| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Leez(m): 5:04pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
kumulus:
All this one this man is saying no be am at all..... Reading indeed would take you to places and knowledge is Power. Recently I stumbled on a particular exposè on the American civil war and democracy... It revealed the truth about the global elite and how they create conflicts and strife to enable them stay in power. Trust me when I tell you our politicians are mere learners in the game of scamming, if you doubt read up articles on the likes of Rockefellers, JP Morgan, Rothschilds dynasty...and the lust continues. The agitation for Biafra is a plot by the world elite for resource control, if granted the Igbos would suffer for it big time in the stretch...
The Church is a big player in this...you will agree with me that the Igbos have the highest amount of Catholics....therein lies the infiltration...the funding the Biafra agitators boast of is from the Church...and they haven't lied about having that much support.
*** I recall I once read in a newspaper from the 70's a article where a popular Igbo traditionalist/spiritualist who was before that time himself a practicing Catholic ( a Priest) stated clearly and firmly in an interview that if any of his numerous sons chose not to follow his path, they can only be Catholics...and I wondered why he said that.
I know all I have said might seem confusing but find time and read the book in the link below...see for yourself how this elite feed off our troubles, chaos and disaster.
Biafra is just another of their game plan, they destabilize Nigeria and they're guaranteed a strong foothold in defiant Africa.
https://decryptedmatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/The-Secret-Terrorists-by-Bill-Hughes.pdf
United we stand...Nigeria MUST remain!!!
like someone said the so called unity u are claiming was forced on u by d british so as to make administering the country easier after the northerb counter coup all northerners wanted to secede and told gen ogundipe who in turn told ojukwu who said if so let em go it was d british who told em to stay cuz if nigeria failed it would have been horrible seeing as their former colonies were failing too as for the church funding biafra i hope u are joking or have u ever seen mbaka or any prominent church leader hailing biafra? orkar's coup showed us that ppl are tired of northerners always trying to impose their ideas on them 3 Likes |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by ipodstinks: 5:05pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
irepnaija4eva:
During the first declaration of Biafra, it was a public knowledge that when Gowon sent Awolowo to persuade Ojukwu not to embark on secession, they met on the River Niger bridge and discussed. Later on, the media said that according to unofficial report, Awolowo assured Ojukwu that if they seceded, the West would also secede. When he came out, he declared publicly that if by any act of commission or omission the East was allowed to go, the West would follow. This is the public announcement he made and the record is there, which means the West would also secede from the rest of Nigeria. The Igbo believed in him and Ojukwu told all the Igbo to go back to their respective areas. At that time, the Igbo were holding various positions in government, but they all left. When they came back after the civil war, they found that the Yoruba had occupied their positions, and till today, they have not regained such positions, and they will never regain them.
SMH....THIS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED.
NB...NEVER TRUST THE YORUBAS. He said according to unconfirmed report, yet you believe something unconfirmed. You sound like a dunce. No offense. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by ipodstinks: 5:07pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
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| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by edupedia: 5:13pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:
"but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo"
No be me talk am ooo ....industries or shops?....the IPOB should contribute money for reeducation of this old mumu.... |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by irepnaija4eva(m): 5:13pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
ipodstinks:
He said according to unconfirmed report, yet you believe something unconfirmed. You sound like a dunce. No offense. Seems your allergic to your brains. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by ipodstinks: 5:23pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
YelloweWest:
Your people feeling sorry for niger delta??
During the civil war Kalabari ijaw towns were vacated by Biafrans soilders to abiriba. Thousands of my people were killed in a war which had nothing to do with them. They simply said they don't want to join the Biafran or Nigerian Army
How do u expect us to join biafra? You are right. Just look at the hidden atrocities they perpetrated against ppl of south south and south east during the war which they hide from ppl. read it. THE UNKNOWN VICTIMA MINORITIES 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. I have the second part called Midwest invasion. 1 Like |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by aribisala0(m): 5:23pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Why is he saying this now.? He is afraid? The north is afraid.
What do es he hope to achieve? More southern disunity and self doubt in the minds of Biafrans .
If you don't know what you stand for you will fall for anything.
