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All these killing dey weak person.

IloveToMess:
I feel your pain, it's really disheartening.

Your write-up shows that You're a klutz and a little witham.

Wow Smello, you can't even put out a genuine personal comment without recycling my words !! Abeg Smally You're a Dunces! You ain't gat any originality and as such You're a blockhead to the core.

NkayStory:
A word of advise...beer-parlour gossip is not fact

You simply need the advise and even more since you can't check out facts on your own but stick to hearsay.

IloveToMess:
Who doesn't know idiot?

I don't know how disheartening this can be to you but I just gat to let you know that You're dumb and a disappointment to your generation.

You have got nothing upstairs!

NkayStory:
You are not laughing and you know it...Well "they" tried in 1967 but Britain aided the helpess Nigeria then to bring them back...Since then,they are the only group of people making little efforts to leave..

Stop this lie! France, Portugal, Gabon etc supported, trained, supplied weapons and even fought actively on your side during the war!!!

The person that gave you the victory you had during your offensive operation against Nigeria was a Yoruba man called Banjo who lead you soldiers on the offensive and your leader killed him.

Go check history and stop listening to propaganda.

You tried because the Nigerian government was still giving you supplies and they had to stop it later on in the war.

IloveToMess:
Make it short and neat then I'll read. For now you are still a fool thanks.

You're born stupid and a corward

You have got a baby poo for a brain and as such you can't read or reason like humans.

NkayStory:
Good!!..the disintegration of Nigeria has started and i am looking forward to it.

Laughing in Swahili because they have been saying the same thing since 1967.

IloveToMess:
All your long nonsense is so boring you fool. If you do not trust Igbo's we do not give a watery fvck but disenfranchising people because you feel threatened about their choice is where I am interested in. Look instead of trying yo frustrate Igbo's in Lagos because you have power why don't you push for the country to disintegrate so you can have Lagos all alone.

Strip yourselves of hypocrisy.

Lagos Lagos Lagos person no go hear word. When Lagos was being developed in the 70s and the 80s where were you Yoruba's, now you have all migrated from Osun and Oyo to claim Lagos. Why don't you push for Oduduwa republic, by then no one will disturb Lagos for you.

Your stupidity smell to the high heavens Do you think I migrated to Lagos like your people? Do you also think all Yorubas came from outside Lagos?Let me say that you are the most silly person I ever come across on Nairaland! It's either you're more stupid than the word stupid or you're just playing stupid!!!

Lagos have always been a Yoruba Land and it will remain so forever in-respect of what people with fish brains say.

You most lack the capacity to think out of your hatred for the Yorubas to have asked " where were the Yorubas when Lagos was being developed in the 70s and 80s! Chai I am laughing in Yoruba and Swahili at the same time. 70s, 80s .... I was in Lagos. Let me say I never came from outside Lagos to Lagos unlike most of your people that came from outside Lagos to Lagos that's with the exception of those that were given birth to in Lagos.

We the Yorubas have allowed you people to live and earn a living in the South West, a thing most of you won't allow a Yoruba to do in Your states.

Though i was fortunate because at a point in my life, i lived in the South East and they treated me well in the area and State that I lived and worked, they initially behaved hostile but later feel in love with me because I never went past my boundary; I reciprocate back the love they showed me. There were times/ days that i went out unknown to me that they were carring out rituals; I went past them and they saw and looked at me and then looked the other way without carrying out any evil action against me because I never hated on them nor did I go past my boundary. At no time did I insult them.

Perhaps that wont be the case if I have been behaving the way you people are behaving; Hating, insulting and claiming the area I lived is a no man's land.

Let me putbit to you that nobody is threatened by your choice but several people like you always turn everything to do or die! You see politics as "if note my candidate then the country must burn!!!" Let ask you, Which enlightened person does that? Only an illiterate, simi-illiterate or a tribalistic person do such.

I have igbos friends and even give them Contrats which they execute; they treat me right and I treat them well but those that show hatred towards me, have me do the same thing to them.

It's just natural. If you want love, show love but if you want people to hate you in such a way that make you cry then show hatred.

Whatever you sow is what you reap. There is no 2 ways about it.

