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Yakubu Gowon is an unrepentant liar and a coward, you waited for the lion of Biafra to die for you to come out like an slowpoke and said that he lied about Aburi, just go and hide your face in shame and stop that your deceitful prayers.

Once in my Facebook page I said we Igbo’s cannot forgive YAKUBU GOWON. This was after reading through the account of Nigeria – Biafra war. My Facebook​ friends asked me to forgive as a Christian. But recent distortion of fact is an insult to God and Igbo nation. I thought all his limitations during the war was because of age and limited education, but having claimed he went back to the university and still talk like person from dark ages makes my heart bleed.

Assuming without conceding that Achebe wrote out of ignorance (Gown account) same cannot be ascribed to Wole Soyinka the greatest man Nigeria has ever produced. Who also collaborated the Achebe’s account of the war? This is another deceit by Gown the self acclaimed prayer warrior, who is transforming to be the “NEW FACE OF LIES”.

Gowon, you satanically stated without shame that Igbo’s caused the war by stating “In fact, if there was no secession by the south eastern part of the country, there would have been no civil war because right from the beginning of the crises, the war would have been averted if not for the secession. It was something I believed we could have stopped” If not out of your ineptitude, lack of administrative skills, verbal and intellectual capacity, devoid of courage and confidence you would have stopped the pogrom that led to the issue of session.
By this statement “It was the Igbo that objected to the creation of corridor for movements of medical aid and food supplies to the civilian population at the period; on this, I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over the role played by me during the war and, fortunately, some Nigerians are still alive to bear witness to the roles played by both the leadership of the secessionist group and the then Federal Military Government under my leadership,” I will then ask you why not allow the people killing the Beroms daily in hundreds to process their food.

You concluded by saying that you have no regrets over your roles in the civil war. Specifically you have no regrets about the genocide with mass starvation, guns and ammunition followed by financial enslavement. Why then did you apologize in Asaba? this is your own words if you have forgotten “It came to me as a shock when I came to know about the unfortunate happenings that happened to the sons and daughters of this state especially of this (Asaba) domain. I felt very touched and honestly I referred to it (killings) and ask for forgiveness being the one who was in charge that time. Certainly, it is not something that I would have approved of in whatsoever. I was made ignorant of it, I think until it appeared in the papers. A young man wrote a book at that time… It just happened seven hours ago when I was visiting the state for our nation prayers, I took the opportunity of being with his Royal Majesty (Asagba of Asaba) to make this public apology on behalf of myself and government of Nigeria at that time and to ask for forgiveness as we have to look at the future. I feel very touched when we came this time to hear his majesty refer to it again”

In this apology you claimed you were not aware of the genocide and atrocities but today you claimed there was none at all hence you have no regrets. But the facts below will expose your satanic lies. One of the most contradictory facts to demonstrate the inaccuracy of Gowon’s assertion comes from Gowon’s own wartime Federal Information Commissioner and foremost Nigerian war propagandist during the civil war, Chief Anthony Enahoro. In the first few months of 1998, one Jumoke Ogunkeyede, head of the “United Committee to Save Nigeria” organized a kind of reconciliation meeting between Chief Anthony Enahoro and some Igbos in New Jersey, USA. In that meeting, and in answer to one of the questions posed to Chief Enahoro about his anti-Biafran role during the civil war, Chief Enahoro, who thankfully, said in part:

“Do you really know anything about what happened during that war? I was the one that stopped late Gen. Murtala Mohammed from further massacre of innocent children and mothers. At a point when Britain refused to sell further arms to Nigeria because they had ample evidence from the Red Cross of the federal forces killing innocent civilians, I confronted Gowon with the fact and that the only way I can get Britain through my contact with their High Commissioner to resume a supply of weapon to Nigeria was that Murtala had to leave that war sector. Either Murtala leaves or I will have to leave his cabinet. Gowon told me that he is willing to call a meeting and on the condition I will be the one to confront Murtala( as a coward you can not face MURTALA).

If there was anybody that Gowon feared so much it was Murtala Mohammed. At the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, I confronted Mohammed with elaborate evidence complete with photographs. He was livid. He could not refute them so he resorted to calling me all sorts of names prompting me to observe before the council that if he was a fine officer as he claims to be, he should not be acting the way he was acting. Needless to say that I was instrumental to his withdrawal from that sector and subsequent appointment as a minister”.