One thing going he said is true.
The North believe a break up will damage.them. thus they see it as an existential threat and so there reaction is predictable. Those seeking to break away need a Plan not noisemakers 2 Likes |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Ojiofor: 5:26pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
7lives:
Make we hear word jare, when you have it all smooth with Balewa, Shagari, Babangida, Abacha, Obj which you guys installed, Yaradua and Goodluck, your leadership did not cornered any benefit to una side?.
Na so una dey do, this is the more reason why I support Biafra.
You people cannot be pleased, you will never be satisfied until everything that belongs to others has been handed over to you. Nigeria have not given SE anything in terms of infrastructure. Forget political appointment.There is a reason our people are found in every corner of Nigeria. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by DerideGull(m): 5:28pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Oyiboman69:
The goals they want to achieve with new Biafra – Tanko Yaksai
dailytrust.com.ng
Jun 4, 2017 2:04 AM
Alhaji Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a former Special Political Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari, spoke on why the agitation of Biafra continued to attract attention, why it is impossible for the Igbo to secede and why they will be better off in Nigeria than Biafra, among other things.

Why is the agitation for Biafra gathering momentum in recent times?
Well, the agitation for Biafra started soon after the demise of Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi. So the name is not new. The only difference is that the old Biafra actually was intended to occupy the whole of southern region.
It was a scheme for getting the entire southern Nigeria to break away. The intention was to block the North from access to the sea. If that happened, the North would be starved of many things coming from the port, including fuel and imported items we rely upon. So that was the old Biafra. Because of that, when they were preparing to declare Biafra, southern minorities from the present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom led a delegation to the North to plead with General Hassan Usman Katsina, the then military governor of Northern Nigeria, to plead with the central government not to allow Biafran secession to succeed because, according to them, if it was allowed to succeed, they would remain forever as second class citizens in what would be known as Biafra.
The young men are not agitating for the five Igbo-speaking states to constitute Biafra, rather, they are thinking of the old Eastern Region, with the four minority states, together with five majority Igbo-speaking states. You don’t dismiss idea by a wave of hand. But the practical aspect of it is very difficult because all along there has not been love lost between the Igbo and their minority.
In fact, when Nigeria was to be granted independence and constitutional conference was held in 1957, the minorities in the East complained of oppression and marginalisation by the Igbo. They wanted their interest to be safeguarded in an independent Nigeria. It was agreed that a special arrangement would be made to protect their interest, and it was made with the creation of the Niger Delta Development Authority which was put under the care of Shehu Shagari, who was then the parliamentary secretary to the prime minister. It was decided that the development of the Niger Delta shall not come from the Eastern Region, even though they were located under the old regional government.
I don’t think it is possible for the minority to go into any political association with the Igbo.
This agitation started right from the time of Obasanjo, with Uwazurike as its leader. Now, I think Uwazurike has realised that it is an impossible task to realise their dream; that is why he is more or less quiet. This young man, Nnamdi Kanu, was just a broadcaster. I don’t know whether he was under Uwazurike or on his own, but he was not a leader on his own. He was a broadcaster. I believe he got some of their people in the United States, collected their money and set up a radio station, which I think is being broadcast from America and beamed somewhere in West Africa. The boy became popular after his arrest. I think what they are trying to do is to develop the agitation into a political movement and try to gather support from the Igbo and any of their sympathizers.
This agitation for new Biafra came at a time when the Niger Delta people are agitating for resource control, and at the same time, the South-West, who are more interested in brewing trouble in the country, joined forces with them to change the whole issue into restructuring. So there is now a connection between the agitation for restructuring, the realisation of Biafra and resource control. They started during the 1994/95 constitutional conference, where they were holding regular meetings. At that time, every week, the minority from the East would meet with Igbo, and after that, they would meet with the Yoruba. All these three ideas emanated from former Vice President Alex Ekwueme.
