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Here's another article that came out on this subject.
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Nigeria
Biafra: Britain Regrets Tempo (Lagos) January 4, 2000
quote:Lagos - A secret document released in Britain speaks of British government's regrets over involvement in the Nigerian civil war and attempts at a re-write of the war's history. Bamidele Johnson reports Three decades after the cessation of hostilities between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Biafran secessionists led by Colonel Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, new facts have emerged that the British government fell ill-at-ease with the support it gave to the federal government during the Nigerian civil war which raged from 1967-1970. About one million people were said to have perished in the war with the Biafran side recording higher casualty figures. According to secret papers released in London last Saturdays the British cabinet of prime minister Harold Wilson was constantly being gnawed by guilt over the reports of mass starvation meted out to the Igbo people in the secessionist enclave. During the war, Biafran, the country's colonial master deployed her support to the federal side because of a perceived swift military victory over the rebels. Against British expectations, the war did not end quickly as envisaged. As it dragged on, it became obvious to the British government that the Federal government of General Yakubu Gowon was riding starvation of the Igbos as a vehicle to a quick victory. This, allied with massive military thumping of the area, engendered massive suffering for the civil populace and heightened concern and condemnation from around the world. British foreign secretary at the time, Micheal Stewart, the secret papers show, told the cabinet that the situation created "a dilemma for us." We appeared to have based our policy on prognostications of an early victory for the federal military government, which had proved to be erroneous." The papers quote the cabinet members as being desirous of an end to the slaughter and starvation but had to keep up the British support on the belief that the military victory of the Federal troops, desired by Britain, could not be achieved without their continuation. Despite growing condemnation of providing military support for the federal troops, the British government, the papers recorded, could not disengage because it feared that such an action could result in an upsurge in secessionist movements in other African States. The foreign secretary observed that "at home criticism from opponents of the present policy would merely be exchanged for better justified criticism." For all the justification of the British government for its support of the Nigerian Federal government during the war, the war seemed more like a triangular power tussle between Britain, France and the defunct Soviet Union. The papers claimed Britain was scarred that the oil rich area cornered by Biafra would slip out of her hands, the federal troops. The Soviet Union, desirous of extending her influence is the West African sub-region, tried to seduce Nigeria, to the chagrin of Britain, the mother hen. Though France denied reveal, reports reveal that huge weapon shipments from France arrived Biafra via coteD'Ivoire and Gabon. British intelligence reports claim that France favoured a fragmentation of Nigeria because it feared its size and potential to submerge its 'satellite' states in the West African sub-region. French supplies of weapons at a stage began to thin out as the seccessionists buckled under heavy military strafing and starvation which confirmed to wax until the Biafran resolve warned and finally wilted in January 1970. Alleging massive genocide by the Federal troops, the Igbo leaders lodged on 20 December, last year, a huge compensatory demand of $8.7 billion from the Nigerian government, for the trauma suffered during the war. The reparation demand table before the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Human Rights Abuse panel came on the heels of persist cries among the Igbos that the Igbo nation remain in the Nigerian nation state 30 years after the civil war. Whether their demand will make any impression is uncertain but the release of this secret document is expect to impact on the Igbo case. Publication date: January 13, 1999
To show their deep remorse, the British were quick to congratulate Aremu on a massively rigged victory to continue their policies of disguised bigotry.
In any case regarding the re-write of war history, a very startling crime in its own rights; Someone forgot to tell Nowa Omoigui that the game is up. All those his contaminated sources now being useless.
Of course being a typical "Nigerian" PHD holder (in History I imagine), there must be a way to make money with that title.
Who is Ikemba of Nnewi, Dim, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, People's General, Eze Gburu-gburu Ndigbo?
January 15, 1966 I was still in primary school. There was a military coup and every one was rejoicing for the removal of corrupt politicians, so we were told. The dawn of new era, pregnant with renewed hopes and possibilities. I was one of those proud primary school kids who lined up along our narrow roads, waving enthusiastically, our green-white-green Nigerian flag, cheering exuberantly in reception of our newly appointed military governor, Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu. It was electric and life was imbued with spirit and meaning.
Within a year all hopes were shattered and the whole world came crumbling and tumbling down. Euphoria gave way to gloom, optimism to uncertainty. A new republic of Biafra was declared and things were never the same again for Ndigbo.
Before the events leading to the declaration of Republic of Biafra, there were certain presuppositions, which were construed as indisputable facts, through scorch-earth propaganda bombardment. Like perceptions, they gained currency and acquired weight amongst Ndigbo with power of categorical imperative.
Some of them are but not limited to:
That the pogrom of Ndigbo in the Northern part of Nigeria was unprovoked and premeditated. That the only option left for Ndigbo was to declare secession and take control of their destiny in their own hands to avoid future pogrom. That "on Aburi we stand" meaning that, Ndigbo had religiously and stringently followed the terms of agreement reached between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the government of Eastern Nigeria as a way of resolving Nigerian civil crisis. Disappointingly, the Federal Government of Nigeria had abridged and reneged on every term of said agreement and wanted to stage war against Ndigbo to completely and totally enslave Ndigbo in the hands of Hausa and Fulani Oligarchy. That declaring secession was legal as dictated by the UN and OAU charter on self-determination as inalienable right of any group of people or peoples. That our region (Eastern Nigeria) was replete with huge deposit of crude oil. Once our New Republic takes off, we (Ndigbo) are on our way to El Dorado. All of the above statements have elements of truth in them. But these elements of truth inherent in these postulations were often times, inverted, perverted, dressed with deck-up lies, propped up with inflammatory and incendiary tribal epithets, just for one purpose, and for one purpose only. That is, to inoculate, medicate, intoxicate and narcotize Ndigbo with inflamed primordial passions as prerequisite to completely submit themselves to their leader without asking questions or, as it were, blindfolded. That is, turning Ndigbo into a collective domestic-human-animal, as it were, strait-jacked to think and express feelings after the dictates and directives of her master, the control freak, who in this case was Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Psychology and wellbeing of Ndigbo, at this juncture, were preprogrammed with poisonous propaganda, which entered into collective consciousness of Ndigbo, and were one-dimensionally formatted, for strategies of fight or flight response system. War became a time bomb, menacingly, ticking away. As was intended, eventually an irreversible combustible condition was attained in a tremendous tension, anticipating an opportune time for violent detonation. Additionally, and for the most part, these elements of truth were expertly distilled, deviously amplified or sterilized, and intentionally devoid of their logical contexts and extenuating circumstances to register full decisive impact on Ndigbo. They were mindless propaganda purposefully authored by Ojukwu's administration, insidiously calculated and tailored, to sell Ndigbo bad bill of goods in preparation for collective expeditionary suicide mission. Psychological vulnerabilities and insecurities of Ndigbo at those trying periods in the mid-sixties were artfully, craftily and cunningly exploited by power hungry, selfish egomaniac,EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO, . Government controlled mass media, both print and electronic, was cleverly employed and empowered in orchestrating total brainwash of Ndigbo. Fertile ground was finally created by opportunistic Ojukwu's administration as a precondition, anticipatory to benightedly, predispose credulous Ndigbo, as willing grist to the mill. Human base natural instincts of Ndigbo were subtly abstracted and laid bare-naked on the baker's table, mischievously designed by power-drunk Ojukwu and his travelers, to be kneaded, molded into its deadliest level of concentration. Overflow of Confidence and untutored egos of our power hungry, grandmaster and purveyor of divisive tribal politics were exponentially inflated elevated and adumbrated to its severest intoxication and intensity. Proposals for a comprehensive, peaceful conflict resolutions and reconciliation by well-meaning individuals and organizations, were promptly rejected by our intransigent leader for selfish reasons. All doable and practical entreaties and overtures by peace-loving people all over the world to avert catastrophic war were dismissed with speed of light by Ojukwu for reasons best known to him. The most selfish "People's General, Eze Gburu-gburu Ndigbo", cunningly saw and falsely interpreted olive-branch being extended to him as abhorrent, inimical, antithesis and anathema to the interest of Ndigbo.
