₦airaland Forum

VirginFinder:
Are you ibos tired of Lagos, your 'no man's land', already?

I thought winning 2 reps & 1 hoa seat in Lagos was just good enough for you guys.

Nonsense!

Biafra means ibos become immigrants in Lagos and the rest of Nigeria.
And you know how badly ibos look up to Lagos for livelihood and destiny fulfilment.

Think am well o!
Yorubas dont give a damn about Biafra or no Biafra.

Go and beg the 'abookis' for your freedom.

Is it news that Igbos are migrants in Lagos or the rest of Nigeria? Igbos are migrants everywhere. One thing people should never forget about Lagos or anywhere in west Africa is that their is an existing treaty called "ECOWAS" which allows any west African to travel or live anywhere in west Africa without needing a Visa. That same "ECOWAS" is engraved on top of the Nigerian passport. When we Igbos get Biafra, we will still be able to go to Lagos any time we want without visa same as a Ghanaian or Ivorian doesn't need Visa to go anywhere in Nigeria. If Nigerians don't like this, they should pull out of ECOWAS, all of them in west Africa should return to Nigeria and start looking for Visa any time they want to go anywhere in west Africa.

dickrider:
u are mad for calling cameroon a small country. cameroon is bigger than the UK with a landmass of 400,000sq km and above. the entire south east is just 70,308sq km which is smaller than borno state with a land mass of 70,898sq km. taking over your God forsaken biafra is just a childs play for PMB if he really wants to

Land mass is not the issue here. Take Britain and Japan for example, each of them are just about 90,000.Sq Km. Just about 20,000 Sq Km more than what you say the SE is (excluding the Deta-Igbos,Rivers Igbos and the Igbos in the lower Benue). Yet, Japan and Britain are amongst the top 6 richest countries in the world. Being a great country has little or nothing to do with land mass.

Up Biafra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OP,more pictures of Biafran day today for your viewing pleasure. Biafra is an unstoppable train!!!

dickrider:
he is a coward. he must have fled nigeria by now since buhari is president

Nnamdi Kanu just hosted a mammoth crowd of Biafrans in Aba today. The man always says that that if he dies for Biafra,it would be a privilege.

dickrider:
Now that we have a new president at the helms of affairs, it is glad to know that security and our territorial integrity are part of his major plans. Boko haram, Mend , Opc are still easy to contend with because as brutal as they may seem, they can all be dealt with using the carrot and stick approach. The only group threatning our unity is biafra and as a matter of fact their seccesion request is treasonable. President Buhari must rate the threat level of Biafra to the highest. We do not want any form of civil war anymore and anything that threatens our unity must be forbidden. here are ways i suggest the new president should deal with biafran rebels;

He should declare Biafra radio as illegal and ban it henceforth.

He should arrest the owner of biafra radio and make him face treasonable charges for spreading hate campaigns against other tribes in nigeria.

He should establish a special Anti-biafra task force fully armed to the teeth.

He should resensitize the southeast through national orientation agency and make them learn to put the past behind them and embrace national unity.

He should offer financial rewards for informations leading to the arrest of biafran chanters and pro seccesionists.

He must make them realize that we all have a role to play for the development of nigeria.

God bless Nigeria.

United we stand, Divided we fall.

Say no to Biafra

So in other words, you want Buhari to break every aspect of the constitution he just swore yesterday to uphold, turn Nigeria into a police state and become a dictator just to keep this God forsaken country together? I laugh in Jamaican. Guy, it is not by force to be a Nigerian. A white man brought us all together,we don't need a Whiteman to go our separate ways.

Up Biafra!!!!!!!!!

Biafran remembrance day in London. Anyone who thinks the spirit of Biafra is dead should think again.

"Buhari bu Ochu- Nama"


(Translation from igbo to English)

"Buhari is a cattle-rearer"

chamboy:
U ppl should beta stop dis child's play before military hq move frm borno to Anambra

You should be talking about dissolving Nigeria first.


Up Biafra!!!!

Ymodulus:
Why insult him? This is the one of the problem I have with majority of people from the South-East.

Yet if someone writes something about you guys, you go on shouting and making empty noise that they hate you and your people.
Do you know he even dignified Biafra by creating this post?

