divicoded:


Amen, so shall it be for you

Good to see you are claiming your destiny and fate will have a date with you soon. This afonja happens to be the dumbest afonja i have encountered on NL he can't even be creative enough to make a sentence on his own. Product of a failed free educational system.

Afonja die.

Larmont:


RICHEST IN NIGERIA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_billionaires_by_net_worth

BEST UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA
http://www.4icu.org/ng/
http://www.webometrics.info/en/Africa/Nigeria

Povert rate in Nigeria by UN
http://www.naijahelm.com.ng/2017/03/see-poverty-rate-of-all-36-states-in.html?m=1

Richest kings in Africa
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa%27s_Richest_Kings

RICHEST PASTORS IN THE WORLD
http://gazettereview.com/2016/02/richest-pastors-in-world/

IGR FOR STATES 2016
https://www.google.com/amp/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/state-viability-index-lagos-generates-igr-31-states-combined/amp/

LITERACY RATE IN NIGERIA BY UNESCO
https://www.google.com/m?client=ms-opera-mobile&channel=new&espv=1&q=Nigeria+literacy+rate+for+Zones+UNESCO+&oq=Nigeria+literacy+rate+for+Zones+UNESCO+&aqs=mobile-gws-lite.. DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE
These are stats from recognised body... More to come

Afonja you must be mad to think i will accept those Wikipedia links as verifiable sources, you could have as well provided the primary school exam sheets that your mother uses to sell akara for your source.

Olodo afonja with no sense.

afonjadie:
Afonja you must be mad to think i will accept those Wikipedia links as verifiable sources, you could have as well provided the primary school exam sheets that your mother uses to sell akara for your source.

Olodo afonja with no sense.

Are you saying wikipedia is Fake?? And moreover i dont try to disrespect anyones parent or family....Never try to do that next time...gonna let that slide.... Idiot open the Wikipedia link its connected to forbes list! Or Are you so dumb you can't even google.. Richest pastors, kings, Nigerians from forbes list and confirm.... moreover there are other links i posted... What about schools, Unesco on education,Povertu rate?? etc.... Stop trying to fight the reality.... Check Forbes list and confirm... ARINDIN
Here it is again
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2017/03/20/the-african-billionaires-2017/amp/

afonjadie:
nonsense I know you had to memorize an Afonja Lagos Ibadan express way media to type all this rubbish, bring your stats before I make a mockery of you and your clan tribe with statistical evidence, Olodo oponu Afonja. ;

Mumu man, you too use Enugu anambra express way media to debunk him. Don't behave like illiterate. Oppose him constructively.

ipodstinks:
Mumu man, you too use Enugu anambra express way media to debunk him. Don't behave like illiterate. Oppose him constructively.

Shut up afonja, Igbos don't thrive on lies deceit and propaganda like afonjas do, so why should i join him in his show of shame, for you to even support and encourage it shows how shameless afonjas are.

Anyways it is illiterates that throw unverifiable sources as evidence afonjas are illiterates their competition can only be found in the NE or NW shameless lots.

Afonja die

Larmont:

Are you saying wikipedia is Fake?? And moreover i dont try to disrespect anyones parent or family....Never try to do that next time...gonna let that slide.... Idiot open the Wikipedia link its connected to forbes list! Or Are you so dumb you can't even google.. Richest pastors, kings, Nigerians from forbes list and confirm.... moreover there are other links i posted... What about schools, Unesco on education,Povertu rate?? etc.... Stop trying to fight the reality.... Check Forbes list and confirm... ARINDIN
Here it is again
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2017/03/20/the-african-billionaires-2017/amp/

Offcourse Wikipedia links are not reliable as any one can edit them if you know it was linked to forbes why didn't you copy the forbes list and paste it here, your father must have been a goat to raise a dimwitted coneskull like yourself.

What does richest Pastors or richest kings have to do with anything olodo, we are talking indigenous industry and development you are talking of people who make wealth from the collective contribution of others through tithe, offering or Royalty. This show afonjas have nothing on Igbos who have built empires.

Check the transportation industry, Banking sector, real estate, oil and gas, shipping, clearing and forwarding, commerce and industry, hospitality, indigenous industry, etc and you are shamelessly talking about pastors and kings who rob the masses of their collective wealth to enrich themselves. Afonja i am talking empire builders, not just throwing shit around.

Afonja try again.

REMINDER of what happened when......

