quote:"When he(Banjo) knew that what was going on in the East will not favour the country and the Yoruba race, he came back to the West,"
....And met with the fate that awaits all traitors.
I hope Mbadinuju is reading this stuff. he can see how his fellow governors are sending represantatives to celebrate one of their cowardly sons. May all the Igbo/Biafran traitors end like that young man!
Guardian Sept 25, 2002 Family, friends eulogise Banjo, ex-Biafran army chief From Iyabo Sotunde, Ibadan MEMORIES of the 1966 coup and subsequent events that culminated in the Nigerian Civil War were re-kindled yesterday, as a book on one of the actors in the war, late Colonel Victor Banjo was launched in Ibadan.
Banjo, who teamed up with his friend and former Biafran warlord, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu was killed during the war while on the Biafran side.
But for Prof. Adetowun Ogunsheye, the author of the book entitled: A Break In The Silence, Banjo had been misunderstood by analysts and chroniclers of Nigerian political history, hence the writing of the book.
She told the audience, which included former Governor of the defunct Western Region, Maj.-Gen. Adeyinka Robert Adebayo, Secretary-General of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), Justice Adewale Thompson and the body's president, Pa Emmanuel Alayande, that the urge to put the record straight, prompted her to write the book.
She declared: "The book is about breaking the enforced silence. We were in the eye of the storm during the civil war, when the news came out that he was one of the coup plotters, I was very angry and shocked and I knew he could not have been part of the coup. I recommend this book to be read not because I wrote it but for the need to set the record straight".
Reminiscing on the 1966 coup at the book launch, Gen. Adebayo said he would have been killed during the coup but for his extended stay abroad while on an official assignment.
Adebayo, who was the then Chief of Army Staff, was listed among those to be executed by the plotters of the first military coup in January 15, 1966.
According to him: "My prolonged stay abroad on official assignment saved me from being killed.
"I even survived the second coup by the whisker, because I returned from England after a six-month course on July 28, 1966, barely 24 hours before the coup plotters struck, killing among others, the then Governor of Western Region, Lt.-Col. Adekunle Fajuyi along with his guest and Head of State, Maj-Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi in the governor's lodge in the Oyo State capital."
The retired general recalled that after the second coup, the Northerners in the Army insisted that an officer from the region must be the head of state.
"Fortunately or unfortunately for me, when the second coup took place, I thought it was an avenue for top ranking Yoruba military men to be at the helms of affairs in the country but the Northerners insisted that somebody of their stock must head the country and I said no, I objected to the idea when people like Brigadier Ademuwagun, Colonel Sodeinde, Brigadier Ogundipe were next in rank to whoever the next northerner might be," the former military governor said.
Continuing, Adebayo said: "I had to run to Sir Adetokunbo Ademola and Alhaji S.L. Edu to intervene".
Reflecting on the life and times of the late Banjo, the first director of Nigerian Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Corps, Adebayo described him as an outstanding person who loved the job of the army but unfortunately got involved with Ojukwu because they were friends and they worked together.
"When he knew that what was going on in the East will not favour the country and the Yoruba race, he came back to the West," he added.
At the occasion were representatives of Oyo and Lagos State governors, Chief Fola Ighodalo, Dr. Kunle Olajide and Dr. Bayo Banjo.
Others included Prof. O. O. Akinkungbe, Prof. J.F. Ade-Ajayi, Prof. Adesegun Banjo and Mr. Bode Sowande.
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I cannot believe that Adeyinka Adebayo made the following admission,
quote: When he(Banjo) knew that what was going on in the East will not favour the country and the Yoruba race, he came back to the West.
It is a devastating admission that Banjo was a traitor, an absolute indictment made by Banjo's own Yoruba stock. It vindicates General Ojukwu's decision to execute Banjo as a Biafran saboteur. Banjo was not an honorable man. He was a traitor to both the Biafrans and the Nigerians. Now, years after Banjo's death, only the traitor race, the Yoruba race, could consider him a hero or dare honor him. The more you read from the yellow-bellied Col. Adeyinka Adebayo's of Nigeria, the more you grow to respect General Ojukwu of Biafra for his wisdom and foresight.
Whole generations of misguided Yoruba children are growing up on the fabrications contained in the "archives" of Mobolaji Aluko and Nowa Omoigui, two heretics that have taught their confused younger generations that Banjo was misunderstood by the Biafrans. Now, the Yoruba have admitted that one of their "finest" was nothing but a TRAITOR. Shame on the Yoruba.
