₦airaland Forum

hollah123:
meaning he doesn't have certificate to show just like buhari,so y is he castigating Buhari when they are in d same shoes?
they both haven't shown there certificate

so certificate wise
buhari= Nnamdi Kanu

yes or no?
that's my question for u
if no is your answer,show us d certificate simple

Please do not insult Nnamdi Kanu. Nnamdi Kanu is a graduate of Secondary School in Nigeria. Buhari never graduated from secondary school.

emezuo17:
. Thank you for this your write up, but eventually both Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Sari Wiwa died miserably in the hands of who? Ojukwu and Zik abi, listen I am totally against any arrangement that will lump you guys and the igbos together, but please also note that the so called Niger Delta you are talking about also have indigenous igbos oh, think about it.

Give the fools century to think of suicide, they will still blunder at the attempt. He who does not know when the rain started beating him will never know when it stopped.

The certain EXTREMES the author of this piece said we have gotten used to in Nigeria since independence is southern Nigerians being like 2nd Class Citizens in one Nigeria, after Arewa soldiers recreated Nigeria into 36 states and Abuja, with 19 states in one region - north - but an average of 8.5 new states each in the east and west regions that formed Nigeria with the northern region during independence.
It’s only a fool who would not understand that land mass or population is never used as criterion to proliferate too many states in a region with larger land mass or population, once a country was formed by diverse regions.

State creation was thus used to acquire absolute political and economic advantages for the northern region, but rob the two southern regions of economic and political powers.

christistruth01:
CONTINUATION Part 2


The NEWS
Posted in National News
Blast from the Past: Why the Aburi Accord Failed- Philip Asiodu

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2019/10/12/blast-from-the-past-why-the-aburi-accord-failed-philip-asiodu/amp/

When I left kings college, I went straight to Oxford University. Can you do that today? The five thousand kilometres of telegraph lines, crisscrossing the county. And the four thousand kilometres of railway crisis crossing the country. Thousands of kilometres of telegraph lines, were constructed under Gowon, and since Gowon nothing has been added and mark you, it was only in 1975 that after negotiation, we agreed with partial nationalization of shell and other oil companies did we begin to think of these oil revenue that you are talking about. And under Gowon, in that 1975 revenue was to come to about 4bilion naira. But he was removed three months of implementation, but I know that from January 1999 to 2007, because of the unprecedented escalation of oil prices, this country must have earned about 300billion US dollar.What have we done? …Abuja. That is all. But even Abuja is about 60 per cent private investment in property and all that. So, you see the consequences of leaders not adhering to the discipline of planning.

Two, they rail roaded us to the destruction of our political evolution. Because after 13 years in 1979, the Army said politicians should come back to power. At that time, Zik was still alive. Shagari, others. So, the politicians of the second republic still had the dreams and motivation of our founding fathers. Then came the terrible coup of December 1983. Politicians , many of them were locked up. 24 months, 27 months, no questions asked. Everybody scattered. Then in 1985 another coup, Babangida came to power. He was nice, his intention would have been good, but it was in turn characterized by things beginning to happen without base. People talk about the age of settlement. It seemed as if integrity, honesty, respect for public property, use of public fund went backward. Finally, the civil service having been practically destroyed in the 1975 putsch, this time introduced a new reform whereby permanent secretaries were no longer to be called permanent secretaries but director generals. They were no longer accounting officers. And the principle of having accounting officers who are permanent secretaries is because ministers come and go. Parliament come and go, but the officials should be there to account to subsequent Public Accounts Committee of subsequent parliaments. That was the system. But worse than that, ministers now think they could hire and fire civil servants. And if there is anything, the British did to where they were, to India, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, it was that professional, objective civil service, tenure guaranteed, rules upheld, if you breach those rules, you are punished instantly. We now politicised our civil service, made them impermanent, made them insecure, and of course what has happened? They have been cohorts with the rest of the politicians in the total abuse of public funds. As we are now reading, scams of billions, it is unthinkable.

You spoke about the coup, Ojukwu and the famous Aburi accord which tried to address some of these problems. What in your opinion led to the collapse of the Aburi Accord.

