₦airaland Forum

superstar1:
They did not surrender.

They were conquered.

No story.

Conquered by countries that came to help you of course, not conquered by you.

ekenedegreat:
Conquered by countries that came to help you of course, not conquered by you.

Lol.

Who cares about who helped who? You were conquered. Flat and neat. Mechuonu gi.

Are your ways and behaviour that detestable that no one came to your help? If that is true. You need to make a U-turn from your bad and criminal ways, so that others can come to your rescue in the time of trouble.

oduastates:
Yes , this is another one of the crap they keep spewing .
After conniving( azikwe) with the North( ahmadu bello) to create the Midwest and conveniently ignoring all the autonomous movement from the northern region and the eastern region ( ijaws , efik , ogonis ), the stage was set for nemesis to catch with them.
Azikwe and ahmadu bello did it to weaken the western region . Eventually they threw Awo in prison on trumped up charges with just one witness testimony.
They ignored all the pleadings for separate regions by the minorities
Karma is a biiiitcccchhhh.
Karma caught up with the east when the intransigence and the petulance of ojukwu during the aburi negotiations finally resulted in Gowon showing his hand . Ojukwu aid the eastern region would not share the newly discovered oil in the land of the minorities with the North ( the western region paid for herself )
This is after sharing from resources from other places before oil .
what did Gowon do ?
He checkmated ojukwu.
He did exactly what should have been done ( as per the agitations of minorities before independence) when the Midwest region was created .
He created more states as per the wishes of the minorities .
Seeing that the ijaw oil that the igbos were banking on had been removed from their grasp, ojukwu declared Biafra as the only means to retain control of that oil.

What is this one blabbing about?
Below were the Eastern non -Igbo demands.
http://scannewsnigeria.com/news/willink-report-1958-the-following-are-excerpts-from-a-the-report-of-the-commission-appointed-to-enquire-into-the-fears-of-minorities-and-the-means-of-allaying-them-otherwise-known-a/

How exactly did Gowon and Awo meet those demands by creating anomalies called states without a referendum from the people, all in a hurry to get their hands on Eastern region oil wealth.

Below was how Biafra was divided and it's in complete tandem with the non Igbo Eastern groups demands. It tallies directly with the willink reports, because the people were Consulted.

http://www.kwenu.com/biafra/biafra.htm

As a Yoruba man, you should be ashamed of what greed for another man's wealth has caused you lots to do. You shouldn't be here blabbing.

Why should the Eastern region share her oil wealth with you parasites? Is it by force?

"With the war ended, and as a
Commissioner in Rivers State, I soon
found that the Rivers State for which I
had
fought did not end my nightmare. In the
first place, oil money from Ogoni country
(as well as Ijaw country) was being carted
away to Lagos, leaving the Ogoni illiterate
and backward. This is anti-federalism".

We all knew that the parasitic Awo connived with the North in a desperate attempt to get his hands on Eastern region newly discovered oil wealth. You were never neutral like you want the naive ones to believe.

A quick look at Awo actions immediately the East was down would prove this, you came to kill destroy and steal . Even those you deceived with your message of liberation saw through your treachery after the war.

Bamenda left the Eastern region through a referendum, Midwest left the Western region through a referendum.

You don't stay in Lagos and divide people without their consent and expect it to stand.

A good look at the Willink report would show why the COR agitation would not have succeeded through a plebiscite, many minority groups within the COR agitation feared domination of Ibibio-Annang-Efik and Ijaws. They wanted their own provinces, and that was exactly what Biafra gave them.


Gowon and Awo knew this, that's why they resorted to dividing the regions via military fiats and not by the usual referendum.

millionaireman:
Alabi Isama was a weakling. Weaklings make the most noise. In wars, weak people can't easily make a choice .That's why Alabi was defecting from one side to the other. Alabi till now keeps seeking attention through bla bla bla in his war memoirs.

