"Okokon Ndem (from Ikoneto in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State) died August 2003. He distorted the reality of the war on Radio so much that even his "employer(s)" - and a generation of Biafran(ist)s are/were deceived. That was how "good" he was - a little too good, one might add."
- Bolaji Aluko
Bolaji,
Okokon Ndem was quite an institution and it is a great tragedy indeed that not much about him is documented and easily available. There were three names that I remember, outside of Dim Ojukwu that struck terror in our hearts, "Hannibal" Achuzie who attained legendary status as a dare devil army commander (I think his wife was white, he was quite colorful), Count Von Rosen, the legendary dare-devil pilot and the late great Okokon Ndem! Bolaji, I never dared tell you this, because you would laugh at me, but when I briefly thought of calling myself Okokon Ndem instead of Pa Ajasco my non du guerre for my incursions into Nigeria via Radio Kudirat (now, that is funny!) I admired the man, because in our village, where we were hiding out the war (while you ajebutter children had been spirited to Europe and America to enjoy ice cream and crumpets!) he struck fear in the hearts of men. Between Von Rosen's plane and this man's mouth, we were literally wetting our pants ;-)))))
In the village where we ended up after fleeing the Biafran occupation of Benin City, my father had a red Sanyo radio; we would stay up at night, breathlessly alternating between Radio Biafra and the BBC. I camn still hear the crackling static of that damn radio as I write this. Okokon Ndem was a mesmerizing spinner of propaganda, made the Nigerian government's PR apparatus look amateurish in comparison. One of our "uncles" was called BBC. He was always coming with fake news about the war, and so we named him BBC. We did not name him Okokon Ndem, in our village, Okokon Ndem was respected more than the BBC! [Ikhide! You and your fabu]
One thing I love about Adichie's book, Half of a Yellow Sun is how she faithfully recreates the ambience, the feel of that era. It was an era that seems romantic now, if not romanticized - dashing young men, fueled with little but idealism - Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, TY Danjuma, Yakubu Gowon, Dim Ojukwu,Murtala Muhammed, Isaac Adaka Boro, etc etc Where have all our dreamers gone? And of course, there was the music of the time, Rex Lawson, Celestine Ukwu, Ebenezer Obey, etc..
If anything came out of the war experience, my siblings and I got to bond with our ancestral land, Ewu in Ishan. I had a great time in our village, it was less crowded than the cities, the market days were colorful festivals and our vast extended family doted on us, children of the city. We were "ajebutter" can you imagine? Barrack pikin come be ajebutter! I got to live with uncles named Elephant and Diesel. Elephant was Okonkwo, never smiled but he was kind. He would make me wooden dolls (omolanke) and cars from leftover wood from his mortar and pestle business. He was a moslem who loved his palmwine. It was rumored that his prayer kettle was always filled with palmwine but no one dared confront him, he was built like a Russian tank and just as temperamental.
Back to Biafra, the Biafran army did kick butt, they made an ass out of Murtala Muhammed and that cost the Nigerian army hundreds of casualties. They beat the hell out of my father's contingent of mobile policemen and to this day my dad still talks about them with respect. And Achuzie was something.
After the war, the Red Cross or some do-gooder oyinbo decided that we had suffered malnutrition because of the war. They brought us bags of wheat, powdered milk and bales of oporoko (stockfish). The wheat made awful eba, the oporoko ruined our teeth and the powdered milk made us sprint to the latrine - we were lactose intolerant. E don tay when man don dey suffer for white liberals dem hand *weeps* By the way, whatever happened to Victoria Gowon? I used to have a crush on her, never thought there was another woman anywhere as pretty as her, well, except Jackie Onassis! In secondary school, we once lined both sides of the road ALL day waiting for the Gowons and Eyadema of Togo's motorcade to come past our boarding school (1971). All day. They brought us sandwiches - a luxury of course. From morning until night, we were waiting. Then suddenly the motorcade came, it was a sight to behold. The dispatch riders on powerful Triumph motorcycles would come roaring by, performing all sorts of tricks, directing imaginary traffic with their gloved hands and we would all roar our approval with excitement. This went on for close to an hour, then the motorcade came, the Gowons were in a car with an open top. Chei, I saw Victoria (*swoons* *faints*). You should have seen the skin of th Gowons, smooth and dark, ah money good O! Such beautiful people! One of my classmates actually shook hands with Victoria. That yeye boy held that hand for days, refusing to wash it! Kai! [Ikhide! You and your fabu!]
