BIAFRANS AND THE CIVIL WAR BLACKMAIL OF AWOLOWO.

(Obafemi Awolowo in own words responding to Ibo blackmail during an interview in 1983)

"When I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honour, and so Eebudola is one of my nicknames.
So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos.

During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to the Iboland- South Eastern states they call it, at that time..East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….was liberated I handed over the money to them- millions. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the executive council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the Executive Council at that time the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the Executive Council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – 990,000 almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course- South eastern state, North central state, Kwara and so on.

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as commissioner for finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the ministry of economic planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

TWENTY POUNDS POLICY
That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they have printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there, or the money there. Unfortunately, all the banks’s books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their saving books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up.

I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central bank and the pertinent officials of the ministry of finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then make some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approve, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war.
And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there.

During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to the Iboland- South Eastern states they call it, at that time..East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….was liberated I handed over the money to them- millions

This is unprecedented by any standard. Kudos to the late sage for his magnanimity.

The marraf*ucker ingrates had better be thankful Awo was the finance minister, if not e ba je palaba iya.

gberra:
The marraf*ucker ingrates had better be thankful Awo was the finance minister, if not e ba je palaba iya & AJEKUN IYA

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A save face-post for ancestor afonja, saving money for the Igbo's indeed.
you took their millions and gave them 20 pounds.
I don't want to dissipate my energy here because ratak has done the needful and am certain his skull and prick has been excavated by his skull mining hydraulic brethren

This fuvk is trash
This is just like carrying a child's 1000naira then when he starts crying for food you would now give him 300 to buy food


If not that you are late I would have loved to insult you but we fuvking betrayed us for all I care..........we never ask you for you 20 pounds......all we wanted was our Biafra and for all I know you took it from us.



For goodness sake you were a prisoner and we released you and then you proved to us why we should never trust an afonja

You are here talking about 20 pound and us suffering ......what about they millions of our brothers that died because of you betrayal...... And you are still trying to justify what you did.

Or as if a sorry would have not been enough but you are here foolishly trying to justify you wrong and later an afonja would come and shout 1 Nigeria and be wondering why they Igbo's haven't fashied Biafra
Sha may you soul rest in peace amen

patval:
A save face-post for ancestor afonja, saving money for the Igbo's indeed.
you took their millions and gave them 20 pounds.
I don't want to dissipate my energy here because ratak has done the needful and am certain his skull and prick has been excavated by his skull mining hydraulic brethren

That's why your live is like this. Anyways no shit! Look that corner any available transformer, huge and go to hell. Barsitad ingrates.

vpaymoney:

That's why your live is like this. Anyways no shit! Look that corner any available transformer, huge and go to hell. Barsitad ingrates.

Lolll!!!! see this basket face talking about someone's life when your destiny has been balkanised with razor blade right from your days as a toddler.
Awolowo in all his treachery bow to the almighty potency of ratak.
if you don't know, sniper is now available at subsidised rate for frustrated skull miners from South West who wishes to follow the path of their awocestor.
azu amu dika gi

Afonjas son and great grand sons be like...thunder and sango. They always agree

How I wish I was Awolowo these ingrates do not deserve to live talkless of returning money to them or givinh them the 20 pound. Defected war criminals like Biafrans should have been made to pay reparation and also bear the cost of financing the war. Awo is a joke I swear.