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He looked at most of his northern counterparts with contemp. He was said to ask them to leave the air-conditioned rooms to come to the war front to fight. That was his undoing. They started a campaign of character assassination and subsequently got him out of the army.
Dipo
You see how people like you lie so much. This is how Ngbati people like you wrote in the press in 1966 that Igbos are mocking and dancing on top of the pictures of dead Balewa and Saduana. You have started your lies again.
This animalistic murderer called Adekunle was disgraced and shamed out of the service for drug dealing, womanizing, rapping, mental problem and thieving at NPA in 1974.
You are now lying to us on something that happened during our adult time that the Hausas started campaign of character assassination that got him out of the service.
Are you not ashamed to say this? I am beginning to wonder if you know about Nigeria history at all. I rest my case.
This filthy and irresponsible commentary of Dipo's is very offensive, insensitive, and arrant immature. Is this the same Dipo that regularly banters with Agwunobi or is this a certified ignoramus whose prowess at letting people into his world of ignominy shimmers before us? In case Dipo was not kidding, let me make it easier for those who lack knowledge of what happened to not fall for falsehood framed for mischief and polarizing purposes.
Benjamin Adekunle, as a Nigerian military division commander, was a sadistic savage. He was a Stalinist bloodthirsty wizard; he was a sociopath giving to carrying out heinous actions that conscionable human beings would not even think of or dare do. He had neither military expertise, intellectual depth, nor the courage to carry out any planned war strategy and obtain victory. All he had going for him was his insatiability for mayhem making and barbarity. His minders exploited his exuberant vulturine disposition in order to accomplish a goal. After he had helped them secure that goal (utilizing his bestiality), they tossed him back into ignominy from whence they had spirited him out.
As the Biafra-Nigeria war began, Britain made it clear that the republic of Biafra must not stand. Her reason: A republic of Biafra under the leadership of General Ojukwu would inhibit British imperialist exploitation of the oil wealth of an African nation. Since ShellBP's irretrievable investment in the oil industry had suddenly fallen under Biafra, only the vanquishing of Biafra could retain ShellBP's ability to make profit from this investment. Consequently, corporate UK brought pressure on its government to support the Nigerian government and ensure the defeat of Biafra. To secure British investment, a special division of the Nigerian military was created to accomplish this, hence the birth of the 3rd Marine Division.
The 3rd Marine Division was armed to the teeth, with the most sophisticated weapons imaginable. While the 1st and 2nd Divisions, long in existence before it, had less than combined troop strength of 25,000, the 3rd Division alone had over 26,000, in addition to hundreds of British amphibious experts. It had access to an armada of armaments, scores of boats and ships that Biafra did not have or could defend against its use. The troops had every amenity at their beck and call. It had two battalions of mercenaries from the republic of Chad (these mercenaries were called --Gwodo-Gwodo [Zombies] -- they had no business with thinking, once they had their burukutu and ogogoro, they went out to kill or be killed). All that this Division needed was to be led by a brutal primitive as could be found among human beings. Going through the psychological profile of Nigerian officers, the British found a miniature Hitler in Benjamin Adekunle and, just like that, a brute was unleashed on hapless humanity.
As I indicated above, the sole purpose of the 3rd Marine Division was to secure British investment in the oil sector. In accomplishing this, any measure and every measure were to be used. On October 18, 1967, this division came onto the war stage. While Biafran soldiers were fending off the 1st and 2nd divisions' attacks and march into Biafra from Nsukka and Onitsha respectively, Adekunle cowardly and brutally sneaked into Biafra by carrying out sea-borne landing at Calabar. Adekunle visited brimstone on the populace of Calabar and all surrounding villages. Remember, his job was to secure the oil fields; this was his first stop en rout this mission. By March 1968, with logistics supplied by Britain, he captured Uyo, Oron, Itu, Ikot Ekpene, Abak, Eket, and Opobo. With the exception of Opobo, all of these towns were inhabited by Ibibios and Annangs -- great Biafrans who refused to abandon Biafra even at gun points. Adekunle and troops whipped these people with scorpions; they mercilessly killed children and women; they buried the aged and the infirm alive; girls as young as nine were raped and made sex slaves of brute soldiers.