Those were the days! Bolaji, wait O, when are we going to collaborate on a volume about our prodemocracy exploits in the 90's? All of that wahala, clandestine trips, street protests and arrests (Randall Robinson and many in front of the embassy in DC) Radio Kudirat, The Association of Nigerians Abroad, The Nigerian Freedom Foundation, ANA's Operation Harmattan, Radio Kudirat, etc, etc. We are not getting any younger O! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!
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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:
QUOTEThe Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, said the late Okokon Ndem handled the propaganda of Biafra to the extent that neither Nigeria nor its opponent was sure of the real situation, a development which informed the announcement by General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) "as no victor no vanquished verdict at the end of the war."UNQUOTEQUOTEOkoko Ndem was a venerable servant of Biafra. As usual, pictures of such distinguished men are hard to come by. The Ngbati press flooded the Internet with pictures of that incompetent Yoruba coach, Onigbinde, and that Ndayako man who died a few days ago. But, they could not list a picture of Ndem who lived a more worthy life. I hope that all the surviving Biafra heroes like Ojukwu, Effiong, Madiebo, Achuzie, and others attend the funeral of Ndem.- Enobong UmorenUNQUOTEQUOTELord "Haw-Haw"Federal nickname for Okokon Ndem, a minority easterner who nevertheless, worked as a highly effective Biafran radio propagandist. Biafran radio also used the same nickname for Mr. Ukpabi Asika, a pro-federal Igbo intellectual who was appointed on October 27, 1967 by General Gowon as Administrator of the East-Central State. The term dates back to the Second World War. 'Lord Haw-Haw' was the name British radio fans called William Joyce, an American born British man with an English mother and Irish-American father. He had nazi sympathies and worked for Goebbels as a German weekly radio broadcaster. The British hanged him for treason in 1946. UNQUOTEMy People:Okokon Ndem (from Ikoneto in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State) died August 2003. He distorted the reality of the war on Radio so much that even his "employer(s)" - and a generation of Biafran(ist)s are/were deceived. That was how "good" he was - a little too good, one might add.And there you have it.Bolaji AlukoShaking his head___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/html/biafra_news_articles_2.html
From Amby Uneze in CalabarIkemba Nnewi and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Allia-nce (APGA), Dim Chukw-uemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has declared that the Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970 was fought to make the country better and not to disintegrate it as perceived by many.The ex-Biafra war lord, who made this statement at the weekend in Calabar at the burial of former Biafra propagandist and renowned broadcaster, late Okokon Ndem, maintained that such better idea was shared between him and Okokon Ndem for the progress of the country."I'm so proud to be with you today. I recognise he was a hero. The simple life of Okokon Ndem made us proud to make Nigeria better. A struggle to make Nigeria proud," he said.Ojukwu, who drove in a convoy was accompanied by senior Igbo leaders and APGA chieftains, including the party's national chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, Abia State APGA governorship candidate in Chief Onwuka Kalu and the secretary-general of Igbo National Assembly, Chief Onwuka Ukwa.In his tribute to the late Ndem, Ojukwu said his presence at the ceremony was to appreciate the late broadcaster for his role in the Biafran war, adding "I can say no better have you to him than to abandon the Igbo Day celebration going on at Enugu to be here.""Today is Igbo Day celebration and I abandoned the ceremony in Enugu to be by his grave side. We shall never forget, throughout the existence of life we shall remember Okokon Ndem.""Your late father was a hero. I assure you that he has left a worthy impression on all he served. On my part, as the leader of our people, I offer modestly my salute to this fallen hero. Ndigbo will never forget him, Biafrans, most certainly will forever honour him and Nigerians as a whole, will always respect, if nothing, his exemplary professionalism," he said.The Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, said the late Okokon Ndem handled the propaganda of Biafra to the extent that neither Nigeria nor its opponent was sure of the real situation, a development which informed the announcement by General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) "as no victor no vanquished verdict at the end of the war."Duke, who was represented by the secretary to the state government, Johnson Ebokpo prayed God to grant the soul of late Okokon Ndem eternal peace.
