₦airaland Forum

1) Adaka Boro was never a commander in PH Invasion. I dont know where you got that thrash from. Citing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Port_Harcourt , his name was never mention. Moreover a yo.robber man(Adekunle a.k.a black scorpion) later murder him in cold blood after fighting for them.

2. "Niger Deltans" never declared any abdoned property. It was David Mark(the fmr. Sen. Pres.) that did. Look at the way Hausa fulani and their herdsmen are paying them in benue with death.

3. The 13 per cent deriavative was for the oil producing states so your argument holds no water.

4. No "SE" State got involved in militancy, therefore, there cannot be amnesty.

5. In the advent of increase in taxes from importation. Lol. Why do you think there is inflation? You charge huge taxes, you will get huge price increase. At the end of the day, it will be the consumers that will be at the receiving end.

QuotaSystem:
Modern day slavery indeed .

Emotions and sentiments have been known to severely weaken objective decision making.

It's why they are such political weaklings.

Scholes007:
@jpphilips I concur with you on certain aspects, from the outset of this NDA nonsense I never supported their stratagy. Though their demands are worth looking at, I believe anything Igbo shouldn't be included in it.

what do you mean by this? Do average Nigerian know where his interest lie?

jpphilips:
How old are you?

jpphilips:
In Response to your Article titled "WE CAN ACHIEVE BIAFRA AS A UNITED FAMILY, DONALD EKPO TELLS SOUTH-SOUTH" published on the www.may30.org website on the 13th day of March 2016.

By Ebuka Obikwesili

Mr Donald Ekpo, I have no idea what you want to achieve with your article, however, I feel insulted telling us how Aguiyi Ironsi died when you carefully skipped the part of history where Aguiyi blatantly refused to bring the Jan 1966 coup plotters to justice despite having 6 months to do the needful, if my memory serves me right, a mutiny court Marshall takes less than 3 months at the time, a fact Obasanjo proved in 1976 after the mutiny against Gen Murtala Mohammed.
Again, it insults my intelligence that you skipped the fact that the next in command to Ironsi, BG Ogundipe refused the mantle of leadership, a decision he took out of his own will uncoerced. As a result of his inaction, there was a power vacuum that heralded the massive military mutiny that spread to the streets, leading to the biggest pogrom in the history of this country.
If you are not happy with south-south as a legitimate geopolitical zone in Nigeria, You can as well argue that Abuja should not be the capital of Nigeria.

It insults my intelligence again that you inferred that the Northerners took back their protectorate after the gruesome murder of Aguiyi Ironsi without telling us that Aguiyi Ironsi promulgated decree 34 that dissolved the regional government that hugely benefited the eastern region.Once dissolved, the subsequent state creations disadvantaged the Eastern region till date.
The first 12 states created by Gowon was in fulfillment of already existing decree 34.

You claimed Rivers state was created to spite the Eastern region yet the fact on ground speak differently, more states were created for the north than the east for your education, the following states were created for the Northern region;

1. North-Western State
2. North-Eastern state
3. Kano State
4. North-Central State
5. Benue-Plateau State

While the eastern region got thus;

1. Rivers State
2. South-Eastern State,
3. East-Central State

I get confused when people like you project the igbo interest as one with the Niger delta interest, when did it start and where is that false synergy leading us to? Has a Niger deltan ever cared for an Igbo man in history?

Ojukwu received his biggest blow in the battle of Port Harcourt when Isaac Adaka Boro a son of Niger delta led the Nigerian troops that decimated Ojukwu's forces, a battle that rendered my mother an orphan.
Isaac Adaka Boro is celebrated as the hero of the Niger delta by this act and his 12 days insurgency against the Nigerian state, evidenced by a huge effigy of his at port harcourt old Gra and Isaac Boro park to his commemoration, oh! I forgot he is the face of the new Niger delta currency.