With the benefits of British logistics, Adekunle marched on for the big prize. In May 1968, the petroleum town of Bori fell, all the numerous oils fields and ShellBP at Okrika were secured, and the natural gas generating plant at Afam was secured. Adaka Boro, fighting for Nigeria, died here under strange and suspicious circumstances (Adekunle was said to have summarily executed him, in order to solely take credit for fulfilling the British mandate). As he did to the Ibibios and Annangs, Adekunle committed war crimes against the indigenes of these towns.
Due to the brutality he was visiting on the civilians of areas he captured and the mercilessness with which he deployed military hardware, General Ojukwu felt the pains of Adekunle's barbarism as the population of the towns Adekunle captured became refugees and trooped into mainland Igbo. In June 1968, Adekunle moved on to Degema and Yenagoa. To save the population of these towns from Adekunle's brutality, General Ojukwu asked the chiefs of these two towns to surrender to Nigeria, since Biafra had not the type of military hardware to stop Nigeria from capturing their towns at that particular time. These chiefs declined the General's entreaty, seizing that chance to reiterate their unflinching support for Biafra. Because the Nigerians had the military hardware suited for fighting in swamps and rivers, and Biafra did not have any of these equipment, it was easy for Adekunle and his ragtag soldiers to capture these swampy towns. And as General Ojukwu calculated, Adekunle's forces overran these towns and killed civilians as mercilessly as human minds could frown at. So, by July, Elele, Igrita, Ahoada, Brass, Degema, and Yenagoa were occupied and pillaged by Adekunle and his thugs.
It is important to note that throughout most of the time that Adekunle was menacing in the swamps and creeks, with sophisticated weapons and British logistics, he never encountered any reasonable confrontation with Biafran troops. The Biafran troops were fending off the other two divisions in the north of Biafra. All of Adekunle's initial brutalities and victories were mostly against unarmed civilians, all in the minority areas of Biafra. So, when Dipo calls Adekunle a war hero, he is actually celebrating the massacre, rape, torture, and decapitation of civilian children and women of the Niger Delta and Igbo land. This is a celebration of fascism and deserves condemnation
What happened when Adekunle left the creeks and began to fight on the mainland? He conceived his OAU scheme in July 1968 and because he had it easy within the creeks, he miscalculated and Biafra forces showed him that a soldier was not one who killed children and unarmed women. By April 1969, the complete capitulation of Owerri, Aba, and Umuahia remained his mere fantasy. Adekunle resorted to erratic and brutal onslaught against civilian areas. The British, which closed its eyes while Adekunle used similar brutality to secure the oil wells, suddenly regained its human consciousness. Adekunle's brutality became a source of embarrassment to the British and even though Gowon severally apologized on his behalf, his Hitleristic fame's reach to the outside world insurmountably lingered. Grasping the reality that Adekunle was a misfit of a soldier and a barbarian, Gowon was impressed upon by the British to get rid of him. The wretched criminal that he was manifested itself in the circumstances under which he was ignominiously thrown out of the army.
It perturbs me that Dipo, who often speaks like a progressive, can be this ignorant of the heinous criminal that is Benjamin Adekunle. If Dipo is serious about his feelings for Adekunle, it means that Ndi Igbo and Niger Deltans cannot find in him a friend. How can any Igbo or Niger Deltan go into the trenches with Dipo, knowing that Dipo celebrates the crime against humanity committed against them by Yoruba's Adekunle? Why would any Igbo or Niger Deltan not believe that Dipo is capable of visiting pogrom on them if he gets the opportunity? I hope that Dipo will wake up from his slumber and read up on history. He should stop glorifying myth, especially one shrouded in brutality and man's inhumanity to man. A joke is laughable; Joke is not laughable, it is the name of a woman.
