₦airaland Forum

Indigenous:
FLASHBACK:
During the Biafran-Nigerian civil war, there were a few Biafran sons and daughters, who were deceived by the Hausa-controlled Nigerian government and used to fight their fellow Biafrans. Some of them were made to believe that Biafra was dominated by Igbos, who would commandeer all the resources. Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa were among the prominent sons who were misguided. They paid dearly for their betrayal of the Biafran Republic with their lives. And for more than fifty years, their kith and kin have suffered the nemesis of the errors of these sons who were misled and betrayed by the Hausas and their Yoruba friends.
Isaac Boro was killed at the peak of the war in controversial circumstances that strongly linked Colonel Benjamin Adenkule to the death, while Ken Saro Wiwa was eventually killed by Sani Abacha, who worked with him during the war, at Bonny. The stories of Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa are great lessons for contemporary and potential betrayals of the renewed movement for the restoration of Biafran Republic.
Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, from Kaiama (in present day Bayelsa State), was born in September 10, 1938 in Oloibiri.
Isaac Boro, while studying Chemistry at University of Nigeria Nsukka became the Student Union President of the University. Despite this support and political patronage he got from his Igbo brothers at the university, Boro led the first revolution of resource control in Nigeria few months after Aguiyi Ironsi became the Head of State of Nigeria.
He formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), the first armed militia of only Ijaw extraction. On February 23, 1966, Boro and his NDVF declared the Niger Delta Republic. This was the first time any part of Nigeria tried to secede. He believed that the Ijaw people deserved a fairer share of proceeds of the oil wealth than they were getting from the Federal Government.
For twelve days Boro and his militias battled the Federal forces before they were finally defeated by the far superior Federal firepower. Isaac Boro and some of his men were convicted of treason and sentenced to death, but Ironsi out of mercy decided to jail him instead of killing him as demanded by the law.
Isaac Boro Revolution
Isaac Boro Revolution
On the eve of the Biafran-Nigerian war in May 1967, Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty and drafted him into the Nigerian Army. He was afterwards commissioned as a major in the Nigerian Army. With his army of 1000 Ijaw soldiers he fought alongside Col. Benjamin Adekunle, who was heading the 3rd Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian army. With their deep knowledge of the Niger Delta creeks, Boro and his men guided the federal forces and pushed Biafrans back from the region. Boro fought with the Nigerian forces thinking as they had promised him he was liberating the Niger Delta from Biafran forces. He however never realised he was handing his people and the huge resources in the region into the hands of Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas who pillaged the region for years to come and impoverished his people till date.
Isaac Boro was betrayed by the Nigerian forces he trusted. On May 16, 1968, after a successful battle against Biafran forces at Ogu (near Okrika) in Rivers State, Boro was ambushed by what many of his men then believed was a unit sent by Col Adekunle. In a brief and fierce battle, Adenkunle’s men gunned him down. His death went down in history as mysterious and as there was no conclusive evidence on who killed him.
Strong allegations are rife that treacherous, Adekunle, threatened by Boro’s rising prominence in the Nigerian Army, killed Boro in order to usurp the glories of the success Boro helped the 3 Marine Commando Division to achieve. He wanted to silence Boro as well silence the people of Niger Delta. Subsequent to Boro’s death, Adekunle took all the credits of the successes of the division.
A Regimental Sergeant Major under Boro was quoted as saying that Boro did not die in the heat of battle with the Biafran forces. He said the area had already been captured and secured by his company and Major Boro was on an inspection tour when they came under fire. The type of gunfire that erupted during the firefight that killed Boro was completely different from what the Biafrans were known to use in that sector of the war. This confirmed to them that it was one of the federal troops units that carried out the ambush.
As soon as Boro died, his 1000 band of soldiers was disbanded. According to Olusegun Obasanjo in his book My Command, Adekunle’s post-war political ambition pushed him into killing Boro, as he was using the war to building a ‘formidable’ name for himself. Obasanjo stated that “Col. Adekunle, at this point saw the war not only in terms of crushing a rebellion, but also as a means of building himself up for any future political position or responsibility which he might wish to seek, I knew of people of Western State origin who had felt politically victimized and who saw in Col. Adekunle a saviour and told him so, and he believed them.”
What Boro fought and died for had eluded his people for years. Niger Delta has remained impoverished despite the huge revenue it has continued to generate for the country. Oil fields and mining leases have been allocated to northern oligarchs and friends. Isaac Boro remains a lesson for future revolutionaries in knowing where to pitch their tent.

