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The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by tonytony208(m): 3:00pm On Nov 08, 2015
FIRST of all, and for the benefit of reporting media, a distinction must be drawn between elements in Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Igbos who are loyal Nigerian citizens. IPOB is no more Igbo than Boko Haram is Hausa, for instance. And if Hausa people cannot be held accountable for the activities of a terrorist group, it is highly irresponsible of anyone to cast stones at the Igbo ethnic group for the misdeed of IPOB.

On Saturday 24th October 2015, at 9 am, one Segun hosted “View Point” on 93.7 Rhythm FM, a Port Harcourt-based station. From all intents, the program was conceived to whip up hatred for Ndigbo. Segun allowed his guests to threaten Igbos for allegedly burning our national flag when reports emanating from that condemnable incident indicted Nnamdi Kanu’s followers in IPOB as the culprits.


Buhari
Ndigbo is sufficiently informed that the daily prayer of some unhappy persons is for another civil war. For them, Igbos were the reason why they could not get a job in the oil company, as one participant told listeners.

It is possible to suspect the Ojukwu god in a death involving Ogwugwu. What may eventually trigger off a national crisis could come from a station other than Radio Biafra. For the record, Igbos have repeatedly expressed their willingness to work with President Muhammadu Buhari in keeping Nigeria safe, even though some commentators prefer to hear the voice of IPOB. But no amount of incitement, blackmail or ill will can frighten Ndigbo from Rivers.

Secondly, Igbos are against the criminality of Nnamdi Kanu. With our own ears, we heard him on Radio Biafra call for the
assassination of Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Theophilus Danjuma and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. Was that sheer madness or selfishness? If Kanu is prepared for war has he asked other Igbos if they are also prepared? Obviously his wife and children are safe overseas, so he cares less about the security of the wives and children of other Igbos living in Kafanchan, Ilorin or Akure. He is excited hearing his own voice over the airwave, not minding the mortal danger his utterances are exposing Igbo children to.

Recall the events leading to the mass starvation of one million Igbo children between 1967 and 1970: At independence the Igbo were not doing badly. The President of Nigeria was Dr. Nnamdi (Zik) Azikiwe, an Igbo. The President of Senate, Nwafor Orizu, was also Igbo. Minister of External Affairs, Jaja Nwachukwu, was Igbo. The General Officer Commanding, GOC, Nigerian Armed Forces in the personality of General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi was Igbo. In form and content, First Republic was an Igbo government. Tell me why Igbo officers themselves had to overthrow it 15th January 1966?

Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna and company did what they did never reckoning on the backlash. To my mind that singular event exposed in no small measure the black spot of Igbo nationalism still prevalent today -the Okonkwo (of Umuofia) Complex that privileges blustering bravado over reason. Anyone who must condemn the starvation of Igbo children by deemphasizing 15th January is doomed with the ignorant Kanu who toys with the idea of killing those whose fathers were needlessly assassinated by Ifeajuna. The countdown to Igbo Holocaust started on 15th January; the day reason was overthrown in Igboland. Kanu is incapable of interpreting history.

But does it mean I’m contented and happy with the way Nigeria is treating Igbos today? My answer is NO. I am against the wholesale exclusion of Ndigbo from the leadership of this country since 1970 by the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba entente. Reading meaning into the October 30th, 2015 media statement of General Olusegun Obasanjo, Ndigbo would have to wait for a hundred years to rule Nigeria. No Nigerian should be optimistic with such proposition as the bell does not toll for Ndigbo alone. In Africa, Nigeria inclusive, internal change is always stimulated from outside. Sociologists call this cultural diffusion. Obasanjo is but a beneficiary, not the ultimate arbiter.

But if you put Igbo presidency side by side with Igbo business, my choice will always be the latter as an economically self-sufficient Igbo cannot be easily dominated politically, quote Chika Onyeani’s Capitalist Nigger. A hungry Igbo, in the other hand, will always be marginalized politically even with an Igbo figurehead as president. You cannot dominate self-reliant Aliko Dangote who commands more prestige than any president from Cape to Cairo.