Nebukadineze
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A yoroba man's sadism: benjamin adekunle's criminal war records, contd. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fellows
Mr Dipo in his wisdom and in another form , his interview with Mr Benjamin Adekunle [Story in the sunnewsonline was written by By DIPO KEHINDE He went further] decided to state what his long lost father wishes before death as follows
"I am still hoping one day that a few major streets in Ndiigbo towns would be named after this brave Yoruba soldier of all soldiers,,"...Dipo
This is a man who did a lot of things under his mentor Awolowo . Do not forget that Mr. Adekunle was put in that position to work for Awolowos starvation project, He was hand picked through intimidation of the young Gowan. Adekunle did a lot of things which are not hear say including killing girls after having sex with them in Umuomasi and Rainbow Town, having sex with mother-daughter with husband watching, making girls parade naked for his guest before dinner, the raping of children; shot civilians after capture just to watch them die, shot Ogoni and Ikwere civilians at will to check out his new weapons from different distances and ranges; dressed men and captured soldiers like Ojukwu and shot them to practice his art of killing, the burying alive of villagers because he did not feel like wasting his bullets; the starvation of civilians; encouraged his soldiers to molest young girls as sex slaves. Girls were sent to have sex with dying soldiers as their last wish, Had military doctors perform abortions to keep the girls available, Many girls were sent to barracks to live with soldiers and some were sent to half way outposts to take care of Adekunles boys sexually in war trenches. It was a common knowledge that girls were at war fronts. They will call off fights throw parties at war zones with girls. He practiced cannibalism by eating some parts of his hated enemies he captured, he killed animals like Llama, goats, sheep he called OJUKWU do demonstrate to people what he can do when he gets to Ojukwu in Umuahia. He killed girls he suspected having sex with other officers after he set them up. He tortured captured men for fun. Killed, used parts of their genitals and inner bodies for protections. His medicine men from Ijabuode were constantly demanding body parts and human heads which were not in short supply. They cooked for him and he ate women breast from milking mothers. They tried to continue the same actions right after the war by capturing and raping women at will, pouncing on retuning refugees.
"The reasons some Igbos don't like him is quite understandable, he dealt them a decisive blow in battle after battle"...DIPO
These do not include what he did in Calabar in the name of blockading Cameroon bother. This led to the emergence of Obasanjo Where will I start and stop. All the war stories have been told by YARIBA writers and AWUSA historians. The YARIBA-AWUSA axis are clamping down, hoping that after 50 or more years, the IGBO on the know will all die off with the real stories. These stories are handed down guys.
I am surprised that DIPO took such a stand? NO! NO!! NO!!! He is Yoruba of course. I have always maintained my stand on this tribe. This tribe has fun and get their kicks at the expense of IGBO in Nigeria as a whole. Yoruba has always been on Hausa side when push comes to shove. Adekunle and Awolowo did all they did to impress the AWUSA MASTERS during the civil war. After they used them, they let them go. Awolowo , with all his doings against IGBO for AWUSA could not with the Presidential office. He had the guts to come to IGBO to run and campaign for votes. Wonders will never end.! Even Banjo who pretended to be of help was an agent of Awolowo.. Obasanjo took the same abusive condescending stand on every Senate President from IGBO in his 8 years of Presidency, just to impress that AWUSA that he still knows how to control IGBO. Same will be the case of Obasanjo. But I thought Obasanjo should have known better. But Adekunle was paid handsomely by Gowan. He was given the sole contract from 1970 after the war to decongest the seaport of Apapa. He sold every thing to anyone who had money and pocketed the revenue . The monies are gone now after 40 years.
Ojukwu encountered Adenkunle at Uguta and Adekulne lost the battle. Ojukwu encountered Vester at Ozuakoli and Vester[ Vessser] lost the battle. I am listing two places where Ojukwu was the field commander and I was present. Gowan never showed up at any war front but Gen Ojukwu did..
