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Posted By: Kendo Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 645	Lawal & co, Lawal, I will answer your questions. For your information, Igbos are no longer interested in your frivolous “One Nigeria”. Next time you want to do your comparison, associate your facts with those in your lackadaisical echelon. I am an Igbo man and thus will educate you a little on the difference between Abia State and Kastina state. PDP an anti Igbo party is committed to destroy every Igbo party. OBJ confiscated the money meant to develop Abia state just to make sure that Orji Kalu fails. The entire allegations leveled against him are unsubstantiated blatant lies. The enemies knows that Orji Kalu is one of the political heavy weights in Igbo land thus the only way to extinguish his political prowess is to level false charges against him. We are watching all your actions from a distance. To complete your objectives, you lured Ohakim into your devilish den PDP. Finally you came to Anambra state to destroy one of the only political monuments the Igbos has. We resisted your evil plans by making sure that Peter Obi won the election. If Yar Adua did well as governor of Kastina state, what stopped him from achieving even one of his 7 points agenda during his three years in office? (MAY HIS SOULD REST IN PEACE?) He meant well for Nigeria but the forces of Karma were at work to make sure that no evil did of a man goes unpunished. OBJ will surely pay his own price someday. For your information, Soludo is a true democrat. He contested an election to join hands towards making Anambra state a better place for all. He was the first to congratulate Peter Obi the winner of the election. Today he is working together with the governor to move Anambra state to the next level. Everybody cannot be governors at the same time. For people like Peter M, they will never understand the strategy and the game the enemies are playing to subdue the Igbos. Nigerian masses can never be worse when they have the senate, the judiciary, the police and the federal government to put Nigeria in order. What is stopping them from arresting the law breakers and bring them to book? Nigerian masses can never be worse if the government is working. So think well once again.
Posted By: Peter m Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 634	RE:SANMI Thank you bro Lawal.This is what i have been trying to say.Biafra might not be the solution.Look at Balyesa state.upon all the money been alocated to the state,i am sure it should be one of the most underdeveloped state in Nigeria.Look at Aba,Abia has money and can equally generate money to fund her infrastructure and yet nothing is happening except arm robbery and kidnapping.Until i see a state that is well developed from the state money,then i will know that we are actually serious about this Biafra no matter the wonderful write-up here.The nigeria masses are worse than the politicians we all complain about.
Posted By: Lawal Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 524	RE:SANMI i am truly interested in the debate about the biafra war. i think the igbos have a case but all nigerians do too. i see the probloem of nigeria being one of the "haves" and the "have not". they (the haves) often manipulate us to go against each other...call it divide and rule, regardless of their ethinic, relegious or political affiliation. if for instance Soludo won Enugu, would you expect that statement from him? i think NO! he'll be about his business diping fingers into the coffers of the state. check the fact files and see...they are all like that. reason for a while and see, all states in nigeria should be equally developed as all states do their annual budgets stating programs to accomplish and the masses never fail to raise the funds....but why are we still backward? look at our infrastructures, why have the igbo governors not deliverred the roads to be as good as what we have in Katsina for instance (FG did not built those roads), but like abia for instance Zamfara is extreemly backward, why? wait, ekiti state too is in the same problem. but but Ummaru built the roads, the university, the airport, the schools, the hospitals with katsina state money and still left well over N13bn in the state's treasury! he did all that while OBJ was president and Uzo Kalu was Governor. so tell me why did they not all perform like him at their own levels? so its a question of who is there and if he is truly a leader and not a ruler!