Now that power-hungry "Eze Gburu-gburu Ndigbo" had Ndigbo on choke-hold, he became overtly over-clever by one and half. Sometimes, Ojukwu would like to come across a responsible statesman and a peacemaker by proposing peace-talk on how to achieve peaceful resolution on one hand. Simultaneously on the other hand, Ojukwu would craftily and cleverly invent with master-stroke shrewdness some convoluted terms of reference for such peace-talk. Embedded in such convoluted terms of reference for peace-talk, Ojukwu with the expertise of a neuro-surgeon, would covertly infuse strings of impractical, impossible conditionalities. Those impossible conditionalities were Ojukwu's stock in trade in professional chicanery and deceptions in anticipation of pre-designed, pre-calculated failure of such peace-conference already subverted with inbuilt insolvencies. With the air of a celebrity magician who has just transfixed and stupefied his audience with master trickery at the end of a class act, Ojukwu would go on air with the greatest weapon in his arsenal, which was and still is, his naturally gifted oratory in Queens English. This architect-in-mischief in the department of tribal jingoism, Dim,Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, would dazzle and mesmerize credulous Ndigbo how "Hausa/Fulani vandals had defeated every attempt proposed on peace-talk table and were eager to engage Ndigbo on war attrition to complete extermination Ndigbo. Ojukwu was admonishing Ndigbo to fight to the last man. Do I hear fight to the last man. On hind-sight, is it not weird and very laughable indeed and a demonstrable testimony that the People's General,EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO could lie with borrowed teeth as a matter of principle. Even the most loyally adherent of Ojukwu's apologists cannot deny the fact that the war was still raging many miles away when His Excellency, the most revered People's General, EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO, cowardly and theatrically without any reservations qualms, with his tail between his legs melted away in the dead hours of the night in search of elusive, fictitious peace that never was. I cannot obtain any independent verification whether His Excellency, the most revered People's General, EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO, inspected guard of honor, assuming that there was one on that eventful wee hours of the night. It could be that in that appreciable haste he forgot military protocol. Probably for safety and security reasons the general would have been smuggled into the plane through the backdoor.
The lesson is loud and clear. When you conceive a Republic based on lies, that Republic will crumble based on lies. You reap what you sow.
The People's General, power-maniac, "EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO", during the events preceding the declaration of Republic of Biafra, would never miss any opportunity to belligerently engage in making and broadcasting strident, confrontational speeches and statements calculated to provoke response from the Federal Government of Nigeria. EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO at this juncture was employing every tactic and trickery in the book baiting the Federal Government of Nigeria into providing him with an enough sufficient reason and evidence to declare the Republic of Biafra. But, beneath the veil of tough, populist rhetoric of our erstwhile governor, resides psychical cruelty of delusions and madness, absolutely addicted to power as an end in itself. This quest for power, at all costs and the overzealous predisposition that everything in Ojukwu's eyes is a fair game, was symptomatic of Ojukwu's life-long consuming ambition, which precipitously, has no example in the annals and pageants of Ndigbo enterprise. Our leader whom we naively reposed our unflinching trust and confidence, with carte blanche, shamelessly and heartlessly contrived, without any scintilla of equivocation, to ignominiously use and dispense Ndigbo as guinea-pigs and toilet tissues at his whims and caprices towards his power hungry journey. This "EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO", pursued all these with zeal and vigor, employing deft manipulations in its highest sophistication, through forgeries and misinformation, at the expense of heart-broken Ndigbo. To pursue and grab this machiavellian power to its logical conclusion, "Your Excellency, the People's General, EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO," had first to provide credible instrument of cover so that Ndigbo would see things not as they are but how Ikemba wanted them to see things. Eastern Nigeria Consultative Assembly was the consequence. Eastern consultative assembly was created as a ploy instrument and diabolical cover with the pretext of giving itself the appearance of legitimacy and authenticity as representative voice of the masses. Would it be any surprise that Eastern Nigerian Consultative Assembly was populated with hand-picked rubber-stamp stooges. Some of these hand-picked members of Eastern Consultative Assembly were in every shape, manner and respect analogous to their carbon-copies of the distant past during the dark era of slavery in African history, whom without shame and moral fibers sold their brethren and sisters into slavery with mere bottle of liquor and tobacco. Majority members of Eastern Consultative Assembly were simpletons and crass illiterate local chiefs who can barely discern their left form right. How troubling and infuriating that these scavengers called Eastern Consultative Assembly members were the people that mandated "Your Excellency, the People's General, EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO" the authority to declare Sovereign Republic of Biafra. Would it be any wonder how these people with limited intellectual abilities and gravitas would understand the implications and intricacies of secession project they were handpicked to midwife, legislate and give birth to. "EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO", what a convoluted charade and a class act in deception. This use of Ndigbo as disposable objects is as mind bungling as it is reprehensible and unconscionable, when on close intellectual scrutiny and inquiry, it only invites scorn and chagrin but not without derisions. Does anyone know any better nausea than this classic, bovine, crass ambition of one man, impelled to rather rule in hell as "Your Excellency, the People's General, EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO than to serve in paradise with nobility of soul and spirit in stewardship of his fatherland.