TD,29/9/03.Ex-Biafran leader and presidential candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at the weekend in Calabar stated that the bloody Nigerian civil war fought between July 1967 and December 1970 was to make Nigeria better rather than diminish it in status.Ojukwu stated that they had to do that alongside the veteran broadcaster Late Okokon Ndem because of the conviction they shared that the people deserved a better deal.The ex-warlord spoke while paying a personal tribute to Ndem whose remains was laid to rest at the weekend in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.The APGA flagbearer while describing Ndem as a hero whose like was difficult to come by said he was a respected and beloved personality.Before a mammoth crowed which gathered at the Cultural Centre Calabar, Ojukwu declared thus: "Before you let me proclaim that he is a hero the type of which is difficult to come by. Together we embarked on a struggle to make Nigeria better not to make Nigeria less."He stated that he had to come to Calabar at the weekend despite the fact that the Igbo cultural day was being celebrated at Enugu because of the level of esteem to which he held Ndem and the family.The former Biafran leader emphasised that the fallen hero will never be forgotten by those he left behind.
DI, 29/9/03.QUOTEIt appears Okoko Ndem is really dead, here is a powerfull requiem someone wrote for him.
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In Praise Of Okokon Ndem
by Chinyemike Torti
At the risk of being branded a MASSOB activist, even though there is nothing shameful being labelled with that appellation, given the preponderance of closet secessionist groups like O.P.C, Egbesu, Ogoni, Bill of Rights, Kaiama Declaration, Sovereign National Conference and Resource control agitators, strutting all over the federation; Ndigbo at home and abroad must rise in unison and hats off, to the late Chief Okokon Ndem whose golden voice ventilated the very essence of our resistance against the evils of genocide, pogrom, injustice and inhumanity.
While the boys in the war fronts were keeping the federalist army busy for three years, Okokon Ndem and his colleagues on their air waves effectively projected the Biafran counterpoint to the outside world and in the process drubbed Chief Anthony Enahoro's propaganda machinery hands down, so much so, that the Uromi Chief was booed by irate foreign journalists at the 1968 Kampala peace talks when he sought to clarify an agenda on the conference theme.
Today the octogenarian is sulking and embittered after being used and dumped as a Federal Minister of Information famous for white-washing the cracks of an imperfect federation which Chief Okokon Ndem articulated 30 years ago. The Edo Chief has joined the club of camouflage secessionists with his pet project dubbed Movement for National Reformation.
Okokon Ndem with his well-modulated and posh diction reeking with the elocution of the muses, functioned as an emotional prop and invigorator of sagging spirits in the beleaguered Igbo heartland, then at the receiving end of bombs, rockets, artillery fire, starvation, kwashiorkor and all the cruel bludgeoning of warfare. Behind the microphone, the style of his delivery had character and chutzpah, which put the dread in the hearts of enemy troops. Not only did his oratory disembowel the barefaced misrepresentation of the contending sides but also gave dialectical advocacy to the structural imperfections, ills and contradictions of the Nigerian federation which later day converts like Ken Saro-Wiwa, Afenifere and June twelvers latched on.
Apart from the public relations mileage Igbos gained from his endowments, Okokon Ndem in tandem with other easterners from the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers flank like Chief N.U Akpan, General Philips Effiong, Major Archibong, Chief Emmanuel Aguma put paid to the vicious propaganda of Igbo domination. Okokon Ndem succinctly demonstrated that if you were competent in your chosen career, any person from the so-called minorities belt could match; excel and outclass his Igbo compatriot; which was the reality on the ground.
Hundreds of riverine, Efik, Ibibio and Ogoni civil servants occupied very senior positions in the Eastern Nigerian Civil Service. The first African principal of the elite Government College Umuahia in 1958 was the Buguma chieftain, Mr. Erekosima. Chief Kogbara, an Ogoni, was the Biafran envoy to United Kingdom. Ken Saro Wiwa himself passed out from Government College Umuahia in 1956, enjoyed Nnamdi Azikiwe scholarship and to cap it, Ken was a house Captain at Fisher House. Up till this day his name Kenule Saro-Wiwa is emblazoned in the roll of honour plaque at the Umuahia Government college of which I am privileged to be an old boy.
Chief Okokon Ndem debunked, demystified the nebula of Igbo domination. After the civil war, in the face of persecution from the conquering forces who threatened to pull out his tongue, Okokon Ndem never recanted, never did a verbal somersault. May his soul reincarnate in Igboland. And therein lies the morality of immortalising him.
