zendy:
I think it is really stupid for anyobe to say that what a few Igbo officers did on the 15th of July 1966 represents the entire Igbo nation. Where these officers acting on behalf of the Igbo nation? So why call it an Igbo coup? What ethnic group were Major Ademoyega, Captain Adeleke and Lt Oyewole who all participated in the coup? I will never support a coup plotter but people should stop distorting issues. It was not an Igbo coup because the the coupists had no mandate from the Igbo nation to conduct any coup.

Qelvin:

My flat head has earned me a good life here in a better and civilized country, what has your normal head done for you?

ipodstinks:
clean the water in your eyes first. This story exposed your tribe, you are trying to cover it with afonja dis and dat. Woo to you, you have no point to defend this. You ppl are wicked. Your hatred for yoruba is because you want to dominate others and the yorubas never allowed you, hence the hatred of which yorubas do not give a Bleep to. You. Have been xposed. You ppl are the king of betrayers and the root of nigeria problem.

Qelvin:

How come the Federal massacres are so much more documented in content and context that it spiraled an international outrage after the war? So much that documentaries were even made in those areas affected by Nigerian massacres and are accessible on youtube today!!, not denying that Biafrans didn't commit atrocities, but the chances that the Nigerian side committed atrocities at a more horrendous scale can't be overemphasized! There are very limited if credible reports of Biafran genocides.

Outright molestation, harassment and killing of non-Ibo civilians occurred on a daily basis. At night "suspected saboteurs" were fished out of their homes and arrested. 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 harbor sympathies for the regime in Lagos. But non-Hausas were just as badly treated. And as the hostility of the local population became more intense, so did the degree of indiscrete brutality for "internal security". Non-Ibo alumni of St. Patrick's College, Asaba and Government College, Ughelli, found to their chagrin that old school ties meant nothing in the new dispensation

APCmyheart:



LOL Min dhas taken me so many countries, I live in my own houses and have my own business.



Hope when that arrest you for drugs where you are and ready to be killed you will understand better..

raumdeuter:


Thats because some are cry babies and they are playing to get sympathies of the international communities. Th Buafran drew the first blood, commited a lot of atrocities in the mid west

Go and read Nowa Omoiguis records


http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm

Qelvin:

Biafrans drew the first blood? Interesting who then fires the first Salvo of shots??

Qelvin:

Give me a neutral version aside from your Federal camp that Biafrans were roundly defeated at Ore? I need a neutral source, cause I'll definitely not swallow the tales from either your Nigerian archive of lies or even the Biafran side, both sides told culpable lies to boost their war propaganda's, so let's keep that in perspective...we can turn this into another academic debate and learn more that way.

Quick Kill in Slow Motion:] The Nigerian Civil War by Major Michael R. Stafford, USA |

The Biafrans probably lacked the capability to conduct such an offensive operation. In his book, Reluctant Rebel, Fola Oyewole details the lack of preparation for the Midwest offensive by his company. Here is a summary of one episode. Upon his return from a battalion field exercise, he was ordered to form a new company at Onitsha. He delivered his car and possessions to family members in that city and reported immediately to his battalion.

Within hours he moved to the Midwest. His unit's mission was the capture of the army barracks at Ugbelli. With an officer cadet as his executive officer and no experienced noncommissioned officers, the company was bused to the objective area. Ten miles from Ughelli, he stopped the column and provided a short briefing, though he was without intelligence or reconnaissance. Fortunately there was no opposition at the objective.

Even so, the untrained and undisciplined troops engaged in sporadic firing which resulted in one wound. Such episodes illustrate just how unprepared the Rebels were for the war. The vehicles used for the attack included homemade armored cars, farm trucks and passenger cars. The Biafran soldiers were poorly equipped, and many were without uniforms. They were lucky to meet only token resistance from the few Federal Forces.

From the Federal side, the Midwest Invasion achieved one significant result. It broke the complacency surrounding the Federal war effort, and unified the ojectives of Lagos, the West and the North. The entire country was intimidation by the aggressiveness of the Eastern Ibo and the response was immediate. In a demand for Federal action, anti-Ibo riots broke out in Lagos and Ibadan. A dawn-to-dusk curfew was imposed at Ibadan, and troops and armored cars presented a show of force in Lagos to buoy public confidence.

Militarily, the reaction was more substantive. A war cabinet was formed in Lagos. Remaining Federal forces operating in the Midwest fell back to blocking positions, most notably to the south of Ore about 120 miles from Lagos on the overland axis of advance from Benin. There they were reinforced by a company of Federal Guards from Lagos. A new unit, 2 Division, commanded by then Lieutenant Colonel Murtala Mohammed, sent its 7 Brigade to Ore, while the 6 and 8 Brigades were placed on the northern border of the Midwest to occupy the Biafran's right flank.