IloveToMess:
All your long nonsense is so boring you fool. If you do not trust Igbo's we do not give a watery fvck but disenfranchising people because you feel threatened about their choice is where I am interested in. Look instead of trying yo frustrate Igbo's in Lagos because you have power why don't you push for the country to disintegrate so you can have Lagos all alone.

Strip yourselves of hypocrisy.

Lagos Lagos Lagos person no go hear word. When Lagos was being developed in the 70s and the 80s where were you Yoruba's, now you have all migrated from Osun and Oyo to claim Lagos. Why don't you push for Oduduwa republic, by then no one will disturb Lagos for you.

Your stupidity smell to the high heavens Do you think I migrated to Lagos like your people? Do also think all Yorubas came from outside Lagos?Let me say that you are the most silly person I ever come across on Nairaland! It's either you're more stupid than the word stupid or you're just playing stupid!!!

Lagos have always been a Yoruba Land and it will remain so forever in-respect of what people with fish brains say.

You most lack the capacity to think out of your hatred for the Yorubas to have asked " where were the Yorubas when Lagos was being developed in the 70s and 80s! Chai I am laughing in Yoruba and Swahili at the same time. 70s, 80s .... I was in Lagos. Let me say I never came from outside Lagos to Lagos unlike most of your people that came from outside Lagos to Lagos that's with the exception of those that were given birth to in Lagos.

We the Yorubas have allowed you people to live and earn a living in the South West, a thing most of you won't allow a Yoruba to do in Your states.

Though i was fortunate because at a point in my life, i lived in the South East and they treated me well in the area and State that I lived and worked, they initially behaved hostile but later feel in love with me because I never went past my boundary; I reciprocate back the love they showed me. There were times/ days that i went out unknown to me that they were carring out rituals; I went past them and they saw and looked at me and then looked the other way without carrying out any evil action against me because I never hated on them nor did I go past my boundary. At no time did I insult them.

Perhaps that wont be the case if I have been behaving the way you people are behaving; Hating, insulting and claiming the area I lived is a no man's land.

Let me putbit to you that nobody is threatened by your choice but several people like you always turn everything to do or die! You see politics as "if note my candidate then the country must burn!!!" Let ask you, Which enlightened person does that? Only an illiterate, simi-illiterate or a tribalistic person do such.

I have igbos friends and even give them Contrats which they execute; they treat me right and I treat them well but those that show hatred towards me, have me do the same thing to them.

It's just natural. If you want love, show love but if you want people to hate you in such a way that make you cry then show hatred.

Whatever you sow is what you reap. Their is no 2 ways about it.

Chai Saraki no dey smile again!

IloveToMess:
Guy I will restate it here again in clear terms, if you want to start war Against Igbo's in Lagos do it without talking long story. We are tired of all these threats upon threats.

Someone comes out to vote you are seeing him as a traitor yet both candidates to be chosen from are still Yoruba's, If we votes right and left wins you'd say we are putting eggs in one basket and if we votes left and right wins you'd say we are not in the interest of Yoruba.

What the fvck do you fools want??
Better start this war no time for long things abeg..

Slowpoke, nobody ever told you or anyone not to vote for who they feel like voting for!

Voting is everyone's fundamental rights so far You're 18 and above; but a situation whereby you keep shouting war when your candidate lost out in an election is another thing entirely.

What is wrong with someone saying we don't trust you people again? Is that an insult?

Nitwits like you are always on social media abusing Yorubas at every opportunity and once Yorubas return the favour, you start saying victimisation.

O boy, war is always quick to come out of you people's mouth at every opportunity and make O na start the way na go dey change date and shift goal post as if say war na match fixing or na play.

Where is your bravery if you that always shout war at every opportunity, is now asking another person or tribe to start it on your behalf?

Try and be man enough to start it, so that all can assist you and your type to finish it as quickly as possible.

As you people people think that you can go all the way, , thats how several people are waiting for you to mistakenly start one so as to go all the way to teach some chest beaters a lesson they will never forget.

I don't hate those that like me and those that treat me and my people well, but I do reciprocate back gestures.

If you know then you know.

IloveToMess:
Guy stop writing big nonsense I'm too busy to read that. Anything Lagos Governor wants to do to Igbo's let them go ahead but what goes around comes around. You can't see someone with voters card and tell him not to vote his CHOICE. After all the Candidate of PDP is still Yoruba not Igbo. Only Tinubu slaves would see this nonsense as sensible.