Posted By: Ezinwanne Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 540	Our Children must never forget Thanks Amadi But my brother, it is not about signatures or asking the Federal Government to apologize. The anti Igbo sentiments lodged in the hearts of non Igbos and even erstwhile Igbos ( Ikwerre, Ika, Ogba etc)are too deep for me to make any appreciable impact. You can see that from the way our fellow countrymen respond to issues concerning us. And from disclaimers periodically published by sections of the Igbo race denouncing and denying their Igboness ( Ikwerre and Ukwuani). None of them has bothered to view matters from a perspective different from the one their fathers and the murderous lying Federal Government disseminated to them. To some of them Abiola’s ill-fated grab for power was more significant than the earth shattering experience of 3million deaths! My goal is to sensitize my fellow Igbos and other Nigerians who care about our history and the truth. Many Igbos have no idea what happened. In this age of the internet, we must use all available means to let our people know what happened. And that includes this Forum. Our children must know what happened to us. Our people must know how deep seated the hostility towards us are. How they originated and how they played and are still playing out These hostilities are so profound that in the end, the general consensus is that we deserve the calamity that befell us between 1966 and 1970. These hostilities are so deep that the Igbo nation has disintegrated and fallen into many bits and pieces. Each component part claiming silly non Igbo identity in an effort to seek a get away from the negative aura that our countrymen have imposed on us. And to show that they are different from Igbo Our enemies come in with glee to push their knives deeper into our wounds and widen the schism between the component parts of the Igbo nation while they seek to keep their own tribes intact. The destruction of our lives is complete. Now see them as they come here to complain of the greed and the untoward ways of the Igbo. They will not ponder at the roles played by their fathers in bringing us to this sorry pass Yes, our people must know. Our children must know. They must know of the massacres of non combatants in Asaba, in Isheagu, in Degema, in Nembe, in Port Harcourt, in Enugu, in Warri, in Owerri, in Chokocho, in Okrika in Ogoni and everywhere Federal troops stepped foot into. They must know that our men…Igbo men battled impossible odds. They must know of the valour of our fathers…the ingenuity of our sons and the sacrifices of our mothers. They must hear of how French observers commented after witnessing the dogged fighting abilities of Biafran army units that: “Biafrans don’t fight like brave men…rather, Brave men fight like Biafrans.” They must hear of the missiles we built, the armored tanks we put together, the civilian planes we turned into bombers and the land mines we constructed. They must be proud to be Igbo They must know of the 20pounds our fathers and uncles received. They must know of the secret killings of returnee Igbos that continued in Kano, Sokoto and in Rivers state until 1972 Then they will be able to sit back and appraise our situation and condition in Nigeria from its proper prism. They must not think that the idiocy of the current Igbo political class is the bonafide way of our people. No. They must know that when the chips are down, we have a mechanism in-built in our world view of channeling our energies and resources towards a common goal. We demonstrated this when half a world waged a brutal war of annihilation against us. The Jews have never let their children forget the holocaust. Amadi, our enemies may taunt and mock us. It doesn’t matter. But our children must know all these and much more… The must never forget the 1966 – 1970 Igbo holocaust ,
Posted By: Stanley O Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 547	Don't Mind Waziri Mazi Kendo, don't mind waziri. He can call himself any thing from Olayinka, Gerald or even Amadi. The reality is that Nigeria is feeling the heat. Like you rightly said, let them change it if they can. If we like,our politicians should play "third fiddle". Prof Soludo did not mention Biafra in the statement he admonished Nigerian leaders. What motivated that statement is not different from what we have been saying here. Therefore, we have extra-Internet agitators for the Independent state of Biafra.
Posted By: Kendo Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 551	Waziri The struggles of Hamas and Hezbollah are done during the Stone Age. You don’t expect the Igbos to be involved in such archaic struggle in this 21st century. Just wait and see who will be the first between Biafra and those you have mentioned to gain their freedom. Violence is not the only way to struggle for freedom. Using your brain effectively can do the magic that eludes violence. Again our politicians can’t leave the political scene completely. We shall have some of them in your midst to monitor your excesses. The door is wide open for all of you to continue with your actions against the Igbos.
Posted By: Waziri Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 502	fight for your rights nonstop if any group wants freedom, the group should fight and die for it nonstop. Hamas or Hezbollah keep pushing all the time. There should be one voice which is lacking among Igbos. Igbo politicians should stop playing second fiddle in the nigerian politics, or else they'll not be taken seriously.