I am against the domineering attitude of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, at the expense of true federalism. All major institutions are located in the North and South West leaving the South East and South fallow. Even without Boko Haram this country will still experience hiccups when six out of every ten Nigerians in uniform are northerners. Power is so concentrated in the North that the very notion of federalism becomes an irksome anachronism for northerners. So if the excessive weight of the overfed North does not kill Nigeria, then ultimately, the chronic anemia of malnourished South East will.

In the face of northern opposition to Goodluck Jonathan’s 2011 presidency the revered General Yakubu Jack Gowon appeared on African Independent Television, AIT, declaring that; “The North must protect its interests.” By this declaration, Gowon made a clear distinction between national interests and northern interests. This instance shows the ambivalence of the North to one Nigerian. Also, note how Gowon’s utterance fuels disunity. If an elder statesman like him can be so sectarian what do you expect the young Biafran secessionist to say? Is the opposite of northern interests not South Eastern interests? Self-determination is self-determination; does it matter if Gowon calls the North “Arewa” and Ralph Uwazurike calls the South East “Biafra”?

But I draw your attention to two Nigerian paradoxes latent in Gowon’s comment. One, what constitutes treason is not so much a declaration as the declarant. “If the issue of June 12 is revisited, there will be a bloodbath unprecedented in the annals of this country,” a northern youth threatened 1994 in the full view of the helpless Nigerian police. But Asari Dokubo repeated the same threat twenty years later and Danjuma called for his immediate arrest. The reason why a Fulani youth can go scot-free and Ijaw youth arrested for the same crime is because all Nigerians are not equal.

Two, secession has been deplored as the sickness while marginalization is glossed over as a symptom. This misdiagnosis means no remedy administered can cure Nigeria. Clearly, the sickness is the political marginalization of Igbos while its symptom is secession. Fix Igbo marginalization and you’ve fixed secession. But in as much as power is exercised to the exclusion of Ndigbo then there will always be call for Biafra.

I am against the divisive antics of the so-called civil war hero who keeps this country permanently divided to remain relevant. The esteemed Ibrahim Coomassie and Gowon have been loudest condemning the Biafran secessionist for wanting to breakup Nigeria while saying nothing about the civil war hero that mortgaged it. But the civil war hero who passes as “patriot” is more dangerous than the Biafran secessionist ostracized as “rebel.” Gowon must recall that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu once proposed they jointly tour Nigeria and remind everyone that the war was over. Ojukwu’s proposal was in response to the perpetual victory dance of the civil war hero who refused to let the ghost of Biafra be.

In the history of revolution the despotic patriot must, as a matter of self-preservation, create the rebel even when none exists. The debate is cleverly shifted from content to form if you can create a common enemy to take the blame of the regime’s shortcomings. In Nazi Germany, it was the Jew. In Jim Crow America, it was Negro. In Nigeria, it is the Igbo. Soon, an outlaw is actually heard outside the city gate cursing king and country. Without wavering, let me engage the content of the civil war hero’s patriotism and Biafran secessionist’s rebellion.

I define the Nigerian civil war hero as an extremely greedy and uncaring entity having amassed immense wealth while Nigerians suffer penury. He will be the death of Nigeria yet as no regime takes root without his blessing, which comes at a prize. He pays lip service to one Nigeria while being careful not to build even a bungalow in Igboland. By contrast, the Biafran secessionist is an irascible youth whose heart is full because he knows too much. He sees no way out of the Igbo man’s marginalization. The sight of the Hausa boy on the gravy train evokes in him an extreme contempt for Zik and Ohaneze Ndigbo. He vows to die to change things.