Do your worst in Lagos let's start war and separate. Enough said.

Just say You're daft and can't comprehend a simple write-up.

Just keep showing and putting out your ignorance at the highest level.

You people have always said you will start another war and that you have nuclear weapons etc!

Kindly start a war and let history repeat itself. Chest beating, noise making, name calling, being a keypad warrior don't win wars.

Let save ourselves of these your craps! You people should just declare independence and start an armed struggle if you are brave enough so that we can all just go at It again and know the real cowards.

The above will save us all these time wasting.

IloveToMess:
Make e start once and for all make we hear word. All you Yorubas are jealous of Igbo's success in Lagos.
It will even hasten the process of disintegration of the country.

Who is jealous of your success? None of your people even made forbes billionaire list for years now with all your silly noise and chest beating!!!!!

I have said it several times that we will only be friends of those that love and treat us as their friend, and enemies of those that hate and treat us as their enemy.

Let be candid, look around you and check worldwide the achievements of the Yoruba race which is there for all to see and yet we don't make noise and chest beat like you people. You people are always quick to insult and call Yorubas names and make derogatory and instigating comments about us but you people are quick to start playing innocent and claim that we intimidating your people that are in the South West!

You people have made lots of hate speech and videos about we Yorubas and some of us are returning the favour.

See, You people should stop all your hate speech and derogatory remarks that you make about us if you don't like the ways Yorubas are now responding to you hatred towards us.

It is normal; if you respect me, i will surely respect you but if not, then you can't expect me to respect and be polite or kind to you. Their is a musician that says "Respect is reciprocal" and this is true.

Inconclusion; If you don't like me, why should I like you?

Yimu

Like play like play e don dey start!

Olalan:
Something good coming from area boys.......

I tell you

Jayslicky:
Shameless woman, see as the thing dey pain am. The man will be like.

Laff wan burst person belle

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Monaco2:
Only 4 billionaires from Nigeria o... una dey year o las las una go Dey call otedola n papa obo billionaire

Otedola was on the previous list but he lost lot of money as per investment and came off the list.

OBO dad is a dollar multimillionaire he is speculated to be worth 700million dollars and Otedola almost a billion dollars after he lost a lot of money.

[quote author=freedomforall30 post=76455152][/quote]You have got relaxer for a brain.

[quote author=freedomforall30 post=76455152][/quote]He pain you die!

[quote author=freedomforall30 post=76455152][/quote]He pain you die

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freedomforall30:
Niger Delta people, you see wetin afonja dey talk? Dey know sey we be brothers; they hate you the same way they hate your Igbo brothers. They just pretend to like you because of oil. The day that oil go finish you go know sey these people wicked no be small.

Yoruba have Oil in Lagos & Ondo state and they have never claimed anyone's land or oil unlike some people who see the oil of the South South as their own and claim it to be part of their intended republic! If the South South like make dem follow them till they know whatsup.

Let me say the Yorubas are a friend to those that see and treat them as a friend but will be an enemy to those that see and treat them as an enemy.

You just can't have you your cake and want to eat that of others.

If you know you know.

Rejoice006:

Rental car indeed. .."haters will always keep on hating"

I tell you.

That is life; you should know when to fight and when to make peace but some mofos don't know this.

Don't believe it. People just manipulating videos to sow disharmony.

SuperIgbo1:
Tell us one town that Banjo captured and held for one week. The federal troops gained an inch every minute while, Banjo stayed discussing gibberish with the British High Commission.

Anyway, Banjo achieved three things in the midwest operation. First, he dislodged a platoon of soldiers at Siluko hill, Benin city.

Second, he created the saboteur mantra in the army and in Biafra as a whole. He told the NCOs that their commanders were saboteurs hence, they lost grounds every day. His antics created a dangerous disease in Biafra. NCOs accused their commanders of collaborating with Nigeria forces and, wanted them dead. Captain Nweke was killed by his own troops as a result of this disease created by Banjo.

Third, he imprisoned Lt. Col Igboba, an Igbo from the midwest and, abandoned him in prison even as he(banjo) was retreating with his men. Thus, when the Nigerian troops got to Benin, they released Lt. Col Igboba from prison and beheaded him.

Have you heard of the "Yoruba Biafran?"

