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@Deadlytruth:

Isaac Boro was killed at the peak of the war in controversial circumstances that strongly linked Colonel Benjamin Adenkule to the death, while Ken Saro Wiwa was eventually killed by Sani Abacha, who worked with him during the war, at Bonny. The stories of Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa are great lessons for contemporary and potential betrayals of the renewed movement for the restoration of Biafran Republic.
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As soon as Boro died, his 1000 band of soldiers was disbanded. According to Olusegun Obasanjo in his book My Command, Adekunle’s post-war political ambition pushed him into killing Boro, as he was using the war to building a ‘formidable’ name for himself. Obasanjo stated that “Col. Adekunle, at this point saw the war not only in terms of crushing a rebellion, but also as a means of building himself up for any future political position or responsibility which he might wish to seek, I knew of people of Western State origin who had felt politically victimized and who saw in Col. Adekunle a saviour and told him so, and he believed them.”

What Boro fought and died for had eluded his people for years. Niger Delta has remained impoverished despite the huge revenue it has continued to generate for the country. Oil fields and mining leases have been allocated to northern oligarchs and friends. Isaac Boro remains a lesson for future revolutionaries in knowing where to pitch their tent.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=143380

Note that during that 1967-70 civil war, the Yoruba braggart, Benjamin Adekunle a.k.a the Black Scorpion mocked the pope, Red Cross, Caritas, world council of churches, UN etc, and boasted of his killing spree on the Igbo civilians.
And how did his life end on earth?

He died a miserable contractor, he was literary begging for contracts just to feed.
This is a man that ranked higher than IBB, Danjuma, Obasanjo in his hay days in the military. 
The Hausa-Fulanis used him to prosecute the unholy war on Igbos, and they dumped him after mission accomplished. 

The bloody general was stripped off his military title; he was discharged dishonourably without his benefits, till he died he never received a single pension from the Nigerian State. 
The Black Scorpion ate his own excrement, begging Igbos to pay his medical bill to ease his pains until he chose death in 2014.
What a miserable life!

But before his death Adekunle apologised to the Biafrans for his atrocities. And he owned up by revealing the fact that Yorubas and their Northern co-travellers declared war on Biafra because of crude oil in the Eastern region and not for unity of the country!


So it's Igbos who have been plundering Niger-delta for over 50 years now and causing great environment pollution in the name of oil exploration such that the people have lost their primary means of income?

So it's Igbos who own over 85% of the oil wells in Niger-delta?

So it's Igbos that impoverished Niger-delta carting away the resources to develop Lagos and Abuja?

So it's the Igbos that bombed and levelled the whole of Odi in Bayelsa, killing its inhabitants and destroying the land? 

Is it the Igbos that bombed Calabar Creek recently? 
Is it Igbos who slaughtered Ken Saro Wiwa? 
Is it also the Igbos that killed Isaac Adaka Boro?

Do well to present your facts and figures for the benefit of your readership.

If you cannot provide concrete evidence, I would serious advise you stop peddling wicked lies and propaganda because you dread Biaf...

IPOB quest for nationhood is not for the weak-minded fellows or lazy bigots.
If you're alright you should be sensible enough to know as an adult that you cannot be forced into a union in this modern age of freedom of association.

However, I understand your plight, that at the mere mention of Biaf... cold shivers travel the spines of enemies and naysayers.

Desist from being a hypocritical bigot and simply face North or OduaArewanistan republic if you're still confused about your future.

BTW, who are you? Be bold enough to identify and be identified by your ethnic nationality.

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  “If anybody tells you as an Ijaw man that Yorubas or Hausas love you, it’s a lie.”

“We the elders will not allow foreign bedfellows take over this state. An Ijaw man has never been conquered, we would not allow it to happen. You can call it any name. Weather they come from the Southwest, whether they come from the North to conquer us.”
“If anybody tells you as an Ijaw man that these people love you, it’s a lie. I know them and they know me too.
The South-west and the North if they come together they will continue to produce the president of this country for life. We have no hope, so we must consolidate on what we have here.
We cannot afford to fall into that trap. We will perpetually be slaves. We should protect what belongs to us, we shall not allow our young men to be brainwashed.”
“This country must be restructured. We must practice true federalism, otherwise these people will continue to exploit us. We had a President from here. They just decided to take it back, and they took it. Is that the system the young people want to run into? What will even the Federal Government do to you if you decide to stay where you are.”