This is the situation now. The issue to be addressed is whether the present Biafra would include the former Eastern Region, whereby the four minority Igbo-speaking states would join forces with five Igbo-speaking states and form new Biafra? That has not been spelt out. The only thing I heard was that Rivers would not be part of the Biafra; I think Akwa-Ibom too. But it is not clear yet whether the four minority Igbo-speaking states have openly declared that they are not going be part of Biafra. This is the immediate challenge the agitators for new Biafra will face. But grant it that Biafra will materialise; everybody is aware that the major ethnic groups in Nigeria are Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.
The minorities are everywhere and our minorities are not distinct; we are interwoven. Even the North-Central, which is the official area regarded as the Middle Belt, is made up of six states. Four of the six are Muslim majority; they are Nasarawa, Niger, Kogi and Kwara states and the minority elements left in Plateau State, for instance, are themselves fighting one another. In addition, they don’t speak with one another except in either Hausa or English. None of them can speak with the other in their own native language, and all of them were at loggerheads with the Tiv. Initially, when our committee was asked to recommend creation of states, we intended to create Middle Belt state but when the idea was put forward, the people of Niger said they were out of it; the people of Ilorin said they were out of it and the people of Kogi also said they were out of it. So the old Plateau had to be merged with Benue and made one province while other provinces were regrouped.
So, the reality is that the three major ethnic groups, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, need Nigeria. Every one of them needs Nigeria. Let’s start with the Yoruba. Most of the industries are located in the South-West, mainly in Lagos, some in Ogun and some in Ibadan. According to a letter written by the late General Adeyinka Adebayo, the industries in Oyo are owned by Lebanese and Indians, but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo. So the industries that are manufacturing goods in the South-West and some in the Eastern Region have the whole of Nigeria as their market, a market of about 200 million people. If there is no Nigeria, there would not be that market and what would be the consequences of lack of market?
First, the goods cannot be sold, there will be no production and there will be unemployment, and the people that are employed in industries located in the South-West are largely Yoruba. The day there is no Nigeria, there will be massive unemployment in the South-West. This is apart from the food and livestock they are getting from the North. If there is no Nigeria, they will not get them, and if they are going to import, it will take time and will be costly. By nature, they cannot grow livestock and some food items in their area. The geographical situation in South-West is different from that of the North; the animals they are growing do not enough meat and milk, unlike the ones in the North.
For the Igbo, at present there is no village where there is a flourishing market where you cannot have the Igbo conducting their own businesses. And they are living in peace; nobody is harassing them. They live within thousands of other ethnic groups and nobody is attacking them. It is a well known fact that the business of building materials is surrendered to Igbo people, as well as electrical appliances, fittings and spare parts. Commuter transportation; those luxury buses that are plying our roads from one state to another are owned by the Igbo. The day there is no Nigeria, the Igbo will have no alternative than to relocate to their states. And with the hate speeches being circulated on the social media and other platforms, it is impossible to have a peaceful dissolution of Nigeria.
That is the take on the Igbo and the Yoruba people. We the Huasa Fulani too need Nigeria. I have sat alone, without reading any book and said to myself: “What do we need from Nigeria?” And I have come up with five things we really need Nigeria for. One, we have no way of having immediate access to the sea than from Nigeria. If there is no Nigeria, we have to go to Libya, and there are no enough roads to achieve that.
Two, we need the current oil revenue. In Nigeria, only six states can survive with the oil revenue they are getting. There are four oil bearing states that cannot survive with the quantity of oil located in their areas. These states are Abia, Imo, Ondo and Edo, they have oil, but it is not as much as they could rely on for survival. But Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom and one other state can survive with the oil located in their respective areas. So, during the first Biafran agitation Ojukwu entered agreement with France whereby he gave concession for the entire oil and gas resources in the Biafran region. If Biafra succeeded, there was no way the Niger Delta people could claim ownership of oil and gas located in their areas.
Three, the North also needs education. Today, in most of our universities the lecturers are mostly from the South - even the students. We need education and we cannot get it without teachers, so we need Nigeria to get teachers from southern part of the country to come and teach us.
Four, we need the technical know-how the South has. So we need them for that.
Five, we also need the South for investment. The only northerners that have huge investments are three - Aliko Dangote, T. Y Danjuma and Alhaji Abdulsamad Isyaka Rabi’u. But if you go to the South you will get thousands of them with huge capital.