A Yoruba friend asked me: Under what conditions would you support "One Nigeria" and let go of the Biafra agitation and let it die down and finally laid to rest for good?
Here was my response:
1. Close down Lagos ports and Open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri ports.
2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports only local connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights direct and major connecting flights.
3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos, Kano and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar.
4. All federal governments’ agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC, e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
5. All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to PH, Calabar and Enugu.
6.All oil companies must relocate their head offices to PH, as the oil capital of Nigeria.
7. Let the northern children gain admission into federal schools with 300 score points while the South Eastern Children should gain admission with only 20 score points .
8. Let all federal road projects in the North/SW should be handled by one local companies and the one in the SE/SS should be handled by Julius Berger and foreign construction companies.
If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented for 50years , we can try one Nigeria and let see if you the North and SW will like it for a month...
Meaning, Yorubas and Hausas needing to get international visas shall travel to PH, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights, same with shipping and importing their goods, etc., etc.
The Yoruba friend replied: You can’t be serious, this is wickedness and I said...
Really? Don’t you think South Eastern part of Nigeria have been suffering and enduring this very same wickedness for over 50

afonjadie:
Good to see you are claiming your destiny and fate will have a date with you soon. This afonja happens to be the dumbest afonja i have encountered on NL he can't even be creative enough to make a sentence on his own. Product of a failed free educational system.

Afonja die.

You mean your father is this stvpod

afonjadie:
Good to see you are claiming your destiny and fate will have a date with you soon. This afonja happens to be the dumbest afonja i have encountered on NL he can't even be creative enough to make a sentence on his own. Product of a failed free educational system.

Afonja die.

I can see you are fighting with everybody nairaland, you will soon die* the way your father was w@sted by scorpion Adekunle during the war

afonjadie:
Shut up afonja, Igbos don't thrive on lies deceit and propaganda like afonjas do, so why should i join him in his show of shame, for you to even support and encourage it shows how shameless afonjas are.

Anyways it is illiterates that throw unverifiable sources as evidence afonjas are illiterates their competition can only be found in the NE or NW shameless lots.

Afonja die

Like the one you lie during Biafra war. Tell me, why did you hide what you did to minorities tribe from south south and Midwest. The way you maimed, rapped their women. Forced your Igbo name on their street, force an oppressed govt on them and killed anyone that opposed it. Have not seen any of you to debunk the revelation. Is that not lie. Argue constructively, nobody will kill you. Shout or writing with tears will not make help you. You hide the truth from history, but shout about your ppl in order for you to gain sympathy. More reason the world calls you ppl victim crier. I have the full story. Given to me by the son of the Niger delta. Which you ppl are claiming. Use your intellect to debunk it. Don't make me believe you are illiterate. Abuse from now till thy kingdom comes, all I will respect is to use your intellect to debunk everything he said and I said. Don't be like a someone that says, I know this subject but I can't teach it.. It is a big lie.

divicoded:

You mean your father is this stvpod

This is indeed the weakest afonja on NL he does not even dish a blow he simply receives them with open arms while saying amen in appreciation.

This weakling must be wishing death befalls him right now but it is going to come slowly and painfully to him like it did his father.

divicoded:


I can see you are fighting with everybody nairaland, you will soon die* the way your father was w@sted by scorpion Adekunle during the war

Please don't argue with him. i've told him to try and use that his intellect he's claiming to debunk everything they said here. it is simple.

afonjadie:
This is indeed the weakest afonja on NL he does not even dish a blow he simply receives them with open arms while saying amen in appreciation.

This weakling must be wishing death befalls him right now but it is going to come slowly and painfully to him like it did his father.

It is pathetic this thing is dying slowly just like his stvpid father

divicoded:


I can see you are fighting with everybody nairaland, you will soon die* the way your father was w@sted by scorpion Adekunle during the war

Your scorpion could not sting, he did not enter eastern heartland and did i mention he died a pauper and a leper while Awo patronize Aba boy for the famous Ratak and took his own life. When Ojukwu the only hero and war lord ever bore in Nigeria was given a state ceremonial burial the only the federation have witnessed Awo was rapped in a mat and cast into a pit.

ipodstinks:
Like the one you lie during Biafra war. Tell me, why did you hide what you did to minorities tribe from south south and Midwest. The way you maimed, rapped their women. Forced your Igbo name on their street, force an oppressed govt on them and killed anyone that opposed it. Have not seen any of you to debunk the revelation. Is that not lie. Argue constructively, nobody will kill you. Shout or writing with tears will not make help you. You hide the truth from history, but shout about your ppl in order for you to gain sympathy. More reason the world calls you ppl victim crier. I have the full story. Given to me by the son of the Niger delta. Which you ppl are claiming. Use your intellect to debunk it. Don't make me believe you are illiterate. Abuse from now till thy kingdom comes, all I will respect is to use your intellect to debunk everything he said and I said. Don't be like a someone that says, I know this subject but I can't teach it.. It is a big lie.

