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Area4Area:
This post has finally summed up exactly what led to the Nigeria we have today.
GREED, GREED and more GREED on the part of Zik, Ironsi and Ojukwu.

Most Igbos of this present generation would never want to hear anything about it since this doesn't go well with their narratives of what happened and for those who knew all along, they wouldn't want the truth to be divulged out, see how they are trying to avoid the thread because they know the write up is but the GOSPEL TRUTH.

The Igbos should atone for the sins of their forebears against Nigeria instead of acting the victim every time.

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Sanchez01:
I don't want to dwell on the weapon of starvation as warfare the Nigerian Government used on the then Eastern region. I honestly don't. I wish I could re-upload the Associated Press videos on my laptop and then share the links but last time I tried, they were removed from YouTube immediately on violation grounds.

Below are some things to take away from the clips:

1. Ojukwu's 'world press' conference prior the war saw him boasting that the Nigerian government would be surprised. He grinned and stroked his beard in the interview which had so many white pressmen around him. He claimed food had been saved to last his people for so long. This video is still on YouTube, on AP's channel.

2. Ojukwu's mercenaries from Sweden and Belgium trained and worked with the Biafran soldiers and left months after he had no money to pay them. This is also on AP's channel.

3. When the Nigerian Army blocked Port Harcourt, Ojukwu knew he had been dealt a major blow but went on and food ran out among the people. Whatever food was left got stashed in Ojukwu's mansion on his order. From there, he feed only his family and the family of his high-ranking soldiers. Taken down from AP's channel. I saw it at some point but couldn't find it again. Fortunately, it was part of the videos I downloaded on the war from AP's channel.

4. With no food and farms destroyed, the people resorted to feeding off corpses. It started with enemy soldiers until it became almost all corpses. There is a video of how this started on AP's channel.

5. Famine in the Eastern region took a different dimension when younger boys would go very far into war territories to look for corpses. As it became dangerous to proceed, the younger ones felt it more. The war could have been ended on account of the people but Ojukwu immediately asked the white press men attached to his mansion to do another world press conference and a documentary of the starving children. It would later be sent to Europe. The initial goal was to get the military and support from certain European countries. This should still be available on AP's channel.

6. The UN rallied and sent several aids through drop planes to the Eastern region and also missionaries who set up a refuge camp to look after the starving people. I'm sure we've all seen this one video.

7. Ojukwu wanted to use the UN drop planes to bring in more weapons which the UN didn't agree to. The UN claimed it only render aids and not take part in wars. An obviously frustrated and angry Ojukwu barred UN planes from bringing food and medical supplies as he perceived the UN as an enemy since they weren't willing to 'help his people'. To cover this, he sacked all white press men attached to his mansion as they started negative reporting against Ojukwu and the AP claimed 'he was more interested in his ego than his people'. This video should still be on YouTube. A further indictment by the FBI some years ago fingered Ojukwu and Gowon as the primary culprits responsible for the death of several.

8. Ojukwu's last blow was the advancement of his army to 'seize Lagos'. Unfortunately, he was dealt a heavy blow at Ore and that accounted as his major defeat and the decisive loss that led to his fleeing surrender.

9. Meanwhile, Azikiwe had just one goal; to capture Western Nigeria through his NCNC and become the most powerful politician in the South. It was what led to the Awolowo forming the Action Group, to not only checkmate Azikiwe in the West but end Ibo domination. Did Awolowo succeed? Hell yes!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/columnist/article/the-1951-elections-how-awolowo-forced-azikiwe-out-of-western-nigeria/amp/

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Sanchez01:
Very true. Whether or not they avoid it isn't even the concern but certain myths that are fast becoming realities in their world.

Ojukwu could have worked with Boro but he didn't. He could have worked with Nzeogwu but he didn't as he considered him his junior in rank. Azikiwe could have worked with Ojukwu to secure the region but he was more concerned with seizing the West. Interestingly, Ojukwu nursed the same by advancing his soldiers in that direction before he was pummeled at Ore.

Kanu could have worked with Uwazuruike and this other Zion dude but no, they all want to chase individual glory and come out as the one who changed the course of history. The level of greed and lust surprises even the devil.