(See “The Nigerian and Africa” magazine, March 1998, page 10)
From this uncoerced and uninduced testimony of Chief Enahoro, one can make the following observations:
1. That Murtala’s genocidal campaign against the Midwestern Igbos was well known and documented by the Red Cross
2. That the genocide imperiled Nigerian’s ability to secure arms supply from Britain.
3. That in attempt to maintain British arms supply to Nigeria, Chief Enahoro confronted Gowon with this reality widely documented by the Red Cross.
4. That Gowon was reluctant to confront Murtala with the allegation and indeed would not confront Murtala with it unless Enahoro would do it by himself, which he did, and
5. That it took a threat from Enahoro to Gowon “to leave his cabinet”, for Gowon to eventually address the issue and remove Murtala and commander of the 2nd infantry Division.

I must say that Enahoro’s sincerity in his testimony is commendable. Enahoro admitted that his quest to stop Murtala’s murderous campaign among the Midwestern Igbos was to save the British arms supply to Nigeria and not out of sympathy or concern for the lives of those Igbos for whatever they were worth (at least not on the record). I think that Gowon should emulate this Enahoro’s sincerity and not come 45 years later to claim that he didn’t know something he abundantly knew.

Nor is Enahoro’s testimony in isolation as facts contrary to Gowon’s claim of oblivion of events in the Midwest at the time. The New York Times, on its April 5, 1968 issue, carried the following story “in relation to Murtala’s genocidal campaign in the Midwest”
Monsignor Rochcau, one of the two papal delegates representing Pope Paul VI in Nigeria, reports in Le Monde, a Paris newspaper, today that “between Benin and Asaba only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men”.
It is common knowledge that Nigerian diplomats during the war read every major newspaper in search of “Biafran propaganda” to neutralize. I don’t know how Gowon could claim he did not know of a genocidal activity that was widely reported by the Red Cross and prominent foreign newspapers. Furthermore, it is a fact of history that the three Division Commanders that Gowon unleashed on Biafra were ruthless human beings with proven genocidal propensities: Col. Mohammed Shuwa- commander of the First Infantry Division, Col. Murtala Mohammed, commander of the 2nd Division and Col. Benjamin Adekunle, Commander of the third Marine Division. Murtala’s genocidal instincts and campaign have already been discussed above.

The military campaign of 1st Division commander, Col. Mohammed Shuwa (and Col. Theophilus Danjuma, his deputy Commander) was no less ruthless than that of Col Mohammed, even though it was less universally known. In military campaigns, it is usually assumed that more senior military officers are more restrained from unnecessary violence and that they also tend to act to restrain the lower ranks from unnecessary indiscipline and wantonness in their campaign. But regrettably, this was quite the opposite with Col. Mohammed Shuwa( YOU CAN SEE HOW HE ENDED) and his top officers that invaded Biafra from the north in July 1967. On the contrary, Col Shuwa actually mandated his troops to exercise the utmost violence on the Biafrans.
A New York Times war correspondent who visited Shuwa and Danjuma’s command headquarters in Makurdi in the last week of October 1967 found a directive dated September 16, 1967, issued as a general order (G.O.) hanging on the bulletin board. It has been issued by Col Shuwa to his troops:

“You are therefore required to push ahead ruthlessly to vanquish the rebels in your way. You will tell this to all your men because rebels have no honor and no respect for the dignity of mankind. You are bound to have heavier casualties than hitherto but you cannot win a war without heavy casualties” (See New York Times, Tuesday, October 24, 1967, p 20, Column 3)
Now, here comes Africa’s famous Black Scorpion, Col. Benjamin Adekunle, whose genocidal instincts against Biafrans were well documented by reporters that covered the war. Addressing war correspondents at his Divisional Headquarters in the compound of Saint Michael’s Anglican Church and School in Elelewa on May 17, 1968, Col Adekunle told them with visible delight that he has besieged thousands of Biafrans inside the city of Port Harcourt “with no escape route except to jump in the water”. (See New York Times, May 20, 1968, page 1, col 7). In another interview with reporters on July 14, 1968, he termed all relief plans for Biafra as “Misguided humanitarian rubbish”.[READ MORE]...

