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Excerpts from Ikemba's recent interview with the BBC shows how unrepentant the British government and it's agents have remained even in the face of unfolding evidence which clearly points to their complicacy in Gowons genocidal war against Biafra.
The BBC feels that by highlighting Ojukwu's leadership of Biafra they may be hurting his chances in the current campaign, but on the contrary anyone looking at BiafraNigeria today can only have more praise for Ojukwu's vision.The BBC has only succeded in re-enforcing what we already know, ie that Ikemba will stand for Ndigbo and the truth under whatever condition. Can the reporter now tell us how well the British created contraption has fared after their so called victory ?
I praise Ikemba for his calm and composure, I doubt many of us can tolerate the level of agravation the BBC clown posed. Not much effort was made by this bigot of a reporter to ascertain Chief Ojukwu's plan for BiafraNigeria were he to win the elections, rather he seeks to blame Ojukwu and by extension Ndigbo for seeking to defend themselves from genocidal murderers. Oh well,I guess Shell got most of the oil fields and it's all thanks to the "victors" who offered the Biafrans a cowards death at Kampala.
[ February 18, 2003, 04:52 PM: Message edited by: chiboy ]
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I listened to the full interview. At every instance the BBC reporter lived up to his name, Allan Little. What a little man! He attempted to undermine the Ikemba. Each time he tried, he was faced with the superior wit of a master at the game. The full video interview is available at BNW Homepage.
What do you expect from BBC but a hack job. They have been doing this kind of number on Biafra and any Igbo interest. They being the United Kingdom apologist has been carrying the British agenda of destroying anything that remotely relate to Actualization of Biafra.
The British is afraid of an Igbo person from the beginning of things, that is why they made sure that Hausa man was installed the premister instead of Igboman Zik.
The British knows that Igbo person is too intelligent for their evil ways and are doing everything within their power to keep Biafra down.
Well they will not succeed. Biafra will be sooner or later.
As regards the Ikemba Ojukwu Eze Igbo gburu gburu conduct during the interview. You hit the nail on the head. mr. little(with small letters) did all he could to provoke Ikemba but Ojukwu being a Master at interviews handled him professionally without showing any sign of frustration or raising his voice. Anyone that knows Ojukwu saw or heard vintage Ojukwu.
mr. little like you corrected noted did not even ask questions as to Ojukwu's plan and agenda for Biafranigeria. Is that a surprise? I say NO knowing the history of BBC and British government.
Folks go figure.
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Somebody need to asked that Mr Little go and read about Biafra - Nigeria history, before he interview any other Biafran leader. Otherwise he continue to make full of himself.
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Ojukwu did quite well on Hard Talk. I don't think the BBC host was particularly biased. Everyone gets interviwed in a very confrontational manner on Hard Talk. I am sure Ojukwu felt he can handle that before he agreed to be interviewed. And the reporter spent the first nine minutes highlighting the shambles that is the Nigerian government. It will be interesting to see how Obasanjo or Buhari acquaint themselves on Hard Talk. I think the programme did Ojukwu more good than harm. Many will be wondering what such articulate refined men do when clowns like Obasanjo misrule.
[ February 18, 2003, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: CSE ]
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Havng just finished watching the full video interview of Ojukwu, I could not disagree with you more.
This reporter if you can call him one is not objective at all. He asked every question in the world about south africa, zimbabwe, Nigerian Civil war etc. but nowhere did he ask Ojukwu about the suffering of Igbos in this abomination nigeria. Nowhere did he ask Ojukwu about his agenda and how it will improve Igbos in particular and nigeria in general.
This guy knows what we Biafrans have gone and are still going through in nigeria, did he bring it up for the whole to hear? NO he did not. If a report is going to accuse someone of starting a war don't you think it is his duty to ask question on why the war was fought? instead he was asking and making comments without factual basis. He got his facts wrong so many times I could not believe that Ojukwu was so calm not to point out to the whole world how ignorant this guy is.
I salute Ojukwu for being mature in the interview, if I was in his shoes, I would have embrassed mr. little without regard that it was his show. I guess that's why Ojukwu is Ojukwu the man and I'm here. He handled the situation like I Pro.
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CSE, Quite right on your obesarvation, Mr Little highlighted the burning issues on Biafranigeria and our Dikedioramma gave his vintage responces accerting Ndigbo on the ace as it should be. my hope is that BBC will still give such opportunity to only patriot onyegbo.
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I just finished watching HARDBALL with Emeka Ojukwu and I tend to agree with CSE that the moderator was not that hash on Emeka. I will have to say that when he proudly told us that his father was the richest man in Nigeria and a knight of the British Empire, that it was not necessary. It was also not necessary for him to claim the SouthEast as a region that he controls. All and all, he is a better candidate than Obasanjo and Buhari put together. You can also listen to Obasanjo at the same BBC/Africa murdering English Language and mixing it with broken while being interviewed by a white British correspondent.
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Unlike the SouthWest press, not one time did this Northern paper insult the Igbo and Ojukwu by calling him a WarLord.
