tinzymoha:

Y'all need to knw that the war fought during ojukwu's time is totally different, this man has never been arrested or seen with a weapon, he uses is words. I won't be surprised if one country is supporting him, once PMB takes this to another level by arresting him or his family so will dy.. They are just waiting for PMB to slip up

They will do...just what, exactly?? When people do NOT learn from the lessons of the past, or refuse to do so despite all entreaties and admonitions, it becomes a tragedy.

PassingShot:
Let the coward come to Naija nah!

you are a fool.

NNamdi Kalu is a puppet master stringing you fools along...

shotster50:
NNamdi Kalu is a puppet master stringing you fools along...

Someone needs to let him know that advocating for the break up of your country is treason. What passport does he currently use to fly into the UK? Is it a Nigerian one?

He would have earned my respect, if he had gotten rid of his green passport and was actually using a Biafran passport to shuttle between all these foreign countries, and Nigeria. On one hand, he is busy enjoying the privilege of using travel documents issued by the Federal Republic of Nigeria to facilitate his trips, while on the other hand he is busy denouncing the same state that issued him those papers.

Talk about eating from both sides of the mouth! mtcheew...

mankand:

Unfortunately my people yorubas are still under the chain of mental slavery donating their hard earned money to fake men called pastors instead of donating their money to organise themselves to build another oduduwa nation. We also have the same capacity to do the same as IPOB but we won't.

Guy, cut the crap and drop the act. Impersonation is a crime.

achi4u:
some day, some how Igbos will get their dreamed country where one will be judge not by his dialect or state but by his attitude.

Amen! If tribalism and the hatred they have for other ethnic groups does not kill their dream, first.

Biafra’s Struggle For Survival
_{By Christopher C. Ejiofor | Published in 2012 by CIDJAP Press, Enugu | 277pp}

A reader who is already familiar with the story of the war will at first choose sides, falling in with either Nigeria or Biafra. As he reads, he will find his sensibilities outraged at the injustices against the Igbo people. He may even go as far as rooting for Biafra, though he is aware of the inevitable failure of the cause.

Suddenly, though, he will find himself questioning the entire war, unable to reconcile the corruption of the leaders on both sides and the suffering of the people; the high-end life-styles of the leaders and the starvation of the led.

At that point, his world view will be broadened and he will become a true Nigerian as he discovers a spark of indignation ignite the coals of a long-dead patriotic fire deep in his heart.

Today, the war is long over, but like the story of the Black man’s forced slavery to the White, its memory stirs some feelings of indignation at the treatment of an entire ethnic group.

In response to that feeling when it arises in Igbo breasts, I pray that Ndiigbo will be motivated to honesty, transparency and progress, especially with regard to their own people. Ndiigbo should strive like Dubai, to be the ‘forgotten camp’ that has become a paradise, so that the rest of Nigeria makes pilgrimages to it. This is the only way to vindicate the Biafran idea and to prove that Biafra was not just a dream, but a possibility that would have worked! http://biafrastruggleforsurvival.com/book-review/

ArodewilliamsT:
"I can sacrifice my life and family for Biafra, Buhari can you sacrifice your family for one Nigeria?"- Nnamdi Kanu 2015

"If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership. One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death. Each subsequent day becomes a bonus for the preparation of one’s memorial"- Emeka Ojukwu, 1967.

He ended up fleeing to the Ivory Coast and leaving his supporters behind in South East Nigeria.

ISpiksDaTroof:
"If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership. One thing that frightens leaders and lead them to a number of excesses is usually fear of death. No leader should fear death. In fact, you should accept the fact that from the moment of leadership you are sacrificed to death. Each subsequent day becomes a bonus for the preparation of one’s memorial"- Emeka Ojukwu, 1967.

He ended up fleeing to the Ivory Coast and leaving his supporters behind in South East Nigeria.

Ojukwu had the option of not going to war. He declared a secession which was against the law. All efforts to get him to see reason failed.

Decree 8 would have given him 90% of what was agreed in Aburi, and would have saved many Igbos from the death they eventually suffered during the civil war.

When it was obvious that the war was going to be lost, he absconded leaving his second-in-command Major-General Philip Effiong, the Akangkang Ibiono Ibom to hand over to the federal side, in a gesture that has been hailed by many as noble, courageous and selfless.

