Biafra: Ojukwu "had no capacity to win that war" By Co. Animam Keshi - Anioma Igbo
- ANIOMA IGBOS (COL. KESHI) AND YORUBAS STARTED THE 1966 COUP AND CIVIL WAR in NIGERIA - read the facts below.
IBK,
Every day you seems to be more confused because of your revisionist delusion.
Emeka Okala, correctly gave the right anwer about the civil war and the lies, propaganda you and your ilks have paraded for ages with falsehood which is unraveling, because truth and nemesis is dealing heavy blow to col. Keshi and company ( see below the list of Anioma Igbos who carried the 1966 coup that started the civil war).
Ojukwu did the right thing for the Igbos and that is why he is respected by Igbos. You see Ojukwu has a better understanding of Nigeria than people like you from Kwara who are caged by the FAMILY FROM MALI who are ruling and has taken over your state by one MALIAN SARAKI FAMILY who are neither Yoruba nor Hausa but are claiming both when actually they are from MALI.
The last time a foreigner ruled Nigeria was Abacha and his gangster and no matter how bad Nigeria leaders are we prefer real Nigerian leaders than gworro and looting, stealing MALIAN FAMILY in SARAKI BANANA REPUBLIC.
AS for Col. Keshi and his saboteur tendencies and all his saboteurs for crossed over to the federal side and denied their IGBONESS. You see Nigeria has dealt a serious blow to them and Nigeria has shamed them and dealt with them and disgraced them.
IGBOS Today despite Nigeria difficult situation are better off than people like Co. Keshi. IGBO are reclaiming their postion in Nigeria gradually and people like Col. Keshi are in shame and backward, because Igbos are in a better position than the Keshis and his rogue IGBO friends.
READ THE REAL REASON THE ANIOMA IGBOS STAGE THE COUP THAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR
IGBO OF SOUTH EAST HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO OTHER NIGERIANS, THE YOUNG NIGERIAN GENERATION AND YOUNGER IGBOS TO KNOW AND HAVE THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN 1966 COUP THAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR WHICH IGBOS OF SOUTH EAST ARE WRONGLY BLAMED, BUT IGBOS OF SOUTH EAST JUST ACCEPTS THE FACT THAT IT IS IGBO MATTER, BUT SOME (SOME) ANIOMA IGBOS LEADERS WILL CONTINUE TO STAB IGBOS OF SOUTH EAST IN THE BACK JUST BECAUSE WE KEPT QUITE WHEN EVERY THING IS BLAMED ON THE IGBOS AS IT CONCERNS THEM BUT THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT WE ARE JUST DOING THAT FOR THE SAKE OF IGBONESS, BUT ITS TIME TO EXPLAIN THE FACTS IF THEY DONT SHUT UP. READ THE FACTS BELOW.
The Igbos of South East did not need to stage any coup or take over the Government IN 1966 AND BEFORE, because Igbos had important position and leadERSHIP in Government at the time, Igbos were leading in education then, Igbos were in very strong postion in the military and were in good position in the federal civil service, and at that time Eastern Nigeria was a leading BUSINESS AND economic hub of Nigeria then, and so Igbo of South East did not have any reason to take over the Government BECAUSE SOUTH EAST IGBOS WERE PROPERLY POSITIONED IN ALL FACETS OF GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA, and that is why the was no South Eastern Military or political leader among the soldiers and people who carried the coup of 1966, because South Eastern Igbos were in Leadership position as in General Aguiyi Ironsi, General Madiebo, Senate President Nwafor Orizu, President Azikiwe,col.Ojukwu, Dr. Okapra etc AND MANY MORE. and Igbo were holding Strategic positions in the Military, police and important Federal ministries at that time and so Igbos of South East have no reason to want to overthrow the Government of Nigeria at the time AND THE MOST SENIOR MILITARY AND SECURITY PEOPLE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA THEN WERE IGBOS OF SOUTH EAST AND GENERAL AGUIYI IRONSI FOR EXAMPLE WAS THE MOST SENIOR MILITRAY MAN IN NIGERIA, AND WAS IN CHARGE OF THE ARMY AND WHOM AND MANY IGBOS WERE TRAINED IN ENGLAND AND USA AND HE GENERAL AGUIYI IRONSI WAS LEADING THE UNITED NATION PROGRAM IN CONGO AND AFRICA ETC.
What happened at that time was that Some of Anioma Igbos were on ego trip feeling that they are more important or superior and felt that Igbos of south East should not occupy important postions that it should be reserved for them because of their Ego trip, especially people like COL.Nzeogwu, COL. kESHI, col. Okwechime, COL. Nwawo etc. who till today feel that they should get more than South East Igbos (It was rivalry between the Igbos of Anioma and Igbos of South East) that caused the Anioma Igbo to stage the coup and to cut down Igbos of south East to size and which they are still trying till today, but they cannot. In terms of population Igbos of South East have more population (40 millions people as opposed to 2 million Anioma Igbos). Igbos of South East have more resources, more land, more natural and man made potential then Anioma Igbos in education, health, and any barometer of measurement whether good or bad ones.( we have more GOOD AND great people and more rogues and criminals too then them).
