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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:33pm On Aug 28, 2016
I Above Others

Achebe, like Enugu Radio, suppressed this information and goes on to pivot the “pogrom” on the fact that the Igbo were resented because they were the most superior, most successful nationality in the country. He claims (on pg 233) that they were “the dominant tribe,” “led the nation in virtually every sector – politics, education, commerce, and the arts (pg 66),” which included having two vice-chancellors in Yorubaland; they the Igbo are the folkloric “leopard, the wise and peaceful king of the animals (pg177),” they “spearheaded (pg 97) the struggle to free Nigeria from colonial rule.” “This group, the Igbo, that gave the colonising British so many headaches and then literally drove them out of Nigeria was now an open target, scapegoats for the failings and grievances of colonial and post-independent Nigeria (pg 67).” An Igboman, Achebe writes, has “an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots…Unlike the Hausa/Fulani he was unhindered by a wary religion, and unlike the Yoruba he was unhampered by traditional hierarchies…Although the Yoruba had a huge historical headstart, the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between 1930 and 1950 (pg74).” Besides the fact that this has a language consistent with white supremacist literature, Achebe, to demonstrate he is not partial or a chauvinist, based himself on a 17-page report in Journal of Modern African Studies, titled Modernisation and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos by Paul Anber.

I looked up the 1967 journal. Curiously this “scholar” was designated as “a member of staff of one of the Nigerian universities.” Why would a scholar hide his place of work in a journal? I checked the essays and book reviews in all the 196 issues of Journal of Modern African Studies, from Volume 1 Issue 1 of January 1963 to the last issue Volume 49 November 2011, there was nowhere a piece was published and the designation of the scholar vague or hidden. Also, this Anber never published any piece before and after this article in this or any other journal. I wanted to start checking the academic staff list of the five universities in Nigeria then until I realised again that it says “he is a staff of a Nigerian university.” The truth is: Paul Anber is a fake name under which someone else or a group of people, possibly Igbo, is masquerading. And he/they never used this name again for any other piece or books. So that this ruse would not be found out was the reason he/they hid his/their university. And this piece, like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has been the cornerstone of books and widely quoted by other journals over a period of 45 years. It is the cornerstone of the chapter, A History Of Ethnic Tension And Resentment, which Achebe used to skew the motive for Igbo people’s maltreatment from the fallout of January1966 coup and the inflammatory provocations they published to resentment for being allegedly the most successful and dominant tribe in Nigeria.

Had Achebe not overdosed on Igbo nationalism, he would have had his chest-beating ethnic bombasts inflected with a deeper and more sober analysis of the Nigerian situation in the next essay in the journal: The Inevitability of Instability by a real and existing Professor James O’Connell, an Irish priest and professor of Government, in a real and existing institution: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. O’Connell argues that the lack of constitutionalism and disregard for rule of law fuelled psychology of insecurities in all ethnic groups. He fingers as an inevitable cause of our national instability, Nigerians’ “failure to find an identity and loyalty beyond their primordial communities that lead them constantly to choose their fellow workers, political and administrative, from the same community, ignoring considerations of merit.”

The symbolism of the Igbo heading University of Ibadan and University of Lagos, both in Yorubaland, was a positive image to assist Tiv, Hausa, Ijaw, Urhobo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Igbo, Efik etc students shed their over-loyalty to their respective primordial communities and to fashion a higher sense of identity that is national in character and federal in outlook. To Achebe, the symbolism was an example of the dominance and superiority of the Igbo. “It would appear that the God of Africa has created the Ibo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of ages,” Paul Anber quotes Azikiwe saying in his West African Pilot: “History has enabled them not only to conquer others but also to adapt themselves to the role of preserver… The Ibo nation cannot shirk its responsibility.” Anber says in his/their essay: “The Ibo reaction to the British was not typically one of complete rejection and resistance, though Ibos were militantly anti-colonial. Since modernisation is in many respects basically a process of imitation, the Ibos modelled themselves after their masters, seeing, as Simon Ottenberg put it, that ‘the task was not merely to control the British influence but to capture it.’

To some degree, it may be said that this is precisely what they proceeded to do. Faced with internal problems of land, hunger, impoverished soil, and population pressure, the Igbo migrated in large numbers to urban areas, both in their own region and in the North and West…”

The spirit of inclusive humanism, the Martin Luther King Ideal, the Mandela Example, the conscience of a writer should necessitate that if a child in Sokoto goes to bed hungry, someone in Umuahia should get angry. If a pregnant woman in Kontagora needs justice, someone in Patani should be able to stand up and fight for her. If an Osu group is being maltreated in Igboland, someone in Zaria should stand up and defend them. But to Achebe, there should be no mercy for the weak in so far as he or she is unfortunate enough to belong to the other side. Take for instance the butchering of the lone shell-shocked “Mali-Chad mercenary” wandering around “dazed and aimless” in the bush Achebe witnessed. To show the fight-to-finish courage of his people in the face of overwhelming force, he describes how Major Jonathan Uchendu’s Abagana Ambush succeeded in destroying Colonel Murtala Muhammed’s convoy of 96 vehicles, four armoured vehicles, killing 500 Nigerians in one and a half hours. “There were widespread reports of atrocities perpetrated by angry Igbo villagers, who captured wandering soldiers. I was an eyewitness to one such angry bloody frenzy of retaliation after a particularly tall and lanky soldier–clearly a mercenary from Chad or Mali–wandered into an ambush of young men with machetes. His lifeless body was found mutilated on the roadside in a matter of seconds (pg 173).”

Achebe does not tell us if he tried to prevent this cold-blooded butchering, though there was an episode where he intervened to save the life and chastity of a Biafran woman, arguing with some wandering Nigerian soldiers who wanted to requisition her goat for food (pg 201). If Achebe could not intervene in the butchering, what did he think of the killing then or now that he is writing the book with the benefit of hindsight? Should the man not have been handed over as a prisoner of war? Was his killing not a violation of Geneva Convention, which he so much accused the Nigerian side of disrespecting (pg 212)? Did villagers behaving this way not blur the lines between soldiers and civilians hence making themselves fair game in war? Also notice how Achebe starts the narration with an active first person voice: “I was an eye witness to…” and how he quickly switches to a passive third person voice in the next sentence: “His body was found…”Achebe quickly goes AWOL “in a matter of seconds”, leaving a moral vacuum for the Igbo writer to emerge and the conscientious writer to go under.

When atrocities are being committed against Biafrans, Achebe deploys strong active voice (subject + verb), isolates the aggressive phrases of military bravado with italics or quotation marks. But when Biafra is caught committing the atrocity, he employs passive sentence structures, euphemisms and never isolates pledges of murder in italics or quotation marks. Take the “Kwale Incident (pg 218)” that eventually became an international embarrassment for Biafra. Based on an unsubstantiated source, he writes: “Biafran military intelligence allegedly obtained information that foreign oilmen…were allegedly providing sensitive military information to federal forces – about Biafran troop positions, strategic military manoeuvres, and training.” So they decided to invade. “At the end of the ‘exercise’,” Achebe writes: “Eleven workers had been killed.”

Also compare these two accounts: the background is Biafran invasion of Midwest. Despite Ojukwu’s assurance to them before the secession that he would absolutely respect their choice of belonging to neither side, he invaded them, occupied their land, foisted his government on them, took charge of their resources, looted the Central Bank of Nigeria in Benin, set up military checkpoints in many places to regulate the flow of goods and human beings, imposed dawn-to-dusk curfews, flooded the airwaves with pro-Ojukwu propaganda, imprisoned and executed dissidents on a daily basis, according to accounts of Nowa Omoigui and the recollections of Sam Ogbemudia. In fact, “The Hausa community in the Lagos Street area of Benin and other parts of the state were targeted for particularly savage treatment, in part a reprisal for the pogroms of 1966, but also out of security concerns that they would naturally harbour sympathies for the regime in Lagos,” Omoigui writes. The Midwesterners regarded Biafrans as traitors. And the Nigerian Army came to the rescue.

Achebe writes: “The retreating Biafran forces, according to several accounts, allegedly beat up a number of Midwesterners, who they believed had served as saboteurs. Nigerian radio reports claimed that the Biafrans shot a number of innocent civilians, as they fled the advancing federal forces. As disturbing as these allegations are, I have found no credible corroboration of them (pg 133).” Yes, he cannot find it; they were not his people. Also note his euphemisms: “allegedly beat up”… “shot a number of innocent civilians” (shot not killed). He writes: “a number of innocents” to disguise the fact that massacres took place. He also writes: “saboteurs.” Midwesterners collaborated with federal forces to liberate their lands from Biafra, Achebe calls them “saboteurs.” Now, note in the next paragraph how he describes what happened to his people, when the federal army in hot pursuit of the Biafran soldiers, reached the Igbo side of the Midwest. It is noisily headlined: The Asaba Massacre (pg 133).