Posted By: Kendo Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 502	Nobody forgets their loved ones I love these bellow comments. Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable. …………Soludo If our fathers were defeated, we are not. If our fathers have forgotten, we have not…………….Ichie Ezinwanne. They believe their security and position are guaranteed in what they believe is an unsinkable TITANIC.But TITANIC had proved those who underestimated the impossible, wrong!.............. Mazi Stanley When I was a child, I had it on my mind that a day shall come when every wrong will be reversed in Nigeria. Maybe our detractors think that Igbos will continue to see the Egyptians we saw yesterday forever. NEVER!!!!! As we match forward for our freedom through non-violence, time has come for Nigeria to understand our motives and obey the rules. Those who call us internet noise makers will one day understand the difference between hot and cold water. The massacres of our innocent women children have drilled our hearts so deep that the pain will skip in our heart at every mention of Nigeria. The only way to heal the pain is granting us a sovereign state of Biafra. Prophets have spoken about the disintegration of Nigeria. Political analysts have equally spoken about it. Only doubting Thomas and company believes that the foundation of Nigeria is unshakeable. Why? Because they believe that Nigeria will disintegrate only when the crude oil dries up. Even if crude oil runs forever, in few years time, the oil will no longer be useful on planet. Nations around the world are seriously searching for alternative to replace oil which is no longer environmental friendly. Most of the recent cars are no longer oil dependent. I do not see these “One Nigeria” proponents singing the same song when oil loses its value in the international market. Igbos will not wait until that happens. We need Biafra today or peace will continue to elude Nigeria no matter who becomes the president. Those expecting a miraculous turnaround in Nigeria should know that until one repents totally from his sins, God will never listen to him. Since nobody want to hear the name “repentance” in Nigeria, such a miraculous turnaround will remain a mirage. Nigeria murdered sleep from the day they converged in their numbers and massacred innocent women and children without remorse. The blood of those women and children will continue to punish Nigeria until it disintegrates. If I am wrong, change Nigeria to better and let’s see!!! Like Ezinwanne, I lost my grandfather whom I never knew in the massacre. My father showed me his picture and I saw the true love he would have extended to me in his eyes so I wept and cleaned up my eyes. Whatever happens, whoever killed that man will never go unpunished. If you defeat my grandfather, you can never defeat Kendo. That is my promise for the killers.
Posted By: Henry Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 488	the cry of igbos blood Well i want to tell other Nigerians,that if they want happiness,or joy and gladness,let them apologize to the Igbo"s,but whereas the families,children,men and woman goses on to remember the death of there loved onces which nigeria and its goverment have deprive them,so will god remember the innocents blood of Igbos which was sheeded by nigeria government and it northan canterparts,and he (God)will go on depriving this Nation good things and good leader,no wonder why if someone who is good in nature ,immediately he enters Nigeria leadership seat,the knowledge of good will be deprive him or her and you sees that good person become animal which has no knowledge,so that he will not make Nigerians to rejoys and be happy,because there are set of people who are not happy for there loved onecs being masacered,and this people that are killed are innocents,let nigeria Government do this and see how nigeria will be a happy place on earth,because even the earth is crying agaist this country asking them about the Igbos,whom they masacered.i know they hate truth,but this is the truth.and without it we are wasting time.
Posted By: Amadi Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 480	Ezinwanne I feel you. It is very understandable that your heart is heavy with pains of your relations you lost in the civil war. I will advise you to seek for an apology from the federal government. There is nothing wrong in asking the government to apologize. Try and collect signatures and make a formal request from the government. But as you and I know , Nigeria is still very archaic with so many people who are full of themselves,delusional, ethnocentric and lack analytical reasons.So many will not see reasons for that.But there is nothing wrong in trying. I wish you success.
