TimeManager:

Ojukwu barely equipped them. There was no prior adequate planning, stockpiles of weapons and proper welfarism. Many died due to Ojukwu's inadequacies, Millions died as a result of his incompetence. However, foreign assistance, equipments & other aids services helped prevent Biafrans from heavier casualties.

Kiss the truth!

TimeManager:

This lad has refused to grow up. You're everywhere behaving like a kid. Grow up man.


Truth is talking!

owukpa:
Former military governor of Katsina and Plateau States, General Lawrence Onoja has revealed his civil war memoirs.

Onoja, 70, who fought gallantly during the civil war, which lasted between 1967 and 1970, recalled his encounter with the Biafran soldiers.

The retired war hero, said his surviving the war was a miracle of God, noting that many of his friends could not make it.

Speaking with DAILY POST, Onoja, a native of Benue State, recalled how they would send cigarettes and beer across the water to some Biafran soldiers during the war.

He said, “Surviving the war was a miracle of God. A lot of Idoma officers, who were with me in Port Harcourt were killed. I remember when they brought the dead bodies of George Lawani (younger brother to former deputy governor of Benue State) Col Shambe, a Tiv man, Francis Oluma, a native of Adoka here in Benue. I was very young.

“One day, I just received a call from the late Benjamin Adekule (Black Scorpion) in front of his office. I could remember vividly that what was written on the steel helmet in front of his office was ‘enter my office at the pain of death.’

“Adkunle posted me to meet my kinsman, Ignatius Obeya who was the then Brigadier Commander at Itu, CrossRiver State.

“At that time, you couldn’t connect Port Harcourt from Calabar because there was no road, you had to go through Aba, which was already held by Biafra.

“So, we had to connect through Igwenga to Abak, then we connected Oron before finally crossing to Calabar.

“I reported to Brig Obeya, Rtd and I was part of the operation from crossing Calabar to Itu through a river called Ikoto Okpora. I was made a brigade major to Obeya to ensure that the three battalions in the brigade were effectually controlled and commanded to fight the war.

“We were facing a place called Arochukwu across the water at the time. The Biafra soldiers were on the other side while the Nigerian troops were on this side. It was very funny, because every morning, we would wake up and talked to ourselves across the water. The Biafra soldiers would tell us, Gowon and Ojukwu are enjoying themselves in Aburi and we are busy fighting ourselves here, please give us some food, we would then throw cigarettes and sometimes beer to them across the water. “But after at about an hour, we would start shooting at ourselves. I went through all this and came out alive, I think at 70, I would say I am a fulfilled man.”


http://dailypost.ng/2018/08/08/biafran-soldiers-civil-war-gen-onoja

T9ksy:


Biafrans soldiers suffered, no doubt however their sufferings was brought on by Ojukwu who sent them out to fight for his ulterior ambition without proper planning and logistics.

Imagine, begging your enemies (whom you want to kill) for food!

gidgiddy:


What truth is there to kiss when people like you keep spewing the Lagos/Ibadan media version of the war?


Ojukwu did not have the luxury of proper planning or logistics. Gowon had announced the abolishment of the 4 Regions including the Eastern Region and Ojukwu was left with 2 choices, declare Biafra now or or become a slave of the caliphate

Ojukwu declared Biafra and Nigeria declared war. So it's not like Ojukwu had all the time in the world to prepare for war. But he gave a good account of himself for 3 years and that's what matters to his people than even the outcome of the war

BlackPantherxXx:


He uses IsaAbubakar and plenty other monikers. Barking money and night about Buhari.

"kiss the truth" and "trash' trash" are his mantras

TimeManager:

Unfortunately Nairaland came too early for him.
Hope he comes out well.

kiss the truth!

TimeManager:

Gowon collapsed the regions into States. He gave in the demands of the minority tribes by granting them autonomous states. Ojukwu would have done same or worse if he was the Head of states.

kiss the truth!

mpianya39:
The Biafra soldiers would tell us, Gowon and Ojukwu are enjoying themselves in Aburi and we are busy fighting ourselves here, please give us some food, we would then throw cigarettes and sometimes beer to them across the water. “But after at about an hour, we would start shooting at ourselves.

Nonsense why not tell us how you guys killed 3 million biafrans kids that got nothing to do with that war??

TimeManager:

Gowon collapsed the regions into States. He gave in the demands of the minority tribes by granting them autonomous states. Ojukwu would have done same or worse if he was the Head of states.

kiss the truth!

Bane2020:

[s]Here comes the blue ink scribbling Mo.ron with his "trying too hard to sound smart" nuance. There is something called "fraternizing", a common practice during war time between enemy sides, and was of course no exception in the Nigerian Civil War... at a stage in the war, fatigue and stalemate at the front line saw soldiers from both sides exchange gifts, food, war paraphernalias etc...

And you are in no position to understand the anonymity of sacrifice... the desire for freedom and its cost of untold burdens whether ill conceived or not... But who I'm I kidding? your people have never fought for a cause besides useless politicking and ass kissing your Northern superiors... so your idiotic cliche about Ojukwu sending Biafrans to fight (the same Biafrans that mandated him to secede in the first place much against his will), is dead on arrival already, come up with a less predictable narrative[/s].

TimeManager:

This lad has refused to grow up. You're everywhere behaving like a kid. Grow up man.


Truth is talking!

gidgiddy:


What truth is there to kiss when people like you keep spewing the Lagos/Ibadan media version of the war?