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Isaac Boro, while studying Chemistry at University of Nigeria Nsukka became the Student Union President of the University. Despite this support and political patronage he got from his Igbo brothers at the university, Boro led the first revolution of resource control in Nigeria few months after Aguiyi Ironsi became the Head of State of Nigeria.........He never won the election and this he blamed on the tribalism machinated against him by the school authority, intact he left UNN and never graduated

You are talking during the Nigerian- Biafran civil when before that time Aguyi Ironsi and OJUKWU had already committed the greatest betrayal, by sentencing Adaka Boro to death because of he wanted freedom for his people..
You people lie a lot

nsiba:
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Isaac Boro, while studying Chemistry at University of Nigeria Nsukka became the Student Union President of the University. Despite this support and political patronage he got from his Igbo brothers at the university, Boro led the first revolution of resource control in Nigeria few months after Aguiyi Ironsi became the Head of State of Nigeria.........He never won the election and this he blamed on the tribalism machinated against him by the school authority, intact he left UNN and never graduated

You are talking during the Nigerian- Biafran civil when before that time Aguyi Ironsi and OJUKWU had already committed the greatest betrayal, by sentencing Adaka Boro to death because of he wanted freedom for his people..
You people lie a lot

they think we are stupid and forgotten what they did, we are not joining Biafra, I rather remain in Nigeria than join those who killed our freedom fighters.

Niger Delta Republic will emerge some day

Blakjewelry:
I am referring to the other tribes that reside around the lower niger

Since you don't know history, you should be less confrontational and listen more. You can read this piece of history more on google.

Indigenous:
Before Ojukwu declared Biafra, he convened the "Eastern Nigeria Consultative Forum", a body that comprised all the chiefs, provincial heads and trade union leaders of the 20 provinces that made up the old Eastern Region. They met in Enugu and voted overwhelmingly for the Eastern Region to become an independent country and mandated Ojukwu to declare Biafra. When you compare this to Nigeria which Lugard created in 1914 without even giving notice to anybody, you begin to understand the hypocrisy

All the members of tbe Eastern Nigeria Consultative Forum were handpicked by Ojukwu and it was heavily Igbo it was in no way democratic .The

Even Azikiwe was not a member because of his opposition to War.

Elvictor:
they think we are stupid and forgotten what they did, we are not joining Biafra, I rather remain in Nigeria than join those who killed our freedom fighters.

Niger Delta Republic will emerge some day

yeah that is the spirit, Niger Delta republic is what we want.

Elvictor:
they think we are stupid and forgotten what they did, we are not joining Biafra, I rather remain in Nigeria than join those who killed our freedom fighters.

Niger Delta Republic will emerge some day

Make una no kill una selves,any other tribe apart from Igbo is a disaster to Biafra

History is discussed so the current people can learn and avoid the mistakes of the past. Both Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa died in the hands of those they thought were their saviours from the Igbos they vilified despite having no proof of any killings Igbos conducted against them. We all in the old eastern region and the South entirely must learn from our mistakes. We must not let anything divide us until we break away from Nigeria. If we can't form a common ground say after few years, we can always go our separate ways in peace. Our constitution in the south plus the middlebelt must contain a clause for secession. Let's stay focussed on the task of breaking off the hold of the vampires from the sahel.

Yujin:
Since you don't know history, you should be less confrontational and listen more. You can read this piece of history more on google.

LOL you are talking a man who read not just Nigerian history but the world. Maybe you heard only one side of the story

