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It is clear the awusa/fulani problem in nigeria could have been solved in 1967, if the Yoruba had resisted the urge for short term gains, and insisted on independence for Oduduwa land and freedom from awusa/fulani domination. In 2006/07, the Yoruba must be allowed to work out its differences with awusa/fulani, without Igbo interferance. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LETTER FROM LT. COL. OJUKWU TO LT. COL. BANJO 22nd AUGUST 1967
From: The Military Governor, Republic of Biafra Enugu,
22nd August, 1967.
My dear Victor,
1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circumstances that have led to the current and inevitable disintegration of what was the Federation of Nigeria. We have been fully convinced that the aim of the Hausa/Fulani complex has ever been, and will ever remain, the total domination of every other part of what was known as the Federation of Nigeria. It is impossible to forget that the crisis which led to the army take over in January 1966, the coup of the Northern soldiers led by Gowon in July 1966, the wholesale and indiscriminate massacre of the people of what is now Biafra- and, to a less degree, the people of the Mid-West and West, including the Yorubas, were all the direct result of Hausa/Fulani attempt to subjugate and use as tools, the gallant people of Western Nigeria namely the Yorubas. We do not need to remind ourselves of the heavy losses in life and property suffered by the Yoruba people in their fight for justice and freedom during 1965.
2. Sharing.our belief that the people of Yorubaland have a right to live a life of equality and self-respect and justice free of domination and dictatorship from any quarter, you have both identified with the cause of the Biafra struggle for survival and expressed your determination to see the people of Yorubaland freed from Hausa/Fulani domination. We, the people of Biafra, for our part are willing and have decided to give you and the people of Yorubaland every assistance to achieve your aim.
3. After clearing the whole question with my Executive Council, I, as the Commander in Chief of the Biafran Armed Forces, have decided to place at your disposal Biafran forces, for the liberation of Yorubaland on the following clear conditions:-
(i) You will have nothing to do with the Military Administrator in the Mid-West Territory during your sojourn there prior to your move to the West.
(ii) The willingness and preparedness of Biafra to assist any part of the former Federation of Nigeria wishing and willing to liberate itself from the Hausa/Fulani domination, does not in anyway whatever imply any inclination on her part to compromise her sovereignty or preserve what remains of the defunct Federation of Nigeria. In other words, our sovereignty and break with Nigeria is irrevocable. Nothing must, therefore be said or done by you or any member of the Liberation Army to give a contrary impression.
(iii) Biafra is determined to maintain and safeguard her sovereignty and ensure that her integrity and safety are never again threatened. (iv) Biafran troops will, after the liberation of the Yorubaland, remain in that territory only for as long as we in Biafra consider it necessary for the Yorubas to consolidate their position and sovereignty against any external threat.
(v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory.
(vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba.
(vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.
(viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops.
(ix) As soon as possible after your appointment as the Military Governor of Western Nigeria and separation of that territory from Nigeria, you and I must meet to discuss: (a) the duration of stay of Biafran troops in your territory;
(b)the areas and subjects of cooperation between the liberated sovereign states of Western Nigeria, or by what name it may call itself, and Biafra.
4. I do not need to remind you that Biafra regards all Yoruba as friends. As such everything should be done, to ensure the minimum force and loss of life are involved in achieving the objective of liberation.
5. It is essential, in order to avoid misunderstanding or confusion, that all subsequent requests for support be formally made to me by you in writing.
6. Will you please signify in writing, your acceptance of the above conditions so that you may leave for Western Nigeria and lead the army of liberation.
Yours very sincerely,
signed Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Military Governor and Commander in Chief of Biafran Armed Forces.
[ April 30, 2006, 05:24 AM: Message edited by: Amadi O. ]
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quote:(v) On the liberation of the Yorubaland, you will be appointed as the Military Governor of that territory.
(vi) The liberation of Western Nigeria will be a prelude to the liberation of all Yorubas up to the River Niger and the severance of all connections between the West and the North at Jebba.
(vii) During the period of Biafrans troops’ presence in your territory, all political measures, statements or decrees shall be subject to the approval, in writing by myself or on my authority.
(viii) Should our troops arrive and liberate Lagos, the government of the Republic of Biafra reserves the right to appoint a Military administrator for the territory. Such an Administrator will remain in office until a merger of that territory with Yorubaland is effected by Biafran troops.
