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Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Mccullum: 12:53pm On Apr 05, 2017
There's different between assembling and manufacturing, those weapons assembled by the Igbo engineers not manufactured because no chance to imports them that's why they imported the parts and assembled them, that's the point of correction.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by ConqueredWest: 12:53pm On Apr 05, 2017
Keneking:
Who gave the designs? Who masterminded the technical know-how?
The truth is gonna be out some day..Bros
Why dont we have such advancements today? I hope you dont consider Innoson as one huh
That you are daft in Technological things, doesn't mean others are like you

All those weapons were locally fabricated.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by DJInfluence: 12:55pm On Apr 05, 2017
Looks like something from a 120 years old machinery from a Museum. grin grin grin
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nobody: 12:55pm On Apr 05, 2017
ConqueredWest:
That you are daft in Technological things, doesn't mean others are like you

All those weapons were locally fabricated.
Indeed!!!

Nonsense defense angry
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by ConqueredWest: 12:55pm On Apr 05, 2017
Mccullum:
There's different between assembling and manufacturing, those weapons assembled by the Igbo engineers not manufactured because no chance to imports them that's why they imported the parts and assembled them, that's the point of correction.
Historical illiterate pls answer this question

Was Biafran Sea and Land blockaded.?
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by tunjijones(m): 12:58pm On Apr 05, 2017
plessis:
How did this people manufacture these weapons in the 60's out of nothing?... Somebody should explain....


No wonder a 7year old kid in aba can construct Keke napep with his eyes closed
Chest Beating already. Thats your major problem
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by ConqueredWest: 12:58pm On Apr 05, 2017
Keneking:
Indeed!!!

Nonsense defense angry
Show me one French ancient weapon that looks like any of those weapons

Little boy, I know more about weapons from WW1 and WW2 than you do.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by omoadeleye(m): 12:58pm On Apr 05, 2017
Abdhul:
HMS why do they always use the word detonated instead of defused?
Defused is meant for bomb
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Segxy2ng(m): 12:59pm On Apr 05, 2017
interesting
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by FKO81(m): 1:01pm On Apr 05, 2017
Written by Afoja, why always scared when ever you guys hear the word Biafra huh You guys dislike them, join and campaign for them to leave, since they contribute nothing to Nigeria, why discouraging vibrant minds not to join, same you will come online and be ranting Igbos should leave your region, seriously you guys are saddest and confuse.
Ritchiee:
QUESTIONS FOR IPOB

When Ojukwu was here and he declared Biafra, he was a governor of the East, he had a territory he could control, he had provisional secretaries and all that under him but all these boys talking about IPOB or whatever, what do they have? They even tell you they have supporters but who are their supporters or are they keeping it secret? Let me tell you, let it not be like the support France gave to Biafra. France will never come out in the open to say we support Biafra, they never even recognized Biafra in the United Nations. So if you are not strong don’t dare anybody and even if you are strong, the best thing is to use your might and negotiate. There was a time Ojukwu could have negotiated and got something, he would have got a confederation. During that conference Ojukwu said Biafra was not negotiable and that is why the things fell apart. It was he who said no power in Black Africa can destroy Biafra and when the chips were down he was on his way to Ivory Coast, leaving us to die. So you can see! Let no body be taken for a sucker; that is what I am telling the youths. Where is the land, the terrain you will put your troops on? Where are the people you are going to lead out of Nigeria? Is it Ebonyi people who most of them don’t believe they are Igbo to start with? There is only one snag about it, if Abuja will stop this nonsense about unitary system of government. When Ironsi was in power he had decree no. 45 by which he made Nigeria unitary government not federal government and the north killed him because of the unitary but no sooner than Ironsi was out of the way, the same north under Gowon started practicing unitary system.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/bizarre-people-ate-human-beings-war-capt-gbulie/

Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by onyii255(m): 1:02pm On Apr 05, 2017
Ritchiee:
QUESTIONS FOR IPOB

When Ojukwu was here and he declared Biafra, he was a governor of the East, he had a territory he could control, he had provisional secretaries and all that under him but all these boys talking about IPOB or whatever, what do they have? They even tell you they have supporters but who are their supporters or are they keeping it secret? Let me tell you, let it not be like the support France gave to Biafra. France will never come out in the open to say we support Biafra, they never even recognized Biafra in the United Nations. So if you are not strong don’t dare anybody and even if you are strong, the best thing is to use your might and negotiate. There was a time Ojukwu could have negotiated and got something, he would have got a confederation. During that conference Ojukwu said Biafra was not negotiable and that is why the things fell apart. It was he who said no power in Black Africa can destroy Biafra and when the chips were down he was on his way to Ivory Coast, leaving us to die. So you can see! Let no body be taken for a sucker; that is what I am telling the youths. Where is the land, the terrain you will put your troops on? Where are the people you are going to lead out of Nigeria? Is it Ebonyi people who most of them don’t believe they are Igbo to start with? There is only one snag about it, if Abuja will stop this nonsense about unitary system of government. When Ironsi was in power he had decree no. 45 by which he made Nigeria unitary government not federal government and the north killed him because of the unitary but no sooner than Ironsi was out of the way, the same north under Gowon started practicing unitary system.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/bizarre-people-ate-human-beings-war-capt-gbulie/
Ojukwu was actually pushing for a Confederation and it had been agreed at the Aburi conference in Ghana, but Gowon decided to go against the agreement when he returned to Nigeria....