Immediately after the war in 1970, the west and the north received Igbos with open arms by surrendering all our properties in their region, meanwhile, the Niger delta "our brothers" by infamy greeted us with "Abandoned property", a celebrated theft that deprived a lot of us landed properties in the Port Harcourt main town, how do you expect us to forget that so soon?
Be kind enough to tell me which historical barometer that created any synergy between igbos and the Niger delta?

You became highly economical with the truth when you said 85% of Nigeria's oil wells are owned by northerners while the leftovers were taken by the westerners,
As a matter of irrefutable fact, the Niger delta avengers commonly referred to as the NDA has bombed away 50% of Nigeria's oil production from 2.2mbopd to 1.2mbopd, can you categorically specify the 85% northern owners at the receiving end of NDA's carnage? while at it, let me clearly show you how much Igbos have lost to that Niger delta madness.

As Niger delta bombing intensifies, the more forex Nigeria will lose, that means no Forex for igbo traders who are majorly importers, I hope you understand how that action wreck our economy.

In March 2016, the NDA announced the decimation of the Forcados trunk line though Owned by Shell, below are the list of oil blocks producing into the Forcados line

OML 26 (owned by FHN Egbert Imomoh),OML 30 (owned by kola karim), OML34,53,54 (Owned by Ibru) OML40 (owned by Emeka Offor) OML42 (Owned by Ernest Azudialu),OML 18 (owned by Charles odita, financed by, Diamond bank (paschal Dozie), fidelity bank (Peter obi) , OMLs 4, 38 & 41, (owned by ABC Orjiakor) .

Can you clearly see from that list the Niger delta Avengers are systematically bombing away igbo interests in the Niger delta on one hand, on the other hand creating a decoy that the oil blocks belong to the north, if that was so, with 50% out of your acclaimed 85% gone, why are the Northerners not crying? are you saying the NDA have no idea where the Danjuma's, the Mai meribe's the Atiku's assets in the delta are?
This 80% claim was made on the avengers website with the names of the northerners, why are you targeting igbo assets, despite this act of wickedness, you still have the unbridled temerity to claim you are one with the Igbo man?
History is surely repeating itself?

To believe your people destroyed our oil and gas assets on the account of a confused Nnamdi Kanu 9A british citizen), an unknown soul who spent the better part of his life on exile in the UK, an Umuahia man whose ancestral home can hardly boast of Engine oil let alone crude oil?

Jonathan added Azikiwe to his name to fool ignorant igbos that he is one of them yet could not complete the second Niger bridge he promised in 2011 despite selling oil for $115 per barrel.
He failed to complete the east west road neither was he able to do a rail project that will link Onitsha with Apapa to save igbos huge logistics cost by virtue of importation.

You have no historical origin or connection with an Igbo man, it is best you don't fool yourself at this age. Every true igbo man is a descendant of Eri/Nri ancestry, I challenge any Ijaw, calabari, okrika, Ibibio & Efik to trace his ancestors to that genre of igbo heritage.
Niger delta provinces like Omoku, Bonny and Opobo till date does not sell their lands to igbos a magnanimity the west and the north are yet to deny us.

I am not aware since the history of Nigeria that any person charged with treasonable felony is liable to bail, perhaps while you feel fly rewriting the Nigerian history, you may not be so lucky with a constitution that is older than Nnamdi Kanu's misdemeanor.

We are not one with the Niger delta and will never be one, better don't disturb our peace with your rhetorics based on fabricated fallacies.

You wrote from the Usa while Kanu's family reside in the UK, do I blame you?
The last attempt at secession brought war to our fatherland and severed our position in the Nigerian union hitherto enjoyed at the beginning of this republic. I am not aware that the Nigerian civil war was fought in the secluded abode of exile enjoyed by you and Kanu.

Before you tell us what to do with our future, come home to lead the fight with your family. Igbos are not stupid!!

Jonathan is still calling the shots in pdp, his boy wike is a PDP strong man yet despite all the support igbos gave him, we are yet to be considered for presidency, the best he is considering is a vice, imagine the insult.
The same jonathan that our APGA could not enthrone a presidential candidate to ensure maximum support for him?
That is the true Niger deltan for you.