Biafra leader did not surrender. Implications: Biafra did not surrender

Re-ea-ally??! So what exactly was the purpose of Effiong's speech, then?

BIAFRA’S PROVINCES & ADMINISTRATORS
Aba
Mr. Moses Onwuma*
Abakaliki
Mr. Samuel Mgbada
Annang
Chief Ekukinam Bassey
Awka
Mr. Paul Nwokedi
Calabar
Prof. Eyo Bassey Ndem
Degema
Mr. S. N. Dikibo
Eket
Mr. S. J. Edoho
Enugu
Mr. Christian Chukwuma Onoh
Nsukka
Mr. Frank Onyeke
Ogoja
Mr. Frank Ugbut
Oji River
Dr. Godwin A. Odenigwe
Okigwe
Mr. Sam I. Mbakwe
Onitsha
Mr. R. I. Iweka
Opobo
Dr. S. J. Cookey
Orlu
Mr. R. I. Uzoma
Owerri
Mr. Duke Njiribeakor
Port Harcourt
Mr. Emmanuel Aguma
Umuahia
Mr. Simeon Ojukwu
Uyo
Chief J. Udo-Affiah
Yenegoa
Chief Frank Opigo
====


Take a look at Biafra provinces. It satisfied all the non Igbo Easteners yearned for in the willink report.

1. It freed the Eastern non Igbo groups from Igbos "domination" by giving them an autonomous province of their own, to be run by the indigenes.


2. It freed the Eastern smaller non Igbo groups from the Ijaw and Ibibio/Annang/Efik " domination" by giving them new provinces away from those two bigger non-Igbo groups.

These arrangements were made by the people, the Eastern consultative assembly, not some greedy Odua-Arewa people licking their lips over the Eastern region oil wealth.

Here is the Willink report for those that want to go through it again.
http://scannewsnigeria.com/news/willink-report-1958-the-following-are-excerpts-from-a-the-report-of-the-commission-appointed-to-enquire-into-the-fears-of-minorities-and-the-means-of-allaying-them-otherwise-known-a/

SOUNDKING:
if you re-write history to suit your hipocrisy,you may not know your children,do u think other countris don't know about that war?,do you think it was only Ojukwu and gowan that went to Aburi?,do you think there was no documentation doing that time?, what made them go to Aburi?, incase you meant what you typed,just know, it is a very long but wrong epistle,google may help you.where are the documents of our surender?.

Nah! You and your peeps are the ones rewriting history! People have said that 90% of the terms agreed at Aburi, was offered to Ojukwu in order to end the war. But he refused and stubbornly pressed on, until a lot of souls were lost. Chai!

The documents of your surrender were captured in General Philip Effiong's speech, that gallant & brave soldier.

ok

You now see why Gowon and his sidekick Awo scuttled every chance to resolve the Eastern region concerns on round table negotiations.

They badly needed to get their hands on the Eastern region oil wealth, things like negotiations,agreements plebiscites, referendums would not get them what they wanted.
They wanted war, haven been promised Unlimited weapons supply by the British. But now they would want to re write history before our eyes, the very same people who were shouting "Araba" ( Division/ secession) when they massacred Easterners all over the country,but jettisoned their secession plans and started shouting " one Nigeria", the moment the British intimated them of the value of the Eastern oil wealth they would forfeit should they( the Odua-Arewa) secede?

Thunder will fire any Odua-Arewa demon that should ever accuse Ojukwu of starting war, or Igbos of trying to force Eastern non Igbos into Biafra.

The sacrosanct facts remain:

1. Gowon and Awo declared war on Biafra out of greed.

2. Biafra was an Eastern region affair, Gowon knew this, that's why he never agreed to any plebiscite on the minorities areas, he knew what the result of such plebiscite would have been.
The Eastern non Igbos were deeply entrenched in Biafra, before it all fell apart, and they all left Ndiigbo to bear the blunt alone.

on aburi we stand..God bless Biafra

Icon4s:
See how old and fragile a once vibrant fearless Joe Achuzie is. One of my war heroes. My late Dad another war veteran told us a lot abt this man. These are men that d Igbo people should celebrate and not Opportunists like Ralph Uwazurike and Nnamdi Kanu.

