₦airaland Forum

Alexk2:
Please make me understand how it's same concept.

SarkinYarki:
You must have malaria

The motion, moved by Victor Umeh (APGA-Anambra Central) at plenary, had also wanted the Senate to urge President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a military officer from the South East as a Service Chief.

The senator noted that there was “an array of qualified military officers” from the region capable of serving as heads of the various branches of the military.

He mentioned Rochas Nicholas, a major general from Imo, who is the current Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, the Army unit leading the fight against insurgency in the North East.

Supporting the motion, Eyinnaya Abaribe (PDP-Abia South) said besides the constitution provisions cited by Mr Umeh, Section 5 (1)(a) and (b) compelled the President to abide by the Constitution.

Only six months later, on July 29th 1966, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and no less than 300 Igbo army officers reaped the consequences of their actions and plot when they were all slaughtered in just one night during the northern officers revenge coup which was led by Lt. Colonel Murtala Mohammed, Major Abba Kyari, Captain Martins Adamu, Major T.Y. Danjuma, Major Musa Usman, Captain Joseph Garba, Captain Shittu Alao, Captain Baba Usman, Captain Gibson S.Jalo and Captain Shehu Musa Yar’adua as they then were. Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon was put in power by this group after that and a few weeks later between September 29th 1966 and the middle of October of that same year approximately 50,000 Igbo civilians were attacked and slaughtered in a series of horrendous pogroms in the north by violent northern mobs as a reprisal for the killing of the northern leaders, including Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, by Major Nzeogwu, Major Ifejuna and other junior Igbo officers on the night of Jan. 15th 1966.
Please note that despite the fact that a number of Yoruba leaders were killed on that night as well no Igbo civilians were massacred anywhere in the west by mobs in reprisal killings throughout that period.
The Igbos understandably left the north in droves after those terrible pogroms and fled back to the east from whence they came. And perhaps that would have been the end of ithe story but for the fact that they also declared secession and sought to dismember Nigeria.
They then made their biggest mistake of all by provoking a full scale military conflict with Nigeria when they launched a vicious and unprovoked attack against the rest of the south attacking and conscripting the eastern minorities , storming the Mid-West and attempting to enter Yorubaland through Ore to capture it. Thankfully they were stopped in their tracks by the gallant efforts and courageous fighting skills of the Third Marine Commando (which was primarily a Yoruba force and which was under the command of the great Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, ‘the Black Scorpion’), prevented from entering the west, driven out of the Mid-West, pushed back into the East, defeated in battle after battle and were eventually brought down to their knees and forced to surrender to the Federal forces in Enugu.
The Igbo and their Biafra fought Nigeria and killed Nigerians for 3 hard years in that brutal civil war in which over one million courageous, loyal and faithful sons and daughters of the Federal Republic lost their lives at the war front trying to stop Biafra from seceding from the federation, from taking our land and from taking the minority groups of the Mid-Western Region and Eastern Region and our newly-discovered oil with them.
Yet despite our massive casualties and the monumental loss of life that the Federal side suffered (a total of 2 million died on both sides) the Igbo people were welcomed back into Nigeria after the war with open arms. Yet it was only in Yorubaland and especially in Lagos that they were given all their ”abandoned property” back and welcomed back as brothers and sisters without any reservations or suspicions whatsoever

How many Igbos know about that and how many times in our history have they made such sacrifices for the Yoruba? Would Aguiyi-Ironsi, or any other Igbo officer, have stood for Fajuyi, or any other Yoruba officer, and sacrificed his life for him in the same way that Fajuyi did had the roles been reversed? I doubt it very much. Yet instead of being grateful the Igbo continuously run us down, blame us for all their woes, envy our educational advantages and resent us deeply for our ability to excel in the professions and commerce.
Unlike them we were never traders but we were (and still are) industrialists and when it comes to the professions we were producing lawyers, doctors, accountants and university graduates at least three generations before they ever did. That is the bitter truth and they have been trying to catch up with us ever since. For example the first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935.

Pray tell me, in the whole of Nigeria who treated the Igbo better than the Yoruba after the civil war and who gave them somewhere to run to where they could regain all their ”abandoned property” and feel at home again? Who encouraged them to return to Lagos and the west and who saved the jobs that they held before the civil war for them to come back to when the war ended? No other tribe or nationality did all that for them in the country- only the Yoruba did so. And the people of the old Mid-West and the Eastern minorities (who make up the zone that is collectively known as the ”south-south’ today) have always viewed them with suspicion, have always feared them and have always resented them deeply.

