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The list that is being created in this thread could well be one of the most important things to come out of this great forum in 2004. It has been argued that colonialism ended once the colonialists ran out African saboteurs to betray the freedom fighters. So will marginalization end once our enemies run out of efulefu and saboteurs in Igboland. The first step in eradicating the traitors is to identify them, as is being done here.
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Quote: ---------------------------------- "It has been argued that colonialism ended once the colonialists ran out African saboteurs to betray the freedom fighters. So will marginalization end once our enemies run out of efulefu and saboteurs in Igboland. The first step in eradicating the traitors is to identify them,..."--Adaeze. -----------------------------------
Ada BMW: I couldn't have put it any better. For those who cry when they or their "hero/s" are called BY THEIR NAMES, I say they aint seen anything yet.
Just as you rightly observed above, I say this without any fear of contradiction that it is only when the Igbos sellouts and their Nigerian paymasters know that Igboland (or Igbo communities such as BMW board) will not be a safe place for them will they change. To this end, I am very please to learn that a group made up Igbo progressives were bold enough to tell Arthur Nzeribe IN HIS FACE that he will be declared a "PERSONA NON-GRANTA" in ANY part of Igboland should he continue in his anti Igbo activies. To this I say MORE GREASE TO THEIR EFFORT!
In furtherance to that fight to rid Igboland and Igbo community in diaspora of SABOTUERS, I hereby include the name of RUDOLPH OKONKWO as traitor.
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Unfortunately, I have to add Dr. Alexander Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, former Vice President of BiafraNigeria.
After playing an honorable role during the Nigeria-Biafra War, Ekwueme became a traitor to Igbo causes. Alex Ekwueme has resorted to making secret, dishonorable, and selfish deals with Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani crooks at the corridors of power, all deals aimed at enriching and elevating Alex Ekwueme at the expense of the Igbo Nation.
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The old man from Nri fled BiafraNigeria during the war and has remained in Canada ever since. It is from Canada that he grooms, indoctrinates a group of younger Igbo on Anti-Ojukwu/Igbo studies.
Shame on the cowards. Let them go home.
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I am interested on this Ikejiani guy. Are you sure you have the right guy? How many Ikejianis do we have in Anambra State? Who was their father? I ask because one of the dormitories in my old high school is still Ikejiani House. To my understanding, these community effort schools had their houses named after great Igbo sons either from the immediate town or from Igboland as represented by Ibiam House in almost all High Schools in Igboland. If you have information on Ikejiani, I will like to be directed to were I can read it. Might do a google search.
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Thanks for that link. Apparently the old man resents Ojukwu for the loss of all he had before the war.
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Thanks. Sounds like he abandoned Biafra while on diplomatic mission. But then again he rejected Nigeria after the war and gave Igboland a daughter who is helping to mold young minds today at Nsukka, that should count for something.
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From NaijaPolitics: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 The Receptionists as those girls were called,
were just what I needed for my recuperation. My staff included Miss Funke Duyile, Hilda Mowoe, Hilda Omamor, Felicia Borha, Mrs. Cecilia Onwudiwe, Miss Solarin (later Mrs. Olumide); I was like a sultan with his harem. My working day I spent settling squabbles among the girls, listening to their gossips, taking one or two out to lunch and generally flirting with everyone; at the end of the month I collected my salary. It was paradise; I loved it and soon convinced myself that it was in the best interest of everybody if Nwokedi took his foreign posting and stuffed it, with a little help from Phillip Asiodu.
All good things come to an end. This particular good thing ended one morning when my phone rang and the voice at the other end said he was Ade-Onojobi, Private Secretary to the Minister of Information. He said could I hold on for the Hon. Minister. My heart missed several beats. I knew there was a new minister, Chief Ayo Rosiji; he was a national figure so I, like everybody should know him, but how does he come to know that I exist. Chief Rosiji came on the line and very politely asked if I could come over to his office and see him. After the telephone conversation, I went to Ekwensi and asked whether he knew any reason why Chief Rosiji would want to see me. He said he had no idea and why don't I run over and see what it was all about. As soon as I arrived at the Private Secretary's office I was ushered into the minister's office. Chief Rosiji told me he wanted me to be his Press Secretary. I accepted his offer then I went back and gave Ekwensi the news.