Remove Nnamdi Kanu from this ur vain composition.

Is it not Nnamdi Kanu that is organizing worldwide remembrance days for our war heroes and dead ones?
Didn't he build a cenotaph on honor of the soldiers which Uwazuruike connived with zoo authorities to bring down?

Nnamdi Kanu has done more to respect those who fought for our land in the civil war than all Biafrans put together.

Give respect where it is due.

Thank u.

chuna1985:
Homosapien pls Dnt disgrace urself. Go n read ALL about d Aburi accord n save urself d stresss.

U lied and u re still forming historian giant.....I can give u my add to come and get the real video tape of the aburi meeting,not some useless stories some pompous criminals tried to rewrite to suit the empty ego.....and u will be ashamed of urself.....yoruba and ibo never at anytime agreed to declare separation....and what awo said was that if Gowon allow the ibos to go,then yoruba will do leave....after all it was ur azikwe that preffered the one Nigeria,and also ur aguiyi ironsi formed this useless unitary system of govt,where monkey dey work baboon they shop,just to suit his pride of ruling all Nigeria,so I don't know why on earth will be calling on yoruba to any agreement not to talk of support, when ur fore fathers prefer to wine and dine with the north......is this not hilarious?

pazienza:
What is this one blabbing about?
Below were the Eastern non -Igbo demands.
http://scannewsnigeria.com/news/willink-report-1958-the-following-are-excerpts-from-a-the-report-of-the-commission-appointed-to-enquire-into-the-fears-of-minorities-and-the-means-of-allaying-them-otherwise-known-a/

How exactly did Gowon and Awo meet those demands by creating anomalies called states without a referendum from the people, all in a hurry to get their hands on Eastern region oil wealth.

Below was how Biafra was divided and it's in complete tandem with the non Igbo Eastern groups demands. It tallies directly with the willink reports, because the people were Consulted.

http://www.kwenu.com/biafra/biafra.htm

As a Yoruba man, you should be ashamed of what greed for another man's wealth has caused you lots to do. You shouldn't be here blabbing.

Why should the Eastern region share her oil wealth with you parasites? Is it by force?

The measure of inconsistency is not be willing to be held to the same standard you expect of others.
On one hand you rubbish the creation of states by Gowon without referendum but wholeheartedly accept the division of Biafra without any referendum. Even the declaration of Biafra was not done with any referendum in Iboland or the adjoining minority areas.

My advise is just try and be consistent with your standards, it make you look more credible

pazienza:
"With the war ended, and as a
Commissioner in Rivers State, I soon
found that the Rivers State for which I
had
fought did not end my nightmare. In the
first place, oil money from Ogoni country
(as well as Ijaw country) was being carted
away to Lagos, leaving the Ogoni illiterate
and backward. This is anti-federalism".

We all knew that the parasitic Awo connived with the North in a desperate attempt to get his hands on Eastern region newly discovered oil wealth. You were never neutral like you want the naive ones to believe.

A quick look at Awo actions immediately the East was down would prove this, you came to kill destroy and steal . Even those you deceived with your message of liberation saw through your treachery after the war.

It is unfortunate that as educated as you are you still come here to repeat tales by moonlight as facts of history. Awolowo resigned from the Gowon government in June 1971, the Indeginsation decree was promulgated in March 1972 and became effective in 1974. The Gowon government had 3 years since Awolowo left the government to show their love to Ibos and reverse the law but did not.

If the policy is so central to Awolowo's involvement in government why would he leave even before the policy was even made a law, not to talk of the implementation to the alleged advantage of his people?