All this long story no sauce afonja are you new to nairaland you should have brought sauce to make this food sweet abi are you now forcing us to eat your ewedu like that, oh you want me to believe what your imaginary friend told you, very good. With the level of lies afonjas tell on NL it is hard to believe even your names anymore talkless of this kind sweet food without sauce, not even one foreign or afonja media have publish this lie so this lie big pass afonja sef, afonjas liars from the pit of hell, lying lairs.

Afonja try again.

ipodstinks:
Please don't argue with him. i've told him to try and use that his intellect he's claiming to debunk everything they said here. it is simple.

Ok thanks, I never knew I was talking to an idi0t, I will ignore him now

divicoded:


It is pathetic this thing is dying slowly just like his stvpid father

Shut up dull brain you are a very dumb afonja.

Olodo afonja.

afonjadie:
Your scorpion could not sting, he did not enter eastern heartland and did i mention he died a pauper and a leper while Awo patronize Aba boy for the famous Ratak and took his own life. When Ojukwu the only hero and war lord ever bore in Nigeria was given a state ceremonial burial the only the federation have witnessed Awo was rapped in a mat and cast into a pit.

After he killed 3 million flapods! If he wants to kill he would have wiped away your generations? Laughing in Swahili

afonjadie:
Shut up dull brain you are a very dumb afonja.

Olodo afonja.

You mean your stvpid father is dumb

afonjadie:
All this long story no sauce afonja are you new to nairaland you should have brought sauce to make this food sweet abi are you now forcing us to eat your ewedu like that, oh you want me to believe what your imaginary friend told you, very good. With the level of lies afonjas tell on NL it is hard to believe even your names anymore talkless of this kind sweet food without sauce, not even one foreign or afonja media have publish this lie so this lie big pass afonja sef, afonjas liars from the pit of hell, lying lairs.

Afonja try again.

Run to your uncles to yell you stories since your father was wasted at the war

afonjadie:
Offcourse Wikipedia links are not reliable as any one can edit them if you know it was linked to forbes why didn't you copy the forbes list and paste it here, your father must have been a goat to raise a dimwitted coneskull like yourself.

What does richest Pastors or richest kings have to do with anything olodo, we are talking indigenous industry and development you are talking of people who make wealth from the collective contribution of others through tithe, offering or Royalty. This show afonjas have nothing on Igbos who have built empires.

Check the transportation industry, Banking sector, real estate, oil and gas, shipping, clearing and forwarding, commerce and industry, hospitality, indigenous industry, etc and you are shamelessly talking about pastors and kings who rob the masses of their collective wealth to enrich themselves. Afonja i am talking empire builders, not just throwing shit around.

Afonja try again.

I was properly trained by my parents never to disrespect people's parents no matter what... Respect is part of our culture...we don't wake our parents with flying kicks from their bed.. Why would i disrespect your mum and dad? They could have been ny parents.. So nah your childish and cheap tantrums can't make me lose an iota of respect for your parents not even in a jiffy..
What about poverty rates and education stats i posted from UNESCO?? YOU COULDN'T TALK ABOUT THAT COS YOU GOT NOTHING TO DEBUNK OR PROVE
Which banking sector do you control Most Banks in Nigeria is owned by yorubas.... Same goes for oil and gas,real estate....Dont just talk back them up with facts..

afonjadie:
All this long story no sauce afonja are you new to nairaland you should have brought sauce to make this food sweet abi are you now forcing us to eat your ewedu like that, oh you want me to believe what your imaginary friend told you, very good. With the level of lies afonjas tell on NL it is hard to believe even your names anymore talkless of this kind sweet food without sauce, not even one foreign or afonja media have publish this lie so this lie big pass afonja sef, afonjas liars from the pit of hell, lying lairs.

Afonja try again.