Source: http://abnews247.com/en/2017/05/29/opinion-yakubu-gowon-shameless-liar-fake-prayers-cfine-okorochukwu/

O. P. Somebody please summarize this for me

muchechekay:
Yakubu Gowon is an unrepentant liar and a coward, you waited for the lion of Biafra to die for you to come out like an slowpoke and said that he lied about Aburi, just go and hide your face in shame and stop that your deceitful prayers.

Once in my Facebook page I said we Igbo’s cannot forgive YAKUBU GOWON. This was after reading through the account of Nigeria – Biafra war. My Facebook​ friends asked me to forgive as a Christian. But recent distortion of fact is an insult to God and Igbo nation. I thought all his limitations during the war was because of age and limited education, but having claimed he went back to the university and still talk like person from dark ages makes my heart bleed.

Assuming without conceding that Achebe wrote out of ignorance (Gown account) same cannot be ascribed to Wole Soyinka the greatest man Nigeria has ever produced. Who also collaborated the Achebe’s account of the war? This is another deceit by Gown the self acclaimed prayer warrior, who is transforming to be the “NEW FACE OF LIES”.

Gowon, you satanically stated without shame that Igbo’s caused the war by stating “In fact, if there was no secession by the south eastern part of the country, there would have been no civil war because right from the beginning of the crises, the war would have been averted if not for the secession. It was something I believed we could have stopped” If not out of your ineptitude, lack of administrative skills, verbal and intellectual capacity, devoid of courage and confidence you would have stopped the pogrom that led to the issue of session.
By this statement “It was the Igbo that objected to the creation of corridor for movements of medical aid and food supplies to the civilian population at the period; on this, I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over the role played by me during the war and, fortunately, some Nigerians are still alive to bear witness to the roles played by both the leadership of the secessionist group and the then Federal Military Government under my leadership,” I will then ask you why not allow the people killing the Beroms daily in hundreds to process their food.

You concluded by saying that you have no regrets over your roles in the civil war. Specifically you have no regrets about the genocide with mass starvation, guns and ammunition followed by financial enslavement. Why then did you apologize in Asaba? this is your own words if you have forgotten “It came to me as a shock when I came to know about the unfortunate happenings that happened to the sons and daughters of this state especially of this (Asaba) domain. I felt very touched and honestly I referred to it (killings) and ask for forgiveness being the one who was in charge that time. Certainly, it is not something that I would have approved of in whatsoever. I was made ignorant of it, I think until it appeared in the papers. A young man wrote a book at that time… It just happened seven hours ago when I was visiting the state for our nation prayers, I took the opportunity of being with his Royal Majesty (Asagba of Asaba) to make this public apology on behalf of myself and government of Nigeria at that time and to ask for forgiveness as we have to look at the future. I feel very touched when we came this time to hear his majesty refer to it again”

In this apology you claimed you were not aware of the genocide and atrocities but today you claimed there was none at all hence you have no regrets. But the facts below will expose your satanic lies. One of the most contradictory facts to demonstrate the inaccuracy of Gowon’s assertion comes from Gowon’s own wartime Federal Information Commissioner and foremost Nigerian war propagandist during the civil war, Chief Anthony Enahoro. In the first few months of 1998, one Jumoke Ogunkeyede, head of the “United Committee to Save Nigeria” organized a kind of reconciliation meeting between Chief Anthony Enahoro and some Igbos in New Jersey, USA. In that meeting, and in answer to one of the questions posed to Chief Enahoro about his anti-Biafran role during the civil war, Chief Enahoro, who thankfully, said in part:

“Do you really know anything about what happened during that war? I was the one that stopped late Gen. Murtala Mohammed from further massacre of innocent children and mothers. At a point when Britain refused to sell further arms to Nigeria because they had ample evidence from the Red Cross of the federal forces killing innocent civilians, I confronted Gowon with the fact and that the only way I can get Britain through my contact with their High Commissioner to resume a supply of weapon to Nigeria was that Murtala had to leave that war sector. Either Murtala leaves or I will have to leave his cabinet. Gowon told me that he is willing to call a meeting and on the condition I will be the one to confront Murtala( as a coward you can not face MURTALA).

If there was anybody that Gowon feared so much it was Murtala Mohammed. At the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, I confronted Mohammed with elaborate evidence complete with photographs. He was livid. He could not refute them so he resorted to calling me all sorts of names prompting me to observe before the council that if he was a fine officer as he claims to be, he should not be acting the way he was acting. Needless to say that I was instrumental to his withdrawal from that sector and subsequent appointment as a minister”.

