[size=15pt]Quitters never win, winners never quit[/size]

Nobody is blaming the Ibo people for going ahead with the biafra war, the war was a necessary evil. After the pogrom in the north, the Ibo's were left with no option than to fight for  survival of their race and preserve their cultural identity. The issue of contention is the nature of the man who led the struggle and his actions that cause the Ibo people dearly to this day.

At the eleventh hour, towards the end of the war: Biafra was in ruin, both side were guilty of war crime, more than  2 million people have died, the federal army are certain of victory and are closing in. Ojukwu must make a heroic  decision and his options are limited:

1- He could fight to the end and go down paying the ultimate price

2- He could withdraw to the bush and continue fighting a guerrilla war, thus forcing the government into a concession

3- He could negotiate a surrender with concession from the government.

Ojukwu took the simplest option: he ran away like a chicken at the site of the hawk. He left Biafra in total devastation and ruin to his 2IC late Lt. Col. Philip Effiong , who took the 3rd option: he surrendered, but without concession. If Ojukwu had negotiated the surrender himself, he would have been able to squeeze certain concessions from the government. Ojukwu only care about his neck!

Years later, he was pardoned by the Shagari regime, bribed and joined NPN; which allowed the party to further penetrate eastern Nigeria and captured some states. He tried to get back some of his properties in Lagos, and married a girl of  his grand daughter age after going through bitter war of words with the father. this guy is shameless!

More than 2 million people died in the war, Ibo properties were lost and confiscated, life were shattered and destroyed, Ibo were being denied their legitimate  share of national cake and federal positions, but all Ojukwu could think of is to fight for a girl and his landed property. the guy is a disgrace

At the eleventh hour, he has a choice: either to die like a hero and be immortalise for eternity, or live like a coward.
Ojukwu choose to live like a coward.

winners never quit, quitters never win.

Ojukwu is a coward and a  loser

We have all heard all these before, so your above ranting is your answer to your own posed question? I fought in that war at Obudu and Ogoja sector for Biafra and so do my father and four brothers and twice with my very eyes Ojukwu came to the very war front and fought and I can't remember how many war leaders EVER to do that. You arm chair generals are the one that kept yapping about Ojukwu and not from the very people that were with him or generality of his people.

Talk about crying more than the bereaved.

This was a man who used his inheritance to defend his people and I am sure Ikemba can stand tall today and say that he is one of few that never embezzled anything from the masses but rather sacrificed his one wealth for the survival of his people. Rather your myopic obsession led you to make crass statement about who he marries or who he sleep with.

If he is a coward let him be our coward as it has nothing to do with you. You can accuse Ojukwu just about anything but no one can question his love of his people. So keep your silly opinion to yourself, you silly prat.

I would like you to rephrase tha question agaoin this time with the barrel of a gun down your throat.

Will yoou choose to die hero or live to see another day.


Ojukwu ""HERO"

i think he was actually both.

I'd say a little bit of both. he cold have done better but that is now water under the bridge.

How many times will we adress this issue here? The issue at hand now is how to move the north forward or better still, how to bring them along with the south in terms of development.

DeepZone:

How many times will we adress this issue here? The issue at hand now is how to move the north forward or better still, how to bring them along with the south in terms of development.

I never knew you had some sense in you. Nice one DZ

mekk:

i think he was actually both.

To me he is a War hero

But when you talk of cowards i give to General Oladipo Diya who cried like a baby boy when shown a home made video.

@poster

I wonder why you dey drink panadol for another man headache.

Foolish nigerians.

Ojukwu's hands were tied. The inept Nigerian government (even more inept today) refused to prevent the pogrom against Igbos, and in some cases encouraged and participated in the pogrom. Ojukwu could not stand and watch Igbos being killed while the state security apparatus nudged on the perpetrators. Fighting against a state that failed to protect a section of her citizenry is an unquestionably act of heroism!

OJUKWU, EFFIONG ARE ALL HEROES.

The poster should not be bothered. What's your concern like the Veteran said. Keep your opinion to yourself. NONSENSE

Ojukwu is a Big time coward.

Led his people to war escaped while millions died,

Came back to join the same people you fought against in NPN and later contested to rule the same Nigeria he attempted to break away from.

What act of cowardice was more.

Rubbish idiots.