When the Nigerian civil war broke out, Ndigbo rallied behind their leader, Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the then governor, in absolute religious trust and loyalty. Ndigbo were already preconditioned and foreground with deadly, cobweb spinning, prefabricated falsehoods pivoted on gross over-amplification and over-exaggeration of tragic, heart-wrenching, catastrophic events visited on Ndigbo in the Northern part of Nigeria from tribal misunderstandings that eventually led to the conflicts and pogrom. "Your Excellency, the People's General, EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO at this point had Ndigbo on leash. The General became more audacious and daring and was playing Ndigbo like bongo drums. The extravagance of unmitigated herd mentality and mass hysteria displayed by Ndigbo, in blindly and benightedly in the broad day-light following without question, was the greatest error ever committed by Ndigbo in her history. Think about this for a moment. To have blindly followed a leader, without taking moments to step backwards, to critically analyze, with penetrating acuity, the pros and cons of inherent risks and dangers, before embarking on this wild goose chase project, has single-handedly dealt a devastating blow to the spiritual wellbeing of Ndigbo. Understandably, one can take solace in the fact that what gave birth to this uninhibited error was directly linked to military dictatorial environment Ndigbo found themselves. This blank check, naively given to power-monger opportunist, whom we mistakenly assumed to be our sincere leader, was purchased in blood of Ndigbo. Is there any Ndigbo man or woman, at home or abroad, who is so unscholarly as to question or doubt that what we got in return for putting our lives and trust in one man's hand was psycho-spiritual, socio-politico-economic, suicide. Their consequences are still reverberating in increasing weight and power, and, there seems to be, no sign of abatement. This one single, but, costly error has wiped the slate clean of all pioneering, innovative contributions made by many irreproachable, morally superior and sophisticated, cerebral and intellectual giants of Ndigbo political class before the advent of opportunistic preacher of tribal hatred tidings and divisiveness, "Your Excellency, the People's General, EZE WURU-WURU NDIGBO. Such devastating blows to the collective psyche and psychological well being of Ndigbo have many paralyzing consequences. Their effects today are provocatively and offensively palpable in its crudities and manifestations. It has produced in its wake an intractable, congenital, psychological gruesome petrifying open-sores. It expresses itself, in collective complexes of negativism, self-doubts, reaction formations in Ndigbo. Is it any argument that in contemporary Nigeria of today, vast majority of Ndigbo feel, both in their behaviors, utterances and writings as outsiders, outcasts and rejects in their own country. This country call Nigeria was the handiwork of exceptional Nigerian nationalists. Amongst these Nigerian nationalists were bunch of Ndigbo nationalists, who stood shoulder to shoulder, marching and walking step-by-step, in equal gait and intensity, arm in arm with their contemporaries all over Nigeria. Those were the glorious days when, Ndigbo were joyful, prideful, exuberant with zest for life, super confident in their abilities to make anything impossible, possible. A very well educated Igbo man sees himself as a duplicate copy of the very best in British Victorian tradition, I mean this in the most positive way. Igbo trades want to give their kids the best education to be like Zik, JOJ Okezie, Mokwugo Okoye, K.O.Abadiwe, M.I.Okpara, Akanu Ibiam, S.G. Ikoku, Prof. Dike, Prof. Chike Obi, Nwafor Orizu, Chinue Achebe you can name them and list goes on and on. They were the best and the brightest. They exemplified period of excellence and meritocracy. There were traders in Igbo land but they know their place and where they belong. Then, petty trading was seen as transitory stepping stone for something higher. Not in terms of perpetuity or permanence nor a prideful vocation to be advertised, even amongst peers and the locals.
Today, and regretably, we are antipodes to our former selves both in thoughts, deeds and actions. What a shame that super enterprising and resourceful Ndigbo are currently sidelined as ranting, revving, disgruntled spectators on the outside looking in, while the statecraft is being piloted and directed by the "others".
Who are these "others". These "others" by the way are, unfortunately and erroneously, man-made creation and invention, through default by our ignorance in comprehending human nature and conditions of our human existence. Nature and nurture were confounded. Fetish superstitions were employed in explicating and interpreting sociology and etiology of the genesis of tribal formations. Intellectual dwarfs took the helms of political leadership. In their defense against their intellectual limitations they resorted to ancient fetism and started to erect walls between brothers and sisters. These were same people who for millenniums had lived together in social, economic and political intercourse, inter-marrying before the birth of tragedy. Today separate and separateness are preachy credo of both our political and religious ruling class. Based on the errors of the intellect, differences are artificially extrapolated from nothing, magnified and elevated to create huge gulf of divide amongst brethren. In the end, these differences that becloud our thoughts, actions and deeds that make brothers and sisters grow inexplicably, intolerant and suspicious of one another will be nothing more than high price to pay for invisible hands of ignorance.
On the brighter side, it is only the employment of profound explosion of knowledge outside the classroom through meaningful education and social engineering to emancipate the critical mass from the clutches of inherent prejudices, ignorance, morality of the mores and the ambits of certain retrogressive traditions and customs. It is through such enlightenment of re-evaluation of our current values and self-overcoming that will bring about liberation of spirit from this compartmentalized, self-imposed prison. Instead of erecting walls we need to be breaking them down. Life becomes what gives birth to itself. It is not by fetish superstitions but rational creativity. Consequently, a new paradigm of living and experiencing and viewing humanity as a significant whole will give birth to new life with overflow of abundance of possibilities. This is my beef against the gospel being preached by Ojukwu and his elks.