In Wole Soyinka's "The Man Died," Soyinka writes about a Banjo who waxed articulate in his condemnation of his own Yoruba people for their inaction in the face of anti-Igbo genocide. Banjo was subsequently given command of Army forces charged to stop genocide and take the war to the seat of crime in Lagos. It was Banjo's opportunity to match his deeds with his rhetoric. In the end, he took the path of dishonor, the Yoruba path. That is how he will be remembered.
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You two are funny. You are calling Banjo a traitor because he left you and your Biafra and joined his own people. Are you not the same people who also think that Ike Nachukwu is a traitor for not fighting on his people's (Igbo people's) side? Do you only want Igbo people, but not Yoruba people, to support their own kind? When will you make up your mind?
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What do you guys expect? Brave race honoring a Yellow or the Yellow honoring their own Yellow? For those of you who still can't remember, the word "Sabo" at 16 during the way was first used to reflect Banjo's action on Biafrangrounds. His picture was posted all over Midwest [Igbo section] and Biafra as a wanted man. It reads. " Have you see this man? beware of sabboteurs" with his picture on the poster.He is a reflection of a cowardly snake under Okirika. A Yellow belly, I must add.
Hail Biafra
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A glass half filled with half liquid could be seen differently by different people, it could be half full or half empty, it is all perceptions. The ominous dangerous thing is when we deliberately and shamefully used insensitive categorization of personal perception to judge and cast aspersions based on tribal jingoism.
You might call Adeyinka Adebayo all sorts of names because you have the freedom of choice to distort people’s records and achievement using the yardstick of your well-known tribalistic tendencies. It is an affront and a public display of low mentality to be so arrogant and insensitive in the classification and degeneration that you rendered.
Banjo might have erred in his judgment to joined hand with the warlord selfish desire to secede from the nation, and having realized his folly try to retract his steps, but he ends up being offered as sacrificial lamb to the god of biafra. Banjo might be a traitor to the Igbo tribe, but to his Yoruba tribe, he might not be. To used the statement credited to Adebayo as a vindication of the dastardly act of Ojukwu is nothing but disingenuous.
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"Banjo might be a traiter to Igbo but not to the Yorubas" ..Babyboyz.
A Yellow belly is defined as someone who chickens out of a plan for lack of guts. If Banjo is not a traitor to the Yorubas why are the Yellow bellies wanting an Oduduwa republic after Banjo?
Hail Biafra
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quote:Originally posted by bababoyz: Banjo might have erred in his judgment to joined hand with the warlord selfish desire to secede from the nation, and having realized his folly try to retract his steps, but he ends up being offered as sacrificial lamb to the god of biafra. Banjo might be a traitor to the Igbo tribe, but to his Yoruba tribe, he might not be. To used the statement credited to Adebayo as a vindication of the dastardly act of Ojukwu is nothing but disingenuous.
He should be a hero to the Yoruba way. One would only have to ask; for what? Yoruba like the cowards that they are, preferred to murder the Biafrans in their midst, if only to occupy their vacated positions, or as a sacrifice to placate from Hausa attack.
Next, as a coward race, Yoruba neatly folded under Hausa (responsible for genocidal crime against Biafra) who conviniently used Western and Mid Western Nigeria as and additional base to forment war against Biafra.
When Biafra now launched an offensive against Nigerias Western bases in an attempt to take Lagos which as a national capital was a strategic location, Banjo now discovered that it was "Yoruba shoil" and - out went his sense of righteous and moral indignation agaisnt silence (and acquiesence) to Genocide, - out went the sense of reasoning which should have told him that the Hausa who were dancing makossa on their heads were doing it 1.) On Yoruba shoil ... and, 2.) At Biafran expense and that Biafrans had a right to march strategigally towards any angle their enemy might be coming from especially their capital city.
Banjo as an army man should have had the forthrightness of mind to know that for the purposes of strategy the war would have to be fought that way, but what did he do, he decided to betray the lives of comrades who only a few hours before were taking orders from him as their trusted leader, men who only a few hours ago were ready to die (as many did) on his order to stand up against enemy fire.
