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Spongia1:
so There was a country is a book written by a senile, bitter, Biafran minister of misinformation in your words. Achebe was none of that....

zendy:
But they were participants werent they? Now what tribe do these 3 officers come from?

LorDBolton:
So achebe (a bloody civilian) and bifran apologist is whose views we should hold to high regard??

Ironsi n ojukwu were marked for death by the coup plotters

Also be informed nzeogwu wasn't the mastermind of the coup... ifejauna was, nzeogwu was the 'arrowhead' of the coup n 'face of the coup'

Whether Ironsi partook in the coup is irrelevant, he benefitted from it

And quickly sought to consolidate power by issuing the unitary decree b.s amongst others let's not forget ojukwu also benefited from the coup and kept his mouth shut.

Obj benefited from the botched coup that killed murtala... did he consolidate power?

Nope! If he was as stupid as Ironsi, he'd be dead by now too.

Pls read up other books not just achebe's, the yorubas never and I repeat NEVER killed igbos during the pogroms, infact more igbos were killed in benue, kaduna than the core north...cos yes "one nigeria" allowed igbos cross the niger & benue rivers to settle in the north.

Brigadier Mai-Malari, alerted to the presence of Major Okafor's force in his compound by Captain Oji's burst of fire dropped the telephone and, followed by his wife, was observed running into the boy's quarters. From there he escaped into the road, and it is thought, tried to make his way to the Federal Guard Barracks.According to the ORs interrogated, Major Okafor flew into a rage when he discovered that the Brigadier had escaped and bitterly blamed the men of the Federal Guard for not shooting the Brigadier when they saw him running towards the boy's quarters. He then ordered all present that the Brigadier must be shot on sight.

Major Okafor then jumped into the landrover driven by L/Cpl Noji. He informed 2/Lt Igweze that he was going to get "that man" and to arrange for more troops to come to the Brigadier's House. He drove around the area for some time but failed to find the Brigadier. By the time he returned to 11 Thompson Avenue, Major Ademoyega and Captain Adeleke had arrived there in a landrover driven by L/Cpl D. Omeru. Major Ademoyega had already informed Captain Oji that the Brigadier had been killed and that he had seen his body at the Federal Guard. Captain Oji was overheard telling Okafor that "the Jack had been killed". It is presumed that by "the Jack" Oji meant the Brigadier. Major Okafor then informed the troops with him that Brigadier Mai-Malari had been killed by men from another unit.

The time, by then, was nearly 0400 hrs. captain Oji was ordered by Major Okafor to proceed to 2nd Battalion in Ikeja to check the situation
there. The Captain left in landrover NA 773 accompanied by Sgt. H. Irundu, L/Cpl H Okeke, Pte. S. Adekunle and Pte. I Onoja.


As stated elsewhere in this report, Major Ifeajuna and his convoy, after the abduction of the PM and the Finance Minister, drove towards the Federal Guards Officers mess where he made a brief stop and then proceeded toward Ikoyi Hotel, still with the PM in the car. At a point in the Golf course, adjacent to a petrol station Brigadier Mai-Malari was walking towards Dodan Barracks when he saw Major Ifeajuna's car. The Brigadier recognized his Brigade Major Ifeajuna and shouted and beckoned him to stop. Then Ifeajuna stopped the car and accompanied by 2/Lt Ezedigbo went towards Brig. Mai-Malari and killed him.


Source: SPECIAL BRANCH REPORT: Military Rebellion of 15th January 1966

edudguy:
The Northerners saw the January 15 Coup as an 'Igbo Coup' but in reality Nzeogwu the ring leader of those that carried out the Coup was just an Igbo in paper. Spoke Hausa fluently, dressed like an Hausa when he was not on Uniform had lot of Hausa friends.

To understand the Nigeria 'story' better, read 'There Was A Country' by Chinua Achebe

zendy:
Would that cerain tribe include Major Ademoyega, Captain Adeleke and Lt Oyewole who were all ring leaders of the coup?

pchukwudi:
You are missing the point. Do yourself some good and study the origin of the whole fiasco.

1. IPOB issued a release a couple of days ago reminding SOME Yorubas (who shamelessly supported the proposed secret trial of Nnamdi Kanu) that Awolowo - despite being accused of a more serious crime - was PUBLICLY tried and convicted - but was later released by Ojukwu.