For those crooked-minded sentimentalists, naïve dilettantes, tribalism-craze, shortsighted and hasty-minded irredentists, they will only wish to maintain status quo in fanning embers of divisive propaganda. These irredentists, beneath the veil of their petty bravado, resides simmering and glowering flames of un-integrated inner chaos of self-torture and self-famish, precipitated occasionally, through indignant outbursts as sectarian leaders. As we all know, every thing that is boiling, will require a vent to lower its temperature or else an explosion will issue. When they preach divisive politics of separation and separateness to the masses, in response the gullible masses in their insipidity will rise to their feet, cheering themselves hoarse in jubilation and in complete idiocy will crown them "Eze Ndigbo Gburu-gburu). But an eagle eyed, astute observer will easily see through the masquerading theatrics of an impostor who parades himself as the conscience of the masses. Today in Nigeria, these irredentists are holding sway because of unhealthy consolidated mediocrity of the critical mass. Like Ojukwu, these agents of darkness and disunity, whom the masses falsely assume to be their authentic leaders, because they never tire in their siren songs, piping on them day and night that their tribe is morally superior, intellectually divined with vision and creativity but are being denied through (that most vile perverted word) "marginalization" because of their tribe and religion. Even though they score big amongst the gullible masses through sophisticated gyration of hypocrisies. They are the vampire and tarantulas who latch like leeches on the masses upon whom every reasonable person ought to be on guard at all times.
For Ndigbo who have some choice words for me like "Efulefu" (prodigal son), sabo (saboteur or a sell out of Ndigbo), I have bad news for you all. I am unrepentantly, both Efulefu and Sabo combined together in its advanced stage of synthesis beyond help and without qualms. From your executioner's glance, I could see the peering chilly hangman oozing out that knows no other ideals, except revenge and vengeance, to have me in the gallows to draw blood. That may verily happen for many things are possible in life. If that happens, that act alone, will not be capable enough to snuff-out life from the ideals upon which I premised my writing. What has given me faith and hope, and has lighted my ways, times without number, which renders every other thing else secondary, is my conviction and belief, that your children, grand and great-grand children, generations after them, will ultimately become my apostles, evangelizing, dancing and singing my beautiful songs of greater brotherhood of mankind. Growth means expansion, regeneration, inclusion, absorption etc. Separate and separateness is degeneration, constriction, compression and dying. My choice is to empower and create environment for growth. Growth cannot occur without changes. It is consistent with the life we know. Life is becoming and not being. Break-down into pieces the table of ancient values that have no valuable value today. For something new to grow something old must die. This is how nature maintains equilibrium. Nigeria is not an exception to the rule. Here is my way and which way is yours, you may have to ask and answer for yourself.
This concludes the second part (Part 11) of my essay on "Ndigbo, Ojukwu and Biafra". My next article will be on specific mistakes made by Ojukwu to show the psychology of his perverted mindset and lust for power.
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osita, I don,t know who you are but you,ve just told us that you are a wasted mind and that your people will write you off as a leper.
I did not see your alternative nor solution ? i want to know by the time as you stated ,you was in primary school ,when Gen Ojukwu took the mantle of leadership ,if your father was Alive ? and what was he doing then ? Hope he is not hunkering behind another man,s house to do what he knows how to do best ?. Is he not man enough to take over from Ojukwu ? then ojukwu was a bachelor and you are in primary school ,that makes your father senior to Gen,Ojukwu . Maybe your oko man was dumb and fail his generation ,and you want somebody that you will push your disappointment to ,but sorry you have to carry the cross. I know that you are above twenty now and you are getting ready to lead Ndi Igbo !! or are you just ,trying hard to get frustrated over one you can never match ,not even his shoes. So i will advise you to . If you are looking for recognition and think that by attacking Gen,Ojukwu ,you will get the recognition ,then sorry you have tried and . Take a glass of water and cool off ,to avoid high blood pressure. Umuibe
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Don't waste your breath on cowardly propanganda, the Osita Olisa is a fake handle. You can tell when BiafraNigeria and it's current incompetent Yoruba leadership is panicking by the lies they try to sell to the public. Who best to distract the world from laughing at the bungling jagunmole or is he now aare than the age old Ojukwu deceived the Igbo's ignorant talk.The more mud they sling at Ikemba the closer we draw him to our hearts, I would be worried if I began to see the likes of Addy distribute any article that shows Ikemba in good light.
This is the same Addy that only a few days ago publicly made a false resolution to expend the rest of his life effort trying to pull down the decrepit entity the British so knowingly created. Well Ikemba or no Ikemba the hell hole BiafraNigera is coming to the end of it's misereable life span, even the scriptures acknowledge this. so Addy begin to prepare for life without Ojukwu and his beloved Ndigbo.
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Addy: Is the above TASH the article you said the "world is waiting in deep breath" to read? If that is the case, then the people residing on this mother earth aint got better things to do with their time. After reading Osita's trash, one comes out with the feeling that here is a man whose father must have been a sabo during Ndigbo's trying times. So now that the son has seen the "light" as Mr. Osita claims, he is now doing from his self-imposed exile in the US what his parents did must have done in during the war. But try as much as he and his like could, truth is that if Ojukwu made a "mistake" in 1967 as Osita wants us believe, that "mistake" has been made right by the way those who led Nigeria since the war "ended" managed their "victory" over the Igbos who Osita is now saying should be wiped off the earth before they should react.
Honestly, in my opinion, anyone who replies directly to Osita's venomous trash will, a) be justifying the genocide commited against Ndigbo, b) he/she will be doing great disservice to the souls of the dead innocent victims from both sides of the divide in that AVOIDABLE WAR, and c) will be glorifying IDIOCY of the highest order. To this end, all I can do is to use historical facts to educate the man who claims to be "educated" but is clearly IGNORANT of his own history.
Quote: -------------------------------------------------- "Who is Ikemba of Nnewi, Dim, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, People's General, Eze Gburu-gburu Ndigbo?--Osita. --------------------------------------------------
BE INFORMED that General Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu was the first Nigerian unversity graduate to enlist into the Nigerian Army. Before the civil war, the Ojukwu family from which Chukwuemeka Odimewu was born into was the richest family in Nigeria. So by and large, Ojukwu was not a poor man then nor is he today by any tretch of the word. Academic-wise, Ojukwu is more eductaed than ALL the so-called leaders (Obasanjo included) that have misled Nigeria since she got flag independence from Britain in 1960.