A terrorist organization and terrorism fanatics such as Biafran Movement and Biafra radio respectively should not be allowed in a decent country. Or even praised as such actions should be seen treasonable by law.

I don't know how reasonable humans should wake up and begin to support an organization whose leader made them commit genocide, by killing millions of his people. I really don't understand why you people should still be clamoring for the death of another millions. People who their leader abandoned them and ran out to a safe spot to enjoy his life and let his people suffer.

Biafra my Foot!!! They want sovereignty yet have not showned the world they are capable of sovereignty. Nigeria has come to stay accept it or not. Its your problem.


Awôn Dreamers.
My guy IbnSultaan Dan Allah Chi gaban. Ina bayan ka.

On May 15th 2015, Yakubu Gowon was quoted at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Lagos, Nigeria gloating about his “One Nigeria”, that Nigeria did not disintegrate in 2015 as was predicted. Then in his pathological obsession with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong and that Gowon and his One Nigeria were right he once again in his characteristic folly claimed that he knew what was going on in Ojukwu’s mind or for that matter in the minds of the people of Eastern Nigeria in 1967. What do you call a person who goes on claiming that they know what is going on in another person’s mind without that person telling them? But omniscient Gowon knew what was going on in the minds of Ojukwu and the people of Eastern Nigeria without asking them. And that was how he as the head of state of Nigeria played God and consequently destroyed Nigeria.


The mark of intelligence is the ability to use experience as a learning tool to shape ones future thought and behavior. Thousands of years ago our ancestors learned to avoid eating poisonous fruits, roots and berries by noting and remembering the deadly effect specific fruits, roots and berries had on them or their children when they ate those things. They noted the color, shape, smell etc. of those fruits, roots and berries and learned never to touch them, talk less eat them. Animals also learn to survive by doing the same thing. Survival of organisms depend on this basic level of intellectual functioning.

That Yakubu Gowon still runs around Nigeria pounding his chest about going to war against Biafra and starving three million children and old women to death is evidence of his level of intelligence. His preoccupation with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong when all indices in Nigeria today prove that Ojukwu and Biafra were and are still right about separating incompatible units in the terribly flawed Nigerian amalgam of Nations, is testimony to the inferiority complex that dogged and still continues to dog Gowon; the complex that played a determinant role in all the decisions that Gowon made between 1966 and 1975. He has told these lies for so long and so many times that he apparently has started believing his own lies. These lies need to be repudiated now.

After one hundred thousand civilian men, women and children of Eastern Nigeria origin (Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja), were brutally and barbarically slaughtered in cold blood all over Northern Nigeria in several waves of horrific ethnic cleansing and two million others driven out of Northern and Western Nigeria back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria; after Gowon had set up a constitutional conference in Lagos and then promptly and unilaterally dismissed the conference as it resolved to adopt a Confederal Political arrangement for the regions of Nigeria; after Gowon had made absolutely no effort to stop the continuing massacre of Easterners all over Nigeria (not one Nigerian civilian or soldier was ever arrested, tried or punished for the genocide on Easterners); after all these, Gowon and all the military governors of the four regions, (Col. Robert Adebayo (West); Col. David Ejoor (Midwest); Col. Hassan Katsina (North); Col. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (East); Major Mobolaji Johnson (Lagos Capital Territory); Commodore Joseph Akinwale Wey, (Representing the Navy); Alhaji Kam Selem, (Representing the Police); P. Odumosu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Western Nigeria); D. Lawani, (Under Secretary to the Military Governor of Midwest Nigeria); Alhaji Ali Akilu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Northern Nigeria); N. Akpan, (Sec. to the Military Gov. of Eastern Nigeria); S. Akenzua, (Permanent Under Secretary Federal Cabinet Office); and Mr. J. Omo-Bare (Secretary) in attendance, agreed to go to Aburi, Ghana on the invitation of the head of state of Ghana, Gen. Ankrah, to find a solution to the crisis rocking the country. The historic date was January 4th and 5th 1967. At that meeting Gowon revealed that Lt. Walbe had reported to him more than six months earlier that Nigerian Army officers from the North had murdered the head of state Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi and Col. Adekunle Fajuiyi, Governor of Western Nigeria. In spite of that, the meeting went on and produced amazingly substantive agreements the highlights of which are as follows:

1. The Army shall be governed by the Supreme Military Council the chairman of which shall be known as Commander-in-chief and head of the Federal Military Government. There will be a Military Headquarters on which the Regions will be equally represented and which will be headed by a Chief of Staff. In each Region there shall be an Area Command under the charge of an Area Commander and corresponding with the existing regions. During the period of the Military Government, Military Governors will exercise control over their Area Commands in matters of internal security. The Supreme Military Council also reaffirmed its commitment to an earlier agreement reached on August 9th 1966 by representatives of all the Military Governors that Army personnel of Northern origin should return to the North from the West as the West engages in a crash program of recruitment and training in order to meet the security needs of the West (Army personnel of Northern origin in the East had already been given safe passage back to the North and Army personnel of Eastern origin who survived the murderous rampage in the North, West and Lagos had escaped back to the East).

2. That the legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government shall remain in the Supreme Military Council to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided that where it is not possible for a meeting to be held the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence.

3. All appointments to senior ranks in the armed forces, police, diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to super scale posts in the federal civil service and equivalent posts in the statutory corporation must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.

4. All decrees passed since January 15, 1966 and which centralized power in the Federal government and detracted from previous powers and positions of regional governments, will be repealed and replaced with decrees restoring the autonomy of the regional governments.

5. The Ad Hoc Committee working on the constitutional future of the country will be reconvened immediately.

6. Payment of salaries to all staff and employees of governments and statutory corporation who had been forced to abandon their duty posts as a result of the disturbances be continued to the end of March 1967.

7. We the members of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria hereby renounce the use of force as a means of settling the present crisis in Nigeria and hold ourselves in honor bound by this declaration. We reaffirm our faith in discussions and negotiations as the only peaceful way of resolving the Nigerian crisis.

All the members of the Supreme Military Council including Gowon agreed and signed this agreement. As if acting on premonition Col. Ojukwu had insisted that the entire proceedings of the meeting be audio recorded and that a transcript of every word uttered at the conference be produced and made available. It was done. The audio recording and transcript are available for all to hear and see. Every author of repute, every historian of character, every honest and impartial observer or commentator who has analyzed and commented on the Nigeria-Biafra War whether they liked or disliked Ojukwu or liked or disliked Gowon, agree on one thing – the Aburi Agreement was a golden opportunity for stability in Nigeria. Yakubu Gowon recklessly, and foolishly threw away this golden opportunity by refusing to implement the Aburi Accord and reneging on all planks of the agreement. Few days after arriving Lagos from Aburi, traditional rulers from Northern Nigeria and federal permanent secretaries in Lagos prevailed on Yakubu Gowon to abandon an agreement he made with his fellow soldiers and which he had sworn he was in honor bound. He refused to implement item 1 – no area commands; he refused to implement item 2 claiming that he did not understand the meaning of “concurrence”; he ignored item 3 and went on making federal appointments without reference to the Supreme Military Council; he refused to implement item 4 and retained all the decrees passed since January 15 including decree 34 (the so-called unification decree) which the North claimed was the trigger for their massacre of Easterners; he partially implemented item 5 by reconvening the Ad Hoc Committee working on constitutional arrangement for the country. But then as the committee was once again moving toward an agreement on confederal structure for the country he abruptly, and unilaterally dismissed the Ad Hoc Committee; he refused to implement item 6 and thus created enormous financial burden on the government of Eastern Region which had no choice but to pay the salaries of the thousands of displaced workers or watch them and their families starve; on July 6, 1967 Gowon broke the last major agreement of the Aburi Accord by launching a war of genocide against the government and people of Eastern Region, then Biafra.

Gowon’s repudiation of the Aburi Accord and refusal to implement an agreement he willingly acceded to and appended his signature is one of the worst acts of perfidy of the twentieth century. Had Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord there would have been no Nigeria Biafra War; Gowon would not have starved 3 million Biafran children, pregnant women, nursing mothers and old men to gruesome, slow death, an act that has put him squarely in the “Hall of Shame” of the worst butchers of the 20th century (Gowon is actually listed as No. 10 on that list); there wouldn’t have been all the coups and counter coups, hundreds of thousands of innocent people wouldn’t have been slaughtered, and most probably there wouldn’t have been any Boko Haram. All the problems that Nigeria has had from January 1967 till date can be traced to the disgraceful, shameful, perfidious act of Gowon refusing to implement the Aburi Accord.