Ojukwu did not have the luxury of proper planning or logistics. Gowon had announced the abolishment of the 4 Regions including the Eastern Region and Ojukwu was left with 2 choices, declare Biafra now or or become a slave of the caliphate

Ojukwu declared Biafra and Nigeria declared war. So it's not like Ojukwu had all the time in the world to prepare for war. But he gave a good account of himself for 3 years and that's what matters to his people than even the outcome of the war

Born2Breed:
Everyone keeps referring to the number of casualty on the Biafra side but none about the casualty on Nigerians side.

When the Biafra's attacked the former Bendel on their was to Lagos alot of Edo/Delta citizens were murdered until the Benin Resistance Movement had to resort to self help by using the guerrilla tactics to weaken the Biafra soldiers before the arrival of the Nigerian army.

These one sided story has to stop,three million Nigerians died from both the former Biafra and Nigerias side.

TimeManager:

You've been damaged into believing your own lies and concoctions. Deluded twa:t.. smh

kiss the truth!

Bane2020:

The dude is a dunce. What this clowns fail to understand is that Biafra never got as much military support from the foreign powers as their make believe narratives keep telling them. Even Ojukwu himself wasn't prepared for the war, he only used hyperbolic nuances at the early stage of the budding crisis by making his famous statement that no black power in Africa could defeat Biafra if war came to her... just to offset the growing confidence in the Nigerian military circle of a quick and surgical Victory over the East. Ojukwu merely used reverse psychology, and it proved effective in delaying the declaration of war by Gowon on the East (the war on Biafran borders was supposed to come earlier than July 6,1967)...but the Federal side overestimated Ojukwu's bluff. Biafra from the onset got no full military support like the Nigerians did, and the support when it did come only came in spurts and bits from the rather overcautious French government... and it came rather belatedly at that when we were pretty much fighting on wobbly legs. The fact that Biafra endured the war for that long is very commendable, albeit for a symmetrical war with a vast Nigerian Army ceaselessly attacking a very small Biafran territory,.only an idiot will not give the Igbos credit for holding out that long.

Strikethem:
That is ipob way for you, we call it VICTIM cry. I read Midwest invasion by biafran forces, how they killed, and raped women. But they will come here to cry victim. We know the truth.

Bane2020:

The dude is a dunce. What this clowns fail to understand is that Biafra never got as much military support from the foreign powers as their make believe narratives keep telling them. Even Ojukwu himself wasn't prepared for the war, he only used hyperbolic nuances at the early stage of the budding crisis by making his famous statement that no black power in Africa could defeat Biafra if war came to her... just to offset the growing confidence in the Nigerian military circle of a quick and surgical Victory over the East. Ojukwu merely used reverse psychology, and it proved effective in delaying the declaration of war by Gowon on the East (the war on Biafran borders was supposed to come earlier than July 6,1967)...but the Federal side overestimated Ojukwu's bluff. Biafra from the onset got no full military support like the Nigerians did, and the support when it did come only came in spurts and bits from the rather overcautious French government... and it came rather belatedly at that when we were pretty much fighting on wobbly legs. The fact that Biafra endured the war for that long is very commendable, albeit for a symmetrical war with a vast Nigerian Army ceaselessly attacking a very small Biafran territory,.only an idiot will not give the Igbos credit for holding out that long.

Strikethem:
That is ipob way for you, we call it VICTIM cry. I read Midwest invasion by biafran forces, how they killed, and raped women. But they will come here to cry victim. We know the truth.

bloodykiller:
mynd44 lalasticlala seun
rule 2

bloodykiller:

trash trash trash
kiss the truth

Strikethem:
Why changing narrative, but all of you have been shouting how you fought the whole world alone, so now you got support but it is not enough. You look for another lie.

gidgiddy:


It was not Gowons job to collapse the region's into states. The Region were negotiated by representatives of the people at independence. Gowons job was to hold elections and return Nigeria to democratic civil rule.

How can Gowon who was never elected into office come from nowhere to destroy the 4 Regions that were democratically created? That was very wrong

Juliusmalema:
Imaginary paedophile will just come out and be spewing trash.....anyway....

How is Benue state faring today since u fought the war against biafrans?

How is the massacre in Benue today?
Has peace returned. To benue?
Look at the old fool they are mowing his people down is talking how he fought a genocidal war....

Karma is bitch and benue state is suffering for the consequences of their actions....

Una neva see anything...

Bane2020:

[s]The dude is a dunce. What this clowns fail to understand is that Biafra never got as much military support from the foreign powers as their make believe narratives keep telling them. Even Ojukwu himself wasn't prepared for the war, he only used hyperbolic nuances at the early stage of the budding crisis by making his famous statement that no black power in Africa could defeat Biafra if war came to her... just to offset the growing confidence in the Nigerian military circle of a quick and surgical Victory over the East. Ojukwu merely used reverse psychology, and it proved effective in delaying the declaration of war by Gowon on the East (the war on Biafran borders was supposed to come earlier than July 6,1967)...but the Federal side overestimated Ojukwu's bluff. Biafra from the onset got no full military support like the Nigerians did, and the support when it did come only came in spurts and bits from the rather overcautious French government... and it came rather belatedly at that when we were pretty much fighting on wobbly legs. The fact that Biafra endured the war for that long is very commendable, albeit for a symmetrical war with a vast Nigerian Army ceaselessly attacking a very small Biafran territory,.only an idiot will not give the Igbos credit for holding out that long[/s].

Born2Breed:



Don't mind them, my uncle's still give vivid description of what they did in the Midwest, it was one rape incidence at Abudu that led to the formation of the resistance movement who started slaughtering them in guerilla tactics before they were chased to Asaba.

No one has ever complained about their atrocity in mid-west but they keep wailing like kids on how the now Benue army killed and raped their women, when in actual sense they started it.

Strikethem:
Nobody is talking of that oga, the man is just talking of his experience. Why are you taking it personal? You called him paedophile, he raped your sister or family member?