Ekwensi came round his desk to shake hands with me. He said he was very happy that I and not one of the other tribalist Yoruba officers was chosen. He said that he was confident that I would give the minister good service and unbiased advice as necessary. Two weeks after I started work as Rosiji's Press Secretary, Mr. Moses Awoyinfa, Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, phoned me and warned me to beware of my fellow Yoruba officers because they all disliked me. He said that they had all come to his office to urge him to go and warn Chief Rosiji that I was an Ibo stooge planted in the minister's office by Ekwensi to spy on the minister for his Ibo enemies.
Awoyinfa had gone to Papa Mobolaji Odunewu, Deputy Director, to appraise him of the situation before mentioning the matter to Chief Rosiji. Papa Odunewu had informed Awoyinfa that Ekwensi had nothing to do with my appointment as Press Secretary to the minister. Papa Odunewu had revealed to Awoyinfa that Chief Rosiji had called for the personal files of all Yoruba officers and studied them. He had short-listed three of us and then called in Pa Odunewu for his personal opinion and assessment of the three of us short-listed. Papa Odunewu had advised the minister to choose me. I should be fair to the other officers and point out that the minute the minister called in Papa Odunewu they had no chance against me because Papa Odunewu and my father were class mates at the C.M.S. Grammar School, Lagos. C.M.S. Grammar School, Lagos, also happens to be my alma mater as well as Otunba Benson's, but I never attempted to get close to the Otunba because I always preferred to get things on merit rather than exploit relationships.
Even though Papa Odunewu influenced my appointment, I should point out that he could not have done anything if Chief Rosiji had not short-listed me to begin with.
Awoyinfa phoned me and it was from him that I learnt how I came to be chosen. Cyprian Ekwensi an Ibo man was delighted at my appointment while my fellow Yoruba officers were horrified.I am happy that Otunba Benson brought up the matter of Dr. Okechukwu Ikejiani of the Nigerian Railways. I have heard the expression, "man's inhumanity to man", but I never saw it in practice until I observed the way Dr. Ikejiani treated the Yorubas in the Nigerian Railways. My father served the Nigerian Railways all his life and his fortunes with the corporation was an open book to me, particularly as I stayed with him in his railway Quarters Oke-Ira after my return from Britain in 1963 when Ikejiani reigned at the Nigerian Railways. I will not go into the details of Ikejiani's bestial behaviour towards the Yorubas. It is all chronicled in the report of a commission that probed the Nigerian Railways. (it should be available at the Federal Government Printer).
It is to Otunba Benson's credit that he raised the matter within the N.C.N.C. caucus. It is unfortunate however that nobody outside the N.C.N.C. caucus was aware of the Otunba's action about that matter at the time. It was a bad mark against Otunba Benson that he was so highly placed in a party that treated the Yorubas so badly. Even now that we know that he spoke out within his party, what effect did his protest have? Ikejiani's oppression and suppression of the Yorubas continued until he left the Railways. Otunba Benson should be commended for whatever efforts he has made or is making to bring about Yoruba unity. He called me a surviving agent of satanic politics in Yorubaland. I wish to make it clear that if all it takes to achieve Yoruba unity is for me to fold my arms and keep mute when an obscure Awoist like Oluwole Kehinde makes opprobrious remarks about Chief S. L. Akintola, who willingly died for the Yorubas, then I would say, "to hell with Yoruba unity".
I say Akintola willingly sacrificed his life for the Yorubas because it has since been established that he knew what was in the offing; he warned both Sir Abubakar and the Sarduana, but brave shepherd that he was, he did not run away. He stayed put and died for his people. I have no objections to Oluwole Kehinde loving Awolowo and singing his praises from the rooftops. I am however fed up with listening to Awoists who believe the most effective way they can praise their hero is to denigrate other people's heroes. While I am happy that Otunba Benson shed light on a number of events, I must assert that he had taken on a fight that is not his own. I was expecting and I am still waiting for just one squeak out of an Awoist of note, and I will really bring out my big guns and blast away at Chief Awolowo, Awoism and Awoists. I haven't said anything yet.Otunba Benson said I must be an Akintola man. Yes, I am unabashedly pro-Akintola.