Ojukwu must have been sniffing that s-h-i-t to be engrossed with such tall dreams as stated above
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That is why your land will remain under awusa/fulani occupation.
A Biafran offered to liberate your land and end the shame Afonja brought to you by inviting the jihadists to occupy your land. Why didn't you take that offer and fix the terms if you didn't like them? Do you prefered to remain a slave under awusa/fulani control. I guess it must be the cowardly, servant-slave nature of your nation. First, it was fulani taking over your land on the invitation of your own leader Afonja. Then under "shofisticated diplomacy", your leaders invited Britain to take over Biafran oil fields and control your nigeria, so you don't have to compete with an independent, trend-setting Biafra.
Just wait; your awusa/fulani masters will deal with you one more time.
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The statement credited to Ojukwu in the letter is just another confirmation of what many people have been saying about how delusional the man was when he allowed his bloated ego to be the vehicle of death for tens of thousands of my brethrens.
This was a guy who started celebrating victory when the battle has not begun, and in his dreams, (Did Ojukwu called Zik a dreamer?) he saw himself issuing orders to Banjo after capturing “Yorubaland”, and then marching on to Lagos for the final onslaught.
The fact remains that practically majority of Nigerians are still in bondage in their own country and if any liberation is to take place, it should be the liberation of all Nigerians from the clutch of the likes of Ohanezee, OPC, Arewa and the Clarks of the Niger Delta who uses the ignorance of the populace to achieve and boost their egomaniac natural tendencies.
Let us fight for the emancipation of all Nigerians and steer away from all ethnic jingoism being used as effective weapon by the thieving elite to the detriment of ordinary Nigerians. Ojukwu led us to war not because he loved the Nidgbos more than the Ziks and Okparas of Ndigboland, but solely because of personal aggrandizement.
quote:Ojukwu led us to war not because he loved the Nidgbos more than the Ziks and Okparas of Ndigboland, but solely because of personal aggrandizement. – Bababoyz
1.Perhaps it was Ojukwu’s personal aggrandizement that led to the massacre of Nd’Igbo all over Nigeria (including, BTW, the West from which you hail).
2.Perhaps it was Ojukwu’s personal aggrandizement that led him to appeal to Nigeria's leaders to do something about these killings.
3.Perhaps it was Ojukwu’s personal aggrandizement that led him to encourage Nd’igbo to return to their stations in other parts of the country after receiving assurances of their safety from Nigeria’s leaders.
4.Perhaps it was Ojukwu’s personal aggrandizement that led him to Aburi with the intention of finding a way other than one with the certain outcome of war.
Bababoyz, you cannot re-write history. The facts are incontrovertible – try as you might. If, for you, Ojukwu is a monster of sorts, how can you - in your supposedly unprejudiced evaluation - close your eyes to the Nigerian circumstance that created the so-called Igbo 'monster'? That creates other Igbo ‘monsters’? That creates Ijaw monsters? That creates monsters all over the country; save perhaps the North + your West?
quote: Let us fight for the emancipation of all Nigerians and steer away from all ethnic jingoism being used as effective weapon by the thieving elite to the detriment of ordinary Nigerians. – Bababoyz.
I’m afraid this is a symbolic but empty statement.
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You have again resorted to generalization commonly known among the cowardly nation in nigeria: "..Let us fight for the emancipation of all Nigerians.." Who are the US you're referring to? I'm sure you don't include Biafrans in your US.
Odumegwu Ojukwu and the Biafrans offered to help liberate your land in 1967 using a masterful strategy based on solid calculation, but the yoruba nation rejected it on grounds that Biafrans were "delusinal." The ball is now in yoruba's court to initiate a more "shofisticated" strategy to liberate yoruba land from awusa/fulani occupation. Unlike your back-biting yoroba leaders, Biafrans here and now promise that we will never join with awusa to fight your independence or for one-nigeria. What for?
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quote:Originally posted by Amadi O.: Odumegwu Ojukwu and the Biafrans offered to help liberate your land in 1967 using a masterful strategy based on solid calculation,
Solid what?
If in the year 2006, you Amadi O will call Ojujwu strategy in the civil war that brought about untold hardship and mass death to many innocent lives “solid calculation”, then you must have another think coming.