You see unfortunately, the dramatist personae of the time, many of them have gone. Anything not founded on objectivity , transparency and truth cannot last. Somehow, Ojukwu persuaded Gowon that they were going to Aburi as gentlemen of the Nigerian Army to discuss certain things. Acknowledgement of what happened. Already, of course he knew that after the pogrom against Easterners, against Igbo in 1966, the Army, except in Lagos and the West had gone back to their places of origin. Now, no need bringing officials. So, guys we’re going to talk as officers and gentlemen. Of course Gowon did not inform his secretary to government. He did not tell anybody, until the eve of the day he was going. So, if you were going to a conference, you will normally say what is the agenda. You will prepare, with the assistance of the agenda.

Think about them. Think about various scenarios, and go and discuss. That didn’t happen. Lo and behold when they reached Aburi, there was Ojukwu with a battery of permanent secretaries and one of the most formidable intellectual this country has ever produced, Dr Pius Okigbo. All in the delegation. Who went with Gowon? Nobody. Not even secretary to the government. None of the so-called permanent secretaries. And they went there and talked and said they reached agreement. He stepped down as supreme military commander and they talked about the divisions in the Nigerian army and if Nigeria was attacked, then they will consult and decide whether they are going to fight.

In modern days it took like 24 hours to finish Poland. You will still be consulting. Anyway, be that as it may, nobody could make ambassador, nobody becomes a super scale officer, senior assistant secretary, group 7 except there was a unanimous agreement. And if you know history, there was once in history where a single member of the parliament can exercise veto.

They did this and they came back. Just like they looked at the proposal after the second coup of July 66, some of the northern assistants in Nigeria, were saying we will blow up Carter bridge, blow up the second mainland bridge.

When they subjected this Aburi accord to simple analysis, it was simply saying Nigeria is no more practically. And civil war or no civil war, then chaos would have started later. All the same, we said look, … if we still want to be a country….authority which deals with customs, currency, federal trunk roads, foreign and external defences, that is more than enough for a government. But it must be able to act. You can not say that in the Ministry of Defence, you can not promote somebody a Lt Col, except you have a unanimity. You cannot move one plane to another place except through unanimity. Even when you have those limited powers, they must be able to function. And you cannot function in the context of those things they said. And then what you have is four countries.

And the permanent secretaries vetoed it?

No . the permanent secretary made analysis and said look, if you are really serious, if you say you are having Nigeria, you must have central function which must be fulfilled. There is no need saying this is central function and you cannot fulfill it. So, we analysed and said these were based on incorrect premises. People came with proper papers, well formulated. The other side just went thinking they were going to do initial breaking of the ice. Therefore, please try to reconcile this to ensure that we still have a country. Gowon in fairness, vetoed that approach, and still proceeded to have decree number 8 of 1967. If you go and read that decree, and if the East had accepted that decree, there would have been no need for secession. Nigeria would have disintegrated within three months. And you cannot move anybody without unanimity. You collect revenue, you cannot transfer it…

Decree 8 was an affirmation of Aburi accord?

It was an affirmation of the Aburi accord which gave the East under Ojukwu, more than 95 per cent of what Aburi meant. But because there were maybe one or two phrases which they didn’t like, if they read that thing and it is still there, they have got what they wanted. But if it was such, that hostilities would have broken out among four independent countries. Not one on one.

And I think, we don’t have much time now. With the present challenges in the country and the lack of serious effort to address the issue, we may even be in worse position if we are not careful. Because, this time, it will not be federal versus Biafra, but among 110 million people. So we are going to end up with warlords, if authorities should finally break down and I appeal to God that we avoid that, by stopping all these jokes as if we can continue milking this country forever. What we are doing is not sustainable. And the sooner we address, try to create a new national austerity programme, discipline ourselves, decide that we cannot be millionaires, billionaires in little islands with a whole ocean of poor wretched people, there would be this tsunami which will overwhelm all of us.

So, the leadership now has a big challenge to begin to readdress things. We can’t carry on like this. But I am saying that whereas in 1967 we had an authoritative civil service which commanded respect, across Nigeria and internationally, we still had a fairly disciplined Police Force. We still had fear. People didn’t take government fund and use it with impunity. There was shame to be jailed or detained for corruption. All these underpinnings of society must be respected and because the things to prevent us from horrendous, murderous anarchy are not in place and we should not over try our luck.

But coming back from what I was saying. Go and read decree 8, if we had implemented it in three months, we would have had four independent states.

Why was it not implemented?