So, the three major ethnic groups need Nigeria because everybody is benefiting from Nigeria. For the Igbo, if there is no Nigeria, there will be no market for them to do their businesses. At least if you take the North, you are talking of 55 per cent of the population of Nigeria, which is about 100 million out of the 180 million of Nigerian population. The Yoruba also need market because their industries cannot sell the goods to themselves. By nature, the Yoruba man likes the Hausa man more than the Igbo man and the Igbo man likes the Hausa man more than the Yoruba man, yet the Yoruba are now trying to convince the Igbo to forget aganist the Hausa.
The Igbo, unfortunately, are lacking in diplomacy. This is the weakness of the Igbo and that is what the Yoruba are capitalising on to manipulate their way of thinking. During the first declaration of Biafra, it was a public knowledge that when Gowon sent Awolowo to persuade Ojukwu not to embark on secession, they met on the River Niger bridge and discussed. Later on, the media said that according to unofficial report, Awolowo assured Ojukwu that if they seceded, the West would also secede. When he came out, he declared publicly that if by any act of commission or omission the East was allowed to go, the West would follow. This is the public announcement he made and the record is there, which means the West would also secede from the rest of Nigeria. The Igbo believed in him and Ojukwu told all the Igbo to go back to their respective areas. At that time, the Igbo were holding various positions in government, but they all left. When they came back after the civil war, they found that the Yoruba had occupied their positions, and till today, they have not regained such positions, and they will never regain them.
https://dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/the-goals-they-want-to-achieve-with-new-biafra-tanko-yaksai/200428.html This is ranting of ant. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by augustine: 5:35pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:
So the niger deltans have been working against the igbos even before independence? Chai!
I told my people not to associate with these folks yet they keep felling sorry for them. Believe everything that old man said at your own peril. First let him name the 'southern minority delegates' who went to meet gov Hassan Katsina, to save them from south east domination. In truth it was his clique (Northern cabal) led by sultan Ahmadu Bello and advised by Britain that went about poisoning the minds of Eastern region's minorities against Igbos, Their propaganda was actually the reason southern Cameroon which was part of Eastern region opted to join Cameroon republic. The cabal advised them to join Cameroon for their best interest; That the Igbos would marginalize them. The real intention however was to reduce the land mass and population of the Eastern region, so as to whittle down it's political influence against the North. They have been using divide and rule tactics against the south ever since. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by wristbangle: 5:44pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:
"but 70 per cent of the industries located in Lagos State are owned by Igbo"
No be me talk am ooo Yes even the same man said Igbos owns about 90% of the industries in China and Japan. No be me talk am ooo Back to the man's statement, it's filled with conflicting messages |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by GoldEnyong(m): 5:44pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:
So the niger deltans have been working against the igbos even before independence? Chai!
I told my people not to associate with these folks yet they keep felling sorry for them. Nobody not even you yourself the igbo trust the igbos. Sorry for yourself. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by GoldEnyong(m): 5:50pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
huptin:
The Igbo's say Yoruba's don't want them to get Biafra, now the Hausa's are saying that Yoruba's are the ones pushing Igbo's towards Biafra, now I am very confused, I don't just know what to believe. Believe me what the man is saying has 90% element of truth. All we need is true federalism, what you may call regional government as recommended by the national conference. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by tutudesz: 5:53pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
GoldEnyong:
Nobody not even you yourself the igbo trust the igbos. Sorry for yourself. That y all Igbo billionaires investments and businesses are all located outside the east! |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by tutudesz: 5:57pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Ojiofor:
Nigeria have not given SE anything in terms of infrastructure.