Listening to and reading Gowon engage in his pathological obsession with Ojukwu and Biafra is indeed becoming irritating. Jack, (may be calling you by your British pet name will get your attention) please the Nigeria Biafra conflict was not about Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. No, no, no. It was about millions of Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja and other people of Eastern Nigeria, men, women and children, who were murdered, brutalized and chased out of all parts of Nigeria, their personal properties looted, and burned; who fled back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria as your government refused to offer them any protection of their lives and property and actually participated in killing them; who sent their representatives to negotiate with you and reach agreement on the way forward; who after securing far reaching agreements with you were shocked to watch you renege on every item in that agreement; an agreement that you entered into voluntarily and swore on your honor as a soldier to keep. The Nigerian problem is not a democracy problem or any of that stuff. The Nigerian problem is a STRUCTURAL and JUSTICE problem.

It is interesting you describe yourself as a “Christian soldier” and claimed that it was prayers from the people of God that helped you win the war. Well, my dear Christian soldier can you recite the Lords greatest commandment? Here it is for you: “Thou shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:36-40. Mr. Christian soldier, was this what you were doing when you gave your Nigerian soldiers this marching song which they gleefully sang as they invaded Biafra and slaughtered unarmed civilians? (Asaba , 700 men, the cream of Asaba community; Christ Apostolic Church, Onitsha, 300 men, women and children praying inside the church) and numerous other cases:


Source: Biafran Foundation

basbone:
You sultanic monkey!! Who gave you the effontry to post such a crap Nigeria is a mistake you all will live to regret!!

Don't mind the cheap attention seeker. Them and their fake 'one Nigeria'

fellis:
So are they expecting Ojukwu to come out of the grave and rule them or what? Or is it their usual hate for northerners showing its head.
Clowns that have refused to move past their unrealistic biafra.

Why are you calling Biafra unrealistic? Because some 'Fulani cattle rearing illiterate' is now president? If anything is unrealistic, it is this notion that exists amongst Yorubas and their Northern comrades that Nigeria is actually a country. Far from it, it is actually a charade. Naturally,we Igbos are not a fan of Buhari because he represents everything that is wrong about Nigeria. His second outing as president will most probably be even more disastrous than his first stint. The one good thing that comes out of all of this is that no one still lives under the delusion that there's anything like "one Nigeria".

Introduction is not marriage. People can still split up after introduction. So until the woman becomes the legally recognised wife of the man, he cannot be made to undertake responsibility for her.

Hmmmmm............ The next generation of cattle rearers

OkutaNla:
I have to say that your opinion aligns with my general observation about Imo state folks -- they seem to be less belligerent in their outlook towards the Nigeria project compared to say an Anambra or Abia pesin.

That is why I believe Rochas stands the best chance of becoming the next president of Nigeria of igbo extraction coz he's an undisputable bridge-builder.

What bridge did Okorocha build? Every Igbo man worth his salt knows that Okorocha is a traitor who sold his own people just because of the 'allure' of high office. The mark of a reputable politician is one who stands by his people in tough times, not one who is jumping around from piller to post for political expediency. Despite Okorochas chest beating,he only managed to hang on to his seat by the skin of his teeth. An Igbo presidency is not the most important thing to the Igbos right now but should an Igbo emerge president, I pray it is not Okorocha. Back to topic, all I can say is that anyone from the south-South who's excuse for not joining hands with Igbos is because they fear Igbo domination should remember that as things stand now, they are already being dominated by Igbo,Hausa and Yoruba.............

aytevans:
My little gift to Nairalander's
A box of chocolate designed with love, packaged in love and sharing with love.
Love you all.

Aciu gerai!! Kaip se kase? Gerai?

I hope say you learn small 'Lietuva'
while in Vilnius cause me dey blow their lingo bad bad.