“Armed with direct orders to retake the occupied areas at all costs, this division rounded up and shot as many defenceless Igbo men as they could find. Some reports place the death toll at five hundred, others as high as one thousand. The Asaba Massacre, as it would be known, was only one of many such post-pogrom atrocities committed by Nigerian soldiers during the war. It became particular abomination for Asaba residents, as many of those killed were titled Igbo chiefs and common folk alike, and their bodies were disposed of with reckless abandon in mass graves, without regard to the wishes of the families of the victims or the town’s ancient traditions.” Then he goes on to quote lengthily from books and what the Pope’s emissary said about it in a French newspaper, what Gowon said, what was said at Oputa Panel e.t.c. He found time to research. They were his people unlike other Midwestern tribes’ sufferings he could not find “credible corroboration of.”
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Nobody: 6:34pm On Aug 28, 2016
Tundeobama:
as I northern man I can't bear the hate the igboa have for Yoruba despite hosting you in large number in different west state.somethings you do for them if it where in North we would hv send all of you back home and slaughter some.during the regional system of government the west was the best in terns of development and north took second.you cam here to lie about technology in war, wont be surprise if Naija delta millitant tomorrow deceive people they build there gun boat themselves.some remarkable project during awolowo period till today your government can't boast of such.if you igbos are contented with what you have why your huge number in west and north running for your mouldy land.I pity the igbo that will be sent home soon Nigeria going back to regionalism soon
Thank you very much for displaying your mind. This is the reason we are calling our brothers domiciled in your enclaves, North and West, to start coming back home. One Nigeria is a scam. One Nigeria exist today because of oil. Igbos are naive to believe that other tribes loves them, especially the Yorubas and Hausas. Thank God for nairaland, because it has exposed us more Nigerian hypocrisy.
To refute your claim at bold, this thread was started to celebrate the Biafrans feats during the civil war, but as usual the tribal warlords, your allys invaded to spite the Igbos.
Now, let me bust your bubble, we pray everyday for regionalism, and the eventual dissolution of this cesspit of a country.
If you think we are happy to shear the same country with you vermins and blood sucker, then you need spiritual help. You Fulani herdsmen cum terrorist activities have already exposed your evil intentions towards the South.....

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Stingman: 6:34pm On Aug 28, 2016
aresa:




Slow your role, I was here too and it was the other way around.

1. Tribalism on NL was started by ibo on NL and Yoruba people used to ignore your tribal insults till like 2-3 years ago when they stopped turning the other cheek for you to insult.


2. Tribalism in Nigeria is strictly an ibo thing and it started way way before independence when hatred for Yoruba people made Zik/ibo man teamed up with the North against wisdom for such action by the rest of the South.

3. The first coup, bloodshed and National violence was introduce by ibo man when they tribally slaughtered military and political readers from from the North and SW.

4. Yoruba and Hausa people after the coup and loss did not do anything and in fact they gave power to an ibo man as the new head of state, but what did he do, he played the same ibo tribalism by refusing to punish the coup plotters and sadistic killers, he dd not even slap them on the wrist because they were ibo and this is what led to the violence against ibo people in the North

5. Our regional autonomy and system of government was terminated by ibo man when he abolished regional system of government and finally put us all in the same basket with power moved to the center instead of the states and regions.

6. Achebe spewed hatred and tribalism till his last breath and straight into his grave with his hate book...


Nigeria is what it is today because of hatred and ibo tribalism and tribal ways and their tribal was is still on full display till this very second hence still languishing in the wilderness with zero social, political and economic power and alliance..


You are basically reaping what you sow and have been sowing since way before independence...


SEE what a northerner said, after reading an independent view about the Bifara war>>>>>

"They say a man without the knowledge of history is like a man without memory. As a northern Nigerian under the age of 30 I’ve always wondered why the Igbos tend to refuse to apply themselves very well politically.

I guess they’ve always wanted to be Biafrans (and justifiably so), not Nigerians. They didnt just want to ‘threaten’ Nigerian unity like they have always been accused of doing… I now understand where they’re coming from.

Just imagine if the Igbos were simply allowed to break away and form their Biafran Republic, how this entity called Nigeria would have fared. Maybe we will have ended up becoming prosperous friendly nations and economic allies with special ECOWAS relationships. And certainly the shameless massacre by the Nigerian and British governments will have been completely avoided.

Nigeria may be better off united economically and militarily, but the true yearnings of the peoples involved count more than mere economic growth on paper. Everyone has to feel among and feel important. Maybe, just maybe, if we were all allowed to go our separate ways we will end up becoming friends and allies and everything will eventually turn out for the better" Abdullahi.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:35pm On Aug 28, 2016
eduj:

even though you obviously mistook me for another,I refuse to engage you in an exchange of insults.I hate it when guys instead of stating facts to prove a point resort to fallacy of argumentum ad hominem (attack against the author). By the way,an illiterate is one found wanting in the basic socio-human skills of reading and writing hence, by virtue of this post (which shows I can read and type a reply to your post) am not illiterate.A better adjective would be misinformed.Back to the theme of the issue,until Nigeria has it version of the silicon valley(pls don't mention computer village) our ICT is insignificant.Yes we expect a prodigious growth in 5 years time but ,its still basic in structure. At best brother,you are an irrelevant authority on the issue of naijas ICT.

I am young man but I know,with what I have seen here...more than you do.What I and some ICT savvy people know is that Yorubas control ICT HOME AND ABROAD if you talk about NIGERIANS.....

Go to these links.One opened by somebody...IGBO... in the ICT sector.
The other one capturing some ICT savvy Yorubas home and abroad......you have to read from start to end to enjoy yourself wink

https://www.nairaland.com/2674858/yorubas-cornered-nigerias-ict-sector

https://www.nairaland.com/2684014/yoruba-commonwealth-politics/14
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:38pm On Aug 28, 2016
Blaming Awolowo

By the time truth finally triumphed over propaganda, the Biafrans had to find another man to blame for the war and the deaths. Enter Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whom Achebe falsely claimed Ojukwu released from prison. First, this is what the autobiography of Harold Smith, one of the colonial officers the British Government sent to rig Nigeria’s pre-independence elections in favour of the North, had to say about Awolowo:

“But the British were not treated as gods by the Yoruba. In my experience, the Yoruba regarded themselves as superior to the British and one only had to read a book written by Awolowo, the Western leader, to know why.[b] The Yoruba were often highly intelligent and they taunted the British with sending inferior people to Nigeria. The Igbo would be humble and avert his eyes in the presence of a European. The Yoruba child would look at an important European and shout, ‘Hello, white man,’ as if he were a freak.”

What is more: “Awolowo in the West had taunted the British by claiming that his government had accomplished more in the space of two or three years for his people than the British had since they arrived in West Africa.” Of course, Achebe knows about these facts because he quoted from the book in his (pg 50), but only the part favourable to his agenda. Smith again:

“The thrust of the British Government’s policy was against the Action Group led by Chief Awolowo, which ruled in the Western Region. Not only was the British Government working hand in glove with the North, which was a puppet state favoured and controlled by the British administration, but it was colluding through Okotie-Eboh with Dr. Azikiwe – Zik – the leader of the largely Igbo NCNC, which ruled in the East. We tricked Azikiwe into accepting to be president having known that Balewa will be the main man with power. Awolowo has to go to jail to cripple his genius plans for a greater Nigeria.”[/b]

Achebe reveals his own mentality we never suspected before: “We [intellectuals] were especially disheartened by the disintegration of the state because we were brought up in the belief we were destined to rule [pg 108].” He uses this mind-set of his to judge Awolowo:

“It is my impression that Chief Obafemi Awolowo was driven by an overriding ambition for power, for himself in particular and for his Yoruba people in general…However Awolowo saw the dominant Igbos at the time as the obstacle to that goal, and when the opportunity arose – the Nigeria-Biafra War – his ambition drove him into a frenzy to go to every length to achieve his dreams. In the Biafran case, it meant hatching up a diabolical policy to reduce the number of his enemies significantly through starvation – eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generation (pg233).”

[b]It is a mystery that a man of his stature could be so persuaded. Awolowo built the first stadium in Africa, the first TV station in Africa, the first high-rise building in Nigeria, first industrial estate, cocoa development board and the Odua Investment Group. He offered free universal education and free universal primary healthcare. Remarkably, Awolowo never situated any of those landmarks in his hometown of Ikenne in Ogun State; he spread them round the region he presided on. And the free universal education and free primary healthcare were available to anyone of any tribe or nationality including Nupe, Igbo, Ijaw and Ghanaians living in the Western Region. Awolowo was interested in bettering the lives of everyone, not just the Yoruba.

Of course, we know that the lasting legacy of the Biafra war was the creation of a well-organised Yoruba-bashing industrial complex headquartered in Igbo consciousness, working with machine regularity from generation to generation and whose genuine aim is to fundamentally deflect blame from Ojukwu and his sycophants like Achebe until misunderstandings are perverted into evidence of Yoruba guilt, outright lies are perverted into undisputed truth.

Undoubtedly, Awolowo was a master architect of the war to defeat the secession. Therefore, the case against him requires scrutiny.[/b]

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Nobody: 6:40pm On Aug 28, 2016
Ritchiee:


I am young man but I know,with what I have seen here...more than you do.What I and some ICT savvy people know is that Yorubas control ICT HOME AND ABROAD if you talk about NIGERIANS.....