He simply did what his people wanted. A total independence from U VICIOUS MURDER HAPPY NIGERIANS. Just because he did not succeed in the END does not make him a COWARD. THE COWARDS ARE U BASTARDS AND UR LEADERS WHO COMMITTED THE GENOCIDES AND RAPE AGAINST INNOCENT ARMLESS PEOPLE BEFORE DURING AND AFTER THE WAR.

U IDIOTS KEEP BRINGING UP THE SAME OVER USED SILLY ARGUMENT THAT HE TOOK US TO WAR WHEN U KNOW DAMN WELL NO ONE WAKES AND JUST DECIDES TO GO TO WAR. HE NEVER WENT TO WAR. WE NEVER WENT TO WAR. WE SIMPLY MOVED BACK TO OUR ANCESTRAL LAND SINCE NO ONE WANTED ANYMORE IN NIGERIA AND MADE IT CLEAR BY KILLING US. WE WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE BUT U BASTARDS HAVE BIG THIRST FOR BLOOD AND U MATCHED ONTO OUR HOMELAND.

WHAT WERE IGBOS, EFIKS, IBIBIOS, SUPPOSED TO DO? FOLD ARMS WHILE U KILL EM AND GO SCOT FREE. IF THEY WERE GONNA DIE THEY RATHER DIE WITH A FIGHT KNOWING THAT THEY ATLEAST STOOD UP TO THEIR ENEMY NOT CAPITULATE IN ONE DAY. THAT MAKES ME A PROUD IGBO ---IBIBIO MAN.

LOSING A WAR DOES NOT MEAN THAT U ARE WRONG. THE JEWS LOST OVER 6 MILLION. WERE BANISHED FROM EUROPE. THEY SETTLED BACK IN THEIR NATIVE LAND ISREAL. NOW DOES THAT MEAN THAT THEY DESERVED IT. ARE U GONNA BLAME THEM FOR THE CRIME COMMITTED AGAINST THEM BY GERMANY.

BIAFRA CANNOT BE BLAMED FOR THE CRIME NIGERIA COMMITTED. IT IS NOT OUR FAULT THAT WE HAD TO DEAL WITH NIGERIAN SAVAGES. SHIT HAPPENS IN LIFE BUT WHAT GOES AROUND SURELY COMES AROUND. NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT. WHILE U REJOICE AT ANOTHER MAN'S LOSS BE PREPARED FOR URS AND WHEN IT COMES U WILL KNOW.


SARO WIWA, ADAKA BORO, OGONIS, IJAWS, TIVS, AND MORE HAVE GOTTEN A SMALL TASTE OF IT AND DON'T WANNA BE PART OF THE COUNTRY EITHER.

Billymuse,

Please explain to me how Ojukwu was responsible for war crimes committed by Nigerian troops.

Was he the one that used starvation as a weapon of war and blockaded Biafra?

Was he responsible for the 20 pounds given to Biafrans after the war regardless of how much they had? My parents and my sister lived through that period. My brothers who were born a few years after that could still see the effects of the war around them. But unlike many people Igbo like my parents bounced back to take up positions and now can boast of having real properties.

Was he responsible for our family house owned by my grandparents and relatives in Kaduna that were burnt and razed to the ground during the pogron?

Was he responsible for the deaths of over 2000 Igbo men in Asaba?

Was he responsible for the broad day light rape and sodomizing of women by Nigerian troops after the war?

Was he responsible for further harassment and killings of Biafra civilians even when the 2nd in command. His honorable late General Obong Phillip Effiong had already surrendered, signed papers and was actually locked up in Lagos.

U guys amaze a lot. Stop twisting history just to fit your own bigoted view of the issue.

Ojukwu was once a hero and later a coward

Nigerians especially Yorubas are not happy because Ojukwu wisely avoided their plans to capture and parade him naked in the streets of nigeria before killing him so as to humiliate Ndigbo. Sorry, Ojukwu is too much for you idiots. I guess Saro wiwa and Adaka boro that stupidly fall into you canibals death trap are heroes in your eyes. There are many world great leaders that went into exile instead of being humiliated at one point in time and i can list them if you want.
I guess that made them cowards more than awolowo and the Yorubas who are the real cowards that died and awaken several times when awusas came with their threat before the nigerian Biafran war. The Yorubas couldn't stand and fight the awusas and on the process were captured by the awusas and coerced into awusa war against the Igbos. Umu anumanu.