Because, it didn’t satisfy the Easterners. The decree had been promulgated by Gowon. It was to be implemented then. But it was seen by Ojukwu as not being sufficient. I am saying that politics is something which has to be played with some tact. Sometimes my brothers there see black and white where there is immediately green in between. Sometimes, there is really no finesse in politics. They will think the reality is not important as how you get there. The reality was that Nigeria was finished under decree number 8. The reality is that although it was finished, they didn’t proclaim ‘we hereby dissolve Nigeria’. But that was of no effect. You go and read it. But it was rejected . Having been rejected, these people have no obligation to it anymore.

And that led to the civil war and Gowon now declared Police action on Biafra?

Ojukwu now called his people and said we went to Aburi , Aburi has not been respected. We must defend ourselves. We must think a way of saving Nigeria, and if it came to secession. I want your mandate. He got the mandate.

Gowon then replied. Before then, he had told the Northerners that the killings had gone too far, and must have to stop. He then said everything will be done to make amends. He said we will bend backwards, implement certain decision these soldiers, go back to your places of origin. But then, he added that if it becomes necessary to defend the integrity of Nigeria by force of arms, he will do so.

I was a friend of Emeka Ojukwu from Kings College, we were friends in Oxford. And when he was made military governor, he invited me to go with him. And I told him, that I do not believe in regional politics. And of course, at that time in fairness to Ojukwu and co, nobody was talking about regions. He said we will abolish the regions in a few months. Obviously, like Army men, they still talked of unitary structure and all that. And I simply told him that by the time you live with a people, participate in their hopes and dreams, you are a different person. That is that.

Then few of us- Alison Ayida, late Aliu Martins, myself, Abdulaziz, who served in the East, ‘we went to ask Ojukwu what is it you want so that we could prepare the ground for a meaningful conference, where every side would know what they are saying.’ Eventually, just as Ojukwu was warming up to tell us what he wanted , so that we could have come back to Lagos, sell those ideas to Gowon, and see if we can reach agreement, C. C. Mojekwu came and broke up the meeting.

He destroyed that last chance, and we flew back empty handed. Before they started cooking up the Aburi, they went there with unequal preparation. But before then, General Gowon was only communicating with him as an officer. He did know that behind Ojukwu, people were working. So, we didn’t want Ojukwu to get the wrong impression. In anyway, we then agreed that a letter be prepared, addressed from my house, signed by Alison Ayida,who was in Oxford (cuts in, he was in Oxford too?) at the same time? Two of us signed this letter trying to spell out to him the consequences of what will happen if secession was declared. That there would be war and if there is war, until you vanquished federal authority, you will not get recognition which will give you access to the sea, and so on.

I can be embittered. I can feel for my people. But I have a duty to make sure that every step I take, I have calculated all the scenarios and make sure that in the worst scenario , I am not taking them to a worst decision.

If one was there, one would have pointed out certain things. He knew that we proclaimed a state for Rivers people, Ogoja people. One thing the federal government did was to order a sea blockade. And instead of making loose speeches like no power in black Africa can stop Biafra, you had to sit down and count what guns you have. Igbos were three quarter of the officer corps before the coup of 1966. But I doubt if they were even 5 per cent of those carrying guns. Fulani maybe five per cent of the officer corps. But the people carrying guns were mainly from Benue / Plateau area.

But the critical thing is that the man who said they can’t be blockaded; didn’t do much. If at that time Igbos probably went and bought two merchant ships, with Igbo captains who were ready to risk their lives, it is a different thing. But to have no boats, and think a white man or a blue man with captain will risk his life against NNS Nigeria? No.

These were some of the things. One thing is to draw up an agreement. Rhetoric. Our job as good civil servants was to see how this can be implemented. How it can be monitored to achieve what you say is your purpose? I am sorry, that was not quite there. Hence, we went into what we went into.

I still believe that when you go and read it and see all the powers which had been conceded, and all the things which were subject to veto by just one person because it required unanimity, decree number 8 promulgated by Gowon had given 95 percent of the substance. And if it was taken, it was only a matter of three months for everybody to realize that there was no Nigeria.

But as night follows day, we have become used to economic integration. So, the point is whether 1914 was described by whoever, was it Sar’duana, I don’t know, as a mistake, and has been taken up by some southern irredentists as a mistake, the point is that we have gotten used to certain extremes, which we cannot wish away. Which if we wish away will bring us to a lower standard of living than we are used to now.