Go to these links.One opened by somebody in the ICT sector.
The other one capturing some ICT savvy Yorubas home and abroad......you have to read from start to end to enjoy yourself wink

https://www.nairaland.com/2674858/yorubas-cornered-nigerias-ict-sector

https://www.nairaland.com/2684014/yoruba-commonwealth-politics/14
the bone of contention here isn't which ethnic group is a majority in naijas ICT sector on the contrary ,the debate is how advanced our ICT sector is .No matter what we state here on nairaland ,it won't change the status quo out their hence let's agree to disagree on that point.
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:41pm On Aug 28, 2016
Blockade

To talk about a blockade on Biafra is to concede that the control of Biafra’s borders was already in Awolowo’s hands. The control or defence of borders is the main aim of any war since the beginning of war making all over the world. But the 34-year-old Ojukwu led Biafra to secede based on 2,000 professional soldiers and extremely few artillery; they did not have enough to defend their borders. “If the Nigerian side had known the state of Biafran troops including their morale, they would have pursued them even on canoes across the River Niger. Had the Nigerians taken up such pursuit, they might have taken Onitsha, Awka and Enugu that same day.” That is Achike Udenwa, who was a Biafran soldier and later became the governor of Imo State, writing about the federal defeat of Biafra in the Midwest during the early weeks of the war in his own recollection, Nigerian/Biafra War. Even, the so-called January boys, Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna, both voiced their concern that the Biafran soldiers were vastly underprepared for any kind of war. Achebe writes: “Biafran soldiers marched into war one man behind the other because they had only one rifle between them, and the thinking was that if one soldier was killed in combat the other would pick up the only weapon available and continue fighting(pg 153).”

Therefore, even before the first bullet was fired, the secession was not only a failure but was an epic humanitarian catastrophe waiting to happen. Awolowo told Ojukwu one of the reasons the West was not keen to join the secession was because the region already occupied by northern troops did not have enough loyal men in the Nigerian Army to defend it. Weaned on the hermeneutics of Yoruba history, Awolowo was not persuaded by the seductive but flawed logic that the Nigerian forces would lose because they would be incapable of prosecuting war on two fronts if the West joined the East in seceding. At one point during the Kiriji war in the 19th century, Bashorun Ogunmola (Omoarogundeyo), the Kingdom of Ibadan’s generalissimo, was simultaneously warring with five neighbouring and far-flung kingdoms. Ibadan never lost. To defeat Ibadan you did not have to defeat even its retreating soldiers only, you had to defeat those dull-looking hills surrounding it. In fact, one of the reasons Ibadan was so belligerent in its history was that those mighty hills allowed it to spend little resources defending and more on attacking. But Biafra was not surrounded by hills, literally or figuratively. Its borders were so porous that they fell easily into the opponent’s hand. Days after declaration of secession, the sea boundary of Biafra was already being manned by Nigeria’s battleships and boats. By the sixth week all the boundaries of Biafra were already under the control of Nigerian government. What remained was zooming in. In fact, had only Awolowo’s Western Region seceded, the strategy to recapture it would not be a variance with the one used against Biafra because the West is geographically an enantiomer of the East. It was the same blockade Nzeogwu used to capture and kill their targets, Sardauna and his senior wife; Ademulegun and his wife, Latifa, who was eight months pregnant, in the presence of their two children, Solape and Kole. As Solape recollected years later, Nzeogwu, who shot her mother, was a family friend that regularly visited to eat pounded yam and egusi soup. The little girl was even calling him uncle while he shot her mother in the chest in their bedroom. It was the same blockade Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi used to capture Remi Fani-Kayode and kill S.L Akintola, the Western premier. It was the same blockade American Navy Seals used to capture and kill Osama bin Laden.

What about Cameroon? Whose side was it on? Of course, Cameroun was firmly on the Nigerian side, yet it had a sizeable Igbo population and Azikiwe’s party was NCNC – National Council for Nigerian and the Cameroons. But Ojukwu had stepped on their toes: he had stolen enough of their goods and supplies that they helped the federal side to take Calabar and cooperated with the Naval blockade of Biafra. As the US State Department’s cable of 29 November 1968 discloses: “GFRC [Government of the Federal Republic of Cameroon] continues to support FMG [Federal Military Government] and recently ordered the dissolution of newly formed Cameroon Relief Organisation (CAMRO) which was being organised to receive Biafran children in west Cameroon.”

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:42pm On Aug 28, 2016
Starvation Policy

In Achebe’s book one could see several places where Biafrans violated the basis of the Geneva Convention. You could see where villagers who were non-combatants and should have been protected under Geneva Convention were taking machetes to federal soldiers, hence becoming legitimate targets of war themselves. Another striking instance was when Achebe was with his extended family and overnight their compound was turned into military base without their consent (pg 172). Heavens forbid the Nigerian side bombed the base. Yes, the Biafran propaganda machine would go to work that an innocent illustrious family had been eradicated by the “genocidal Nigerian army” and may even use it as an evidence of war crime. But it was the Biafran army that compromised Achebe’s household.

As part of security preparation for the last Olympics, the British Army commandeered a strategic high-rise residential building and placed surface-to-air missiles at the top. The residents protested and went to court. Let us assume a war broke out and the enemy flattened the whole building. He would not have committed a war crime because it was the British Army that made the civilian residents legitimate targets in the first place. Unfortunate though it may sound, schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, relief centres become legitimate targets once military activities begin to go on there in the event of a war. Check for instance the current Hamas tactics against Israel or the bombing of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, when it allowed itself to become headquarters of local Biafran Army, with several professors joining in expedition force to hunt down lost federal soldiers in the bush and their wives back on campus took care of wounded Biafran soldiers and students were going for daily drills and rifle shooting practice under Prof. John C. Ene, Dean of Faculty of Sciences and Commander, University Defence Corps, as revealed in the US secret cable of 16 June 1967. Or the federal raid on the Catholic Cathedral of The Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha, when it was discovered Biafran snipers were operating from there.

When a plane or ship is designated as flying relief supplies to war sufferers, it must not be used to supply arms. Once it does, it is no longer covered by Geneva Convention. There was an Austrian Count, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, whom Achebe praises a lot for his humanitarian assistance in flying relief efforts to Biafra. This is what the Count’s wife had to say: “He told me he was going to Biafra, but he didn’t say he would be bombing MIGs (pg 300).” Achebe writes of von Rosen: “He led multiple relief flights with humanitarian aid into Uli Airport – Biafra’s chief airstrip. Fed up with Nigerian Air Force interference with his peaceful missions, he entered the war heroes hall of fame after leading a five-plane assault on Nigerian aircraft in Port Harcourt, Benin City, Ughelli, Enugu, and some other locations. He took the Nigerian Air Force by total surprise and destroyed several Soviet-supplied aircraft in the process.” That was someone flying humanitarian aid. How would the federal side begin to see other humanitarian flights that were supposed to be carrying food and medical supplies to war-ravished children? Cyprian Ekwensi, writer and head of external publicity for Biafra, admitted in his post-war reminiscences that the relief materials had arms built into them. The American documents too confirmed. The same Hank Warton, who the relief agencies were using to fly food into Biafra, was the one Ojukwu was using to deliver arms.

Of course the Nigerian side knew this and mandated all relief flights to Biafra to submit themselves for inspection at the Port Harcourt Airport. That was the interference Achebe claimed von Rosen was fed up with. In any event, he never claimed such in that 6 July 1969 interview he gave the London Observer. Those planes that passed their inspection delivered their relief. Those that did not were shot down. One particular case was the Swiss Red Cross DC7 Flight heading towards the Uli Airstrip (pg 101). After repeated warnings to change course and land for inspection, it was shot down, disgorging its arms and ammunition. The Biafran propaganda went to work, saying it was part of the genocide policies of Nigerian military to destroy food supplies meant for the kwashiorkor-stricken children.

It is also a fact that some of the relief supplies meant for the children were either ambushed by soldiers or ended up on the black market. Ekwensi again: “People were stealing and selling the food. You could buy it in the market, but you couldn’t get it in the relief centres.” But why would Biafra rely on food from thousands of miles away when their normal antebellum route of supply was merely tens of miles nearby in the Midwest and Northern Nigeria? It was because of the supply of arms and ammunition.

In a memorandum to the White House, Benjamin Read, the Executive Secretary of US State Department, writes: “Because of the absence of other airlines willing to make hazardous flights into Biafra, the ICRC [International Committee Of The Red Cross] has been forced to charter planes from Henry Wharton, an American citizen, who is widely known to be Biafra’s only gun runner. In engaging Wharton, the ICRC is risking its good relations with the FMG, which has long feared that ICRC flights might provide opportunity for gun running.” When Awolowo offered to re-open the usual food corridors, Ojukwu flatly refused. Achebe writes: “Ojukwu like many Biafrans, was concerned about the prospect that Nigerians could poison the food supplies (pg211).” Awolowo let in the food supplies for the children anyway, working with the cover of Caritas and Red Cross. “In America, the Nixon administration increased diplomatic pressure on the Gowon administration to open up avenues for international relief agencies at about the same time, following months of impasse over the logistics of supply route,” writes Achebe on pg 221. There was neither pressure nor its increment.

Independent evidence from the US declines to support this. “The problem of disaster relief in Biafra is not the lack of supplies or means of transport but the lack of access, particularly by a land corridor to Biafra. The authorities [Biafran] on the spot, under the conditions of civil war have given a higher priority to politico-military considerations than to arranging food to be delivered to Biafra. In early November 1968, the Nigerian government told the ICRC that it would agree to daylight relief flights to the major airstrip now held by Biafra if the ICRC could give assurances that the strip would handle only relief flight in daylight hours. We welcome this step by the Federal Government (FMG), which would substantially increase the flow of relief. So far, however, the Biafran authorities have refused to agree. We find it incomprehensible that despite the millions of Biafran lives at stake, the Biafran leadership has not yet given its agreement. The Nigerian government has also offered to cooperate in efforts to open a land corridor to Biafran-held territory. We hope that the Biafran authorities will respond positively to this but heretofore they have alleged they fear the food may be poisoned while transiting FMG territory,” William B. Macomber, Jr, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations wrote in a letter dated 20 December 1968 to Congresswoman Florence Dwyer, when she sought clarification on the plight of Biafran refugees she kept seeing in the media.