Labanaktis

dickrider:


I HOPE AS FROM MAY 29, BUHARI WILL ARREST THAT LOUD MOUTHED TRAITOR KANU WHO OWNS BIAFRA RADIO FOR TREASON. THAT IRRESPONSIBLE MAN HAS BEEN SPEWING VENOM CAPABLE OF CAUSING CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY. HE SHOULD BE SERIOUSLY DEALT WITH AND LOCKED UP FOR LIFE SO OTHER BIAFRA SCREAMERS CAN KNOW BUHARI IS NOT A CLUELESS MAN WHO WILL ALLOW NONENTITIES TO DISTURB OUR UNITY





Meaning: SAY NO TO BIAFRA


United we stand, divided we fall. Lets support the Hausa fulanis and the Yoruba to rebuild Nigeria from the damage GEJ put our nation in

The only treason here is the one Lugard committed by forcing incompatible nations and people together to form the abominable contraption called Nigeria in his desperate bid to make money. You must first dig up Lugard wherever he is buried and have him tried for committing high treason by foisting an illegal identity on me as an Igbo man. After this,we can talk about Radio Biafra or Nnamdi Kanu. Nigeria is an illegality with no legitimacy,and as such, Radio Biafra is well within their right to curse out that illegality. Buhari cannot stop radio Biafra unless he finds a way to stop the Internet as well and even if he finds a way to arrest Nnamdi Kanu,there many more people that can take his place. Biafra is here to stay and nobody can do anything about it. Let me go and iron my Biafran tee-shirt and flag for our 30th of May demonstration joor........

RickRichards:
The Square Villa is a no-no for me. Not classy IMO.
Location also matters; not just the house. I like sparsely populated serene areas.
For those of you wondering, Don Jazzy's probably using that game controller for automation and not gaming.

Of course. You can't use a Midi controller for gaming unless they have invented some wierd game that I don't know about.

pazienza:
At Independence under the Raisman
formula, 50% of revenue was paid to the
regions of origin on the basis of
derivation, while 20% was paid to the
Federal Government as a contribution by
the region for maintenance of the integrity
of the nation, and the balance of 30% was
shared equally among regional
governments including the region of
origin. In the same vein, the 1963
Constitution of the Federation States in
Sec. 140(i): “There shall be paid by the
Federal to each Region a sum equal to
fifty percent of the proceeds of any
Royalty received by the Federation in
respect of any minerals (including mineral
oil) extracted in that Region”.
Over the years, the percentage kept by the
region on the basis of derivation has been
progressively reduced to the level of 3-5%
. As a first step to redressing the present
distortion, we recommend an increase in
the weighting given to the derivation
factor to 30%.
Accordingly,
a) We recommend that the amount to be
retained by the Central (Federal)
government be drastically trimmed down
based on a thorough study of the
financial requirements for accomplishing
its reduced function; that the balance
thereafter be shared equally between the
six regions. We further recommend that
the formula for sharing revenue within the
regions shall be the same as
recommended for the central (federal)
government. However, derivation should
be extended to all local governments or
states that are environmentally impacted
by the resource exploitation.
b) Ownership of resources must be by the
areas where these are located.
Most importantly these recommendations
will reduce the “CAKE-SHARING
MENTALITY” in Nigeria and lead to faster
growth and development of the Nigerian
economy by encouraging PRODUCTIVITY
AND EXPLOITATION OF THE VAST
NATURAL RESOURCES OF EACH OF THE
SIX REGIONS OF NIGERIA.
iv. Reorganization of the Nigerian Police
An effective and efficient Police Force is
essential for the development of
democracy in Nigeria.
However past abuses, including frequent
incursions of military into rulership,
underline the necessity for avoiding a
Constitutional arrangement which provides
the TEMPTATION and the MEANS to the
Federal Government (via Army and/or
police) to toy with matters of vital Local
interest to the people of any Region or
State of the Federation.
Accordingly, Ndigbo recommend:
a. That there be established a two-tier
Police structure, to wit: REGIONAL POLICE
whose jurisdiction shall be limited to the
geographical areas of the Region, and
National Police which shall have inter-
regional jurisdiction.
b. THE TWO POLICE FORMATIONS VIZ
FEDERAL AND REGIONAL POLICE
FORMATION shall have clearly delineated
JURISDICTIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES,
MODUS OPERANDI and “INTERPHASE
PROTOCOLS” to minimize areas of friction,
whilst emphasizing integrity, efficiency,
and effectiveness.
c. The NIGERIA (NATIONAL) POLICE shall
draw a good portion of its personnel in
each Zonal Command from the Region.
v. Reorganization of the Nigerian Armed
Forces
There shall be one Nigerian Army, one
Nigerian Air-Force and one Nigerian Navy.
There shall be a comprehensive review of
the numbers and equipment of the Armed
forces in the light of the nations
objectives and resources.
The Nigerian Army and Nigerian Air-Force
shall be reorganized in ZONAL
COMMANDS. Accordingly, there shall be
in each Region a a. Zonal Command of
the Nigeria Army and Nigerian Air-force.
b. With regard to the Nigerian Navy, it
must be ensured that the composition of
their officers and men reflect a balance
between the SIX Regions.
iv. State Security Services
There shall be one State Security Service
in Nigeria, and it again shall be organized
in Regional Commands.
v. Civil Service Reform - Federal Character
Principle