Steve Biko once observed that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. This plays out when the civil war hero provokes the compromised Biafran secessionist into frightening Nigerians with threats of violence. Without this fear the civil war hero has no control over his victims – the Nigerian public and Biafran secessionist. But imagine what could happen if the Biafran secessionist reshuffles the card by pledging loyalty to Buhari? The Abiku’s eternal circle of evil is then broken, as the civil war hero will have nothing to blackmail Igbo presidency with.

www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/11/the-biafran-secessionist-and-unsaid-actualities/

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Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by boboLIL(m): 3:10pm On Nov 08, 2015
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Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by madridguy(m): 3:16pm On Nov 08, 2015
Nice write up.
Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by Positivist: 3:33pm On Nov 08, 2015
At the peak of "Kidnapping" in the south east : All millionaires from South East deserted that region. Luxury cars were exchanged for volkswagen beetle for disguise. Some hired ambulance as camouflage to visit home. Some abandoned their mansion to lodge in hotel. Some relocated their business to the "zoo". Some relocated their families and properties to the "zoo". Some died in the hands of those kidnappers. Life became nasty, short and brutish for south easterners. Fear and nightmare killed many millionaires. Many millionaires died in the hands of their captors. All Igbo traditional cultures were deformed during kidnapping hence the "zoo" became a safety net for all. The "zoo" played host to uncountable traditional marriage of our people. The "zoo" played host to our revered traditional New Yam Festival. Churches in the south east went bankrupt because nobody was honouring any invitation of fund raising. Fake and pretentious lifestyle was activated out of fear. Many projects were abandoned both private and public projects. Pupils were withdrawn from schools. At a stage kidnappers started kidnapping themselves while some youths started self kidnapping to exploit their parents and sponsors. Ok.Kontinu In the early days of Boko-haram, many people saw it as a Northern problem. As it escalates, it went beyond a regional problem and become a national problem and migrated to global problem. Any sensible creature that visits Northeast Nigeria today must break down in tears. Some millionaires are now starving in IDP. Life is now a misery in northeast. Some are making millions out of the calamity while millions are lavishing in hunger and deprivation. Hmmmmm. I detest anything violence. I detest Incitement. I detest war I detest aggression. Those sponsoring the Biafra uprising today are short minded creatures that lacks knowledge. There is nothing that you cannot achieve through peaceful means. Advice to 2nd Niger Bridge dwellers, You can empower group of miscreants with lies and deceit as a way of distracting an administration you hate with passion . You will be their first victim when they run out of control. You will not be lucky to re-educate them when they buy into your hate propaganda. Violent struggle are the easiest struggle that can be hijacked by miscreants and terrorist. Violence orientation gives birth to terrorist upbringing. Hating the "zoo" to Greatness will leave you stranded. The zoo might not accommodate us all when it starts . Do not think you have monopoly of violence. To South East Elites, Rise and Educate your populace! Kidnapping litany will be a child's play when miscreants hijack this agitation. You might not live to see the end.. Dear President Buhari, The National Orientation Agency is dead. Revive it. Reactivate it. Declare emergency in NOA. Okokobioko has plenty homes across "zoo". He can minister from anywhere. Chanjiiiiiii is here Embrace it! Diaritz god. Dazzol
- Okeke Godwin Iyke