I was not amazed that these Yariba writers in this forum were all praising their snake brother. Did I expect otherwise ? NO !. An IGBO fool at 40 will be a fool for ever to trust Yariba. 40 is how long after the betrayal from Calabar jail release of Awolowo by Ojukwu to 2007 presidency by Obasanjo to claim IGBOS position. There are some IGBO who still see hope from a YARIBA snakes ?. DIPO, if your wife is IGBO as has been stated, believe me no good thing will come to you in life. You are a saddist to be sleeping with an IGBO woman. For an IGBO WOMANS OBO to be the best thing in your life, watch what will happen to you in life. Like father like bastard son. This contaminated IGBO may not know what befell her in life. This act will get to her. If she is true IGBO, the rest will be a story to be told. Adekunle is dying, frustrated, and you want to build a monument for him in IGBO?.
BASTARDS always find ways to make their long lost father accept them into a family. But DIPO, your mother may have pointed you towards Adekunle, after running around in army barracks. Your quest to use IGBO to impress a dying man and his faltering home while looking for inheritance will not help your cause.
Now that the YARIBAS have had their turn at the presidency , they will again side with the AWUSA, It will be BIEFRA WAR revisited. They are now coming out to remind AWUSA how they helped keep IGBO to keep Nigeria one. DIPO is not one of a kind. There are many of them. Wait till sept 2006,YARBAS will be going to ZARIA, SOKOTO and MINNA begging for positions and offering their skills against IGBO.
many people are still alve. IGBO is not dead yet not to be able te tell TALES. Invery war ,there are two sides, the winner and the other guy. So goes the story too. The other guy seem not to have a story indeed.
Nwadike
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Were you there? Ever since this Adekunle saga started, I have read you Biafran apologists put a different spin into it. Alledging the man committed God knows what attrocities in the Delta area. Things I have never heard any body from that area complain about. Is this another of your Biafran propaganda machinery. You guys have done very little to mask your real agenda. A smaller Biafra in control of the oil rich Delta area. It's about oil and greed after all.
I am not saying that I know for a fact that Adekunle did or did not do what you guys are alledging happened in the Delta area. However, I have never had such a complain from anyone from that area in all my readings about the Nigerian civil war. I will expect the supposed victims to complain themselves. Not you guys that were buried in the heart of Igbo land during the war.
Modupe: did you read the interview with Adekunle that I posted? And if you did, did you understand what you read? And if you did understand, has it been so long that you have already forgotten it all? The man's own words convict him as a war criminal 'shoot everyhting that moves'), a blustering coward, and a racist. I posted that interview because I knew the direction that this debate would take when the facts about Adekunle's bestial conduct were posted: we would get that reaction so common with Africans of simply denying reality and pretending that facts that they don't like don't really exist. You didn't disappoint. Yet people like you will wail over the failure of Nigeria and other African countries, without for a moment realising that progress is impossible if people cultivate a mindset that cannot face the truth whenever it's embarrassing or unpleasant, and that people with that mindsett, of which I take you to be one, are part of the reason for Nigeria's abysmal failure on all fronts, not just the elites and the big men.
Adekunle was a Yoruba. He committed war crimes. You are a Yoruba, therefore Adekunle committed no war crimes, since the good name of the Yoruba is at stake, besides which it is those hated Igbo who are making the accusation, and it would never do to concede anything to them, ever. Such reasoning is perverse and pathetic. If anyone were to tell me that Igbo also misbehaved during the war with Nigeria I am not so feeble of mind or weak in character as to start denying the claim out of hand. What are the facts, I would want to know? And if they were credible then I would be sorry for it. And I know no more credible source for a charge than the evidence of those who were directly affected but is being reported. But when people state their own first hand accounts of what they suffered, or give the accounts of friends and family, that is not enough and it becomes a matter of how you, Modupe Odusanya, can find means of belittling and disbelieving what they have to say. You begin to see how the white man came to describe the African as 'childish'?