Meanwhile Igbos of South East are the ones always looking and trying to accept Anioma Igbos as brothers and sisters, but a lot of Anioma Igbos and other Igbos always insults and hurt Igbos of south East because of the events of the civil war, which they Anioma Igbos and other Igbos do not know the truth, but instead of blaming themselves and Anioma Igbos for starting the coup and the civil war, a lot of them like Col. Okwechime continue on lies, but the truth, God and time is proving Igbos of south East right and Truth will set South East Igbos free.
QUOTE - Obi Modestus Emeka Nwaka, a Prince of Ibusa and President Ohaneze Ndigbo, Delta State, also executive member Anioma State Movement. SUN NEWSPAPER OF APRIL 7, 2010
"This unfortunate behavior is unexpected of a man of his age and caliber. For us to deny our Igboness is to stab our brothers across the river on the back, knowing fully well that they had to endure a 30months of near hellish suffering as a result of the revolutionary tendency of one of our own, Col. Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu. I am not trying to bring back the sad historical moment or playing on emotion to score a cheap political point. But, I think it's wise and necessary to reflect on what transpired before, during and after the Nigerian Civil War, in order to disclose the unity of purpose of Igbo people worldwide.This is nothing but falsehood and a damaging betrayal of our Igbo brothers from South East who found our son His Excellency Amb. Raph Uwechue worthy to head the very Ohaneze which he tried to ridicule.That will tell you that what Chief (Col.) Mike Nduka Okwuechime (Rtd) said is absolute fallacy of what Ohaneze stands for. I intentionally pronounced his names in full in order to show you that he is totally and entirely an Igbo. It is a pity that Okwuechime and his likes are allowing themselves to be used to subvert the Ohaneze and what the Igbo nation stands for in all ramifications" UNQUOTE Obi Modestus Emeka Nwaka, a Prince of Ibusa and President Ohaneze Ndigbo, Delta State, also executive member Anioma State Movement.
SUN NEWSPAPER OF APRIL 7, 2010
THE 1966 COUP THAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR WAS PLANNED AND CONDUCTED BY 8 YORUBA HIGH LEVEL MILITARY OFFICERS AND 12 ANIOMA HIGH LEVEL MILITARY OFFICERS AMONG MANY YORUBAS AND ANIOMA OFFICERS WHO BECAME EVIDENT BEFORE THE WAR, AND AS THE WAR WAS GOING ON AFTER THE KILLING OF GENERAL AGUIYI IRONSI IN IBADAN, AND FROM INFORMATION GATHERED BY THE NIGERIAN GOVERNEMNT AND BIAFRAN GOVERNEMENT AFTER THE COUP AND I WILL LIST ALL OF THE COUP PLANNERS, AS I GET MORE NAMES AS I AM STILL RESEARCHING RIGHT NOW AND THESE ARE KNOWN INFORMATION TO NIGERIA, BUT NIGERIA HIDES THESE INFORMATION AND WAS THE CAUSE OF KILLING AND MASSCRE OF 3 MILLION IGBOS.
YOU SEE NIGERIA WILL NEVER SLEEP IN PEACE, SINCE NIGERIA THINKS THAT TELLING LIES AGAINST THE 3 MILLION DEAD IGBOS WILL GO WELL. AS LONG AS THOSE 3 MILLION IGBOS DID NOT SLEEP IN PEACE NIGERIA WILL NOT SLEEP IN PEACE AND IT IS HAPPENING UNTILL NIGERIA ATONE AND TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY .
1966 COUP PLANNERS:
MAJOR, CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR, EMMANUEL IFEAJUNA - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR, CHUKWUKA - ANIOMA IGBO
CAPTAIN, ADELEKE - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, FOLA OYEWOLE - YORUBA
BRIGEDIAR, VICTOR BANJO - YORUBA
MAJOR, WALE ADEMOYEGA - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, FOLA OLAFIMIHA - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, A.N. C AZUBOUGOR - ANIOMA IGBO
LIEUTENANT, A.A.O EGBIKOR - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, NWAWO - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, CYRIL IWEZE - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, NWAJEI - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, MIKE OKWECHIME - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR, ALBERT OKONKWO - ANIOMA IGBO
CAPTAIN, HENRY IGBOBA - ANIOMA IGBOS
"This unfortunate behavior is unexpected of a man of his age and caliber. For us to deny our Igboness is to stab our brothers across the river on the back, knowing fully well that they had to endure a 30months of near hellish suffering as a result of the revolutionary tendency of one of our own, Col. Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu. I am not trying to bring back the sad historical moment or playing on emotion to score a cheap political point. But, I think it's wise and necessary to reflect on what transpired before, during and after the Nigerian Civil War, in order to disclose the unity of purpose of Igbo people worldwide.This is nothing but falsehood and a damaging betrayal of our Igbo brothers from South East who found our son His Excellency Amb. Raph Uwechue worthy to head the very Ohaneze which he tried to ridicule.That will tell you that what Chief (Col.) Mike Nduka Okwuechime (Rtd) said is absolute fallacy of what Ohaneze stands for. I intentionally pronounced his names in full in order to show you that he is totally and entirely an Igbo. It is a pity that Okwuechime and his likes are allowing themselves to be used to subvert the Ohaneze and what the Igbo nation stands for in all ramifications" UNQUOTE Obi Modestus Emeka Nwaka, a Prince of Ibusa and President Ohaneze Ndigbo, Delta State, also executive member Anioma State Movement.