Ojukwu remains a hero who fought a war that the Yorubas would have fought if Brigadier Ogundipe who at the time of the counter coup was the most senior army officer who should have taken over.

Ojukwu would never accept Gowon as his CIC and that is normal in the army considering Gowon's rank.

As the leader of Biafra Ojukwu could not have negotiated any surrender because he was the symbol of the struggle at that time. Put differently, the war would have been more bitter (even in defeat) if Ojukwu surrended himself whether alive or killed.

He did what was appropriate at that time and well meaning Igbos respect him till tomorrow for what he sacrificed for his people.

NB: It is Igbo not Ibo

And the most appropriate thing was to run to exile while the people suffered.

Later come home to join the killers in Politics in the NPN and later Contest for the presidency of Nigeria An entity he did not believe in

COWARDICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hhmmn either ojukwu was a coward or a hero,there are 2 sides to a story,without getting into an argument or debate i know that while ojukwu did not suddenly wake up one day to fight,nigerians too did not suddenly wake up one day and decided to start killing ibos
@udezue and quota system
while you guys have a legitimate grouse against nigeria,yoruba/hausa whaeva,like you accused the poster,arnt you using panadol for another person's headache as well?i think you should leave the niger delta/south south to fight their corner,i see you trying to play to the gallery in their defence like i have seen others do but the south south have made it clear times without number that they are not part of the biafra and if they r breaking away from nigeria,it ll be on their own terms and on their own not with ibos or anybody as they r not ready to go from one enslavement to the other,just an oservatn

I have since discovered that those who do hero worship especially of politicians from whichever tribe
are more often than not suffering from all manner of insecurities, so they need proxies to live their lives
for them.

A hint to you peeps, . . . . . Bat for your own corner and not some happy go lucky chaps

Luba


U don't speak for the whole of Nigerdelta so shut up. U can speak for whatever ethnic group u belong to but don't you come here to be the PR for the ND or whatever u people call urselves. What about Igbos in ND do u speak for them? U don't. They are Igbos plain and simple. Go check ur history book. There are many people in that region that fought galantly for Biafra. U can deny it all u want but its true. Phillip Effiong, Opugo, Akpan, Paddy Davies are just a few examples so what are u talking about?

As long as Efiks, Ibibios, ETC ETC fought in Biafra we will continue to mention them. Its history and history can't be erased based on BLIND HATE AND BIGOTRY LIKE FOLKS LIKE U IN THAT REGION ARE ACCUSTOMED TO.


Nigerias not only killed Igbos they killed easterners. So are the Igbos at fault for the killings that went on. Are Easterners at fault. What was Ojukwu's  and Eastern response to the killing? They simply told Northerners to go back to their region while they encouraged the Easterners to hurry back home. Looking at how these  bloody Nigerians still went further and killed 3 million of us I think OJUKWU and the Eastern soldiers, civilians did a big mistake by letting them go home. They should have applied TIT FOR TAT in the East and Midwest. Wipe every stinking Norther in the South and not even declare Biafra. Dey for just do am like that and "SCREAM ONE NIGERIA." after all that is what ONE NIGERIA stands for. KILLING OUR SELVES AND STAYING TOGETHER.

80,000 EASTERNERS SHOULD NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF A FEW MILITARY OFFICERS BESIDES NOT ALL WERE IGBO BUT YORUBA WERE SPARED NO WONDER THEY ALSO JOINED IN THE KILLING OF BIAFRANS I GUESS AS A SHOW OF THANX TO THE FULANI, TIV MURDERERS. STINKING COWARDS.

IF ANY NIGERIAN LIKE LUBA WANTS TO USE THE COUP AS A JUSTIFICATION EVEN WHEN IGBOS, EFIKS, HAVE FELL VICTIM TO HAUSA KILLINGS before THE COUP SEF THEN I THINK ITS RIGHT TO SAY THAT WHEN EVER AGAIN A HAUSA MAN KILLS AN IGBO MAN IN THE NORTH WE SHOUD DECEND ON THE Hausas in the Eat and wipe them off. Whenever OPC strikes at our people in Lagos we should match down the streets of PH aka Igwe ocha and kill every Yoruba person we can find. If ever the little minority TIV tribe gets on our nerves we should just KILL em off at Enugu benue border towns and anywhere we constitute a majority.

