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kettykin:
Are the Igbo content with being the eternal guardians of minorities in a jungle teeming with predators—where some of these very minorities have sworn undying hatred against them?

This is a losing game, a fool’s errand. The signs are ominous. If the United States backs Ukraine against Russia, Ukraine doesn’t just take the help and walk away—it makes deep, strategic commitments to ensure continued support.

The Igbo must stop bleeding for those who will never bleed for them. In a battlefield where alliances shift like sand, survival belongs to those who play the game with ruthless precision, not naive idealism.

Below are some of the blunders igbos have made standing in for perpetual traitors.

Yoruba vs North in 1966 , igbos took the bullet for yorubas and are suffering the consequences till date.

Tofa vs Abiola election in 1993 , igbos again took the bullet , an Igbo man ensured that the election was the most free anf fairest in the world at the risk of his life before a military junta. This is nothing a yoruba man will never do for his people.


Southern Nigeria vs police brutality during the ENDSARS saga. Igbos automatically took the blame and were stereotyped as aiming to burn down Lagos.

There is no reasonable point in this your story.
I know that your epistle will not end without you mentioning Yoruba.

We have suddenly become your nightmare.

Nwosu is the only inec chairman in the history of Nigeria who conducted an election but failed to announce the result because of fear

And you want to make us believe that he stood for the Yorubas because the election was free and fair. What is the purpose of a free and fair election when the result is not announced?

You people always like to take the credit that you dont deserve.

kettykin:
Are the Igbo content with being the eternal guardians of minorities in a jungle teeming with predators—where some of these very minorities have sworn undying hatred against them?

This is a losing game, a fool’s errand. The signs are ominous. If the United States backs Ukraine against Russia, Ukraine doesn’t just take the help and walk away—it makes deep, strategic commitments to ensure continued support.

The Igbo must stop bleeding for those who will never bleed for them. In a battlefield where alliances shift like sand, survival belongs to those who play the game with ruthless precision, not naive idealism.

Below are some of the blunders igbos have made standing in for perpetual traitors.

Yoruba vs North in 1966 , igbos took the bullet for yorubas and are suffering the consequences till date.

Tofa vs Abiola election in 1993 , igbos again took the bullet , an Igbo man ensured that the election was the most free anf fairest in the world at the risk of his life before a military junta. This is nothing a yoruba man will never do for his people.


Southern Nigeria vs police brutality during the ENDSARS saga. Igbos automatically took the blame and were stereotyped as aiming to burn down Lagos.

Yep true..but the problem is not Igbo people that are the most PRO BLACK tribe in the world…but their leaders installed by “Nigeria” corrupt elections.
The leaders are the problem…

ScamHunter:
I keep saying it that the only solution to the hatred for Igbo is an Igbo-only country. It just doesn't make sense trying to live in the same country where people only find unity through hatred. All the hate the north and Yoruba had for Jonathan was because they perceived him an Igbo or affined to the Igbo. All the hatred Yoruba had for Obasanjo was because they saw him as building bridges with the Igbo for his belief that Igbo have the most competent people in Nigeria. All the love the Yoruba and the north showed Buhari and have shown Tinubu is rooted in their belief that these are men with eternal hatred for Igbo. What the minorities never would realize is that the hatred for Igbo makes it impossible for these same people to do anything that would be in the best interest of the minorities. That southern ports are not functional is because of Igbo. Who would have benefitted most from Igbo commerce if these port work? Southern minorities. I can go on and on but I won't. That's why I see any Igbo or even southern minority who thinks they have a country as ignorant.

When you hate people, expect them to hate you in return.

It is that simple!

Igbo will plant hatred and be expecting to reap love, it doesn't work like that.

People will continue to hate and despise you as long as you hate them. If you like cry till whenever.

No body stop you guys from having your own country. Your law makers and reps in the senate who are suppose to help sponsor bills that will give you your own country.
They are busy sponsoring bills that will make you permanent indigene of another region.

aswani:
I can't speak for the rest of South South but Google Nowa Omoigui, rest in peace e pa, you will read a fraction of Ndigbo atrocities in Benin during the Biafra occupation.