Source:  http://naijapropa.com/you-wont-believe-what-alamsieyegha-warned-the-ijaw-race-of-before-his-untimely-death/

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Arrogance in display: https://www.nairaland.com/2639019/return-arabic-ajami-naira-notes

Must watch video of a Nigerian Lawmaker/ Congressman claiming that the crude oil in Bayelsa State belongs to Jigawa State.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6GGPu286U

abduljabbar4:
oga you tried but all the answers were half-cooked

you failed evrything though you tried really.

Let me give correction

1)My cerebellum(part of a brain) is having some problems

2) I dont know exactly the English word of baram-barama. Its more like niggas are not smiling

3) Tana

4) Cinnaka

5) Rat

These ones are actually idioms. You were supposed to complete them and not to translate them though you tried

6) Yunwa (hunger)

7) Hayaki (smoke)

Kunne (ear)

9) Dauka zai yi

10) Kasa zai dawo

abduljabbar4:
Translate these for me if you are hausa:

1)Kwanyata tana samun wasu yan chudanya.

2) Gayu na baram-barama

3) Earth worm

4) Ant

5) Burgu


Section B
Provide answers to these questions

1) Shuru ba ci ba ......
2) Baba na daka gemu na waje ....
3)Iya ta zaga baba ya zaga amma basu hadu a hanya ba....,..
4)Menene idan kare yana shinshina takalmi?
5) Komin nisan jifa ...

Your time starts now!

Ai bama sai ka bata lokaci ba, kana karanta shiriritan da ya rubuta kasan makaryaci ne.

WaffenSS:
Ai bama sai ka bata lokaci ba, kana karanta shiriritan da ya rubuta kasan makaryaci ne.

Shegen tun shekaran jiya har yanzu bai yi replying ba. Duk wannan abun fa kawai dan su bata sunan Musulmai ne

Bryan37:
Tell me why an important Bridge like Niger Bridge is still one lane

Tell me Lagos Ibadan dual carriage express way
Kano Maiduguri express dual carriage express way are being reconstructed ( dat of Kano Maiguri already done)


While Enugu Onistha express way is in total bad condition


K tell me why


The Natural resources in the South East has Alwayz been given cold feet

Coal, gas deposit, crude etc

In my village in Enugu u can't walk a 200 meter radius without seeing one cemented slap marked NNPC

I ONCE encountered some engineers making anodr slap, I asked them what is it for, nd he said dey re reserves.

Dat dey re reserves are not d problem but d facts that Federal Govt do a lot of work to hide these Oil fields both from Nigeria and International.

ANAMBRA state alone is seating on a massive gas reserve but instead of to site Nigeria LNG plant in ANAMBRA dey moved it across Niger bridge.

Is it when oil becomes worthless that dey start exploring these place, yet dey send Billions of dollars looking fr Oil in barren North.

Check all the Federal Infrastructure in the South East, they re all decayed

It took hell nd fire to get us International Airport yet dey can't even take care of it

What will it take to transform port harcourt Sea Port to Major Commodity Port?
Dey won't cos it will give a much needed life line to people of South East and render Lagos Useless since it's Closer and more viable than Lagos.

When I Mean Marginalized, I mean from MILITARY RULE TO PDP TO APC

my Opinion though
U re free to add yours.

(sarcastic tone)in that case,the IBIBIOS are marginalized..hw many bridges do we have in akwaibom,how many president,senate president,speaker house of rep have the ibibio nation produced?therefore,we are marginalized...*the term marginalization have been given new meaning by some disgrunted element''

fineguy11:
(sarcastic tone)in that case,the IBIBIOS are marginalized..hw many bridges do we have in akwaibom,how many president,senate president,speaker house of rep have the ibibio nation produced?therefore,we are marginalized...*the term marginalization have been given new meaning by some disgrunted element''

Article 2 of United Nations Resolution on Self Determination (1960), Sections 35, 39 and 42 of the Constitution of Nigeria and the principle of Social justice.