Nsala poo eater. Now calm down and read
your hidden atrocities that you kept away from the world in order for you to get sympathy and do normal victim cry.
UNKNOWN VICTIM MINORIITIES 1967-1970.
By kelvin Amurun.
The Nigerian civil war from 6 July 1967 to 1 January 1970 was fought to counter the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. Biafra was a nationalistic aspiration of the Eastern Igbo people at that time and it was borne from the fact that they could no longer coexist with the Northern dominated federal government.
The Nigerian Civil war otherwise known as the Biafra war attracted international attention due to the brutal events of that period. How the conflict was interpreted by foreigners and Nigerians cannot be over emphasised.
The conflict took a toll of human lives. The Igbo tragedy was largely perpetrated in Northern Nigeria, however there was a forgotten tragedy that most international and national observers over looked. The forgotten Biafra ethnic minorities- Efik, Ogoja, Ibibio etc and the Mid West (Urhobo, Edo, Itsekiris, Isoko, Asaba) experience during the Biafra invasion and the Federal Government occupation.
Each time I get into debate with my Igbo brothers and the issue of marginalisation, distrust and ethnic cleansing is shown to my face in a one dimensional sense, I have often reacted with the question….Is warfare one-sided? And who is marginalising who in Nigeria?
The slaughter, rape and torture of the people of the mid west have not been fully blown out in the open until now. Many present day Mid Westerners of my generation have no clue on what actually transpired in a Biafra occupied Mid Western region and what transpired among the Biafra minorities in the East.
This write up is not to point a blaming finger at anyone but is meant to catalyse the objectivity of the individuals from the various regions of Nigeria to sense aright the issue of marginalisation and also to show the reader that the sins of warfare and conflicts is not one-sided. This write up will have to kill the delusion and one sided bias of that question…..WHO IS MARGINALISING WHO and what really happened to the Southern minorities during the war.
In Omakas book titled The Forgotten Victims: Ethnic Minorities in Nigeria Biafra War, 1967-1970, he said: The gory experiences suffered by the Biafra minorities have largely been neglected in the historiography of the Biafra war.
This write up will also assert that the atrocities perpetuated by Biafra soldiers on Biafra minorities during those early and late months of the war has largely been hidden from the public debate hence they should be accorded due recognition of victim hood.
Following the massacre of the Igbo people living up North, the Federal Government responded to the Igbo secession with “police action” that was partially military. I will not go into the reason for these atrocities. That is not the purpose of this write up.
However it must be pointed out that blame for atrocities must not be one sided. The Igbo people had a right to defend themselves and the UN recognition against genocide gives a people the right to secede. This is not debatable.
Wikipedia states that the Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of war. This convention is binding to all warring parties.
The dominating argument of the Nigeria Biafra War is that the Igbo were targeted for extermination by the Muslim North. International media played a significant role in exposing humanitarian tragedies especially in Igbo speaking parts of Biafra. However not much was reported on the atrocities perpetuated against minorities in Biafra both by the Nigerian military forces and Biafra militias.
A Newsweek magazine once report that some of the worst massacres of the war occurred when the federal troops captured minority regions whereupon minority tribesmen turned on the Ibos in blood fury. The quote presents Igbo as victims in the hands of minorities without referencing the experience the minorities suffered in the Igbo dominated region before the arrival of the federal troops. There was another report stating that Ibos were killed by the local people in their thousands in the Mid West on arrival of federal troops. No one seems to ask the question…..why was this the case?
It is not denying the fact that Igbo were massacred during the civil war, however there is an error in the representation of the victims of the massacre.
The number one question is: Attributing the 1966 massacre in the North as only Igbos is an error of judgement. In the G C M Onyiuke led tribunal, it was clearly shown that ethnic minority groups in Eastern and Mid Western Nigeria were victims. It was easy to mistake an ethnic minority for Igbo apart from mere physical appearance there was no other distinct feature to differentiate Igbo from non Igbo. You cannot tell unlike the Yoruba or Hausa facial marks. Ethnic minorities were also killed.
While the Igbos retreated back to the East to form a defence line and secede, no one seems to ask the question if the Biafra ethnic minorities (present day Cross River, Akwa Ibom etc) were actually consulted on the need to secede and if they agreed.
The argument that the war was only Hausa Fulani and Igbo is purely too simplistic.
In the early days of Nigeria, the domination of the three major ethnic groups of Yoruba, Hausa Fulani and Igbo in the political atmosphere of Nigeria was obvious. The leaders of the ethnic minority ethnic groups had found themselves in a disadvantaged position in the entire federal political equation. As a result of this, minority leaders in different regions began to form movements that started the agitation for the creation of more states were their interest will be largely protected. Some of this movement included the Calaber Ogoja River (COR) state, Mid West State movement and Middle Belt State movement. This movement agitated for minority rights in the larger state.