Nobody is apologising for Biafra. Why should they? Even you, surely, cannot be as ignorant of the background to Biafra's origins as you appear to be: it was a response to genocidal slaughter of Igbo by their 'fellow Nigerians.' The desire to separate oneself from murderous, racist savages is perfectly reasonable and carries its own justification to anyone who is not a a complete irrationalist or a moral imbecile. So cease your nonsensical and foolish talk about 'apologists.'
A favourite tactic with apologists for racism, genocide and Nigerian oil hunger is to shift the grounds of the argument. Your fellows always overlook the reasons for Biafra's existence, and instead try to dispute particular incidents that occurred during Nigeria's war of aggression. Even accepted facts are not immune to this kind of nitpicking and caviling. But all of this is secondary. Even if your fantasies were true and Adekunle were a hero instead of a coward, a true supporter of 'one Nigeria' instead of a racist mass murderer of unarmed civilians, a soldier with a soldier's discipline instead of a licentious savage, a human being instead of an accursed animal, even if the fictitious Adekunle who exists in your head had existed in reality, and had not carried out the barbaric acts that history has charged him with, that would still be entirely besides the point.
The point was that Biafra was a perfectly justified response by the Igbo to racist mass murder. Nigeria had no justification for its aggression against Biafra given its abject failure to protect the lives of Igbo men, women and children, and given the general hatred for the Igbo amongst many Nigerians. If there had been no oil on Biafran territory the secession would still have occurred, since the Igbo do not lack confidence in themselves as a people, and rose to the eminence they enjoyed in Nigeria (and for which they were so resented) without benefit of oil. Unfortunately, too many Africans are like you: they are commited to a kleptocratic theory of wealth - as they see it, first there must be plenty of mineral resources: oil, diamonds, gold, etc. Then you must steal as much of it for yourself and your cronies. That is why you cannot get oil out of your head, and why you think it of such fundamental importance. The Igbo philosophy is a very straightforward one of hard work, something that you Nigerians have been slow to catch on to (hence the miserable and complete failure of your beloved country). This is why even in your note below you continue to chatter on about oil, as if it mattered. It is people who develop a country, not oil or gold. People with the skills and aptitudes will develop a country, with or without mineral resources. People without those skills and aptitudes will fail to develop a country, regardless of how abundant their mineral resources are. That is why places like Germany, Japan and Hong Kong are economic paradises, despite having no mineral wealth. And that is why Nigeria, despite suffering an embarrassment of mineral riches, is a pathetic sh*thole of a country, because it is full of Nigerians who are more ready to steal than work, and are determined that their should always be oil present for them to lay their hands on.
Nigeria waged a kleptocratic war to steal Biafra's oil. And it has done them very little good. You would have been better advised to have stolen the Igbo attitude to hard work. Even a successful thief (Nigeria after its war of aggression) retains the habits and outlook of a thief, which are not conducive to wealth creation. Hence Nigeria's poverty and failure today. It is people like you who obsess about oil, not Ndigbo.
Tory
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The yoroba/awusa criminal nature has ensured the death of nigeria. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nigerians are that breed of creatures that believe that just because they deny a phenomenon that it did not happen or does not exist. For example, they are the world's greatest thieves and believe that if they do not talk about it that their thieving nature is not known to the rest of the world. But the world knows who they are.
Nigeria is held together because the Hausa-Fulani-Yoruba rulers have enough oil to steal from the Niger Delta. As soon as that oil runs out, being sociopaths, antisocial personalities without love for any one, indeed they seem to derive pleasure from hurting other people, from killing their fellow Africans(see the infantile and pathetic comments by Dipo, instead of showing guilt and remorse for his tribe's man savagery he is celebrating his barbarism) the the country will implode.
Generally, when thieves have no one to steal from they fall unto each other and start killing themselves. The brutality which they developed treating others inhumanely they turn on themselves.
Long ago, I concluded that criminality is in these peoples genes.I do not believe that any of us can do anything about this problem. The wise thing to do is to stand aside and watch them eventually self destroy.