Article 2 of the UN Resolution on Self-Determination states that:
All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and
cultural development. It clearly states that people should FREELY determine their status and freely pursue it.

Nigeria Constitution guarantee some rights to every citizen and group. Some of which include;
1. Right to personal liberty (Section 35): Every person
is entitled to personal liberty.
2. Right to freedom of Expression (Section 39): Right to
freedom of expression and the press is very fundamental to the sustenance of democracy
3. Right to freedom from discrimination (Section 42):
No citizen of Nigeria shall be discriminated against on
the basis of his community, ethnic group, place of
origin, sex, religion or political opinion

Social justice principle is of the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.

abduljabbar4:
Shegen tun shekaran jiya har yanzu bai yi replying ba. Duk wannan abun fa kawai dan su bata sunan Musulmai ne

Allah yafi su ai. Sai gaba mukeyi sukuwa sai baya.

Bakin chiki da hassada kawai ne wannan, saboda mun kwache mulki.

WaffenSS:
Allah yafi su ai. Sai gaba mukeyi sukuwa sai bawa.

Bakin chiki da hassada kawai ne wannan, saboda mun kwache mulki.

Sosai ma kuwa.

xtropy:
Frustrated Yorrobber, this is to reformat and reset your brain:

tonychristopher post:
This piece was prompted by what I saw as benign ignorance amongst some of our Ibo folks and because such ignorance is music to the ears of some other people and Yoruba in particular. In more than one occasion my friends and other Ibo have advanced the argument that if Ibo was that smart, how come Yorubas dominated the commerce industry in Nigeria? What they meant were the domination of Yoruba in the banking, insurance industries, Coco Cola and some other surviving industries. In one particular occasion a friend revealed to me that he recently discovered that the reason why some Yoruba are so wealthy is because they were smart enough to invest their money in corporate stocks and bonds (not realizing that Yoruba actually stolen those corporations) while Ibo is busy engaging in buying and selling. The Yoruba will like people to continue to believe that story, that it was because they were smart that they were able to do all these great investments in the commerce industry. One relevant question that I always managed to ask my interlocutors is whether they were aware of the indigenization decree of 1972, master minded by Awolowo and the Yoruba and the ramifications of that policy, as will be expected, the answer ranged from, I have heard of it but does not understand what it actually meant to I have not heard of the policy. Listening to this ignorance induced perspective from my friends made my heart to skip a beat, realizing that the task of bridging this information gap is not going to be a child’s play. What is disconcerting is that some in their benign induced ignorance believe that the effect of indigenization is inconsequential at this time because it happened about forty years ago. This piece is therefore for those that are educable and for those that have the capacity to appreciate the magnitude and most importantly for those that can relate that gigantic economic event that reshaped the economic foundation on which Nigerian economy settled on after the British/Biafran war and as well as relate our present economic malaise to that economic foundation engendered by indigenization.

There is no doubt that most people, particularly those that do not have either basic or international economics background are overwhelmed by the subject of INDIGENIZATION OF FOREIGN COMPANIES IN NIGERIA because of their inability to understand the economics of it and the efficacies to make the necessary connections and relate it to the present economic doldrums, some simply brush it aside or worse, simple minimize its far reaching implications particularly on the Ibo. In so doing, majority of us dabble into analysis of how terrible Ibo has managed their affairs since after the civil war, while leaving out a huge chunk of the elements that need to be factored into their analysis. The unspeakable effect of the policy of indigenization on the Ibo was wicked and dastardly. The economic damage on the Ibo is impossible to calculate. The psychological toll on the Ibo is still reverberating amongst the Ibo today and creating identity crisis. Some folks will argue that we should drop the subject because it happened forty years ago, which is equivalent to saying that because slavery, Jim crow and the holocaust happened years ago, and for that reason, they have no relevance in today’s analysis. How can any credible analysis of American history not include slavery and its implications, or how can any Jewish history not include the holocaust and its implications and effects, but that is what some folks want us to do, to avoid or forget one of the most devastating economic policies that changed the economic landmark of Nigeria, second to the genocide of more than a million Ibo committed by the same man, Awo, and still arrive at any meaningful analysis. I believe that the incredulity that any ethnic group is capable of visiting such devastation on another is still an obstacle that the subject is struggling against and must overcome. It is not that most people do not know what happen, it is simply that they do not what to believe that it happened because it is mind bending. I also believe that if we do not tell the story over and over, the Yorubas will not tell and neither will the Hausa tell it, as a matter of fact they always wish that it will go away. So whether they like it or not, we must continue to broadcast what happened until people start to understand the effect of the policy not only on the Ibo but on the nation as a whole. Suffice to say that after Awo and the Yoruba succeeded in executing the indigenization decree and became overnight millionaires, many Ibo packed their bags and left Lagos to the east –ala Ibo, where they shortly died out of heart break because some of them also suffered the deprivation of their properties due to abandon property policy in Lagos and Port harcourt.