Speaking of which, during Obasanjo's era ND asked for a share of their oil wealth, Obj obliged them with 13% derivative, at high crude prices when Ebonyi and Anambra cannot boast of 6b naira in federal allocation, Niger delta states like Bayelsa and Akwaibom was raking in between 16b to 21b naira monthly.

When they got tired, they started militancy under Yaradua, no igbo was invited in the struggle, there came the Amnesty compensation and largess, thousands of their youths got scholarships to study oil and gas courses abroad some of which most igbos can only dream to have.
Their war lords were paid huge sums, yet they forgot igbos all this while.

Crude price is low, FG can no longer afford the huge Amnesty payments, they are using all social media to embroil igbos in their problem with FG.
Did we enjoy Amnesty with you? How about the lucrative pipeline contracts, was any igbo invited in the largess?

This new love and brotherhood is at best a distraction that sane Igbos must not take seriously.
We have had drought of presidency, how many ND statesmen are pushing it for us? How many Niger delta senators are pushing for igbo presidency in the senate?

Just like Ojukwu mocked them during the burial of Gen Affiong for their sabotage during the war, "Good morning ".
If they want more oil wealth, let them go fight the FG while we watch, if they succeed, they should enjoy alone.

These are the timelines of your history with igbos, make sure that neither oil nor Nnamdi kanu makes you to forget it again in your lifetime.

[i]*1967, Ojukwu was defeated in Port harcourt by the Nigerian led Niger delta isaac Adaka Boro, till date they celebrate him as their hero

*1970 after the war, Niger deltans seized your properties and termed it "ABANDONED" when you have lost almost everything in the civil war.

*In 2004, Obasanjo signed the onshore offshore dichotomy that bequeathed 13% oil revenues to Niger delta states, no South East state except Imo and Abia benefited, of course in a negligible sum.

*2009/2010 federal government Amnesty programme, can you list any igbo man that benefited?

*As an igbo boy supporting the ND Avengers, you are a mere pawn in their economic chess game, wise up and face your importation business, the more they bomb, the likelihood of the FG to increase tax at the ports that will surely hurt your business,

[/i]Wise up, define your interests, choose your battles very carefully, the Niger delta struggle is of no consequence to an Igbo man.



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jpphilips:
The writer never said Niger delta doesn't have a case, neither did he imply they should not bomb away their future, all he was saying is that so far, the struggle is not in the interest of Igbos politically, historically, economically and otherwise.

Scholes007:
OH I see! You (and possibly the writer) only want to reduce this to Igbo huuu? Let me ask you is it of the interest of Nigeria(or any ethnic group) politically, historically, economically and otherwise? You should stop hiding in the dark and just spill out what you have for the Igbo. Like I said i do not support the NDA neither do I support anyone who reduce their actions to the Igbos as you imply. What you should be looking at is the interest of Nigeria as a whole not chasing shadows.

63xtr33r:
Yoruba bigot, you didn't complete the story...

Didn't you remember how Adaka Boro ended his life after helping the Yoruba braggart, Benjamin Adekunle a.k.a the Black Scorpion, to kill Biafrans in the war?

Benjamin Adekunle eventually had to kill Isaac Adaka Boro just to claim his exploits for himself. Imagine backstabbing and killing someone who helped you in fighting to penetrate Biafra, just for your selfish end!

Trust the Yoruba man/woman at your peril.

Without doubts your Benjamin Adekunle is a coward like the rest ass-lickers. Adekunle's exploit was mainly in shooting defenceless Biafran civilians.

During that 1967-70 civil war, Benjamin Adekunle  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. He died a miserable contractor, he was literary begging for contracts just to feed. The black scorpion ate his own excrement, begging Igbos to pay his medical bill to ease his pains until he chose death in 2014.

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. It was indeed a miserable life for the tribalist.

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 Biafr* because of crude oil in the Eastern region and not for unity of the country!