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Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by Positivist: 3:42pm On Nov 08, 2015
At the peak of "Kidnapping" in the south east : All millionaires from South East deserted that region. Luxury cars were exchanged for volkswagen beetle for disguise. Some hired ambulance as camouflage to visit home. Some abandoned their mansion to lodge in hotel. Some relocated their business to the "zoo". Some relocated their families and properties to the "zoo". Some died in the hands of those kidnappers. Life became nasty, short and brutish for south easterners. Fear and nightmare killed many millionaires. Many millionaires died in the hands of their captors. All Igbo traditional cultures were deformed during kidnapping hence the "zoo" became a safety net for all. The "zoo" played host to uncountable traditional marriage of our people. The "zoo" played host to our revered traditional New Yam Festival. Churches in the south east went bankrupt because nobody was honouring any invitation of fund raising. Fake and pretentious lifestyle was activated out of fear. Many projects were abandoned both private and public projects. Pupils were withdrawn from schools. At a stage kidnappers started kidnapping themselves while some youths started self kidnapping to exploit their parents and sponsors. Ok.Kontinu In the early days of Boko-haram, many people saw it as a Northern problem. As it escalates, it went beyond a regional problem and become a national problem and migrated to global problem. Any sensible creature that visits Northeast Nigeria today must break down in tears. Some millionaires are now starving in IDP. Life is now a misery in northeast. Some are making millions out of the calamity while millions are lavishing in hunger and deprivation. Hmmmmm. I detest anything violence. I detest Incitement. I detest war I detest aggression. Those sponsoring the Biafra uprising today are short minded creatures that lacks knowledge. There is nothing that you cannot achieve through peaceful means. Advice to 2nd Niger Bridge dwellers, You can empower group of miscreants with lies and deceit as a way of distracting an administration you hate with passion . You will be their first victim when they run out of control. You will not be lucky to re-educate them when they buy into your hate propaganda. Violent struggle are the easiest struggle that can be hijacked by miscreants and terrorist. Violence orientation gives birth to terrorist upbringing. Hating the "zoo" to Greatness will leave you stranded. The zoo might not accommodate us all when it starts . Do not think you have monopoly of violence. To South East Elites, Rise and Educate your populace! Kidnapping litany will be a child's play when miscreants hijack this agitation. You might not live to see the end.. Dear President Buhari, The National Orientation Agency is dead. Revive it. Reactivate it. Declare emergency in NOA. Okokobioko has plenty homes across "zoo". He can minister from anywhere. Chanjiiiiiii is here Embrace it! Diaritz god. Dazzol
- Okeke Godwin Iyke
Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by Positivist: 3:43pm On Nov 08, 2015
At the peak of "Kidnapping" in the south east : All millionaires from South East deserted that region. Luxury cars were exchanged for volkswagen beetle for disguise. Some hired ambulance as camouflage to visit home. Some abandoned their mansion to lodge in hotel. Some relocated their business to the "zoo". Some relocated their families and properties to the "zoo". Some died in the hands of those kidnappers. Life became nasty, short and brutish for south easterners. Fear and nightmare killed many millionaires. Many millionaires died in the hands of their captors. All Igbo traditional cultures were deformed during kidnapping hence the "zoo" became a safety net for all. The "zoo" played host to uncountable traditional marriage of our people. The "zoo" played host to our revered traditional New Yam Festival. Churches in the south east went bankrupt because nobody was honouring any invitation of fund raising. Fake and pretentious lifestyle was activated out of fear. Many projects were abandoned both private and public projects. Pupils were withdrawn from schools. At a stage kidnappers started kidnapping themselves while some youths started self kidnapping to exploit their parents and sponsors. Ok.Kontinu In the early days of Boko-haram, many people saw it as a Northern problem. As it escalates, it went beyond a regional problem and become a national problem and migrated to global problem. Any