iamord: that's war for you.. If God Will punish gowon, ojukuwu will follow the same feat. Its about military tactics.. The only way to infringe a major blow on the determined igbo.. Is By blocking food and. Provision supply .no one can fight on an empty stomach. This is a food for thought for those that have always craved for the biafria . How. Food sufficient are the igbo lands. @ the moment, how many secondary factories Are. There to meet the populace, what infrastructure are in Place. The. Educational state. Etc Think very deep before you decide to take actions

the truth is that the Cameroon border is not the only thing that caused this starvation but the Refusal of the SS Region to allow us use the sea to import food but thank God they paid with their land which is now under Cameroon control, not they know their friends and Enemy.

Where is Awo today
Gowon's State is still boiling, the brutal General (T.Y Danjuma)state is still boiling
They shall never know peace for the starvation of over 2million Igbos

o42austino: the truth is that the Cameroon border is not the only thing that caused this starvation but the Refusal of the SS Region to allow us use the sea to import food but thank God they paid with their land which is now under Cameroon control, not they know their friends and Enemy.

a lot. Of people will pay for the disunity towards their. Brothers.. But. I pray that thing does not repeat itself.. If youu should divide the leaders should look for a more peaceful approach to do that..probably when the nigerian marriage contract expires

Leibnitz: The face of a murderer

Hahahaha.... the ugly face of the leader of the ugly, dirty tribe. Anyway that coward drank rat poison and dead.

jaybee:

You tried; but did not get the gist. Ojukwu wanted to be head of state. by all means, including sacrificing a section of the country in a needless and unwarranted war, even a child would know Ojukwu can not win. the igbos fought a foolish war for pride and got the un-mistaken result. its no use trying to reconstruct history now. lets all learn a lesson on wild goose chase.

am afraid sweetie
you didn't get the gist not him and it might ve been possible ojukwu wanted to be head of state but the opportunity came which he utilized.
can you corner a leopard to the wall and expect him to say..as you wish my Lord??
had Gowon stopped the killings and massacres in the north ojukwu wouldn'tvve had the opportunity to secede. it took a year from August 2,'66 when he took power to July 6,'67 when the war broke out to show you he wasnt interested in the top spot.if he was,ironsi's death in July '66 or the massacres of Sept '66 would've the best time.
pls go and read your books you're empty

idhigbe: "all is fair in love and war".

The nation was at war. Anyway you look at it, people were dying. What gowon did then was what eventually brought the war to an end. If the war had persisted, many more would had died. My mother told me of how our family lost many to a bomb that was dropped into their hiding place. So either ways, people were dying. I give kudos to Gowon. He is an epitome of an exemplary leader. God will bless those who brought the war to an end and may his vengeance be upon those who are trying to start a war again in this country.

And even talking of God punishing, starvation has been a battle strategy for years. I have read countless stories of laying siege. Even in bible days. God judges the intent of the heart. In my eyes Gowons intentions was noble.

And may gowons intention be metted on u nd ur family in jesus name #say amen oh

aumeehn: hahaaahhaah i cant stop lafin!!!!

Continue with your laughter

to the people of the 26 prefectures of the map below
God bless our imperial state of Biafra

o42austino: the truth is that the Cameroon border is not the only thing that caused this starvation but the Refusal of the SS Region to allow us use the sea to import food but thank God they paid with their land which is now under Cameroon control, not they know their friends and Enemy.

They were brainwashed by Awo and colourless Gowon

So this is what they did to us.

500GP: GOD WILL PUNISH OJUKWU FOR KILLING INNOCENT SOUL. HE WILL ROT IN HELL.

#IBO POLITICAL LEADERS SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE THEY ACT

You must be a toddler for spewing that rubbish

jaybee:

You tried; but did not get the gist. Ojukwu wanted to be head of state. by all means, including sacrificing a section of the country in a needless and unwarranted war, even a child would know Ojukwu can not win. the igbos fought a foolish war for pride and got the un-mistaken result. its no use trying to reconstruct history now. lets all learn a lesson on wild goose chase.