As long as there is oil money, Nigeria will muddle through for a while. Without oil money the North would be as poor as Mali, Chad, Niger, Bokina Faso and other arid Sahel regions of Africa. They would be dying of starvation, so they must use the gun to steal from Ijawland.
Since the Ijaw miscalculated and supported the North hoping to clobber Igbos, well, they really have no ally. Who is gonna come to their help? They are currently crying out, but who is gonna help them, those they colluded in killing? White men? That will be the day when White men did not place their self interests ahead of others interests. Common sense should have told the Ijaws, who really have a lot in common with Igbos, genetically and culturally...no Igbo could ever discriminate against them for to do is to discriminate against fellow Igbos...that if that oil money is shared among former Easterners that each person would get a larger share than of it (income Per capita, that is) than if it is shared by all of Nigeria. But they suspended their ordinarily abundant common sense and made bargain with the devil. They are now paying the price.
See the Abuja criminals have put Dokubo and Governor Allams in jail, indefinitely, for stealing but gave Mr Tafa Balogun, a Yoruba man who stole billions, only a few days in jail. That is Nigerian justice for you.
Nigeria is a case of advanced pathology; she is to be studied to learn what a people ought not be like. It will be interesting come next year as the criminals begin to kill each other, literally shoot each other to death, as they compete to become the chiefthief of Aso Rock. Shush for Bedlam.
TJ
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First of all, I am not receiving mails from the forums for the time being and as a result, I do not see 95% of the posts here. If you pose a question that you need me to comment about, cc it to me at Nebukadineze@aol.com.
Your contention is that you had not heard about the peoples of the Niger Delta complaining about atrocities visited on them by Adekunle and his band of criminals during the Biafra -Nigeria war, until Nwadike and I spoke about it. I must confess that this is the first time I have heard anyone make light of the plight of the Niger Delta in this fashion. If you are sincere about your poser, then we must not live in the same country.
Before I leave it to the Niger Deltans to respond to your poser, let me guide you through uncovering your confusion. Please follow this link. In this interview, granted to a German reporter (Randolph Baumann) on August 18, 1968, Adekunle admitted to visiting the Niger Delta with war crimes. The following dialogue is a snippet of what you will find upon visiting the link above. Here we go:
STERN: What are your troops doing when they march into a town around Port Harcourt, an area where most of the farmers are not Ibos?
ADEKUNLE: We aim at everything that moves.
STERN: Small children tend not to stay put for very long.
ADEKUNLE: I know. I have two myself.
STERN: What will your troops do when you get to the Ibo heartland, that is, to the place populated by Ibos only?
ADEKUNLE: There we will aim at everything even if it is not moving.
ADEKUNLE: In the section of the front that I rule -- and that is the whole south front from Lagos to the border of Kamerun -- I do not want to see the Red Cross, Caritas Aid, World Church delegation, Pope, Missionary, or UN delegation.
STERN: Does that mean that the many thousands of tons of food that are stored in Lagos will never get to the refugee camps in your section of the country?
ADEKUNLE: You are a sharp one, my friend. That’s exactly what I am saying.
STERN: But you said yourself that most of the refugees in the part you captured are not Ibos.
ADEKUNLE: But there could be Ibos among them. I want to avoid feeding a single Ibo as long as this whole people have not given up yet.
Modupe, you can see that Adekunle confessed to killing everyone that moved in the Niger Delta. When reminded that children could be among the moving things, he boasted that he was aware of that and did not mind killing children. He also boated that in the process of killing even one Igbo, he was killing as many Niger Deltans as he found.
During the war, especially after the so called liberation of the Niger Delta, Nigerian troops, under Adekunle's command, visited indescribable savagery on the villagers of the Niger Delta, leading to their exodus into the Igbo mainland. Any Niger Deltan who denies this must not have lived in Biafra or he/she is a pathological liar. I hope this clears your mind about Adekunle's savagery.
I am going to ignore the snide insults you made because I always give ladies the benefits of the doubt. Under no circumstance should that be construed as a license for them to run amok. I must caution that you watch your utterances.
Nebukadineze
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