Forget political appointment.There is a reason our people are found in every corner of Nigeria. So what about the south south that is feeding the country, have they be given any thing? Igbo's always crying like they are the only one in Nigeria! Why must it be all about the Igbo's? 1 Like |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Ojiofor: 6:04pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
tutudesz:
So what about the south south that is feeding the country, have they be given any thing? Igbo's always crying like they are the only one in Nigeria! Why must it be all about the Igbo's? South South have been agitating on their own since God knows when,even if the rest of the country enjoys darkness and backwardness as a way of life the Igbo have a right to reject it and we are sounding it loud and clear that we want out of a country that doesn't want any good thing to come to Igboland. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by fuckpro: 6:20pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Mbediogu:
Igbo presidency in 2023? Lol. We give that to you in advance. But seriously speaking, which do you prefer for your ailment, oyibo or native medicine? ... am not Igbo,so go ask them |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Cityguy: 6:28pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:
The hate on the yorubas by the north is scary...yet the yorubas are quick to align with them. why?
According to this report the igbos are being deceived by the south west. Lol.
Eyaaa.... Fear is indeed torment. All I see in this his epistle is an attempt to discredit an apparent romance and emerging alliance between West and East. This divide and rule has worked for a very long time. That South generally appear to be seeing through this and asking for resource control and restructuring which they see as anti-north is sending cold shivers down spine of some people. This oldie is very funny. To him, markets only exist if we stay together right? All these cars we drive around were manufactured in Nigeria bah? Yeye dey smell. I support Biafra if that is what will rid this country of overbearing attitudes of some people. No one would be agitating if recommendations for dialogue for peaceful, mutually respectful coexistence hasn't been veheehhemently resisted by people like him. For me, it's either we determine terms of our coexistence or everyman should go his own way. Period. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by felicitywe(m): 6:49pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
ipodstinks:
You are right. Just look at the hidden atrocities they perpetrated against ppl of south south and south east during the war which they hide from ppl. read it.
THE UNKNOWN VICTIMA MINORITIES 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.
I have the second part called Midwest invasion. Men your work is full of subjectivities and conjectures. The problem you v is that you v made up your mind on what you want to achieve before coming up with those your so called facts & that s d problem with Nigerian historians.by the time one politician speaks your entire work will be useless.The independent accounts u gave on the atrocities or relationship between the Igbo and minorities during the war were different from urs.urs is frot with all kinds of inhumanity etc. u want to justify dat d Igbo massacre d minorities just like d federal troop did to d igbos. Well d igbos v lived past d civil war stories from taking ur oil to turning d minorities as slaves and I'm sure you v seen it.What igbos care now is a Biafra nation and not a nation with d minorities. For some of ur ppl who wants Biafra they will speak their mind during a referendum. Igbos do not want a contraption of many ethnic groups in their country.We want you to issue us visa as foreigners than sabotaging our nationhood. . 1 Like |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by felicitywe(m): 6:57pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
d scrap d old man is spewing is staled though there r some facts in it.They r seriously threatening the igbo ppl that they will forfeit their properties&will be killed.The Yoruba ppl r also saying d same thing.however d ipob&massob care less about all those noise.The Yoruba ppl r waiting to cash on the failure of the Biafra agitation to further their relationships with d huasas. Biafra agitation has gone beyond their imagination hence the acts of sowing hatred by d enemies. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by OBAGADAFFI: 7:02pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Super1Star:
As usual some Igbo kids are dancing because of some stupid statements of a lunatic Northern jingoists, that is merely playing on their emotions.
The question the reporter should have asked him is Why is he against restructuring?
the sole reason they are preventing the disintegration of the country is because they do not have access to the sea. Funny. Does Ethiopia and Switzerland have access to the sea?
They need the South for technical know-how!!!! How daft can this man be. Southerners are going to school and they are busy building mosques, marrying girls at tender age and promoting poverty in their region and he is not even ashamed to state it they need the south for skillful manpower, after 50years of independence and several years of leading the country
See the way he tactically avoided dissecting the North but rather used words to dissect South into different regions.
Why is it that the Fulanis are the only ones ruling the North politically and monarchically, whereas they use Hausas and other tribes in the North for population advantage?
Please why did he avoid calling their killing vampire machine herdsmen trouble makers which have been sowing sorrow tears N blood wherever they step?
Yes, he called the Yorubas trouble makers because he realise we are the only one that has what can be used to locked them down. We demystified their NortherOligarchy and dismantled it for them with pen and paper, we locked down the country with pen and paper we sent the military packing with pen and paper. They have our fear in their hearts and we do not care.