Truly speaking, I doubt if you have common sense. During war time according to international law, what constitute war crime is when you leave combatant men and start attacking civilian population.

There is no evidence anywhere in the world that Biafrans where attacking benin people during the war when they were heading to Lagos to capture the capital. Will killing benin people or villagers make them to succeed in Lagos?

Mr man all you heard after the war against Igbos were at most 90 percent propaganda. It's normal for people that lost a major war to face propaganda and name calling after their loss. Giving a dog a bad name in other to hang it happened to every people that lost war. It happened to Germans etc.

The man you quoted as source is from Nigerian military and he is a partician source...you can't take the only opinion of the side of a conflict as fact. I thought you are going to give me a source from like the BBC or any other neutral foreign media organisation that covered the war?

Till date no foreign media that covered the war reported that Biafrans committed massacre of civilians in Benin. Even the man you mention said he and his family was cut up in Biafran air raid in Benin during the Biafra troops attempt to dislogde troops there... it's normal for civilians to be cut up in such operation.

It's just like Igbos civilians that died thru Nigerian air raids in Aba, Owerri and Onitsha during the war to blame Benin people because Edo people was part of the Nigerian troops that attacked Biafra.

No evidence so far ... it's all half truth and propaganda against people that lost a war. If you can give me proof of igbo deliberate massacre of civilans in benin from a neutral foreign source, I will deactivate this account.

Hardfacts234:
Truly speaking, I doubt if you have common sense. During war time according to international law, what constitute war crime is when you leave combatant men and start attacking civilian population.

There is no evidence anywhere in the world that Biafrans where attacking benin people during the war when they were heading to Lagos to capture the capital. Will killing benin people or villagers make them to succeed in Lagos?

Mr man all you heard after the war against Igbos were at most 90 percent propaganda. It's normal for people that lost a major war to face propaganda and name calling after their loss. Giving a dog a bad name in other to hang it happened to every people that lost war. It happened to Germans etc.

The man you quoted as source is from Nigerian military and he is a partician source...you can't take the only opinion of the side of a conflict as fact. I thought you are going to give me a source from like the BBC or any other neutral foreign media organisation that covered the war?

Till date no foreign media that covered the war reported that Biafrans committed massacre of civilians in Benin. Even the man you mention said he and his family was cut up in Biafran air raid in Benin during the Biafra troops attempt to dislogde troops there... it's normal for civilians to be cut up in such operation.

It's just like Igbos civilians that died thru Nigerian air raids in Aba, Owerri and Onitsha during the war to blame Benin people because Edo people was part of the Nigerian troops that attacked Biafra.

No evidence so far ... it's all half truth and propaganda against people that lost a war. If you can give me proof of igbo deliberate massacre of civilans in benin from a neutral foreign source, I will deactivate this account.

Let me tell you, the stories I had heard first hand about Biafran Army misbehaviour were even more gruesome than E pa Nowa Omoigui stated.

I'd rather believe him and those that were affected than you, a Nairaland apologists for Biafran Army atrocities.

There is a reason why when Benin was retaken by the federal forces, even Benin people that kindly harboured Ndigbo did so at risk of death.

Your post trying to paint Biafran Army whiter than white is nauseating.

aswani:
Let me tell you, the stories I had heard first hand about Biafran Army misbehaviour were even more gruesome than E pa Nowa Omoigui stated.

I'd rather believe him and those that were affected than you , a Nairaland apologists for Biafran Army atrocities.

There is a reason why when Benin was retaken by the federal forces, even Benin people that kindly harboured Ndigbo did so at risk of death.

Yyour post trying to paint Biafran Army whiter than white is nauseating.

"Let me tell you, the stories I had heard first hand about Biafran Army misbehaviour"


I'd rather believe him and those that were affected than you

You keep confirming what I stated above... that the whole thing against Igbos were all hear-say, half-truth and outright propaganda against the people that lost the Biafran War and I'm telling you that it's a normal practice around the world to justify why you killed the people you defeated in a war.