------------------------------------------------- "January 15, 1966 I was still in primary school. There was a military coup and every one was rejoicing for the removal of corrupt politicians, so we were told. The dawn of new era, pregnant with renewed hopes and possibilities."---Osita. --------------------------------------------------
BE INFORMED that Ojukwu was not party to, not directly nor remotely to actualizing the coup of 1966. So how did Ojukwu give you the hope of a "new dawn"? You can be forgiven since you said you were "told." Clearly the perosn/persons who told are as IGNORANT as yourself.
-------------------------------------------------- "Within a year all hopes were shattered and the whole world came crumbling and tumbling down. Euphoria gave way to gloom, optimism to uncertainty. A new republic of Biafra was declared and things were never the same again for Ndigbo."---Osita. --------------------------------------------------
Was it the the declaration of Biafra that "gave way to gloom" or the killing of the Igbos after the counter-coup that actually made every Igbo searching for A HIDING PLACE in the east? Be informed that it was events following the counter coup of 1966 and the discarding of the 'Aburi Accord' b ythe Gowon-led federal government that shattered every hope and believe most Igbos had in the Nigeria union.
BE INFORMED that it was NOT the declaration of Republic of Biafra in itself that brought the gloom and despair you talked about.
-------------------------------------------------- "That the pogrom of Ndigbo in the Northern part of Nigeria was unprovoked and premeditated. That the only option left for Ndigbo was to declare secession and take control of their destiny in their own hands to avoid future pogrom."---Osita --------------------------------------------------
Unlike other massacres that was committed against Ndigbo before the counter coup led by Gowon, What made the pogrom following the counter coup look every inch that it was indeed a PREMEDITATED and WELL-PLANNED genocide is that unlike other massacres that were committed against Ndigbo before then, the pogrom of September 29, 1966 took place in EVERY PART OF NIGERIA, excepting the easern part of the country and occured SIMULTANEOUSLY. The only event to compare it in modern history is the sluaghter of over 500,000 people in two days in Rwanda in 1994. was done just the same way over 500, 000 people were killed within two days in Rwanda in 1994), So the pogrom was indeed PREMEDITATED and UNPROVOKED.
BE INFORMED that the massacres were not restricted to only Igbo civilians, rather, Igbos who served in Nigerian military and para-mitary services were also massacred by their fellow uniformed collegues right there in barracks.
-------------------------------------------------- "That "on Aburi we stand" meaning that, Ndigbo had religiously and stringently followed the terms of agreement reached between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the government of Eastern Nigeria as a way of resolving Nigerian civil crisis. Disappointingly, the Federal Government of Nigeria had abridged and reneged on every term of said agreement..."---Osita. --------------------------------------------------
It was not something to "regret" about. It is a standing fact that an agreement was reached and SIGNED in Aburi, Ghana between the representatives of both the then Federal Government of Nigeria and the Eastern Region Government. It was NOT between the Nigerian Govermnet and Ojukwu's 'Republic of Biafra' as you would want to us believe. It is also a DOCUMENTED FACT that it was the Federal Government of Nigeria and not the Eastern Region Government that reneged therafter. So we dont need a legal expert to tell us that the advice given to Ojukwu as the head of the then Eastern Region Government by those who represented his region in Ghana and other places, and Ojukwu's thereafter was MORALLY and LEGALLY right. So contrary to what you and other enemies of Ndigbo would want the world believe;
BE INFORMED that it was that challege Ojukwu took in 1967 more than anything that made him the UNDISPUTABLE HERO that he was then, he is now and will forever remain in the hearts of true Igbos!
-------------------------------------------------- "Government controlled mass media, both print and electronic, was cleverly employed and empowered in orchestrating total brainwash of Ndigbo."---Osita. --------------------------------------------------
As stated above, it was what every Igbo - rich, poor, civilian and uniformed alike - suffered after the Gowon's counter coup that watered the field and fertilizered most Igbo's wish to get out of the Nigerian union. Fot there's no doubt that the Eastern Region Government like every nation at war did and ought to make its case why she MUST defend herself and her citizens from PRIMEDITATED and WELL-PLANNED genocide through its news-dispensing organs. Infact, had the Ojukwu-led government failed in that basics expected of every responsible and responsive government, there's no doubt that his place in Igbo history (Ojukwu was not representing the Nigerian people as a whole, so what other Nigerians say of or about him is irrelevant to the way we true Igbos judge him) then would have been different today. So the way most Igbos, both the educated and not so educated revere Ojukwu will naturally cause envy and amongst other Nigerians.
BE INFORMED that WE TRUE IGBOS DO NOT OWE YOU AND YOUR NIGERIAN CO-TRAVELLERS ANY APOLOGY ON THIS FOR HERO-WORSHIPING OJUKWU.
------------------------------------------------- "Proposals for a comprehensive, peaceful conflict resolutions and reconciliation by well-meaning individuals and organizations, were promptly rejected by our intransigent leader for selfish reasons. All doable and practical entreaties and overtures by peace-loving people all over the world to avert catastrophic war were dismissed with speed of light by Ojukwu for reasons best known to him." ---Osita. --------------------------------------------------
Another off-tracking. Since your whole trash is written with the sole purpose to lampoon on the person of the one and only EZE GBUR-GBURU, I take it that your primitive hatred took the better part of you in your FALSE statement above. Fact is that after the Federal government under Gowon reneged on what was agreed in Aburi, which among others included "NON USE OF FORCE" to resorlve the Nigerian crisis, the Eastern Region Government under Ojukwu waited for six moths, good six moths for the Federal government to impliment what was agrred and signed in Aburi but Gowon refused every appeal and entitires nade to him by not only well-meaning Nigerians but also other leaders from other part of the world. Even the then head of the Eastern Nigeria Consultative assemply, Alvan Ikoku sent a Telegram to the then central government based in Lagos remiding them of that econonic embargo and threat of the use of force the Gowon government was against what was agreed in Aburi
The Eastern Consultative Assembly that acted as an intermidiary between the Eastern Region Governnment and the Federal Govenment Of Nigeria did not just meet once as you seem to suggest. Be INFORMED that rather they met THREE TIMES - first on August 31, 19966, secondly on November 23, 1966 and finally on May 27, 1967 - to evaluate the developing crises. They also sent letters, one dated May 16, 1067, with government gazzette number: PG/0897/11, in which they reminded Gowon's governmnent that the "ecomonic measure" (code-word for sanction) imposed on the east of Nigeria was illegal and against the understandings reached in Aburi. Its on record that even Wole Soyinka who visted the east in an effort to avert war was charged of "treason" by the Nigerian governmnent. BE INFORMED that it was after all channels to reasolve the Nigerian crisis was twarted by the central government that the Eastern Cunsultative Assembly at its last and final meeting on May 27, 1967 unanimously resoved to ask Ojukwu to "remove the Eastern region" from Nigeria."