Indigenous:
FLASHBACK:
During the Biafran-Nigerian civil war, there were a few Biafran sons and daughters, who were deceived by the Hausa-controlled Nigerian government and used to fight their fellow Biafrans. Some of them were made to believe that Biafra was dominated by Igbos, who would commandeer all the resources. Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa were among the prominent sons who were misguided. They paid dearly for their betrayal of the Biafran Republic with their lives. And for more than fifty years, their kith and kin have suffered the nemesis of the errors of these sons who were misled and betrayed by the Hausas and their Yoruba friends.
Isaac Boro was killed at the peak of the war in controversial circumstances that strongly linked Colonel Benjamin Adenkule to the death, while Ken Saro Wiwa was eventually killed by Sani Abacha, who worked with him during the war, at Bonny. The stories of Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa are great lessons for contemporary and potential betrayals of the renewed movement for the restoration of Biafran Republic.
Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, from Kaiama (in present day Bayelsa State), was born in September 10, 1938 in Oloibiri.
Isaac Boro, while studying Chemistry at University of Nigeria Nsukka became the Student Union President of the University. Despite this support and political patronage he got from his Igbo brothers at the university, Boro led the first revolution of resource control in Nigeria few months after Aguiyi Ironsi became the Head of State of Nigeria.
He formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), the first armed militia of only Ijaw extraction. On February 23, 1966, Boro and his NDVF declared the Niger Delta Republic. This was the first time any part of Nigeria tried to secede. He believed that the Ijaw people deserved a fairer share of proceeds of the oil wealth than they were getting from the Federal Government.
For twelve days Boro and his militias battled the Federal forces before they were finally defeated by the far superior Federal firepower. Isaac Boro and some of his men were convicted of treason and sentenced to death, but Ironsi out of mercy decided to jail him instead of killing him as demanded by the law.
Isaac Boro Revolution
Isaac Boro Revolution
On the eve of the Biafran-Nigerian war in May 1967, Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty and drafted him into the Nigerian Army. He was afterwards commissioned as a major in the Nigerian Army. With his army of 1000 Ijaw soldiers he fought alongside Col. Benjamin Adekunle, who was heading the 3rd Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian army. With their deep knowledge of the Niger Delta creeks, Boro and his men guided the federal forces and pushed Biafrans back from the region. Boro fought with the Nigerian forces thinking as they had promised him he was liberating the Niger Delta from Biafran forces. He however never realised he was handing his people and the huge resources in the region into the hands of Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas who pillaged the region for years to come and impoverished his people till date.
Isaac Boro was betrayed by the Nigerian forces he trusted. On May 16, 1968, after a successful battle against Biafran forces at Ogu (near Okrika) in Rivers State, Boro was ambushed by what many of his men then believed was a unit sent by Col Adekunle. In a brief and fierce battle, Adenkunle’s men gunned him down. His death went down in history as mysterious and as there was no conclusive evidence on who killed him.
Strong allegations are rife that treacherous, Adekunle, threatened by Boro’s rising prominence in the Nigerian Army, killed Boro in order to usurp the glories of the success Boro helped the 3 Marine Commando Division to achieve. He wanted to silence Boro as well silence the people of Niger Delta. Subsequent to Boro’s death, Adekunle took all the credits of the successes of the division.
A Regimental Sergeant Major under Boro was quoted as saying that Boro did not die in the heat of battle with the Biafran forces. He said the area had already been captured and secured by his company and Major Boro was on an inspection tour when they came under fire. The type of gunfire that erupted during the firefight that killed Boro was completely different from what the Biafrans were known to use in that sector of the war. This confirmed to them that it was one of the federal troops units that carried out the ambush.
As soon as Boro died, his 1000 band of soldiers was disbanded. According to Olusegun Obasanjo in his book My Command, Adekunle’s post-war political ambition pushed him into killing Boro, as he was using the war to building a ‘formidable’ name for himself. Obasanjo stated that “Col. Adekunle, at this point saw the war not only in terms of crushing a rebellion, but also as a means of building himself up for any future political position or responsibility which he might wish to seek, I knew of people of Western State origin who had felt politically victimized and who saw in Col. Adekunle a saviour and told him so, and he believed them.”
What Boro fought and died for had eluded his people for years. Niger Delta has remained impoverished despite the huge revenue it has continued to generate for the country. Oil fields and mining leases have been allocated to northern oligarchs and friends. Isaac Boro remains a lesson for future revolutionaries in knowing where to pitch their tent.

all these revisionism because they didnt support biafra, kontinue

Blakjewelry:
The last time I checked Boro fought the Niger delta republic before Biafra secondly did the igbos consult with the people of region before taking them along?

Google Frank Opigo

SocialJustice:
Why can't we forget and move forward, what do you hope to achieve here.

I really can't wait for oil to become useless, so we can all rest. Before it does sha, I want to eat oil money too. Receive OML gift.

While Oil will lose most of its value, it will never become useless

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Indigenous:
We don't need too many tribe in Biafra, we want to make it a purely Igbo nation.pls stop forcing we anioma (Delta north) into your ijaw country (Niger Delta)

Bros abeg comot Anioma from Biafra I don't wish to be in d same country with only Igbos.. Although i am not happy with Nigeria

Blakjewelry:
I am referring to the other tribes that reside around the lower niger

Ignorant or mischievous?