WHAT ENGENDERED THE INDIGENIZATION POLICY?

It is no more news worthy to point out that before the civil war that Ibo out of their capacity for honesty, to work hard, to produce, to innovate, to manage, create and persevere were able to penetrate all facets of Nigerian endeavor, when the British used merit as a yard stick. It is an irrefragable fact that even Yoruba would not dare challenge that fact, if not, what started the Yoruba hate, envy and jealousy against the Ibo in the first place, Yoruba and Hausa claimed that Ibo was dominating everything in the country but what they will not acknowledge publicly was the fact that the British were making the decisions about who to hire by their own standard and not by Ibo standard and that Ibo was good at what they did and better than them. The Yoruba and Hausa wanted not only equal opportunity they also wanted equal outcome regardless of effort and everyone knows that that is impossible.

There is one very important fact in my analysis that I want everyone to get, and that is that before the civil war, Nigeria as a nation did not have an economic of its own. Let me say it again, that Nigeria as a nation before the British/Biafran civil war did not have an economy of its own. I emphasized that point in other to say that whatever seemed like Nigerian economy were British owned. Put differently, if you excluded few of the regional cooperatives and some joint ventures businesses which were mostly British engineered to make buying raw materials easy for the British, ever y other aspect of the economy were owned majorly by the British, even the military, given the fact that almost every military supply came from Britain. It is then save to say that British investment in Nigeria amounted to a great totality of Nigerian economy or that Nigerian economy was at that time synonymous to the total investment of the British.

Below, courtesy of Africa today are the list of some of the companies that constituted Nigerian economy before the war that the Yoruba stole in one swoop, spanning the insurance companies like Lloyd’s of London and all the banks in Nigeria owned one way or the other by the British. This is but a partial list of what constituted the British investment in Nigerian economy.

“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge ],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State. Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State Wema Bank Plc, Marina, Lagos West African Portland Cement Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State Great Nigeria Insurance PLC, Ikoyi, Lagos State Glanvill Enthoven & Company Limited ◦Guinness (Nig.) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. ◦International Breweries Plc, Ilesa, Osun State. ◦Macmillian Publishers (Nig) Limited, Ilupeju, Lagos ◦Nestle Food (Nig) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State ◦Nidogas Company Limited, Lagos State ◦Niger Mills Company Limited, Calabar, Cross River State ◦Nigerian Aluminium Extrusions Limited, Lagos ◦SKG-Pharma (Nig.) Limited, Lagos ◦Tower Aluminium (Nig.) Plc, Lagos ◦U. A. C. of Nigeria Plc., Lagos etc.

The necessity of inserting this partial list of the companies/assets that existed before the war was to give the reader a sense of the extent of what the issue is all about and who owned what and when. The Yoruba hardly owned much of anything or any of these assets listed above except in some regional joint cooperative ventures with the British.