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
From Daily Trust:
No regrets over Biafra –Ojukwu
By Auwalu S. Mu’azu
Former Biafran leader and now the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) presidential flag bearer, Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has said that he has no regrets over the bitter civil war in Nigeria between 1966 and 1970.
Dim Ojukwu argued that what he did in those years were the best that could have been done by most people.
The APGA presidential flag bearer declared yesterday on a BBC satellite television programme, "Hard Talk" that the factors that were responsible for the civil war are still very much with the Nigerian state.
He attributed the war to what he called "the basic illness of Nigeria. That is the preponderance of one group over the rest in a federation."
The former Biafran leader said that he was not responsible for the lives that were lost during the war, saying that the people that were killed were "men and women I pleaded with Nigerian government to do something for."
Dim Ojukwu, who said that many of his Igbo kinsmen were killed during the war, however, said sometimes he had sleepless nights whenever he remembers them.
This, according to him, "is one of the reasons why I am in this struggle (presidential contest)."
Ojukwu said that he joined the presidential race "in order to put the records straight that the people who died did not die because I gave them shelter, but because somebody else pursued them into those shelters I gave them."
The APGA presidential candidate insisted that those who accused him of trying to lead Biafra out of Nigeria did not know what actually happened, and averred that "what I have been trying to do throughout my political career is to heal what I see as a basic illness of Nigeria."
The former Biafran leader, who also dismissed the notion that his entrance into the presidential race is giving a sectarian character to the Nigerian political process, said that his party, APGA is a national party and "that my running mate is from Kano, the heart of the North."
Dim Ojukwu promised that he would not resort to violence, if he loses the election, saying "I don’t intend to unleash any violence against the people I want to represent, no emotion of that."
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All in all, I also agree with CSE's assessment that this interview actually did Ojukwu/APGA cause more good than ill.
On some level where dealing with the seeming inability of that dump of a nation to come out of the doldrons, mr.little seems polite and objective which even I did'nt expect. On another level he came accross as sophomorically pugnacious and combative despite his ignorance of and lack of objectivity of history.
The duplicituous and conveniently sanctimonious attempt by a BBC talk show host to pretend to greater outrage (about the loss of 1 million Biafran lives) than Igbos whom BBC never cared to interview about their feelings on the pogroms and ensuing war and on the leadership and acceptability of Ojukwu is the greatest flaw that I found in the interview.
Despite my obvious bias against BBC however for the effrontery to patronisingly feign that outrage on our behalf as a convenient tool with which to induce an undeserved guilty conscience in order to belittle or diminish Ojukwus stature, Ojukwu came out looking so much better for it, giving me an unexpected satisfaction that Ojukwu allowed such an interview to be conducted in the first place.
Regarding the Daily trusts piece as posted by Ednut, You kind of wonder why? why even report it in the first place by an Awusa paper? Why not do like the Yoruba press who have decided to undereport Ojukwu/APGA? Why not come out swinging with rude references to "warlord" and other highly revisionist and manicured reportage like the Yoruba press are wont to do?
I must say once again regarding the Awusa strategy, that (to quote chief Elehyinmi of village headmaster fame) "I am flabbawhelmed and overghasted"
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" On some level where dealing with the seeming inability of that dump of a nation to come out of the doldrons, mr.little seems polite and objective which even I did'nt expect. On another level he came accross as sophomorically pugnacious and combative despite his ignorance of and lack of objectivity of history. "
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What you term seeming ignorance here is what I have a problem with in the whole interview. Mr. little was reading a script prepared for him by some BBC staff, even Ojukwu pauses to ask him " where do you get your history from". Therein lies my point, there is a calculated attempt by the BBC to smuggle in lies as fact in the name of hard ball journalism. Of course Mr. Little knows very little about Biafra, but think about it who supplied the misinformation he used for the show?
I never expect a journalist to pamper his guest, but a large organization like the BBC that has been around for that long should definitely remember the " hunger is an instrument of war " policy of the Nigerian administration as publicly proclaimed by Awolowo and some other Yoruba opportunists. Why hold Ojukwu responsible for the starvation of children and women when we have on record those who shot down redcross planes flown by volunteers who wanted to save Biafrans from starvation ?
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You certainly got a point. Ojukwu's savvy in coming out of that interview unscathed and quite to the contrary having managed to neutralize detractors was in spite of a hardcore conspiracy to officially revise history in the guise of amateurish pugnacity.
BBC's own archives without looking too deep, should have provided ample resource with which to prepare an objective interview if that were to have been the desired goal.
Someone once said something to the effect that (and I paraphrase very loosely) to fight a well entrenched and highly sophisticated army, a single individual would need to muster every ounce of advanced planning that can be harnessed, including to think and act with some measure of insanity The European gentleman who said this was speaking in reference to the opposition that would have to be mobilized to topple or reform the IMF. In his analogy the underdog or individual would be the fledgling coalition of anti-globalization, ecological and other leftist/rightist fringe movements and the entreched and sophisticated army, the IMF.
Organizations such as the BBC are not as entrenched as they think. especially in this day and age of the internet. A devolution has occurred which has sufficiently eroded the monopoly once assumed automatic.