The North will never agree to a regional system or a federal related fiscal policy. We all saw at the contitutional conference how southern Nigeria delegates overwhelmingly supported a regional form of Government while the North rejected it. Now that Buhari is about to take over,regionalism is all but dead in the water. I will never know why Jonathan,a south-South man,did not fight to enthrone regionalism.

odeotito:
The bearded one lacked the moral fibre to lead purposefully. He took advantage of the Wawa (sub igbo) Bianca who barely knew her left from right when he married her with C.C. Onoh her father screaming blue murder! The bearded one betrayed C.C. Onoh and broke his heart into pieces! He was thoroughly conscienceless! How he slept with Bianca beats me! Am sure he couldn’t care less!! His extended family had better look for something better to do. They did nothing when the old fox ‘stole’ his friend’s daughter and defiled her. NCWS should be up in arms against him and obasanjo- they have scant if any regard for the womanfolk. In death the bearded one still broke hearts and this time Bianca’s with the revelation of the Haman Northern child! Bianca couldn’t care less- the wawa woman had her loot in place anyhow! Wawa bride price is cheap relative to other igbos but you get to pay somewhere down the road!

Moronic write up. Bianca was a British trained Lawyer,beauty queen and in her 20's but she didn't know her right from left? Do you that "the hamani northern child" is older than Bianca her self? So Bianca was heart broken about a child Ojukwu had even before she was born? You're a joke.

[b]On May 15th 2015, Yakubu Gowon was quoted at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Lagos, Nigeria gloating about his “One Nigeria”, that Nigeria did not disintegrate in 2015 as was predicted. Then in his pathological obsession with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong and that Gowon and his One Nigeria were right he once again in his characteristic folly claimed that he knew what was going on in Ojukwu’s mind or for that matter in the minds of the people of Eastern Nigeria in 1967. What do you call a person who goes on claiming that they know what is going on in another person’s mind without that person telling them? But omniscient Gowon knew what was going on in the minds of Ojukwu and the people of Eastern Nigeria without asking them. And that was how he as the head of state of Nigeria played God and consequently destroyed Nigeria.


The mark of intelligence is the ability to use experience as a learning tool to shape ones future thought and behavior. Thousands of years ago our ancestors learned to avoid eating poisonous fruits, roots and berries by noting and remembering the deadly effect specific fruits, roots and berries had on them or their children when they ate those things. They noted the color, shape, smell etc. of those fruits, roots and berries and learned never to touch them, talk less eat them. Animals also learn to survive by doing the same thing. Survival of organisms depend on this basic level of intellectual functioning.

That Yakubu Gowon still runs around Nigeria pounding his chest about going to war against Biafra and starving three million children and old women to death is evidence of his level of intelligence. His preoccupation with proving that Ojukwu and Biafra were wrong when all indices in Nigeria today prove that Ojukwu and Biafra were and are still right about separating incompatible units in the terribly flawed Nigerian amalgam of Nations, is testimony to the inferiority complex that dogged and still continues to dog Gowon; the complex that played a determinant role in all the decisions that Gowon made between 1966 and 1975. He has told these lies for so long and so many times that he apparently has started believing his own lies. These lies need to be repudiated now.