2. IPOB reminded the same Kanu haters of Yoruba extraction that it was Ojukwu (a man from Kanu's stock) that released Awolowo from prison after being convicted for treason. IPOB wanted to know why certain Yoruba elements feel that open trial was okay for Awolowo but not okay for Nnamdi Kanu.

3. Rather than doing some serious soul searching, the next thing that happened on Nairaland was the upsurge of silly threads distorting historic facts, calling IPOB liars and denying that Ojukwu was the one who released Awolowo from jail.

4. So this thread is a raw dose of truth (from Ojukwu himself) to hopefully difuse the lies of some senseless haters and propangandists who use Nairaland to distort history and peddle falsehood.

Got it now?

And NO I am not a member of IPOB. But I thoroghly hate dishonesty, injustice and hypocricy.

Geez! You guys are just unbelievable!

So your "truth" is basically predicated on what IPOB and Ojukwu said! In essence, IPOB -a biafran militant group's statement issued

recently, is enough collaboration to Ojukwu's (-an ex biafran warlord) interview, 15 yrs ago!!


Do you have any thing else that can stand on weight scale as the official proof, below?



The Gazette

Government Notice No. 1207/1966 ordering the release of Awo on August 2, 1966.

pchukwudi:
Guess the truth has just got their mouths shut for good on the matter.

omonnakoda:
The fact that Ojukwu would come out to lie about this many years later even though the historicity (kindly check the meaning of this word) of his claim is unfounded,( There are contemporaneous newspaper reports ,a gazette and contemporaneous books etc that report who released Awo) telll us what kind of man he was; a shameless inveterate liar who lied not only about this but about everything. He lied about weapons he never had and when he eventually saw that the war was lost he lied he was going to bring weapons and ran away.

We know that was not the first time he ran.

When "Kasala burst" as they say in Warri,he ran away from Government House to hide in Onitsha and then in a police station.
Disgraceful!!

Aigbofa:
A mismatch of incongruent logic and arguments. A clear sign of mental disorders........or a robot......

Aigbofa:
You are teaching logic to people who tried to fight armored tanks with cudgels.

BudeYahooCom:
Powerful curses that yoruba are suffering from till today.

Anytime yorubas make noise and beat their chests, SE/SSner always reminds them of this history and it pains my friends and make them withdraw to their shells. LWKMD

onyidon22:
Stop twisting facts guy.Ojukwu and other heads of regional governments were not paid by federal government because at that time Nigeria was practicing true federalism

zendy:
While I doubt the date ascribed to this broadcast, lets assume for a second that it is true. Even if Gowon assumed power on the first of August, he still could not have released Awolowo. Outside Lagos, Gowon had little or no power. Gowon could not have released Awolowo who was in jail in the Eastern Region. Not even Ojukwu recognised him as head of state and Ojukwu was technically senior to Gowon. In the chaotic times that followed the overthrow of Ironsi, Gowon was pretty much a lame Duck president who could not do anything and no power over Military Governors like Lt Colonel Ejoor and Ojukwu

0xtr196r:
Here's the answer you seek:

Yoruba Youths Have Lost Influence, Respect Of Nigerians... Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye

"...my discovery through indirect observations that Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today. I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba youth has overshadowed his intellectual judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity...."
https://www.naij.com/441183-yoruba-youths-have-lost-influence-respect-of-nigerians.html

iconTNA:
MUST YORUBAS LIE TO MAKE A POINT?


Awolowo was released by Ojukwu to prepare his people for the eventual break up of Nigeria


He rather ran to the people that put him in jail in the first place like a demented looking for succor and sold out his liberator because he was made the Promise of being President of Nigeria. He never became that because the same people who threw him in Jail for treason the first time wanted to throw him in prison again.

[/b]THIS LED TO AWOLOWO KILLING HIMSELF WITH CHILLED, MADE-IN-ABA, KILL-AND-DRY, EXPIRED RAT POISON [/b]

GreenCap:
you wish him that for spreading falsehood.

Hitler's deputy Goebbels once said, if you are consistent in telling a lie it becomes truth.

God of Abraham knows that our parents were paid only 20 pounds no matter how much they had in their bank accounts.

it is not a hidden policy. i do not hate anyone. just acknowledge that fact.

omonnakoda:
You see before MMM there was BBB

you mean, BOB?