-nigerianvoice.com

franchasng:
Why will I hate someone that does not exist, tell me A lifeless thing

Please what’s your level of education and how old are you?
I really don’t want to believe it an adult typing

Goditto:
Bros, your post is seething with lies, hatred and toxicity.
Your heros, Ken and Isaac Boro, who for pecuniary gains betrayed Biafra were gruesomely murdered by the same people that used them.
And you, out of incurable obsession with hatred for the Igbos still can not read the handwriting on the wall.

Ojukwu arrested Boro but refused to kill him. Ojukwu knew that he was fighting for freedom but he was fighting alone leaving out his fellow brothers. Boro did not even consider the Ikweres

Idiko1:
The decree which killed regionalism in Nigeria. Gowon killed regionalism in Nigeria. However the revisionists in Nigeria who believed there is something such true or false federalism will point at decree 34 which sort to create uniform civil service in Nigeria as the killer of regionalism on Nigeria. The essence of decree 34 is still used in Nigeria till date.

Exactly

Oghene1st:
They can join you betrayals. They are of no value to the Niger Deltans. They are parasites. Agric them no get, oil no level. What do we do with them other than to allow them join their owners, the betrayals.

. You are very uneducated, Delta north has one of the largest oil reserve in Delta State, egbema and ogbibo in Rivers has great oil reserves in Rivers State, so what makes them parasites, igbos have nine local government in Delta State, I thought I was discussing with an enlightened person,how many of your people are as rich as even the ikoku spare parts sellers, how many igbo billionaires have oil Wells , don't go and fight the emir's controlling your resources, be fighting igbos, we are well ahead and we will continue to be well ahead both in Nigeria and outside of it, your politicians who use your money to buy houses for girls in Dubai or your leaders who sell your employment slots to strangers are not your problem but igbos, I pity Nnamdi Kanu who is including you guys in his imaginary Biafra, my own Biafra is exclusively for igbos, wether we oil or not, wether ocean or not, blue births, flock with blue births, green births, flock with green birds. Peace

ScamHunter:
You guys are so wicked with your lies. So a Nigerian army that was killing civilians and even massacred women and children suddenly spared a Biafran soldier who killed one of their own? Adaka Boro that was not even killed in combat? Even if it was combat against the Biafrans, it would still be justified, but Boro was killed by his own troops. That';s why the lie about his death has been "under unknown circumstances". It beats me how any southerner would still be fooled.

The Truth is that Ojukwu's Biafra had a Policy of Slaughtering all it's own Prisoners of War and because of that wicked Policy failed to release any Federal Prisoners of War after it Surrendered
in 1970

Biafra had already Slaughtered all Military POWs
despite it been a War Crime

That doesn't mean the Federal Troops were like them.

Gen Gowon had given the Federal Troops a standard Code of Conduct order and so the Federal Troops had to keep
Prisoners of War from the Biafran Troops that Surrendered to it.



Below is a Photograph of Biafran Soldiers who were Prisoners of War being fed by federal Troops

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

History 101

GEJ a man from the Niger Delta didn't restructure Nigeria, you now expect GMB a Fulani man from Kastina to restructure Nigeria

GEJ concluded a National Confab for political restructuring or reforms. But waited till he would get to second term in office so as to get a friendlier Legislators at the National Assembly to stamp the conference recommendations into law.
Jonathan begged a huge crowd of Yorubas in his Lagos campaign to vote him for second term so that the CONFAB recommendations be implemented.
Again, Yoruba helped PMB to emerge president to push out GEJ.


OBJ also failed in his National Political Reforms Conference aimed to restructure Nigeria politically, because Arewa and some Yoruba leaders in the conference teamed up to deny the percentage increase in payoffs on derivations from natural resources as asked by conferees from the Southsouth and Southeast zones.
The conference ended from there.

franklingud:
My bro I never hear this one oooo!

If this is true, then I don't support Biafra.

No wonder I have always seen them as miscreants!

It is a tip of the iceberg!

The Igbos committed all sorts of crime, rape, murder, theft, torture etc.

onuman:
GEJ concluded a National Confab for political restructuring or reforms. But waited till he would get to second term in office so as to get a friendlier Legislators at the National Assembly to stamp the conference recommendations into law.
Jonathan begged a huge crowd of Yorubas in his Lagos campaign to vote him for second term so that the CONFAB recommendations be implemented.
Again, Yoruba helped PMB to emerge president to push out GEJ.