Even though people believe the war was about self-determination for the Igbo, it was also about oil...Ojukwu was the first to give the public an insight into this aspect, when he ordered Shell to start paying royalties to him. His excuse was that Gowon breached the Aburi accord. Breaking the Aburi accord, was not enough reason to lead millions of Igbo to a war which could have been avoided, knowing he was outmanned, outgunned and outnumbered by the federal forces.

ichidodo:
This is an intellectual war that goes beyond sabre-rattling(something our zoo brethren are quite familiar and well known for) Just a surgical strike at some important dignitary, his family member, critical infrastructure on an auspicious moment of the zoo's life could just spark a series of domino-event effects that could spell the end of zoogerier..... How the ensuing chaos will pattern out is beyond us at this moment but IPOB seemed to be a thoroughly well organised outfit. That is Why dullardinio should be urged not to rock the boat and enjoy his rubbish one term presidency in peace.

I laugh ... in Greek! Haven't you learnt that if the family of a poor man is killed or kidnapped, the perpetrators may get away with it. But if the family or dependants of a VIP is killed, the perpetrator is often caught and either killed in retaliation or thrown into a dark, underground cell, whose address remains unknown??!

The only time the perpetrators are not caught, is when such acts are sponsored by people working for the state, or folks who have the tacit backing of the security services to carry out the job.

If any family member of a Nigerian VIP is killed in the UK, US or any of the European countries, you can be sure that the perpetrators would NOT get away with the crime, because their security forces are more alert and professional, than ours'.

The day it happens, and Nnamdi Kanu's boys get caught, their organisation would be labelled as a haven for bloodthirsty hoodlums with criminal intent. They would be locked away for a very long time, that is if they are not sentenced to death. And the reputation of the Biafran cause will take a huge dose of collateral damage, while your leader falls into public odium.

Now, you can still go ahead with your plans. But please do not say, you have not been warned.

Nnamdi Kalu is just a more articulate and deranged Uwazuruike.... Ugboro one ka akpi g'agba unu tupu unu amara ihe?

mankand:
Guts comes with glory. One thing I like about Nnamdi Kanu is that he is very articulate and organised.

He knows how to organise his people around his dream, he can be the next Che in Africa because he is fighting a just cause but due to the mainstream media propaganda, a lot of people won't see and agree to this.

He have been able to gather the support of the igbo people worldwide both indigenous, in diaspora and those whose ancestors were taken to slave in Europe, America and Latin America which have now become a force to recon with.

Unfortunately my people yorubas are still under the chain of mental slavery donating their hard earned money to fake men called pastors instead of donating their money to organise themselves to build another oduduwa nation. We also have the same capacity to do the same as IPOB but we won't.

We also have yorubas all over Latin America, Europe, and other parts of the world.

I wish IPOB success in their quest because with their success, it becomes a motivation for other regions in Africa to do the same

One of a kind ....you spoke very well



But why are your people scared ? As you can see the badmouthing here

Ojukwu's role in history has been well-documented. Let us hope history will judge Nnamdi Kanu kindly, in view of his recent actions.

Ojukwu: In The Eyes Of The People
Published by The Tide Newspapers | Feb. 3rd 2012 |

The first week of February 2012 in Nigeria will witness, amongst many other significant events, the burial of late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933-2011), the Biafran Warlord. Ojukwu undisputed occupies a central position in the history of Nigeria throughout the period of the four exact years from 15 January 1966 when Nigeria’s first coup d’etat occurred to 15 January, 1970 when Nigerians unfortunate Civil War ended. It is estimated that over two million Nigerians lost their lives in the 30 month brutal war that broke out on July 6, 1967. Although, there was no Nuremberg Trials in Nigeria at the end of the war, Ojukwu has been on trial since the end of the war, mainly on the pages of newspapers, news magazines and books. The trial is likely to continue for another century.

Ojukwu means different things to different persons till he breathed the last on November 26, 2011.

Amanyanabo Opubo Daminabo dug into his archive to extract some of the opinions expressed about late Chief Ojukwu between 1970 when the Biafrans surrendered to the Federal Government under “No victor, no vanquished” arrangement and 1983 when Nigeria experienced a civil rule. Compiled in 1983, these divergent views extracted from the Appendix of Daminabo’s book entitled IBOS Are Not Biafrans (Port Harcourt Hanging Publishers) border on Ojukwu’s personality, his pardon by the Federal Government and his intention to contest the 1983 presidential election.

‘Nigeria never was and can never be a united country’. - General Emeka Ojukwu, Opening sentence of Biafra: Selected Speeches of C. Odumegwu Ojukwu New York, 1969, p.1

‘He was no devil. Everybody admired his personal courage, his ability for hard work. But he had one weakness – he did not know when to apply the brakes. But it’s purely because he was ambitious. He was a very capable chap.’ - Major General Philip Effiong Chief of Staff, Biafran Army, ‘Drum’, April, 1970.