Later when Awolowo visited the battlefronts and saw the kwashiorkor-ravaged children, he asked about the food supplies, only to discover that soldiers were ambushing the supplies, feeding themselves and the top hierarchy so as to continue the war. Awolowo decided this “dangerous policy” must stop.

If Awolowo was a devil as contemporary Igbo folklore and Achebe’s private demonology have him, he would have arranged for the food supplies to be poisoned, knowing they were going to the soldiers. To protect those children, who were suffering because of the war, he asked for a stop to the food supply that was inevitably going to the soldiers and the Biafran plutocrats unnecessarily elongating a war they would never win.

Once Cameroon too realised that to the Biafran authorities, the suffering children existed for show business and arms trade, they not only refused to take them into their country, they disbanded the newly formed relief agency dedicated to their welfare. What is more, Achebe boasts of Biafran prowess in manufacturing Ogbunigwe and the Biafran imaginative refinement of petroleum that kept Biafran vehicles on the road throughout the war without western technological help, but the most basic of human necessities – the production or the supply of food – they had no clue. And the farmers that were supposed to grow food, as the US documents noted, were conscripted into the Biafran Army during planting season of 1967. The fertilisers that could have been used to better their lands were used to make Ogbunigwe. And so the starvation was Awolowo’s fault.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by somegirl1: 6:43pm On Aug 28, 2016
obaaderemi:
U dey waste ur time with that boy up there.he never knows when he is licked.next he will ask u for pictures or tell u ur ref is from a yorubaman.hahahahahahaha

boy?
You of all people should not be making any claims or counter claims on this thread given that you were arguing on another thread that Victor Banjo designed the Biafran war equipment. The position of individual you advised to desist from debating with me is totally different from yours.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by ehikwe22: 6:45pm On Aug 28, 2016
Stingman:


So IKA is a tribe? What language do you speak in IKA ethnic group? What does Anioma, your generic name mean? I can assure you, your mother could be from Anioma and your father would be a Yoruba or Benin man or vice a verse...
Please I'm not ready for such talks. life is by mutual respect. I'm Ika, I respect Igbo man's rights to self determination, please respect my right to self identity. thanks.
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:46pm On Aug 28, 2016
JUST A LITTLE NUMBER OF IGBOS HAD MONEY IN THE BANK THEN COUPLED WITH WHAT OJUKWU STOLE

[b]On The Mythical £20 Policy

Throughout the war, as the US State Department’s confidential files disclose, there was no shortage of people and “isms” to blame for the failure of war. At different times and to different audiences, Biafrans blamed racism, neo-imperialism, colonialism for the war. When Ojukwu sent Pius Okigbo to the mainly Latin American countries to solicit for funds and arms for Biafra, he blamed the war on “the desire of Arab Muslims who saw Biafra the only obstacle to the spread of Islam in Africa”. Okigbo noted to his audiences that “Biafra is 60% Catholic and 40% Protestant.” Also, during several of his radio addresses, Ojukwu blamed the war on the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, who supplied 15% of Nigeria’s arms. He called the kwashiorkor afflicting Biafran children Harold Wilson Syndrome or Herod Disease. Like the biblical King Herod, Ojukwu said, Wilson wanted to exterminate the children of Biafra.

While the blame-Arabs/Hausa/Islam narrative, blame-Wilson/racism/imperialism narratives, that were so potently alive during the war are now safely dead, the blame-Awolowo-for-starvation narrative is well alive, going from generation to generation. To the Americans, who monitored and documented everything about the war, there was no time Awolowo was blamed for the starvation or deaths on any of these 21,000 pages. However, after the war, it was through the £20 policy that the blame-Awolowo narrative began. To develop it, they seized on this policy and worked their way back to include what Awolowo may have said or done, and mixed it together to form a narrative.

The £20-for-every-Igbo was a myth. What happened then was a currency crisis. On 30 December 1967, Awolowo decided to change the Nigerian currency in circulation in order to render useless the £37 million Ojukwu had for buying foreign weapons. The Biafran leadership quickly took the loot, mopped up the ones they could get in circulation and headed to Europe to exchange them for hard currencies. Eventually, they introduced Biafran notes as the only legal tender. There was around 149 million Biafran pounds in circulation by the end of the war–an average of £10 per every Igbo. After the war, there was a general scramble to exchange these notes for the new Nigerian notes. As Awolowo explained, he didn’t know on what basis these notes were produced. It is like someone bringing a single 50 billion Zimbabwean dollar note to the bank and expecting to be given N50 billion. The exchange rate should be known to determine the worth of the Zimbabwean dollar. Currently, 39 billion Zimbabwean dollars is worth 1 US dollar. In the case of Biafra, the worth of the currency was unknown; they were produced out of desperation, with lax security features to boot. In his statement of 1 February 1968, Dr. Okigbo, Biafra’s Commissioner of Economic Affairs, said “the lack of international acceptance and lack of a commensurate exchange rate was immaterial since the currency was intended only for circulation in Biafra.” In other words, it was worthless outside Biafra. After the war those that had this money were carting them to Nigerian banks, hoping to get the equivalent in new Nigerian notes. No banker or economist worth that description would approve that. Awolowo, in his bid to rehabilitate the Igbo and restore economic normalcy, approved the payment of 20 Nigerian pounds flat rate for every Biafran notes depositor. It was never £20 for every Igbo. Twenty pounds for every Biafran? That would have been around £300 million, when Nigeria’s annual budget before the war was £342.22 million, for a population of 57 million.[/b]

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Stingman: 6:48pm On Aug 28, 2016
ehikwe22:
Please I'm not ready for such talks. life is by mutual respect. I'm Ika, I respect Igbo man's rights to self determination, please respect my right to self identity. thanks.

I hear the Ijebus, Aworis and Ilajes say they are not Yoruba...Mtcheee. cool
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by thedarksider: 6:48pm On Aug 28, 2016
aresa:




Slow your role, I was here too and it was the other way around.

1. Tribalism on NL was started by ibo on NL and Yoruba people used to ignore your tribal insults till like 2-3 years ago when they stopped turning the other cheek for you to insult.


2. Tribalism in Nigeria is strictly an ibo thing and it started way way before independence when hatred for Yoruba people made Zik/ibo man teamed up with the North against wisdom for such action by the rest of the South.

3. The first coup, bloodshed and National violence was introduce by ibo man when they tribally slaughtered military and political readers from from the North and SW.

4. Yoruba and Hausa people after the coup and loss did not do anything and in fact they gave power to an ibo man as the new head of state, but what did he do, he played the same ibo tribalism by refusing to punish the coup plotters and sadistic killers, he dd not even slap them on the wrist because they were ibo and this is what led to the violence against ibo people in the North

5. Our regional autonomy and system of government was terminated by ibo man when he abolished regional system of government and finally put us all in the same basket with power moved to the center instead of the states and regions.

6. Achebe spewed hatred and tribalism till his last breath and straight into his grave with his hate book...


Nigeria is what it is today because of hatred and ibo tribalism and tribal ways and their tribal was is still on full display till this very second hence still languishing in the wilderness with zero social, political and economic power and alliance..


You are basically reaping what you sow and have been sowing since way before independence...

aressa...dont mind dem dem....its all writing history that they fuckkkked-up.....you have more drug money to go online to spread nonesense....??....

walahi-talahi,,,...they called us zoo-animals only to satiesfie someone that is far away in england......what an insult..¨¨!!!!!--...

whatttt the helllllll!!!... angry angry angry angry angry
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by dragunov: 6:49pm On Aug 28, 2016
letsbet:
Thats quite an impressive looking tank right there. Our Igbo brothers are really the front runners of I.T in Nigeria.
IT? Introductive technology? Or information tience?
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by ehikwe22: 6:50pm On Aug 28, 2016
Ritchiee:
Starvation Policy

In Achebe’s book one could see several places where Biafrans violated the basis of the Geneva Convention. You could see where villagers who were non-combatants and should have been protected under Geneva Convention were taking machetes to federal soldiers, hence becoming legitimate targets of war themselves. Another striking instance was when Achebe was with his extended family and overnight their compound was turned into military base without their consent (pg 172). Heavens forbid the Nigerian side bombed the base. Yes, the Biafran propaganda machine would go to work that an innocent illustrious family had been eradicated by the “genocidal Nigerian army” and may even use it as an evidence of war crime. But it was the Biafran army that compromised Achebe’s household.

As part of security preparation for the last Olympics, the British Army commandeered a strategic high-rise residential building and placed surface-to-air missiles at the top. The residents protested and went to court. Let us assume a war broke out and the enemy flattened the whole building. He would not have committed a war crime because it was the British Army that made the civilian residents legitimate targets in the first place. Unfortunate though it may sound, schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, relief centres become legitimate targets once military activities begin to go on there in the event of a war. Check for instance the current Hamas tactics against Israel or the bombing of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, when it allowed itself to become headquarters of local Biafran Army, with several professors joining in expedition force to hunt down lost federal soldiers in the bush and their wives back on campus took care of wounded Biafran soldiers and students were going for daily drills and rifle shooting practice under Prof. John C. Ene, Dean of Faculty of Sciences and Commander, University Defence Corps, as revealed in the US secret cable of 16 June 1967. Or the federal raid on the Catholic Cathedral of The Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha, when it was discovered Biafran snipers were operating from there.