What are you talking about that Ojukwu wanted to be head of state by all means? That's why I say that before you comment on such sensitive matters such as the war that claimed millions of lives, do your research and find out what really happened. After General Ironsi was killed,there were many officers senior to Gowon (Ogundipe,Nwawo,Effiong,Bassey,Ejoor and Ojukwu were all senior to Gowon). The only reason Gowon became head of state was because he was the highest ranking northerner at the time. Ojukwu told Gowon to do the honourable thing and hand over to highest ranking officer which was Brigadier Ogundipe but Gowon refused. So how did Ojukwu want to be head of state? The same Ojukwu went to Ghana and signed a peace accord with Gowon in other to maintain peace in Nigeria but it was Gowon who reneged on the agreement. It is a coward that sees his people being butchered says he won't fight back because he will lose the fight. If it were not for all the weapons of war that Gowon got from Britain and Russia,Nigeria would not have defeated Biafra. In fact,Gowon said he had no money to fight the war. Only international support tilted the war in favour of Nigeria. My father told me that most of the war equipments used by Biafrans were made by Biafrans and they recorded several spectacular victories against Nigeria.It is a testament of valour to the Biafran soldier that despite a Naval blockade,starvation and being outgunned and outmanned,he still kept the dream alive for 3 years . One more thing I will add is that if there is another war,there will be no Britain or Russia coming to help Nigeria. A naval blockade will be almost impossible to maintain and the number of nations that will support Biafra when they hear that we are just fighting for our freedom will be many. The so called Nigerian army can't even defeat Boko haram of a few thousand men. Like I said, I hope we don't have a war but if it should happen. There is no way Nigeria will be able to defeat Biafra.

Looking @those pictures one cannot but wonder the astronomical pace with which igbos have recovered from that magnanimous set back. It's nothing but pure human hard work, zeal and brotherhood. Sorry to say but the north is still almost @their pre-war state.

What Nigeria did to the Igbos, is 1000 times worst than what boko haram is doing to Nigerians. Nigerians started killing the Igbos as far back as 1945 in the Jos market for no justifiable reason, they killed again in Kano in 1953, then in 1966, they killed over 50,000 innocent igbos resident in Northern Nigeria, forcing the Igbos to form their own country. Still not satisfied with their atrocious genocide, they waged an ungodly war against the Igbos.

Smartsyn: Some men adviced Gowon to close the Cameroonian borders so as to prevent food and other relief materials from entering the Biafran territory and eventually many women and children were starved to death.

God ll forever punish those men, even in their death..

SME will happen to the foolish man who knew his people were dropping dead every seconds and refused to surrender




Evil bearded f#ck

bunmioguns: see as dem tirin gbeku

u be bad person

OrlandoOwoh:
War is not a child's play. Ojukwu should have weighed the pros and cons before he declared Biafra.

the guy can't think straight





He's just a bushy beard eediot

Smartsyn: it was the great massacre in the North that lead to his declaring Biafra, atleast he got the balls and not for the childish tactics deployed by the Nigerian side, he would've have his way..

The North Should do something about the killings being perpetuated on their territory of late if they got the balls and not crying FG FG all the time..

We never regretted Ojukwu declaring Biafra, our only regrets is that the people we fought with were not man enough, that could not face us squarely.

they weren't man enough to face? Lol




But they blocked your food channels




They blocked it and you can't even do anything about it and u think dem no be ur papa?

saintikechi:
God is punishing d north already

And we are all bearing the brunt ...

zendy:

What are you talking about that Ojukwu wanted to be head of state by all means? That's why I say that before you comment on such sensitive matters such as the war that claimed millions of lives, do your research and find out what really happened. After General Ironsi was killed,there were many officers senior to Gowon (Ogundipe,Nwawo,Effiong,Bassey,Ejoor and Ojukwu were all senior to Gowon). The only reason Gowon became head of state was because he was the highest ranking northerner at the time. Ojukwu told Gowon to do the honourable thing and hand over to highest ranking officer which was Brigadier Ogundipe but Gowon refused. So how did Ojukwu want to be head of state? The same Ojukwu went to Ghana and signed a peace accord with Gowon in other to maintain peace in Nigeria but it was Gowon who reneged on the agreement. It is a coward that sees his people being butchered says he won't fight back because he will lose the fight. If it were not for all the weapons of war that Gowon got from Britain and Russia,Nigeria would not have defeated Biafra. In fact,Gowon said he had no money to fight the war. Only international support tilted the war in favour of Nigeria. My father told me that most of the war equipments used by Biafrans were made by Biafrans and they recorded several spectacular victories against Nigeria.It is a testament of valour to the Biafran soldier that despite a Naval blockade,starvation and being outgunned and outmanned,he still kept the dream alive for 3 years . One more thing I will add is that if there is another war,there will be no Britain or Russia coming to help Nigeria. A naval blockade will be almost impossible to maintain and the number of nations that will support Biafra when they hear that we are just fighting for our freedom will be many. The so called Nigerian army can't even defeat Boko haram of a few thousand men. Like I said, I hope we don't have a war but if it should happen. There is no way Nigeria will be able to defeat Biafra.