The leaders of the state creation movement believed that the formation of their states will eliminate the domination of the major ethnic groups.
In Chinua Achebes book titled There was a Country, he had this to say on the Niger Delta Region page 47: …”The minorities of the Niger Delta, Mid West and the Middle Belt were always uncomfortable with the notion that they had to fit into the tripod of the largest ethnic groups that was Nigeria…….many of them Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv, Itsekiri, Isang, Urhobo, Anang and Efik were from ancient nation states in their own right. Their leaders however, often had to subsume their own ethnic ambitions within alliances with one of the big three groups in order to attain greater political results.
And so during the civil war this minority groups were faced with a great dilemma.
THE CONFLICT AND WAR CRIMES.
Revelations about the war atrocities on the minorities have emerged recently. New surviving records, physical evidences and oral histories of the war suggest that minorities in Biafra and mid west became individual and collective victims of the war.
The Biafra minorities did not have a say in the succession. A prolific journalist named Suzanne Cronje on the Biafra war stated that the feelings of the minorities were difficult to define. Loyalties were in fact divided. The cry out for a separate state by the minorities was not a clamour to secede.
When the war broke out, Biafra had stationed some of its troops in the Cross River region including Ikun in Biase Local Government. Though the Ikun initially supported Biafra and had friendly relations with the soldiers, as time went on tensions emerged. Some Ikun men were suspected of collaborating with Nigerian soldiers with no hard evidence. As a result murder, arrests, looting and rapes was meted on that community. William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra reported an eye witness account of how Ibibio men were surrounded and beaten to death in Umuahia on April 2 1968. They were reportedly forced to march across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.
On another episode, Biafra soldiers took Ikun men to Ohafia for a meeting but never came back with them. An informant alleged that soldiers returned to the community and rounded up some men within their reach and shot them. A survivor who lost her four day old son and grandmother seemed to have suspected foul play from the Ohafia people with whom they share a common boundary.
This victimization continued until the Biafra headquarters issued a statement to stop the genocide. However by this time, the remaining people had escaped leaving behind only soldiers and Ohafia, also some Ikun with a mixed blood of half Ohafia.
B J Ikpeme a Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern region revealed atrocities perpetuated by Biafra soldiers against the minorities in towns of present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.
Ikpemes argument was that Ojukwu`s declaration of Biafra was done against the wishes of the majority of Calaber, Ogoja and Rivers provinces who for many years had agitated for a separate state and not a secession from Nigeria. They were never consulted and Ikpeme also argued that the Igbo leadership had concluded plans of either to force the five million non Igbo speaking Biafra minorities to accept Biafra or eliminate them out rightly. It was on this basis that soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to keep down the people, detain or kill anyone who raises an opposing voice against Biafra.
In Asang town alone about 400 people were carried away to unknown destinations and never came back. Attan Onoyon town suffered the same fate. Enyong was burnt down and many people killed by Biafra soldiers. Biafra soldiers shot many villagers in Ekpenyong, present day Akwa Ibom. On October 18 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up by Biafra soldiers and shot (source: New York Times as an informational advertisement by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria New York).
There was a special operations group within the Biafra forces called Biafra Organisation of Freedom Fighter (BOFF). It was set up in Bende. The objective of the special operations was to suppress the enemy within.
On the disappearance of a Major Archibong, investigations revealed that members of the special operations decapitated their victims for ritual purposes. Head hunting in warfare was a cultural practice in some parts of Biafra known as old Bende.
The minorities in Rivers area seemed worse off. Apart from torture and other forms of human rights abuses, they were also evicted from their homes and Igbo names were allocated to streets. Some Kalabari young men were evicted and sent to Umuahia, Owerri, Abiriba and Ozuitem most likely to avoid infiltration of the enemies. Chief Samuel Mbakwe a Biafra Provincial Administrator of the Okigwe Province had noted the influx of refugees from Port Harcourt.
An Irish priest who served in Rivers State reported that the Igbo soldiers were suspicious of some Rivers people who sometimes led federal troops through their lines along hidden creeks. This attitude, according to the priest, created a mixture of panic, fear, and hatred among the Biafra troops towards some indigenous people of Rivers State. People who were maltreated were said to have been involved in this act of “sabotage” against Biafra.
It is asserted that no fewer than six thousand Rivers people were sent to different refugee camps in Igboland.
Now, shout Lagos Ibadan express media as usual without any brain or claim to debunk this. None of your comrade ever debunked this cos they cannot. Now I want you to debunk it. Sit down, read it. If you say something unintelligent after this, then I will have no choice than to leave you to have discussion with intellectuals. God has exposed you people. Read this and I will give you the continuation, The Midwest invasion.