The advantage we should have as educated people is lost if we come to a forum like this to repeat folklore and pass them as facts without evidence.
http://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=186577265

Ovamboland:
The measure of inconsistency is not be willing to be held to the same standard you expect of others.
On one hand you rubbish the creation of states by Gowon without referendum but wholeheartedly accept the division of Biafra without any referendum. Even the declaration of Biafra was not done with any referendum in Iboland or the adjoining minority areas.

My advise is just try and be consistent with your standards, it make you look more credible

Biafra declaration was done by Eastern region consultative assembly consisting of ethnic nationalities from all parts of Biafra.

Division of Biafra was done in agreement with political and traditional leaders of those regions and with support of the people as it addressed the issues raised in the Willink report.

Gowon turned down the offer of UN supervised plebiscite because he knew his division of the East was illegal without the people's concern at heart. In other hand, Ojukwu was sure his Biafra division met the Eastern people's expectations.

Are you aware that the name Biafra was suggested at the Eastern consultative assembly meeting by Frank Opigo, who became the administrator of Biafran Yenegoa province?

Ovamboland:
It is unfortunate that as educated as you are you still come here to repeat tales by moonlight as facts of history. Awolowo resigned from the Gowon government in June 1971, the Indeginsation decree was promulgated in March 1972 and became effective in 1974. The Gowon government had 3 years since Awolowo left the government to show their love to Ibos and reverse the law but did not.

If the policy is so central to Awolowo's involvement in government why would he leave even before the policy was even made a law, not to talk of the implementation to the alleged advantage of his people?

The advantage we should have as educated people is lost if we come to a forum like this to repeat folklore and pass them as facts without evidence.
http://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=186577265

I never brought up the "indigenization" program yet your guilty conscience made you bring it out.
If you want to read about the indigenization policy and it's Igbophobic implications, be my guest: https://junglejournalist./2012/10/13/the-greatest-heist-in-modern-history-by-awolowo-and-the-yorubas-known-as-indigenization-of-foreign-companies-in-nigeria-by-frederick-onwumbiko/

I was talking about the siting of key oil companies Headquarters and Parastatals in Lagos rather than PH.

Your Awo had hands in that. If he didn't, then show me where he( Awo) the self proclaimed
liberator of Eastern non Igbo groups spoke out against those moves when the Minorities cried out?

Finally, I entered this thread to clear two Igbophobic propaganda hatched and propagated by the Odua-Arewa, that Oduastates, was spreading on this thread.

1. That the Igbos forcefully annexed the non Igbo parts of the defunct Eastern region, against their ( non Igbos) wish.
I had disproved and sent this Yoruba lie to hell, as I had shown that Ojukwu was always willing to let Nigeria have a UN supervised plebiscite in the non Igbo speaking areas of the East, an offer which Gowon turned down cos a British intelligence report had already intimated him that only few non Igbos would vote to stay in Nigeria, in other words, the non Igbo groups became part of Biafra by their own volition, Gowon and Awo knew this, yet they kept spreading the Igbophobic propaganda of Igbos forcing the Eastern minorities into Biafra, talk of dishonorable men leading an anomalous country.


2. The Igbos had an agenda to take the Eastern oil wealth from the non - Igbos and refused granting the Eastern non Igbo groups a region of their own.

This is another false Yoruba propaganda. Through willink report, I had shown why creation of COR wouldn't have materialized under a plebiscite, the Eastern region smaller non- Igbo groups wanted freedom from not just the Igbos, but from the Ijaw and the Ibibio-Annang-Efik. Biafra provinces provided that, giving all Biafrans their autonomy and right to control their fates, much more effective than abominations called states that Gowon- Awo greed led them to create, Gowon couldn't care about the smaller Eastern region groups agitations for a separate existence outside the big two minorities, he came for exploitation, creating more states for those minorities was in direct conflict to his exploitation plans?he needed as few states as possible in the East.