. Nna Chukwu gozie gi for this writeup. Biafra tins on my mind, weda Nigeria like it or not, we must be free. Biafra must become a nation of its own b4 2016 in Jesus name amen.

Leibnitz: The £20 policy of murderous and treacherous Awo denied Ndigbo from owning a single property from their dubious indigenization policy. Thank God that He NEVER sleeps nor slumbers. we shall overcome

Stop spreading false information. You don't know about that history.

semitunde:

Stop spreading false information. You don't know about that history.

Why are you questioning the veracity of my ascertion. Awo Must Pay !!

I pray it won't happen again..don't want to witness such

98% of you all do not know the main cause of Nigeria's disunity. You only read punch and vanguard editorials with twisted stories. A man of just 50 or 40 will be discussing about the civil war as if he was there. The war started even before independence, that was just the height of the war. We should know something, we NEVER had Nationalists or people thought about Nigeria as a whole, we only had people who thought about their pockets. I feel like shedding tears whenever I remember those stu.pid humans that called themselves nationalists and first republic politicians. They killed us. They spoilt what's suppose to be a great country. Some decisions were not supposed to be made, but these clueless men made decisions for their own selfish interests. I still stand on my WORD, we had no Nationalists. We only had TRIBALISTS! Sorry, that's thesame set of people we are seeing playing thesame politics with us. The day we get this fact into our heads that our leaders both opposition and the ones in government do not have the Nigerian spirit in their hearts, the day we will reclaim our land called Nigeria. The problem is not igbo, yoruba, hausa, ibibio, Nupe, etc. The problem were the leaders we used to represent us. We need to reclaim our land, if we don't do this now, we are heading to extinction.

jaybee:

who advised ojukwu not to cut supply to the north? I mean why didn't ojukwu "prevent food and other relief materials from entering" the north also ?

sorry to say, you are such a big ..... I just don't know what to call you.

semitunde:

And we are all bearing the brunt ...

WHAT DURTY BRUNT EXACTLY ARE YOU MAKING REFERENCE TO?

sandijey:



And what lead to the great massacre in the north? Have u forgotten how ur people were jubilating after the coup, the taunting songs and abuse the hausas suffered in your hands. That was what lead to the massacre. The same thing is happening in the south- west. When there is a reaction, some people will start crying victim. In war nothing is fair. War does not care for women and children. The two parts fighting, look for ways to destroy the other. And I still stand that nobody should fight a war unprepared.

I have been taunted by hausas b/4 I never killed anyone so if u re justifying the killing of thousands in the 60s you re a sick imp

https://www.nairaland.com/1829863/biafra-midwest-invasion-case-war.


Please, let's talk about this too.

One side is always the victim.

jaybee:

who advised ojukwu not to cut supply to the north? I mean why didn't ojukwu "prevent food and other relief materials from entering" the north also ?

are u daft or just being innately silly? u asked y didnt igbos farm? now the next question is t didnt ojukwu block food to d north? are u sane?
wia was d war fought? Do u farm when u are bn bombarded? even markets wia straffed by bombs. How do u farm when people keep re-locating? how do u block food to north when there was no war going on in the north?

