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"I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 11:42am On May 05, 2020 |
"During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to the Iboland – at that time…East Central State – I kept it, and I saved the money for them. And when the [state] was liberated I handed over the money to them – millions. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them. And then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of £990,000 every month. I didn’t go to the executive council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the executive council at that time, the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the executive council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – £990,000, almost a million, every month – and I did that for other states of course – South Eastern State, North Central State, Kwara and so on." But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the African Continental Bank, ACB, got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given. TWENTY POUNDS POLICY That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated. At the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course I couldn’t do that; if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. I didn’t take part in setting up the panel. It was done by the Central Bank and the pertinent officials of the Ministry of Finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter. They took some months to do so, and then make some recommendations which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approve, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war. – Excerpts from an interview Awo granted during a town hall meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, in 1983 (2012) 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 11:44am On May 05, 2020 |
And he later drank rat poison . 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 11:46am On May 05, 2020 |
Yoruba Revisionist at work. Never see people like this. 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 11:47am On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360:Is that how to be grateful to someone that ensure (even tho you hated him) you didn't perish after the war. 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by kestolove95(m): 11:48am On May 05, 2020 |
Terrorist tribe 1 Like |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 11:49am On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360: Bring out facts. Who gave the ibos traders loan to kick-start their trades again? Who financed your ibo traders cooperative? 8 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Kingseex1(m): 11:53am On May 05, 2020 |
According To Late Awolowo He Gave The Southeast Region Almost A Million Pounds Monthly And OfCourse He Did That For Other Region Too. I No Understand This Kind Help, the only help i see here is funding of the ACB with 3.5 million pounds which is commendable modified 1 Like |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 11:57am On May 05, 2020 |
MinorityOpinion:Grateful to someone who mastermind the starvation of 3.5 million biafran children. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 11:59am On May 05, 2020 |
Kingseex1:Na yoruba theory 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by slimfit1(m): 12:01pm On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360: Bold enough to do it not running away like a coward. Ojukwu ran, Kanu run shameless people. 6 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 12:05pm On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360: You know nothing about war. Read how ibos abused those tribes that were from SS because they don't wanna be part of your biafra during the war. You massacred, raped and destroyed them. 7 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 12:07pm On May 05, 2020 |
slimfit1: Do you know the height of it all? Ojukwu came back to contest in a country he so much hate and wanted to leave. Yet he lost. Some people don't just have dignity and class. 6 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by seunmsg(m): 12:14pm On May 05, 2020 |
Gowon and Awolowo were too magnanimous as far as I’m concerned. The insult they receive from the same people they did everything for is as a result of their magnanimity. Henceforth, any part of Nigeria that wages war against the country better win. If not, they will be subjected to unimaginable sufferings after defeat. The days of good guys like Gowon and Awolowo doing no victor no vanquished is over. 7 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 12:19pm On May 05, 2020 |
MinorityOpinion:No loan was given to Igbo traders.on what grand was the loan given to them? What collateral did they used in getting the loan? After the war,three Rs were proposed.reconciliation,rehabilitation and Reconstruction. which of the three really happen. Did your Awolowo government rebuild any where in east. enough of this lies from you yoruba. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 12:23pm On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360: "when the war was over, I saw to it that the African Continental Bank, ACB, got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as commissioner for finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the ministry of economic planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas." 6 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 12:24pm On May 05, 2020 |
MinorityOpinion:Another lies from yorubas. Even Asaba massacre was carried out by igbos.-yoruba history. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Chikelue2000(m): 12:25pm On May 05, 2020 |
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Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 12:39pm On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360: But the story of innocents suffering was not a totally one-sided one. A forgotten aspect of the civil war concerns the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Igbo-dominated Biafran side against minority groups within what had been the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, as well as against other Nigerian ethnic groups in the Mid-Western State when it was temporarily occupied by Biafran forces. A missing aspect of the narrative concerns the ill-treatment meted out to minority groups within secessionist Biafra such as the Efik, Ijaw, Ogoja and Ibibio. It would be remiss not to remind that these groups were targeted along with Igbos in the northern part of the country during the explosions of communal violence in May 1966, as well as between September and October of that year. But they would later suffer persecution and human rights abuses at the hands of the largely Igbo Biafran Army. Much of this stemmed from real and imagined sympathy on the part of members of these communities for the Federal cause. The minority communities of the old Eastern Region had after all campaigned for the creation of more states; something which the Nigerian Head of State, Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon had done in May 1967. And while some non-Igbo officers such as Lt. Colonel Phillip Effiong, an Ibibio, served in the Biafran armed forces, others such as Colonel George Kurobo had defected to the Federal side. An example of abuses against Biafran minorities concerns that of the Ikun people, who were suspected of collaboration. This led to detentions, looting and raping by Biafran troops in Ikunland. Many males were rounded up and ‘disappeared’, while others were shot to death. 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. The Nigerian Consulate in New York published details of this atrocity as an informational advertisement in the New York Times as part of the propaganda war with the Biafrans, whose own propaganda machinery at home, and operating internationally under the auspices of the Geneva-based Markpress public relations firm, always had the edge over the Federal side. 6 Likes
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Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by jlinkd78(m): 12:41pm On May 05, 2020 |
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Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 12:52pm On May 05, 2020 |
MinorityOpinion:stop copying and pasting those nonesense written by your fellow yoruba Revisionist. On what grand did they get awolowo loan? what were the collateral for Igbo traders to get the loans? Was there any rehabilitation in east after the war. Did your awolowo government Reconstruct anywhere in east after the war.If yes then mention where and where. 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 1:05pm On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360: Stop asking silly questions and prove the quoted words wrong 3 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Deebwebb: 1:09pm On May 05, 2020 |
Yoruba's trying to cause disunity between south east and south south,you guys need new allies why not try north,you lot are betrayals and coward,after backstabbing goodluck you now want ally from us... 7 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Tranquillity360: 1:11pm On May 05, 2020 |
MinorityOpinion:Prove wrong a Quote written by a yoruba man around 2012. If you can't answer the questions i asked then am done with you. 4 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Paperwhite(m): 1:11pm On May 05, 2020 |
Awolowo acted wrongly during & after the war. 4 Likes |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by LivingSage: 1:12pm On May 05, 2020 |
Very fair Oselu baba ikene 1 Like |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Yaribanzaonic: 1:13pm On May 05, 2020 |
Afonja OP!!...Kpele ohhh!!! You wallow in Pain and Fear of IGBOs. Its so Obvious that its heavy in the air. BUT THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL, IS THAT YOU AND YOUR CONGREGATION OF PARASITIC AFONJAs will NEVER Surpass IGBOs. You ONLY FEAR who is REALLY BETTER THAN YOU!!! 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 1:14pm On May 05, 2020 |
Igbo amaka 5 Likes
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Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by tatatar: 1:20pm On May 05, 2020 |
Maybe you should have just let them all starve to death.Now see the menace they constitute. |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 1:48pm On May 05, 2020 |
Deebwebb: Between a tribe that massacred your grand parents, raped your grandmothers, looted your tribe and a tribe that voted what they thought was the best for them. Who should you be angry with? Pick your fight wisely unless you are an ipob pretending to be SS 1 Like |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 1:51pm On May 05, 2020 |
Tranquillity360: Are you for real? you dont know the meaning of prove wrong ? It means bring another fact that will prove the above quote wrong. 1 Like |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by Nobody: 1:53pm On May 05, 2020 |
tatatar: Two wrongs don't make a right. He did good. |
Re: "I Was Fair To The Igbos" - Awolowo (1983 Interview) by iFukLivingSage: 1:55pm On May 05, 2020 |
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