So you don't have concrete evidence and you are talking nonsense online only just out of hear-say?

So if you're invited to an international tribunal to present evidence of Biafran massacre in Benin in other for Benin people to get compensation from a foreign organisation, you will go there and be talking i hear-say... one old man for Benin talk say?

You can't even present verified families of the Benin people that lost their love ones in the hands of biafrans. All you have to present is one old man for Benin talk say.

Nothing dey your skull for believing in cheap propaganda. Maybe later in life, but now your brain is not matured enough to recognize decite even when it's coming from your own people.

Hardfacts234:
"Let me tell you, the stories I had heard first hand about Biafran Army misbehaviour"


I'd rather believe him and those that were affected than you

You keep confirming what I stated above... that the whole thing against Igbos were all hear-say, half-truth and outright propaganda against the people that lost the Biafran War and I'm telling you that it's a normal practice around the world to justify why you killed the people you defeated in a war.

So you don't have concrete evidence and you are talking nonsense online only just out of hear-say?

So if you're invited to an international tribunal to present evidence of Biafran massacre in Benin in other for Benin people to get compensation from a foreign organisation, you will go there and be talking i hear-say... one old man for Benin talk say?

You can't even present verified families of the Benin people that lost their love ones in the hands of biafrans. All you have to present is one old man for Benin talk say.

Nothing dey your skull for believing in cheap propaganda. Maybe later in life, but now your brain is not matured enough to recognize decite even when it's coming from your own people.

Believe what you want, there is no propaganda against Ndigbo, the bad behaviour happened.

Na di fowl wey dey produce di egg yansh dey pain, di persin wey dey chop am no feel anytin.

I have always said that Ndigbo still being in Benin this day is testament to the wonderful and forgiving nature of Ivbedo.

Ngozi123:
If not for the Igbos, Christianity in Nigeria would be a myth.

How can you protect what you all hate and despise ?

Christianity is the most despised religion in the current SE with same SE having the highest rate of apostacy.

You have never been champions of the church.

That role goes to the Yorubas with the likes of Ajayi Crowther.

Remember how the Ibo dominated Catholic church in Nigeria also suddenly pulled out from CAN ?

The real church is in northern Nigeria as far as I am concerned and they are not looking for any earthly powers to protect them.

The church has survived on earth all these while not by the powers of men but by divine intervention and protection from God Himself.

Delete this blasphemous post before it's too late for you

aswani:
Believe what you want, there is no propaganda against Ndigbo, the bad behaviour happened.

Na di fowl wey dey produce di egg yansh dey pain, di persin wey dey chop am no feel anytin.

I have always said that Ndigbo still being in Benin this day is testament to the wonderful and forgiving nature of Ivbedo.

Mr man pls I want ask you, do you know that you are a Mumu man?

I ask you to present evidence of igbo massacre in Benin like neutral foreign media report of it or verified families of people that died in the hands of biafran soldiers, you don't have any of these yet you are still talking nonsense?

Are you normal at all?

Other normal people without evidence will back off and end the yeye argument.

I ask again; Are you sure you are normal at all?

Hardfacts234:
"Let me tell you, the stories I had heard first hand about Biafran Army misbehaviour"


I'd rather believe him and those that were affected than you

You keep confirming what I stated above... that the whole thing against Igbos were all hear-say, half-truth and outright propaganda against the people that lost the Biafran War and I'm telling you that it's a normal practice around the world to justify why you killed the people you defeated in a war.

So you don't have concrete evidence and you are talking nonsense online only just out of hear-say?

So if you're invited to an international tribunal to present evidence of Biafran massacre in Benin in other for Benin people to get compensation from a foreign organisation, you will go there and be talking i hear-say... one old man for Benin talk say?

You can't even present verified families of the Benin people that lost their love ones in the hands of biafrans. All you have to present is one old man for Benin talk say.