After one hundred thousand civilian men, women and children of Eastern Nigeria origin (Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja), were brutally and barbarically slaughtered in cold blood all over Northern Nigeria in several waves of horrific ethnic cleansing and two million others driven out of Northern and Western Nigeria back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria; after Gowon had set up a constitutional conference in Lagos and then promptly and unilaterally dismissed the conference as it resolved to adopt a Confederal Political arrangement for the regions of Nigeria; after Gowon had made absolutely no effort to stop the continuing massacre of Easterners all over Nigeria (not one Nigerian civilian or soldier was ever arrested, tried or punished for the genocide on Easterners); after all these, Gowon and all the military governors of the four regions, (Col. Robert Adebayo (West); Col. David Ejoor (Midwest); Col. Hassan Katsina (North); Col. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (East); Major Mobolaji Johnson (Lagos Capital Territory); Commodore Joseph Akinwale Wey, (Representing the Navy); Alhaji Kam Selem, (Representing the Police); P. Odumosu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Western Nigeria); D. Lawani, (Under Secretary to the Military Governor of Midwest Nigeria); Alhaji Ali Akilu, (Sec. to the Military Governor of Northern Nigeria); N. Akpan, (Sec. to the Military Gov. of Eastern Nigeria); S. Akenzua, (Permanent Under Secretary Federal Cabinet Office); and Mr. J. Omo-Bare (Secretary) in attendance, agreed to go to Aburi, Ghana on the invitation of the head of state of Ghana, Gen. Ankrah, to find a solution to the crisis rocking the country. The historic date was January 4th and 5th 1967. At that meeting Gowon revealed that Lt. Walbe had reported to him more than six months earlier that Nigerian Army officers from the North had murdered the head of state Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi and Col. Adekunle Fajuiyi, Governor of Western Nigeria. In spite of that, the meeting went on and produced amazingly substantive agreements the highlights of which are as follows:

1. The Army shall be governed by the Supreme Military Council the chairman of which shall be known as Commander-in-chief and head of the Federal Military Government. There will be a Military Headquarters on which the Regions will be equally represented and which will be headed by a Chief of Staff. In each Region there shall be an Area Command under the charge of an Area Commander and corresponding with the existing regions. During the period of the Military Government, Military Governors will exercise control over their Area Commands in matters of internal security. The Supreme Military Council also reaffirmed its commitment to an earlier agreement reached on August 9th 1966 by representatives of all the Military Governors that Army personnel of Northern origin should return to the North from the West as the West engages in a crash program of recruitment and training in order to meet the security needs of the West (Army personnel of Northern origin in the East had already been given safe passage back to the North and Army personnel of Eastern origin who survived the murderous rampage in the North, West and Lagos had escaped back to the East).

2. That the legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government shall remain in the Supreme Military Council to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided that where it is not possible for a meeting to be held the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence.

3. All appointments to senior ranks in the armed forces, police, diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to super scale posts in the federal civil service and equivalent posts in the statutory corporation must be approved by the Supreme Military Council.

4. All decrees passed since January 15, 1966 and which centralized power in the Federal government and detracted from previous powers and positions of regional governments, will be repealed and replaced with decrees restoring the autonomy of the regional governments.

5. The Ad Hoc Committee working on the constitutional future of the country will be reconvened immediately.

6. Payment of salaries to all staff and employees of governments and statutory corporation who had been forced to abandon their duty posts as a result of the disturbances be continued to the end of March 1967.

7. We the members of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria hereby renounce the use of force as a means of settling the present crisis in Nigeria and hold ourselves in honor bound by this declaration. We reaffirm our faith in discussions and negotiations as the only peaceful way of resolving the Nigerian crisis.