He suddenly discovered that Yorubaland long since ravaged and pillaged by Hausa was now "Native shoil" and at the blink of an eye, principle (as with most Yoruba) gave way to cheap treachery; the unprincipled and greedy desire to have it both ways. thus rendering himself (wasted and radioactive) neither Hero nor villain to the Yoruba, A useless Inyamiri to the Hausa, and a treacherous traitor to the Biafrans (to whom Banjo's example should remain the greatest example of why not to ever take a Yoruba into confidence in any plans good or bad even if they are the nicest person in the whole world)
He remains an epitome of what the Yoruba are today, A group of people long oppressed by the ravages of multiple colonialism, First by the Hausa, Next by the British, and after independence, again by the Hausa; -before, -during, -and after the civil war till date A group of people long shorn of principled behaviour, Obsessively given to tribalism, petty jealousy and treacherous covetuousness, who despite opportunities to take principled stands on meaningful issues, prefer to play the envious opportunist by laying in wait for those who do, gaining their trust, and commiting treacherously spiteful acts so seriously shortsighted and flawed as to render them as a Nation perpetually wasted, in bondage, and radioactive epecially to their own interest.
This is the example Banjo showed. even way back then.
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Like Damian Stated almost 40 years later Ojukwu and aburi accord have been vindicated, by Adebayo's statement. Remember Ojukwu asked Ogundipe to take over Military command as the most senior officer, But he chickened out. Brave men always rise up to the occasion. Remember if it wasn't for ironsi, Nzeogwu;s coup would have succeeded. Ironsi took charge as the most senior army officer, but when is a yoruba man's turn he chickened out. remember Diya again during Abacha, Diya planned a coup, but when the going gets tough he started to cry.
Banjo was a traitor and that is the end of the story.
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Just to prove my point.....about a guttless race. I ask .........
THE BIG QUESTION? : Is Ilorin still internally colonized by the parasitic race[Hausa] and when will the Yellow Bellies take back their land occupied by foreign Hausa?????
Hail Biafra
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quote: He suddenly discovered that Yorubaland long since ravaged and pillaged by Hausa was now "Native shoil" and at the blink of an eye, principle (as with most Yoruba) gave way to cheap treachery; the unprincipled and greedy desire to have it both ways. thus rendering himself (wasted and radioactive) neither Hero nor villain to the Yoruba, A useless Inyamiri to the Hausa, and a treacherous traitor to the Biafrans (to whom Banjo's example should remain the greatest example of why not to ever take a Yoruba into confidence in any plans good or bad even if they are the nicest person in the whole world)
I love that, yes, the nicest Yoruba, once taken into confidence becomes a traitor, they are as simple as that. Awolowo, Bola Ige down to Banjo are all traitors. treachery and cowardice is the brand name of the Yoruba race.
___________________ He likened the second coming of Christ to the realisation of the Biafran dream, stating that at a time people least expect, the much sought Biafra would be a reality..Rev. Fr. Cornelius Ezeiloaku Posts: 622 | From: santiago, chile | Registered: Jan 2002
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A favourite mantra of fans, of the Danish philosopher Søren Kirkegaard, is to "træde i karakter". Literary it could be translated to mean "Step in character or have a strong character".
To better understand the import of the mantra, I will use Col. Fajuyi. One could say that Fajuyi "stepped in character" when he preferred to die alongside his guest, Commander Ironsi in 1966.
Furthermore, I recall Fajuyi was a man that enjoyed the good things of life. He drank, unlike Victor Banjo, that was characterised as an intellectual. One could say, alive Banjo did step in character, Fajuyi did not. But when it really mattered, the later did "step in character", to the admiration of any "honest to goodness" Igbo (Nigerians too).
From the archive of Nigeria's political history, we know that the rivalry between Zik and Awo, destroyed a golden opportunity to uplift the South of Nigeria. Then came the event, when a Yoruba man (Fajuyi) stepped in character, suddenly it seemed there was hope after all. I dare say, Fajuyi's legacy, the friendship (trust) between Ojukwu and Banjo, then a sign of good faith to the West (read Yoruba), contributed in the decision to assigning Banjo the Command to liberate the West.
What did he do? He flawed in character, he simply did not "step in character". That the West now, celebrate that betrayal of trust, goes to vindicate the generation of Igbo, that religiously hold to the notion, the Yoruba wo(man) can not be trusted. That all the talk, of how the Igbo and the Yoruba could have become the synergy to uplift the South of Nigeria, is still embracing a dream. As one erudite Igbo man would say, it is all embellishment. Good ideas, dreams, don’t need embellishment - got that Folanke!