Posted By: Ogboku Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 481	To Ugu Ugo, I apologize Yes, my friend Ugu Ugo, I sincerely apologize for saying you are a demon, please kindly forgive me in the spirit of brotherhood and a citizen, because you are also entitled to your own opinion on national matters. I am one of those who in the spirit of fairness advise some of my compatriots not to use this forum to attack or insult others no matter our differences because at the end of the day it will do more harm than good. so forgive me. On the other hand, if you can actually read the handwritting on the wall, you will understand what is happening in this country politically. Since after the civil war, there has been sycological civil war still raging in this nation to keep the Igbos from climbing to the presidency as to help correct some of the injustice blowing across this nation. Between 1985 - 86 IBB was the person who saw our plight when he gave order than the East should be given access to the outside world in terms of telecommunications. IBB did all he can to liberalize trade in our favour since he knew most of us are business men and women. IBB did all he can to maintain security, peace and harmony in this country. IBB encouraged the establishment of private agros based sector industries nationwide. IBB is the person who established peoples bank to help alliviate the suffering of the masses who has no capital to engage in small businesses and farmings. IBB built a lot institutions of higher lerning across the nations. just to mention but few. I am not saying he did nothing wrong. No body was happy when some people were killed or disappeared during his regime, because military regime is repugnant. But remember during this jungle admnistrations he himself nearly lost his own life during Gideon Orka coup and eventually his ADC and others became victimes. I do not like going back to the memory lane as not to re-open old wounds. IBB loves and respect the Igbos in diaspora and he is the only person we can trust to arrange a power shift to the EAST and remember our turn is 2015 but some forces from WEST are bent in denying us this chance by trying to truncate the gentleman agreement because they have had their turn, infact the Igbos should be wise and not to play game this time.
Posted By: desmond Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 494	Re: CRY, ABIA STATE, CRY!!! "Armed robbers wreak havoc in Aba, force banks, shops to close, cart away millions of naira From OKEY SAMPSON, Aba Thursday, June 3, 2010 What appeared as a rumour yesterday became a reality when gunmen believed to be armed robbers, laid siege on the Alaoji axis of the commercial city of Aba, Abia state, robbing a first generation commercial bank and carted away millions of naira, sending fears down the spines of the people within the vicinity. The rumour mill was agog on Tuesday that some die hard criminals known in Aba parlance as Umuoma had invaded the city from a neighbouring state and that their target were banks. The unconfirmed rumour led to the abrupt closure of some commercial banks. As at 2 pm, the gate of a second-generation bank at No. 90 Asa Road was shut while many of their customers were stranded. A staff of the bank told Daily Sun that they had to close following information that the robbers were already in town. She said the bank did not want to take any risk, as it could not bear the outcome of any robbery attack. Armed robbers, clad in army uniforms had entered the city on Wednesday and raided the First Bank office along Port-Harcourt Road in Aba where they carted away millions of naria. According to an eyewitness account, the robbers battled themselves into the bank before noon and made their way straight into the banking hall. Before then, they had blocked all roads leading to the bank as they shot sporadically into the air to scare away people. It was gathered that they collected all the monies from the customers of the bank and the ones in the bank’s drawers after which they moved to the vault. However, the source explained that the robbers were unable to open the vault as the police approached with Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) before they fled. Robbers had also on Tuesday forced banks in Aba to close for business as they terrorized and robbed some banks along the Faulks Road of the city. By 2 pm that Tuesday, many of the banks in the city had closed for work while their gates were shut against customers who had gone to do business with the banks that afternoon. Wednesday’s robbery attack forced all commercial banks in the city to close for business. Equally, traders at the Asannentu motor spear parts, which were near the bank where the incident took place, closed their shops and scampered for safety. A trader in the market told Daily Sun that it was only during the Nigeria civil war; “I heard that type of vociferous sound of high caliber riffles, it was like a war situation.” There was heavy traffic for several hours on the Alaoji axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt highway after the robbery incident, as motorists were scared of using that portion of the road even when the criminals had