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Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback:
SakuraSimiola:
You are a disgrace to all rationale thinking Yorubas.

You are a disgrace to the concept of One Nigeria.

You are a psychopath who justifies the murder of children.
I reckon you are the rational thinking Yoruba?

You are the slave Yoruba who loves to get bleeped and then begs for more.

What amazes me is that you had nothing to contribute to all the factual historical Nigerian precedents that I have supplied on the matter of war or secession by the Biafrans, or on the famine and economic blockade as already outlined by Azikiwe.

What do you have to say about Robert Goldstein's appeal to Ojukwu to let his own people have the food they needed so desperately and was already available to them?

What do you have to say about Azikiwe detailing how any region which secedes would be calling for war, and how the North will be economically blockaded if it seceded from Nigeria?

What have you to say that an Igbo Ironsi also used military might to squash the NigerDelta Republic and arrested Adaka Boro for treason, inside the same Eastern region of Ojukwu who was to do the same later?


If indeed you are Yoruba, it is fools like you that Igbos daily mock here as "Suffersticated" as a mockery of sophisticated.

It is fools like you that Igbos call cowards to your face in your own region and rather than smack the face of the "mudarfucker", you smile sheepishly like a retar.d.

It is fools like you that Igbos daily mock that you are all agberos who daily depend on the wealth of Igbos in Yorubaland.

It is fools like you that Igbos say you are lazy and stupid, that is why they outsmarted you on your own turf for privileges you allowed them but they cannot allow in their own enclave.

It is fools like you that Igbos deride as slave to Fulani's despite them having a history of political partnership to their own benefit with the same Fulani Northerners, to the detriment of Southern aspirations.

It is fools like you that would watch the Igbos deny the rights of others to positions in the federal service in the 1960s and appoint the most qualified Igbo over the most qualified Nigerian, and then term such as meritocracy. They are now lamenting as they experience the same, with their eternal wailings of marginalization.

It is fools like you that would allow the Igbos propagate lies and their hypocrisy that can be easily debunked by facts, yet you say I am not rational.

It is fools like You the Igbos like Azikiwe loved so that they can win seats in Parliament that will make him a Premier in the West when other regions including his own had native politicians as Premier. Then him and his ilk would later on say Awolowo is a tribalist for daring to compete and democratically win more seats in Western Parliament to become Premier of his own region.


If you are indeed Yoruba, you are a dead breed of Yoruba. My own breed will never take any quarter from any Nigerian tribe, nor suffer fools gladly.


Ojukwu remains a psychopath who gambled with the lives of others while cherishing his own.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 9:27pm On Mar 27, 2018
SakuraSimiola:
You are a disgrace to all rationale thinking Yorubas.

You are a disgrace to the concept of One Nigeria.

You are a psychopath who justifies the murder of children.
I reckon you are the rational thinking Yoruba?

What amazes me is that you had nothing to contribute to all the factual historical Nigerian precedents that I have supplied on the matter of war or secession by the Biafrans, or on the famine and economic blockade as already outlined by Azikiwe.

What do you have to say about Robert Goldstein's appeal to Ojukwu to let his own people have the food they needed so desperately and was already available to them?

What do you have to say about Azikiwe detailing how any region which secedes would be calling for war, and how the North will be economically blockaded if it seceded from Nigeria?

What have you to say that an Igbo Ironsi also used military might to squash the NigerDelta Republic and arrested Adaka Boro for treason, inside the same Eastern region of Ojukwu who was to do the same later?


If indeed you are Yoruba, it is fools like you that Igbos daily mock here as "Suffersticated" as a mockery of sophisticated.

It is fools like you that Igbos call cowards to your face in your own region and rather than smack the face of the "mudarfucker", you smile sheepishly like a retar.d.

It is fools like you that Igbos daily mock that you are all agberos who daily depend on the wealth of Igbos in Yorubaland.