divicoded:


After he killed 3 million flapods! If he wants to kill he would have wiped away your generations? Laughing in Swahili

Shut up olodo, i have told you that you are just too dumb but i will help recalibrate your brain to default settings.

Now to educate you on the civil war Nigeria lost more troops to the war than Biafrans did despite all the military wares and sophisticated arms used on the Nigerian side.

As for 3 million that you speak of that is civilian casualties that died as a result of starvation due to food blockage by the FG this population consists mainly of women and children, nothing to celebrate there for real soldiers.

Afonja soldiers killied no one rather Biafran soldiers decimated and killed more afonjas soldiers than afonjas did Biafran soldiers are you telling me Adekunle killed 3 million civilian population afonja i know you don't have sense but atleast pretend.

Igbos acheive some of the greatest feat ever achieve in warfare in that war both in technology, innovation, strategy and beyond, these feat are recorded and have video footages to show what did Nigeria achieve if not for a systematic genocide on civil population.

So afonja grow sense and stop embarrassing Nigeria.

ipodstinks:
Nsala poo eater. Now calm down and read
your hidden atrocities that you kept away from the world in order for you to get sympathy and do normal victim cry.
UNKNOWN VICTIM MINORIITIES 1967-1970.
By kelvin Amurun.
The Nigerian civil war from 6 July 1967 to 1 January 1970 was fought to counter the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. Biafra was a nationalistic aspiration of the Eastern Igbo people at that time and it was borne from the fact that they could no longer coexist with the Northern dominated federal government.
The Nigerian Civil war otherwise known as the Biafra war attracted international attention due to the brutal events of that period. How the conflict was interpreted by foreigners and Nigerians cannot be over emphasised.
The conflict took a toll of human lives. The Igbo tragedy was largely perpetrated in Northern Nigeria, however there was a forgotten tragedy that most international and national observers over looked. The forgotten Biafra ethnic minorities- Efik, Ogoja, Ibibio etc and the Mid West (Urhobo, Edo, Itsekiris, Isoko, Asaba) experience during the Biafra invasion and the Federal Government occupation.
Each time I get into debate with my Igbo brothers and the issue of marginalisation, distrust and ethnic cleansing is shown to my face in a one dimensional sense, I have often reacted with the question….Is warfare one-sided? And who is marginalising who in Nigeria?
The slaughter, rape and torture of the people of the mid west have not been fully blown out in the open until now. Many present day Mid Westerners of my generation have no clue on what actually transpired in a Biafra occupied Mid Western region and what transpired among the Biafra minorities in the East.
This write up is not to point a blaming finger at anyone but is meant to catalyse the objectivity of the individuals from the various regions of Nigeria to sense aright the issue of marginalisation and also to show the reader that the sins of warfare and conflicts is not one-sided. This write up will have to kill the delusion and one sided bias of that question…..WHO IS MARGINALISING WHO and what really happened to the Southern minorities during the war.
In Omakas book titled The Forgotten Victims: Ethnic Minorities in Nigeria Biafra War, 1967-1970, he said: The gory experiences suffered by the Biafra minorities have largely been neglected in the historiography of the Biafra war.
This write up will also assert that the atrocities perpetuated by Biafra soldiers on Biafra minorities during those early and late months of the war has largely been hidden from the public debate hence they should be accorded due recognition of victim hood.
Following the massacre of the Igbo people living up North, the Federal Government responded to the Igbo secession with “police action” that was partially military. I will not go into the reason for these atrocities. That is not the purpose of this write up.
However it must be pointed out that blame for atrocities must not be one sided. The Igbo people had a right to defend themselves and the UN recognition against genocide gives a people the right to secede. This is not debatable.
Wikipedia states that the Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of war. This convention is binding to all warring parties.
The dominating argument of the Nigeria Biafra War is that the Igbo were targeted for extermination by the Muslim North. International media played a significant role in exposing humanitarian tragedies especially in Igbo speaking parts of Biafra. However not much was reported on the atrocities perpetuated against minorities in Biafra both by the Nigerian military forces and Biafra militias.
A Newsweek magazine once report that some of the worst massacres of the war occurred when the federal troops captured minority regions whereupon minority tribesmen turned on the Ibos in blood fury. The quote presents Igbo as victims in the hands of minorities without referencing the experience the minorities suffered in the Igbo dominated region before the arrival of the federal troops. There was another report stating that Ibos were killed by the local people in their thousands in the Mid West on arrival of federal troops. No one seems to ask the question…..why was this the case?
It is not denying the fact that Igbo were massacred during the civil war, however there is an error in the representation of the victims of the massacre.
The number one question is: Attributing the 1966 massacre in the North as only Igbos is an error of judgement. In the G C M Onyiuke led tribunal, it was clearly shown that ethnic minority groups in Eastern and Mid Western Nigeria were victims. It was easy to mistake an ethnic minority for Igbo apart from mere physical appearance there was no other distinct feature to differentiate Igbo from non Igbo. You cannot tell unlike the Yoruba or Hausa facial marks. Ethnic minorities were also killed.
While the Igbos retreated back to the East to form a defence line and secede, no one seems to ask the question if the Biafra ethnic minorities (present day Cross River, Akwa Ibom etc) were actually consulted on the need to secede and if they agreed.
The argument that the war was only Hausa Fulani and Igbo is purely too simplistic.
