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Christistruth00:
4 Eastern Minority Military Officers were passed over by Ironsi for Ojukwu to emerge as Governor of the Eastern Region. Bassey , Kurubo, Effiong, Akinwale Wey a month later Adaka Boro declared the Niger Delta Republic.Why do you think the minorities were not happy? 3 of those Eastern Minority Officers sided with Gowon during the following Civil War. Only Effiong supported Ojukwu .The 2 Igbo Officers who were passed over were Njoku and Imoh.

Thank God you eventually admitted that Igbo officers were also overlooked. This isn't an ethnic issue.

Christistruth00:
For the record the British thought highly of Wellinton Bassey, he had fought in tne 2nd World War and was one of their most loyal and longest serving soldiers it was Zik and NCNCs political intrigues that put his career on hold anyway Ironsi finally promoted him to Brigadier at last after Ironsi had become Head of State after the Jan 66 Coup, 30 years after Bassey joined the Army . Bassey deserved that promotion. Ojukwu was still only 33 years old imagine Wellington Bassey had joined the Army when Ojukwu was only 3 years old.

Bassey was not discriminated at, at least not by his fellow eastern regioners. that I know if that's what you are trying to insinuate.

Christistruth00:
They didn't stagnate Bassey's Career . On 1st October 1960 the British gave Nigeria independence with Ogundipe, Ironsi and Bassey on the same Rank of Major but Bassey was most senior.

Even after October 1st, the outgoing colonialists were still functioning in the military.

Gabkosh:
Are you tired of asking about amotekun. OK.

To your question, when you and your tribe stop your obsession with yorubas and their land and affair.

Focus on Amotekun affairs Biko. No Igbo is obsessed with your affairs. You only wish.

Christistruth00:
How could W.U Bassey's who though senior to both had been relegated into a Captains posting for years have gotten the necessary experience to become the head of the Army?

Ask the outgoing colonial masters running the military affairs of the country then

Christistruth00:
It was the NCNC/NPC coalition Government that recommended Ironsi for promotion. Zik and NCNC didn't even bother to press the case for Bassey's Promotions at all though he was also from the East and the most senior ,he was given a posting meant for a Captain and left there while his mates were going to international senior officers courses and Postings .All promotions beyond Major require political approval.

yes, politicians make recommendation but it is based on the submission given by the most senior military cadre. Ogundipe and Ironsi were the most favored by the outgoing colonialists.

ABlAstate:
Abia state needs attention
https://www.nairaland.com/5867684/abia-state-see-why-national#89713814

Forget the government propaganda, Abia state is gone.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdYx9MV_nmw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNcpII4xZmc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7GBiR9xKzI

You are seriously pathetic.

Gabkosh:
Where is your own security outfit? Oh, sorry, I have forgotten that your northern slave masters did not allow it.

Worry not about our darling amotekun. It is well functioning. All you need so is warn your father and brothers to behave well in the West.

Your chronic obsession about igbos amazes me. Why not face Yoruba affairs and leave igbos alone?

Gabkosh:
Stop being aggressive, They don't need you either, they are more then you and can stand alone. Stop showing your pain.

Another pained loser... pls face amotekun affairs.

Blackking98:
Story for the gods. Why didn't you win in 1967 of you're so good. Mtchewww

So losing the war would mean losing you guys consequently? lol.... chai.... we don suffer tru tru

Akponmfet:
You don't have to worry about the Niger Delta people or what we do with our resources as we don't care what Igbo people do with theirs.Just focus on the 5 South Eastern States.Our NO is final.There should be no need for long stories, we don't want to join Biafra - END OF STORY.

Who needed you before? Just keep your rotten hands away from every igboland in Delta and River state. Biafra won't be needing you.

pocohantas:
No, okazi is not the Igbo version of afang. The only thing they share is the leaf. Everything else is totally different.

I agree with the rest.

Thanks for the correction. I actually didn't mean it as to being a subset of the other.

Okazi is UNIQUE. Afang is UNIQUE. However, it's the same leaf.

Forgive my misleading semantics.

Ogbono and onugbu soup is fondly associated with Anambra/Delta igbos

Oha soup and Ukazi soup is fondly associated with Imo/Abia Igbos

Ukazi soup is Igbo version of Afang soup because they share the same leaf and ingredients. Flavoring is what differs.

Other Igbo soups are OFE UGU, OFE ACHARA, OFE ELILE, OFE OWERRI, OFE NSALA, OFE OKRO, etc

In terms of physical beauty, these are my top ten based on my personal experience:

1. Imo
2. Edo
3. Adamawa
4. Anambra/Abia/Enugu
5. Akwaibom
6. Katsina/Kano
7. Benue
8. Ogun
9. Delta
10. Lagos

Igbo babes are the most beautiful.

Adefatima:
And who were the natives that worked with colonial government in Lagos ? Igbos ? Or the returned yoruba ex slaves who also built some architecture that last till date ?
Have you no heard of Souza, Fernandez, Rochas ,Da Silva of Lagos smh

your delusion is on level 5G seriously.