Canonising Okokon Ndem should herald the genesis of the process of the recognition and rehabilitation of our genuine leaders and heroes both living and dead who went beyond the call of duty to do, what they had to do in the heady days of the sixties. The list is legion, but my mind readily recalls names likes Col. Onwuatuegwu, Chief Jacob Ukeje Agwu, Sir Louis Mbanefo, Dr. Nwariaku, Chief Roy Umenyi, Col. Ogbugo Kalu, Okigbo brothers, Chief Mojekwu, Dr. Ikejiani, Comrade Chukwumerije, Achebe, Professor Kalu Ezera, Eni-Njoku, etc. Nobody and nobody would ever pour cold water on the virtues of the Nigerian civil war because the causes are still very relevant to the solutions of the national question today.
The efforts of our heroes past as the say must not be diminished otherwise we would have a situation where ethnic irredentists, Igbophobes, re-write, distort and chronicle our history from their prejudiced blinkers. In recent years, we have witnessed hack writers and columnists who were in their diapers when the guns were booming, pontificate that Igbos fought a wrong war! Their verbal assault is beginning to gnaw into the psyche and subliminal of some wet and spineless Igbos who now denigrate their roots of origin.
Okokon Ndem, is a metaphor nay epitome of the effervescent human spirit in its quest for excellence, fair play and liberty from the grips of hegemonic power relations. That was the centrepiece of the 1960 Aburi Accords, whose truncation led to the civil war. Thirty years after, the crux of the national question still revolves around the unresolved problems. You wonder why the Niger-Delta is conflagrating? The cauldron in Warri is a microcosm of the discontent nationwide. God is not mocked. You cannot sow cassava and reap cocoyam.UNQUOTEOn Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ayo Ojutalayo <ayoojutalayo@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Nnaa, Okokon Ndem's voice rings in my head to this day. I was yet in the village in 1967 to early 1968, when the man's voice made pieces of art work - ugly are work, deservedly so with names like British Harold Wilson, Alexei Kosygin, Shosho Gowon....njeolee okereke..whoever that quisling and a traitor was. Gentleman Okokon Ndem, was the best that ever strode the land space in Africa. Okon Ndem lived through war, and enjoyed some good peace time. Yours truly only have the great man's image plastered in my head. Wish technology was much around, and the cretins wishing to append the word lie to his name will have his picture to deal with. How could they see the face of the man who kept Gowon restless and say a word? Cowards do nothing but concoct stories about great men the likes of Okokon Ndem. Peace, perfect peace is Okokon Ndem - the great Enyi Biafra.
--- On Thu, 1/31/13, Gregg <gukaegbu@comcast.net> wrote:
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A lot of you are begining this tiny mission creep of trying to equate Okokon Ndem's name with falsehood. Just note that there is none like him in broadcast journalism and I doubt that there forever will be in any like him south of the Mediterrenean ever again. Push out whoever you consider your best broadcast journalist and let's compare them with Okonkon Ndem on any criteria you choose--the man will still stand heads and shoulders over your choice. As many of you roll around in the mud here everyday because there is no shame in doing so, be careful with what you do to other people's names.*ezekwe*
--- In NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com, Adeniran Adeboye wrote:> > > Igboka, > > If you need to contradict me with TRUTH and not the patent OKOKON > propaganda LIES, just research and name 6 people who died as a result > of the Wetie. Remember that 6 is the lowest among numbers great than > 5. The readership is waiting. > > Adeniran Adeboye > > > > On Jan 31, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Igboka Uwadiegwu wrote: > > > > > "The entire WETIE lasted from October 12 1965 to January 14, 1966 > > i.e. 15 months and 2 days. All over Western Nigeria, during that > > period, no more than five (5) people died from the operation, > > averaging one death every 3 months" aa > > > > > > White-wash and white-wash and re-white-wash and if possible with > > LIES only. Wettie cost only 5 lives and lasted only 15 months ???? > > How dishonest and dishonorable can some people get ? How low can > > they descend to any gutter level just to deny reality and rewrite > > facts of history whose victims are still very much alive. Some > > people simply have NO honor. Some people do not know what honor means. > > > > Awo-fascists are degenerate liars. This