SUN NEWSPAPER OF APRIL 7, 2010
THE 1966 COUP THAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR WAS PLANNED AND CONDUCTED BY 8 YORUBA HIGH LEVEL MILITARY OFFICERS AND 12 ANIOMA HIGH LEVEL MILITARY OFFICERS AMONG MANY YORUBAS AND ANIOMA OFFICERS WHO BECAME EVIDENT BEFORE THE WAR, AND AS THE WAR WAS GOING ON AFTER THE KILLING OF GENERAL AGUIYI IRONSI IN IBADAN, AND FROM INFORMATION GATHERED BY THE NIGERIAN GOVERNEMNT AND BIAFRAN GOVERNEMENT AFTER THE COUP AND I WILL LIST ALL OF THE COUP PLANNERS, AS I GET MORE NAMES AS I AM STILL RESEARCHING RIGHT NOW AND THESE ARE KNOWN INFORMATION TO NIGERIA, BUT NIGERIA HIDES THESE INFORMATION AND WAS THE CAUSE OF KILLING AND MASSCRE OF 3 MILLION IGBOS.
YOU SEE NIGERIA WILL NEVER SLEEP IN PEACE, SINCE NIGERIA THINKS THAT TELLING LIES AGAINST THE 3 MILLION DEAD IGBOS WILL GO WELL. AS LONG AS THOSE 3 MILLION IGBOS DID NOT SLEEP IN PEACE NIGERIA WILL NOT SLEEP IN PEACE AND IT IS HAPPENING UNTILL NIGERIA ATONE AND TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY .
1966 COUP PLANNERS:
MAJOR, CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR, EMMANUEL IFEAJUNA - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR, CHUKWUKA - ANIOMA IGBO
CAPTAIN, ADELEKE - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, FOLA OYEWOLE - YORUBA
BRIGEDIAR, VICTOR BANJO - YORUBA
MAJOR, WALE ADEMOYEGA - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, FOLA OLAFIMIHA - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, A.N. C AZUBOUGOR - ANIOMA IGBO
LIEUTENANT, A.A.O EGBIKOR - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, NWAWO - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, CYRIL IWEZE - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, NWAJEI - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, MIKE OKWECHIME - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR, ALBERT OKONKWO - ANIOMA IGBO
CAPTAIN, HENRY IGBOBA - ANIOMA IGBOS
col.Trimnell- Anioma Igbo
col. Nzefili - Anioma Igbo
Lt. Col Animam Keshi - ANIOMA IGBO
Col. Ejoor - Edo/Yoruba
MAJOR ALALE - IJAW MAN - civilian
DIM OJUKWU WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO JUST CAME BACK NOT TOO LONG FROM STUDIES IN ENGLAND WERE HE STIUDIED AND GRAUDATED IN HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, AND HIS FATHER WAS A MILLIONAIRE ( THE FIRST MILLIONAIRE) IN AFRICA THEN AND HE WAS PRIVILEGE AND HAD NO REASON TO GAIN ANYTHING. HE HAD EVERYTHING LIFE CAN GIVE AND OFFER.
THE COUP OF JANUARY 15, 1966 TERMED (OPERATION DAMISA -LEOPARD IN HAUSA) WAS LEAD BY MAJOR CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU AND HIS ANIOMA BROTHERS AND YORUBA FRIENDS. IT WAS ANIOMA IGBO AND YORUBA AGENDA. THE IGBOS OF SOUTH EAST CAME INTO THE WAR TO DEFEND MAJOR NZEOGWU AND THEIR IGBOS BROTHERS AFTER THE BAD DECISION AND MISTAKE HAS TAKEN PLACE, BECAUSE THE HAUSAS STARTED KILLING EVERY EASTERNER AND ANY PERSON WITH IGBO NAME BE IT ANIOMA, OGWASIUKWU, IKWERRE, ETCHE, OHAODA, OKIRIKA, CALABAR, EASTERNER AND MIDWESTERNERS ETC. AND IT IS STILLHAPPENING TODAY.
THE WAS NO SOUTH EASTERNER( IGBOS) IN THAT COUP DESPITE THAT SOUTH EASTERNERS (IGBOS) HELD SOME OF THE HIGHEST POSITION IN THE NIGERIAN ARMY AT THE TIME IN ALL DIVISIONS IN THE ARMY, AIRFORCE, NAVY, POLICE AND IN ALL THE SECURITY AGENCIES IN NIGERIA MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, AND ALSO SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS WERE ENGAGED AND HIGHLY PLACED IN ALL THE ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIETY INDEX IN NIGERIA. IGBOS HELD THE HIGHEST POSITIONS AND LEADERSHIP IN EVERY SECTOR OF NIGERIA THEN, AND NOW WE ARE NOW GETTING BACK TO LEAD GRADUALLY IN THE ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SECTOR. - KUNIE KUNIE WE ARE COMING BACK SMALL SMALL.
SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS HAD THE POPULATION, THE RESOURCES AND POWER AT THE TIME TO MATCH ANY REGION IN ECONOMIC POWER, RESOURCES, EDUCATION AND MILITARY POSITION AND POWER, BUT THE SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS KNEW THAT THEY CAN COMPETE AND PREVAIL IN NIGERIA ENTITY THEN, AND THATS WHY YOU HAD IGBOS LIVING AND PLANTING THEIR ROOTS IN EVERY PART OF NIGERIA THEN IN THE 60S AND 50S, AND SOUTH EASTERNER NEVER CONTEMPLATED COUP OR WAR, BECAUSE WE KNEW WE COULD BEAT EVERY BODY IN NIGERIA THEN AND NOW AND SO WHY DISTRUPT AND START A WAR YOU ARE ALREADY WINNING BY LEADING IN ALL INDEX.
THE ANIOMA IGBOS DID NOT HAVE THE POPULATION, ANIOMA IGBOS DID NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES AND THEY DID NOT HAVE THE POWER TO TAKE ON NIGERIA AT THE TIME. OUR ANIOMA IGBO BROTHERS LEAD BY NZEOGWU WAS COUNTING ON THE SUPPORT OF THEIR BIG BROTHER SOUTH EASTERNER IGBOS, BUT YOU SEE THEY DID NOT INFORM THEIR BIG BROTHER THAT THEY WERE PLANING A COUP. WHEN THE COUP FAILED AND WENT BAD THE SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS CAME TO DEFEND AND SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR YORUBA SUPPORTERS WHOSE PLAN WAS TO EXECUTE THE COUP AND IGBOS PAID HEAVILY FOR COMING TO THE AID OF THEIR BROTHERS WHO ARE TODAY TURNING AGAINST THEM. REMEMBER JESUS CHRIST WAS ALSO DENIED BY JUDAS AND OTHER FOLLOWERS.
THATS HOW GENRAL AGUIYI IRONSI AND OTHER IGBO MILITARY LEADERS TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT AFTER A LOT OF THE NORTHERN POLITICAL LEADERS ( PRIME MINISTER AND OTHERS LEADERS FROM OTHER REGIONS) WERE KILLED IN THE COUP AND TRUELY MANY AND MAJORITY NORTHERN LEADERSHIP WERE KILLED AND JAILED BY MAJOR NZEOGWU AND HIS YORUBA FRIENDS. NO IGBO LEADERS WAS KILLED INTHE WHOLE PROCESS AND THATS WHAT ANGERS THE HAUSAS AND OTHER TRIBES.
GENERAL IRONSI TOOK OVER THE GOVERNMENT THEN AFTER THE COUP FAILED AND THE NORTH WAITED FOR HIM TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST MAJOR NZEOGWU AND HIS YORUBA FRIENDS AND WHEN AFTER SIX MONTHS HE DID NOT DO ANYTHING THATS WHEN THE HAUSAS MAJOR GOWON, MAJOR DANJUMA ETC STAGED A COUNTER COUP THAT KILLED GENERAL AGUIYI IRONSI AND STARTED THE WAR WHEN EVERY IGBOS IN THE NORTH AND ELSE WERE IN NIGERIA WERE HUNTED BEING KILLED AND MASACRE
AS LONG AS THEY HAVE IGBO NAMES AND ARE IGBOS AND EASTERNERS AND MIDWESTERNERS - ANIOMA, OGWASIUKWU, IKWERRE, ETCHE, OHAODA, OKIRIKA, CALABAR, ETC. AND IT IS STILLHAPPENING TODAY.
THATS WHEN DIM OJUKWU AND OTHER IGBOS MILITARY LEADERS SAW THE GAME PLAN AND MASSACRE AND GENOCIDE AND DECIDED TO FORM BIAFRA WITH THE CONSENT AND CONSULTATION OF IGBOS AND EASTERN REGION LEADERSHIP OF OTHER TRIBES IN PRESENT CROSS RIVER, AKW IBOM, RIVER AND BAYELSA STATES.
DIM OJUKWU WAS A CHILD OF CIRCUMSTANCES AT THE TIME BECAUSE HE WAS THE GOVERNOR OF EASTERN REGION AT THE TIME, AND ANY GOVERNOR OR LEADER WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME WHEN YOU SEE THAT MORE THAN 300,000 (THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND OF YOUR PEOPLE ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY MASSACRE AND KILLED IN EVERY PART OF THE NATION EVERY MINUTE AND BY DAYS AND YOU KEEP SEEING MILLIONS OF IGBO REFUGEES RUNNING BACK TO EASTERN NIGERIA AND TELLING HORROR AND HORRIBLE STORY OF GENOCIDE AND THAT WHEN OJUKWU AND IGBO LEADERS TOOK ACTION AND FORMED BIAFRA AND FIGHT FOR THEIR HUMANITY WHICH IS THE FIGHT AGAINS THE FIGHT BLACK ON BLACK GENOCIDE IN THE WORLD BEFORE RUWANDA, BEFORE DARFUR, BEFORE YUGLOSLAVIA AND BEFORE SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA MASSCRE AND GENOCIDE..
MAJOR ALALE - IJAW MAN - civilian
DIM OJUKWU WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO JUST CAME BACK NOT TOO LONG FROM STUDIES IN ENGLAND WERE HE STIUDIED AND GRAUDATED IN HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, AND HIS FATHER WAS A MILLIONAIRE ( THE FIRST MILLIONAIRE) IN AFRICA THEN AND HE WAS PRIVILEGE AND HAD NO REASON TO GAIN ANYTHING. HE HAD EVERYTHING LIFE CAN GIVE AND OFFER.