Blackking98:
I know the Igbo ingenuity and stuff like that but I'm speaking with current stats, with high level of cultism and militancy in the SS which means excess arms in circulation the SE can't even afford a confrontation with us bro.

Really? igbo will weaken your region without firing a single bullet, it's an open secret.

gwafaeziokwu:
Show you what is in our back yard? Who the hell are you?

We will dregde Azumini and Obuaku to get access to the atlantic without stress.

Abia state government is on the matter tey tey . What is remaining is the political will to build the port and that is it.

When it is ready you can jump into the nearest lagoon if you so wish. Nonsense!

Don't mind them. Always disappointing themselves at the end of the day.

Gabkosh:
Lol, osu, border not about Amotekun. It is well ok. Don't change the topic. Show us the coastline in igboland.

Trust you, you might start writing about vertica city now just to evade the question

you are simply pathetic. I leave you to your misery.

Gabkosh:
This man no get iota of shame. Show me any coast in igboland, he's writing epistle about Vienna in far away Europe Kikikiki. It is a curse to be igbo hehehehe.
I am not even talking of you having access to sea. Kogi has access to Sea, Mali and Niger republic have access to sea via Niger River. But leave that epistle for another topic.

Baba, I have heard your epistle. You have access to sea via Niger River just like kogi, Mali and Niger. But try and be proud enough to show us here and coastline in igboland. I am not ready to read about any epistle from Asian nation

Yorubanza, face amotekun issues and leave Igbo matters alone....ah ah.....are you this moronic?

Gabkosh:
Shut up. The forum was created, owned by bona-fide Yoruba son. Go to your biafrasay nairaland wannabe. You should be ashamed of yourself that you tried hard to imitate nairaland but not working.

This is a forum created by Yoruba son. Get that into your smelly akpu and tasteless nsala skull.

same way Linda ikeji blog is created by an Igbo woman, one doesn't post idiotic mentions like yours.

Gabkosh:
May I remind you this is a bona-fide Yoruba forum. Why not go to your useless nairaland wannabe biafrasay with your useless news. Will you see us there. Carry your useless igbo matter to biafra say and don't bring it to Yoruba forum.

This is not a Yoruba forum Aproko.....if it were no igbo would be here....Aren't you even irritated by yourself? Don't you have shame?

Gabkosh:
Shiiiiiiiiii. Keep quiet. Na you helpe carry it from ground to the head. zombie. Igbo matter ko, igbo molecule ni.

All we are saying is the your land is landlocked and nothing you can do it it. Mr jobful man that is commenting at past 12. Shameless man that can't discuss intelligently.

Is your father the owner of nairaland, or is he the one that bought phone and data for me. Park one side. Who is this mentally deranged fellow?

You are irredeemably pathetic. Go to your Yoruba enclave and leave Igbo people alone.

Gabkosh:
The shenanigan is telling you that none of your land is close to the sea.That you are fucking landlocked. Fact.


Reduce your wailing.

This igbo matter you are carrying on your head, it is joblessness or sickness that is worrying you or what? Take your tales elsewhere, you have since been rubbished and you don't even realize it. Anyway, mentally challenged people don't realize they are actually challenged.

festacman:
That you follow Kanu sheepishly and I am wisely not following him doesn't make me less Igbo. Until you and your deity Kanu stop dragging Ndigbo in the mud with his childish propaganda, I will never stop putting question mark on IPOB and Kanu's strategy and tactics. Tell Kanu focus on Afaraukwu if you want me to stop focusing on him.

Guy you are lame, you ain't worth 1MB

Gandollar:
Hahahaha.. your idiocy is freshly baked. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Are you minding the soup brain? They see igbos in their dreams everyday and night.

Gabkosh:
You be confirmed olodo, Mali and Niger have access to the sea through same river Niger as passage way. They must pass through Nigeria just as you must pass through Niger delta.


If the bolded is through, they tell us why Niger and Mali are not using the river for export and import.

All you do is to post debatable points and then attack. So far, has given you concise image and legal facts regarding his position. Attacking his person won't score you any point

post=89644071:
I just show the international law on River Niger, Igboland isn't far from ocean , unlike those countries you mentioned, cost of dredging and maintaining River Niger to those countries is huge, if they can take up the cost nobody will stop them that the law, do Nigeria stop Cameroon from opening Lagdo Dam that often overflow River Niger

Azimini blue river washes into Atlantic Ocean. Case closed.

Gabkosh:
Only Fools believe igboland without any coastline is not landlocked.

Only fools believe that igboland with tributaries washing into the ocean is Landlocked.

Tissaia:
It’s A Lie: Igboland Is Not Landlocked By Aloy Ejimakor
Ndigbo are undoubtedly an indigenous people presently lying within Nigeria. So, international law will surely come into play if a conflict arises out of Nigeria’s persistent institutional resistance to granting a seaport to Igboland.