In my own view, i think that civil war could have been avoided... Gowon and Ojukwu made very grievous mistakes...
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Menzy86(m): 1:05pm On Apr 05, 2017
Abdhul:
HMS why do they always use the word detonated instead of defused?
because detonated in this CONTEXT is actually the correct word.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nigeriadondie: 1:07pm On Apr 05, 2017
Alariwo2:
The weapons they used to kill SS people who rejected their biafra.. wawa people with inferior things
Afonja why cant u appreciate something good and remove tribal sentimenta for a second.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by onyii255(m): 1:08pm On Apr 05, 2017
Alariwo2:
Biafra didn't produce anything during the war, stop deceiving yourself.
Everything biafrans used were bought with Naira including Mercenaries from SA, France etc. before Awo devalued it and biafra could no longer purchase anything

Those weapons were antiques brought in through the same route Ojukwu fled with
It is common knowledge that Biafra produced most of her weapons during the war..
Let me also remind you that Nigeria was not using the naira before the outbreak of the civil war.. The country was still using pounds and when Gowon directed the central bank to change currency, it effectively left the entity called Biafra broke.... That was one of the biggest blows that Gowon struck against the Ojukwu led Biafra and it affected biafra thru out the war..
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by willibounce1(m): 1:08pm On Apr 05, 2017
Story for the gods.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nobody: 1:11pm On Apr 05, 2017
ConqueredWest:
I heard, there was a plan to kill all Biafran Scientists Engineers and Technologists as they did to some top Biafran military personnel
Well, that was what most of them were scared of.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by dfav: 1:22pm On Apr 05, 2017
tribal beef aside....

the ibos are the most creative tribe & enterprising people in Nigeria;

i dont knw if they are Jews oo but they display some of the great characteristics of the JEWISH People..