Granted, my people have also shamelessly celebrated betrayal, but then two wrong does not make a right. More so, if you really think it is alright to celebrate a man that was entrusted with the lives of many young Biafran soldiers and flawed, then my dear lady Folanke, it will not be your generation of Yoruba race and Ndiigbo, that will uplift the South of Nigeria.
You called Damian and Ohafia, hypocrite, I'd say it is cheap to compare Nwachukwu with Banjo. How is that? Matter-of-factly, Nwachukwu was a Lt. or a Captain, yes he is Igbo alright, but he did not have that responsibility. Whereas, (Brigadier) Banjo's action was responsible for so much calamity. Now, I have not read the book. I hope the lady will do justice to posterity, by doing better than David Ejoor. You'll recall, in a recent interview, Ejoor did not mention Banjo's betrayal, unless he was not privy to what transpired. Adebayo, simply told, what is common knowledge to anyone whose perception has not been distorted.
While we are it, if is true that Nwachukwu asked to be relieved of his service, hence he was posted to Lagos, that I'd say was an honourable thing to do. Banjo could have done same. There was no plan to destroy the West, the West was not the enemy, the floodgate of hell opened, after Banjo messed things up. Biafran soldiers suddenly did not know whom to trust or take command from, well I will spare you the details.
My advice, if there is any iota of hope for Ndiigbo and the descendants of Oduduwa, Banjo should be forgotten, and Fajuyi ought to be whom Omo oduduwa be celebrating. Again, for posterity, people like Adebayo should reveal all they know. Lie is short, but the Truth lingers on, and on and on.
Something to think about, next time Yoruba intellectual’s try to sell Igbo + Yoruba equals to paradise (synergy), is that the last time Ndiigbo entrusted their destiny in the hands of a trusted friend, he did not "step in character". Therefore, trust is not a thing you can bribe yourself to, write yourself to, it is something you earn. So far, I don’t see it coming Madam.
So come again.
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Hmnnn, see my people. Instead of us exploring the complexity of this man's life, we are talking of betrayal and traitors. Inasmuch as I would not consider Victor Banjo a hero, on the other hand, what did he betray?
You can not betray that which you had no faith in in the first place. No one can say for sure what the course of the civil war would have been if Victor had chosen a different course of action - would it have ended earlier if Biafran forces had advanced on Lagos, and thus saved the subsequent human misery that followed? Or would it on the other hand have resulted in more brutality of the sort that the overrun non-Igbo ethnic groups visited on their Igbo cousins in the midwest? who are we to tell?
In the final analysis, whatever his motivation was, we must conclude that Victor Banjo paid with his life for his convictions, and that in my book can not be a bad way to die.
Ifa has spoken.
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1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circumstances that have led to the current and inevitable disintegration of what was the Federation of Nigeria. We have been fully convinced that the aim of the Hausa/Fulani complex has ever been, and will ever remain, the total domination of every other part of what was known as the Federation of Nigeria. It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree, the people of the Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools, the gallant people of Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas. We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and freedom during 1965.
2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination.
We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.
3. After clearing the whole question with my Executive Council, I, as the Commander in Chief of the Biafran Armed Forces, have decided to place at your disposal Biafran forces, for the liberation of Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:-
(i) You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator in the Mid-West Territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West.
(ii) The willingness and preparedness of Biafra to assist any part of the former Federation of Nigeria wishing and willing to liberate itself from the Hausa/Fulani domination, does not in anyway whatever imply any inclination on her part to compromise her sovereignty or preserve what remains of the defunct Federation of Nigeria. In other words, our sovereignty and break with Nigeria is irrevocable. Nothing must, therefore be said or done by you or any member of the Liberation Army to give a contrary impression.
(iii) Biafra is determined to maintain and safeguard her sovereignty and ensure that her integrity and safety are never again threatened.
(iv) Biafran troops will, after the liberation of the Yorubaland, remain in that territory only for as long as we in Biafra consider it necessary for the Yorubas to consolidate their position and sovereignty against any external threat.
(v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory.
(vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba.
(vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.
(viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops.
(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss:
(a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;
( the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.