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CaveAdullam:
One story but in different narrations, colours and sizes begins to make one ponder on that which is true or false. Everyone seems to have verifiable points but none agrees with the other. It means either sides are wrong or just one. But which side will the laymen stand?

d.oclatom, Sanchez.z01, Area4.Area, nap.tu2 please for me personally I want to know at least the truth even if I don't get it all in respect to this matter. You can recommend links/books for proper enlightenment or better still create wonderful threads.

Na beg I dey beg una o.

A wonderful thread and a nice read.

I used to think the Nigerian Government was unfair during the war based on the hearsays but I had a sudden turn around about the whole thing when I dug deeper just to know the truth.

I was born in the West and lived in the East for four years. An interesting thing worthy of note is that a young Igbo dude who has never been to the West and probably never encountered a Yoruba man before will cleanly profile and tell you about the nature of the Yoruba man.

It wasn't too long that I figured that imaginary truths are being handed down from generation to generation. The claim is that the Yorubas betrayed the East during the war as Awolowo promised them soldiers. Awolowo wasn't even in the military!

Oil was the primary reason for the war. The orchestrated coup was a 'take our destiny into our hands kind of coup.

I'll do a detailed thread that will include videos and not narratives from any Nigerian. Videos of Brits and Americans who captured the moment and what went down, as well as their opinions.

The unholy alliance of the North and South started with Azikiwe, just to spite the Western region. The latter just became a political savvy overnight and mastered the game better than its originator.

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fk002:
Wow what an interesting read, igbos are the architect of their own problems Karma caught up with them.


Their evil plans towards other tribes in Nigeria was put to halt by Gowon and his cronies. I swear by God if it was was them that have the realm of affairs of this country under their feet we would have all been slaves by now and maybe we would have committed suicide due to their oppression and arrogance because an average IPOB man is very arrogant, he will do wicked things to you and later on rub it on your face. But God of men is not asleep he knows the reason why he doesn't want them in power.



We can all see how they are oppressing other minority tribes in their region and SS, we can all see how they are calling other tribes different names we can all see how they want to cause an unnecessary rift between yorubas and Northerners.

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ChiSomtoChi:
It's a lovely thing you agreed they are all Igbos. Which means what you are trying to insinuate is that Aniomas and Onitshans are Igbos. Thanks for the agreement.


We killed only 22 politicians. You killed 100000 Igbo civilians in return.

Who is the Devil between us?

You do believe in cause and effect, right?

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vannessa7:
Don't mind him, he is just trying to derail the thread with unverifiable claims whereas the op cited sources that can be verified.

The law of God cannot be broken, karma is always real, I always sense that the problems of Nigeria must have a lot to do with this people due firstly to their criminal money by all means tendency which makes faithfulness, reliability, compassion and every other virtues strangers to them, secondly due to the way they flooded Nigeria with foreign goods causing the demise of many local industry rendering our high population useless to us but beneficial to other countries, they produce fake everything including drugs not minding that lives are lost due to this, of course they don't care, I met an elderly Igbo man with high rank in church who told me how he used to sell fake drugs in Maiduguri before the Hausa killings and he made a lot of money from selling antibiotics to treat typhoid that are fake which fetched him larger profits, I asked him did he not care people might die when they don't get well after taking the drug, he said its none of his business, I walked away from him shocked. Nigeria is better off without these people because they are too selfish to seek the common good of other tribes, but then maybe karma is still dealing with them and is keeping them here so they can fully reap the fruits of their labour because they have murdered sleep and therefore can sleep no more

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Area4Area:
I don't even think so, the hate and braggadocio is already ingrained in some people's DNA that even if their parents should tell them otherwise today, they'd rather dissociate from their parents than accept the truth.

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Ritchiee:
The same thing the Hausa Fulani man will say which they did when Buhari picked his people especially the service chiefs.I call it longthroat.

I have always said that the 2 ethnic groups in Nigeria that are birthed in nepotism and domineering spirits are IGBOS AND FULANIS.
If Igbos become president,ehn?Everybody go hear whenhen..
Well,it won't be more than 8 years...

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Ritchiee:
I have always believed my Igbo friends because they complain a lot but most of what they have parroted to me are falsehood taken from 'oblivion'.
Thank God for some people like the OP who are doing a 'YOMAN' job on nairaland and some other platforms to keep the record straight.

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0monnak0da:
It is tempting to ignore idiotic threads but Eboes lie a lot and their lies must not go unanswered.