(See “The Nigerian and Africa” magazine, March 1998, page 10)
From this uncoerced and uninduced testimony of Chief Enahoro, one can make the following observations:
1. That Murtala’s genocidal campaign against the Midwestern Igbos was well known and documented by the Red Cross
2. That the genocide imperiled Nigerian’s ability to secure arms supply from Britain.
3. That in attempt to maintain British arms supply to Nigeria, Chief Enahoro confronted Gowon with this reality widely documented by the Red Cross.
4. That Gowon was reluctant to confront Murtala with the allegation and indeed would not confront Murtala with it unless Enahoro would do it by himself, which he did, and
5. That it took a threat from Enahoro to Gowon “to leave his cabinet”, for Gowon to eventually address the issue and remove Murtala and commander of the 2nd infantry Division.

I must say that Enahoro’s sincerity in his testimony is commendable. Enahoro admitted that his quest to stop Murtala’s murderous campaign among the Midwestern Igbos was to save the British arms supply to Nigeria and not out of sympathy or concern for the lives of those Igbos for whatever they were worth (at least not on the record). I think that Gowon should emulate this Enahoro’s sincerity and not come 45 years later to claim that he didn’t know something he abundantly knew.

Nor is Enahoro’s testimony in isolation as facts contrary to Gowon’s claim of oblivion of events in the Midwest at the time. The New York Times, on its April 5, 1968 issue, carried the following story “in relation to Murtala’s genocidal campaign in the Midwest”
Monsignor Rochcau, one of the two papal delegates representing Pope Paul VI in Nigeria, reports in Le Monde, a Paris newspaper, today that “between Benin and Asaba only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men”.
It is common knowledge that Nigerian diplomats during the war read every major newspaper in search of “Biafran propaganda” to neutralize. I don’t know how Gowon could claim he did not know of a genocidal activity that was widely reported by the Red Cross and prominent foreign newspapers. Furthermore, it is a fact of history that the three Division Commanders that Gowon unleashed on Biafra were ruthless human beings with proven genocidal propensities: Col. Mohammed Shuwa- commander of the First Infantry Division, Col. Murtala Mohammed, commander of the 2nd Division and Col. Benjamin Adekunle, Commander of the third Marine Division. Murtala’s genocidal instincts and campaign have already been discussed above.

The military campaign of 1st Division commander, Col. Mohammed Shuwa (and Col. Theophilus Danjuma, his deputy Commander) was no less ruthless than that of Col Mohammed, even though it was less universally known. In military campaigns, it is usually assumed that more senior military officers are more restrained from unnecessary violence and that they also tend to act to restrain the lower ranks from unnecessary indiscipline and wantonness in their campaign. But regrettably, this was quite the opposite with Col. Mohammed Shuwa( YOU CAN SEE HOW HE ENDED) and his top officers that invaded Biafra from the north in July 1967. On the contrary, Col Shuwa actually mandated his troops to exercise the utmost violence on the Biafrans.
A New York Times war correspondent who visited Shuwa and Danjuma’s command headquarters in Makurdi in the last week of October 1967 found a directive dated September 16, 1967, issued as a general order (G.O.) hanging on the bulletin board. It has been issued by Col Shuwa to his troops:

“You are therefore required to push ahead ruthlessly to vanquish the rebels in your way. You will tell this to all your men because rebels have no honor and no respect for the dignity of mankind. You are bound to have heavier casualties than hitherto but you cannot win a war without heavy casualties” (See New York Times, Tuesday, October 24, 1967, p 20, Column 3)
Now, here comes Africa’s famous Black Scorpion, Col. Benjamin Adekunle, whose genocidal instincts against Biafrans were well documented by reporters that covered the war. Addressing war correspondents at his Divisional Headquarters in the compound of Saint Michael’s Anglican Church and School in Elelewa on May 17, 1968, Col Adekunle told them with visible delight that he has besieged thousands of Biafrans inside the city of Port Harcourt “with no escape route except to jump in the water”. (See New York Times, May 20, 1968, page 1, col 7). In another interview with reporters on July 14, 1968, he termed all relief plans for Biafra as “Misguided humanitarian rubbish”.[READ MORE]...

Source: http://abnews247.com/en/2017/05/29/opinion-yakubu-gowon-shameless-liar-fake-prayers-cfine-okorochukwu/

you should post this on the politics sec

bookmarked for reference