4. I do not need to remind you that Biafra regards all Yoruba as friends. As such everything should be done, to ensure the minimum force and loss of life are involved in achieving the objective of liberation.
5. It is essential, in order to avoid misunderstanding or confusion, that all subsequent requests for support be formally made to me by you in writing.
6. Will you please signify in writing, your acceptance of the above conditions so that you may leave for Western Nigeria and lead the army of liberation.
Yours very sincerely,
signed Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu,
Military Governor and Commander in Chief of Biafran Armed Forces
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iv) Biafran troops will, after the liberation of the Yorubaland, remain in that territory only for as long as we in Biafra consider it necessary for the Yorubas to consolidate their position and sovereignty against any external threat.
(v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory.
(vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba.
(vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.
What a fallacious dream!
Come to think of it, the same warlord credited with the above now have interest in ruling the country he wanted to selfishly break up.
quote: 2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination.
We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.
Alas, Ojukwu, Banjo and the Biafrans were wrong in what they thought the Yoruba wanted. When Banjo got to Ore which is circa 45mins drive from Lagos the Yoroba agbalagbas told him the Yorobas wanted the "life" without the equality and self-respect never mind justice.
When yoroba general Abdulkarim Adisa was asked why he wept at the feet of a major he quipped: "I cried to save my life".
It is only in yoroba land that a man can live without honour. Poor Banjo, he came ahead of his time and even in death Biafra taught him how to take responsibility for his actions. May his soul rest in peace as they say.
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"Oyo oru oba" or Yoruba is indeed a nation of cowards, never to be trusted by the Igbo. Why did they say they wanted a seperate homeland in the '60s, but when it came time to liberate their land, they found opportunity in abandoned Igbo positions in nigeria, cowered and bit Biafra in the back. Now they're talking about Oduduwa republic, but they have one million "shofisticated" reasons why they will not take up arms to fight for it.
Biafra is right. Banjo didn't understand his people that well. Too bad he had to paid for their cowardly plots, maneuvers and backbiting.
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quote: Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination.
We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.
3. After clearing the whole question with my Executive Council, I, as the Commander in Chief of the Biafran Armed Forces, have decided to place at your disposal Biafran forces, for the liberation of Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:-
Whaoo. somebody please pinch me! Arrogant, egoistical, bull, crap, nonsense!!!!!. Who gave this guy the impression that the Yoruba need a savior in him or his Biafra Executive Council?. These guys and their descendants need to purge themselves of their air of arrogance and get off their high horse. Prithee, who needs deliverance, Biafra or the Yoruba?. I bet if they were delivered we wont have a reason for this website. Bull.... !. This is the height of unbridled arrogance, it is extrmely insulting, and no wonder we keep moving in circles. For attempting to impose on a group of people who are acclaimed to be MENTALLY SUPERIOR to you, the end result is a no-brainer, FAILURE. You can call the Yorubas anything from traitors to cowards: your lot is not made any better, and the earlier you come to understand that the Yorubas possess something in abundance that is sorely lacking in the Igbo psyche: UNCOMMON NATIVE WISDOM, the closer we will get to the root of our problems. No wonder the continued frustration and cries of marginalization from the Igbos. I see no end in sight, not with the level of Ignorance constantly displayed by supposed elders, abi Ojukwu no be elder?
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quote:Who gave this guy the impression that the Yoruba need a savior in him or his Biafra Executive Council?. - addy
Wouldn't a little appreciation, which doesn't exist in Yoruba idiom be helpful sometimes? I thought so! If the Yoruba didn't need a "savior" could you then tell us why Banjo ran with the Biafran supplied army all the way to Ore? Liberation of his people from the claws of their Awusa uncles. Good answer!
quote:If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of omission or commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then the Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation. - Chief Awolowo's Speech to Western leaders of thought IN IBADAN , MAY 1 1967
Often times when I read the Yoruba venomous tirades and their ever treacherous behaviors I wonder if they pay attention to what their supposedly elders are saying. I don’t mean your Bini elders in this case solely referring to likes of Awo, Ige and Soyinka. My ‘friend,’ if it pleases you then you ought to read this then tell us what’s the difference from His Excellency General Ojukwu’s letter to Banjo. Had I had something to do with the decision on Banjo, I probably would’ve opted for jail time instead of the ultimate suffice it to say Igbos who found themselves in the same situation were not spared.
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