Lagos must have been reminiscent of Paris and her taxis during the first battle of the Marne. Ground wagons and red-and-silver buses delivered soldiers from Lagos to the front. Six hundred soldiers were recalled from Bonny, and 500 more were moved by rail from Kaduna in the north. The war in the north of Biafra slowed as attention and resources were drawn to overcome the threat in the Midwest. Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, observed that "the short, surgical police action is being conducted with blunt and unsterile scapels."

By mid-August, blown bridges and their own hesitation had stopped the Biafrans. The very factor which had hampered the Federal offensive earlier, long lines of communcations, now was a problem for the Rebels. A small force from the beginning, it was stretched too far to withstand the growing Federal pressure.

Abruptly, the Rebel offensive ended as the Federals took the initiative. After a single, fierce, battalion-level, infantry battle at Foriku, just south of Ore, Biafran resistance faded into an "accelerating retreat" characterized by minor delaying actions, blown bridges and cratered roads. The two northern brigades were in a race to outflank the Biafrans and cut off their retreat to the Niger River Bridge at Onitsha. In their haste, the Biafrans left behind many soldiers who did not receive word to withdraw and were consequently captured.

The destruction of the bridge, a giant edifice commemorative of Nigerian progress, was symbolic of a final isolation for Biafra and a new and deadlier phase of the war.

From the Midwest Invasion the Biafrans had hoped to show the world that they were a legitimate power deserving of international recognition; instead the foray ended with disaster. The Rebels gained some food, materiel, and the assets of the Bank of Benin which were expropriated in the occupation. But the losses far overshadowed those minor gains:

_{Excerpts from Quick Kill in Slow Motion: The Nigerian Civil War by Major Michael R. Stafford, USA | 2 April 1984 | Marine Corps Command and Staff College | Marine Corps Development and Education Command | Quantico, Virginia 22134}
Read the rest here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1984/SMR.htm

mildflame:
They had the highest number of senior military men, but the INSATIABLE GREED of a BIAFRA man knows no bound.

Qelvin:
Interesting, mind providing a source to that claim that Ojukwu and Ejoor agreed on the neutrality of the midwest?? And of course all is fair in war right? We didn't fire the first shots, your Federal side did at Garden (July 6,1967), and the invasion of the Midwest was only reactionary as well as diversionary...at the time the Midwest though neutral, was still very much Federal territory..so Biafrans had every right and reason to take the war to Nigerian soil as you did to ours

irynterri:
Wow, so sad reading this story, I hope his kids and wife are in good health, but one thing I observed was that the men in control of the country then we're all young and probably the same age with these tribalistic folks arguing stupidly on these forum instead of thinking if how to get their country back from this old generation that are still leading now

eaglechild:
I wonder the aim of this thread.
And what makes a one sided narrative from a witness who apparently has omniscient and telepathic powers ( he was upstairs and heard all the conversations including the ones that took place kilometers from the house), to become concrete truth.
I condemn the coup and the cold blooded killings but we should never accept one sided narratives as plain truth.

Qelvin:

Mor.on it does prove alot that 3 or more yorubas for all we know were involved in the thick of the coup, 3 soldiers could have had a kill ratio unimaginably higher between them so yes as long as those 3 yoruba or so soldiers marched in the cold winter of January '66 and joined their Igbo colleagues in the killing spree..they represent the whole yoruba nation by measure of association...nice logic right? it's just as mundane as your lots blaming the actions of some Igbo soldiers on an entire tribe...so the number of coup participants based on tribe shouldn't count after all going by that same logic! And 3 million lives that perished in the Biafran war surely weren't "wiped " out in vain...fast forward to today, far more Nigerians have also perished in the name of the same One Nigeria...look no further than Boko haram today and all the disasters that have plagued Nigeria since the post Civil War era

bigtt76:
His son (one of the twins)

laudate:


'One-sided' in what way? The man's wife was alive & present in the house, when they came to arrest her husband, o! At the scene where Pam was executed, there were soldiers who watched the act being carried out. So witnesses were present.

raumdeuter:


That is how the lie and form history on the spot. That was why I asked him for links to back it up and as suspected he disappeared like a fart

AnanseK:
Quote:

" MainMan7: On Youtube, Facebook, etc, and other social media, I've noticed an all-out igbo-led ruthless satanic character assassination, campaign of calumny and nefarious defamation of the Persons of great Yoruba Men of GOD. Unfortunately, some Yorubas that can't see beyond their nose have been brain-washed to join in bringing down the people that have struggled so hard to build Yoruba names and make Yorubas proud and honoured world-wide.
Sad souls called igbos are just too senselessly greedy. They become Nigerian economic Power by kleptomaniacally raking in our Monies in Millions by importing substandard goods to our Yoruba Lands and selling them to us, yet we don't complain or envy their becoming dominant economically. They are the very ones that sells fake roofing sheets to us and still shamelessly turn around to call us brown-roof republic; obviously igbos conscience is monumentally deader than dead. Only satanically directionless shallow-minded igbo being could wish evil and downfall for a so peaceful and humble man like Adeboye. I wonder why Yorubas are saving face in the face of this igbo-led ruthless satanic character assassination, campaign of calumny and nefarious defamation of the Persons of these great Yoruba Men of GOD.
Everybody cannot be traders, while they become filth rich short-changing us selling sustandard goods to us. Yorubas, as the most specially created Spiritual Beings focus on spiritual things and now that it's financially rewarding, the igbos suddenly started suffering chronic insomnia as a result of this GOD-given Yorubas Greatness. Whatever satanically shallow-minded igbos can't have, they'll try to ensure Yorubas don't have it. They are hell-bent on removing every iota of Glory remaining on the Yorubas, the only position GOD place us as the 1st currently in Nigeria, Africa and the World is the Church. I bet my left ball, if igbo pastors these successful ones, all the derogatory evil things being spread
against these wonderful men would never be. Thunder, Lightening and Fire of GOD that called these wonderful Men of GOD shall shatter u evil-
minded igbos to irredeemable pieces!!! Sad souls called igbos shall NEVER find Peace! Ashe wa!!! Ashe o!
The satanic igbos' hatred to see any other Tribe succeed or become great and their nefarious insatiable avaricious desire to hijack whatever belongs to others came to fore right from the 2nd Republic. Despite the fact that igbos headed the largest % of the Topmost political offices and Ministerial positions during the era, they still aimed to totally enslave Nigeria by becoming the Number 1 citizen. This igbo's satanic rapacity for wealth and position made them to mastermind the Very 1st bloodshed Coup (15 January, 1966) ever in Nigeria during which no single igbo died. Hausas quickly used the only language that igbos understand to earn back their respect from the ever myopically senseless igbos, putting them into where greedy people belong by cutting them to size with the help of Great Yorubas. The ever accommodating Yorubas would not get their well-deserved respect from the senseless igbos untill they apply the Hausa treatment on them."

raumdeuter:


The premier of the west Ladoke Akintola was murdered by Ibo soldiers led by Nwobosi. Akintola and Yoruba didnt offend ibos for an Ibo man to come to the Western govt house and kill the premier in cold blood

johntolu:
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I pray it does not get to that level, Bros.
The reality on the ground politically is different from what is going on in the social media.
Most writeups and comments on social media,
are actually reflections of the pains most of us are going through, as a result of the economic meltdown, in the country.
I will only take the 'Biafra' threat seriously, when their political leaders, resign from their elective posts and start clamouring for 'Biafra' state, until then, in Brotherhood we stand.

eaglechild:

The man was driven away from the house and the conversations continued beyond there.

The person narrating the story is the son who remained in the house along with the rest of the family.

I have said that I condemn the coup but I still remain firm in saying that such narratives cannot be held as concrete truth.

opal4real:


A year and 9 months?

thinkative:

let's use a practical example. if I shoot you dead now. an autopsy would be carried out and the number of bullet wounds on your body would indicate how many times I shot you. get it?
Lol. make dem no ban me for this stunt oo
. na joke oo

laudate:


Guy, you want me to keep spoon-feeding you with information, kwa? Google is your friend. Do the research. The agreement between Ojukwu and Ejoor is well known. And the first shot was fired from Garkem, not Garden. That area is within the Middle-Belt or old north-Central region, not the old Midwest region. So why did Ojukwu order an attack on the old Midwest, instead of Garkem??

laudate:


What do you mean by a neutral version? I have asked you to read a book written by a soldier who was at the battlefront in Ore, and also provided the name of the person who led the platoon at Ore. And you are still asking for a 'neutral' source? Oh, you believe the account of Madiebo who was not anywhere near Ore, is far more superior to that of Godwin Alabi-Isama who watched Major Raphael Iluyomade in action, at Ore? Okay, here is another account. let us hope you would believe this one.

APCmyheart:


Reason i will never pity the IGBO over biafra war anymore, Their Aguiyi ironsi greediness with his coa IGBO soldiers cost the South East over 3million lives. How i wish they are alive to witness how the return match was played..

No wonder they never taste power since then and will never taste power again..

ImperialYoruba:


So what happened to Pam? His body was recovered with bullets in it. How did he die?

seunmsg:

The invading soldiers had come face-to-face with her husband, Lt Col Pam, led by a man very familiar to him, Major (HC) Humphrey Chukwuka, his second-in-command, and Deputy Adjutant General (DAG)1 whom Major Benjamin Adekunle who was DAG 2 had earlier warned him to beware of and Major Anuforo.


This is the height of treachery. Shame on Major Chukwuka and other treacherous murderers who betrayed the trust of their seniors during the needless Ibo coup of January, 1966.

ImperialYoruba:


Do you understand what Anansek is saying in that post? Im not sure you got it. If you did you will not respond with what you said here.

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Eledan:

Which tribe are you?