THE COUP OF JANUARY 15, 1966 TERMED (OPERATION DAMISA -LEOPARD IN HAUSA) WAS LEAD BY MAJOR CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU AND HIS ANIOMA BROTHERS AND YORUBA FRIENDS. IT WAS ANIOMA IGBO AND YORUBA AGENDA. THE IGBOS OF SOUTH EAST CAME INTO THE WAR TO DEFEND MAJOR NZEOGWU AND THEIR IGBOS BROTHERS AFTER THE BAD DECISION AND MISTAKE HAS TAKEN PLACE, BECAUSE THE HAUSAS STARTED KILLING EVERY EASTERNER AND ANY PERSON WITH IGBO NAME BE IT ANIOMA, OGWASIUKWU, IKWERRE, ETCHE, OHAODA, OKIRIKA, CALABAR, EASTERNER AND MIDWESTERNERS ETC. AND IT IS STILLHAPPENING TODAY.
THE WAS NO SOUTH EASTERNER( IGBOS) IN THAT COUP DESPITE THAT SOUTH EASTERNERS (IGBOS) HELD SOME OF THE HIGHEST POSITION IN THE NIGERIAN ARMY AT THE TIME IN ALL DIVISIONS IN THE ARMY, AIRFORCE, NAVY, POLICE AND IN ALL THE SECURITY AGENCIES IN NIGERIA MILITARY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, AND ALSO SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS WERE ENGAGED AND HIGHLY PLACED IN ALL THE ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIETY INDEX IN NIGERIA. IGBOS HELD THE HIGHEST POSITIONS AND LEADERSHIP IN EVERY SECTOR OF NIGERIA THEN, AND NOW WE ARE NOW GETTING BACK TO LEAD GRADUALLY IN THE ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SECTOR. - KUNIE KUNIE WE ARE COMING BACK SMALL SMALL.
SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS HAD THE POPULATION, THE RESOURCES AND POWER AT THE TIME TO MATCH ANY REGION IN ECONOMIC POWER, RESOURCES, EDUCATION AND MILITARY POSITION AND POWER, BUT THE SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS KNEW THAT THEY CAN COMPETE AND PREVAIL IN NIGERIA ENTITY THEN, AND THATS WHY YOU HAD IGBOS LIVING AND PLANTING THEIR ROOTS IN EVERY PART OF NIGERIA THEN IN THE 60S AND 50S, AND SOUTH EASTERNER NEVER CONTEMPLATED COUP OR WAR, BECAUSE WE KNEW WE COULD BEAT EVERY BODY IN NIGERIA THEN AND NOW AND SO WHY DISTRUPT AND START A WAR YOU ARE ALREADY WINNING BY LEADING IN ALL INDEX.
THE ANIOMA IGBOS DID NOT HAVE THE POPULATION, ANIOMA IGBOS DID NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES AND THEY DID NOT HAVE THE POWER TO TAKE ON NIGERIA AT THE TIME. OUR ANIOMA IGBO BROTHERS LEAD BY NZEOGWU WAS COUNTING ON THE SUPPORT OF THEIR BIG BROTHER SOUTH EASTERNER IGBOS, BUT YOU SEE THEY DID NOT INFORM THEIR BIG BROTHER THAT THEY WERE PLANING A COUP. WHEN THE COUP FAILED AND WENT BAD THE SOUTH EASTERN IGBOS CAME TO DEFEND AND SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR YORUBA SUPPORTERS WHOSE PLAN WAS TO EXECUTE THE COUP AND IGBOS PAID HEAVILY FOR COMING TO THE AID OF THEIR BROTHERS WHO ARE TODAY TURNING AGAINST THEM. REMEMBER JESUS CHRIST WAS ALSO DENIED BY JUDAS AND OTHER FOLLOWERS.
THATS HOW GENRAL AGUIYI IRONSI AND OTHER IGBO MILITARY LEADERS TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT AFTER A LOT OF THE NORTHERN POLITICAL LEADERS ( PRIME MINISTER AND OTHERS LEADERS FROM OTHER REGIONS) WERE KILLED IN THE COUP AND TRUELY MANY AND MAJORITY NORTHERN LEADERSHIP WERE KILLED AND JAILED BY MAJOR NZEOGWU AND HIS YORUBA FRIENDS. NO IGBO LEADERS WAS KILLED INTHE WHOLE PROCESS AND THATS WHAT ANGERS THE HAUSAS AND OTHER TRIBES.
GENERAL IRONSI TOOK OVER THE GOVERNMENT THEN AFTER THE COUP FAILED AND THE NORTH WAITED FOR HIM TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST MAJOR NZEOGWU AND HIS YORUBA FRIENDS AND WHEN AFTER SIX MONTHS HE DID NOT DO ANYTHING THATS WHEN THE HAUSAS MAJOR GOWON, MAJOR DANJUMA ETC STAGED A COUNTER COUP THAT KILLED GENERAL AGUIYI IRONSI AND STARTED THE WAR WHEN EVERY IGBOS IN THE NORTH AND ELSE WERE IN NIGERIA WERE HUNTED BEING KILLED AND MASACRE
AS LONG AS THEY HAVE IGBO NAMES AND ARE IGBOS AND EASTERNERS AND MIDWESTERNERS - ANIOMA, OGWASIUKWU, IKWERRE, ETCHE, OHAODA, OKIRIKA, CALABAR, ETC. AND IT IS STILLHAPPENING TODAY.
