Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju,
Another plastic piece from you. Lazily put together and lacking in depth. Peter Obe was the war photographer. Ebenezer Obey is the juju musician. Please correct this infantile error that no primary 5 student of the Nigerian civil war should make.
IBK
NB: From sources, this man was reputed to be a very wicked man who shot Biafrans at close range on mere suspicion that they are malingering or cowards. I hope you will do your research on him well and give a balanced account of his life.
On 27 February 2018 at 06:04, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Hannibal] Achuzie represents the absolute determination of the Biafran war effort in the face of overwhelming odds in the Nigerian Civil War.His exploits led to his being given the nickname "Hannibal", invoking the Carthaginian general remembered for leading his army and troop of elephants across the Alps to attack Rome and its fearsome imperial army in the Punic Wars.His Western wife and their son were in Biafra during the war. One of Ebenezer Obe's iconic pictures in his classic photo book about the war from the point of view of the Nigerian side, The Nigerian Civil War in Pictures, is of Achuzie, his wife and their very young son, surrounded by Nigerian soldiers seating at ease while the three stand in uneasy calm in their centre.He describes himself in an interview as being punished for his role in the war effort by spending time in jail for years immediately after the war and efforts of the Nigerian government to take advantage of his military knowledge thwarted.Like the other fearsome commander on the Nigerian side, "Black Scorpion" Benjamin Adekunle, and another prominent figure on the Nigerian side, Mohammed Shuwa, he retreated out of public life after the war.
Adekunle and Shuwa are not known to me, and most likely to many, to have built any prominent capital, if any at all, out their roles in the war. On the other hand, such Nigerian military leaders who became prominent through their roles in the crises that led to the war and in the war itself, such as Theophilus Danjuma, eventually emerged into great wealth, most likely through positioning made possible by those crises. The pre-war crises and the war made the army a central factor in Nigerian politics, particularly as represented by various coups before and after the war in which they took over the nation by force of arms, that influence persisting even during civilian led governments through the efforts of its retired generals.
Olusegun Obasanjo, a central figure in the final push that led to the Biafran surrender, another iconic Obey image being that of Obasanjo surrounded by his troops at the fall of the Biafran Uli airstrip at or near the time of the Biafran surrender, became deputy military head of state after Murtala Muhammed, who also became prominent through his role in the pre-war crises and his efforts in the war, successfully staged a coup removing Yakubu Gowon, whom the pre-war crises had made head of state and who so remained after the war till that coup.
Obasanjo became head of state after the Muhammed assassination and years after his tenure, he became President after the mysterious demise of both Sani Abacha, the military dictator and Moshood Abiola, the civilian businessman politician he was pitched against in the struggle for Abiola's leadership mandate after the national elections Abiola was winning were annulled by Abacha's successor Ibrahim Babangida. Obasanjao is now one of Nigeria's most influential power brokers, central to deciding who leads the nation.--On 27 February 2018 at 03:53, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:[Hannibal] Achuzie represents the absolute determination of the Biafran war effort in the face of overwhelming odds in the Nigerian Civil War.His exploits led to his being given the nickname "Hannibal", invoking the Carthaginian general remembered for leading his army and troop of elephants across the Alps to attack Rome and its fearsome imperial army in the Punic Wars.His Western wife and their son were in Biafra during the war. One of Ebenezer Obe's iconic pictures in his classic photo book about the war from the point of view of the Nigerian side, The Nigerian Civil War in Pictures, is of Achuzie, his wife and their very young son, surrounded by Nigerian soldiers seating at ease while the three stand in uneasy calm in their centre.He describes himself in an interview as being punished for his role in the war effort by spending time in jail for years immediately after the war and efforts of the Nigerian government to take advantage of his military knowledge thwarted.Like the other fearsome commander on the Nigerian side, "Black Scorpion" Benjamin Adekunle, and another prominent figure on the Nigerian side, Mohammed Shuwa, he retreated out of public life after the war.
Adekunle and Shuwa are not known to me, and most likely to many, to have built any capital out their roles in the war. On the other hand, such Nigerian military leaders who became prominent through their roles in the crises that led to the war and in the war itself, such as Theophilus Danjuma, eventually emerged into great wealth, most likely through positioning made possible by those crises.
Olusegun Obasanjo, a central figure in the final push that led to the Biafran surrender, another iconic Obey image being that of Obasanjo surrounded by his troops at the fall of the Biafran Uli airstrip at or near the time of the Biafran surrender, became deputy military head of state after Murtala Muhammed, who also became prominent through his role in the pre-war crises and his efforts in the war.
Obasanjo became head of state after the Muhammed assassination and years lafter his tenure, he became President after the mysterious demise of both Sani Abacha, the military dictator and Moshood Abiola, the civilian businessman politician he was pitched against in the struggle for Abiola's leadership mandate after the national elections Abiola was winning were annulled by Abacha's successor Ibrahim Babangida. Obasanjao is now one of Nigeria's most influential power brokers, central to deciding who leads the nation.---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: rex gomes <cumunnah@gmail.com>
Date: 26 February 2018 at 21:13
Subject: Breaking: Biafran hero, Brigadier Joe Achuzie (aka "Air Raid") is Dead at 89
To:Breaking: Biafran hero, Brigadier Joe Achuzie (aka "Air Raid") is Dead at 89...read full text: http://republicreporters
.com/breaking-brigadier-joe-ac huzie-biafras-air-raid-is-dead /
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