02/01/2018
Tell your friends

Banjo almost captured Lagos for the Biafran Army in 1967, and his failure led to his execution.

There are some who believe that Nigeria’s Civil War, fought between 1967 and 1970, is not really a civil war, but a dispute between a set of tribes; Yoruba and Hausa on one and the East on the other.

This assertion does not consider people like Lt. Col. Banjo, the Yoruba soldier who rose among the ranks fighting for the Biafran Army and did so until his death at the height of the war.

Not much is known about Lt. Col. Banjo’s early life. He was born “Victor Adebukunola Banjo” as an Ijebu-man in Ogun State on April 1, 1930.

From Ogun’s foggy towns, he joined the Army as one of a generation of precocious young men in 1953 as Warrant Officer 52.

The records state that Banjo was the sixteenth Nigerian to be commissioned as an officer in the Nigerian Army, (NA 16).

In those days, Nigerian officers were entitled to training in England or nearby countries, by virtue of our colonial tie to Britain.

Banjo was a product of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he also obtained a B Sc. in Mechanical Engineering.

ALSO READ: What happens when a Nigerian soldier dies at war?

By the early 1960s, Banjo had risen to become the first Nigerian Director of the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps of the Nigerian Army.

It was the ideal life. He was a young man in his 30s with a young wife and two children.

On January 15, 1966, many of Banjo’s peers executed the decision to take power from the civilian government.

They went on a rampage, killing many national and regional leaders in what we have now simplified into calling the 1966 coup. It is perhaps the most important day in Nigeria’s history.

Detention

It is also the day when Banjo’s travails began, the day when life decided to throw him through filters and ask questions that make a man wonder what drives him at the core.

Shortly after Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi came to power following the 1966 coup, Lt. Col. Banjo was summoned to the office of the newly-selected Supreme Military Commander and was arrested while he was still waiting to see the Head of State.

Few people can say they understand what happened next but Banjo was accused of planning to kill the Head of State, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and summarily detained.

It has been suggested in accounts of that period that Ironsi was simply caught in the middle. The politics of the coup had been very tribal.

After a team of largely Igbo soldiers had murdered the majority of the North’s leaders, there was pressure on him.

ALSO READ: Nigeria may forget but Asaba remembers Oct. 7. 1967

From the North, he was expected to bring the coup plotters to justice. Eastern leaders were pleased that the perceived Northern stranglehold had been broken. Ironsi did not know what to do and the people needed scapegoats.

It was not the first time that matters of tribe would determine the course of his life.

Banjo was detained until the Northern counter-coup in the same year. In a different world, Banjo would have been released. But somewhere in the ripple effects of that coup, Banjo tried to stand up for a Yoruba soldier.

Despite protesting his innocence, he was thrown in jail for the second time. He would stay there until May 1967.

Letters from Prison

It is often said that adversity brings out the best in men. And while he would have flourished undoubtedly outside the prison walls, it was then that Banjo showed the moral fibre and liberal system of beliefs that would make him stand out at the most trying moments in his short life.

Most of these can be seen in his letters.

According to the book “A Gift of Sequins”, at the time, Banjo had a young family of four children. He did his best to staying touch and improve what was undoubtedly a hard time through constant letter writing.

Banjo’s letters revealed that he had a liberal, non-tribalistic worldview. At the core, he was a man who loved his country and wanted to see his fellow soldiers do much better.

When the Biafra War began, Banjo had been moved to a prison in the East. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, the leader of the new Biafran nation, released him and made him a colonel.

Despite his tribe, Banjo sought to fight for the new country against what he saw as institutional tribalism and genocide.

Later he would say, “However when l discovered the emerging trend that followed the declaration of Independence of Biafra, it became clear to me that a war with the North was imminent."

“I decided to stay behind and assist in the prosecution of the war, both for the sake of my friendship with Colonel Ojukwu and in the hope that having assisted to fight back the Northern threat to Biafra, he would assist me with troops to rid the Mid-West and Lagos of the same menace.”

There was scepticism to his role in the Biafran Army, but Banjo quickly proved himself to his fellow soldiers and earned their belief.

The Yoruba Biafran

He proved himself as a master tactician and a fearless soldier, traits that he proved when the Biafran Army attacked Nigeria.

