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naptu2:
Commotion in London

I want to make one more post about the Mid-West invasion. It's a. "What happened to them" post. I mentioned a lot of people in my posts, so what happened to them in the end? But I'm not sure if I'll have the time to make it.

My mind is already wandering towards another series. It's the 25th anniversary of my argument with that professor, so I feel that I should reproduce the argument here. Who killed Ironsi?? There's a massive myth about the identity of the person that killed Ironsi, despite the fact that the truth is obvious. Many Nigerians love amazing stories and will always stick to these amazing stories even though they are not true. Someone that was right there when Ironsi was shot has told the true story of what happened to Ironsi, the person that is always falsely accused has told the true story, one of the kidnappers has confessed, but people chose to believe that tales of people that were not there when Ironsi was kidnapped.


Anyway, I was also searching for videos of the two press conferences in London (I've watched them before) when I remembered this. The chaos in London. There were two senior officers that played minor, yet interesting roles in the crisis. These officers were General Gowon's seniors. They both gave separate press conferences in London. This particular press conference was interrupted by a Biafran protester. The protester was eventually apprehended (after a lot of drama) and thrown out.

The two senior officers were Babafemi Ogundipe and George Kurubo. Ogundipe had been Ironsi's deputy. He was smuggled out of Nigeria and eventually became Nigerian high commissioner to the UK during the Gowon era. The other was George Kurubo. George Kurubo was the first Nigerian chief of the Air Staff. He was chief of the Air Staff during Ironsi's regime. He became the commander of the Biafran Air Force at the beginning of the war. However, he later defected to the Nigerian side. He said, during this press conference, that the Ijaws had always been fighting for a Rivers State and Gowon had given them what they wanted. Kurubo was eventually made the Nigerian ambassador to the Soviet Union.

However, before Kurubo could begin speaking, this protester held up a sign that read, "Ogundipe and Kurubo are traitors" and then this drama ensued.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvdFsJzC6k

tutudesz:

https://www.nairaland.com/6635665/ijaw-leaders-meet-british-government

Paperwhite:
Meanwhile, the North has outsmarted them as it is now 3% revenue for the goose that is laying the golden egg down south and a whooping 50% to the terrorists-infested regions where oil is just being explored for and not even found yet in commercial quantity. The south must really be the most stupid set of Nigerians.Ndi Niger Delta una see una lives?

naptu2:
Commotion in London

I want to make one more post about the Mid-West invasion. It's a. "What happened to them" post. I mentioned a lot of people in my posts, so what happened to them in the end? But I'm not sure if I'll have the time to make it.

My mind is already wandering towards another series. It's the 25th anniversary of my argument with that professor, so I feel that I should reproduce the argument here. Who killed Ironsi?? There's a massive myth about the identity of the person that killed Ironsi, despite the fact that the truth is obvious. Many Nigerians love amazing stories and will always stick to these amazing stories even though they are not true. Someone that was right there when Ironsi was shot has told the true story of what happened to Ironsi, the person that is always falsely accused has told the true story, one of the kidnappers has confessed, but people chose to believe that tales of people that were not there when Ironsi was kidnapped.


Anyway, I was also searching for videos of the two press conferences in London (I've watched them before) when I remembered this. The chaos in London. There were two senior officers that played minor, yet interesting roles in the crisis. These officers were General Gowon's seniors. They both gave separate press conferences in London. This particular press conference was interrupted by a Biafran protester. The protester was eventually apprehended (after a lot of drama) and thrown out.

The two senior officers were Babafemi Ogundipe and George Kurubo. Ogundipe had been Ironsi's deputy. He was smuggled out of Nigeria and eventually became Nigerian high commissioner to the UK during the Gowon era. The other was George Kurubo. George Kurubo was the first Nigerian chief of the Air Staff. He was chief of the Air Staff during Ironsi's regime. He became the commander of the Biafran Air Force at the beginning of the war. However, he later defected to the Nigerian side. He said, during this press conference, that the Ijaws had always been fighting for a Rivers State and Gowon had given them what they wanted. Kurubo was eventually made the Nigerian ambassador to the Soviet Union.