Obasanjo never removed history from any curriculum
That is a dirty lie
History has always been in the WAEC Syllabus

The Syllabus for History was the same in all WAEC nations not just Nigeria
History was always a JAMB subject and the Syllabus was similar to the WAEC Syllabus.
If Biafra history was not taught in schools how is that down to Obasanjo?

Is he WAEC?


I do no know anywhere in the world where contemporary events are immediately included in the school history Syllabus

It is down to historians to write textbooks of history not government
Did government also stop the teaching of history in universities or stop anyone writing masters or Phd thesis on Biafra war

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Hmmmm. So true...

celeiyke:
Ok.
Support us and see how even d common man in ur village will see government work

yes govt. Work like sharing of kerosene, over-used wheelbarrows
Your region is the least developed after NE, why should we give you guys opportunity to held the affairs of this country?

Sanchez01:
You do believe in cause and effect, right?

How do you expect him to know that?

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Ritchiee:
I have always believed my Igbo friends because they complain a lot but most of what they have parroted to me are falsehood taken from 'oblivion'.
Thank God for some people like the OP who are doing a 'YOMAN' job on nairaland and some other platforms to keep the record straight.

[/s]The falsehood has already been debunked in previous nairaland thread. There is no records to keep straight.

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Area4Area:
Why not counter those points raised so it won't be raised next time

[/s]Yyeske the igbo wannabe who was busted not too long ago as a yoruba miscreant based in Nkpor i don't need to counter any point that have already been debunked in previous threads.

Some many kids and weed smokers on Nairaland people with little knowledge of history.. During the first republic of Tafewa Beluwa Nigeria only has 3 regions what is know as South South and South East today, was know then as south eastern, so it really dont mean is igbo, since Nigeria only had just 3 regions then

DaBullIT:
I managed to read half of thing long history , I would have completed it but I know the story, maybe not in the given order but its all familiar

I was looking forward to seeing the write-up talk about how Ibos partnered with hausas in a political party but not sure its included



My point here is Ibos did more harm than good to Nigeria but they still like to claim being victims


Nigeria would probably be competing with dubai / Singapore / Malaysia right now if the first coup didn't happen


Worst of all Ibos raise their kids with lies and those ones swallow hook line and sinker + even add their own imagination to the lies


Before anything else ibo nation needs to learn to be humble and apologize to Nigerians esp the north, that's the first step towards ibo ever smelling anything close to power at the centre

Weed smoker during the time of Tafewa beluwa south eastern only compromises of igbos or today's south south and south east

VERY GOOD. THANKS.

So essentially, it was the Brits that imposed it! If the others were resolute, there is no way the Brits would have arrested them. You're just given false narratives to suit their cowardice! You said seccession and referendum clauses were not included in the constitution but a referendum was done in 1963 to create midwest region!

Area4Area:
I thought I had lectured you on why he got his ways in another thread.

The Brits didn't support any referendum and secession in Nigeria and therefore backed anyone who spoke against it, Zik was against it and he was aptly supported by the Brits.

Nigeria was still under Britain, all Zik did to other leaders was to threaten them with one charge or the other and the Brits would send such a person to prison, Zik and the Brits loved it that way and Z Zik thought it would last forever

sultanodudua:
[s][/s]Yyeske the igbo wannabe who was busted not too long ago as a yoruba miscreant based in Nkpor i don't need to counter any point that have already been debunked in previous threads.

I had been Yeske!, later yeske2 (both pro Biafra), later yyeske and now area4area (anti IPOB and Biafra for obvious reasons). I don't use others.
You busted yourself and not me or you open another thread for my case and stop derailing this thread. You even sound like that Malawian noise maker

Waterview:
yes govt. Work like sharing of kerosene, over-used wheelbarrows
Your region is the least developed after NE, why should we give you guys opportunity to held the affairs of this country?

Like beside Lagos any of ur state can compete with any of ours?

I can't believe this very important thread hasn't gotten to the 10th page already.
Those Biafran kids just avoiding the thread because they can't counter the points raised

celeiyke:
Like beside Lagos any of ur state can compete with any of ours?

Aba is the dirtiest city in the world

Onitscha(probably the biggest city in your erosion ravaged region) has the worst air in the world.

Even Azikwe (who is the root of your current predicament) ran away to contest for election in SW.... That's why I wouldn't blame those guys migrating to other parts of Nigeria... If Azikwe can jaapaa why would the followers too not japaa from the cursed region.

The dream of every ibo is to travel to SW.