-------------------------------------------------- "The lesson is loud and clear. When you conceive a Republic based on lies, that Republic will crumble based on lies...crass illiterate local chiefs who can barely discern their left form right.---Osita --------------------------------------------------
You are indeed a troubled mind. Facts on the ground as at at 1966 shows that contrary to your assertion, if there was anyone that forced the Igbos out of Nigeria it was Gowon and co. So fighting to actualize Biafra Republic for most Igbos was not an option but A NECESSITY. It was for that reason that most Igbos saw it as THEIR WAR. It was not an Ojukwu's war, nor did the then Consultative Assembly whom you ignorantly said were made up of "illiterates" force Ndigbo into the war.
BE INFORMED that the chairman of the so-caled Eastern Consultative Assembly was none other than Dr. Alvan Ikoku, after whom the Alvan Ikoku College Of Education, Owerri is named after. Is Ikoku who was one of the most educated Igbos of his time by any stretch of the word an "illiterate" that adviced Ojukwu and "misled" your type of Igbo?
-------------------------------------------------- "A very well educated Igbo man sees himself as a duplicate copy of the very best in British Victorian tradition, I mean this in the most positive way. Igbo trades want to give their kids the best education to be like Zik, JOJ Okezie, Mokwugo Okoye, K.O.Abadiwe, M.I.Okpara, Akanu Ibiam, S.G. Ikoku, Prof. Dike, Prof. Chike Obi, Nwafor Orizu, Chinue Achebe you can name them and list goes on and on."--- Osita. --------------------------------------------------
Here you go again talking of Ndigbo you wrote in quoted marks in the first part of your trashy article as though you are one of us. Boy, what you wrote above and the language contained therein sells you as an either a non-Igbo or an Igbo of the WORST order (assuming that the internet 'Osita' actually exists).
BE INFORMED that all the persons you mentioned above, with the exception of Nnamdi Azikiwe did support the Biafran cause. Not that they supported it, but truth is that most of them actually went to the trenches with Ojukwu to liberate their people. Infact, Akanu Ibian in anger gave up his Knithood bestowed on him by the British monarch in protest against the position the then British government took before and during the civil war. At this justure, I must let you and other uninformed folks out there know that THE BIAFRAN STRUGGLE SURPASSED CLASS, ACEDEMIC OR PHILOSOPHICAL INCLINATION. Infact, it is often said that the Igbos have never (and may) never be united as they were during and a few years after the Nigerian civil war!
_------------------------------------------------- "Today, and regretably, we are antipodes to our former selves both in thoughts, deeds and actions. What a shame that super enterprising and resourceful Ndigbo are currently sidelined as ranting, revving, disgruntled spectators on the outside looking in, while the statecraft is being piloted and directed by the "others".---Osita. ------------------------------------------------
Speak for yourself! BE INFORMED that despite the monetary and physical loses recorded by Ndigbo before, during and after the Nigerian civil war, apart from Efulefus like you, I am yet to meet/see any true son or daughter from Igboland that "regrets" standing up against what was by all intend and purposes an attempt to wipe out the Igbo race from mother earth. Have you ever heard of the wise saying that, "SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FACE A WAR TO LIVE IN PEACE"? Or as we Igbos would say: aga ekwe mgbawu hara ogu?
BE INFORMED that despite all the road-blocks put at every juction Ndigbo have taken to self-recover since the shooting stopped in 1970, that when compared against other Nigerian ethnic groups that did not or have never passed through a tenth of the experience Igbos have been passing through since then, I can say with pride that IGBOS ARE INDEED GOD's CHOSEN PEOPLE. Put differently, the war and its experiences was a blessing in disguise to those of us who survived it and will never trade our Igbo identity for any other in the world.
-------------------------------------------------- "For Ndigbo who have some choice words for me like "Efulefu" (prodigal son), sabo (saboteur or a sell out of Ndigbo), I have bad news for you all. I am unrepentantly, both Efulefu and Sabo combined together in its advanced stage of synthesis beyond help and without qualms."---Osita --------------------------------------------------
I would have been profoundy surprised if you ended your MACABRE DANCE without telling us the TRUTH of who you are as you stated above. Even if you did not put them in words, your trashy article speaks for itself. But one thing you should know from hence is that YOU have started a war which you are surely going to lose. BE INFORMED that whoever you are (whether an existing Igbo or an imaginary one) that you wont be judged by only atacking the person of the one and only Dim, Odumegwu Ojukwu, the EZE IGBO GBURU-GBURU without provocation. Rather, the greatest curse will come upon you and your generation unborn because you committed the UNFORGABLE crime of trivilizing an issue (the Biafran issue) that costed the Igbo race over 3 million lives. For just as the Jews never forgive ANYONE for trivilizing the Holocuast (some re-writers of history like you have also accused the Jewish elite of "planning" the Holocaust because they wanted to "eliminate" the "unwanted" Jews), so do will we Igbos, the living and the dead not spare to punish ANYONE from anywhere that distorts the events that led to that AVOIDABLE lose of so many lives, both Igbos and non Igbos.
Finally, if Nigerians force another Biafra on the Igbos as they did in 1967, they can be sure that we will oblige them. No amount of propaganda brigadeering, intimidation or crass irresponsible LIES as the ones peddled by the 'Ositas' and supported by the equally Igbo-hating Addys will stop us from defending our collective right and dignity if the need arises. THAT IS A PROMISE.
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You have spoken not only for the Igbos, but also for every proud Ibibio son and daughter!
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NwaAro's review of the rudiments of this decoy is certainly on track, however, Chiboy and Umuibe were right.
Addy needed another means to circumvent his earlier remark at the begining of this thread where he came out blazing on the part of "JUSTICE" ie having been sumarily silenced by Mmadike's admonition.