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Yes, it was a masterful strategy that would have created independence for oduduwa republic and give you a platform to show the world how "best educated, shofisticated" the yoroba truely is in a nation of their own. Not that we don't already have a snapshot of the capabilities of the Loudmouth nation, with 8 year in office and negetive leading economic indicators to show for it. So much for the "best" this and that.
In any case, it's not enough to second guess Biafrans now after the fact of 1967. The Yoroba Way is now securely in the saddle. We are looking for some assurance that the "best educated", loudmouth nation, has enough know-how to liberate itself from awusa/fulani domination, or even try to beat Abacha's economic management record by arresting a fast declining economy that has everything it needs to achieve a 10% annual growth under Biafran management.
No one is going to take the pressure away from you this time. Odumegwu Ojukwu is no longer standing in your way to anything. Your record will be tied around your neck as they deal with you!!
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Guys why are you wasting your time with Bababoyz, he is a product of the faulty system in that kai kai republic. Remember him and his father have feed fat from that corrupt system, so why wouldn't he defend that faulty foundation called Nigeria. Think about it, as bad as things are in Nigeria today yet you have so many of those Buffoons calling for a third term for that Ape called Obasanjo. Simply because Obasanjo will ensure the free flow of Ghana must go stack of Naira notes.
quote:Originally posted by Ochiwar: The strategy of the invasion of west and midwest was masterful. The execution of the masterfull plan by the wastepipe Victor Banjo was faulty.
If the strategy is “masterful” and the executor is faulty, then the originator of the strategy must be dunce for trusting his “masterful” strategy to a faulty executor to implement.
That picture above must be eating you alive, because even with all the zillion your daddy dearest stole from Nigeria treasury. Yet you are here in exile with the rest of us. The worst part of your own exile is that you don't even have anything to show for, only that you stay home all day while you wife go out to bring home the bacon.
At least Ojukwu as a young man did more than expected of people twice his age. As for you even with all the zillion your daddy embezzled, you don't even have anything to show for it.
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That was before you were born into a nation of "shofisticated" snakes; way before Biafrans realized that trust and the yoroba character do not go together; that you cannot count on the yoroba to uphold a gentlemen's agreement.
Today, no self-respecting Igbo/Biafran thinks they can sit down with yoroba as equals to write an aggreement that is worth more than the paper it is written. That's where you nation is, man. The Igbo/Biafrans working for your fraudster uncle olusegun obasanjo are those he's bribed to sabotage Igbo, ie ojo maduekwe, kema chikwe, emmanuel iwuanyanwu, joe irukwu, the semi-literate chris uba, etc -- all crooked characters in their own right.
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quote:If the strategy is “masterful” and the executor is faulty, then the originator of the strategy must be dunce for trusting his “masterful” strategy to a faulty executor to implement. – Bababoyz.
Alas, as Amadi has identified, we made the grave error of trusting the Yoruba. Now, all should return to their own tents. All this talk about us cooperating is exactly that – just talk. The Igbo have their way, the Yoruba have their way; and never again shall the twain meet.
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Yet you are here in exile with the rest of us. The worst part of your own exile is that you don't even have anything to show for, only that you stay home all day while you wife go out to bring home the bacon.
Biafra,
you are the one that is banished, bababoyz is @ home baby
dream on, even with zillions your Daddy dearest stole from our treasury, you are still here, why not go home and see, whether you will last two months.
quote: If the strategy is “masterful” and the executor is faulty, then the originator - of the strategy must be dunce for trusting his “masterful” strategy to a faulty executor to implement.--Bababoyz
Yes you may have a point there. That was not too smart of the Ikemba; sending a Yoruba to do a man`s job. As a historian he should have known that the Yoruba people have never been suited for war. I was surprised to note that (contrary to what we had been tought in school that Yoruba was a great empire) the Yoruba are not even mentioned in ancient maps of Africa predating 1700. Only the Benin and Biafra kingdoms are to be found there as well as the Calbongos/Efik/Ibibio). I tend to see some implications for the Yoruba military and political relevance at and prior to that time. Banjo was no exception to that general trend.
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No Sir I am not. This is historically accurate information as evidenced by ancient maps such as those by Mecartor 1607 or that by Senex from the year 1711 which last one is in English language, where the Kingdom of Biafra is clearly named and demarcated. Note that none of the maps mentioned above even vaguely mention the Yoruba in terms of Kingdom. The ancient maps are to be found at http://www.afriterra.org/MapImages/index.html
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