Masters in Technology & Money....
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nigeriadondie:
The hatred for Igbos by afonja is unfounded, baseless, unjustified and uncalled for. However, it is quite understandable cos igbos are ambitious and goal getters. So the feelings of the Yorubas towards the igbos is born out of envy.
In the area of education they claim to be ahead which a fallacy, a lie and a figment of one's imagination. Igbos had a large pool of educated people and it is no reason they occupied all sphere of the Nigerian society before the war. It may surprise you to know that the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos had igbos as their first VC's Prof Kenneth Dike and Prof Eni Njoku because the best suited for the position cud easily be drawn from among the igbos. In the senior and middle cadre of the military were Igbos which they lost after the 2nd coup. Infact based on merit igbos were more and this drew envy and animosity from other tribes who felt threatened.
Fedrick Forsyth an Irish journalist in his book about Biafra said that d mass exodus of Igbos from the north to the east following the pogrom in 1966 resulted in a dearth or shortage of skilled manpower across the country.
Look at JAMB, the highest number of applicants has been from Imo state for the past 20 years. The cut off mark for common entrance for entrance exams into Unity colleges for Imo and Abia states is the highest cos of the high level of performance. Anambra state touted by people from the far west of the Niger River (afonja)are also not sleeping. Best WAEC performance from the east. Look at state and federal universities if u will not see igbos occupying very sensitive skill oriented positions. In the oil and gas yorubas may be in administrative but the technical jobs are the igbos.
Looking at the civil war it wud be unfair not to give credit to the igbos. Biafra was a country completely under air, sea and land blockade yet withstood federal might for 30 months is no small feat. Ask the mighty Germans what a blockade was for them in 1944 and just surrendered in 1945 less than a year.The ingenuity of the igbo man made them to develop refinery when Port Harcort was lost to the vandals, the developed ogbunigwe, ojukwu beer or bottle bombs, land mines, rockets which dealt devastatting blows to federal troops. All was done by a team of scientists, engineers & technicians called the BIAFRA SCIENCE GROUP. If u doubt the technological prowess of the igbos pls take a trip to the NATIONAL WAR MUSEUM UMUAHIA ABIA STATE and see with your eyes. Seeing they say is believing.
For most yorubas many of whom grew up in the west, did pry sch in the west, high sch in the west, university or polytechnic or college of edu in the west, NYSC in the west, work in the west, marry in the west and die in the west u are not in a position to compare. Infact many have not seen the River Niger or the bridge that crosses it. Yet these are the ones that wud compare themselves with igbos. Ok you fought to keep Nigeria one in the war omly to fall under the domination of the north was it worth it? A Nigeria whose political position and oil wealth controlled by the north that made the likes of TY Danjuma and co rich for genrations? This Nigeria as it is was it worth the blood and sweat? Even Lt Gen Alanni Akinrinande said he regretted his role in the war. The same with Brig Alabi Isama in his book The Tragedy of Victory. See how the electoral machinery of the north denied Awolowo and Abiola the position of the presidency.
Have the yorubas who condemned Igbos for attempting to seceede realize that the first people to talk of secceding were the northerner in 1966 during the infamous "Araba riots" in 1966? Do they also realize that Gideon Orkar did same in 1990? You can google it and see his speech which was due to control of the nation's wealth by a cabal in the north?
IF THE OIL WELLS WERE IN THE NORTH CUD ANY SOUTHERNER DARE TO OWN A DROP OF OIL TALKLESS OF AN OIL WELL? It is this mutual hatred among the south that makes it possible for the north to dominate.
I give credit to the Prof Wole Soyinka. He stood out. I doubt if he has yoruba blood flowing in his vein. His stand for Biafra in the 60's which led to his incarceration based on the principle of justice deserves to be commended. He has maintained that stand cos while yoruba bigots condemned Achebe for writing his book " There was a country" he never did cos he rose above tribal sentiments.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nobody: 1:25pm On Apr 05, 2017
steppins:
Whose idea was it before? Awolowo or Ahmadu Bello's idea?
When we say the rest of Nigerians are afraid of what we can do, they say we're chest beaters.
We know the truth.
The topic is about copying / snatching your product .Nobody says its not yours, I just gave you a reason why Nigeria cannot claim your equipment. ****
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nicheey(m): 1:27pm On Apr 05, 2017
JideAmuGiaka:
Propaganda
Google Nigerian civil war
and see for your self
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by HIGHESTPOPORI(m): 1:27pm On Apr 05, 2017
JideAmuGiaka:
If your people had one of these, Hausa Fulani wouldn't have taken Kwara state from them. While the Hausa Fulani were hitting your people with bow and arrow, your people were busy throwing Amala at them without knowing that they are indirectly feeding them.
How u wan take enter heaven with this type of wickedness?
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Gassa007: 1:29pm On Apr 05, 2017
nonsobaba:
Very ingenious products developed mostly by Anambra engineers in the Biafran army.
What's this now for Christ sakehuh
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by chiderao: 1:33pm On Apr 05, 2017
giles14:
stupid country.
in meaningful n working countries the weapons will have been developed and even exported
Because it is iBo made....
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nicheey(m): 1:33pm On Apr 05, 2017
ConqueredWest:
Sabotage in his context means " Being Killed " by Federal Military
ah know what It means
just asking why they were scared of sabotage when the war was over
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by JideAmuGiaka: 1:33pm On Apr 05, 2017
HIGHESTPOPORI:
How u wan take enter heaven with this type of wickedness?
huh
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Folksyharry(m): 1:34pm On Apr 05, 2017
I have seen these weapons myself and I must say I was very impressed. If we knew how to plan for the future we would have done more than these by now.
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nicheey(m): 1:35pm On Apr 05, 2017
Trina0936:
My dad is very alive and healthy by God's grace. No one could be trusted after the war. Especially the Nigerian army. undecided
great
does he or did he kept a journal about the war
and how they tried invading the Niger Delta
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Nicheey(m): 1:37pm On Apr 05, 2017
Folksyharry:
I have seen these weapons myself and I must say I was very impressed. If we knew how to plan for the future we would have done more than these by now.
true

some DAy when I'm president Nigeria will be great again
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by petsam11(m): 1:39pm On Apr 05, 2017
drss:
dats d ingenuity of Igbos. notin is impossible to achieve as far as we ar concern. if biafra secedes from nijeriya today, give us 20 years, biafra will become d new japan of africa.
My brother! 20years is too much! I tell you in five to ten years you will marvel at what Biafra have/will become!
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by Odingo1: 1:41pm On Apr 05, 2017
Karlman:
sense is cheap try to buy small add to the sawdust your carrying about...IBERIBE BU AJO ORIA! KWUSI IJIYA NA ASA AHU
You are quoting an Afonja man using Igbo moniker, ignore him
Re: Army Displays Weapons Made By Biafran Engineers In Owerri (Photos) by heysquare(m): 1:43pm On Apr 05, 2017
plessis:
How did this people manufacture these weapons in the 60's out of nothing?... Somebody should explain....


No wonder a 7year old kid in aba can construct Keke napep with his eyes closed
d explanation was because they were trained by d same nigeria army! so whats d big deal in all ds even boko boys fabricates thr weapons smtimes as well
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