sensible creature that visits Northeast Nigeria today must break down in tears. Some millionaires are now starving in IDP. Life is now a misery in northeast. Some are making millions out of the calamity while millions are lavishing in hunger and deprivation. Hmmmmm. I detest anything violence. I detest Incitement. I detest war I detest aggression. Those sponsoring the Biafra uprising today are short minded creatures that lacks knowledge. There is nothing that you cannot achieve through peaceful means. Advice to 2nd Niger Bridge dwellers, You can empower group of miscreants with lies and deceit as a way of distracting an administration you hate with passion . You will be their first victim when they run out of control. You will not be lucky to re-educate them when they buy into your hate propaganda. Violent struggle are the easiest struggle that can be hijacked by miscreants and terrorist. Violence orientation gives birth to terrorist upbringing. Hating the "zoo" to Greatness will leave you stranded. The zoo might not accommodate us all when it starts . Do not think you have monopoly of violence. To South East Elites, Rise and Educate your populace! Kidnapping litany will be a child's play when miscreants hijack this agitation. You might not live to see the end.. Dear President Buhari, The National Orientation Agency is dead. Revive it. Reactivate it. Declare emergency in NOA. Okokobioko has plenty homes across "zoo". He can minister from anywhere. Chanjiiiiiii is here Embrace it! Diaritz god. Dazzol
- Okeke Godwin Iyke
Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by Positivist: 3:44pm On Nov 08, 2015
At the peak of "Kidnapping" in the south east : All millionaires from South East deserted that region. Luxury cars were exchanged for volkswagen beetle for disguise. Some hired ambulance as camouflage to visit home. Some abandoned their mansion to lodge in hotel. Some relocated their business to the "zoo". Some relocated their families and properties to the "zoo". Some died in the hands of those kidnappers. Life became nasty, short and brutish for south easterners. Fear and nightmare killed many millionaires. Many millionaires died in the hands of their captors. All Igbo traditional cultures were deformed during kidnapping hence the "zoo" became a safety net for all. The "zoo" played host to uncountable traditional marriage of our people. The "zoo" played host to our revered traditional New Yam Festival. Churches in the south east went bankrupt because nobody was honouring any invitation of fund raising. Fake and pretentious lifestyle was activated out of fear. Many projects were abandoned both private and public projects. Pupils were withdrawn from schools. At a stage kidnappers started kidnapping themselves while some youths started self kidnapping to exploit their parents and sponsors. Ok.Kontinu In the early days of Boko-haram, many people saw it as a Northern problem. As it escalates, it went beyond a regional problem and become a national problem and migrated to global problem. Any sensible creature that visits Northeast Nigeria today must break down in tears. Some millionaires are now starving in IDP. Life is now a misery in northeast. Some are making millions out of the calamity while millions are lavishing in hunger and deprivation. Hmmmmm. I detest anything violence. I detest Incitement. I detest war I detest aggression. Those sponsoring the Biafra uprising today are short minded creatures that lacks knowledge. There is nothing that you cannot achieve through peaceful means. Advice to 2nd Niger Bridge dwellers, You can empower group of miscreants with lies and deceit as a way of distracting an administration you hate with passion . You will be their first victim when they run out of control. You will not be lucky to re-educate them when they buy into your hate propaganda. Violent struggle are the easiest struggle that can be hijacked by miscreants and terrorist. Violence orientation gives birth to terrorist upbringing. Hating the "zoo" to Greatness will leave you stranded. The zoo might not accommodate us all when it starts . Do not think you have monopoly of violence. To South East Elites, Rise and Educate your populace! Kidnapping litany will be a child's play when miscreants hijack this agitation. You might not live to see the end.. Dear President Buhari, The National Orientation Agency is dead. Revive it. Reactivate it. Declare emergency in NOA. Okokobioko has plenty homes across "zoo". He can minister from anywhere. Chanjiiiiiii is here Embrace it! Diaritz god. Dazzol
- Okeke Godwin Iyke