It is fools like you that Igbos say you are lazy and stupid, that is why they outsmarted you on your own turf for privileges you allowed them but they cannot allow in their own enclave.

It is fools like you that Igbos deride as slave to Fulani's despite them having a history of political partnership to their own benefit with the same Fulani Northerners, to the detriment of Southern aspirations.

It is fools like you that would allow the Igbos propagate lies and their hypocrisy that can be easily debunked by facts, yet you say I am not rational.

It is fools like You the Igbos like Azikiwe loved so that they can win seats in Parliament that will make him a Premier in the West when other regions including his own had native politicians as Premier. Then him and his ilk would later on say Awolowo is a tribalist for daring to compete and democratically win more seats in Western Parliament to become Premier of his own region.


If you are indeed Yoruba, you are a dead breed of Yoruba. My own breed will never take any quarter from any Nigerian tribe, nor suffer fools gladly.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 8:48pm On Mar 27, 2018
SakuraSimiola:
That Throwback fellow is a nasty piece of work.

He does not represent Yorubas please!
You do not represent Yorubas.

You and other bastards like yourself.

How much of your valuable time have you spent to defend your tribe from the daily assaults of hypocritical and vile clansmen?

You are a waste of space if indeed you are a Yoruba, and you are the very stupid type the Igbos love to be friends with.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 7:59pm On Mar 27, 2018
gidgiddy:
So why is all this giving you headache when it is not even giving the people Ojukwu led any headache?
Exactly!

So why are we having this thread and why the generational lamentations and crocodile tears?
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 7:57pm On Mar 27, 2018
Malawian:
I dont even understand Nigerian sometimes.

Igbo people went back to their own region, declared independence for not even all of their lands (Anioma), but still, only their region and was managing themselves with whatever they had.

3 months later, Nigerians already tired on being with themselves in their country, decided to invade another country to kill and plunder like their lives depended on it.

Yet, "Ojukwu wanted to win a war"

So if someone decides not to live in your house anymore, it becomes an invitation to fight him wherever he goes to find refuge?

I really cant understand these guys honestly.
But you Igboman understand the logic behind Aguiyi Ironsi as military head and Ojukwu as military governor of Eastern Region, to deny Isaac Adaka Boro of his NigerDelta republic and quell that republic with military force and have Adaka Boro arrested?

When will this hypocrisy stop?

Who insisted that no region should be able to secede from Nigeria and that such illegal action would only result to war?
Azikiwe

Who detailed how such illegal secession should be dealt with using economic blockade that would lead to famine, forcing such region to retrace its steps?
Azikiwe.

Azikiwe and Ironsi were Igbos just as the Biafrans.



Isaac Adaka Boro

He was many parts and different things to different people - a university students leader, a teacher, policeman and Nigerian army officer. An undergraduate student of chemistry and student union president at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, he left school to lead an armed protest against the exploitation of oil and gas resources in the Niger Delta areas which benefited mainly the federal government of Nigeria and Eastern region with capital in Enugu and nothing was given to the Niger Delta people. He believed that the people of the area deserved a larger share of proceeds of the oil wealth. He formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, an armed militia with members consisting mainly of his fellow Ijaw ethnic group. They declared the Niger Delta Republic on February 23, 1966 and fought with federal forces for twelve days before being defeated. Boro and his comrades were jailed for treason. However, the federal regime of General Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty on the eve of the Nigerian civil war in May 1967. He then enlisted and was commissioned as a major in the Nigerian army.
Politics › Re: Presidential Visit: Lagos Declares Thursday March 29 Work Free Day by Throwback: 6:52pm On Mar 27, 2018
He needs to be booed when he arrives.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 6:10pm On Mar 27, 2018
Version1point0:
oga you need to get yourself educated.

1.) one of the preparation you make for war is how to feed your people adequately. you can't expect the same aboki you are fighting to still give you pepper, yam and cow meat.