When the Nigerian Army invaded Biafra on July 6, 1967, Ojukwu sent Lt. Col. Banjo and Major Albert Okonkwo to invade Nigeria.

Banjo and his team moved quickly. He was able to capture Benin City in less than 24 hours.

By the time his division took a break, he and his soldiers were able to get within 300 kilometres of the Nigerian capital Lagos.

ALSO READ: How the Aburi Accord changed Nigeria forever

Something changed when they tried to enter Lagos.

The Biafran offensive on Lagos started heavily and with purpose. Reports of that time say it moved at a “lighting quick speed” but midway, Banjo, along with his fellow commanders, Okonkwo and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna stopped and turned their army back to Biafra.

On getting back to Biafra, Ojukwu had the soldiers detained.

It is reported that Ojukwu saw their retreat as an act to sabotage Biafra’s existence.

Why they did is not exactly known. Some relations of Ifeajuna have made claims that, as the was war progressed, Banjo and Ifeajuna did not share the idea of a break up of Nigeria.

Their cases were taken to a tribunal. After the first tribunal dismissed the case, a second tribunal sentenced the soldiers to death.

At his sentencing, Banjo said, “ I came into the war at a moment of temporary collapse of the Biafran fighting effort, when it became quite clear to me that the fighting effort of the Biafran Army was not only being incompetently handled, but also being sabotaged.”

“Since then, it has been my fortune to command the Biafran troops on their successful exploits.”

“On the whole, l had in private, told Col Ojukwu that l could never be made to stand charged for having plotted against his office and his person. There was no plot against him”

On September 22, 1967, Banjo, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, and Philip Alale were marched into the Enugu city centre and tied to a pole. A firing squad of Biafran soldiers fired at them.

When Banjo was hit, he reportedly yelled defiantly, “I’m not dead yet!” and he had to be shot multiple times before he died.

Today, the legacy of the soldiers who fought on both sides has been largely forgotten. But in a country where tribal relations are still harsh, Lt. Col. Banjo set a template for living beyond tribe, for the greater purpose of humanity.

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Let me say it again; the main reason they retreated was because their fighting men and supply lines were thinly spread and they cant be reinforced because they are too far away.

These are just the truth but several people tend to overlook facts and reason along ethnic line.

SuperIgbo1:
Tell us one town that Banjo captured and held for one week. The federal troops gained an inch every minute while, Banjo stayed discussing gibberish with the British High Commission.

Anyway, Banjo achieved three things in the midwest operation. First, he dislodged a platoon of soldiers at Siluko hill, Benin city.

Second, he created the saboteur mantra in the army and in Biafra as a whole. He told the NCOs that their commanders were saboteurs hence, they lost grounds every day. His antics created a dangerous disease in Biafra. NCOs accused their commanders of collaborating with Nigeria forces and, wanted them dead. Captain Nweke was killed by his own troops as a result of this disease created by Banjo.

Third, he imprisoned Lt. Col Igboba, an Igbo from the midwest and, abandoned him in prison even as he(banjo) was retreating with his men. Thus, when the Nigerian troops got to Benin, they released Lt. Col Igboba from prison and beheaded him.

Have you heard of the "Yoruba Biafran?"

02/01/2018
Tell your friends

Banjo almost captured Lagos for the Biafran Army in 1967, and his failure led to his execution.

There are some who believe that Nigeria’s Civil War, fought between 1967 and 1970, is not really a civil war, but a dispute between a set of tribes; Yoruba and Hausa on one and the East on the other.

This assertion does not consider people like Lt. Col. Banjo, the Yoruba soldier who rose among the ranks fighting for the Biafran Army and did so until his death at the height of the war.

Not much is known about Lt. Col. Banjo’s early life. He was born “Victor Adebukunola Banjo” as an Ijebu-man in Ogun State on April 1, 1930.

From Ogun’s foggy towns, he joined the Army as one of a generation of precocious young men in 1953 as Warrant Officer 52.

The records state that Banjo was the sixteenth Nigerian to be commissioned as an officer in the Nigerian Army, (NA 16).

In those days, Nigerian officers were entitled to training in England or nearby countries, by virtue of our colonial tie to Britain.

Banjo was a product of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he also obtained a B Sc. in Mechanical Engineering.

ALSO READ: What happens when a Nigerian soldier dies at war?