Now let us look at a few historical facts and one or two more Igbo ”firsts’ that many may not be familiar with to butress the point. The Igbo people were the FIRST to carry out a failed coup on the night of Jan 15th, 1966 under the leadership of Major Emmanuel Ifejuna, Major Chukuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, Major Christian Anuforo, Capt. Ben Gbulie, Major Timothy Onwatuegwu, Major Donatus Okafor, Capt. Ude, Capt. Emmanuel Nwobosi, Captain Udeaja, Lt. Okafor, Lt. Okocha, Lt. Anyafulu, Lt. Okaka, Lt. EzedIgbo, Lt. Amunchenwa, Lt. Nwokedi, 2nd Lt. J.C. Ojukwu, 2nd Lt. Ngwuluka, 2nd Lt. Ejiofor, 2nd Lt. Egbikor, 2nd Lt. Igweze, 2nd Lt. Onyefuru, 2nd Lt. Nwokocha, 2nd Lt. Azubuogu and 2nd Lt. Nweke in which they drew FIRST blood and openly slaughtered and butchered leadiing politicians and army officers from EVERY single zone in the country except their own.
I should also mention that even though this was clearly an Igbo coup there was one Yoruba officer who was amongst the ringleaders by the name of Major Adewale Ademoyega

They did not just kill these reverred and respected leaders but in some cases they mocked, tortured and maimed them before doing so, took pictures of their dead and mutilated bodies and killed their wives and children as well.
For weeks after these horrific acts were carried out the Igbo people rejoiced and celebrated them in the streets and markets of the north, openly displaying pictures and posters of the Sardana’s mutilated body with Nzeogwu’s boot on his neck, loudly playing a famous and deeply offensive anti-northern song in which northerners were compared to goats and listening to it on their radios, jubilating that they had brought an end to what they described as ”northern rule and islamic domination” and openly boasting that they themselves would now ”rule Nigeria forever”. Though the first coup failed the matter did not end there.

The Yoruba do not have any resentment for the Igbo and we have allowed them to do in our land and our territory what they have never allowed us to do in theirs. This has been so for 80 long years and it is something that we are very proud of. As I said elsewhere recently, to be accommodating and generous is a mark of civilisation and it comes easily to people that once had empires. The reason why many of our people take strong exception to the apparent outrage of the Igbo over this ”deportation” issue and the provocative comments of my friend and brother Chief Orji Uzor Kalu when he described Lagos as being a ”no man’s land” is because the Igbo have not only taken us for granted but they have also taken liberty for licence.

Guests, no matter how welcome, esteemed, cherished and valued they are, cannot become the owners of the house no matter how comfortable they are made to feel within it. Those guests will always be guests. Lagos belongs to the Yoruba and to the Yoruba alone. ALL others that reside there are guests, though some guests are far closer to us than others. The Igbos are the least close, the most distant and the least familiar with our customs and our ways. They ought to be the last to be claiming our heritage and coveting our land and neither can they claim to have made any real input to our glaring success. For them to think otherwise is nothing but delusion...

Femi Fani Kayode

devindevin2000:
OP is a known afonja, lying like a serpent. These people will not fight for their women and children, all they are good at his trying to bring down those trying to defend and protect their women and children. Tomorrow you will cry why Yoruba women don't respect you, why would they? With your female nature!

devindevin2000:
Why is this news bothering you, did you kill any Biafran, Segun? If you didn't kill any Biafran, you shouldn't be scared or worried.

This comment was received happily by IPOB yesterday as they called in on Radio Biafra in full support of it, many vowing to sacrifice their lives.

magoo10:
kanu sent the army to shoot them ba?
Nobody needs your pity you will only get the repercussions for supporting tyranny period.

magoo10:
those who died were killed by a tyrant govt while expressing their rights to self determination and peaceful protest. That you rejoice in the barbaric killings speaks volume on the type of human you are but whatever goes round comes around.

He who rides on the back of a tiger will end in the tigers belly, the blood of the innocent will be on your head.

magoo10:
those who died laid their lives for a cause and many are still ready to do so for biafra in the face of tyranny so you can continue drinking panadol for their headaches.

You don't want them in Nigeria yet you are crying when they talk about biafra something very serious is wrong with you lots.

magoo10:
he got wasted thinking he has his military friends in his pocket. Nnamdi kanu is brave for not allowing the useless govt kill him like a chicken

Bannylove13:


Ofvourse he's alive no doubt..kill him and set the country on fire..

Is a joyous news worthy of celebration.


But what we're saying is APC can't propagate this news to divide the igbo nation and stall atikulation.

Atikunation..Has locked down the south and east..
Even kanu will atikulate..he believes restructuring..and Atiku believes that..ND one of the cardinal point of his campaign..

But igbos strong..
A man without international passport..both passport seized finds his way to Israel.

Kanu Is alive..tthe spirit I much more alive..

Let's keep atikulating..
Back to daura is certain and confirmed..

Straight to ICC is getting real.

Bannylove13:
Oga till then..
But your kanu propaganda won't fly

We won't let it fly..

We will match you guys propaganda with truth..

Buhari is going down and it's obvious to all..

You guys have played all your cards..
From corrupt to ethnicity

Obi to hause..
Slaves to ogas..

Tribalism..
E no work na kanu be the latest..


Is death on arrival..


Tell your master's..is not selling..

Bad market

Bannylove13:
Why are you people making fool of yourselves..

Is 6.pm.
Where is your kanu..

Propaganda t it's peak..

Afons try again..


See/as atikulating already..

Wake up from slumber

jumpandpas:
Foolishness is when you think that Fayose will be jailed while Obanikoro that received the money from Dasuki is contesting for Senatorial seat under APC.




cc Lzza Immhotep