2.) it is a normal war strategy to cut off enemy supplies in any war cos such supplies won't be food alone, arms will also be included so the blockade is justified. it's called siege!!!

3.) even in the 20th century siege warfare wasn't considered illegal. you can't feed your enemy.

let me give u examples of 20th century siege warfare

the siege of Leningrad during the second world war lasted 29months!!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad


even the allied forces placed Berlin under siege for over a year https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade

even in the 1990s Yugoslav wars lasted for 4yrs and siege warfare was used. it wasn't considered illegal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars

the siege of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya in Syria is still on since march 2015 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_al-Fu'ah_and_Kafriya

siege is legal even up till now as long as you allow the children and women to be fed. ojukwu refused help for them to force the fg to stop the siege. blame him
The federal government of Nigeria even executed the very script that Azikiwe had detailed as punitive consequences that would be executed against the North if they chose to secede from Nigeria, having ensured that it would be illegal, and such secession would only be achievable by war.

Poetic justice, saw him see his people suffer the very ordeal he had detailed.

Ironsi had used military might of Nigeria to quell the Niger Delta republic that was illegally declared by Adaka Boro.

A year later, Ironsi's tribe was also seceding illegally and even had the effrontery to cross into Nigeria to the Midwest and got into the Western region before the Nigerian forces finally accepted that the Biafrans truly wanted war, and effected an economic blockade as a police action that should have led to a surrender.

As at 1968, Biafrans were already dying of famine, yet same Biafra chose to continue the war till January 1970, when it finally surrendered unconditionally after Ojukwu had abandoned his people who he did not allow to get food supplies by land.

Did Ojukwu who was using the pictures of malnourished children to wage a media propaganda war, not know that those children were dying and would need the food supplies that were already waiting to be brought into Biafra?

Was Ojukwu expecting the Nigerian government to surrender from the war when it was not the one under duress?

Was Ojukwu expecting the Nigerian government to care more about Biafrans than Ojukwu himself cared?

Who is to blame for Biafra's refusal to surrender after a defeat that had already been inflicted at the early stages of the war?

Who is to blame for Biafra's woes?
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 5:53pm On Mar 27, 2018
DejiSantos:
As long as Nigeria produces those like you we will never be one.

Those who would rather blame Ojukwu than those who implemented a policy of starvation.

You said in your previous comments that starving of children is an acceptable method of war.

We have nothing to talk about.

But you are a disgrace to Yorubas. Please know that.
If you fail to produce a quote of mine stating the bolded text, it would never be well with you and your lineage.

I repeat, mercy can only be shown in war after a surrender, not before.

The aggressor that chose to cross its boundaries into Nigerian boundary after deciding to secede when Azikiwe already ensured it was illegal, and when Ironsi had already militarily prevented Adaka Boro of the NigerDelta Ijaw from doing same in 1966, such aggressor is deserving of equal aggression.

War is not a tea party, it is not a party of friends discussing frivolities. War is life and death.

And when one of the waring parties has been surrounded and totally isolated, it is time to negotiate a conditional surrender with benefits, so as to avoid shedding crocodile tears decades after an unconditional surrender.

It is totally absurd for a party in a war to be wailing that the other party did not show it mercy during the war, or that it did not let it have its way in matters were one was a beggar and the other the benefactor.

If the successful blockade the Nigerian government effected on Biafra as already detailed by Azikiwe as a means to punish the North if it attempted to secede from Nigeria, resulted in famine in a Biafra that did not plan its war strategies, is that not the sign of defeat and is surrender not the next line of action if there was any wisdom in that land.

If they chose not to be wise and decided to forge ahead amidst famine, was Biafra in any position to dictate to its war opponent Nigeria that it would only accept food and relief supplies that would come into Biafra by air flight through Nigerian airspace?

Can a beggar dictate the terms of mercy even when the other party chose to be humane?

You are a disgrace to whatever tribe you are.