OBJ also failed in his National Political Reforms Conference aimed to restructure Nigeria politically, because Arewa and some Yoruba leaders in the conference teamed up to deny the percentage increase in payoffs on derivations from natural resources as asked by conferees from the Southsouth and Southeast zones.
The conference ended from there.

At least OBJ successfully increased Oil Derivation from the meagre 3% which Shagari had reduced it to , to 13.5 %

christistruth01:
The Truth is that Ojukwu's Biafra had a Policy of Slaughtering all it's own Prisoners of War and because of that wicked Policy failed to release any Federal Prisoners of War after it Surrendered
in 1970

Biafra had already Slaughtered all Military POWs
despite it been a War Crime

That doesn't mean the Federal Troops were like them.

Gen Gowon had given the Federal Troops a standard Code of Conduct order and so the Federal Troops had to keep
Prisoners of War from the Biafran Troops that Surrendered to it.



Below is a Photograph of Biafran Soldiers who were Prisoners of War being fed by federal Troops

Truth is that Nigeria’s so-called civil war was a Jihad mistaken for civil war; that’s what led to millions of people, mostly civilians on Biafra side died during the war.

The high death toll is mouth gaping. Nigeria’s war against Biafra is considered as resulted in urban the 2nd largest Genocide in history after the Holocaust.

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?

But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

Hasty generalization! I am Igbo and I am not allergic to truth, just last week I had this discussion with my pop on the civil war and we both acknowledged that the igbos were led on by ojukwu on what our people call "a war of blame" ojukwu was a spoilt rich kid who wanted power by all means and could not fathom the idea of submitting to a contemporary in the person of Gowon.

So quit your hate speech already

christistruth01:
At least OBJ successfully increased Oil Derivation from the meagre 3% which Shagari had reduced it to , to 13.5 %

This blame game will get us nowhere

christistruth01:
At least OBJ successfully increased Oil Derivation from the meagre 3% which Shagari had reduced it to , to 13.5 %

Emeka Ojukwu’s long legs and pressure resulted to increase in derivation from 3% to 13% and affirmed by the Supreme Court during Obasanjo‘a civilian government. Ask knowledgeable people, in the SS and the SE. Peter Odili who was Rivers State governor then will educate you on who made increase to 13% possible before the Supreme Court affirmed it.
Obasanjo did not unilaterally increase the percentage.

hollah123:
rugaria, gidgiddy, officialgarri, Eastlink, proeast2, hammervj, Asgard13, afonjaconehead, FSU, Sctests, fahdiga, mayniaa, cynthialove

what do u people have to say?

You forgot to add racoon, princeoflagos , bigsarah abeg make Una dey list both the polite and bigot igbos to say something on this.

I remember awolowo was also in prison and Gowon released him , some some people said awo betrayed ojukwu!

Who's ojukwu to awolowo Igbo people sha!!!

gidgiddy:
What has all this got to do with the Aburi agreement?

Lol, that's the best you could say. Smh

Kelvin3476:
go ahead and publish the lie. Look at ho low u reason at ur age

Igbo people. Never want to accept the truth.
If South-south helps you to achieve Biafra? What next? Use you oppression to destroy others? Put your tribal and family members in strategic positions?
Let me tell you a secret..There will never be an igbo president of Nigeria. A South-south person from Ikwerre bearing or any other parts will replace you.

Jones4190:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

Am very sure nobody is forcing anybody

onuman:
Emeka Ojukwu’s long legs and pressure resulted to increase in derivation from 3% to 13% and affirmed by the Supreme Court during Obasanjo‘a civilian government. Ask knowledgeable people, in the SS and the SE. Peter Odili who was Rivers State governor then will educate you on who made increase to 13% possible before the Supreme Court affirmed it.
Obasanjo did not unilaterally increase the percentage.