Nothing dey your skull for believing in cheap propaganda. Maybe later in life, but now your brain is not matured enough to recognize decite even when it's coming from your own people.

Do you know that it took concerted efforts by the restored military government of the old Midwestern region to get the so-called minorities to stop targeting Igboid people after your Biafran orcs were chased out from the region ?

Are you aware that the military governor of the Midwest compelled civil servants in the Midwest to contribute part of their salaries to rehabilitate Igboid Midwesterners that suffered a mini pogrom alongside their Ibo cousins in places like Warri and Benin?

Are you aware that during the occupation of the Midwest that there was a militia formed by Bini, Itsekiri and Urhobo youths that began a resistance movement against the occupying Biafran invaders?

Prior to Ojukwu invading and occupying the Midwest and then imposing the stooge puppet Okonkwo as governor whom Ojukwu got to declare the Republic of Benin from Nigeria there was no bad blood by the non Igboid people towards the ibos. The Midwest under Gowon's Decree 8 (which abrogated and rescinded the disastrous Ironsi decree 34) , had declared neutrality and had refused to both participate in the Special Police Action by Gowon to uproot the rebellious Ojukwu or even allow northern troops invade Biafra through their region.
Ibo refugees fleeing Nigeria back to their ancestral land passing through the Midwest were never harmed. Instead, in places like Benin, the indigenes provided food and succour to ibos on transit.

All that ended when Ojukwu invaded and occupied the Midwest. From that point on both Biafran soldiers and Ibo civilians began terrorising the non ibos in the Midwest. Arrests, tortures, extortion, murders and raping of non 8bo civilians began. The atrocities committed by your Biafran soldiers and Ibo civilians on hapless civilians of non Ibo heritage in the Midwest pales significantly to what minorities trapped in Biafra faced.

It is from this point that anti Ibo sentiments took root.

You should be grateful to Gowon's post war policy of No Victor, No Vanquished which wanted to have you reintegrated into Nigerian society . If Gowon had done what was expected , which is to re-enact a Nurumberg court to have your war criminals trialed openly in a court of law, and survivors and victims of their atrocities given their day in court to testify , you won't be posting this rubbish today and you would have been facing a hundred times worse discrimination.

Just thank Gowon for he not only saved you from the tyranny of Ojukwu whose children would have been ruling you in a landlocked Biafra with an iron fist that will make North Korea look like Switzerland but he also ensured that the atrocities of your war generation were swept under the carpet.


Have

Fortruth:
Yep true..but the problem is not Igbo people that are the most PRO BLACK tribe in the world…but their leaders installed by “Nigeria” corrupt elections.
The leaders are the problem…

How can a people who practice the most vicious form of internal discrimination be claiming to champion the cause of outsiders ?

You see this thing they call charity ? It must first begin at home.

You claim to be everything good but have never domesticated any of what you boast emptily of in your own region.

You cry about discrimination but you are the most unapologetic racist tribalists

You say you are now champions of minorities but you are the most openly tribal supremacists in Africa claiming to be the most renowned race of Africans.

Is this not madness ?

Taipan1313:
Ndi-Igbo must learn to choose their battles carefully and stop defending the ever ungrateful minorities, they can go fvck themselves for all I care

You cannot tell a leopard to change its spots. Did you read the story of the Yoruba returnee who was nearly abducted by the police? Did you notice that he said that he was saved by 'Igbo boys' not 'Yoruba boys' and not 'Hausa boys'? Fighting against injustice is a natural Igbo character. Did you notice that the incident happened in Lagos where there are more Yoruba than Igbo? Fighting injustice is a naturally built-in Igbo trait. It is just unfortunate that Igbo have to share country with people who take advantage of that trait treacherously. Awolowo betrayed Igbo officers by acquiescing that Igbo coup narrative for instance. The so-called NADECO that fought for Abiola's mandate had several Igbos, but did you notice how Yoruba tried to belittle the work of prof Nwosu? I once saw policemen trying to exploit some Hausa peasant in Lagos. Before I could even think about it, I intervened and stopped them. It was so natural. Should Igbo stop fighting for justice because we are in a country where one-third hate us? Your guess is as good as mine.