Pecuman:
While Oil will lose most of its value, it will never become useless

True but oil selling below $10 is virtually useless and can not be the principal source of income of any country.

francisgodstime:
Bros abeg comot Anioma from Biafra I don't wish to be in d same country with only Igbos.. Although i am not happy with Nigeria

Na only one vote you get for referendum,we original anioma are happy with Biafra.only fake anioma are denying their igboness

Indigenous:
FLASHBACK:
During the Biafran-Nigerian civil war, there were a few Biafran sons and daughters, who were deceived by the Hausa-controlled Nigerian government and used to fight their fellow Biafrans. Some of them were made to believe that Biafra was dominated by Igbos, who would commandeer all the resources. Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa were among the prominent sons who were misguided. They paid dearly for their betrayal of the Biafran Republic with their lives. And for more than fifty years, their kith and kin have suffered the nemesis of the errors of these sons who were misled and betrayed by the Hausas and their Yoruba friends.
Isaac Boro was killed at the peak of the war in controversial circumstances that strongly linked Colonel Benjamin Adenkule to the death, while Ken Saro Wiwa was eventually killed by Sani Abacha, who worked with him during the war, at Bonny. The stories of Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa are great lessons for contemporary and potential betrayals of the renewed movement for the restoration of Biafran Republic.
Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, from Kaiama (in present day Bayelsa State), was born in September 10, 1938 in Oloibiri.
Isaac Boro, while studying Chemistry at University of Nigeria Nsukka became the Student Union President of the University. Despite this support and political patronage he got from his Igbo brothers at the university, Boro led the first revolution of resource control in Nigeria few months after Aguiyi Ironsi became the Head of State of Nigeria.
He formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), the first armed militia of only Ijaw extraction. On February 23, 1966, Boro and his NDVF declared the Niger Delta Republic. This was the first time any part of Nigeria tried to secede. He believed that the Ijaw people deserved a fairer share of proceeds of the oil wealth than they were getting from the Federal Government.
For twelve days Boro and his militias battled the Federal forces before they were finally defeated by the far superior Federal firepower. Isaac Boro and some of his men were convicted of treason and sentenced to death, but Ironsi out of mercy decided to jail him instead of killing him as demanded by the law.
Isaac Boro Revolution
Isaac Boro Revolution
On the eve of the Biafran-Nigerian war in May 1967, Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty and drafted him into the Nigerian Army. He was afterwards commissioned as a major in the Nigerian Army. With his army of 1000 Ijaw soldiers he fought alongside Col. Benjamin Adekunle, who was heading the 3rd Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian army. With their deep knowledge of the Niger Delta creeks, Boro and his men guided the federal forces and pushed Biafrans back from the region. Boro fought with the Nigerian forces thinking as they had promised him he was liberating the Niger Delta from Biafran forces. He however never realised he was handing his people and the huge resources in the region into the hands of Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas who pillaged the region for years to come and impoverished his people till date.
Isaac Boro was betrayed by the Nigerian forces he trusted. On May 16, 1968, after a successful battle against Biafran forces at Ogu (near Okrika) in Rivers State, Boro was ambushed by what many of his men then believed was a unit sent by Col Adekunle. In a brief and fierce battle, Adenkunle’s men gunned him down. His death went down in history as mysterious and as there was no conclusive evidence on who killed him.
Strong allegations are rife that treacherous, Adekunle, threatened by Boro’s rising prominence in the Nigerian Army, killed Boro in order to usurp the glories of the success Boro helped the 3 Marine Commando Division to achieve. He wanted to silence Boro as well silence the people of Niger Delta. Subsequent to Boro’s death, Adekunle took all the credits of the successes of the division.
A Regimental Sergeant Major under Boro was quoted as saying that Boro did not die in the heat of battle with the Biafran forces. He said the area had already been captured and secured by his company and Major Boro was on an inspection tour when they came under fire. The type of gunfire that erupted during the firefight that killed Boro was completely different from what the Biafrans were known to use in that sector of the war. This confirmed to them that it was one of the federal troops units that carried out the ambush.
As soon as Boro died, his 1000 band of soldiers was disbanded. According to Olusegun Obasanjo in his book My Command, Adekunle’s post-war political ambition pushed him into killing Boro, as he was using the war to building a ‘formidable’ name for himself. Obasanjo stated that “Col. Adekunle, at this point saw the war not only in terms of crushing a rebellion, but also as a means of building himself up for any future political position or responsibility which he might wish to seek, I knew of people of Western State origin who had felt politically victimized and who saw in Col. Adekunle a saviour and told him so, and he believed them.”
What Boro fought and died for had eluded his people for years. Niger Delta has remained impoverished despite the huge revenue it has continued to generate for the country. Oil fields and mining leases have been allocated to northern oligarchs and friends. Isaac Boro remains a lesson for future revolutionaries in knowing where to pitch their tent.