Area4Area:
They are all Igbos, you still divide them into LGAs, stop derailing.

Who were those that bore the brunt of the killings and who were those who didn't miss one person, let's even assume the murderers were Ghanaians and Indians?

So nzeogwu an anioma man in present day felt state is now an Igbo man?? He becomes igbo when it suits your narrative and nigerdeltan when it comes to secession and Igbo unity?? Your tricks have become stale.

AstroG:
OP,define Summary

God bless you for this piece. This is nothing but the truth. After the general election of 1959 the North needed 172 seats out of the 312 seats in order to rule Nigeria. They decided to form a coalition with zik who gladly accepted. Earlier on awolowo had approached zik for a coalition which zik agreed on ,only for him to later reneged on it. To be truthful awolowo started tribal politics in the west and zik felt betrayed,only for him to take his pound of f!esh in 1959. Zik thought that alliance with the gullible north is better than the wise west. Thus the marriage of two strangers. Ironically the region being marginalised today is the remote cause of what Nigeria is experiencing today.

Area4Area:
I had been Yeske!, later yeske2 (both pro Biafra), later yyeske and now area4area (anti IPOB and Biafra for obvious reasons). I don't use others.
You busted yourself and not me or you open another thread for my case and stop derailing this thread. You even sound like that Malawian noise maker

Nee anya, m ma agii gi aka na njo if you dont take time.

Waterview:
Aba is the dirtiest city in the world

Onitscha(probably the biggest city in your erosion ravaged region) has the worst air in the world.

Even Azikwe (who is the root of your current predicament) ran away to contest for election in SW.... That's why I wouldn't blame those guys migrating to other parts of Nigeria... If Azikwe can jaapaa why would the followers too not japaa from the cursed region.

The dream of every ibo is to travel to SW.

You just told the world ur IQ level and probably ur age. clap for yourself. I don't engage with people of ur intellectual level. Thank U sir.

celeiyke:
You just told the world ur IQ level and probably ur age. clap for yourself. I don't engage with people of ur intellectual level. Thank U sir.

E pain am, they hate the truth.

We ain't benefiting anything from Igbos mass presence in SW apart from the meagre tax paid by 2x2 shop owners.

The Igbo dominated sector; prostitution is tax free, if only the govt. Can legalize prostitution..... Imagine the huge revenue the 6 states would generate from millions of Igbo prostitutes.

if I've not learned anything else from this post....I've picked one thing...TRIBALISM HOLD NIGERIA IN LOCK,POLITICS CONTROL EVERYTHING... Let's just leave the democracy and practice Socialism...maybe we ll work out Together or Separate.

ChiSomtoChi:
To the uncircumcised hamitic Yorubas and Almajiris



1966 Coup: “THE IGBOS NOW VINDICATED AND EXONERATED”
Olusegun Obasanjo.

"Let the truth be told. The People involved in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:
1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)
2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”
3. Capt. G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).
4. Maj. Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).
5. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.
6. *Lt. Robert (Bob) Egbiko* (Midwestern Region – Ishan).
7. Lt. Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).
8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).
9. Capt. Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).
10. Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).
11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).
12. Lt. Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)
13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)
14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).
The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
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Yoruba – Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if u have any. History will always tell us what happened.
1. Azikiwe defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria (present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming Opposition, rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.
2. Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba control of the media for decades.
3. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.
4. Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.
5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.
6. As Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic divides. 9. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and co to overthrow General Ironsi.
7. In order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West (Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to join the North in fighting Igbos.
8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.
9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.
10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.
11. Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than financial destitute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba
12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .
13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.
14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.
15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.
16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.
17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.
18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.
19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.
20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.
THAT IS WHY IGBOS WHO EXPERIENCE ALL THE ABOVE INJUSTICES THINK THAT BIAFRA IS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER.

HOWEVER, MY TAKE IS THAT THIS SHOULD MAKE OUR IGBO LEADERS FOCUSED, AND FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THEIR KINSMEN, NOT ONLY FOR THEIR OWN POCKETS

Ranting of absolute ant without the basic standpoint.

Area4Area:
Where I am from isn't the issue here, [b]why didn't Zik and other Igbos realize the unworkability of Nigeria [/b]when others had already predicted it?
This is the more reason the Igbos should stop playing the victim card every time because they contributed to what Nigeria is today

As you write the above crap, you have not even realize the unworkability of the shithole called Nigeria yet you point accusing fingers on others.