When a plane or ship is designated as flying relief supplies to war sufferers, it must not be used to supply arms. Once it does, it is no longer covered by Geneva Convention. There was an Austrian Count, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, whom Achebe praises a lot for his humanitarian assistance in flying relief efforts to Biafra. This is what the Count’s wife had to say: “He told me he was going to Biafra, but he didn’t say he would be bombing MIGs (pg 300).” Achebe writes of von Rosen: “He led multiple relief flights with humanitarian aid into Uli Airport – Biafra’s chief airstrip. Fed up with Nigerian Air Force interference with his peaceful missions, he entered the war heroes hall of fame after leading a five-plane assault on Nigerian aircraft in Port Harcourt, Benin City, Ughelli, Enugu, and some other locations. He took the Nigerian Air Force by total surprise and destroyed several Soviet-supplied aircraft in the process.” That was someone flying humanitarian aid. How would the federal side begin to see other humanitarian flights that were supposed to be carrying food and medical supplies to war-ravished children? Cyprian Ekwensi, writer and head of external publicity for Biafra, admitted in his post-war reminiscences that the relief materials had arms built into them. The American documents too confirmed. The same Hank Warton, who the relief agencies were using to fly food into Biafra, was the one Ojukwu was using to deliver arms.

Of course the Nigerian side knew this and mandated all relief flights to Biafra to submit themselves for inspection at the Port Harcourt Airport. That was the interference Achebe claimed von Rosen was fed up with. In any event, he never claimed such in that 6 July 1969 interview he gave the London Observer. Those planes that passed their inspection delivered their relief. Those that did not were shot down. One particular case was the Swiss Red Cross DC7 Flight heading towards the Uli Airstrip (pg 101). After repeated warnings to change course and land for inspection, it was shot down, disgorging its arms and ammunition. The Biafran propaganda went to work, saying it was part of the genocide policies of Nigerian military to destroy food supplies meant for the kwashiorkor-stricken children.

It is also a fact that some of the relief supplies meant for the children were either ambushed by soldiers or ended up on the black market. Ekwensi again: “People were stealing and selling the food. You could buy it in the market, but you couldn’t get it in the relief centres.” But why would Biafra rely on food from thousands of miles away when their normal antebellum route of supply was merely tens of miles nearby in the Midwest and Northern Nigeria? It was because of the supply of arms and ammunition.

In a memorandum to the White House, Benjamin Read, the Executive Secretary of US State Department, writes: “Because of the absence of other airlines willing to make hazardous flights into Biafra, the ICRC [International Committee Of The Red Cross] has been forced to charter planes from Henry Wharton, an American citizen, who is widely known to be Biafra’s only gun runner. In engaging Wharton, the ICRC is risking its good relations with the FMG, which has long feared that ICRC flights might provide opportunity for gun running.” When Awolowo offered to re-open the usual food corridors, Ojukwu flatly refused. Achebe writes: “Ojukwu like many Biafrans, was concerned about the prospect that Nigerians could poison the food supplies (pg211).” Awolowo let in the food supplies for the children anyway, working with the cover of Caritas and Red Cross. “In America, the Nixon administration increased diplomatic pressure on the Gowon administration to open up avenues for international relief agencies at about the same time, following months of impasse over the logistics of supply route,” writes Achebe on pg 221. There was neither pressure nor its increment.

Independent evidence from the US declines to support this. “The problem of disaster relief in Biafra is not the lack of supplies or means of transport but the lack of access, particularly by a land corridor to Biafra. The authorities [Biafran] on the spot, under the conditions of civil war have given a higher priority to politico-military considerations than to arranging food to be delivered to Biafra. In early November 1968, the Nigerian government told the ICRC that it would agree to daylight relief flights to the major airstrip now held by Biafra if the ICRC could give assurances that the strip would handle only relief flight in daylight hours. We welcome this step by the Federal Government (FMG), which would substantially increase the flow of relief. So far, however, the Biafran authorities have refused to agree. We find it incomprehensible that despite the millions of Biafran lives at stake, the Biafran leadership has not yet given its agreement. The Nigerian government has also offered to cooperate in efforts to open a land corridor to Biafran-held territory. We hope that the Biafran authorities will respond positively to this but heretofore they have alleged they fear the food may be poisoned while transiting FMG territory,” William B. Macomber, Jr, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations wrote in a letter dated 20 December 1968 to Congresswoman Florence Dwyer, when she sought clarification on the plight of Biafran refugees she kept seeing in the media.

Later when Awolowo visited the battlefronts and saw the kwashiorkor-ravaged children, he asked about the food supplies, only to discover that soldiers were ambushing the supplies, feeding themselves and the top hierarchy so as to continue the war. Awolowo decided this “dangerous policy” must stop.

If Awolowo was a devil as contemporary Igbo folklore and Achebe’s private demonology have him, he would have arranged for the food supplies to be poisoned, knowing they were going to the soldiers. To protect those children, who were suffering because of the war, he asked for a stop to the food supply that was inevitably going to the soldiers and the Biafran plutocrats unnecessarily elongating a war they would never win.

Once Cameroon too realised that to the Biafran authorities, the suffering children existed for show business and arms trade, they not only refused to take them into their country, they disbanded the newly formed relief agency dedicated to their welfare. What is more, Achebe boasts of Biafran prowess in manufacturing Ogbunigwe and the Biafran imaginative refinement of petroleum that kept Biafran vehicles on the road throughout the war without western technological help, but the most basic of human necessities – the production or the supply of food – they had no clue. And the farmers that were supposed to grow food, as the US documents noted, were conscripted into the Biafran Army during planting season of 1967. The fertilisers that could have been used to better their lands were used to make Ogbunigwe. And so the starvation was Awolowo’s fault.
There is nothing you can do to make the nose of a dog to be white. What is bad is bad. Even the war itself is evil. People like you do evil and come up with excuses why you did it same way Jibrin is giving reasons why he shared in an illegal fund of the people he's blackmailing.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ikechukwu48: 6:51pm On Aug 28, 2016
aresa:




Slow your role, I was here too and it was the other way around.

1. Tribalism on NL was started by ibo on NL and Yoruba people used to ignore your tribal insults till like 2-3 years ago when they stopped turning the other cheek for you to insult.


2. Tribalism in Nigeria is strictly an ibo thing and it started way way before independence when hatred for Yoruba people made Zik/ibo man teamed up with the North against wisdom for such action by the rest of the South.

3. The first coup, bloodshed and National violence was introduce by ibo man when they tribally slaughtered military and political readers from from the North and SW.

4. Yoruba and Hausa people after the coup and loss did not do anything and in fact they gave power to an ibo man as the new head of state, but what did he do, he played the same ibo tribalism by refusing to punish the coup plotters and sadistic killers, he dd not even slap them on the wrist because they were ibo and this is what led to the violence against ibo people in the North

5. Our regional autonomy and system of government was terminated by ibo man when he abolished regional system of government and finally put us all in the same basket with power moved to the center instead of the states and regions.

6. Achebe spewed hatred and tribalism till his last breath and straight into his grave with his hate book...


Nigeria is what it is today because of hatred and ibo tribalism and tribal ways and their tribal was is still on full display till this very second hence still languishing in the wilderness with zero social, political and economic power and alliance..


You are basically reaping what you sow and have been sowing since way before independence...

1.) Yolobas started the tribalism in NL. Infact it was so severe, your first victims which in that case was northerners ran out of NL because of it. It was that bad that when the list of FBI most made NL and the names were all yoloba, the only hausa boy left at that time insulted, degraded and you lots when confronted and cautioned by others, his only reply was among the line of "they did that to us." Do you need the link to that cause I'll be more than happy to provide it.
After the northerners left, you turned your tribalistic ads to Igbos but unlike north, Igbos took una heads on and more showed up. Pretty much the same way you lots have turned your tribalistic eyes to ijaws was the exact same shit you did to igbos.

As for the rest of your crap, why argue when I can quote non Igbos opinion on it

Let's see who others believe brought in tribalism in Nigerian politics.

North
Reference:SLS [ yorubas are the problem of Nigeria]

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention.


When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated that good government and provided the right mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against them in a politically motivated retrial, he became the darling of the South-West. When IBB annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by the South-West. When the same man annulled the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was the front-runner, the South-West now became defenders of democracy.

When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.

Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which failed to meet minimum requirements for registration, but was registered all the same to avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-registration, given the area-boy mentality of South-West politicians. Having rejected an Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election as a fraud in court, we now find a leading member of the AD in the government, a daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador, all appointed by a man who won the election through fraud.

Meanwhile, nothing has been negotiated for the children of Abiola, the focus of Yoruba political activity. In return for these favours, the AD solidly voted for Evan Enwerem as Senate President. This is a man who participated in the two-million- man March for Abacha´s self-succession. He also is reputed to have hosted a meeting of governors during IBB´s transition, demanding that June 12 elections should never be de-annulled and threatening that the East would go to war if this was done. When Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was accused of swearing to a false affidavit, the Yoruba political elite correctly took up the gauntlet for his resignation.

When an AD governor, Bola Tinubu, swears to a false affidavit that he attended an Ivy League University which he did not attend, we hear excuses.

For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated this country with stories of being marginalised and of a civil service dominated by northerners through quota system. The Federal Character Commission has recently released a report which shows that the South-West accounts for 27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the civil service leaving the other five zones to share the remaining 70%. We find the same story in the economy, in academia, in parastatals.

Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba complained and complained of marginalization. Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit the South-West after June 12, the rest of the country forced everyone out of the race to ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often against the best advice of political activists.

Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other "nationalities" that they ( who after all lost the election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has made such utterances.