However, before Kurubo could begin speaking, this protester held up a sign that read, "Ogundipe and Kurubo are traitors" and then this drama ensued.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvdFsJzC6k

fozapi:


no body will take the ijaws serious,if they like they should meet the queen

tutudesz:

Who na don meet before

naptu2:
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donbachi:
Op,Stop posting lies...leuitenant colonel George kurubo was appointed on merit as the Most senior ranking officer then..his appointment was not solely the making of ironsi...It was in line with the chain of command.
I'm of the same War canoe house with him.

fozapi:


mumu if ironsi was buhari do you think he would get there,merit or no merit ironsi could have removed him like buhari is doing today..look you cant twist history,why did he betray igbos?

tutudesz:

https://www.nairaland.com/6635665/ijaw-leaders-meet-british-government

fozapi:


stop acting dumb this yeye boy

donbachi:
Don't be fast at Insulting people on nairaland...ur father could be on nairaland.
I expected u to educate me more,than the "mumu" name calling.thanks.

tutudesz:

Guy u need a job

duro4chang:
And so what ? What is your problem ?

fozapi:


writing is my job

Nasaa12nasaa:
Hey

naptu2:
2nd video:

Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe was chief of staff of the Nigerian Armed Forces and this made him the second in command and deputy head of state in the Ironsi Regime. However, both he and Ironsi did not have enough followers, both in the military and among civilians and Ironsi was killed while Ogundipe was smuggled out of Nigeria by sea.

Ogundipe was later appointed as the Nigerian high commissioner to the UK.

This is a video of a press conference and interview that he granted in London in 1969.


The interviewer asked him about air raids in Biafra. He said that the allegations of bombing of civilians were exaggerated. He said that the Federal side was not deliberately bombing civilians as this would be counter productive since the aim of the government was reunification. The interviewer pressed him further on issues related to air raids in Biafra.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TdqFfx8DuQ

naptu2:
This is a video of people from Rivers State protesting in London against Biafra in 1968.

The protesters said that the Biafran authorities had set up concentration camps in which people of Rivers State origin were being tortured. They claimed that the Biafrans were oppressing minorities in the East. They marched to 10 Downing Street to present a letter to the British Prime Minister asking him to help crush "the tyranny of Biafra". They also marched to the residence of the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Heenan, to deliver a protest letter. It was believed that the Vatican/Catholic Church supported Biafra and Cardinal Heenan (who was vocal in his support for Biafra) had preached a sermon at an interdenominational service that angered a lot of Nigerians. You can hear the protesters chanting, "Heenan out".

Many people of Rivers State origin supported the federal side in the war, especially after Rivers State was created. The minorities in the East had been campaigning for separate states since the late 1950s, because they felt that they were being dominated by the Igbos in Eastern Nigeria. Isaac Adaka Boro had launched a rebellion in order to free the Niger Delta people from what he believed was the oppression of the Igbos in Eastern Nigeria. The head of state, Major General Ironsi, sent in the army to crush the rebellion and Boro was arrested. When General Gowon took over and created Rivers State, he released Isaac Boro from detention and Boro became a major in the Nigerian Army and fought on the Federal side in the war.


The chief of air staff of Biafra, Colonel George Kurubo, also defected to the Federal side. He said that his people had always wanted a Rivers State and that there was no reason to keep fighting since their demand had been granted. He later became the Nigerian ambassador to the Soviet Union.

The people of the old Ogoja and Calabar provinces had also campaigned for a separate COR state. They were therefore pleased when Gowon created the South-Eastern State (the predecessor of the present Cross River and Akwa Ibom states). Therefore, the Biafran authorities placed many people from these areas under special watch. Many people from these areas were relocated from their homeland because the Biafrans suspected that they supported and were assisting the Federal side. One of the most publicised war crimes committed by the Biafrans occurred when federal troops landed in Calabar in October 1967. About 167 civilians in detention were lined up and executed by Biafran soldiers.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuG2KZfpYPg

TarOrfeeek:
Aguiyi Ironsi was such a gentle man officer

For him to consider the Ijaw man instead of a fellow SE officer shows he remains miles ahead of any Funali despot in conduct and policy.

The best officer Nigeria ever produced.

fozapi:


finest general trained by the british,first nigerian indigenous general