It is with the use of media organizations such as the BBC as tools of manipulation that the Brits commited some of their worst racist atrocities destabilizing the lives of millions accross the globe when they could just as easily have won the hearts of many through fair and accurate representation which they seem to espouse on paper.
Alternative avenues can now be sought and harnessed to outcompete the BBC and induce them to do a better job for their own survival as there must exist a point of diminishing returns at which it would be unproductive for the Brit govt to continue to subsidise and manipulate their instrumentality without consequence of exitinction due to uncompetitiveness.
We would have to think hard!!! employing some level of insanity.
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quote:I will have to say that when he proudly told us that his father was the richest man in Nigeria and a knight of the British Empire, that it was not necessary. by Ednut
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I think you got it slightly skewed. Ojukwu was educating Mr Little. Family pedigree, stratus is still a big thing in the UK. By reminding Mr Little that Sir Louise Ojukwu achieved solid riches to the point of being knighted like Richard Branson, Emeka Ojukwu was simply saying: My family riches/wealth does not derive from the present BiafraNigerian lootocracy. The acumen and personal achievement measured up to the very best even by British standards. I am surprised Mr Little did not read that the young Emeka drove the same posh RollsR as the British Monarch as a student in England.
Ojukwu understands the British mentality. The gem was when he told Mr little: " They didn't die because I provided them with shelter, but because somebody went to kill them in that shelter". It was a devastating blow.
I think APGA members should be looking for more of such Opportunities for Ojukwu. The dream will be to have the combative Jeremy Paxman quiz Ojukwu and the other contestants side by side.
I hate BiafraNigeria with all my heart!
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quote:The dream will be to have the combative Jeremy Paxman quiz Ojukwu and the other contestants side by side. Ohafia Udumeze
Exactly what I was thinking! Hard talk has a smaller audience and also attracts many foreign guests. Its critics argue that they pander to foreign sensitivities and don't persist in their demand for answers as Newsnight would. Ojukwu presented himself as articulate and well versed and will be a joy to watch. The interview could have been better if the more combative regular host was in charge. And my observation is that the questions are usually framed from the point of view of the guest's most vocal critics. Hence my assertion that Alan Little was not biased against Ojukwu. Iam sure Ojukwu will do well on Newsnight. He has all it takes to match Jeremy Paxman. He is controversial, brave and significantly has a good command of english language and willing to be combative with the interviewer in a civilised manner. I watched Jeremy Paxman versus Michael Howard, ex-home secretary when he was running for the office of the leader of the Conservative party. In that, now famous, duel Paxman asked Michael Howard the same question about 14 or 15 times and dismissed him when he kept evading the question. Ojukwu mentioned his father's wealth in the right context. It was appropriate he countered the notion that only fat belly generals and oil bunkerers have the monopoly to aspire for political offices in Nigeria.
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I salute you all, especially the ones that have dedicated their time for a Biafran nationhood. I have lived through this magnificent messageboard and I have seen them come and go. Some come here to cause trouble just for the sake of it, while some come in here to address important issues that concerns the Igbo nation and Nigeria in general.
As I read further into this website the more encouraged and energized I become knowing that the clear and concise writings here speaks volumes. I am now breathing a sigh of euphoria learning we have men who will deliver when the time comes.
You all have said what I was going to say regarding Ojukwu's interview with the paranoid BBC propagandist. Once again, I salute you all and happy with a job well-done.
I think you should mind your business. You have already turned down an opportunity to help, do not constitute yourself into any form of nuisance or discourage others.
It is good everybody be given an opportunity to do something, Nwa Biafra should spread the word at every opportunity. I also encourage you Ednut to spread the news to your friends, I just hope they are not all baby fathers.
[ February 22, 2003, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: chiboy ]
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How's the child support payment coming up? I hope you've not been working under the table and living with fake identity to elude the authorities for your back child support payments. Easy, bro.
Now, get off NwaBiafra's case and let him do his job.
Chiboy and Amucha1 have said it all. So I will let it as such. I will not be distracted by you or anybody else in here. I'm focused on what I have to do as regards fundraising. I intend to do it without your help but with the help of a lot of honoreable people in this room.
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Should I say welldone for your effort in raising money toward Ojukwu's presidential election campaign? Well, in my own case, I'm not quite sure if it's proper to send money to Ojukwu's campaign from a Belgium refugee camp. I should be most grateful if you hint Ojukwu that yours truly is more desperate and in need of funds to overcome his predicament in a refugee camp.
Thanks for the kind gesture. However, as we have the opportunity to make phone calls to friends and family in our native land, so do we have the graciousness of humanitarian causes to use the computer and internet. I may not be able to post again until about a couple of weeks when it takes turn. Pray for our survival.
We are to believe that Anambra state is located in the north of BiafraNigeria and that the BBC does not have the means to obtain a picture of Ngige even though the BBC admits that all those people pictured are there reading BiafraNigerian newspapers filled with pictures of Ngige. When the BBC interviews Effiong, the BBC site puts up a picture of Abacha. When they interview Ojukwu, they put up a picture of Obasanjo. Something is going on.
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