same guy who just yesterday > > claimed the absolute truth was that awo resigned because his dumb > > free-education policy was not adopted by the FEC, sneaked back a few > > hours later claiming awo resigned because of some multiple reasons > > one of them being Gowon reneging on his promise to hand over power > > to civilians ('civilians' here being a code word for...awolo-wowo). > > And this was after this last "truth" was suggested by another awoist > > pig. Earth worms have more honors. > > > > Operation wettie wasn't just a virtual name. Operation wetti-e was > > THE barbaric INCIDENTS that engulfed the South Western region for so > > long that the region got dubbed the "wild wild west". These savage > > incidents indisposed the other more civilized parts of this nation > > to no end, just as today's Boko Haram's incidents in the North. > > What's more, these primitive incidents were so serious and lasted so > > long they got some naive Majors trying awkwardly to halt the descent > > to hell of this nation by carrying a revolution out. > > > > Till this day, wettie directly talks to every yoroba above the age > > of 50. The trauma is still there. The pains also. No event that cost > > even 50 lives can stay this memorable in the minds of a whole > > nation, of a whole region and of the victims and their descendants. > > No series of events costing only 50 lives can get a region reminding > > people of the "wild wild west" of the lawless and untamed "medieval" > > America. Wettie was a crime against a people. A crime engineered by > > an abject mind belonging to an abject personality. > > > > Igboka > > NB: Reading these freaks here, one would think awo, this primitive > > man from Ukene, ogun state INVENTED the word and the very concept of > > free education. A closer look, however, would reveal that the FIRST > > application of the free-education concept in Nigeria wasn't by this > > awo animal. What's more, even that free education in the western > > region was Akintola's idea and vision that the over-ambitious > > upstart and self-centered opportunist awo STOLE. > > > > > > De : Adeniran Adeboye > > À : NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com > > Cc : NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com; omo oodua > >; Yorubanation ; NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com > > ; imostatecongress@yahoogroups.com; igboworldforum@...; Vin > > Otuonye ; Vincent Modebelu > >; Joe Attueyi ; worldigbocongress@yahoogroups.com > > ; abiausa@yahoogroups.com > > Envoyé le : Jeudi 31 janvier 2013 4h44 > > Objet : [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: ||NaijaObserver|| Nkechi do not > > listen to Liar Yeye Leye Ige...Igbo liberated Yoruba land.... and > > and sue Nigeria & Awo: Re: Twenty-pound policy was humanitarian: Re: > > Kunle: Re: no sentiment it was war: Re: W orth Repeating: Why did > > Awo institute the 20 pounds policy > > > > > > > > Dear Aburo Peter, > > > > Happy New Year. > > > > The entire WETIE lasted from October 12 1965 to January 14, 1966 > > i.e. 15 months and 2 days. All over Western Nigeria, during that > > period, no more than five (5) people died from the operation, > > averaging one death every 3 months. I believe that it is a stretch > > to call that outcome a fratricide never never known before in Africa > > and in Nigeria. I have worse examples from some other parts of > > Nigeria before that period but it may not be politically correct to > > bring them out now. > > > > I must however admit that since the Yoruba had not demonstrated such > > civil reaction up to that point, especially between May 1962 and > > October 11, 1965, Nigerians were taken aback. > > > > Adeniran Adeboye > > > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:52 PM, peter opara wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Nkechi, do not listen to a word of inveterate liar Yeye Leye Ige. > >> > >> The entire Yoruba were powerless at the time in question, and worse > >> at the time leading up to the war itself. The Yoruba had self > >> emasculated, having engaged in a fratricide never before known in > >> Africa and in Nigeria, in particular. > >> > >> Ask liar Yeye Leye Ige to explain to you what "Operation Wetie" was > >> about. Yoruba people were setting themselves ablaze any and > >> everywhere in Yoruba land. Imagine a people who went about and > >> after their opponents with mouthful of kerosine or petrol, which > >> they spat on their fellow Yoruba, and lit the match on them, and > >> let them burn. Imagine that. > >> > >> On the contrary it was all cool and peaceful in the MI Okpara's > >> east. In Port Harcourt where I