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This is the letter of resignation written by Ojukwu's Chief Propangadist and International PR person.
So when next an Igbo man accuses Awolowo and Yoruba people of starving Biafrans, do not get mad, educate them.
Many of them are ignorant of facts.

"OPEN LETTER OF RESIGNATION TO ODUMEGWU OJUKWU

FROM Robert S. Goldstein

Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the United States
(Published in the Morning Post, Lagos, August 17, 1968)

As your Public Relation's Representative in the United States, it is my distasteful duty to tender my resignation based on the following points:

POINT 1 - In November of 1967 when we met in Umuahia, you and your Cabinet were very impressive. You told me of the woes of your little Republic, that thousands of people had died, were dying and more were prepared to die for freedom's sake.

You and your Cabinet told me you believed world opinion would help your cause if you could get your story across.

You expressed the opinion that very few if any people in the United States knew of the plight of the Biafrans.

You asked me to tell the world that Britain had teamed up with Russia in a conspiracy with the Federal Government of Nigeria to murder every Ibo in Biafra. You suggested I use my talents to induce the Press to write about the Biafran side of the war, as at that time all news came out of Lagos.

You will recall I did not take the asssignment that day but stayed on several days before deciding to take that job.

To help win the peace

At that time I stated to you and your cabinet that I was taking the assignment making it crystal clear I would try my best to help win the peace not the war.

POINT TWO - I immediately arranged the first world Press conference in Biafra inviting the US Press as well as journalists and television people from England, France, Switzerland, Africa and other parts of the Globe. This was the first news break through. I arranged regular trips into Biafra for the world Press, helped set up stringers, etc., so that your statements and the statements of your Cabinet would be heard.

At that time, I was absolutely positive you were right and your cause was a just one in the best interests of the free world and your countrymen.

POINT THREE - Finally the Republic of Biafra was recognized first by Tanzania, then quickly followed by Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Zambia. Our public relations work was paying off, world opnion was starting to side with us.
Peace talks were arranged at Kampala. I thought that if anyone walked away from the table it would be the Federal Government. But to my dismay it was Biafra that left the Conference. After all the fighting and killing, I knew that peace would not come easy but I could not understand leaving the Peace Conference until the last point was negotiated and the avenue explored.

POINT FOUR - Then urgent telex messages were received from 'Biafra' telling of tens of thousands of people starving in the refugee camps, the villages, the bush country - stating if something werent done in the next few months over a million women, children and aged would be starved to death. I immediately contacted the Press, urgently petitioned the State Department for action on their part. Food, medicine and milk were sent to the only available ports open for immediate shipment to 'Biafra' via land routes through Federal and Biafra territory, under the auspices of world organizations such as the International Red Cross among others.

Then came the incredible answer from 'Biafra' that land corridors could not be acceptable until there was a complete ceasefire, and that an airlift was the only solution to feed the starving.

You then appeared before the various Heads of State and representatives of the OAU at Niamey in Niger. I fully expected you to at least accept the world help that was offered your starving throngs. However, you delayed, hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa. Thus innocent victims continue to perish needlessly of starvation, the most agonising death that can befall any living creature.

POINT FIVE - This was incredible to me. I am now convinced that I have been used by you and your cabinet to help in military adventures of your origin....using your starving hordes as hostages to negotiate a victory.
If at some later date, following the isuance of this letter, you do concede to allow a mercy land corridor...would you expect me to agree to espouse before the world Press the incredible delay of your decision. What explanation could I honestly give for the needless prolongation of this horror.

Inconceivable acts

I pray this communication may in some small way influence you to move affirmatively, allowing the mercy land corridor to be born.

It is inconceivable to me that you would stop the feeding of thousands of your countrymen (under auspicies of world organizations such as the International Red Cross, World Council of Churches and many more) via a land corridor which is the only practical way to bring in food to help at this time. It is inconcivable to me that men of good faith would try to twist world opinion in such a manner as to deceive people into believing that the starvation and hunger that is consuming 'Biafra' is a plot of Britian, Nigeria and others to commit genocide.

POINT SIX - I cannot in all conscience serve you any longer. Nor can I be a party to suppressing the fact that your starving thousands have the food, medicine and milk available to them.....it can and is ready to be delivered through international organizations to you. Only your constant refusal has stopped its delivery.

I am this date, tendering my resignation and am returning to Mr. Collins Obih of the African Continental Bank all the fees you have given me (Letter of Credit No. 354 $400,000 US.)

I have sent your representative in New York a Bond in the amount of 800.000 pounds that I was holding in your behalf. I have also this date, sent the Bond of 200,000 pounds issues by the Central Bankl of Nigeria back to them for disposal.

POINT SEVEN - I am now convinced that one Nigeria is the only solution to peace. I also call upon you Mr. Ojukwu to allow your starving people to be fed. Their well-being is of deep concern to me as well as other right thinking people of the world.

Your acting in the utmost haste in this matter is in my opinion the first step toward any lasting peace in your country."