Igbos couldn't have possibly exploit the non Igbos when Biafra ensured all got a province of their own, to control their destiny.
Each Biafran province had an indigenous administrator, for example, the PH province had an Ikwerre administrator.

chuna1985:
Wen Gowon failed to adhere to d Aburi accord, west n east agreed to adhere to a clause ind aburri accord which was to declare independence where east forms a state, west forms theirs n allow north to be on their own.

Ojukwu met wit the yoruba congress n dis agreement to declare independence was agreed.

Ojukwu went home n declared biafra n den the s waste refuse to declare d republic they so much loved...

S waste na sabotage @ all levels.

Can u Pls list the Yorubas that ojukwu met

DonBobes:
Dey surrendered because if nt d war wuld hv bn prolonged & resulted to unusual loss of lives.
He shuld stop sayi dey dint surrender, dts nt true because dey did.
.

Dey didn't surrendered, de suspended de war or called it off. Was der anywhere dey surrendered der weapons to? no. immediately Biafrans suspended de war all der soldiers went home wit der weapons or just thew it away.

Ovamboland:
The measure of inconsistency is not be willing to be held to the same standard you expect of others.
On one hand you rubbish the creation of states by Gowon without referendum but wholeheartedly accept the division of Biafra without any referendum. Even the declaration of Biafra was not done with any referendum in Iboland or the adjoining minority areas.

My advise is just try and be consistent with your standards, it make you look more credible

Gbam!! You get am!

pazienza:
Biafra declaration was done by Eastern region consultative assembly consisting of ethnic nationalities from all parts of Biafra.

Division of Biafra was done in agreement with political and traditional leaders of those regions and with support of the people as it addressed the issues raised in the Willink report.

Gowon turned down the offer of UN supervised plebiscite because he knew his division of the East was illegal without the people's concern at heart. In other hand, Ojukwu was sure his Biafra division met the Eastern people's expectations.

Are you aware that the name Biafra was suggested at the Eastern consultative assembly meeting by Frank Opigo, who became the administrator of Biafran Yenegoa province?

Er.. provide your sources please, and please post links to those reports carrying this info., so we can all read and verify especially the part containing Gowon's refusal of the plebiscite.

The appointment of a person from a district to supervise the affairs of that district means nothing. such a candidate may not even be liked, respected or wanted by his people. Afterall, Opigo and others like him were not elected by their people, to direct their affairs.

Any of them could have been an Ojukwu stooge, dancing to the tune of their paymasters. Were each of these units/districts self-accountable, and did they get to keep all the revenue accruing from their area to themselves, or did they still have to surrender such revenue to Ojukwu's administration??

yemaldo:
Can u Pls list the Yorubas that ojukwu met

Yoruba congress.

laudate:
Er.. provide your sources please, and please post links to those reports carrying this info., so we can all read and verify especially the part containing Gowon's refusal of the plebiscite.

The appointment of a person from a district to supervise the affairs of that district means nothing. such a candidate may not even be liked, respected or wanted by his people. Afterall, Opigo and others like him were not elected by their people, to direct their affairs.

Any of them could have been an Ojukwu stooge, dancing to the tune of their paymasters. Were each of these units/districts self-accountable, and did they get to keep all the revenue accruing from their area to themselves, or did they still have to surrender such revenue to Ojukwu's administration??

Lol, if I provide the link to my source, will it make you accept the facts? The answer is No. But nevertheless, here we go.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1970/apr/23/an-exchange-on-biafra/


Non of the Eastern region leaders were Ojukwu stooge, Ojukwu never had such powers, infact, Ojukwu was personally against secession but was prevailed upon to declare the independence of Eastern region by the consultative assembly made up of political and traditional rulers in the East.

pazienza:
Biafra declaration was done by Eastern region consultative assembly consisting of ethnic nationalities from all parts of Biafra.

Division of Biafra was done in agreement with political and traditional leaders of those regions and with support of the people as it addressed the issues raised in the Willink report.