BY ALOY EJIMAKORMAY 17, 2020

It’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may - in course of time - begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or that it has no access to the sea. The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to debunk that lie with some simple historical and topographical evidence that are even in plain view, if you care to dig or do some physical exploration of your own.


Suffice it to say that it is a profound tragedy that entire generations of the immediate post-War Igbos never bordered to check but seemingly accepted this brazen institutional falsehood, largely intended to taunt the Igbo and put them down. A few that knew it to be false just didn’t care anymore. That History was banned since the end of the Civil War made it worse, plus the fact that most people don’t take physical Geography that serious anymore, otherwise they would have known that Abia, Imo and Anambra States have varying short-distance paths to the Atlantic Ocean through Imo, Azumiri and Niger Rivers. It’s not really rocket science, as you can easily confirm this if you know how to read Google Earth; or conquer your fear of swamp snakes and walk through these areas on foot.

There are also many other hardly explored waterways and slithering tributaries, including the remote reaches of Oguta Lake and Oseakwa River in Ihiala (Imo State) that meandered through Igbo-delta wetlands to the Southeastern ends of the Atlantic waterfront. These rivers have varying lengths of short navigational paths to the Atlantic, and in some cases, are far shorter nautically (and even on footpath) than the Portharcourt, Calabar and Ibaka seaports are to their side of the Atlantic.

Many of these pathways, including particularly the ones from the outer reaches of Imo and Azumiri Rivers terminate at the Atlantic at no more than 15 to 30 Nautical miles to the beachhead. To put it in lay language, one nautical mile equals 1.8 kilometers. Thus, the contiguity of Southeast (not even the greater Igboland) to the Atlantic is less nautical miles than the Atlantic is to the seaports in Calabar, Onne, Ibaka, Lagos and Portharcourt. If you discount the territories excised from Igboland during State creations and the damnable boundary adjustments, it will be far less.

To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Portharcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River. Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 Miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was dredged 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaports dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic.

Compare all these to Obuaku in Abia State, which is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic from the confluence of Imo and Azumiri River which itself separately lies not more than 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic beachfront. The less obvious one is the little-known Oseakwa River in Ihiala (Imo State) which is mere 18 nauticals to the Atlantic, all with its 65 feet of natural depth, unarguably comparable to no other River in Nigeria.

Additionally, what is geopolitically known as Igboland today is far smaller than what it was and legally supposed to be. As far back as 1856, Baikie - one of the earliest and credible Geographers of ancient Nigeria, had this to say - “Igbo homeland, extends east and west, from the Old Kalabar river to the banks of the Kwora, Niger River, and possesses also some territory at Aboh, an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the latter stream. On the north it borders on Igara, Igala and A'kpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes, all of which trace their origin to this great race" (Baikie, William Balfour, published with a sanction of Her Majesty's Government in 1856).

But with that infamous post-War abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in boundary adjustments and the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically and psychologically lost their vested ancestral lands, all to the point of not caring anymore about their historical contiguity to the Atlantic, which their ancestors beheld and called the ‘Great Sea’. The psychological beat-down got so bad that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now lying outside Southeast) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not.

The worst injustice was In 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a serious and targeted agenda of carving out core Igboland territories into some neighboring States of the South-South. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it. They missed the southernmost Southeast lands that possess Rivers that meandered through slices of Igbo-friendly South-South territories and ended up at the Atlantic, thus unwittingly placing Igboland and its right of access to the sea under the canons of customary international law.

As it stands, international law of the sea guarantees Igboland (whether it remains Nigerian territory or not) unhindered access to the nearest sea (in this case: the Atlantic) peacefully by the many short-distance rivers, waterways and tributaries that originated from Igboland but ultimately washed into the Atlantic through contiguous South-South territories. For avoidance of doubt, there’s particularly the Obuaku confluence in Ukwa West (Abia State) that flows through Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State before expanding out and washing into the near-reaches of the Atlantic. And the River Niger which ultimately joined the Atlantic through a vast network of hardly explored creeks and mangrove swamps that abut the Bight of Bonny in the South-South.

Nigeria is subject to the International Law of the Sea and is therefore bound to abide by its provisions, should the need arise in a scenario of persistent sovereign oppression of an identifiable indigenous group. The others are the United Nations Treaty of the Sea and the African Union Treaties and Conventions on the Sea, including particularly the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, which Nigeria ratified and domesticated in 1983. The pertinent provisions are mostly embedded in the copious provisions relating to the collective economic and commercial rights of indigenous peoples lying within the Treaty nations. Ndigbo are undoubtedly an indigenous people presently lying within Nigeria. So, international law will surely come into play if a conflict arises out of Nigeria’s persistent institutional resistance to granting a seaport to Igboland.

Aloy Ejimakor is a Legal Practitioner.

http://saharareporters.com/2020/05/17/it%E2%80%99s-lie-igboland-not-landlocked-aloy-ejimakor
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Only fools believe igboland is landlocked.