Stop telling lies

Obasanjo increased the derivation to 13% after the Struggles of Niger Deltans like Ken Saro Wiwa

Ojukwu was Abacha's international Errand boy and Ambassador in defending Saro Wiwas. Murder and opposing the Ogoni

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So the fight going on here about who is right ad who did what to who and bla bla bla is supposed to make his nation a better place bah? And we are supposed to be enlightened fellows who shape a nation.... I feel sorry for us because the weapon used by the leaders has proved over time to be effective that all our thick, stubborn, stupid, proud, unforgiving and unlearning heads.....

christistruth01:
At least OBJ successfully increased Oil Derivation from the meagre 3% which Shagari had reduced it to , to 13.5 %

No!
Abacha did that, in fact Obasanjo had to be sued to court before he implemented it. When it comes to Niger Delta Obasanjo deserves zero credit. He was an enemy and he never made it secret.

PHijo:
No!
Abacha did that, in fact Obasanjo had to be sued to court before he implemented it. When it comes to Niger Delta Obasanjo deserves zero credit. He was an enemy and he never made it secret.

Go and read Books

Obasanjo increased the Oil derivation from 3% to 13% within his first 100 days in Office

There is an unconfirmed rumour that Ojukwu was among those that Convinced Abacha to execute Saro Wiwa

Rumour or not Ojukwu went all over the World for Abacha defending the Killing of Ken Saro Wiwa

christistruth01:
Go and read Books

Obasanjo increased the derivation from 3% to 13% within his first 100 days in Office

There is an unconfirmed rumour that Ojukwu was among those that Convinced Abacha to execute Saro Wiwa

Rumour or not Ojukwu went all over the World defending the Killing of Ken Saro Wiwa

He did not, he refused to pay derivation until governors from the region sued him to court.

He did not draft the 1999 constitution so I wonder why you want to ascribe the increase to him.

The constitution said a minimum of 13 percent, if he paid more than that we would have applauded him for that.

franchasng:
Adaka Boro was never agitating for present day Niger Delta but for Ijaw Nation.


Aguiyi Ironsi messed up big time and he sure paid the price.


The generality of Igbos don't support that act even in the 60s cos Igbos hate injustice.

Igbos accept their mistakes and apologize and move on unlike other tribes that bast in their foolishness and pride in their mistakes and never say sorry.


Igbos are the greatest tribe in Nigeria, even foreigners can attest to it.


Greatness is beyond crude oil. It's beyond treacherous political alignment, it's beyond ganging up to hate a group of people, it's more of what you can do and how far you can go when the world say you can't make it.


Its about how far you can get in life when the whole world is against you.


Being great is inborn and not by being cunning and betrayal.



Igbos are great people specially created by God Himself and blessed as He said and I quote :


"I will bless whom I will bless"


Igbo bu umu Chineke huru na Anya ofuma. You get waramin

Pls bro are you alright Hope your brain mot receiving wrong signal or is your brain network losing signal

Bia biko do I ever told you told I give a shit about all nonsense blabla blunlu shit you posted above

Your post lost relevancy when you digressed to tribalism so pls never quote me again biko face your front.

Rubbish!!!

PHijo:
He did not, he refused to pay derivation until governors from the region sued him to court.

He did not draft the 1999 constitution so I wonder why you want to ascribe the increase to him.

The constitution said a minimum of 13 percent, if he paid more than that we would have applauded him for that.

How much derivation did the Abacha and Abdusalami Govt pay ?

Obasanjo rammed the 13% derivation bill through the National Assembly Against the Will and strong opposition of the Northern Senators

christistruth01:
How much derivation did the Abacha and Abdusalami Govt pay ?

What law did Obasanjo make on derivation?

PHijo:
What law the Obasanjo make on derivation?

Obasanjo rammed the 13% derivation bill through the National Assembly Against the Will and strong opposition of the Northern Senators

Obasanjo also rammed the bill that Created the NDDC through the National Assembly

It was one of the things that made the Northerners Come up with their own State Sharia laws to oppose and embarrass Obasanjo

hollah123:
this guy is an hypocrite,he keeps attacking Buhari cos Buhari doesn't have certificate, does Nnamdi Kanu himself have certificate?

At least we know buharis military records n co,what was this guy doing b4 ipob?
or was Biafra just his hustle?
any company of his own b4 ipob?
any organisation he worked for b4 ipob?
d schools he attended n certificate?

what I realise about life is that, people's voice are always d loudest when criticizing others

stop talking like an illiterate he studied in uk as a matter of fact which has 2 do with politcal science stop been lazy n just do ur research on google www.cattylovesline.com