Wednesday, February 28, 2018

SV: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Breaking: Biafran hero, Brigadier Joe Achuzie (aka “Air Raid”) is Dead at 89

Funeral orators are the most hypocritical and the most dishonest people in the world, since it is in their character to always exaggerate only positive qualities to the dead. A dead person in the world of funeral orators/poets is always a saint. Following the tradition, funeral orators/poets have now promoted the late Joe Achuzie to a Brigadier in the Biafran Army even though as at 13 January 1970, he was a Colonel!! Biafra's Major General Philip Effiong who deputised for the fleeing Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and surrendered to the Nigerian Army had this to say about Joe Achuzie, "Colonel Joe Achuzie called with Bernard Odogwu of former Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) and told me the story of how he, on his initiative had made contacts with the federal troops at Orlu following my broadcast, in view of the importance attached to rank by the Nigerians, he (Achuzie) wanted me to allow him to put on a brigadier's rank so as to command more respect and be more effective in his talks with the field commanders he was meeting (p. 296, Nigeria and Biafra: My Story By Philip Effiong)." Philip Effiong Continued, "On Achuzie's contact story, I was later given the correct version of what transpired by Dr. Ifegwu Eke, former Information Commissioner of Biafra. Azuchie, apparently, had run into an ambush laid by Nigerian troops and was caught by them and by a flash of quick thinking he told them who he was and that I had sent him to establish contact with them. He was then happily received and taken to their commander. It was at this stage that Achuzie appeared and Ifegwu Eke identified him as one of his emissaries (p.296)." Joe Achuzie, whose name was spelled as Achuzia in Philip Effiong's book, was smart but not clever. Dr. Ifegwu Eke was the head of the emissary that was set to the Nigerian Field Commanders that never included Joe Achuzie.


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 the efforts of the Nigerian government to take advantage of his military knowledge thwarted - Toyin Adepoju. 
Joe Achuzie was not the only person detained after the war. Twenty-one officers who participated in January 15, 1966 coup, and were detained in the East before the outbreak of the war, were also detained after the end of the war in 1970. Furthermore, seven Officers that facilitated the invasion of the Midwest in 1967 by Biafra were equally detained for what was termed MID-WEST TREACHERY. Captain  C.S. Shadrade (alias Ahuenkwe) with the Nigerian Army Number N/64 before the war was detained together with Mr. J.O. Achuzie for Sadistic Behaviour during the war. Achuzie was managing a shop in Port Harcourt where he used to sell electric bulbs and sockets before the outbreak of the war, when he joined the Biafran army. 

.... after the national elections Abiola was winning were annulled by Abacha's  successor, Ibrahim Babangida - Toyin Adepoju. 

On the contrary, it was Babangida who annulled the 1993 elections before 'stepping aside' and handing over to Shonekan who was overthrown by Abacha. Babangida was not Abacha's successor.  Thus, and as a matter of fact, Abacha did not succeed Babangida but Shonekan the unelected head of State. 

I do not also need to remind you that if Joseph Achuzie had refused to collapse his battle fronts for Alani Akinrinade and Olusegun Obasanjo to pass and meet Philip Effiong, the "Biafra Surrender" which your revisionist historians mouth today would not have been possible - Chidi Anthony Opara. 
Where were Joseph Achuzie's supposed battle fronts that he collapsed for Alani Akinrinade and Olusegun Obasanjo to pass and meet Philip Effiong in January 1970? The answer is, there was none. Here follows what the Chief Secretary to Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, N.U. Akpan wrote on why and how Ojukwu abandoned his Biafran Soldiers to escape into safety in January 1970. Starting on page 165 of his book,

THE STRUGGLE FOR SECESSION !966-1970, Mr. Akpan wrote, "The Governor (Ojukwu) had arrived at Owerri on the evening of Thursday, January 8, in a hurried flight from Madonna, forty miles away, his permanent residence since the fall of Umuahia. It had been a confused and panic-ridden day for everybody. The Federal troops had crossed the Imo river at more than two points. And Imo River had always been regarded as the most effective natural barrier against the enemy. Shells were falling in Madonna. Early in the morning of the said January 8 (1970), we had been told that the Federal troops were twenty-nine miles from Owerri along the Aba-Owerri road. By noon they were less than fifteen miles away. I phoned the Commanding Officer, Brigadier Kalu, who told me that the situation was now hopeless and advised that any contingency plans made should be put into immediate effect. Later that afternoon Major-General Philip Efiong (Chief of General Staff, Biafran Armed Forces) called to inform me that Major-General Madiebo, the GOC of the Biafran Army, had told him that the army could no longer hold." "At the Ogwa meeting of January 9, the Governor (Ojukwu) had announced plans to keep the enemy out of Owerri. He did not tell anybody, although he must have known, that the Federal troops were already in control of Owerri. According to the Governor, plans had been completed for Col. Achuzie to move with two thousand troops to fight the Federal troops inside Owerri. No such plans, it is now known, had been made except in the Governor's own imagination." "Federal troops were less than ten miles away from us, having overrun Owerri early the previous day, and were approaching Orlu from two directions. I came face to face with this reality ...... when we met, less than five miles from Nkwere, streams of panic-stricken Biafran troops both on foot and in vehicles, fleeing in disorder in the opposite direction." That was the military situation that forced Ojukwu to flee on Sunday, 11 January 1970 and subsequent Broadcast of Philip Effiong, at 16:40:00 hours on Monday, 12 January 1970, in which he announced Biafra's unilateral cessation of war of secession from Nigeria. He that knows that Achuzie had wanted to start guerrilla warfare and was persuaded not to do that is obliged to tell us who persuaded him, otherwise, the idea of guerrilla warfare should be taken as a bluff.

S. Kadiri





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Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Breaking: Biafran hero, Brigadier Joe Achuzie (aka "Air Raid") is Dead at 89
 
Thanks to Oluwatoyin Ade-Odutola for politely reminding me, in a private mail, that the correct name is Peter Obe, the civil war photographer, not Ebenezer Obe, the musician, my mind mixing them up in the speed of writing.

As for omitting the stories about the war strategies of Joe 'Hannibal Achuzie, informed readers will also observe that I also said nothing about  the war strategies of Benjamin 'Black Scorpion' Adekunle and Murtala Muhammed, about such historic incidents on the Biafran and Nigerian sides as the Abagana ambush,  the Asaba massacre etc.

I edited those out bcs I wanted to avoid the equivocal dust of war and simply celebrate the passing of a warrior.

IBK has given me my first laugh of this morning.

toyin

On 27 February 2018 at 23:45, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
IBK,
I am pro Biafra, albeit not the Nnamdi Kanu and Ralph Uwazuruike variant, so, I do not need to "gradually show Biafra credential". It is already there and there is nothing you or any other persons can do about it.

I do not also need to remind you that if Joseph Achuzie had refused to collapse his battle fronts for Alani Akinrinade and Olusegun Obasanjo to pass and meet Philip Effiong, the "Biafra surrender" which your revisionist historians mouth today, would not have been possible.

Furthermore, if Joseph Achuzie had gone into guerrilla warfare, as he wanted to initially, before he was persuaded to lay down arms, there would not have been anything called Nigeria today, judging by the man's military prowess.

Your "no victor, no vanquished" and three "Rs" (reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction) were however, phoney.

CAO.

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