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| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by Jesusloveyou: 10:13am On Dec 19, 2015 |
ZeroTolerance:it is ibos that are doing it now |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by Nobody: 10:19am On Dec 19, 2015 |
EzePromoe:instead of you to confess that an ibo man sold the entire biafra project because of toto, you are here writing long epistle that no one will read. ![]() |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by EzePromoe: 3:08pm On Dec 19, 2015 |
Chanchit:[color=#DC143C]Oh are you now in harmony with the 'land grabbers'? What happened to 'Biafra starts and ends with the 5 SE states'? Since you have joined the pro-Biafra movement by saying that Biafra is not Igbo, I withdraw my statement. I'm not a Biafran anyway but I don't think that those agitating for Biafra don't know what they're doing.[/color] |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by Chanchit: 3:59pm On Dec 19, 2015 |
EzePromoe:Its true that Biafra starts and ends with the 5SE states but not all SEasterners are in support of the struggle. And its true those agitating for Biafra knows what they are doing, I mean less than 10% of them, the remaining 90% are just following the band wagon. |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by fr3do(m): 3:45pm On Dec 20, 2015 |
if you dont know what I'm talking about, kindly ask and I will educate you. Jesusloveyou: |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by Paretomaster(m): 5:11pm On Dec 20, 2015 |
Meanwhile, buoyed by the confidence from early success,
the Biafrans went on the offensive. Their B26 (one of the six
originally intended for use against the Nigerian Navy) was
fitted with multiple canon and 50mm calibre machine gun
mounts. It conducted bombing raids on Makurdi airfield,
Kano and Kaduna. Luckily for Nigeria, the two transport
DC3s had gone to Lagos to get more reserve mortar and
106-artillery ammo. In Kano, there were no fatalities, only a
slight damage to the wing of a commercial plane.
Kaduna, however, was not that lucky. On 10 August 1967,
the B26 dropped bombs on Kaduna airbase, damaging
many buildings and the main hangar. The German consulate
in Kaduna confirmed that a German citizen, a Dornier
technician tasked with maintaining Nigerian military planes,
was killed and two others injured.
A week later, the senior traffic control officer, A.O. Amaku,
was arrested for sabotage. He was accused of failing to
shut off the airport’s homing device, thus giving the Biafran
plane navigational assistance. His British assistant, Mr.
Palfrey, was similarly suspected. He resigned and
immediately returned to the UK. However, Major Obada, the
airbase commanding officer and an Urhobo from the
Midwest, strongly defended the accused.
The daring bomb raid provoked many more Northern
civilians to run to the nearest army base and enlist to fight. |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by Paretomaster(m): 5:16pm On Dec 20, 2015 |
According to a report by US Ambassador Elbert Matthews,
cabled to Washington on 3 July 1967, unidentified men tried
to bomb the police headquarters in Lagos on the night of 2
July. They attempted to drive an automobile into the
compound, but the guards did not open the gate. They
packed the car across the street near a small house
opposite a petrol station. Leaving the car, the men fled and
within seconds, an explosion took place. The house was
demolished and all its occupants killed, but the petrol
station was unaffected. Eleven people, including some of
the guards at the police headquarters, were injured.
Two hours later, a second explosion, from explosives in a
car parked by a petrol station, rocked Yaba. This time, the
station caught fire. The ambassador remarked: “It is
possible this is a start of campaign of terrorism…public
reactions could further jeopardize safety of Ibos in Lagos.”
And sure it did.
A Lagos resident, who visited the police headquarters after
the attack, told the Australian ambassador “Ibos must be
killed.”
There was panic all over Lagos. Anti-Igbo riots broke out.
Northern soldiers at the 2nd Battalion Barracks in Ikeja
used the opportunity to launch a mini-version of the
previous year’s torture and massacre of the Igbo in the
North. On 7 July 1967, Lagos State governor, Lieutenant
Colonel Mobolaji Johnson, condemned the bombing in a
radio broadcast. “A good number of Igbos in Lagos is
innocent and loyal to the federal government. It is only fair
that they be allowed to go about their business unmolested
so long as they abide by the law and are not agents and
evildoers,” Johnson said.
He called for Lagosians to join civil defence units and for
Easterners to come and register with the police. |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by ckmayoca: 5:32pm On Dec 20, 2015 |
mightyhaze:If it's. Mock @seun and co will let it stay online. |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by AlPeter: 5:03pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Lordave:Chemical weapons have been in existence for more than 2 decade before but I won't blame you since you don't even know what 'chemical Weapon means. |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by AlPeter: 5:08pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
coolscott:you sure say d guy know what secondary school means sef |
| Re: How Bendel Girls Battled Biafra – Ogbemudia by simpleseyi: 6:20pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
MichaelSokoto:Biafra soldiers gave out their riffles and bullets to Bendel girls in exchange for pusssies and bobbies just as Boko Haram kill themselves for 70 virgins in their imaginary heaven. Can anyone see any similarity? And these are the miscreants that wants to fight the Nigerian Army, maybe we should ask Biafra soldiers to first go and test their strength against the Fulani herdsmen. |
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