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Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by badnature: 3:48pm On Nov 08, 2015
WHO are this IDIOTS? any body from old eastern region that doesn't want the activities of IPOB should relocate to daura.while some slaves never knew that the are slaves,some that do are comfortable being slaves just like the op
Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by Nobody: 4:01pm On Nov 08, 2015
Positivist:

At the peak of "Kidnapping" in the south east :
All millionaires from South East deserted that region.
Luxury cars were exchanged for volkswagen beetle for
disguise.
Some hired ambulance as camouflage to visit home.
Some abandoned their mansion to lodge in hotel.
Some relocated their business to the "zoo".
Some relocated their families and properties to the "zoo".
Some died in the hands of those kidnappers.
Life became nasty, short and brutish for south easterners.
Fear and nightmare killed many millionaires.
Many millionaires died in the hands of their captors.
All Igbo traditional cultures were deformed during
kidnapping hence the "zoo" became a safety net for all.
The "zoo" played host to uncountable traditional marriage of
our people.
The "zoo" played host to our revered traditional New Yam
Festival.
Churches in the south east went bankrupt because nobody
was honouring any invitation of fund raising.
Fake and pretentious lifestyle was activated out of fear.
Many projects were abandoned both private and public
projects.
Pupils were withdrawn from schools.
At a stage kidnappers started kidnapping themselves while
some youths started self kidnapping to exploit their parents
and sponsors.
Ok.Kontinu
In the early days of Boko-haram, many people saw it as a
Northern problem.
As it escalates, it went beyond a regional problem and
become a national problem and migrated to global
problem.
Any sensible creature that visits Northeast Nigeria today
must break down in tears.
Some millionaires are now starving in IDP.
Life is now a misery in northeast.
Some are making millions out of the calamity while millions
are lavishing in hunger and deprivation.
Hmmmmm.
I detest anything violence.
I detest Incitement.
I detest war
I detest aggression.
Those sponsoring the Biafra uprising today are short
minded creatures that lacks knowledge.
There is nothing that you cannot achieve through peaceful
means.
Advice to 2nd Niger Bridge dwellers,
You can empower group of miscreants with lies and deceit
as a way of distracting an administration you hate with
passion . You will be their first victim when they run out of
control.
You will not be lucky to re-educate them when they buy into
your hate propaganda.
Violent struggle are the easiest struggle that can be hijacked
by miscreants and terrorist.
Violence orientation gives birth to terrorist upbringing.
Hating the "zoo" to Greatness will leave you stranded.
The zoo might not accommodate us all when it starts .
Do not think you have monopoly of violence.
To South East Elites,
Rise and Educate your populace!
Kidnapping litany will be a child's play when miscreants
hijack this agitation.
You might not live to see the end..
Dear President Buhari,
The National Orientation Agency is dead.
Revive it.
Reactivate it.
Declare emergency in NOA.
Okokobioko has plenty homes across "zoo".
He can minister from anywhere.
Chanjiiiiiii is here
Embrace it!
Diaritz god. Dazzol

- Okeke Godwin Iyke

this trash

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Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by Nobody: 5:44pm On Nov 08, 2015
Ok
Re: The Biafran Secessionist And Unsaid Actualities--chigachi Eke by Nobody: 5:45pm On Nov 08, 2015
Positivist:
...
I detest anything violence.
I detest Incitement.
I detest war
I detest aggression.
Those sponsoring the Biafra uprising today are short
minded creatures that lacks knowledge.
There is nothing that you cannot achieve through peaceful
means.
Advice to 2nd Niger Bridge dwellers,
You can empower group of miscreants with lies and deceit
as a way of distracting an administration you hate with
passion . You will be their first victim when they run out of
control.
You will not be lucky to re-educate them when they buy into
your hate propaganda.
Violent struggle are the easiest struggle that can be hijacked
by miscreants and terrorist.
Violence orientation gives birth to terrorist upbringing.
Hating the "zoo" to Greatness will leave you stranded.
The zoo might not accommodate us all when it starts .
Do not think you have monopoly of violence.
To South East Elites,
Rise and Educate your populace!
Kidnapping litany will be a child's play when miscreants
hijack this agitation.
You might not live to see the end..
Dear President Buhari,
The National Orientation Agency is dead.
Revive it.
Reactivate it.
Declare emergency in NOA.
Okokobioko has plenty homes across "zoo".
He can minister from anywhere.
Chanjiiiiiii is here
Embrace it!
Diaritz god. Dazzol

- Okeke Godwin Iyke

Lying propagandist, stop spreading falsehood and misinformation because you dread to hear Biaf...

Seeking self-determination does not equate to calls for war as you're mischievously doing. FYI, he that sows the wind must surely reap the whirlwind!

No force on earth can stop a cause whose time has reached. More so, strange bedfellows are not meant to be together.