Amadioha damage ur mouth

zendy: A lot of people make ignorant comments on Nairaland. I was born after the war and so was not a living witness to it but that did not stop me from reading books and researching about it. I also got first hand accounts about the war from my mother who was a refugee in camp similar to the one in these pictures and my father who was a captain in the Biafran army. I know all about the war. The important question to ask is "why was the war fought?" The counter-coup of 1966 saw northern officers rise and butcher any Eastern Nigerian officer or soldier they could lay their hands on but that didn't stop there. Easterners were butchered across the north and western region. Ojukwu was then military Governor of Eastern Nigeria. Ojukwu told Gowon to stop the killings but he didn't. Ojukwu even encouraged the Easterners who ran back home to return to the north only for them to be killed in greater numbers. Ojukwu sat down with Gowon in Aburi,Ghana and discussed the escalating crises and they came up with an agreement called the 'Aburi Accord' that would bring peace and keep Nigeria as one. Gowon signed this agreement only to return to Lagos and turn his back on it. With easterners being massacred in their thousands all over Nigeria,what would anyone expect Ojukwu to do? He did what he could to bring peace but it didn't work. How many of you would have stood by and watched your own being killed in the name of 'one Nigeria'? Ojukwu did the only thing any sane man would have done to protect his people after all peace initiatives by him had failed and that was to ask his people to return home and declared Biafra. Biafra was about the right of a people to self determination,freedom of association and the right to protect ones life and property. If any of us had been Ojukwu,we too would have declared Biafra. The war followed and the only reason that Nigeria defeated Biafra was the overwhelming support it got from super powers such as Britain and Russia. I want to add that it was the God given right of anyone or a people to decide if they want to be Nigerians or not,you can't force someone to be Nigerian. The war was fought for one single reason. For the oil resources of Eastern Nigeria. That's all it was, the northerners need the economic resources of the people of the South-east and South-south like fish needs water. Anyone who believes that the northerners and their Yoruba collaborators fought this war because of the 'everlasting love' they have for the Igbos and the people of the SS is a fool. 2 million people died,millions more suffered and for what? To give northerners and Yorubas control over the rest of Nigeria for 40 years. Look at the Nigeria they presided over,a country riddled with corruption,incompetence,porverty and insecurity. This is the so called dream of 'one Nigeria'? I pray that there will not be another war in Nigeria but we all know that Nigeria is living on 'borrowed time'. We will all go our different ways in peace or in pieces.

zendy, I wish I know you. You know so much about the war which many of the people don't know a thing about. They thought Ojukwu wanted to fight war for nothing. If a man wants war, why will he attempt to sign the aburi accord agreement? Moreover, Ojukwu was in the better position to be the head of the Nigerian Army, He was robbed. Gowon wasn't close at all, Muritala was even ahead of him. Because he was trained abroad, they saw him as more intelligent that his hausa counterparts but they knew Ojukwu was also trained abroad. They didn't stop killing the igbos in the north. Awolowo who Ojukwu somehow spared death and called him back from prison, ran to meet Gowon. Ojukwu thought since Awolowo escaped death from coup soldiers, he would want to declare odua republic, but no, selfish interests ahead of communal interest made him join hands with Gowon. To be candid and not mincing words, they didn't annihilate all igbos because it will be termed genocide in the eyes of the world, so they accepted igbos back. For more than 30years, the hausas have been manipulating the yorubas to keep themselves in government. Yorubas have failed to see the light, the intelligent hausas left the media and some minor ministries for them to manage while they took control of power. Obasanjo was only given power that year because they didn't want to appear bad in the sight of their boys "yorubas", they had to give him power for just 3years and mandated him to relinquish the power to another hausa "shagari" terming it 2nd republic. The igbo were left with only 20pounds to survive. While the yorubas were sucking our economy and oil. They forgot to farm and hunt. The agricultural sector died. They caused inflation, they killed more people that came to fight against because of power. Igbos have suffered in the name of Nigeria. We have suffered so much that a normal human being will see that suffering have eaten into us. Yet, some of us still want to play thesame game we played before the civil war. Let the northerner shout all they like, we don't care. We have been marginalised on our own land. Our oil wells are owned by northerner with little or nothing for us. Because of their carelessness and envy, they neglected palm oil production and left the Malaysians to prosper for it. These so called Nigeria is whack! Even with more 30years in government the hausas are still backward, barbaric and violent! The yorubas are still afraid, playing the friendly game they played 45years ago! God knows! This country is a sour soup that needs to be thrown away or warmed with the hottest steam!

jaybee:

You tried; but did not get the gist. Ojukwu wanted to be head of state. by all means, including sacrificing a section of the country in a needless and unwarranted war, even a child would know Ojukwu can not win. the igbos fought a foolish war for pride and got the un-mistaken result. its no use trying to reconstruct history now. lets all learn a lesson on wild goose chase.

its so clear you either heard a biased information or read the wrong book. I'm not your friend, I would've given you a video coverage of almost all the things that happened from 1914 to 1999. Its longer than the season movie u see and compiled by the british. You'll see live interviews of your so-called leaders and see what they have been doing to us since pre-independence times.

alaoeri: Chai and ppl like Asari are beating the drum of war anybody that watch blood diamond, hotel Rwanda, sometimes in April will never wishes for war.

I have watched all those movies...
Yet, I still don't give a fück.