The story went like this, before the war the Ibo dominated the economic work force followed by the Yoruba, when British/Biafran war started, Ibo, for their safety left their jobs in different parts of the country to return to the east, the Ibo land. After the end of the war, the Ibo went back to seek for their jobs that they left for security reasons, the Yoruba who took advantage and occupied the positions that Ibo left decided that they will not relinquish those position because according to the Yoruba, Ibo abandoned their positions and do not deserve their position back, reminiscent of the abandon property thievery in Port Harcourt River State and Lagos. However, a dynamic developed as Ibo every morning dressed up and went and occupied the lobbies of their different offices that they used to work in. Tell me, if this is not manifest bravery of the highest order ever exhibited by any group in Nigeria and we are talking about days and weeks immediately after the war was declared over. But the final say as to whether or not the positions that Ibo left for dire life was going to be declared abandoned rested on the British that owned these companies. As the back and forth went on, the British started angling to make an economic decision because they understood the difference between the Ibo worker and the Yoruba worker and the three years of the civil war made that difference even more crystal clear to the British, if not, why would the British bother to accommodate the Ibo after such a long time? What became clear to the Yoruba was that the British were willing to make extra provision to re-absorb the Ibo any way possible. Yoruba was not ready to tolerate any of that because they knew that it was a matter of time before the wheat will be separated from the shaft that Ibo will assume their prominent positions. In order to prevent the British from re-absorbing the Ibo into these British owned companies, the corporate Yoruba decided to solicit the help of Awolowo who was then the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council.

This is where a plan was hashed to wrest the control of these companies, consisting of banks, insurance companies, corporations of different kinds and types from the British. The best way Awo and his cabal found fit was to convince Gowon and the military leadership who in all probability have never had the word indigenization in their lives to promulgate the INDIGENIZATION DECREE in 1972 that stipulated that every foreign owned venture must transfer majority ownership to Nigerian indigenes within a year of the promulgation of the decree or they will forfeit the assets of the company to the Nigerian government. (Emphasis within a year) As expected, the British were caught off guide, not understanding the motive behind the policy, the British thought it was a dream or a joke that will go away, particularly given the fact that they just won the war against the Ibo for the Yoruba and Hausa. After exhausting six months out of the one year in their bid to reverse the decree, the British became frantic and concluded that they could not reverse the decree and went about trying to salvage whatever they could. What was worst was that the British did not even have enough time to evaluate the worth of their ventures because of the limited time the decree allowed, courtesy of Awo and cabal. The situation gave chaos a new name because the British were in chaos. So the first problem the British ran into was limited time that they couldn’t figure what the value of majority of their ventures were, they could not tell how much to sell them for. Mind you that this was happening within a year after the end of the civil war. At this time the Yoruba was running every conceivable federal ministries, departments and agencies plus all the corporations listed above and more that the British owned. It is important to point out that the north had little or no presence in the commerce economy of the country before the war and after the war except in the military leadership and infantry. The economy of the country was dominated by Ibo first and Yoruba second before the war. In order to solidify the economic dominance that the Yoruba attained during and after the war and to make their position even more potent in acquiring the British spoils, Awo as the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council and his Yoruba cabal decided to economically emasculate the Ibo understanding

a) That Yoruba was fully running every conceivable federal parastatals

b) That Yoruba was running every conceivable corporation that the British owned or had majority ownership as listed above.

c) That Yoruba was managing all the Nigerian banks, insurance corporations, National shipping line, Nigerian airways, Nigerian’s Ports authority, Nigerian Railways and all the ministries, Departments and Agencies conceivable.

Decided to destroy whatever was left of the Ibo and putting a finishing touch to it by

a) Stealing through confiscating all the millions of pounds that Ibo had in all the Nigerian banks

b) Offering every Ibo person £20 pounds regardless of how many millions they had in the Nigerian banks before the war.

c) Militarizing every part of Ibo land.

d) Rendering every Ibo without exception a pauper.

e) Banning every importation of stock fish and used clothes to deprive the Ibo of any economic ability to compete with the Yoruba in buying into the British assets.