By the early 1960s, Banjo had risen to become the first Nigerian Director of the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps of the Nigerian Army.

It was the ideal life. He was a young man in his 30s with a young wife and two children.

On January 15, 1966, many of Banjo’s peers executed the decision to take power from the civilian government.

They went on a rampage, killing many national and regional leaders in what we have now simplified into calling the 1966 coup. It is perhaps the most important day in Nigeria’s history.

Detention

It is also the day when Banjo’s travails began, the day when life decided to throw him through filters and ask questions that make a man wonder what drives him at the core.

Shortly after Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi came to power following the 1966 coup, Lt. Col. Banjo was summoned to the office of the newly-selected Supreme Military Commander and was arrested while he was still waiting to see the Head of State.

Few people can say they understand what happened next but Banjo was accused of planning to kill the Head of State, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and summarily detained.

It has been suggested in accounts of that period that Ironsi was simply caught in the middle. The politics of the coup had been very tribal.

After a team of largely Igbo soldiers had murdered the majority of the North’s leaders, there was pressure on him.

ALSO READ: Nigeria may forget but Asaba remembers Oct. 7. 1967

From the North, he was expected to bring the coup plotters to justice. Eastern leaders were pleased that the perceived Northern stranglehold had been broken. Ironsi did not know what to do and the people needed scapegoats.

It was not the first time that matters of tribe would determine the course of his life.

Banjo was detained until the Northern counter-coup in the same year. In a different world, Banjo would have been released. But somewhere in the ripple effects of that coup, Banjo tried to stand up for a Yoruba soldier.

Despite protesting his innocence, he was thrown in jail for the second time. He would stay there until May 1967.

Letters from Prison

It is often said that adversity brings out the best in men. And while he would have flourished undoubtedly outside the prison walls, it was then that Banjo showed the moral fibre and liberal system of beliefs that would make him stand out at the most trying moments in his short life.

Most of these can be seen in his letters.

According to the book “A Gift of Sequins”, at the time, Banjo had a young family of four children. He did his best to staying touch and improve what was undoubtedly a hard time through constant letter writing.

Banjo’s letters revealed that he had a liberal, non-tribalistic worldview. At the core, he was a man who loved his country and wanted to see his fellow soldiers do much better.

When the Biafra War began, Banjo had been moved to a prison in the East. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, the leader of the new Biafran nation, released him and made him a colonel.

Despite his tribe, Banjo sought to fight for the new country against what he saw as institutional tribalism and genocide.

Later he would say, “However when l discovered the emerging trend that followed the declaration of Independence of Biafra, it became clear to me that a war with the North was imminent."

“I decided to stay behind and assist in the prosecution of the war, both for the sake of my friendship with Colonel Ojukwu and in the hope that having assisted to fight back the Northern threat to Biafra, he would assist me with troops to rid the Mid-West and Lagos of the same menace.”

There was scepticism to his role in the Biafran Army, but Banjo quickly proved himself to his fellow soldiers and earned their belief.

The Yoruba Biafran

He proved himself as a master tactician and a fearless soldier, traits that he proved when the Biafran Army attacked Nigeria.

When the Nigerian Army invaded Biafra on July 6, 1967, Ojukwu sent Lt. Col. Banjo and Major Albert Okonkwo to invade Nigeria.

Banjo and his team moved quickly. He was able to capture Benin City in less than 24 hours.

By the time his division took a break, he and his soldiers were able to get within 300 kilometres of the Nigerian capital Lagos.

ALSO READ: How the Aburi Accord changed Nigeria forever

Something changed when they tried to enter Lagos.

The Biafran offensive on Lagos started heavily and with purpose. Reports of that time say it moved at a “lighting quick speed” but midway, Banjo, along with his fellow commanders, Okonkwo and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna stopped and turned their army back to Biafra.

On getting back to Biafra, Ojukwu had the soldiers detained.

It is reported that Ojukwu saw their retreat as an act to sabotage Biafra’s existence.

Why they did is not exactly known. Some relations of Ifeajuna have made claims that, as the was war progressed, Banjo and Ifeajuna did not share the idea of a break up of Nigeria.

Their cases were taken to a tribunal. After the first tribunal dismissed the case, a second tribunal sentenced the soldiers to death.