After my ordeal with F.C. Nwokedi and then the body blow by Ekwensi, I would be crazy not to embrace Chief S. L.Akintola, who provided the only refuge available to oppressed Yorubas in the First Republic; oppressed Yorubas including T.O.S Benson himself. I do not claim to be a bosom friend or close associate of Chief Akintola. Infact, he only spoke with me once. During one of the rides in my car he and Chief Rosiji took around the back streets of Ibadan G.R.A., I took a sharp corner too fast and my V.I.P passengers were thrown roughly against the body of the car.Chief Akintola hurled a sharp abuse at me.Later that evening, I received a call to go and see Chief Rosiji in the main hall of Premier's Lodge. When I got there Chief Rosiji and Chief Akintola were standing, chatting with a group of supporters. I stood some paces away waiting for Chief Rosiji to ask me to approach. I saw Chief Rosiji tap Chief Akintola's arm and gesture in my direction. Chief Akintola looked up, saw me and then hailed me "kakaki federal" (federal trumpet). He beckoned me to approach. When I got near him, he pulled me next to him, laid a paternal arm across my shoulders and said "young man, we are making history and you are watching it from the front seat. I hope you understand what we are doing?" I said yes, I understood.
He told me that many Yorubas didn't, but one day they would, and they would thank him and his team for it. Then he faced Chief Rosiji and said "He is a good boy, take good care of him". He released me. I looked at Chief Rosiji and he told me to go, that he would see me later. That was when I realized that Chief Rosiji had sent for me only so that Chief Akintola could apologize for shouting at me earlier in the day.As I write, I am overcome with emotion and I feel weepy as I always do whenever I recall the humility of that great Yoruba leader and how he was murdered in cold blood by Ibo army officers. I mentioned earlier that Otunba T.O.S. Benson had apologized to me for removing me from the plane to Addis Ababa. I never stop speculating how things would have turned out for the Yorubas in particular and Nigerians in general if those two Yoruba leaders, who could descend from their Olympian heights to apologize to a lowly civil servant, had had sufficient time to work together. This point is important because I have no record of Chief Awolowo ever asking anybody for forgiveness or himself forgiving anybody.
A female friend who read the manuscript of my earlier article told me that any paper that published that article would be burned down and she herself would apply the torch to at least one of its buildings. She said that she would even lead the mob to come and burn down my house with me in it. I told her it would be an honour for any Yoruba man to die for Akintola the way Akintola died for the Yorubas. So how did Akintola die? I left Premier's Lodge Ibadan just four days before the January 1966 coup, but I had an eye witness account of what happened. Mrs Finnih (nee Audifferen) was a staff of my ministry (information) in Lagos. Her daughter Dupe was married to Akintola's son, Yomi, I believe his name is. Mrs. Finnih was at the Premier's Lodge on the fateful night. She said that when the soldiers came shooting, hurling grenades and kicking down doors, all of them, mostly women and children were in a panic; some were virtually out of their minds with fear. She said that Chief Akintola gathered them all into a safe room, soothed them with calm, comforting words and patted heads and shoulders that needed to be patted. He told them not to worry that it was he "they" were after and that he would go and meet "them" and everybody would be safe.
According to Mrs. Finnih, after restoring calm, he turned, walked majestically to the door, chest thrust forward like someone going to breast the tape at the end of a marathon race. He opened the door and walked out to the murderers waiting for him outside. Their last glimpse of Akintola was of him striding out bravely, fearlessly, as befits a worthy Are-Ona-Kakanfo of Yorubaland. I must end by dissociating myself and every Yorubaman, woman and child from the apology allegedly tendered by Otunba Benson to the Igbos on behalf of the Yorubas. The Yorubas have no cause to apologize to the Igbos, rather it should be the other way round. I conducted a private census on this matter and I did not find a single Yoruba person who is not annoyed by that apology. I suggest that Otunba Benson should mention a few Yorubas who agreed with him that he should apologise on their behalf, failing which the Otunba should apologize to us for that embarrassing statement.