Robert S. Goldstein

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According to Ojukwu, they should have learn, but the present Igbo youth are not learning any lesson from History.

According to Ag President '' The wise learn from History, while the fools (majority of young Igbos ) want to learn from another experience of their own.

Antoeni:
I like d speech of d new Ohaneze Ndigbo President. Pls read objectively.
In my own opinion, d enemy of Ndigbo is Ndigbo itself. I remember a time in this country when all d 6 ministers in Jonathan's kitchen cabinet were all Igbo's. Ayim Pius Ayim was SGF, Ngozi Okonjo Iwealla was in charge finance, Emeka Wogu was in Labour and productivity, Berth Nnaji was in Power and Energy, Dieziani Madueke was d powerful minister for oil. The 6 of them outside d Federal Executive Council would meet and decide what and what not to be discussed at d larger FEC. Whatever they decided would eventually be d position of government. In 6 years, this was d situation. Okiro and Onovo had d police under their control. Ihejerika and later Minimah controlled d Army. These powerful Igbo's could do and undo. Nigeria was in their pockets.
Rather than care about d poor Igbo chaps scattered all over d country, they were busy diverting billions of naira into their accounts at home and abroad. D 2nd Niger Bridge, they didn't do. They shared d money. The Lagos/Calabar rail lines passing through 9 States, 3 of them in d SE, they were not bothered. They refused to pay d Chinese d Counter part fund. They shared d money. Enugu/Onitsha, Aba/PH and other roads of economic importance to their fellow Igbo's, they abandoned.
Who is to blame? Who is marginalising d Igbo's?
You had your chance, you bungled it. There was only 1 Yoruba minister worth mentioning at d time, Akinwunmi Adesina. He was in Agric. His budget was less than 1% while Emeka Wogu in Labor had over 10% for his ministry, Ayim had unlimited access to d treasury for d benefit of himself and family members. The poor Igbo guys meant nothing to him. If an Igbo becomes President tomorrow after Jonathan, will there be any difference? The Igbo man will marginalise his fellow Igbo people.

Igbos are always fighting the wrong fight and why they always lose.

G1ms:
Great. I'm igbo but my friends are all yoruba and ready to put their lives at stake to save me compared to the other igbo nigga that I trusted and he abandoned me in the midst of touts to rob me in yaba market.

That is how yorubas roll.

hakeem4:
Cool


But Yoruba people and tautology ehn !!! Which one is " reverse pada wa seyin ?

Or ice water tutu re?

What about people that writes REVERT BACK?

hammer6:
SIR LOUIS OJUKWU PROPERTY THAT IS STILL BEING USED BY LAGOS GOVERNMENT IS WAT?
STOP LYING, YORUBA STATED THE WHOLE ABANDONED PROPERTY AND NO IGBO WERE NO GIVEN THEIR PROPERTY.
EVEN THE MONEY IN THEIR ACCOUNT, AWOLOWO REFUSED TO ALLOW THEM.

What is the add of this Sir Louis property?. The problem with you Igbos is that you sit down in the East and bandy around so much falsehood and ignorance that you now spread into NL.

hardbody:
On relationship. Until it got sticky. Although both processes were running pari passu

Does that make any sense to you?

Just hope the same debenture you are trying to perfect is not already with another bank.
I don't know what sort of relationship your CR team relied up to grant to such facility

Dannidom:
What will your embittered self do about it? I guess nada. You'll rather hide behind the internet and spill trash

Get that Biafran first and leave the zoo

hardbody:
I have a Yoruba businesswoman that my company provided a credit guarantee for on this same BOI. I am perfecting a debenture at the CAC so i can sell all her assets including her silly fat ass. From day one she had no intention of repaying a loan of N80m only

I am not talking here say, it's an account i am overseeing.

My point? There are cheats and fraudsters everywhere and it's not about creed , tribe or color

You are just perfecting the debenture after you've granted the loan? This your BS story is ridiculous. On what basis did your CR team alllowed the loan ?

DerideGull:
This is one of the dumbest question or thread I have ever seen on this forum. Ghana achieved independence before Nigeria however Ghanaians never sent the Nigerians living in Accra or Takoradi packing. They are Nigerians who have decided to stay in Nigeria. So be prepared to live with it.

Uncle Dede, you are too old for this sort of childish comment biko, just damn too pedestrian for your old age.

kingzizzy:
Insults usually fly around before a divorce, comes with the territory. If you guys dont like it, sue Lord Lugard who caused all this

Good luck, I can't wait for the day we stop sharing the same passport. I want you all gone already.

kingzizzy:
We should be civilised people. Break up does not have to be bad blood. Britain just left the EU. The EU are not happy but they are still willing to work with Britain.

Biafra and Nigeria can still do a lot mutually beneficial things, just not as one nation.

Yes ideally, it should work out in a proper and civilized manner but I'm doubtful.
Do you honestly think the back and forth insults will help to achieve such amicable parting of ways and consequently a plan of assets and liabilities sharing devoid of misgivings.
I really and from the bottom of my heart wish you guys go your way, but it is this sort of OP reality check that will enable you to put things in better perspectives.