Addy therefore summoned either one of his fake handles at Nigeriaworld.com or the fake handle of Idowu Ogbo (that Igbo proverb spewing, authentic to the core, and detailed exponent on all issues Igbo ) to front some more propaganda, creating thereby an inbuilt excuse which would enable such comments as:
"The World awaits............."
So, in the end as Chiboy and Umuibe suggested, the opinions of Osita is neither challengeable since he is not here at BNW to defend himself (being a decoy ), nor valid since any saliva drooling Yoruba or semi-Igbo imbecile at Nigeriaworld.com with MALICIOUS but IMPOTENT INTENTIONS could assume such a handle to make baseless brainless assertions which if any SLITHERING COWARD should see fit to quote, Should not have to be honored with review at this forum.
CONCLUSION
It should therefore be noted by all that we have been goaded into issuing responses to a fake handle (a decoy) which if from BNW is at least acceptable since they would still bear responsibility to defend any trashy propaganda they espouse. In this case the fake handle is not even from BNW, so why should we even permit a fake handle from another forum to be quoted here? Why should we even honor or dignify a decoy with our valuable attention.
Legally it would not be considered CENSORSHIP to remove the dribblings of this Osita imbecile from this thread, that way if he so desires, he can come over to BNW himself to make these assertions and stand behind it when the heat erupts so I here now appeal to our administrator that it be removed since it is a decoy and not a quoteable authority and since such a decoy does not even belong to BNW.
Addy, shame on you!!! You are a disgrace to the Yoruba race. You have taken COWARDICE to a new level. I had at least deemed you capable of standing your ground at this forum, but I suppose when you wind yourself around so many lies and contortions, the issue ceases to be standing up for yourself but standing up against your very own lies.
This Osita character thus became your creative way around that? What a shame.
Bring out now, that expo you not so subtly threatened at another thread. You will be all over the place before you know it. As happened to your mentor Aluko.
Addy has demonstrated time after time that he is here on a self appointed mission to negate what he sees as Biafran propaganda, unfortunately, the truth must be hurting Addy badly. If Addy has at least sought to be honest with himself he would acknowledge his mission here for what it has been; an unabashedly shameless and unadulterated propaganda mission with a Victor Banjo-like guile at our expense.
Addy has instead chosen to slither in like a serpent who while seeking to hypnotise his quarry (using the guise of "Yoruba protector") from chopping his head off has nonetheless availed himself comfortable poise from which to strike by appearing to be all things to all people (as enunciated in his unwitting response to the deliberate posers I threw him for loosing his cool to issue me idle threats) . In this regard avoiding the mistakes of his mentor Aluko.
Well Addy, you can now be sure that your feeble attempts at propaganda has only revealed the extents to which you will slither.
You didnt ask yourself before manufacturing this "Osita" what Igbos would think of him, ie:
1.) Who is Osita? 2.) Who does he speak for? 3.) How many Osita's are out there? 4.) What is this great machinery that has been holding them down. 5.) Where has Osita made his case before in an authentic and verifiable setting? 6.) What authorities does Osita cite to authenticate his supposed "mass" following? 7.) Who has made up the bulk of Osita's audience? 8.) From whose podium and with whose microphone has “Osita” been making his case to achieve what we are supposed to believe is this suddenly increasing great groundswell? From the Ooduwa podium or the Arewa podium? 9.) Is this “Osita” beginning to sound more and more like the Tom, Dick, and Harry Gomwalks or Dimkas or Torkula’s of the Middle belt whom Aremu and the Ooduwa press had been aggressively probing for use to drive a wedge between Northern solidarity BY FABRICATING Tiv versions of "Osita" to create a "virtual" groundswell?
No doubt there are many other questions as above, but if I had spent the creative time to manufacture this “Osita” clown, I would at least have answered many of these questions at the DESIGN stage to make him look more authentic, instead of giving in to saliva drooling desperation driven by pathological maliciousness.
Conjuring up such a pathetic character as your “Osita” and making him an Ikwerre, or Anioma, or in your perception; “Other” Igbo, is not only an insult to the Igbo collective for its base and cynical exploitativeness but a further demonstration of the extents of malicious hostility from which perch you request our mutual “embrace across the Niger”
May the intensity of your malicious wickedness turn itself upon you.
In the final analysis, when confronted, this decoy and fabricated handle Osita H. Olisah/Addy would mouth: "WELL THATS JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION" in belligerent and adamant refusal to submit to scrutiny.
How do you begin to dignify such imbecile opinion of this Osita/Addy type with a response?
In otherwords, OPINION IS CHEAP! which explains why the hack; Addy props up and quotes that Osita decoy as a veritable authority; a cowardly and ill informed motive so far predictably delivered with Addy’s signature hyperbollic and labored use of peculiarly obscure adjectives as a pretension to “enlightenement”.
Osita/Addy’s dribblings would therefore be akin to someone pronouncing that Ronald Reagan is the reincarnation of John F Kennedy and then setting about to defend such a statement with supposedly a whole thesis of "proof" dished out over time at our expense from a safe vantage point. A thesis amounting to NOTHING but a carefully written volume of crass propaganda meant to instill a subliminal message through repetition but without submission to rebuttal using such disclaimers as:
"I AM ONLY POSTING ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW". or: "WELL THATS JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION".
If that handle were from BNW we would at least be assured that they would have to submit to such amount of rigorous review as their statement elicits, but they are not, and this is the supposed beauty of Addys cynical motive in posting such personal opinion as a supposed contrary opinion from Ednut and Mkpume's articles and the Tempo article about Britains regret, all articles of which have in common supportable and verifiable statements authentically creditable to real time players and regarding real time events the likes of which no amount of fabricating can challenge for authenticity and veracity.
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You have put your finger on something. This "Osita H. Olisa" is a fake name. The bench in Biafranigeria is not very crowded. I am thorougly familiar with the history of the BiafraNigerian judiciary and the judges known to come from the East before the war. The "Judge Olisa" that was alluded to in the article did not and does NOT exist. It appears that the piece was written by a Yoruba handle, or yet another of the I-grew-up-in-Igboland Yorubas in the forum.
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The civil war has been the subject of some many articles that its relevance in any discourse concerning the geographical expression called Nigeria cannot be over-emphasized. Hence the plethora of arguments, counter-arguments and general disagreeableness that exemplifies the all-consuming need for Nigerians to critically examine the subject matter ranging from the circumstances that led up to it, the war itself and its aftermath appropriately becomes a platform upon which to address the socio-politico-religious monster that bedevils the nation.