When you are done shedding your crocodile tears, you would accept the lessons that history has taught you and be wiser for it.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 3:12pm On Mar 27, 2018
SakuraSimiola:
The anti igbo sentiment in this thread is heartbreaking.
Were you hoping for an anti Nigerian sentiment?
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback:
DejiSantos:
You are sick. You go on every thread that has anything to negate any genuine criticisms of Nigeria's conduct during the war.

As a fellow Yoruba and as a Nigerian be......you make me sick.

We are talking about the intentional starvation of children by our nation.

And you're there rambling about Ojukwu.
You are the one who is sick in the head, and I do not care if you are Ijaw or Igala.

Why exactly you are angry at the facts of this historic matter that I have selflessly availed the reading public, already suggests that you are failing in your propaganda.

When you are ready to discuss and criticize Biafra and Ojukwu's conduct during the war, only then will I consider you a sane and sound mind.

If Ojukwu and Biafra's political and military leaders did not care about their own starving children and would rather use them for media propaganda, is it Nigeria's military and political leaders that were in a war with same Biafra that should care?
Fashion › Re: Lady Mocked For 14 Years Because Of Her 'ugly' Leg Turns To A Successful Model by Throwback: 9:06am On Mar 27, 2018
izzou:
grin

So they started bullying her at the age of 14?

It's either she's lying or the kids in her neighbourhood were awful
It could mean the bullying ended when she was 14 and already a high school senior.
Investment › Re: A Nigerian Claims He Killed The Founder Of MMM, Mavrodi. See Post by Throwback: 10:58pm On Mar 26, 2018
It was posted in January 2017 not 2018.
Crime › Re: Fulani Herdsmen Attack Farmers In Taraba Today, Brutalise Many (Graphic Photos) by Throwback: 9:55pm On Mar 26, 2018
It is time for Buhari to be impeached.
Celebrities › Re: Adaeze Yobo Gets Provocative Tattoo Over Fight With Joseph Yobo by Throwback: 8:01am On Mar 26, 2018
Like mother like daughter. No wonder John Fashanu pick race.

Beauty doesn't mean well brought up.

As for Yobo who chose to marry a then 20yr old former beauty Queen, he should have hired a nanny for her and the other children.

One day she will tell Yobo that he cannot sleep in his own house anymore.
Politics › Re: JUST IN: Some Faceless People About To Tarnish My Image" - Jonathan Cries Out by Throwback: 1:13am On Mar 26, 2018
I swear this corrupt Jonathan is a clown.

I still cannot understand why he is not languishing in jail yet?
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 1:09am On Mar 26, 2018
resurgentxtian4:
Igbos have been disgraced on this thread ooo grin
They have ran back to Abidjan.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 12:23am On Mar 26, 2018
Omololu2121:
ojuiku was pardon by a Fulani man,and joined a Fulani man party.

Ojuiku and JTU ironsi were so greedy,they declared war on the Niger delta after Isaac jasper adaka boro declared the Niger delta an independent state,ojuiku and ironsi never supported him,instead they went to war and crush adaka boro men.

Yeebos are hypocrite
I even forgot that one, yet they will call Adaka Boro a traitor and be telling his departed soul "Good Morning", whenever the Ijaws are celebrating his posthumous birthday.

Only babies do not know that Igbos are very hypocritical about their lamentations.
Politics › Re: BREAKING!! Biafra : Mock Referendum Happening Now In Enugu (photos) by Throwback: 11:58pm On Mar 25, 2018
Ikechuob:
E fit concern you how? Carry your waste away from me biko.

One thing though, it's better than your sh1thole. Then again, every nation on Earth is better than your shithole. Was it not reported not too long ago that the slaves saved from Libya reported to be going back to Libya as it's better to be a slave there than stay in your Niggeria. Sad really but That says alot on how worthless and useless that shithole is. A complete waste of space in the beautiful face of mama Africa.