left." --------------------------------------------- Abia state has been leading in crime, kidnapping and all sorts of iniquities! No good roads; Inept, weak and non-performing governor; Corruption in the state house; Fake contracts, etc now, how come it that almost all the banks in the city of Aba close frequently for fear of the robbers? The answer is simple: No security; no law enforcement! The timid and corrupt police stayed back in their barracks, only to arrive after every mayhem! What's going on! Rumour has it that robbers from a neigbhoring state were responsible! Really? Which means, people and the police know the robbers, and refuse to burn them alive? Aba is no longer enyimba city where robbers are paid back with mob justice and fire for fire!!! Robbers, kidnappers are now controlling Abia State cities more than any other place! Shame! Shame!! Shame!!! And this yeye Abia governor wants another term in office in 2011? That'll be a total collapse of the state if he has his way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unbelievable!!!!!! WHAT A SAD, SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS, na waooo
Posted By: Stanley O Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 506	Every Igbo Man... This current "war" can not supersede the ones earlier:this is an Igbo saying. Every Igbo man MUST be proud of his achievements and the achievements of his forebears. It is not easy my brothers. We have weathered the storm to the glory of our maker. Once again eminent brother, Ichie Ezinwanne, thank you for that post. I hope Omenuko is taking note. To Omenuko, this is a public forum where private arrangement is difficult. There are lots of Internet sources, libraries to aid your effort in writing a book. However, I will let you know of any material I could remember. But be informed that having dropped your e-mail here, mischief makers can claim any name and write to you. Having said that, I implore my brothers where ever they are not to relent on this struggle to attain freedom. We are in this stage right now, next if God wills it, we shall move to the stage of making Nigeria n history and the genocide a topic in electronic media. Our children must discuss some of this issues. Our children must write about this issues. It must attract debate aimed at re-informing those who are either misinformed or are unwilling to accept our side of the story. For now, the state is chasing shadows and will continue to do so until we attain our freedom.
Posted By: Stanley O Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 540	God Bless You Brother Ichie Ezinwanne, thank you. Pictures of the casualties -Igbos-of the pogrom were documented. I saw the book many years ago. I can't remember the name. All deaths are painful, but to see a pregnant woman disemboweled, the fetus lying by her side , both dead and butchered to pieces by a breathing human being, is an indescribable, painful feeling. The recent killings in Jos was a mockery of what happened to us in the sixties. Sanmi and co are jokers. Yes he should shut up! His "no comments" is nothing more than, "lets see how you are going to succeed". These people know nothing of the anger they evoke when they come crashing in with their silly "one Nigeria". We lay our minds bare here. There are millions of Igbos who agonize in silence. If these leeches seeking to silence us are wise, it would have shown in their rejoinders to our expressions of pain. No!, they are not. They consider what we say here a mere forum pass time. They believe their security and position are guaranteed in what they believe is an unsinkable TITANIC.But TITANIC had proved those who underestimated the impossible, wrong! Nothing has helped Nigeria. There is therefore no promises that technology can. With bloggers and forums such as this, people express their views and certain quarters listen. But Nigeria is bound to sink even faster this time than what could have been the case without Internet. Are we not all watching Nigeria? No matter how tiny a speck of flame is, it does not feel good in the palm.The blood of over three million Igbos, Biafrans is a raging flame. If it matters to Nigerians, they should realize that fast.
Posted By: Ezinwanne Posted On: Jun 4, 2010 Views: 532	Oluwole Rotimi's gloating Oluwole Rotimi: Gloating over the Igbo genocide, 1966-1970 By Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe; The following notes, each dedicated to the memory of the number of Igbo children, women and men murdered by the Nigerian state and its allies in each of the four years of the Igbo genocide, are in response to the recent outrageous gloating over these horrendous murders by Oluwole Rotimi, himself a genocidist commandant during the slaughter:1.The grim total of 3.1 million Igbo children, women and men were murdered during the genocide. This represents one-quarter of the 12 million Igbo population at the time. The Igbo genocide is the foundational genocide of (European) post-conquest Africa and remains the worst genocide in Africa to date.2. Contrary to the Harold Wilson’’s British government-inflected, Nigerian declaration of ““no victor, no vanquished”” on 12 January 1970, the Igbo were indeed