Gowon turned down the offer of UN supervised plebiscite because he knew his division of the East was illegal without the people's concern at heart. In other hand, Ojukwu was sure his Biafra division met the Eastern people's expectations.

Are you aware that the name Biafra was suggested at the Eastern consultative assembly meeting by Frank Opigo, who became the administrator of Biafran Yenegoa province?

I'm glad that you are writting this because the present crop of Nigerian youths in their 20's,30's and even some in their 40's don't know a single thing about the history of Nigeria and this is a tragedy. More than 80% of all Nigerians cannot articulate the cumulative chain of events that led to the war from the 1964 elections to end of the war. Many do not know what the eastern Nigerian consultative assembly was or the part they played in in giving Ojukwu the mandate representing the 20 provinces of the Eastern region to declare Biafra. The entire civil war was just one concerted attempt to get at the Oil wealth of the Eastern region, nothing more. Nigeria was a fraud then, it is fraud now, it will always be a fraud until sovereignty is returned to the people. Awolowo and Gowon were just co-travellers in a state craft of deciet. Both men should have being arraigned at The Hague for the monumental and duplicitous fraud they committed in the name of "One Ngeria". Oh well, the good thing is that the future is more important than the past. In the future, we shall correct the wrongs of the past.

zendy:
I'm glad that you are writting this because the present crop of Nigerian youths in their 20's,30's and even some in their 40's don't know a single thing about the history of Nigeria and this a tragedy. More than 80% of all Nigerians cannot articulate the cumulative chain of events that led to the war from the 1964 elections to end of the war. Many do not know what eastern Nigerian consultative assembly was or the part they played in in giving Ojukwu the mandate representing the 20 provinces of the Eastern region to declare Biafra. The entire civil war was just one concerted attempt to get at the Oil wealth of the Eastern region, nothing more. Nigeria was a fraud then, it is fraud now, it will always be a fraud until the the sovereignty is returned to the people. Awolowo and Gowon were just co-travellers state craft of deciet. Both men should have being arraigned at The Hague for the monumental and duplicitous fraud they committed in the name of "One Ngeria". Oh well, the good thing is that the future is more important than the past. In the future, we shall correct the wrongs of the past.

Chai! Dem don brainwash you well, well!

Submit your Nigerian passport first then renounce your citizenship, if you feel it is fraud...hehehe!

zendy:
I'm glad that you are writting this because the present crop of Nigerian youths in their 20's,30's and even some in their 40's don't know a single thing about the history of Nigeria and this a tragedy. More than 80% of all Nigerians cannot articulate the cumulative chain of events that led to the war from the 1964 elections to end of the war. Many do not know what eastern Nigerian consultative assembly was or the part they played in in giving Ojukwu the mandate representing the 20 provinces of the Eastern region to declare Biafra. The entire civil war was just one concerted attempt to get at the Oil wealth of the Eastern region, nothing more. Nigeria was a fraud then, it is fraud now, it will always be a fraud until the the sovereignty is returned to the people. Awolowo and Gowon were just co-travellers state craft of deciet. Both men should have being arraigned at The Hague for the monumental and duplicitous fraud they committed in the name of "One Ngeria". Oh well, the good thing is that the future is more important than the past. In the future, we shall correct the wrongs of the past.

When ibo people occupied all juicy positions in Nigeria during the first Republic, Nigeria was not a fraud?
When ibo officers were killing Yoruba and Northern Officers, Nigeria was not a fraud?
When an ibo fraudulently became Supreme Commander, Nigeria was not a fraud?
When he promulgated a unitary system of Government to favour ibo people, Nigeria was not a fraud?

The Eastern consultative assembly was Ojukwu's stooge unless they were going to be locked up in prison like he did to Lt. Colonel Hilary Njoku who was his senior..

Lemon12:
Yo-rubber people can't be trusted
... Bunch of betrayers

cry,cry baby