Rmxr:
Whatever would happen is their business. They should just do fast and go.

I like your straight to business approach
It is this sort of OP reality check that Igbos hardly accept. They want to have a Biafra but at the same time have the ability to stroll in and out Nigeria at their pleasure with an Okene Dilli Chwkwu night bus.

kingzizzy:
If you take Britain that just left the EU, over 3 million EU citizens in the UK. Will Britain deport them? No, not really.

In the event of Biafra seceding from Nigeria, both sides will have to discuss the sharing of assets, liabilities and debts. This means that there will be a discussion on 'Biafra/Nigeria' reltionship and the status of its citizens. A 'transition period' will have to be agreed on to allow the agreemwnts take effect


It is not likely that Nigeria will start deporting all Igbos straightaway as this could illegal under international law. Another reason why Nigeria wont do this is because it will damage Nigeria and the Nigerian economy irreparably before the international community. No international investor will ever step foot in Nigeria ever again when hear that Nigeria deported millions of people it once called brothers.

Such mass deportations only destroys the credibility of a country

The scenario you created above is on the basis that such cessation of relationship is on amicable ground, which I doubt with all these bad blood getting to boiling point at the moment. Personally I don't think the Yorubas will be as forgiven and accommodating as the last time.

Igbo legal migrants and illegal immigrants in Nigeria, I love the sound of that and I can't wait to see the day such will happen.

The Govt prosecutors are actually compiling all these infringement of the bail conditions and they may readily tender those to ask the Judge to return him to prison. He obviously doing many of these things in flagrant disobedience to the judge.

Oxtonguy:
We are expecting your usual Choleric bank deposits

Savage

95% of those that stayed at home did it out of fear of attack by hoodlums and robbers that call themselves IPOB. It was better to lose a day's business than to lose all your investments and probably your life too. IPOB simply used fear, coercion and threat of violence to keep people at home.

Ziluxger:
If you know all this, then rebuke the OP and tell him to stop masturbating over ipob and their self chosen struggle.

This is Nairaland, a Nigeria forum, owned by a Yoruba man, anybody is free to discuss any issue relating or having to do with any constituent part therein, as long as it is not detrimental to the security of the forum, so cut that bullcrap.

cowardafonja:
I know it is difficult to pull off a leech from its host flesh. The feeding bottle era is coming to an end and it is happening fast. There is a permanent curse on ododuwa to depend on other people for daily bread. Sadly, we have had enough

Without FG allocation, all igbo states will go bankrupt, what this means is that Igbos have net deficit against Nigeria, what this means is that Nigeria subsidize Igboland with money from other regions especially SS (OIL) and SW ( VAT AND CIT & REVENUE FROM THE PORTS) what this mean is Igbos are also NET PARASITES in Nigeria.

Unimaginable123:
What are you gaining being part of nigeria?
And don't forget, Igbos make up 60% of Niger Delta

YorubaForum:
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That is all you've got. If I start with your history-in- picture, you will take off to Abidjan as usual

YorubaForum:
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Is that all ?
It's obvious that you Biafra Osus have turned you all to mad people without any iota of common sense
Since Biafra agitation is coming from miscreants like you, it will take another one million years for the agitation to gain any traction

YorubaForum:
I don't know why you Afonjas are very envious and reason through ur anus.. Do you know how many south-eastern states that the federal govt is drilling oil there on a daily basis, and anytime you guys posts, you keep on saying we need the oil in nigerdelta..rubbish.. If we so need their oil then what are we going to be doing with our own oil?... You pple mindset is very deceitful and demonic..

You need to take an identity that don't suit you to vomit the usual ipob crap. You ipob miscreants are losing your minds by the minutes

A whole lot of truth in there. Collectively as a tribe, Reno is not off the mark

Igboesika:
If its not affecting you, why are you always on every Biafran thread to express your fear ?

How many times do I need to pound your head with the fact that this is. NIGERIAN forum owned by a YORUBA MAN and not a Biafrrraud forum ?
Do you see us in your Biafra forums ?

azimibraun:
Mumu boy!!! He said Niger state capital. Your block head no allow you know say na Minna him dey talk about? In a hurry to see person mistake. See what you did to yourself now. Everybody don see say u be olodo.

Na the oil in Niger Delta dey blind them

prince9851:
we dearly apologise
It wasn't scheduled to hold in Oshogbo

Neither was it schedule to hold anywhere else outside ibo land
I had ibo boys tropping into my office to take delivery of their containers after the long break. They can't afford to pay more plugging charges and demmurage

prince9851:
Yoruba consolation thread everywhere
Damn..this one na mass painment

In one sentence, explain how the sit at home observed by ibos in iboland will affect me that is hundreds of kilometres away and never set foot to ibo land

Which sit at home and when did it happen ? Didn't notice any of such!