THATS WHEN DIM OJUKWU AND OTHER IGBOS MILITARY LEADERS SAW THE GAME PLAN AND MASSACRE AND GENOCIDE AND DECIDED TO FORM BIAFRA WITH THE CONSENT AND CONSULTATION OF IGBOS AND EASTERN REGION LEADERSHIP OF OTHER TRIBES IN PRESENT CROSS RIVER, AKW IBOM, RIVER AND BAYELSA STATES.
DIM OJUKWU WAS A CHILD OF CIRCUMSTANCES AT THE TIME BECAUSE HE WAS THE GOVERNOR OF EASTERN REGION AT THE TIME, AND ANY GOVERNOR OR LEADER WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME WHEN YOU SEE THAT MORE THAN 300,000 (THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND OF YOUR PEOPLE ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY MASSACRE AND KILLED IN EVERY PART OF THE NATION EVERY MINUTE AND BY DAYS AND YOU KEEP SEEING MILLIONS OF IGBO REFUGEES RUNNING BACK TO EASTERN NIGERIA AND TELLING HORROR AND HORRIBLE STORY OF GENOCIDE AND THAT WHEN OJUKWU AND IGBO LEADERS TOOK ACTION AND FORMED BIAFRA AND FIGHT FOR THEIR HUMANITY WHICH IS THE FIGHT AGAINS THE FIGHT BLACK ON BLACK GENOCIDE IN THE WORLD BEFORE RUWANDA, BEFORE DARFUR, BEFORE YUGLOSLAVIA AND BEFORE SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA MASSCRE AND GENOCIDE..
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Chukwuemeka Okala <reukal@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
IBK,Each time you comment on Ojukwu vis-a-vis the Nigerian civil war, you gall me.Yes, Ojukwu did not have the capacity to prosecute the war but did he have an option?To avoid the war, Ojukwu believed the Nigerian leaders in their deceit, and escorted the Hausa citizens in his territory to their safety on the understanding that the north would reciprocate. He advised the first batch of the Igbos who already escaped the first pogrom in the north to return back to their beats in the north on the understanding that Nigeria would keep her promise, only to be badly disillusioned as Nigeria kept its own part of the agreement in its breach. Even when Ojukwu was constrained to secede as the centre could no longer hold, the federal government opened fire at the Eastern territory after their police action failed.For goodness sake, what did you want the man to do? If you were in his position what would you do, stay in Nigeria and got invaded and finally butchered by the then blood thirsty Hausa/Fulani? You guys are very annoying!I find it very difficult, if not impossible to understand why it sounds easily plausible to blame Ojukwu, but very superflous to condemn the north for the senseless pogrom against fellow Nigerians of Igbo extraction in their territory in the 60s ."Violence" is a kind of EFFECT of a fundamental CAUSE, and you cannot deal with the EFFECT to cure the CAUSE. You deal with the CAUSE in order to cure the EFFECT. In the case of the unfortunate Nigerian civil war, the North was clearly the "Cause" and Ojukwu the "Effect." To find a solution as to why Ojukwu went to war even unprepared, find out first the cause of his decision.Take care.Emeka Reuben OkalaLondon, UK
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From: Ibukunolu Alao Babajide <ibk@usa.net>
To: TalkNigeria@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 30 September, 2010 7:20:39
Subject: Re: [TalkNigeria] Biafra: Ojukwu "had no capacity to win that war"
Idiotic Worm,
You will never agree to the truth. Even when it hits you like a Mack truck. You will wallow in lies and false beliefs cementing your loser mentality. Even a fool knows that your ego tripping warlord Ojukwu could not win the war. He simply wasted the lives of his own people and others in his vain attempt at glory. Has he ever won a single electoral vote in his own ward? You go figure!
IBK
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Received: 05:18 AM EAT, 09/30/2010
From: Wharf Snake <wharfsnake@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [TalkNigeria] Biafra: Ojukwu "had no capacity to win that war"
My view is simple: this man, col keshi is a coward who hid behind a woman, and a faggot. This idiotic man cannot defend a oil bean, not to talk of a nation. If this stupid man does not know why we fought, then it is a pity that such foolish man was ever in the employ of the Nigerian armed forces. There is no question that this man is bonafide coward.
Agwo emeghi nke o jiri buru agwo,umuaka achiri ya hie nku
Wharf Aiseokhuoba Snake
Idi-oro, Lagos.
From: Adey <adey45@yahoo.com>
To: naijanet@googlegroups.com; talknigeria@yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 12:56:43 PM
Subject: [TalkNigeria] Biafra: Ojukwu "had no capacity to win that war"
— Col. Keshi (rtd), who confronted Nzeogwu
By JOSFYN UBA
Wednesday, September 29, 2010A senior officer who was right on ground at the January 1966 coup, yet not a participant, has given a different account of Nigeria's first military coup and the invasion of Midwest. Lt. Col. Alphonso Animam Keshi (rtd) was Brigade Major at the then 1st Brigade in Kaduna when the coup occurred. He was directly in charge of the foot soldiers who were used to prosecute the coup.