lived, as an elementary school pupil > >> then, we knew nothing but peace, Godly peace. The entire Nigeria > >> unbeknownst to us lads, were focused on conflagrating western > >> region where Yoruba people fed on each other. > >> > >> The 1966 coup d'etat, as explained by none other than one of the > >> key participants - Major Ademoyega - was intended to save Yoruba > >> people from themselves, and some how to supplant key Nigerian > >> policy makers who had looked away as the west burned. Yes, the coup > >> Yoruba people even now termed Igbo coup, was staged to save Yoruba > >> from devouring themselves. > >> > >> Fast forward post coup, it was Ojukwu who demanded at Aburi, that > >> all soldiers must return to their regions of origin. Listening to > >> Liar Yeye Leye Ige , the dissembler, you would think Yoruba who > >> were busy killing themselves, were in any shape to save themselves. > >> Whossai? It was Ojukwu who used the word "Garrisoned" in relation > >> to the preponderance of northern soldiers stationed then in the > >> west. In Ojukwu's words - the west was "garrisoned by northern > >> soldiers'. Ojukwu thus demanded that northern soldiers must be > >> withdrawn from the west. And it happened. Ojukwu even made the > >> demand relativeto his safety, when Nigeria upped their chicanery, > >> working hard to lure Ojukwu to Benin for a meeting, where they had > >> design only to murder him. > >> > >> Indeed, one of the few Godly, truthful Yoruba folks hereabouts let > >> it be known thus - "let truth be told, it was Ojukwu that liberated > >> the west from northern occupation". That is living history fact and > >> truth. But liars like Yeye Leye Ige who are drunk on Awolowo's > >> urine and bathed in Awolowo's pool of lies, will rather die than > >> accord Ojukwu the world of kudos and honor he only deserves in that > >> Lugard's Cage - Nigeria. But who cares? They Awoists sworn liars > >> anyway. > >> > >> Even Awolowo tried to smear Ojukwu, who had nothing but charitable > >> comments for Awolowo. Reading a pedestrian interview of Awolowo's > >> referring to Ojukwu as "irredeemable" sealed the fact that Awolowo > >> was, well, something else. Did you read a piece I posted here by > >> another Yoruba, Duro Onabule on Awolowo's book, where Awolowo had > >> not a single charitable word for Zik. The world belonged to > >> Awolowo, the man believed; he was the wiser, and he had to rule the > >> world. HE FAILED. The man was about power and material. And it > >> showed. Awolowo headed UPN, his wife kept the money. > >> > >> On Yoruba saving themselves, which never happened, I tell you > >> Nkechi, the likes of Bola Ige, wished Biafran soldiers could > >> overrun the west, if only to ensure that northerners or their > >> soldiers never hung around the west. Yes, Yoruba elites banked > >> their hope on Igbo as their savior. That is public knowledge. > >> > >> Everything changed when Awolowo got called in by Gowon, gave > >> Awolowo the word that Nigeria was his, if he helped Nigeria finish > >> Igbo. Opportunist extraordinare, Awolowo went to work, and with his > >> devil cousin Enahoro, they hatched the plan to starve Igbo to > >> oblivion, among other plans they hatched. > >> > >> Not long before Achebe's book came out, I let out a poser, which no > >> all knowing Yoruba cared to bite. My poser was - Why was it that > >> barely weeks after Awolowo met Ojukwu in Enugu and showed > >> understanding of Ojukwu's people's plight, Awolowo began designing > >> a way to starve the same Ojukwu's people to death. The Yoruba world > >> clammed up.Not a whimper was heard of them. Did not know there was > >> some group called Awoists. It took an Achebe to smoke out Awoists > >> from Awo pool of lies in which they reside. Now, we know them > >> satanic Awoists drunk on Awolowo urine and bathed in Awolowo's pool > >> of lies, who will deny everything about Igbo including the fact > >> that Igbo liberated Yoruba land. > >> > >> --- On Wed, 1/30/13, Leye Ige wrote: > >> > >> From: Leye Ige > >> Subject: Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] [talkhard] Re: [Anambra- > >> WorldForum] Re: and sue Nigeria & Awo: Re: Twenty-pound policy was > >> humanitarian: Re: Kunle: Re: no sentiment it was war: Re: W orth > >> Repeating: Why did Awo institute the 20 pounds policy > >> To: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com, "omo oodua" >> >, "Yorubanation" , "naijaobserver" >> >, NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com > >> Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 5:22 PM > >> > >> > >> Sister Nkechi, > >> You asked: "why didn't the FGN of put a leash on these angry