When that day of infamy arrived for the British to start selling their assets, Igbo having been disenfranchised and emasculated in any and every way stood on the sideline watching the Yoruba in their glee as they scrambled to obtain loans from their Yoruba dominated banks to make the most minimal of offers to the British as there were no competitions. The British had no choice but to accept any offer as the alternative was losing everything to the federal government. The British lost pretty much all their investment to the Yoruba whose stock in trade is robbing and stealing any and everything they can get their hands on. Thousands of Yoruba became millionaires overnight and there was jubilation and owanbe all over Yoruba land. Yoruba had parties day and night and weekends. They closed streets to display their new found wealth as they partied. That day marked the economic death of Nigeria, that day marked the death of Nigerian’s aspiration to join the civilized world. The implication was enormous and it sent a shock wave throughout the Ibo land, It was a dark history day, it was a day of manifest wickedness and viciousness, Ibo was dumbfounded, the days that followed were days of economic , social and psychological morose and confusion that are still lingering today within the Ibo. It might be hard to accept but Awo got the Ibo good and the country as well, he brought the Ibo to his knees economically at least temporarily and Ibo has never recovered from that one blow seven akpus in any appreciable way but Nigeria as whole is worse off for it. I believe that what was more devastating was that Ibo had no place or body to turn to. To be blunt, Awo decapitated the Ibo leadership and through Ibo into great confusion.

It is important to note that by this singular act of INDIGENIZATION DECREE engineered by the Yoruba, the Yoruba de facto constituted the new economic foundation, the sole owner and manager of Nigerian economy without any rivals. So, for those that have wondered why Ibo became traders, this is the why. The Yoruba will not let any Ibo near the management of any of these stolen corporations, will not let Ibo buy any shares of these corporations for decades following the heist. Now, some people without the capacity to comprehend the full seismic implication of this economic shift and restructuring will want us to believe that this does not matter and I will beg to disagree because it is like everything else, the foundation of everything matters and determines the success or failure, be it a house or business. As time has revealed, Yoruba stealing and forming the economic foundation for Nigeria was a bad idea and a monumental disaster. For the ignorants, all things being equal (in a fair fight) the Yoruba knew it, the British knew it, the Ibo knew it and the world knew it that the Yoruba did not possess the capacity, creativity, drive, perseverance, hard work and the competence to do what some are crediting to it if they did not conspire to steal not only from the British and Ibo but from everybody else that had any assets in Nigeria. The apparent dominant control the Yoruba has on the economy since after the war was not out of great honest smartness or creativity or innovation or hard work or competence but out of share robbery of the British and Ibo sweat and hard work. I believe that the question that the benign ignorant should be asking going forward is what did Yoruba do with all these assets and corporations that they stole? How did the country fair under the Yoruba management of the Nigerian economy? How did the Yoruba managed economy relate to today’s economic malaise. Hope they can make the connections.

My next piece will try to capture the mind blowing implications of that great heist as it relates to Nigerians and Ibo in particular and the flight of international investment from Nigerian for decades.

Fredrick.


http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/The-Biafran-War/The-Greatest-Heist-in-Modern-H/the-greatest-heist-in-modern-history-by-awolowo-and-the-yorubas-.html

I just said the truth ..they will ban me again but the truth must be said ...did he counter that

@Xtrophy,
This is just one of the numerous accounts of the genocides which Biafran soldiers committed in the Midwest.