Keshi spoke to Daily Sun at his Onicha Ugbo residence in Delta State Excerpts.
You were Brigade Major in Kaduna when Major Kaduna Nzeogwu and others struck. That meant they used your troops.
What happened that night?
On the eve of the January coup in Kaduna we had officers' day, a regular event where officers played whatever sport they wanted. I played football. There was Brigadier Ademulegun – shamelessly and brutally killed in bed with his wife – our brigade commander who came on a horse, threw some jokes at me about the way I played, and went away. At the end of that day, I went to the Mess to have some drinks. I saw some officers in full military gear hanging around at the Mess. I wondered what they were doing only to quickly recall that there was to be night training that night …
A scheduled programme?
Yes, but then Nzeogwu, the Commandant of the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna, where I was Chief Instructor and acting Commandant for about two years, 1963 to 1964, sent a signal to the units under our command asking them to subscribe troops for the night training. He also asked for a section of the armored cars, artillery, a section of guns and an infantry company from 3rd battalion at Kawo Barracks, for training without reference to the Brigade Commander. He had no right or direct access to the troops in the brigade, he being an army headquarters officer, commanding a school directly under Army Headquarters. When I saw the signal that he sent to the units under the command, I sent a signal to all those units asking them to ignore Nzeogwu's signal.
So what happened?
Soon after Nzeogwu, who actually was with me at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhust, UK, rushed to my office to talk to me. For the first time we spoke in our native (Delta Igbo) dialect. I said to him, 'Nzeogwu, you are a senior officer who should know that there are procedures.' He apologised and explained that he forgot. Thinking that he was acting in good faith, I let him be and now wrote another signal asking the units to cooperate with him.
And lo and behold, the night of January 14 into 15, after that sports evening, I got a call from the Police Commissioner M.D. Yusuf at about 1.00. a.m. Before then, some shooting had taken place in the Ministers' Quarters at the GRA area. He asked me what was going on and I told him some training was scheduled by NMTC (training college), but certainly not inside residential quarters. I tried to call the Brigade Commander (Ademulegun) but there was no answer from his house. Soon after, his deputy, Col. Sodeinde, called me and I told him the same thing I told Yusuf. I called him back not long after and there was no response. An hour or two later, my house was surrounded.
And you were at home?
Yes, I was at home. My batsman Adamu came to tell me some soldiers were outside. I told him to tell them I was not in.. Meanwhile, I got dressed and took cover somewhere. Woribor was the Lieutenant leading them. They came into the house, my room and met my wife who told them the same thing. Luckily, they left. I phoned Major (later General) Hassan Usman Katsina, Commander of Armoured (Recce) Unit to send me armoured cars for protection. He agreed, not knowing he too had been visited and was only playing safe.
An hour or two later, two officers serving under me namely Captain, later General, Jeffrey Ejiga and Captain Simon Anakwe knocked on my window to tell me they were gone. I came out and together with the two officers walked to brigade headquarters only to find soldiers all over the place, not controlled and things were still hazy. It was clear they were not sure what was going on. I immediately thought of taking command, to order the troops against the rebellion but Captain Kevin Lawson who was commander of the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Unit quickly intervened. Kevin read my mind and appealed to me not to do what I had in mind.
Would you say the coup was not justified?
No coup is justifiable under any guise or reason. Why should an officer who has a duty to protect his country be working against same country even to the point of turning his gun against his brother officers? What sort of bravery is that for a highly trained officer to crawl round defenseless people's beds at night killing them? Even a six-year-old can kill such defenseless people with any weapon.
But sir there was widespread corruption, at least that was given as basis for the coup.
That was just deceitful and diversionary. There are mechanisms to check corruption and as you know coups have not shown to be capable of solving corruption. If anything, coups have produced looters who have always shown to be worse than the governments they overthrew. As officers and gentlemen, you are trained in the art and tactics of war; to defend your country and not to fight it. How can an officer who aspires to the highest rank in the army want to become a politician? In fact, I strongly recommend that the National Assembly should strengthen the law against coups such that even if coup makers succeed, the law should catch up with them after they may have left government.
Coups are treasonable, so I say capital punishment, as enacted by the military themselves. Coups make mockery of governance in a nation and reduce us to international ridicule. Coup making is only for substandard officers who have lost focus, greedy, mindless, over-ambitious and a disgrace to the uniform they should be wearing with honour and dignity.
Let us talk about the invasion of Midwest in 1967. I read an account that suggests the complicity of Midwestern Igbo officers in plotting the invasion.
All that is nonsense. Yes, at the time there were about eight officers of the rank of Lt. Colonel and above in the 4th Division in Midwest including Nwawo, Igboba, Ejoor, Okwechime, Nwajei, Trimnell, Nzefili and myself. All of us but Ejoor were Midwestern Igbos.
You left out Nzeogwu
Nzeogwu was not with us in the 4th Division. He was in detention then. The most senior officer Lt. Colonel Conrad Nwawo commanded. To the best of my knowledge, not one single officer in the Midwest (Igbo or non Igbo) of the rank of Lt Colonel and above had prior knowledge of the invasion of Midwest Region. We had several reasons concerning the role we would play in the impending war and we made it very clear that we were going to be neutral. And we meant it. We were men of honour.