Oh as for your passport. I long been burn since sef...since 2014 sef. It's a useless piece of papers belonging to a worthless shithole and hellhole "nation. Like I said earlier, keep your worthless retrogressive stench away from me.
Ikechuob:
Stop trying to foster that your waste on everyone. Keep your stench to yourself. Just because you savage lots wants to remain "one niggeria" and maintain your backwards, retrogressive, piece of shit that can't don't shit for itself yet delude it's self as "giant of Africa" does not mean, you have the right to foster that piece of shit onto others. Nationality isn't forced. That shithole belongs to you savage lots. My ancestors were biafrans and so am I. If not for that racist white bastards called luggard and his wh0re, would anything connect me with you shitheads and your retrogressive stench? No!
See how Azikiwe frustrated the gentleman till he became an angry black man.

Azikiwe: there shall be no secession in the new country Nigeria
Biafrans: But we are Biafrans and Lugard did not ask for our permission.
Azikiwe: Mechionu gi! We are Igbo's and we must dominate nationally.

Decades later....

Biafrans: Nigeria is marginalizing us. We don't even have identity until Jonathan gave us one.

Curtain draws close.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback:
Biafra ended up surrendering unconditionally!

When they held some aces to negotiate a conditional surrender, arrogance and Igbo "wisdom" did not let them take the right step.

In the end, unconditional surrender was their lot, while Ojukwu remained in Abidjan, enjoy high society life and moving from one Igbo wh0re to another, as much as were willing to go service their coward leader.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 11:35pm On Mar 25, 2018
cKaiser:
Below is a book written by Chief CC Onoh, Ojukwus friend and inlaw where he called Ojukwu a cantankerous coward

https://books.google.com/books/about/A_View_Into_History.html?id=aZwPAQAAMAAJ
Even Gowon rightly called him a coward.

If his own father could summon the courage to accept an ugly bastard as his son, why would Ojukwu refuse to accept his own son who was born by his divorced wife?

Indeed Ojukwu was a coward, but his manhood had courage to have fathered grandchildren for his own friend and political associate.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 11:30pm On Mar 25, 2018
DerideGull:
Arrant nonsense!!! Francis Fajuiyi's sister was not in the room and probably was not in government house in Ibadan on July 29, 1966. The military men who were in the room and understood the military parlance have publically dismissed the crap as the propaganda from the western regional publication of 1967. Yrai.ba peeps are full of it.
You are too eager to dismiss historic acts of love, support and courage from the Yorubas to the Igbos, but will still lament in the future that the Yorubas are betraying you who never did anything to earn the expected loyalty.

Can the Igbos be pleased ever?
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 11:27pm On Mar 25, 2018
Sctests:
You yorubas are always good at revising history and begging people to swallow your lies. Many of which have been bursted here severally.

you luciferous yorubas are only who lied that none of Ojukwu family members fought in war. You promoted the propaganda that 'ojukwu family were enjoying while other were dying at the war front' but the truth is that Ojukwu's blood brother Lt. Bigger died fight side by side with Nzeogwu.

Little did your half-baked revisionists envisage that one day the internet will be invented and blow your lies to smithreens. Today you guys now look ridiculous.
Is it true that Ojukwu was a bastard who was born by his father's housemaid, but the father was forced to accept him later on as a devout Catholic?

Isn't it an irony that same Ojukwu would also deny his first child and boy, Sylvester Debe Ojukwu, who was born to him by the first wife he divorced early.

Even in his will, he remembered his Hausa daughter but still did not recognise Debe Ojukwu despite all the care the bastard man showered on his father after he became an invalid due to too much of Viagra to satisfy Bianca.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 11:22pm On Mar 25, 2018
raumdeuter:
That is the plain truth, while the populace starved, Ojuku and his family were well fed. All attempts to bring supplies to Biafra was thwarted by Ojukwu because he wanted to control the narrative of how inhuman the opponent were.