As for Taiwo Akinola's article "The Tango between Vision and Compromise", I dismiss it as an empty and purely academic exercise. According to Akinola, "Chief Awolowo understood the implication of the game but Akintola did not". As a father, I tell Mr. Akinola that when one's children are hungry and on the verge of starvation, there is no game to be understood other than the game of finding food immediately to save your children's lives; even if one has to compromise. If I understand Akinola, Awolowo had an ideology while Akintola had none. So who needs ideology to put in an empty stomach? CONCLUDED
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quote: As a father, I tell Mr. Akinola that when one's children are hungry and on the verge of starvation, there is no game to be understood other than the game of finding food immediately to save your children's lives; even if one has to compromise.
With this closing remark, the author completely condemned the 30 months cowardly act by the then Biafran government, who stood and watched hundreds of thousands of little innocent children die the painful death of starvation and malnutrition, while they, the Biafran leaders, continued feeding on eba, pounded yam, rice and chicken.
How true these words sound. A real father who cares for his hungry and starving children, has no other program in his life than to provide food for them, even if it means to enter into compromise.
Why then was the then-Biafran leadership unwilling to end the mass starvation on time? Why wait for 30 months and allow millions to die? Why not enter into compromise?
The then Biafran leaders in this aspect were money-hungry, cold-hearted and corrupt individuals, who did not care for their citizens. Whatever they cared about was definitely not in the interest of the ibo-children who died.
...and this kind of merciless spirit is what you self-proclaimed Biafrans want to "actualize"?
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quote: I have heard the expression, "man's inhumanity to man", but I never saw it in practice until I observed the way Dr. Ikejiani treated the Yorubas in the Nigerian Railways. My father served the Nigerian Railways all his life and his fortunes with the corporation was an open book to me, particularly as I stayed with him in his railway Quarters Oke-Ira after my return from Britain in 1963 when Ikejiani reigned at the Nigerian Railways. I will not go into the details of Ikejiani's bestial behaviour towards the Yorubas. It is all chronicled in the report of a commission that probed the Nigerian Railways. (it should be available at the Federal Government Printer).
Could be that Ikejiani left Biafra because he knew what will happen to him as the war was negatively impacting the Biafrans.
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There is NO doubt that Ikejiani would have lost his life even if he survived the war. Joe Onwuatuegwu and Dr Kalu Ezera were murdered by Yoroba's Obasanjo after the war.
But my trouble with Pa Ikejiani is why he should be spreading malicious rumours against our man on the ground, Emeka Ojukwu. His anti-Ojukwu rhetorics is the reference library of all the cowardly wanabe Biafran'Igbo leaders in North America.
Ask those at home, since his return from Ivory Coast, ojukwu has remained steadfast to the best of his ability in championing the cause of Nd'Igbo. He has visited every damn anti-Igbo riot spot in the BiafraNigeria to comfort and confer with our people.
You were there when he said he was too old to remain at public eye and people like Uju Afulezi went to town with lengthy essays to remind him about Mandela and why he must carry on. By the time APGA came to the scene, Uju Afulezi and his fellow reasonably old Igbo had disappeared and left the media under the control of Aluko and Omoruyi.
When we rallied here, we were labeled thiefs who had stolen money in the past. I'm glad we went ahead to offer what support we had to. I'm glad APGA did very well at the polls.
The question we should now ask the elderly traitors is why they all kept quiet in the face of the massacre of MASSOBINs before the election and the robbery visited on our people's mandate. Does the mandate of umuIgbo not count because Ojukwu is involved. Could it be that some of them are keeping criminally quiet because they could do anything to keep Ojukwu down even if they Igbo go down with him. How can they tell me that Achike Udenwa, Orji Kalu and Nnagiani are the stuff the Igbo nation is made of?
Walk backwards and you will come back to my theory that a handful of Igbo bastards claiming to be Zikists sabotaged the war effort to get at Ojukwu.
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quote:Originally posted by AfroEuro: With this closing remark, the author completely condemned the 30 months cowardly act by the then Biafran government.... .....Why then was the then-Biafran leadership unwilling to end the mass starvation on time? Why wait for 30 months and allow millions to die? Why not enter into compromise?