Spoken like a true IPOB

Indigenous:
Na only one vote you get for referendum,we original anioma are happy with Biafra.only fake anioma are denying their igboness

Oga speak for urself... cos here in Agbor we no won use ear hear Biafra... which part of Anioma u be self...

francisgodstime:
Oga speak for urself... cos here in Agbor we no won use ear hear Biafra... which part of Anioma u be self...

I'm from asaba,I have many agbor friends who are true Igbo and supported biafra.we are only claiming Niger Delta because of the small small money wey federal government dey give Niger Delta, apart from that we know where we belong.you can deny you igboness all you want,na you sabi

Indigenous:
I'm from asaba,I have many agbor friends who are true Igbo and supported biafra.we are only claiming Niger Delta because of the small small money wey federal government dey give Niger Delta, apart from that we know where we belong.you can deny you igboness all you want,na you sabi

Asaba na your village?

Indigenous:
I'm from asaba,I have many agbor friends who are true Igbo and supported biafra.we are only claiming Niger Delta because of the small small money wey federal government dey give Niger Delta, apart from that we know where we belong.you can deny you igboness all you want,na you sabi

Oga most Anioma men re not denying Igbos what they re saying is they re not in support of Biafra

Elvictor:
Asaba na your village?

Asaba na my village, because asaba is a capital city doesn't mean people are not from there.that you come from a bush doesn't mean everybody village is has bush as yours.you better face your brown roof republic before sopona go kill you,oponu ayirada, eranko inu Igbo lasan lasan

francisgodstime:
Oga most Anioma men re not denying Igbos what they re saying is they re not in support of Biafra

I know, that's why referendum will settle everything

Indigenous:
Asaba na my village, because asaba is a capital city doesn't mean people are not from there.that you come from a bush doesn't mean everybody village is has bush as yours.you better face your brown roof republic before sopona go kill you,oponu ayirada, eranko inu Igbo lasan lasan

so Asaba na the name of your village? lwkmd

Blakjewelry:
LOL you are talking a man who read not just Nigerian history but the world. Maybe you heard only one side of the story

If so, you then sound so disappointingly ignorant to know that Ojukwu did not unilaterally declare Biafra. He did it with the agreement of the council representatives of the majority of the ethnic groups that made up Eastern Nigeria. If you still insist it isn't so, can you furnish us with the evidences to prove it?

Elvictor:
so Asaba na the name of your village? lwkmd

As you can see,my village is a township.common sense dey very very far from you

Indigenous:
As you can see,my village is a township.common sense dey very very far from you

wetin be the name of township? na so Ikwerre people godey talk say PH na their village when PH na just combination of villages.

aunty tell me your village name, no tell me Asaba because Asaba no be anywhere

Elvictor:
wetin be the name of township? na so Ikwerre people godey talk say PH na their village when PH na just combination of villages.

aunty tell me your village name, no tell me Asaba because Asaba no be anywhere

I can now see you have a mental problem,I guess you want to ask which area/family in asaba which I wouldn't tell you.when you reach ilorin,tell ilorin people they are not from ilorin and asked them to mention their village name inside ilorin.you are more foolish than I thought,I guess you are still a small kid

Indigenous:
I can now see you have a mental problem,I guess you want to ask which area/family in asaba which I wouldn't tell you.when you reach ilorin,tell ilorin people they are not from ilorin and asked them to mention their village name inside ilorin.you are more foolish than I thought,I guess you are still a small kid

from Asaba to Ilorin, nothing person no go see for NL. so Asaba is your village sorry I mean township, Ilorin is your family name.

my belle oh! lwkmd

Elvictor:
from Asaba to Ilorin, nothing person no go see for NL. so Asaba is your village sorry I mean township, Ilorin is your family name.

my belle oh! lwkmd

I only use ilorin as an illustration for you because I know your thinking is limited.stop disgracing your family on nairaland,go get a real job and get serious with your life

Indigenous:
I only use ilorin as an illustration for you because I know your thinking is limited.stop disgracing your family on nairaland,go get a real job and get serious with your life

see advice, Ilorin is now an illustration.
I don laugh tire, you go just read thirty states and capitals you go rush attach yourself to a place you have never been before.

you better go and meet your doctor, nonsense and IPOB.

Elvictor:
see advice, Ilorin is now an illustration.
I don laugh tire, you go just read thirty states and capitals you go rush attach yourself to a place you have never been before.

you better go and meet your doctor, nonsense and IPOB.

Like I said you are a small kid,am presently in ilorin live as I type.i speak Yoruba very well,I know the place very well.as for you, you don't even know anything about asaba, yet you are displaying your ignorance.the Lord will deliver you, oponu ayirada, eranko inu Igbo lasan lasan