‘A natural actor, Colonel Ojukwu had the enviable quality of controlling and concealing unpleasant emotions, a quality which he exploited to the full in inspiring false confidence even in the bleakest hours of the civil war’. - Chief N. U. Akpan Biafra’s Chief Scribe, London, 1972, The Struggle for Secession, p.175.

‘We were both agreed on this one point, that for all we cared this particular civil war could be fought with bows and arrows. I phoned up some friends at the United Nations Organization and they joined in the discussion’. - Professor Wole Soyinka London, 1972, The Man Died, p. 52.

‘Suddenly, here were black men, intelligent, well-educated, charming black men, standing virtually alone and successfully defying an enemy four times their size backed by the world’s super powers … The Biafrans were everywhere, it seemed, eloquently putting their case in excellent English, quoting neat European or American parallels, pointing out, with obvious truth and conviction that they were the most “westernized” of all Africans, indeed, perhaps, of all Third World peoples’. - John de St. Jorre London, 1972, The Nigerian Civil War, pp. 359-360 .

‘This strange, complex, fascinating man is now sharing the lonely fate of Nkrumah and Obote, Africa’s other fallen giants. A statesman without a state, a leader without a people, an orator without a platform, an actor without a stage; for a man such as Ojukwu, exile must be a living death. - John de St. Jorre London, 1972, The Nigerian Civil War, p.413.

‘Ojukwu’s resistance was really an experiment in human misery’. - Captain Elechi Amadi London, 1973, Sunset in Blofra, p.48

‘In Nigeria, theft by rulers and officials is regrettably frequent. Some end up stealing money, others minor items; Ojukwu is the only one who tried to steal a country!’ - Ken Saro-Wiwa Lagos, Sunday Times 27/6/82

‘He was perhaps the only man who ever held power in West Africa who came out without a private nest-egg of money embezzled from public funds. Not only had he not milked the till, he had spent every penny of his private fortune on his people. He was penniless … He was and is a remarkable man. He could have had everything, if he had bowed the knee to Gowon. Instead he lost many things: his fortune, his homeland, his passport. But he never lost the loyalty of his people; and he never lost any man’s respect. Even his worst enemies respect him. Knowing him, he would say that he had still had the best of the bargain. - Frederick Forsyth, Dublin, 1976, The Making of An African Legend: The Biafra Story, pp. 285 – 286.

‘The desperate nature of this operation and the fact that it simply had to succeed earned for it the name “Operation Do or Die” …. Viewed from any angle, that operation was indeed an “Operation Do or Die”, for many did and many died’. - Major General Alexander A. Madiebo, Commander of Biafran Army, Enugu, 1980, The Nigerian Revolution and The Biafran War, pp. 343 & 348.

‘…Biafra was the first ship of state to sail the sea of nationhood on a completely indigenous motor. Biafra was run from top to bottom by blacks … the first black nation to be taken seriously in a world dominated by white people … ‘ - Arthur Nwankwo, Enugu, 1980, Nigerian: The Challenge of Biafra, pp. 81-82

‘What follows in this book is … the story of how the arrogant and conceited Ojukwu, who wanted to rule an independent nation at all costs, deceived the people he claimed to love and left them in the lurch at their desperate hour of need, and fled “Biafra” under the guise of seeking peace’. - General Olusegun Obasanjo, GOC, 3MCDO, Nigerian Army, London, 1980, My Command, p. xiii.

‘Later on, after I had been released to join in the struggle, I realized that Ojukwu knew what he was talking about whenever he assured Biafrans that they would fight to the last man. He knew that he was ill-prepared for the fight and that if it came, he had nothing to send against the enemy except the bodies of his own citizens – no guns, no armour, no planes, no ships – only flesh and flesh and flesh – what a suicide plot, or was it a reverse pogrom? … Surely, history will not forgive him’. - Major Adewale Ademoyega, Ibadan, 1981, Why We Struck, pp. 141 and 174.

‘In fact, if anything, the counter-coup was a complete flop. Significantly, it was the failure of the Northern dissidents to topple Lieutenant Colonel Ojukwu’s Enugu-based Government – and not the shortcomings of the January coup – that eventually paved the way for secession, and in time, the barbaric civil war’. - Captain Ben Gbulie Onitsha, 1981, Nigeria’s Five Majors, p. 154.

‘History will say of Victor Banjo, Emmanuel lfeajuna, Philip Alale and Samuel Agbam just as history had said of Hitler’s enemies that they brilliantly anticipated the end of the road along which Ojukwu, with fourteen million highly intelligent people on the tow, was walking, but that when it came to the crunch, they clumsily and pathetically bungled their chance to stop him from traversing the road to its bloody end’ . - Nelson Ottah, London, 1981, Rebels Against Rebels, p.l0.