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Gowon said that Nigerians should be proud of the gains of the war through the healing balm of “no victor, no vanquished.”

According to him, the three Rs of reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction were adopted to enhance national unity.

He also argued that the abandonment of the development plan drafted immediately after the war by successive governments, resulted in the infrastructural decay in the country.

The former head of state, however, lauded Ojukwu for his courage in defending his people during the war, saying: “if Ojukwu were in my shoes, he would have equally waged the war.”

He also commended the Anambra government and management of the university for honouring Ojukwu with the change in name of the institution from Anambra State University to COOU.
https://www.nairaland.com/2440061/igbo-president-heal-civil-war

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OCEANS OF BLOOD AND THE POWER OF TRUTH by Femi Fani-Kayode

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it but in the end, there it is" - Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945 and 1951-1955)

Nothing empowers the spirit more than the
truth. Nothing warms the soul more than
the truth. Nothing dispels the darkness
more than the truth.
Nothing emboldens the noble more than the
truth. Nothing sheds the light more than the
truth. Nothing enlightens the ignorant more
than the truth. Nothing frees the enslaved
more than the truth. Nothing liberates the
mind more than the truth.

Nothing purges the evil more than the truth.
Nothing hurts the vile more than the truth.
Nothing troubles the murderous more than
the truth. Nothing exposes the reprobate
more than the truth.  Nothing burns the
slanderer more than the truth.

Nothing chains the liar more than the truth.
Nothing heals the wounded more than the
truth. Nothing brings the peace more than
the truth. Nothing torments the oppressor
more than the truth. Nothing haunts the
wicked more than the truth. Nothing
punishes the tyrant more than the truth.
Nothing humiliates the proud more than the
truth. Nothing restores our hope more than
the truth. Nothing serves justice more than
the truth. Nothing delivers the captive more
than the truth.  As Churchill said, ‘’the truth is
incontrovertible’’. It is overwhelming and it
is irresistible. It is powerful and it is
beautiful.

It cannot be destroyed.  It cannot be
denied.  It cannot be suppressed. It is
eternal.  It will always be revealed at the
appointed time. It may be ignored for a
season but it will eventually resurface to
torment the deceiver.

With truth comes the opportunity to repent
and to forgive. With truth comes justice,
  healing, peace, love, restoration,
reconciliation, reparation, redemption and
the chance for new beginnings. Without
truth there can be none of these blessings
or virtues: only darkness, deceit, ugliness,
suspicion, hate, carnage, violence and the
enthronement and celebration of bitter and
wretched souls. Without truth evil goes from
strength to strength. Without truth the
wicked crush innocent souls. Without truth
the oppressor continues to thrive and
flourish but with truth the righteous rise
and reach the top.  Without truth nations
wither and perish but with truth they
prosper and excel.

Yet what truth resides in our beleagured
country?  A country that feeds fat on lies and
revels in deceit. A country that refuses to
teach its children our history in order to
cover up the many wrongs and injustices of
the past. A country whose elders refer to the
oppressed and disillusioned as desperate
''miscreants''. A country whose leaders refer
to those that seek to enforce their legitimate
rights as ''money-loving drug dealers and
skilful scammers''.

A country that cannot make a distinction
between those that seek to peacefully
exercise their right of self-determination
and those that terrorise, kill and maim
others in an attempt to impose their faith.
There are many truths that the Nigerian
people will have to come to terms with
before our nation can be at peace with
itself.

An ocean of blood has been shed in the
name of a united Nigeria yet the
perpetrators of state-sponsored violence
have never been brought to book. Many
souls have been wasted in trying to keep us
one. How much more blood has to flow
before those that have ruled us from time
immemorial accept the fact that nations
cannot be established by subjugation and
tyranny but only by justice, equity, truth,
equal rights and consensus.