To further show that they were in charge, they led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu, murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened. In the violence that followed, they killed several Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to respect the culture of their host communities. This would have continued were it not for the people of Kano who showed that they could also create their own Oro who would only be appeased through the shedding of innocent Yoruba blood.
I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys.

Edo
Reference: Igho [midwest and the future of Nigerian federalism]

Both the AG, a creation of Egbe Omo Oduduwa, and the Northern Peoples’ Congress (NPC), were founded to promote Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani interests respectively. That the NCNC later became to be perceived as an ‘Igbo’ party was not entirely the design of Igbo political elites, but rather the machinations of some powerful Yoruba nationalists who did not cherish the notion of an Igbo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, becoming the premier of Western Nigeria.

As the leader of the NCNC, Azikiwe was to be the first premier of Western Nigeria following the elections of 1951, with Obafemi Awolowo, a Yoruba, the leader of the AG, as the leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly. It should be recalled, with profound sadness, that prominent Yoruba traditional leaders and political elites exerted pressure on a number of Yorubas elected on the NCNC platform to "cross carpet" in the House and join the AG, in order to deny Azikiwe the premiership in favour of Awolowo. The concept of "carpet crossing" was thus introduced into Nigerian political discourse. Azikiwe had assumed the leadership of the NCNC following the death of Herbert Macaulay, a Yoruba. There would have been no basis for "carpet crossing" if Macaulay, and not Azikiwe, were elected premier of the West on the NCNC platform in 1951.


As a result of this blatant injection of ethnicism into Nigerian politics, Azikiwe was compelled to "return home" to the East where he became the premier of the government. It is safe to postulate that, were it not for this event, the post 1951 development of Nigerian politics could have been spared much of the instability and crisis the country has experienced. This was a vital turning point in the political history of contemporary Nigeria. It helped to influence most Igbos to seek political shelter in the NCNC, just as the AG became privatized by most Yorubas, and the Hausa-Fulani political elites sought comfort in the NPC.

As you lots brought in tribalism on NL and asee well control the tribalistic forums of that country is exactly the same way you lots brought in tribalism in N8ferian politics.

You lots oozes tribalism.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:52pm On Aug 28, 2016
Indigenisation Decree

The true winner of the civil war was the Nigerian military class, which succeeded in using everybody against everybody and continued its indefinite aggrandisement of the self by fleecing the country to the bone as the next 30 years confirmed. After the January coup, Aguiyi-Ironsi used Dr. Nwafor Orizu, the acting president, to capture power. What Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna wanted to use bloodletting to achieve, he grabbed it on “a scrap piece of paper” as Shehu Shagari’s eyewitness account, Beckoned to Serve, discloses. The New York Times describes it as a coup within a coup. Gowon used Awolowo for the war and to keep the country economically viable. He took advantage of the failed secession to perpetuate himself in power. “Go On With One Nigeria (GOWON),” he stumped. Ojukwu, too, as Wole Soyinka observes in his own ipsissimaverba, You Must Set Forth At Dawn, was also interested in conquering Nigeria not only in seceding.

Unknown to Victor Banjo and his Third Force, Ojukwu had embedded special companies within the Third Force to topple Banjo and hand control of Nigeria to him in case Banjo succeeded in conquering the West and Lagos. The Indigenisation Decree had nothing to do with disenfranchising the Igbos or other Biafrans of economic power. As was the vogue in 14 African nations then, indigenisation and nationalisation was the ruling military class and their friends’ way of dressing their bottomless impulse to loot with the populist cloak of fighting western imperialism and neo-colonialism. For their roles during the war, Awolowo or Enahoro should be getting major oil blocs. But they did not. Can Achebe blame the maltreatment on the Igbo populace by many of the governors in the zone on any indigenisation decree?

Indeed Awolowo could be ‘tribalistic’. The Yoruba region, like pre-EU Europe, was always in a state of constant war. Ibadan vs Ekiti vs Egba, Ondo vs Ijebu, Ife vs Ijesa, etc. This internecine war made Yorubaland susceptible to easy French colonisation to the west (Dahomey) and British Royal Niger Company taking the rest. When Awolowo “resuscitated ethnic pride”, he used it to rally Yoruba to stop fighting and killing each other. This resuscitation was not to elevate the Yoruba so that they would dominate other tribes. Achebe observes: “Awolowo transformed the Action Group into a formidable, highly disciplined political machine that often outperformed the NCNC in regional elections. It did so by meticulously galvanising political support in Yorubaland and among the riverine and minority groups in the Niger Delta, who shared similar dread of the prospects of Igbo political domination (pg45).”

Achebe never addresses this dread, though he mentions it in two other places. Nowhere in the book does he stump for brotherliness or make a stand for tribal harmony. In 1961, the British Cameroonians had to decide their fate through a UN plebiscite since their lands were too small and landlocked to stand as a country. The peoples of the Northern Cameroons voted to belong to northern Nigeria, while the peoples of the Southern Cameroons not wanting to belong to the Igbos decided to belong to Republic of Cameroon despite being French-speaking. The reason minorities needed to be very afraid at the prospects of collaborating with the Igbo is an important topic Achebe conspicuously skips. Instead, he spends the final pages of the book resurrecting the 44-year-old propaganda of genocide.

To prepare us to be swindled, he litters the book with hyped phrases and sentences like “Smash the Biafrans”, “presence of organised genocide” (pg 92)… “the Nigerian forces decided to purge the city of its Igbo inhabitants (pg137)”… “the cost in human life made it one of the bloodiest civil wars in human history (pg227)… “prospect of annihilation (pg217)”… “Standing on the precipice of annihilation (pg 217).” Those that can rightly talk of annihilation were the people of Abudu. The American document of 15/10/67 noted: “As the ‘Biafrans’ retreated from Benin to Agbor, they killed all the men, women and children they could find who were not Ibos. The town of Abudu, one of the larger places between Agbor and Benin, lost virtually all of its population with the exception of a small who had escaped to the bush.” Those that can rightly talk of annihilation were the Jews. Not only do Nazi policy documents say so, on-the-ground facts support that. In Poland, Germany, Austria and the Baltic countries alone, Hitler aiming for 100 per cent, killed 90 per cent of Jews. Cyprian Ekwensi, a chief of Biafran propaganda says: “We gave the number of children dying per day as 1,000. Can you prove that? Can you disprove it? But can you believe it? That is propaganda.” So let us take the Biafran propaganda at its highest and assume three million, i.e. 100,000 per month died in the 30-month war. The Vietnamese genuinely lost close to three million to the Vietnam War, but they do not talk of America’s plan to annihilate them. Neither do the Japanese, the world’s first and only victims of nuclear explosion. Azikiwe repeatedly argued that though Igbos were killed in the North, it does not mean the tribe was “slated for slaughter” as a policy. Colin Legum, whom Achebe claims was the first to describe the 1966 revenge killings of Igbos in the North as pogroms (pg 82), does not think so, too. This is curious. Instead of stating the source of the Legum article, Achebe references his own interview in Transition. In the London Observer of 26 May 1968, Legum writes: “It is clear that there is no systematic attempt at exterminating Ibos to justify charge of genocide.” Also, Ojukwu’s hitherto unknown Director of Intelligence and External Communications, the American priest, Rev Fr Kevin Doheny, said in a secret but frank conversation with an American diplomat that the claim of genocide is “highly exaggerated but, without it, Biafrans would have given up fighting long time ago”.

If there was any intention to exterminate Igbos, why after Ojukwu had fled and the Biafran military had been completely paralysed, did the Nigerian military not use the opportunity to turn the guns on the defenceless Biafrans or carpet bomb them? Instead, there were steps to welcome them back into the fold. It is disingenious of anyone to talk of “genocide” or “prospect of annihilation” when the context and facts on ground say otherwise. It is insulting to the memory of true genocide victims. “If you are blind, describing an elephant is easy,” Achebe writes in The Education of a British-Protected Child. “You can call it, like one of the six blind men in the fable, a huge tree trunk; or perhaps a gigantic fan; or an enormous rope, and so on. But having eyes, far from making such descriptions easy, actually complicates them.” Achebe, throughout the book, chooses the easy path of the blind over the complex task of a conscientious writer. Having taken a low road, he wants to arrive at a high point by invoking the Mandela Example in the final pages. Mandela described Achebe as the writer “in whose company the prison walls fell down”. With There Was A Country, Achebe is the writer in whose company dangerous walls are rising up: walls of tribal hatred, walls of lies, walls of sloppy thinking and lazy research, walls of propaganda and walls of moral ineptitude.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/03/05/biafra-the-facts-the-fiction/





Roy
March 5, 2013 - 12:35 pm

Hello Mr Awoyokun. I appreciate your comprehensive riposte to what I totally agree is a divisive book by the hallowed Chinua Achebe. Books like There Was A Country would naturally stimulate impassioned reactions. However, it is very obvious that just like
Achebe’s book, your article is very one-sided and equally divisive. You paint to the Igbo people as an singularly scheming, ruthless and dishonourable bunch. This is totally untrue. The truth is all sides in the Biafra War were culpable. I don’t intend to enter a detail-by-detail argument with you. But your article way better if you acknowledged that all sides made mistakes. Indeed Achebe’s arguments are not entirely without merit. Did he go overboard? Yes. But are his arguments entirely baseless? No. If we are to learn good lessons from the past, please, please and please let us give balanced accounts. Thanks.
Arafat
March 5, 2013 - 1:01 pm