...and this kind of merciless spirit is what you self-proclaimed Biafrans want to "actualize"?
Tell that to the 50,000 or more who were massacred and the remaining 17 million who took solace by staying put in Igboland to repel being pursued from their places of abode in your "Nigeria" into their very homes in Biafra without a fight.
Tell that to the thousands and thousands of Igbo's and Biafrans now being massacred in the North continuously as they remain in your "Nigeria" expecting justice.
By your comments you continue to display that the Might of British imperialism in satisfying their hunger for perpetual control of African resources using their favorite footsoldiers, always makes right. You continue to justify not the killing of 100,000 armed combatants in both Armies, but the starvation of close to 2 million civilians in a warped logic that holds the victim responsible to trust the intentions of both the aggressors and their vile and repugnant local agents.
The moral crusade to then celebrate temporal outcomes as prevailing righteousness betraying the duplicity behind your occassionally expressed scorn for the same "Nigeria" whose "victory" over then Biafra you flash around BNW as a badge of pre-ordained and guaranteed authority to sermonize a warped and twisted rationale amounting to pure vulgarity.
Like one of those southerners who righteously pronounce as if with Nostalgia and pride of ownership: "Only Hausa Fulani know how to pull out a coup". As if that in itself were an achievement and badge of honor.
Maybe in another thread or another forum we would hear you wonder aloud: Why isn't "Nigeria" moving forward? Or Babangida was bad for "Nigeria" or Abacha was bad for "Nigeria" Obasanjo is bad for "Nigeria" "Our airports" are a disgrace etc.
Did you forget your bible again? and all the "LAWS"
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To all current and future handles who continue to posture to represent the "masses of Biafra" against their "oppressive rice and eba eating leaders" who "misled them during the war" I proclaim a loud WELCOME!!!
Keep looking hard for those "masses" waiting for your redemption with open arms.
In the meantime you may need to locate several computers with which to create several handles representing your "masses" and able to speak out in your appreciation.
Borrow a leaf from Aremu who sought to impregnate several loose women to bear "Igbo supporters" or is it "masses" for him.
Also in the meantime keep quoting your bible verses religiously.
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You need to check your grammar and your sentence construction in your two postings above. It's like you've left out the verb (and others) in some of your sentences. The result of this is that it creates confusion.
But not to worry. Forget about the details. Who cares about them anyway, right?
This was the state of mind of the so-called Biafran megalomaniacs of 1967 when they arrogantly and foolishly proclaimed Biafra. They left out some of the main details (like getting the United Nation's approval) and presented their "Biafran" script the same way you presented your two postings above.
Check it again - there's really something missing in your sentences!
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quote:Originally posted by AfroEuro: ....The result of this is that it creates confusion. Check it again - there's really something missing in your sentences!
Lets try this: go into a dark room, repeat these two sentences one after the other, then take a deep breath and try saying them very fast 3 times.
Perform 10 reps to guarantee self conviction.
Kinda like a 7 day "dry fasting". Awesome spiritual, miraculous, powers are bound to flow.
On a more serious note, Please dont replace the bible for the dictionary. It'll spoil the fun. We were just getting used to the resourceful interpretations. And then you hit with "megalomaniacs"
BTW, have you revisited that link to do another edit on your post?
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Aboki Umaru, I think Bisalla was roped in b/c he was from Gowon's/Dimka's middle belt, but then what do I care about the guy who imposed on us at Enugu the best freeway named after him.
I hope some Igbo Governor with some balls will rename that Bisalla Rd to somethinmg like Nwobodo Road.
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quote:UNN V.C tussle "The senate of the university recommended three people – one from Anambra, another from Enugu, the host state, and the other from Imo. The man from Enugu came first, Anambra second and Imo last. Prof. Fabian Osuji, the Minister of Education who is from Imo state recommended the man from Imo State who came last, arguing that he did so because Enugu and Anambra were quarreling over the issue and so a neutral person was needed.
I went to Obasanjo on the eve of the launch of the Christian Ecumenical Centre and told him to be prepared to arrest and detain me because if the man from Enugu who is first was not appointed, there will be war. I never knew the man. He appointed him." </
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