All the members of the Supreme Military Council including Gowon agreed and signed this agreement. As if acting on premonition Col. Ojukwu had insisted that the entire proceedings of the meeting be audio recorded and that a transcript of every word uttered at the conference be produced and made available. It was done. The audio recording and transcript are available for all to hear and see. Every author of repute, every historian of character, every honest and impartial observer or commentator who has analyzed and commented on the Nigeria-Biafra War whether they liked or disliked Ojukwu or liked or disliked Gowon, agree on one thing – the Aburi Agreement was a golden opportunity for stability in Nigeria. Yakubu Gowon recklessly, and foolishly threw away this golden opportunity by refusing to implement the Aburi Accord and reneging on all planks of the agreement. Few days after arriving Lagos from Aburi, traditional rulers from Northern Nigeria and federal permanent secretaries in Lagos prevailed on Yakubu Gowon to abandon an agreement he made with his fellow soldiers and which he had sworn he was in honor bound. He refused to implement item 1 – no area commands; he refused to implement item 2 claiming that he did not understand the meaning of “concurrence”; he ignored item 3 and went on making federal appointments without reference to the Supreme Military Council; he refused to implement item 4 and retained all the decrees passed since January 15 including decree 34 (the so-called unification decree) which the North claimed was the trigger for their massacre of Easterners; he partially implemented item 5 by reconvening the Ad Hoc Committee working on constitutional arrangement for the country. But then as the committee was once again moving toward an agreement on confederal structure for the country he abruptly, and unilaterally dismissed the Ad Hoc Committee; he refused to implement item 6 and thus created enormous financial burden on the government of Eastern Region which had no choice but to pay the salaries of the thousands of displaced workers or watch them and their families starve; on July 6, 1967 Gowon broke the last major agreement of the Aburi Accord by launching a war of genocide against the government and people of Eastern Region, then Biafra.

Gowon’s repudiation of the Aburi Accord and refusal to implement an agreement he willingly acceded to and appended his signature is one of the worst acts of perfidy of the twentieth century. Had Gowon implemented the Aburi Accord there would have been no Nigeria Biafra War; Gowon would not have starved 3 million Biafran children, pregnant women, nursing mothers and old men to gruesome, slow death, an act that has put him squarely in the “Hall of Shame” of the worst butchers of the 20th century (Gowon is actually listed as No. 10 on that list); there wouldn’t have been all the coups and counter coups, hundreds of thousands of innocent people wouldn’t have been slaughtered, and most probably there wouldn’t have been any Boko Haram. All the problems that Nigeria has had from January 1967 till date can be traced to the disgraceful, shameful, perfidious act of Gowon refusing to implement the Aburi Accord.

Listening to and reading Gowon engage in his pathological obsession with Ojukwu and Biafra is indeed becoming irritating. Jack, (may be calling you by your British pet name will get your attention) please the Nigeria Biafra conflict was not about Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. No, no, no. It was about millions of Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, Igbo, Ogoja and other people of Eastern Nigeria, men, women and children, who were murdered, brutalized and chased out of all parts of Nigeria, their personal properties looted, and burned; who fled back to their homeland in Eastern Nigeria as your government refused to offer them any protection of their lives and property and actually participated in killing them; who sent their representatives to negotiate with you and reach agreement on the way forward; who after securing far reaching agreements with you were shocked to watch you renege on every item in that agreement; an agreement that you entered into voluntarily and swore on your honor as a soldier to keep. The Nigerian problem is not a democracy problem or any of that stuff. The Nigerian problem is a STRUCTURAL and JUSTICE problem.

It is interesting you describe yourself as a “Christian soldier” and claimed that it was prayers from the people of God that helped you win the war. Well, my dear Christian soldier can you recite the Lords greatest commandment? Here it is for you: “Thou shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:36-40. Mr. Christian soldier, was this what you were doing when you gave your Nigerian soldiers this marching song which they gleefully sang as they invaded Biafra and slaughtered unarmed civilians? (Asaba , 700 men, the cream of Asaba community; Christ Apostolic Church, Onitsha, 300 men, women and children praying inside the church) and numerous other cases:


Source: Biafran Foundation[/b]

Coraje:
Form Biafra and u will definitely be wiped out! U guys should stop playing with fire. Settle down and let's make Nigeria work. We r more powerful together than divided. A word is enough for the wise.

Theres no country called Nigeria and there is no such thing as a Nigerian. Nigeria is just an area in west Africa where a 'British trader' called Lord Lugard built a 'slave labour camp' and he called the slaves he managed to "corner" in to that camp 'Nigerians'.

Arsenate:
igbos biggest delusion is believing other Nigerians will miss them when they leave....

Well going by history. The Igbos once left but you Nigerians fought for 3 long years to bring us back. I have no doubt in my mind that when we leave the second time, you Nigerians will do the same only this time,it will be a fight to the finish. These Igbos must really something out of this world for Nigeria to be committing huge resources and lives to keep us in Nigeria? As regards Church of Biafra,the idea isn't novelty. England has the Church of England or Anglican church so I don't see why Biafra can't have something along that line. I support freedom of religious expression however,getting Biafra for me is more important than the Church