In the early days of Nigeria, the domination of the three major ethnic groups of Yoruba, Hausa Fulani and Igbo in the political atmosphere of Nigeria was obvious. The leaders of the ethnic minority ethnic groups had found themselves in a disadvantaged position in the entire federal political equation. As a result of this, minority leaders in different regions began to form movements that started the agitation for the creation of more states were their interest will be largely protected. Some of this movement included the Calaber Ogoja River (COR) state, Mid West State movement and Middle Belt State movement. This movement agitated for minority rights in the larger state.
The leaders of the state creation movement believed that the formation of their states will eliminate the domination of the major ethnic groups.
In Chinua Achebes book titled There was a Country, he had this to say on the Niger Delta Region page 47: …”The minorities of the Niger Delta, Mid West and the Middle Belt were always uncomfortable with the notion that they had to fit into the tripod of the largest ethnic groups that was Nigeria…….many of them Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Tiv, Itsekiri, Isang, Urhobo, Anang and Efik were from ancient nation states in their own right. Their leaders however, often had to subsume their own ethnic ambitions within alliances with one of the big three groups in order to attain greater political results.
And so during the civil war this minority groups were faced with a great dilemma.
THE CONFLICT AND WAR CRIMES.
Revelations about the war atrocities on the minorities have emerged recently. New surviving records, physical evidences and oral histories of the war suggest that minorities in Biafra and mid west became individual and collective victims of the war.
The Biafra minorities did not have a say in the succession. A prolific journalist named Suzanne Cronje on the Biafra war stated that the feelings of the minorities were difficult to define. Loyalties were in fact divided. The cry out for a separate state by the minorities was not a clamour to secede.
When the war broke out, Biafra had stationed some of its troops in the Cross River region including Ikun in Biase Local Government. Though the Ikun initially supported Biafra and had friendly relations with the soldiers, as time went on tensions emerged. Some Ikun men were suspected of collaborating with Nigerian soldiers with no hard evidence. As a result murder, arrests, looting and rapes was meted on that community. William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra reported an eye witness account of how Ibibio men were surrounded and beaten to death in Umuahia on April 2 1968. They were reportedly forced to march across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.
On another episode, Biafra soldiers took Ikun men to Ohafia for a meeting but never came back with them. An informant alleged that soldiers returned to the community and rounded up some men within their reach and shot them. A survivor who lost her four day old son and grandmother seemed to have suspected foul play from the Ohafia people with whom they share a common boundary.
This victimization continued until the Biafra headquarters issued a statement to stop the genocide. However by this time, the remaining people had escaped leaving behind only soldiers and Ohafia, also some Ikun with a mixed blood of half Ohafia.
B J Ikpeme a Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern region revealed atrocities perpetuated by Biafra soldiers against the minorities in towns of present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.
Ikpemes argument was that Ojukwu`s declaration of Biafra was done against the wishes of the majority of Calaber, Ogoja and Rivers provinces who for many years had agitated for a separate state and not a secession from Nigeria. They were never consulted and Ikpeme also argued that the Igbo leadership had concluded plans of either to force the five million non Igbo speaking Biafra minorities to accept Biafra or eliminate them out rightly. It was on this basis that soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to keep down the people, detain or kill anyone who raises an opposing voice against Biafra.
In Asang town alone about 400 people were carried away to unknown destinations and never came back. Attan Onoyon town suffered the same fate. Enyong was burnt down and many people killed by Biafra soldiers. Biafra soldiers shot many villagers in Ekpenyong, present day Akwa Ibom. On October 18 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up by Biafra soldiers and shot (source: New York Times as an informational advertisement by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria New York).
There was a special operations group within the Biafra forces called Biafra Organisation of Freedom Fighter (BOFF). It was set up in Bende. The objective of the special operations was to suppress the enemy within.
On the disappearance of a Major Archibong, investigations revealed that members of the special operations decapitated their victims for ritual purposes. Head hunting in warfare was a cultural practice in some parts of Biafra known as old Bende.
The minorities in Rivers area seemed worse off. Apart from torture and other forms of human rights abuses, they were also evicted from their homes and Igbo names were allocated to streets. Some Kalabari young men were evicted and sent to Umuahia, Owerri, Abiriba and Ozuitem most likely to avoid infiltration of the enemies. Chief Samuel Mbakwe a Biafra Provincial Administrator of the Okigwe Province had noted the influx of refugees from Port Harcourt.
An Irish priest who served in Rivers State reported that the Igbo soldiers were suspicious of some Rivers people who sometimes led federal troops through their lines along hidden creeks. This attitude, according to the priest, created a mixture of panic, fear, and hatred among the Biafra troops towards some indigenous people of Rivers State. People who were maltreated were said to have been involved in this act of “sabotage” against Biafra.
It is asserted that no fewer than six thousand Rivers people were sent to different refugee camps in Igboland.
Now, shout Lagos Ibadan express media as usual without any brain or claim to debunk this. None of your comrade ever debunked this cos they cannot. Now I want you to debunk it. Sit down, read it. If you say something unintelligent after this, then I will have no choice than to leave you to have discussion with intellectuals. God has exposed you people. Read this and I will give you the continuation, The Midwest invasion.