I think he suffered in his dying days and his legacy is now in ruins, He could not win a single election in any capcity, Non of his children is accorded any respect and his youngest wife is now a form of national bedroom entertainment for the likes of Goodluck Jonathan, FFK, Robert Okonkwo and Peter Obi
His greatest achievement apart sacrificing his own people, is that his philandering manhood lives on.

His friend who did not take note to keep his daughter away from Ojukwu, would shed tears for the rest of his life as Ojukwu became the father of his grandchildren.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 11:14pm On Mar 25, 2018
DerideGull:
Did your so-called Robert S. Goldstein ever set foot in Biafra? Most Nigerian lacked the intellect of constructive reasoning. It is said narrative of the war is best told by the victor. It is unfortunate you make a fool out of yourself by hedging on crap written in Lagos in 1968. I know you could swore to the crap that Lt Col Francis Fajuiyi demanded to die with Ironsi. What a joke.
Despite statements from Ironsi's wife, Fajuyi's sister that was present, and the military witnesses of that arrest of the military president Ironsi that was a guest of Fajuyi, who the Northern mutineers had no quarrel with, you still hold on to your ingratitude in bold?

Anyway, it is good expose for my sophisticated Yorubas who do not understand that man can be arrogant and eternally ungrateful, yet same man is expecting loyalty and always lamenting about betrayals.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 11:09pm On Mar 25, 2018
Sctests:
This yoruba man, why do you enjoy gallivanting on every Biafran thread with your poisonous mouth and how come the mods allow you to continue your festival of stupidity all over the cyberspace?

When the Igbos respond back with greater ferocity, you beat a quick retreat and cry that 'Igbo hates you' to the partial mods.

Don't you have pressing issues to attend to. Issues like preserving the human skull you obtained last night from soka forest?
You can post your own propaganda but I cannot post facts to expose your lies?

Did I create this thread?

Why are you scared of the truth?
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 11:07pm On Mar 25, 2018
raumdeuter:
No wonder Ojuku died deaf dumb and miserable

The spirit of the starved children dealt with him
That is my belief too.

He died a handicapped vegetable and got to feel the pains he inflicted on others from a position of safe comfort.

Him and his soldiers kept on boasting that they will rather have weapons than food.

He wasted lives in a bid to win the war by famine propaganda and mercy. While still trying to secretly airlift weapons into Biafra.

Biafra did not surrender, yet they were expecting mercy before surrender.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback:
DerideGull:
You are very ignorant of the facts.
If I am ignorant of facts, was Robert Goldstein who was employed by Ojukwu to help manage the PR propaganda of Biafra, also ignorant?

Ojukwu wanted to to win a war at all cost.

Same way Nnamdi KANU wanted to have Biafra with a deliberate plan to ensure that Igbos are massacred across Nigeria to act as a catalyst. So he kept on trying to provoke other tribes to unleash mayhem on the Igbos, while he stationed his cameras ready to capture a bloodbath against his own people.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 10:58pm On Mar 25, 2018
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 issuance 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.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 10:55pm On Mar 25, 2018
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.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 10:55pm On Mar 25, 2018
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.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 10:54pm On Mar 25, 2018
BrutalJab:
You again? grin

Ojukwu refused his people food? gahahaha

Your useless Hero (beer) Awolowo aka Rat poison did his worst .
We must always remember Ojukwu who tried to win a war with propaganda while he remained well fed, then fled.



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 opinion 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 weren’t 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 issuance 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 inconcievable 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 Bank 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.
Politics › Re: Biafra - The Effect Of Wartime Mass Starvation. (kwashiorkor) by Throwback: 10:46pm On Mar 25, 2018
It will never be well with Ojukwu who remained plump and well fed throughout the war, but refused his people food supplies through the land corridor that was agreed to by Nigeria and the humanitarian agencies.
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
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