the victors in this encounter. They survived. The Nigerian genocide state failed to accomplish its monstrous mission to destroy the Igbo. Igbo survival is a phenomenal triumph of human will and tenacity. The Igbo, relying solely on the materiality of the extraordinarily resourceful citizens’’ defence forces they assembled from scratch (commanded by the handful of the pre-July 1966 Igbo officer-corps who survived the first phase of the genocide, professors, students, civil servants, businesspeople, farmers, artisans, etc., etc), overcame an aggregation of desperately brutish forces some of whom were otherwise antagonists or rivals in regional or the broader contours of international politics in the post-World War II era: Hausa-Fulani, Britain Yoruba/Oduduwa, Bini, Soviet Union, Tiv, Egypt, Berom, Yergam, Nupe, Ishan, the Sudan, Angas, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Igala, Bachama, Poland, Sura, Algeria, Jarawa (central Nigeria), Jukun, Saudi Arabia, Gwari, Guinea (Conakry), Kanuri, Syria, Idoma, German Democratic Republic, Iraq, Chad/gwodogwodo.3. Between 1937 and 1959, the Igbo spearheaded the freeing of Nigeria from formal British occupation of the country which eventually ended in 1960. For all intents and purposes, Nigeria collapsed as a state with any serious prospects in the wake of the Igbo genocide that it launched on 29 May 1966. The singular lesson for Africa and the rest of the world from the incalculable tragedy that is called Nigeria is glaringly clear for whoever wishes to observe: one does not murder the potter and expect the pottery making-in-progress to attain a classic investiture. Despite earning the stunning sum of US$650 billion in oil sales in the subsequent 40 years, a significant proportion of this from occupied Igboland in the Delta, Rivers, Imo and Abia administrative regions, Nigeria has cascaded into a degenerative abyss politically, economically, intellectually, socially, morally and spiritually. 4. Forty years ago, Igbo people singularly and cruelly bore the brunt of the savage politics of mass murder, organised and executed meticulously and ruthlessly by the central coordinating operatives of this movement under the racist and chauvinist imprimatur of religious fundamentalism and exclusivity. Twice, during the course of two decades earlier, these operatives had staged murderous campaigns against the same Igbo in the north Nigerian towns of Jos and Kano –– in dress rehearsals for the 1966-1970 ““final solution””... As the virulence of this politics has since spread globally and indeed defines the dominant concern of international relations in the current epoch, the world no doubt needs to learn quite a lot from the Igbo experience. How have the Igbo ““coped”” with the visceral politics of hate and death in the past one-half century of a cataclysmic history? Despite the present Nigerian occupation of their homeland, the Igbo possess the critical indices for the far-reaching socioeconomic transformation of this region of Africa. They have an impressive industrial and manufacturing base that requires a radical upgrade and diversification, a disciplined workforce and an indefatigable intellectual, entrepreneurial and managerial class. The Igbo youth, 16-40, makes up part of Africa’’s most educated and talented grouping. Despite the occupation, Igbo male and female students out-perform the rest of Nigeria across the entire spectrum of the education system. (On this, see particularly Okechukwu Agbor’’s excellent study, ““Look who is going to school in Nigeria,”” in [accessed 13 Februar 2009] a change of the title of Agbor’’s essay to, for instance, ““Igbo education during the era of occupation””, underscores, even further, the historic relevance of his study.) Strategically emplaced in Igboland is a resourceful engine of creativity that has immense possibilities for the future wellbeing of Africa and the rest of the world. It is therefore incumbent on the world to support the Igbo’’s arduous efforts presently to free themselves from the Nigeria occupation. Furthermore, the world must ensure that genocidist operatives such as Oluwole Rotimi and his fellow travellers are stopped from strutting across international frontiers masquerading as ““diplomats””, ““businesspeople””, ““presidents””, ““heads of state””, even ““peace envoys””.On the eve of The Hague international court ordering the arrest of Sudanese President al-Bahier for ““war crimes and crimes against humanity”” in Darfur, it is surely unpardonable that the Rotimis of this planet are basking in the democratic sunny havens of Florida instead of being incarcerated in the Netherlands. We mustn’’t forget that al-Bashier studiously learnt his vicious trade from that infamous dossier that documented the mass murders that charted the parameters of a devastating age for Africa –– of which al-Bashier has contributed his own vile quota. The dossier was jointly signed by Obafemi Awolowo and Yakubu Gowon and was dated 29 May 1966-12 January 1970. Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of Readings from Reading: Essays on African Politics, Genocide, Literature (forthcoming, 2009)

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