The truth of the Jos massacre in 1945
where hundreds were slaughtered cannot
be denied. The truth of the Kano riots in
1953 where thousands were butchered
cannot be denied. The truth of the pogroms
in the north in 1966 where hundreds of
thousands were killed cannot be denied.
The truth of the slaughter of millions of
innocent civilians, women and children
between 1967 and 1969 during the
Nigerian civil war cannot be denied.

The truth of the Asaba massacre in 1969
where 1000 little boys and old men were
rounded up in the town square and shot in
the head cannot be denied.
The truth of the massacre of hundreds of
thousands of Christians and ethnic
minorities all over the north and particularly
in the Middle Belt throughout the 80’s and
90’s cannot be denied. The truth of political
sharia with its attendant violence, trauma,
blood-letting and butchery from 2000-2003
in the far north cannot be denied.

The bitter truth of Boko Haram and the
relentless slaughter of hundreds of
thousands of innocent Nigerians by Islamic
fundamentalists in northern Nigeria from
2009 up until today cannot be denied. The
truth of the murder of dozens of young
youth corpers and hundreds of other people
in the far north in 2011 cannot be denied.
The truth of the brutal slaughter of innocent
Nigerians by Fulani herdsmen over the last
20 years and up until today cannot be
denied. O Nigerians, who has bewitched
thee? Why do we hate truth and those that
speak it with such passion?  Like the ostrich,
we have buried our heads in the sand and
we act as if these things never happened.
We refuse to acknowledge the evil within us
and we refuse to honor the dead by atoning
for our sins and calling for retribution and
justice.

These horrendous events cannot be denied
and neither shall they ever be forgotten. The
blood of the innocents that were
slaughtered by these relentless Huns speaks
through the ages and from generation to
generation.  That blood cries out to God in
heaven and it calls for vengeance. It is time
for justice to be done. It is time for those
that consistently kill and shed blood in their
ignoble quest to rule us forever to be
brought to book. It is time for the Tutsis of
Nigeria to be brought to heel. It is time for
those that starved millions of little children
to death in the name of crushing Biafra to
be exposed.

It is time that those who seek to play down
these events and who seek to cover up their
complicity in genocide be called out and
shamed.  It is time that some of our elders
and so-called leaders are sent to the
International Criminal Court for genocide
and murder and for crimes against
humanity. It is time to rediscover our
humanity. It is time for the ancient leaders
and guardians of the Nigerian state to admit
that they have built our so-called unity on
nothing but murder, carnage and the blood,
guts and bones of millions of slaughtered
innocents.

It is time for them to apologies to the
Nigerian people for their insufferable
conspiracy of silence and their insatiable
greed. It is time for them to tell the truth
about our blood-soaked and frightful
history, to confess their sins, to kneel down
before the Ancient of Days and to beg Him
for forgiveness. It is time for them to start
fearing the Lord of Hosts, to stop hating the
messenger and to start dealing with the
message.
AmadiAba:
#BIAFRA: OBAFEMI AWOLOWO, MURTALA MUHAMMAD WERE MURDERERS NOT HEROES – Madam Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo

Look how Ibrahim Taiwo and Murtala Muhammad both died Feb 13th 1976. ‪Assassinated‬. They were no HEROES in Nigeria! Don’t let anyone fool you. I was the best on current affairs on that quiz show on NTA in 1976 at age 11. I knew it all and even became a Journalist.


They led the 2nd infantry military that MURDERED our boys and men in Asaba Biafra The Federal troops entered Asaba around October 5, 1967 and began ransacking houses and killing civilians, claiming they were Biafran sympathisers. Leaders summoned the townspeople to assemble on the morning of October 7, hoping to end the violence through a show of support for “One Nigeria.” Hundreds of men, women, and children, many wearing the ceremonial akwa ocha (white) attire paraded along the main street, singing, dancing, and chanting “One Nigeria.” At a junction, men and teenage boys were separated from women and young children, and gathered in an open square at Ogbe-Osawa village.

Federal troops revealed machine guns, and... FULL STORY HERE >>>  http://www.igberetvnews.com/?p=21893

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