DomPerignon:
Do you know that it took concerted efforts by the restored military government of the old Midwestern region to get the so-called minorities to stop targeting Igboid people after your Biafran orcs were chased out from the region ?

Are you aware that the military governor of the Midwest compelled civil servants in the Midwest to contribute part of their salaries to rehabilitate Igboid Midwesterners that suffered a mini pogrom alongside their Ibo cousins in places like Warri and Benin?

Are you aware that during the occupation of the Midwest that there was a militia formed by Bini, Itsekiri and Urhobo youths that began a resistance movement against the occupying Biafran invaders?

Prior to Ojukwu invading and occupying the Midwest and then imposing the stooge puppet Okonkwo as governor whom Ojukwu got to declare the Republic of Benin from Nigeria there was no bad blood by the non Igboid people towards the ibos. The Midwest under Gowon's Decree 8 (which abrogated and rescinded the disastrous Ironsi decree 34) , had declared neutrality and had refused to both participate in the Special Police Action by Gowon to uproot the rebellious Ojukwu or even allow northern troops invade Biafra through their region.
Ibo refugees fleeing Nigeria back to their ancestral land passing through the Midwest were never harmed. Instead, in places like Benin, the indigenes provided food and succour to ibos on transit.

All that ended when Ojukwu invaded and occupied the Midwest. From that point on both Biafran soldiers and Ibo civilians began terrorising the non ibos in the Midwest. Arrests, tortures, extortion, murders and raping of non 8bo civilians began. The atrocities committed by your Biafran soldiers and Ibo civilians on hapless civilians of non Ibo heritage in the Midwest pales significantly to what minorities trapped in Biafra faced.

It is from this point that anti Ibo sentiments took root.

You should be grateful to Gowon's post war policy of No Victor, No Vanquished which wanted to have you reintegrated into Nigerian society . If Gowon had done what was expected , which is to re-enact a Nurumberg court to have your war criminals trialed openly in a court of law, and survivors and victims of their atrocities given their day in court to testify , you won't be posting this rubbish today and you would have been facing a hundred times worse discrimination.

Just thank Gowon for he not only saved you from the tyranny of Ojukwu whose children would have been ruling you in a landlocked Biafra with an iron fist that will make North Korea look like Switzerland but he also ensured that the atrocities of your war generation were swept under the carpet.


Have

Your Epistle Is An Absolute Garage!


Ojukwu's move to attack the capital Lagos was a war strategy, just as Gowon and Awololo's food blockage of Biafra that resulted to millions of children's death thru kwashiorkor was also a war strategy too. Even the declaration of the Republic of Benin were all strategies of war. It's never a war crime. What you called occupation it's just military action. If Biafrans were planning to occupy or annex Midwest, there won't be need to declare Republic of Benin... this is common sense.

Also, Midwest people were also in the Nigerian military and they fought against Biafra too, so you can't rightly distance Midwest from the Gowon federal govt.

Furthermore, geographically, Biafrans can't get to Lagos without passing thru the Midwest.

Now the argument here is; I'm stating that Biafrans never committed war crimes in Midwest. There is no evidence to that effect anywhere in the world. It's all hear-say, half truth and just outright propaganda. This is our argument here... if you have real evidence of Biafra war crime in Midwest, present it now to the public or forever keep shut.... not one old man said this or that

Finally, you mentioned Gowon and said that Igbos should thank him. May amadio.ha cut your tongue for spewing sacrilege. Go and read your history very well...The eventual victory for Nigeria came with a sigh of relief for Gowon. After 3 years of tension, fear and headache not including the economic and humans resource that he lost in 3yrs. The war Gowon said won't last for 3weeks lasted for 3yrs.