All this long story still no source. grow sense olodo.

Larmont:

I was properly trained by my parents never to disrespect people's parents no matter what... Respect is part of our culture...we don't wake our parents with flying kicks from their bed.. Why would i disrespect your mum and dad? They could have been ny parents.. So nah your childish and cheap tantrums can't make me lose an iota of respect for your parents not even in a jiffy..
What about poverty rates and education stats i posted from UNESCO?? YOU COULDN'T TALK ABOUT THAT COS YOU GOT NOTHING TO DEBUNK OR PROVE
Which banking sector do you control Most Banks in Nigeria is owned by yorubas.... Same goes for oil and gas,real estate....Dont just talk back them up with facts..

I respect your maturity for that i apologize for insulting your parents.

as for the Unesco and co the moment i saw Wikipedia i didn't bother with the rest cause i feel they will also be afonja sources, you know you just cant trust an afonja source.

Igbos lead in Commercial banking Sector All leading commercial banks in the nation are Igbo owned

UBA
Zenith
Diamond
Fidelity

Telcom
MTN
Swift
Smile

for oil and gas and real estate, transportation and indigenous industry don't even go there...

afonjadie:
All this long story still no source. grow sense olodo.

I give up on your brain. This shit below has really done the damage. It is not surprising, didn't expect someone that eat something like this below that is difficult to differentiate from human poo to be intellectually sound.

divicoded:


Run to your uncles to yell you stories since your father was wasted at the war

Dumbest afonja on nairaland, Abule slum dweller, incestious bastard. I hear your mother will soon bear you a son.

divicoded:


You mean your stvpid father is dumb

boy you dumb, Olodo rabata oju eja lo ma je

ipodstinks:
I give up on your brain. This shit below has really done the damage. It is not surprising, didn't expect someone that eat something like this below that is difficult to differentiate from human poo to be intellectually sound.

So you cant still provide your source, useless afonja that thrives on propaganda lies and deceit.

Abule slum dweller water front developer. skull mining ritualist.

afonjadie:
So you cant still provide your source, useless afonja that thrives on propaganda lies and deceit.

Abule slum dweller water front developer. skull mining ritualist.

Is that all your brain can contain?, names calling. But is they call you names back, you will start crying how you were massacred, marginalized, but hide the truth which you can't debunk, your normal victim cry. Shame on your kind of education. Spit.

afonjadie:
I respect your maturity for that i apologize for insulting your parents.

as for the Unesco and co the moment i saw Wikipedia i didn't bother with the rest cause i feel they will also be afonja sources, you know you just cant trust an afonja source.

Igbos lead in Commercial banking Sector All leading commercial banks in the nation are Igbo owned

UBA
Zenith
Diamond
Fidelity

Telcom
MTN
Swift
Smile

for oil and gas and real estate, transportation and indigenous industry don't even go there...

Kid, are you sure you are alright?
Gt bank,
First bank
Sterling bank
Union bank
Wema bank etc are all owned by yourubas .
Coming to telecom, we all know who own glo and airtel Nigeria. So which MTN are you talking?, the one on earth or the one in Pluto?, The world knows it is a south African own network. You can claim shoprite too. Talking of oil n gas, Forte oil is owned by Yoruba man, Obat oil by Yoruba man. Name it.
Even this nairaland you can't do without is owned by a Yoruba man.

ipodstinks:
Kid, are you sure you are alright?
Gt bank,
First bank
Sterling bank
Union bank
Wema bank etc are all owned by yourubas .
Coming to telecom, we all know who own glo and airtel Nigeria. So which MTN are you talking?, the one on earth or the one in Pluto?, The world knows it is a south African own network. You can claim shoprite too. Talking of oil n gas, Forte oil is owned by Yoruba man, Obat oil by Yoruba man. Name it.
Even this nairaland you can't do without is owned by a Yoruba man.

Yeah... Conoil is owned by Adenuga
Oando-CEO is yoruba wale tinubu...Agip oil-Chaioerson used to be yoruba don't know if it chained.... Zenon petoleum and gas-Femi otedola