Another “ME TOO” write up
Pastor onyemah obidiegwu, spain
March 5, 2013 - 1:57 pm

Br. Damola i pitied the precious time you wasted in your research and write up, you could have spent it in something profitable, the summary of your article is HATE and thus you are indeed in the same boat with so many other self-acclaimed purists, who not understanding the purpose of life here on earth, parade your intelligence competitively in obvious ignorance, professing to be wise but ending up being fools, have you ever stop and ask yourself who am i?, you and the rest of us are all pilgrims here on earth, you and i brought nothing into this world, the air we breath, the water we drink, the soil on which we build and walk is not ours when we die, we will be buried in a cold grave abandoned by families, tribe, country and race, if you hate a yoruba, igbo, hausa or a white person, it clearly shows that you are not human and still lack understanding of what life is all about, LOVE is the tonic of life , those who hate will never stop at hating, inside their tribe they will hate people based on their state of origin, inside their state they will hate people based on local government origin, inside their LGA, they will hate people based on their town, inside their town they will hate people on the basis of their village and they will hate down to their family, no matter how much they try pretend, they are sick with sorrow and complaining and need prayers because Love is a spirit, please all haters irrespective of their tribe and color should ask for it.
hart
March 5, 2013 - 3:07 pm

The writer, i think deserve commendation for setting the records straight and revealing facts not known by many like how and where Nzeogwu died. If we are to implore the two watchwards: honesty and sincerety, this is a high intellectual literature. He placed both the cards and facts on the table before the journey. Only a deaf person will label him ether being partial or biased because he can only see but don’t hear nor speak. This is a masterpiece, BRAVO !!!
BISIKAY
March 5, 2013 - 4:14 pm

Very detailed analysis reflecting the “other side’s view”. Thank you. Well done, sir…
iyke
March 5, 2013 - 4:29 pm

im a crown prince in igboland, married to a yoruba lady against all odds. Today we have 2 boys and a girl. She has become the darling of the whole town and for her behaviour, three of my kindsmen is married to yorubas. In a tribe, not all is bad or good likewise in family. The mistakes of Awo or Ojukwu should not be visited on their tribes. pls let the sleeping dog lie. I can give my life for my wife to live and i mean it.
Anonymous
March 5, 2013 - 5:29 pm

@ Roy, the essence of a rejoinder is to either give a contarary view or to agree with the original write-up. The writer does not agree with Prof. Achebe, and that is the essence of this piece.
@ Arafat, if you think this is another “me too” write-up, then this masterpiece is certainly above your comprehension. Do something else and stay away from intellectual discussions!
Thank you Mr Awoyokun, this is about the best analysis of “There Was A Country” that I’ve read. I read the book several times over, and you are so spot on.
Uche Mbaise
March 5, 2013 - 7:32 pm

Its time when we Africans recorgnize that our problem is the so called white man and all about him. Religously Afrika had no problem untill these wicked overiped paw_paw introduced christainity and islam into Africa and today states like Nigeria is a victim of their religion. Today we kill ourselves in the name of xtainity and islamism ;woe unto us. Talking about the Nigerian crises ,we should know that we must come together to recorgnize that we were Afrikans and blacks before we became a state. Let us all say NO to the western DIVIDE AND RULE. Let one love keep us together. Remember the more we fight the more we remain under developed and the more they call us THIRD WORLD PEOPLE. We Afrikans thought them how to reason like human beings. Aristotle and socrates cannot deny this because the studied in EGYPT . I always laugh at Greeks when they claim to be the first developed people when we all know that it is Egypt. They burnt the EGYPTIAN LIBRARY and now wants to burn us with hatrade. We must say NO. Afrika, lets forget our differences and unite to move foward. PROUDLY AFRIKAN. Nigeria learn from what i have written. YORUBA, HAUSA, IGBO LETS UNITE TO MOVE FOWARD. Lets ignore the westerners’ advice please. Adolph Hetler said that Afrika he will use as a zoo. So my people lets unite to face the task ahead. Even Some western philosophers said that we are not rational beings . But EMEAGWALI PHILIP IS NOT A WHITE MAN. Obama is equaly not. Lets move on we can and will make it. HELLO AFRIKANS I GREET YOU ALL. Ndewonuooon.
kukunmba
March 5, 2013 - 9:00 pm

mr damole,you must be a great writer to sit down and write all these without pay! i respect you.iam a lawyer in Nigeria but i find it hard lifting my pen if i would not be paid.
Riot5000
March 5, 2013 - 9:01 pm

ANOTHER AWOLOWO?
Wonder why Igbos will NEVER forgive Awo. There are so many more of them today, despite that Igbos have no problems with an average Youruba, but AWOLOWO.
Damola was likely not alive when it all happened but has put put in his own three pence to finally express his Igbophobia.
I yet have to read from Wole Soyinka who most likely would give an account of his own experience without the typical Awolowo tribal glasses on his face.
AWO was a TRIBALIST, not a Nationalist.
Even after what he did to Ojukwu, Ojukwu had class enough to speak well of Awo in their later years.
I wonder if Awo would have done the same.
Mr Londoner, we read from the man, the novelist, the insider, and the witness. PLEASE DO US ALL A FAVOR, GO AWAY. Will you please tell Nigerians why their country is worse today than it was before the North took over?
Banji-F
March 5, 2013 - 9:32 pm

I as a person decided not to bother myself over most of the accounts of the civil wars because i believe the younger generation should not live in the mistake of the past but to forge ahead with a better ideal to make Nigeria great but for the Achebe’s book i became interested and thank God for the America version of it which reveals and confirms my believe that unguided ambition pushed ojukwu to that war that could have been resolved through other means. The above analysis also hasshown that Achebe is not true to himself and he is not doing other young ibos who believe him any good.
Dapo
March 5, 2013 - 9:58 pm

So which gene does my children posess? God almighty, my lovely wife, my lovely inlaws from Enugu, my great father who speaks five Nigerian languages and can smartly dress in their ethnic attires, where does all these accusations leaves my children, what kind of history about Nigeria should i advise them to read? that their mother’s kinsmen freaks the hell out of their father’s kinsmen?LOL!!! or the other way round? that they should in the future ask a black man of his ethnic group before defending/helping him? we are all human beings, no one is a saint and portraying some leaders/intellects as saints might put us and our future in more trouble than imagined, We Africans have more enemies in the world than turning against one another, and Nigerians in particular needs to start standing up for one another for we have so many enemies outside our territory.
Josh
March 6, 2013 - 4:10 am

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/03/05/biafra-the-facts-the-fiction/
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by aresa: 6:53pm On Aug 28, 2016
Stingman:



SEE what a northerner said, after reading an independent view about the Bifara war>>>>>

"They say a man without the knowledge of history is like a man without memory. As a northern Nigerian under the age of 30 I’ve always wondered why the Igbos tend to refuse to apply themselves very well politically.

I guess they’ve always wanted to be Biafrans (and justifiably so), not Nigerians. They didnt just want to ‘threaten’ Nigerian unity like they have always been accused of doing… I now understand where they’re coming from.

Just imagine if the Igbos were simply allowed to break away and form their Biafran Republic, how this entity called Nigeria would have fared. Maybe we will have ended up becoming prosperous friendly nations and economic allies with special ECOWAS relationships. And certainly the shameless massacre by the Nigerian and British governments will have been completely avoided.

Nigeria may be better off united economically and militarily, but the true yearnings of the peoples involved count more than mere economic growth on paper. Everyone has to feel among and feel important. Maybe, just maybe, if we were all allowed to go our separate ways we will end up becoming friends and allies and everything will eventually turn out for the better" Abdullahi.


1. ibo man aka Zik wanted One Nigeria hence going against wisdom and advise when he teamed up with the North to form One Nigeria

2. Ibo man aka Aguiyi Ironsi abolished regional autonomy and system of government when he gave us the current power in the center form of government and One Nigeria.

3. Ibo people love One Nigeria even till today because they love the fact that they belong to the so called National party called PDP that's basically ruled and dominated by the North even though the same PDP has no interest in making any ibo man or woman the president of Nigeria and in fact, the same PDP already zoned their 2019 presidential slot to the North.


Look in the mirror for your illness for proper diagnosis and cure if you can..
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by aresa: 6:55pm On Aug 28, 2016
[s]
Ikechukwu48:


1.) Yolobas started the tribalism in NL. Infact it was so severe, your first victims which in that case was northerners ran out of NL because of it. It was that bad that when the list of FBI most made NL and the names were all yoloba, the only hausa boy left at that time insulted, degraded and you lots when confronted and cautioned by others, his only reply was among the line of "they did that to us." Do you need the link to that cause I'll be more than happy to provide it.
After the northerners left, you turned your tribalistic ads to Igbos but unlike north, Igbos took una heads on and more showed up. Pretty much the same way you lots have turned your tribalistic eyes to ijaws was the exact same shit you did to igbos.

As for the rest of your crap, why argue when I can quote non Igbos opinion on it

Let's see who others believe brought in tribalism in Nigerian politics.

North
Reference:SLS [ yorubas are the problem of Nigeria]



Edo
Reference: Igho [midwest and the future of Nigerian federalism]



As you lots brought in tribalism on NL and asee well control the tribalistic forums of that country is exactly the same way you lots brought in tribalism in N8ferian politics.