But certain SW Politicians have opposed restructuring |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Amberon11: 7:02pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Really, Ojukwu did that? OmniSparrow:
But you need rivers abi? Greedy thieves. Imagine Ojukwu already cutting a deal with France over oil that belongs to Niger delta. Just carry abia, ebonyi, enugu, imo, anambra. Fight for independence. If war comes out, you can also fight the remaining states. No one will follow you that's for sure. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by tutudesz: 7:17pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Ojiofor:
South South have been agitating on their own since God knows when,even if the rest of the country enjoys darkness and backwardness as a way of life the Igbo have a right to reject it and we are sounding it loud and clear that we want out of a country that doesn't want any good thing to come to Igboland. Why not ask your senators and house of reps to boycott sitting for some months to show your seriousness! |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Ojiofor: 7:22pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
tutudesz:
Why not ask your senators and house of reps to boycott sitting for some months to show your seriousness! Don't worry gradually things are taking shape,the game is on...Rome was not built in a day.That day will surely come. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Mbediogu(m): 7:27pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
fuckpro:
... am not Igbo,so go ask them Ok. But I doubt if there will be any tribe by that name in Nigeria by 2023. Now nobody is asking for presidency any longer. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by britishknight: 7:31pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
Biafra holds the key to better things in this nation called Nigeria.
Just reading what the old man said gave some clues to what the Igbos may offer the whole of South-South and they will walk with them - CONFEDERATION.
Yes, CONFEDERATION backed with absolute control of resources.
Of course the core Igbos do not need to own oil wells to control it better. Simple advanced Joint-Ventures will do. However, the days of oil are numbered.
The second and master stroke is that once the South-South is offered a Confederate state so as to join Biafra, the Nigerian government will be forced to decentralize and restructure. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by felicitywe(m): 7:31pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
OBAGADAFFI:
But certain SW Politicians have opposed restructuring SW v never had a solid agitation for themselves.All they do is to create something like an agenda lobby other southern groups to join once d north feels d heat they will turn and side with d north while d others will look like enemies. We v learnt our lessons with them.A case is d clamour for restructuring.It was a slogan when Yardua&GEJ were there but the moment they get into the juice part,u can see Osinbajo,Tinubu&others telling u Nigeria is OK&needs no restructuring. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Abagworo(m): 7:53pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
This guy is too frank and blunt. |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by phreakabit(m): 7:59pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
skywalker001:
And did u succeed in d war
That's why I said south need themselves cos the more we're divided the more the north will continue to rule us with their "divide and rule" tactics...
Why do u tink this man is just saying somtin like dis ? Cos he tink the south are beginning to be united by fighting for dsame tin in common and the only way they can't see us succeed in it is by dividing us and this has already gotten into som pple who can't tink...
In his interview did u see anywhere he said anytin bad bout the north We were doing just fine Until the treacherous swine that is Awolowo used starvation as a weapon in war. I ask again did any of Awo's people condemn his act? Yet you ask for unity? 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by skywalker001(m): 8:21pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
phreakabit:
We were doing just fine
Until the treacherous swine that is Awolowo used starvation as a weapon in war.
I ask again did any of Awo's people condemn his act?
Yet you ask for unity? Then keep thinking bout the past and 4get bout the present and future...
Like I said North wil keep ruling us over our rights as long as south is divided...
They've started with their "divide and rule" tactics again cos they tink south is beginning to unite and some people like you will continue to dance to their tune...
North knw that as soon as south begin to unite it wil b a big problem for north and dy are ready to do anytin to divide us...
Why do u tink he only state where the sw nd ss betrayed se nd he makes us think north is a saint
Continue believing all this northern demons @ ur own peril |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Gome23: 8:41pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
This pple should close there month.......no truth can come out of them |
| Re: "The Goals They Want To Achieve With New Biafra" - Tanko Yaksai by Dindondin(m): 8:53pm On Jun 04, 2017 |
raker300:
The hate on the yorubas by the north is scary...yet the yorubas are quick to align with them. why?
According to this report the igbos are being deceived by the south west. Lol.
They said we are looking for trouble. OK. |
