was Igbo. He was in charge of weaponry in Lagos, and was killed when he refused to cooperate with Major Chris Anuforo).

After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.

However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.

These are facts that we all should address, rather than blaming the late Queen Elizabeth II for a war she did not cause, nor had anyway of stopping. And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.

The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of soldiers and civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore.

We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming Queen Elizabeth II 50 years after the war?

And when you point this out, the very same people castigating the late Queen will accuse you of creating ethnic tension? Do you want to be victims and victors at the same time? Leave the woman and her family to grieve in peace. By celebrating the Queen’s death, you are giving Nigeria a very nasty reputation that will affect all of us and not only you. We cannot afford to be seen as a nation with anti British and American sentiments, when we are not able to get a better deal from China and Russia.

Reno’s Nuggets

*©️Reno Omokri*

2elliot:
The coup did not succeed entirely. Ironsi ( who was also a target for elimination), because of his superior position was able to garner many soldiers and therefore countered the coup plotters in Lagos. Meanwhile Nzeokwu had already succeeded in the north and was waiting for report from other regions' commanders. But unluckily for him, Ironsi, an Igbo man who wasn't part of the coup botched the plan. It was then he arrested the coupists. When Nzeogwu realised that the coup had failed, he divided the north from the south and declared a separate government(state) and thus appointed a governor for the region. But when he saw that he can not consolidate on the power, he went into truss with Ironsi, thus as condition to bring back the northern region to the south, he and his men should not be tried. And that those who died should be compensated. Ironsi accepted the terms. And that was why he couldn't effect a trial immediately after their arrests. It had nothing to do with tribalism. Ironsi was just an opportunist. The intention of the coupists was to release Awolowo and make him president. And also resolve the issues of census, the Tiv crisis, and the corruption that was becoming prevalent at the time.

onumadu:
I met Reno a few years back in the States and had lunch with him and his Wife Tope (then).I couldn't imagine in a million years that the man has a deep-seated Igbo hate. Ndigbo, please be very very very careful of some of your so called countrymen. Some of them hate you in ways that you can never imagine.Enough said.

FakeIgboJew:
Keep wailing .

Nobody gives rat shit on your dead

Emergingnation3:
Nigeria must divide, and your tribe that can't survive without Nigeria will go into Oblivion..

lwisee:
Thank you Reno.

You decided to blame everyone else when you couldn't win the war you started. Haba.

Honestly, the Igbos really need to heal from this Biafra wahala so we can all move on as a nation.

Emergingnation3:
Keep dreaming, Nigeria can never move on until all ethnic nationalities trapped in her are set free...

And the actualization of sovereign state of Biafra is a task that must be accomplished..

FakeIgboJew:
Story.

We know the nomadic IDPs in our midst whose squalid villages can not feed nor sustain their rat population.

If your yeast too good wetin make you run from your OSU village?

If you like still be salivating on my Niger Delta , this time nah tines ten of what ever rubbish you lost the last time

Mr Nwosu Osuji

FakeIgboJew:
Just say you want to bring back cannibalism because the hunger wey go wire una no go be here.

Emergingnation3:
Lol ! The so called cannibalism only happen in the propaganda scripts of your Fulani Jihadist government......

And No propaganda can stop the imminent Biafra actualization..

Vid vid Biafra..

Emergingnation3:
Keep dreaming, Nigeria can never move on until all ethnic nationalities trapped in her are set free...

And the actualization of sovereign state of Biafra is a task that must be accomplished..

Mufakirnaqdiun:
Blast,baba finish work abeg,if I hear fem about any Biafra nonsense na to count una lost.
When una dey do am e dey sweet una but payback time reach na tears and victim card.

Dem no go calm down read this wan oo,na to dey wail everywhere,see as Dem go still insult this man.
The mumuni wey start war without provision una no blame am,the one wey kill prime minister and other top men una no blame,the ones wey support naija una no blame,una leader wey run leave una to die una no blame,when una dey carry out Ina forceful invasion una no talk,now una come dey cry.
Ogbeni it's called war, people must die,blood gats stain everywhere, Britain supply ammunition to their colony just like every other ally will do,and no be Elizabeth supply am.

Patriotsleague:
Don't mind the pathological liars and fools with a victim mentality. Ojukwu, Ifeanyi and Nzeogwu killed the 2million bafrans.

Emergingnation3:
Lol ! The so called cannibalism only happen in the propaganda scripts of your Fulani Jihadist government......

And No propaganda can stop the imminent Biafra actualization..

Vid vid Biafra..

Patriotsleague:
But where can a dot in a circle go?

Or you fools want to do mass exodus to Mali?

You people have not answered Buhari's rheoterical question, where can the dot in the circle go?

FakeIgboJew:
Did the British also use the widespread cannibalism in your blighted yeast as propaganda as well?

What of the accounts of an independent private German explorer who visited Bonny in the mid 19th century but was discouraged by the natives not to venture into the slave province of Igbo land by warning him of cannibalism and the fact that "Igbo to get wawa"?

Emergingnation3:
Keep dreaming, Nigeria can never move on until all ethnic nationalities trapped in her are set free...

And the actualization of sovereign state of Biafra is a task that must be accomplished..