So where will Gowon see strength to talk about tribunal, when he was cut up with the euphoria of victory. He never expected that victory in that war will come that year. I have pictures of Nigerians celebrating in Lagos. The war that nearly collapse Nigeria... every one in Nigeria was happy that it ended after a long period of headache. Ok apart from Gowon why is it no other Nigerian leader of that time mentioned tribunal? Mumu people will just come online to talk nonsense.

You better watch your tongue Mr man. The war that a single tribe out of 300+ tribes in Nigeria waged against the whole country establish Igbos as the main alpha tribe in the country this is where the hatred and suspicion from other tribes is coming from.

Hardfacts234:
Your Epistle Is An Absolute Garage!


Ojukwu's move to attack the capital Lagos was a war strategy, just as Gowon and Awololo's food blockage of Biafra that resulted to millions of children's death thru kwashiorkor was also a war strategy too. Even the declaration of the Republic of Benin were all strategies of war. It's never a war crime. What you called occupation it's just military action. If Biafrans were planning to occupy or annex Midwest, there won't be need to declare Republic of Benin... this is common sense.

Also, Midwest people were also in the Nigerian military and they fought against Biafra too, so you can't rightly distance Midwest from the Gowon federal govt.

Furthermore, geographically, Biafrans can't get to Lagos without passing thru the Midwest.

Now the argument here is; I'm stating that Biafrans never committed war crimes in Midwest. There is no evidence to that effect anywhere in the world. It's all hear-say, half truth and just outright propaganda. This is our argument here... if you have real evidence of Biafra war crime in Midwest, present it now to the public or forever keep shut.... not one old man said this or that

Finally, you mentioned Gowon and said that Igbos should thank him. May amadio.ha cut your tongue for spewing sacrilege. Go and read your history very well...The eventual victory for Nigeria came with a sigh of relief for Gowon. After 3 years of tension, fear and headache not including the economic and humans resource that he lost in 3yrs. The war Gowon said won't last for 3weeks lasted for 3yrs.

So where will Gowon see strength to talk about tribunal, when he was cut up with the euphoria of victory. He never expected that victory in that war will come that year. I have pictures of Nigerians celebrating in Lagos. The war that nearly collapse Nigeria... every one in Nigeria was happy that it ended after a long period of headache. Ok apart from Gowon why is it no other Nigerian leader of that time mentioned tribunal? Mumu people will just come online to talk nonsense.

You better watch your tongue Mr man. The war that a single tribe out of 300+ tribes in Nigeria waged against the whole country establish Igbos as the main alpha tribe in the country this is where the hatred and suspicion from other tribes is coming from.

Utter nonesense

Hardfacts234:
Mr man pls I want ask you, do you know that you are a Mumu man?

I ask you to present evidence of igbo massacre in Benin like neutral foreign media report of it or verified families of people that died in the hands of biafran soldiers, you don't have any of these yet you are still talking nonsense?

Are you normal at all?

Other normal people without evidence will back off and end the yeye argument.

I ask again; Are you sure you are normal at all?

What evidence do you want (don't answer as its rhetorical), YouTube videos of Biafran soldiers misbehaving in Benin àbi?

Ọ ma

DomPerignon:
Utter nonesense

That's what LOSERS says when they bitterly lost an argument.

I will keep bursting you people for spreading hear-say, half-truth and propaganda as FACTS.

When in actual reality, you have no contrete EVIDENCE. Look at you people presenting beer parlour talk from one envious old papa in Benin as FACTS.

DomPerignon:
How can you protect what you all hate and despise ?

Christianity is the most despised religion in the current SE with same SE having the highest rate of apostacy.

You have never been champions of the church.

That role goes to the Yorubas with the likes of Ajayi Crowther.

Remember how the Ibo dominated Catholic church in Nigeria also suddenly pulled out from CAN ?

The real church is in northern Nigeria as far as I am concerned and they are not looking for any earthly powers to protect them.

The church has survived on earth all these while not by the powers of men but by divine intervention and protection from God Himself.

Delete this blasphemous post before it's too late for you

If you believe this, you'll believe anything