At his sentencing, Banjo said, “ I came into the war at a moment of temporary collapse of the Biafran fighting effort, when it became quite clear to me that the fighting effort of the Biafran Army was not only being incompetently handled, but also being sabotaged.”

“Since then, it has been my fortune to command the Biafran troops on their successful exploits.”

“On the whole, l had in private, told Col Ojukwu that l could never be made to stand charged for having plotted against his office and his person. There was no plot against him”

On September 22, 1967, Banjo, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, and Philip Alale were marched into the Enugu city centre and tied to a pole. A firing squad of Biafran soldiers fired at them.

When Banjo was hit, he reportedly yelled defiantly, “I’m not dead yet!” and he had to be shot multiple times before he died.

Today, the legacy of the soldiers who fought on both sides has been largely forgotten. But in a country where tribal relations are still harsh, Lt. Col. Banjo set a template for living beyond tribe, for the greater purpose of humanity.

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SuperIgbo1:
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I thought this stark illiterate had an IQ of at least 2 hence, I was being soft on your amala dumbass.

Before you open your putrid mouth to talk about Igbo leaders, tell us why Ogundipe fled to London where he died a great coward even when nobody pursued him. Are you not General Adisa's kinsman? Man was caught on camera weeping and begging a junior officer, Al' Mustapha.

The yooroba nation should be nuked by NATO. A bunch of cowardly men that were castrated by Dahomey Amazons in their own land are no good to the world, looooool.

See slowpoke

A coup took place which Ogundipe was not part of; it was carried out the Igbo mofos who killed Hausa fulani, Yoruba and edo leaders while the short sighted idiots like you informed your super coward Azikwe who was a coward to the extent that he ran away with his legs touching the back of his head and didn't bother to inform any of the leaders of that time.

He was the first big coward that history presented to Nigeria after independence.

As per Ogundipe, igbo military chest beaters started what they can't finish like you and your people are going to start by GOD'S Grace, Hausa fulani' lunched a counter coup and you expect them to hand over power to some one who was not part of the coup at that time? You're surely daft!

Ogundipe who was not carrying fire arms at that time was threatened with a gun and advised to leave or he will be killed at that time. His case is different from your dead cowards who had soldiers territory and weapons but fleed in women clothes to ivory coast

You people are born cowards by cowards

The case of Adisa is another thing; he begged a junior officer for his life but Ojukwu handed over to a junior officer that is not an igbo and fleed with the winds with his laps rubbing against each other in a woman's dress!

Tell who is a cowards and at the same time a clown?

You dilector is another thing entirely

After all you people chest beating as usual; we have develop bombs, we can build nuclear weapons, we have donated money and are buying latest guns; he ran away not minding the numbers of stupid stinking people like you that died but he was only concerned about his dog!

You people which all your chest beating can't even declare biafra like men and die like men because you and your ancestors are simply cowards.

You and You're people are all mouth and no action! Just hairy chest beating cowards so either sell gala in traffic or sell used parts or cloths in 2 x2 shops.

You are a disgrace to humanity.

SuperIgbo1:
Banjo gave the Biafra her major victory yet, his troops in the midwest withdrew in the most disorderly fashion after one month without giving Murtala Mohammed's second Division a hard time. The only victory Banjo's troops scored was that they dislodged a platoon of soldiers at Siluko hill, looool.

The midwest operation led by Banjo was the worst ever seen in Biafra cos they had almost everything an African army needed at that time yet, they failed. The midwest operation crippled other Biafran offensives that was going on at fronts at that time. Y'all are really very funny. I'm sure you've never read any book about the civil war just like Kagawa10.

Banjo moved his troops from where they were stationed in Onitcha after delaying for 48 hours to the midwest, not cos he was a brave soldier but cos there was no serious federal troops at the midwest at that time yet, he couldn't match on to Lagos.

I read lots of books that were written during and immediately after the civil war, i even went through hidding war time memos which consist of that of Ojukwu, Awolowo just to mention a few. I found them where they were hidding about 27 to 30 years ago and the person who hid them collected them back from me after I read them. The person died in 2014 and I don't know who he gave them to or were he kept the memos but still remember them and they have authentic signatures on them.

Banjo capture villages, towns and cities from biafran territory to Ore and had to retreat to save his men's lives.

They only killed Banjo because of envy and jealousy.