You lots oozes tribalism.
[/s]



Substituting credible and documented history with one man's silly and irrelevant opinion is idiocy...
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Nobody: 6:56pm On Aug 28, 2016
sukkot:
lolzzzzz Joavid trust the weekend is nice cheesy

yes o.

comedy central on this thread.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 6:57pm On Aug 28, 2016
ehikwe22:
There is nothing you can do to make the nose of a dog to be white. What is bad is bad. Even the war itself is evil. People like you do evil and come up with excuses why you did it same way Jibrin is giving reasons why he shared in an illegal fund of the people he's blackmailing.
You are RIGHT.But some misinformed IGBOS are full of hatred that one just has to make the record straight.THIS HATRED HAD MADE IGBOS ATTACK YORUBAS ON THE MILDEST OF ISSUES THAT WE HAVE TO RECIPROCATE....

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by thedarksider: 6:57pm On Aug 28, 2016
Ikechukwu48:


1.) Yolobas started the tribalism in NL. Infact it was so severe, your first victims which in that case was northerners ran out of NL because of it. It was that bad that when the list of FBI most made NL and the names were all yoloba, the only hausa boy left at that time insulted, degraded and you lots when confronted and cautioned by others, his only reply was among the line of "they did that to us." Do you need the link to that cause I'll be more than happy to provide it.
After the northerners left, you turned your tribalistic ads to Igbos but unlike north, Igbos took una heads on and more showed up. Pretty much the same way you lots have turned your tribalistic eyes to ijaws was the exact same shit you did to igbos.

As for the rest of your crap, why argue when I can quote non Igbos opinion on it

Let's see who others believe brought in tribalism in Nigerian politics.

North
Reference:SLS [ yorubas are the problem of Nigeria]



Edo
Reference: Igho [midwest and the future of Nigerian federalism]



As you lots brought in tribalism on NL and asee well control the tribalistic forums of that country is exactly the same way you lots brought in tribalism in N8ferian politics.

You lots oozes tribalism.

abegi,,,mr igbo,park well..i joined nairaland atleast one and half years ago.....the war was already raging...it was the same time kanu was talking rubbish in america about weapons blabla....


do you wanna tell me the yorubas have no rights to defend themselfes??...
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ikechukwu48: 6:58pm On Aug 28, 2016
eduj:

the bone of contention here isn't which ethnic group is a majority in naijas ICT sector on the contrary ,the debate is how advanced our ICT sector is .No matter what we state here on nairaland ,it won't change the status quo out their hence let's agree to disagree on that point.

cheesy grin grin grin grin grin

Dude you should have opened both threads. They actually provided ZERO evidence of Yoloba so called ICT on both threads. All you had was them screaming the dominate the TV sector, computer sector, blah blah and people mocking them for it.

I keep saying it, yoloba dominate the ICT sector of Nigeria yet NONE have heard or seem any technology creation by them. Even at that, the government had to go to a guy that deals with car to help them build Aviation parts when they have the "70% ICT yolobas" they could have gone to grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

The grand delusional of Yoloba is hilarious. That Ritchiee one has it worse cause it's mixed with inferiority complex

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ritchiee: 7:01pm On Aug 28, 2016
eduj:

the bone of contention here isn't which ethnic group is a majority in naijas ICT sector on the contrary ,the debate is how advanced our ICT sector is .No matter what we state here on nairaland ,it won't change the status quo out their hence let's agree to disagree on that point.
Okay,if that is your flavour...ciao
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ikechukwu48: 7:04pm On Aug 28, 2016
thedarksider:


abegi,,,mr igbo,park well..i joined nairaland atleast one and half years ago.....the war was already raging...it was the same time kanu was talking rubbish in america about weapons blabla....


do you wanna tell me the yorubas have no rights to defend themselfes??...

Prior to kanu, you shithole yoloba was wishing for death of Massob member.

Infact you Savage , it was actually YOLOBA that made nnamdi hate their ass. He used to be a member of massob, do you think watching a tribe applaud the death of your peopls and wishing more death on them including you, you would end up loving those clowns


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS6HitcBPxQ
Here's a video of that same Nnamdi Kanu in year 2012 asking for the government to protect all nigerians, not just Igbos, but ALL.

What changed from 2012 to 2015 that he now despise you lots? Oh I don't know maybe reading the multiple threads where you Nigga kept wishing more death of an igbo group who did not do sh1t to them

As I said before: mention ONE thing Massob did to yorubas that you lots applauded their death and wished more death in them. Name ONE thing.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by dragunov: 7:06pm On Aug 28, 2016
Nkem4040:


It wasn't a grenade launcher per se, but the Biafrran military re-engineered the ogbunike into an unknown technology that they refused to disclose till this day. It was done in such a way that the damage will ignite a chain reaction and evidently catastrophic. Yes the guy you replied is right in the casualty, though I think it was more. It was the most deadly military loss ever encountered by the Nigerian military. I mean thousands of Nigerian military personnel and hundreds of armoured vehicles entering Abagana in a convoy in excess of 50km stretch were incinerated, and most died instantly. How Muritila Mohammad and his crew escaped, remains a mystery. This attack was led by Hannibal of Biafrra General Joe Achuzia in an operation code-named HEROSHIMA.

We don't lie here, we provide evidence; pictures or video. The video is on youtube...here is direct video excerpt of the event.
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/8295930
The much touted weapon was nothing but a giant dane gun or blunderbuss. It was muzzle loaded with plenty of gun powder, pebbles, metal scraps, boris, nails, nuts and sand. Now, direct that to a convoy loaded with men and explosives, and what you get is a chain reaction of explosions and mass death. Nothing special. No rocket science here. Nothing mystifying.

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Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Ikechukwu48: 7:07pm On Aug 28, 2016
aresa:
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Substituting credible and documented history with one man's silly and irrelevant opinion is idiocy...

Lmfaooooooooooo yes the North, Midwest and East are all lying on the yolobas.

Hilariously enough SLS that you lots lick ass of is now irrelevant. How comical.

Bleep out of here. NEXT!!!!
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Stingman: 7:08pm On Aug 28, 2016
aresa:



1. ibo man aka Zik wanted One Nigeria hence going against wisdom and advise when he teamed up with the North to form One Nigeria

2. Ibo man aka Aguiyi Ironsi abolished regional autonomy and system of government when he gave us the current power in the center form of government and One Nigeria.

3. Ibo people love One Nigeria even till today because they love the fact that they belong to the so called National party called PDP that's basically ruled and dominated by the North even though the same PDP has no interest in making any ibo man or woman the president of Nigeria and in fact, the same PDP already zoned their 2019 presidential slot to the North.


Look in the mirror for your illness for proper diagnosis and cure if you can..

Your cure is in your unstable emotions...If Igbo man instituted CORRUPTION...should it be sustained or reformed to suit the exigency of the time or not?...and how come I need a cure...am I Abdullahi?
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by thedarksider: 7:08pm On Aug 28, 2016
Ikechukwu48:


Prior to kanu, you shithole yoloba was wishing for death of Massob member.

Infact you neatherhal, it was actually YOLOBA that made nnamdi hate their ass. He was a member of massob, do you think watching a tribe applaud the death of your commands and wishing more death on them including you, you would end up loving those clowns


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS6HitcBPxQ
Here's a video of that same Nnamdi Kanu in year 2012 asking for the government to protect all nigerians, not just Igbos, but ALL.

What changed from 2012 to 2015 that he now despise you lots? Oh I don't know maybe reading the multiple threads where you Nigga kept wishing more death of an igbo group who did not do sh1t to them

As I said before: mention ONE thing Massob did to yorubas that you lots applauded their death and wished more death in them. Name ONE thing.

you know what?...i dont wanna see that baasstard,traitor-head-ugly-fvking basstard no more!!!!...keep am..`!!!!..i dont give a shi shi!!! angry angry angry
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by LordValor: 7:08pm On Aug 28, 2016
sukkot:
bro the tech was from france not biafra




If dat lie is gonna make u sleep well....sweet dreamz...I beta use d remainin time of d weekend on sumtin productive dan trying 2 educate pple without brain...
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by aresa: 7:10pm On Aug 28, 2016
[s]
Stingman:

Your cure is in your unstable emotions...If Igbo man instituted CORRUPTION...should it be sustained or reformed to suit the exigency of the time or not?...and how come I need a cure...am I Abdullahi?


thedarksider:

abegi,,,mr igbo,park well..i joined nairaland atleast one and half years ago.....the war was already raging...it was the same time kanu was talking rubbish in america about weapons blabla....
do you wanna tell me the yorubas have no rights to defend themselfes??...
[/s]


Unintelligent and ignorant Igbos bore me...
Re: Biafran Technology And Inventions At Display In Umuahia by Olabestonic001(m): 7:11pm On Aug 28, 2016
Nkem4040:


It wasn't a grenade launcher per se, but the Biafrran military re-engineered the ogbunike into an unknown technology that they refused to disclose till this day. It was done in such a way that the damage will ignite a chain reaction and evidently catastrophic. Yes the guy you replied is right in the casualty, though I think it was more. It was the most deadly military loss ever encountered by the Nigerian military. I mean thousands of Nigerian military personnel and hundreds of armoured vehicles entering Abagana in a convoy in excess of 50km stretch were incinerated, and most died instantly. How Muritila Mohammad and his crew escaped, remains a mystery. This attack was led by Hannibal of Biafrra General Joe Achuzia in an operation code-named HEROSHIMA.

We don't lie here, we provide evidence; pictures or video. The video is on youtube...here is direct video excerpt of the event.
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/8295930

I think the loss was that much because of the tankers of Petrol the convoy was carrying. That triggered the chain reaction and not the ogbunigwe per se.
But, we must give it to Major Achuzie. He was a strategist per excellence.

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