‘On the 5th of January, 1967, the historic Aburi meeting of the military leaders was called to resolve accumulating differences, but Ojukwu went there to manufacture a confederal constitution. Later, Decree No. 8 was passed to satisfy his ends, yet he would not let the Ibos alone. All he wanted was secession’ . - Major Isaac Boro, Benin-City, 1982, The Twelve – Day Revolution, p. 157.

‘When the war Ojukwu and his group said was to defend their homeland came, they made it a war of conquest. Whose “homeland” is the Midwest? When did Ibadan and Lagos become part of the East?’ - Major General Joe Garba London, 1982, Revolution in Nigeria: Another View, p. 115.

‘What most people are saying is li the Ibo leader is back” and I share that view. What political party Ojukwu will join is immaterial. If he stands on a tree, we will all stand on the tree with him’. - Cyprian Ekwensi, Lagos 1982, ‘Sunday Times’ (27/6/82).

‘Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the former leader of Biafra, is a man of history in the most serious sense of the term, not because he is a graduate of history, but for the reasons that he probably decided to study history. Singled minded, deliberate and totally shorn of any emotional inclinations, Odumegwu Ojukwu is a man who doesn’t believe in the force of destiny, but a man who believes that strong men can shape the destiny of weaker men and cause a part for nations’. - Dele Giwa Lagos, 1982, ‘Sunday Concord’ (27/6/82).

‘Has anyone cared to ask why this son of a millionaire and History graduate, this material and intellectual aristocrat branched off into the Army at a time that many people thought the Army wa a dumping ground for street brawlers and the like? I suggest that he knew that power resides in the barrel of a gun… Calculating, rational, never known to shed tears, Ojukwu, according to those who claim to know him well, has a rugged disposition that borders on demonism, and is inclined to have things his own way or not at all… I cannot say whether Ojukwu does have the Ibo tribe in his pocket, but it seems to me that the Ibo tribe would not mind having Ojukwu in its pocket.’ - Ray Ekpu, Lagos 1982, ‘Sunday Times’ (1/8/82)

‘As far as the Ibos are concerned, the name Biafra is a stolen property. How the Ibo nation stole the name is fully explained in this book. The earlier Ibos stop the use of the name, Biafra, as a symbol of Iboland, Ibo nation and Ibo culture, the better for all Nigerians. There are several Igbo names of Igbo-related names for major physical features and other man-made features (especially rivers, towns and cities and even caves) in Iboland that can serve as an appropriate substitute for the stolen Biafra name. A few examples of such Ibo names or Igbo-related names include Nri (the cradle, now a town, of Ibos), Anambra and Imo (major rivers in Iboland), Abia, Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri and Umuahia (major cities in Iboland) and Ogbunike (an important town with a famous cave). Any of these names is an appropriate substitute for the Ibo nation to bear or use as her symbol than the stolen Biafra name.’ - Opubo Daminabo, Port Harcourt, Ibos Are Not Biafrans 1983, p 1.

‘Until today Ojukwu has not explained why he was a counter-revolutionary in January 1966, whether it was because he would not yield to junior officers or because he did not agree that change was desirable at the time. What we do know, however, from what the little Forsyth has disclosed is that Ojukwu did not, because of rank-related concerns, want to serve under Yakubu Gowon following the counter-coup of July 1966. Ibo massacres and persecution were just incidental in Ojukwu’s posturing during the crisis of July 1966- May 1967. We do know also that the only reason Ojukwu was appointed military Governor of the Eastern Region in January 1966 was for being a conspirator against the patriotic majors.’ - Fidel Odum Enugu, 1983, ‘Sunday Satellite’ (20/2/83).

His ambition was to achieve the Biafran victory and to go down in history as its first “Head of State.” His genius was instrumental, not creative; he excelled in manipulation, not in construction… Emeka’s return to Nigeria and his dramatic entry into partisan politics is a clear manifestation of his inordinate ambition to grab power that eluded him in Biafra… He confused popular acclaim for popular support.’ - Obiora Egbunike, Ibadan, 1983, ‘Sunday Tribune’ (20/3/83).

Ojukwu’s pardon in conception and execution, contradicts all the laws of the Medes and Persians. Nemesis will surely act… Ojukwu gambled with lives of millions of people without caring a hoot. Once a gambler, always a gambler. He is at it again and he is ready to spill blood without remorse.’ - Professor Chike Obi, Enugu 1983, ‘Satellite’ (20/3/83 and 2/8/83).

Read the rest here: http://www.thetidenewsonline.com/2012/02/03/ojukwu-in-the-eyes-of-the-people/

after1:


Amadi, You will cry on this your thread. I can help you derail it if you dont stick to the topic.

even without warning him, u tried to derail it but it didn't work out.