To this end, readers must endeavor to be shrewd whenever they are faced with consuming any write-up that boldly displays BIAFRA or Ojukwu precariously as its title. Academic articles, or essays on this topic would garnish some measure of credibility or some modicum of respect, if the author adequately interspersed his/her articles with relevant historically accurate tidbits to buttress an opinion that he/she sets out to enunciate. In other words, it would be beneficial to employ precise historical action/inaction to emphasize any point that an author on this most volatile topic decides to bring to public knowledge. The reason for this being that it would make it easier to separate the historically verifiable and contestable portions of that missive from the personal opinions of the writer.
After perusing Osita’s write-up, it at once becomes lucidly evident that Mr Osita was at best expressing his opinion irrespective of that bold title that seemed to convey the idea that he was about to embark on an intellectual thematic dissection of past history as a means to qualitatively analyze the PRESENT quagmire that the faces the nation. One expected to see a liberal sprinkling of past events and a corresponding rebuttal or re-affirmation in his article of specific historical events to forcibly direct even the unwilling to make their own deductions from the write-up.
Since the bulk of the write-up was an expression of opinion (on Ojukwu) with little or no grounding in historical facts, he deserves every contemptuous dismissal, contemplative stares or celebratory jubilance that readers greet his articles with.
Having said that, I hasten to add that the writer’s impotent diatribe against the Ikemba achieved little in detracting from the essence of that man whom even his opponents must admit was a man undoubtedly laden with and concerned about the welfare of his people.
By examining Osita’s umbrage in those articles posted at Nigeriaworld (assuming this writer could be verified and proved not to be a member of the ‘tear down biafra’ propaganda machine), it is clear that the writer failed to recognize that the ultimate decision of the Eastern regional government to secede from the genocidal Nigerian apparatus was NOT the express and unchallenged decision of Ojukwu but a painful one arrived by the countless meetings and deliberations of the Eastern leadership at that time in history when Nigeria had demonstrated quite transparently that it was then obsessed with drinking the blood of Easterners of Igbo and Efik ( and other eastern ethnicities united in the Biafran cause) origins.
This ploy to discredit the Biafran cause by painting Ojukwu in the darkest possible light has been a tactic that has ALWAYS yielded nothing. I suppose that this writer gripped with the worst kind of ‘Ojukwu-induced neurosis’ has decided that by taking the time to compile a veritable intemperate hogwash bordering on unsubstantiated tripe and laced in self-immolating ridicule fancies that by discordantly harping on the firm qualities of a leader faced by the odds of combined Egyptian, British and Nigerian forces focused on exterminating his people, he(Osita) would in some strange fashion mold public conscience to accept tergiversation, duplicitous gerrymandering rhetoric and a self-destructive detachment from the plight of the masses as an ebullient alternative to determination, resolve and a commitment to the ordinary folk as regards Ojukwu’s conduct in the events leading up to and during the civil war.
Therefore it is absolutely necessary to be wary of such writers as Osita, who on discussing a grave issue such as the civil war are more inclined to conveniently forgo historical facts/realities in conscientious expostulations but would rather embark on a freewheeling jactitational outpouring of self-consuming bile or who deliberately conjure up falsities calculated to tarnish in their murky minds, the aristocratic and equally charismatic personality of Ojukwu.
In the next article, the writer will hopefully delve into history to highlight the results of the fault-finding campaign of his obsession with Ojukwu. Perhaps, it makes a lot of sense at this stage to discard his previous vociferously bitter recriminations against the Biafran cause by surreptitiously focusing his slanderous OPINIONS on Ojukwu till one sees the bulk of historical evidence that procreated such seeming self-hating stance. Perhaps then, can we fully confirm if this hitherto unknown columnist at Nigeriaworld merits to be summarily dismissed as having bought into some of the fallacies circulated by the likes of Nowa Omogui.
If the writer imagines that any Nigerian with the clarity of judgment to juxtapose the events of pre-independence, post-independence, pre-civil war and post-civil war Nigeria, would be rhapsodic about the stinker he directed at Ojukwu and then swallow ALL his submissions e re nata then it would make sense to me when he violently but self-righteously begins to pronounce himself “unrepentantly both efulefu and sabo combined together in its advanced stage of synthesis beyond help and without qualms” when people characterize his ‘work of unadulterated genius’ as pure parabolic and viciously slanderous claptrap abysmally deficient in addressing the social, economic, political and religious concatenation of unmitigated evil that has continued to ail this doomed republic.
quote:In the final analysis, when confronted, this decoy and fabricated handle Osita H. Olisah/Addy would mouth: blah, blah, blah........UkaObasi
Yeah, yeah, keep talking, someday you might say something intelligent!
quote:Addy, shame on you!!! You are a disgrace to the Yoruba race. You have taken COWARDICE to a new level. I had at least deemed you capable of standing your ground at this forum, but I suppose when you wind yourself around so many lies and contortions, the issue ceases to be standing up for yourself but standing up against your very own lies.
Why don't you just open your mind and shut your mouth, both are empty anyway. I'd like to leave you with a thought....unfortunately I aint sure you have anywhere to put it.
Anaedo, Thanks for the rigorous critique of Mr. Olisa's piece. You have again shown that it is quite possible to disagree forcefully but gently. Your diction is also as usual impressive. I will not relent in posting any subsequent write-ups from the author and others like him who have something to say. A refreshing departure from the well-worn path of academic thuggery of the likes of UkaObasi and Nwa-Aro.
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All, When I made my above response to the LIES the said 'Osita H. Olisa' SHAMELESSLY peddled in his trashy and clearly UNRESEACHED article, though I had the premonition that the said 'Osita' may just be Addy, However, I did address THE ISSUES because since the issues raised bothers on history that must be told AS IT WAS and NOT as we want them told, it didn't matter to me if the source of the article was Addy or anyone else. As I earlier said, one thing we Igbos should never allow ANYONE, Igbo or non-Igbo to get away with is to trivilize the events that led to the civil war and the role Ojukwu and other actors played in that AVOIDABLE WAR. As far as I am concerned, whether 'Osita' is Addy or not is irrelevant because if we are to go by the often propaganda-induced posts Addy has posted on this board since he propted up, there's no doubt that both the 'Osi
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