But there were allegations including that from the then Governor Ejoor, of Igbo officers' complicity
Ejoor's claim of perfidy and collusion were absolute nonsense. He only did that to defend himself. How could officers so falsely accused such as Trimnell and myself decide to escape, soon after the invasion, to Lagos only to be imprisoned. How could Igboba have challenged the Biafrans if he was involved and was promptly detained by Banjo only to be executed by federal troops in Benin prison?
So what happened that night of the invasion and afterwards?
I was commandant of the Nigerian Army Military Training Depot at Igueben (Edo State). The invasion was on the August 9, 1967. My wife's birthday was on the 8th. I left Igueben on that day to my village Onicha Ugbo for the celebration. On the morning of the 9th, my Land Rover Command Vehicle that was supposed to pick me up did not show up. I got into my personal car, a Peugeot 404 and took off towards my station only to notice a soldier with the rising sun shoulder flash at Agbor bridge. I was terribly agitated and embarrassed as I drove on to notice clusters of people along the road who were awe-stricken.
So what happened next, how did you officers end up in Biafra?
In the early days of the occupation of Mid West, most of us officers went into hiding.. There were radio announcements urging us to report to the Biafran Headquarters in Enugu or face reprisal. We still did not bulge. Like I said Igboba was captured when he resisted and locked up in Benin Prison where he was later killed.
When we got to Enugu, we held a meeting with Eastern officers. In an argument, we insisted on neutrality. Chude Sokei (Lt. Col) who was my colleague in Sandhurst – and we were quite close – reminded me that we (Midwesterners) were defeated people. We were instructed never to travel to the Midwest without permission from Ojukwu. They cited security reasons. When I got to the School of Infantry where I was posted, I met a Major there, I think Okonkwo, who was in charge and I simply allowed him to continue.
In fact, when we (Midwestern Igbo Officers) were 'conscripted' in Enugu, we decided that we were not going to use the Biafran insignia of the rising sun. Instead adopted our own which was a palm frond and which I kept to until I returned to the Federal side..
After the war?
No, right in the heat of the war; September or early October 1967, in spite of the danger and threat to the lives of senior Igbo officers by Hausas. I returned to the Federal side so also did Trimnell and George Kurubo (Lt. Colonel) a colleague from the then South East. Kurubo was sent to the Soviet Union as Ambassador while I and Lt. Col. Trimnell were sent to prison in what they termed 'protective custody.' I was kept there till the war ended. While in detention my family, and am sure Trimnell's too, got 25 percent of my salary. I was told that if after the war nothing was found against me the balance would be paid.
Did they keep to that?
After the war even though nothing was found against me, I and Trimnell were retired and retirement backdated to May 1967 when the war started. It was Danjuma (General) who was my second-in-command in 1962, that reversed it to the actual date of 1971, in 1979 when he was Chief of Army Staff.
In a nutshell how would you place that war, justified?
No officer worth his salt would go into a war he cannot win, apart from the fact that the remote cause of the war was faulted in the first place. Biafra had no capacity to win that war.. That apart, if you recall events that preceded the war, there were these senseless killings of very fine and professional officers in the mould of Ademulegun, Maimalari, Kur Mohammed, Ralph Sodeinde, Abogo Largema, Pam, Unegbe and so on. These were officers who made us. You are not just a good officer because you performed well in Sandhurst, Staff College, etc. It also depended on those you worked with and understudied. These were incorruptible men who did their jobs selflessly. It was these killings plus those of mainly northern politicians that triggered the pogrom in the North and then the war.
You seem to have had a brilliant career in the Army within a short period.
What were the high points?
There were several, but I remember that in 1962 in the Captain-to-Major promotion exam taken by 36 people, only 12 of us passed and I was first. In Sandhurst, I was the only senior cadet who was appointed Cadet Sergeant of all African cadets. It was like prefectship. I was in the same set with Afrifa, Akufo (Ghanaian Generals) alongside other non African cadets.
I made a name as Chief Instructor at the Military College, Kaduna where I trained people like (Generals) Jemibewon, Akinrinade, Buhari, Dimuje and so on. I had nobody instructing me on what to do. I designed the courses, decided on the scopes, contents and weighting attached to each subject to be thought. The nominal Commandant of the school then was a Briton whom I never saw for one day. He never visited the school and I handled everything. I made a good name as an instructor in the army. I was right on course.
All these inform why you insist on core professionalism for the military?
I say again that no officer who imbibed the kind of training and orientation we had would be political. For instance after the killing of officers (January, 1966), I was appointed Principal Staff Officer to Gowon who was Chief of Army Staff. But I wrote to point out I was too senior for the job. Before then in 1962, I had been invited by President Zik (Nnamdi Azikiwe) to be his Aide-de-Camp which I also politely declined because I wanted to remain in core military posts. Again in 1966, at a meeting of the Nigerian Army Council presided over by the late Brigadier Ogundipe, I complained about corruption in the Police Force.
Next he asked me if I wanted to take over the Police and I promptly declined. In 1963 at the Staff College Exam, I also came first and was the only officer sent to the US Army Command and Staff College Leavenworth. I was the first Nigerian officer to do a whole year's course there.
What was your last position in the Army before you moved to Midwest?
I was Quartermaster General. I took over from Colonel Unegbe who was killed in the January coup. The position has now been renamed Chief of Logistics and reserved for Generals.The Sun News
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