The essay is "The Biafran Crisis and the
Midwest".
Published in African Affairs, Vol. 86, No.
344 (Jul., 1987), pp. 367-383.
Published by: Oxford University Press on
behalf of The Royal African Society.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/
stable/722748 .
The entire essay on the Biafran
misadventure in the Midwest is moving in
its analysis of what the Biafrans lost
through the invasion in terms of goodwill
as well as in creating a situation that united
the Midwest with the Federal forces against
Biafra in the subsequent events that
marked the turning point of the war.
I will present Orobator's summation of the
cost of the invasion to Biafra in another
mail .
I post below an extract from the essay.
The most relevant sections on Biafran war
crimes are highlighted:
"The relationship between the two sides
deteriorated progressively and the Biafran
efforts to secure the people's support
failed.
The battle front reports were equally
unfavourable to the Biafrans who then
resorted to extensive witch-hunting against
suspected saboteurs.
The Biafran forces, who were relatively
calm during the first one month of the
occupationperiod, became progressively
edgy, tightening the various governmental
gadgets of societal control.
As the Biafran hostility developed to crisis
proportions, the dusk to dawn curfew was
further enforced, the Vigilance and Security
Councils given additional powers, and the
Biafran Army and Militia became more
ruthless in their dealings with the civilians.
The civilian collaborators doubled their
spying activities to callous dimensions. [45]
The situation drifted for the worse.
Taking the MidWestern refusal to support
the secessionist movement as a
demonstration of an anti-Ibo and pro-Hausa
stance, the Biafrans intensified their search
for suspected saboteurs as every set-back
on the battle front was invariably blamed
on sabotage.
Heavier reprisals followed.
At Abudu, over 300 bodies, including
those of children, were found in the
Ossiomo river as the Biafrans withdrew.
[46]
Similarly, on 20 September 1967, 'there
was a mass killing of non-Ibo
MidWesterners at Boji-Boji Agbor', and
on 23 September, 'non-Ibo speaking
MidWesterners were apprehended by
rebel soldiers at Asaba, Ibusa and Agbor
and taken [in two lorries] to a rubber
plantation along Uromi-Agbor road and
massacred'.[47]
The more minor cases of rape,
extortion, seizure of properties, and
other punishments featured
abundantly.
For instance, a Warri-based lawyer, E. K.
Iseru, testified at the Tribunal that he
was stripped naked and detained for
three days without food for agitating for
the Rivers State, and, when he
complained of hunger, he was promptly
told: 'there is no food for Hausa friends'.
[48]
45. Author's personal file. Also see Press
Release No. MW 215 of 1/2/68, p. 5.
46. This disclosure was made at the
Tribunal[ Rebel Activities Tribunal of
Inquiry (Ministry of Information, Benin
City)] by Chief D. N. Oronsaye, formerly
Principal of the Provincial Teacher
Training College, Abudu. See also Press
Release No. MW 157 24/1 /68, p. 4.
47. Press Release No. MW 410 23/2/68,
pp. 6-7.
48. Press Release No. MW 157 of 24/1/68,
pp. 2-3.
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Several other accounts are there on the atrocities Biafran soldiers unleashed on the peoples of Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa. It was in retaliation for all that that the Nigerian troops pounded your brothers. You don't sow the wind and expect not to reap the whirlwind. Why did your Biafran soldiers invade Benin City, Warri, Sapele, Auchi, Igarra and Lampese despite the fact that David Ejoor had already declared that the Midwest was neutral? Why did Biafra soldiers try to kill David Ejoor who did nothing to them?
You keep asking why we the SS people seem to be watching while our oil is being stolen by Hausa-Fulani but you conveniently forget that it was your wicked brother Aguyi Ironsi who created the opportunity for them by dismantling federalism. He did so because he too wanted all revenues to go to the centre to make it easier for Igbos to loot since he was already preparing a unitary constitution that would have made Igbos the perpetual rulers of Nigeria. But the Hausas and Yorubas quickly saw through his fraud and Hausas had him killed very quickly and then Igbos were now driven far away from the centre where they had re-directed all revenues for them to loot. It is this mere fact that Igbos were outdone by Hausas in their smartness to steal SS resources that makes Igbo go to war and are still very very bitter till today. A people who did not try to seceed when thousands of their brothers were massacred in the North in 1945 and 1953 but declared secession war because they had been blocked from the oil wealth that belong to others, not even they themselves, are the most greedy people in the world. Their stomachs are more important to them than human lives.
The way you frequently shed tears about with your claim that Hausas are stealing Niger-Delta's oil makes it clear that all your agitation for having SS in Biafra is as well about the same oil. Covetous rogue!
Had it been the oil is in your SE and none in the SS would you have ever agreed that the SE and SS are brothers or even distant relatives? If you had had access to the sea you would have called the bluff of the SS in your agitation for Biafra. If Aguyi Ironsi had succeeded in his attempt to enthrone Igbo domination in Nigeria would you have ever thought of Biafra? The same people who preached "one Nigeria" at the beginning when they thought they would be the only ones in power are now the ones claiming that Nigeria is a fraud. Then why did you initially preach oneness in what you knew was a fraud? Thieves and turncoats! Chameleons!

We will remain "slaves" to Yoruba and Hausa until we are able to get out of Nigeria on our own alone. No way for Igbo! They are too wicked. Igbos are the real born-to-rule merchants of Nigeria not Hausas.

Go and face your Biafra that consists of five painfully small yet erosion ravaged states lacking in resources and lacking in access to the sea.