Ojukwu truly 419ed his gullible and emotional-laden people. Wasted 3 million souls on the alter of personal ego and ambition, made off with their supposedly hard-earned millions and left them at the mercy of enemies he misinformed were poised to annihilate them.

omonnakoda:
Facts :: Awolowo resigned from Gowon's government in 1971 and gave him notice in 1970 . He was not involved in the Indigenization decree facts are stubborn

Simple question : If Biafra had won the war were the Igbos planning to come back to claim their WEALTH from Nigerian banks? How many Banks were in Nigeria in those days people like to lie to deceive themselves but facts are very stubborn, The reality is most people did not use banks and the of few that did most withdrew their savings because BIAFRA was a ONE WAY JOURNEY . There were two main banks Standard Bank( Now first bank) and Barclays( Now Union Bank) between them they did not have 20 branches in the entire country. Nigeria was still quite backward but many people talking nonsense here are kids

There was no plan to return so why leave your money in Nigerian banks

You keep ranting about treachery and betrayal? Where do we know you from? We have never had any pacts with you

CandyDiamond:
You are on your own,[/b]even Gowon himself said that it was Ojukwu that release Owolowo from prison[b].It was on record, don't twist fact.

Sanchez01:
Apologies for what is about to come, but you don't strike me as an intelligent person, not in the least of ways. The thread was very interesting until you got us all trapped in a loop of copy and paste epistles. No genuine argument came from you that transcended beyond a line.

I can't remember the last time I saw an interesting thread as this but somehow you turned it inside out as you don't have anything meaningful to bring to the fore. I guess it speaks volume as to how some agitators don't have a thing upstairs about their pursuit. If you want to go on copying and pasting, at least give us something new, I beg you.

0xtr193r:
[s]Frustrated bile-filled bigot from a cowardly generation of liars and history distortionists, read the message from your Yoruba brother - Femi Fani-Kayode
 
https://www.nairaland.com/889867/ojukwu-wished-born-igbo-femi-fani-kayode
– He (Ojukwu) stood firm when others ran, compromised and did back room deals with their oppressors. He was a great and a proud warrior.

"Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was not an ordinary person or one of the run of the mill leaders that we often eulogise after death in Nigeria. He was much more than that.... The father of Biafra. A man of strength, vision and courage. What an extraordinary and noble heritage. We knew your father and your father’s father. They also made their mark. They were also great and powerful men. Yet you were the star that eclipsed all stars in the Nigerian firmament. Unlike many of those who have hail you only in death, you were man enough to stand up and say ”no more” and ”never again” when your people were faced with genocide and mass murder. During the civil war the Biafrans fought like great men and lions simply because they were led by a great man and a great lion. We shall continue the fight for liberation where you stopped. The battle has passed to the next generation."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMGT2x6ZGo8&feature=youtu.be [/s]

kettle84:
from your rants you are so so afraid of the north. we have no fear of them.

0xtr193r:
[s][/s]

Silly rants of lies and hypocrisy from an inconsequential clan of murderous parasites...

You need to spare sane minds your senseless talks and penchant for displaying foolery and flaunting it as knowledge.

Face OduaArewanistan republic and concentrate on your business with your Fulani masters.

0xtr193r:
[s]Silly rants of lies and hypocrisy from an inconsequential clan of murderous parasites to deflect attention from the very obvious about the notorious liars and history distortionists..[/s].

prince985:
majority of d guys speaking against biafra are Yorubas, wat we r sayin is dat dey shld try and mind their biznesses

GreatNegro:
That's the awareness I and my fellow Igbos is trying to create.

I look forward to the day when such obvious "awareness" will bear fruition though i ain't holding my breadth.

GreatNegro:
You said so.

omonnakoda:
They know I am not their coeval. Their hate is impotent. Like the Chicken gazing at bottled corn.......it will be a long hungry night

..... that na "original sufferhead" o!

Princesaha:
Eko was formerly owned and ruled by the Oba of Benin but the afonjas due to their population "chanced" them and today have an afonja oba. The truth is that in the near future, the ALMIGHTY IGBOS will chance the afonjas and take over everything.
please do not quote me and talk trash cos am only giving a prophesy which will come to pass.

ShootToKill:
The real owners of lagos the Almighty Igbos are not around. They'll come back by next years. That's the plain truth that Afonja boneheads hate to admit.