I think ONCE WE IGBOS LEARN TO ACT SO VICIOUS AND BLOODTHIRSTY LIKE THE REST OF NIGERIA ESPECIALLY NORTH THEN WE WILL BE FULLY APPRECIATED. NIGERIA FROM WHAT I SEE IS NOT A PLACE WHERE GOODNESS IS GIVEN ANY RECOGNITION SO IGBOS WHY ARE WE STILL TRYING TO BE HOLIER THAN THOU WHEN WE CAN JUST ACT LIKE THESE people AND THEY WILL LIKE US BETTER?

THE FOOL WHO CALLS OJUKWU A COWARD IS THE COWARD because U KNOW DAMN WELL U COULDN'T ACCOMPLISH ONE QUARTER WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED AS A MAN SERVING HIS REGION.

WHAT HAVE U IDIOTS DONE TO RIGHT ANY WRONG. IF U WERE IN THE POSITION, EFFIONG, OJUKWU, AKPAN, MADIEBO, ETC FOUND THEMSELVES IN WHAT WOULD U DO?

WE ALL KNOW THAT LIKE COWARDS U ARE U WOULD HAVE CAPITULATED IN ONE DAY AND NOT FIGHT BACK AGAINST AN AGGRESSIVE ARMY KILLING UR PEOPLE. WHO SITS BACK AND WATCH AS HIS PEOPLE ARE DECIMATED BY OTHERS.

EVEN SARO WIWA WHO FOUGHT AGAINST BIAFRA DUE TO HIS MISGUIDED HATRED FOR IGBOS KNEW HOW TO STAND UP FOR HIS PEOPLE WHEN THERE OWN TURN CAME TO GET TRASHED BY NIGERIA. HE DIDNT SIT BACK HOME DRINKING OGOGORO.  

May u be reminded that as much u may not like Igbos we do have our mixed heritages. Do u know me? I guess whenever someone comes off as pro Igbo HE aint good enough. What headache are worrying about? The difference btwn me and u is that when I see injustice against anyone I will speak up against it and NOT join or sit quiet just because he or she is not from my ethnic group. SOMETHING MANY OF U IN THAT REGION NEED TO LEARN. THAT IS WHY U GUYS FALL PREY TO UR ENEMIES COZ U ARE FILLED SO MUCH FOR ONE ANOTHER U CAN'T SPEAK UP AGAINST EVIL BEEN DONE TO ANOTHER MAN BECAUSE HE IS IGBO, OGONI, IJO, ORON, ETC.

Injustice is Injustice regardless of the person's ethnicity.

Many minorities don't wanna talk about Biafra or want to distance themselves from the topic and name out of fear of REPRISAL BY NIGERIA. LETS BE HONEST. Even many Igbos are scared to openly support Biafra in Nigeria out of FEAR OF REPRISAL. HAVE U EVER WONDERED WHY WE HAVE NO STREETS, AIRPORTS, ETC NAMED IN HONOR OF MEN LIKE Obong Efiong, Odumegwu Ojukwu, Akpan, Opugo, PADDY DAVIES ,etc na FEAR OF NIGERIAN ARMY AND ITS WICKED ATTITUDE.

The non Igbo men who fought and died for Biafra did it because they saw injustice and stood up against it. They did not stand by or join for some stupid gains like houses, and a few government jobs. ITS IRONIC THAT THE FOOLS WHO GLADLY JOINED NIGERIA ARE NOW THE ONES FIGHTING THE HARDEST AGAINST THE SAME DEVILS THEY WINED AND DINED WITH.

IJAW AND OGONI TAKE NOTE.

ALTHOUGH IT WAS AN IJAW MAN Opugo that really gave us the name Biafra some Ijaw leaders led many Ijaw people to fight against Biafra. The same with Ogonis.

The same Ojukwu who was demonized by Ken Saro wiwa and accused of wanting to have an Igbo empire Biafra and kill minorities is the same one Ken Saro sat with at Ohanaeze meeting and apologzed for taking part in the GENOCIDE AND INJUSTICE AGAINST BIAFRA. The same "COWARD" Ojukwu was invited to be a speaker for a program/memorial done for KEN SARO WIWA in PH by the Ogoni people but he did not come for some personal reason.

The only reason why

THE SAME MAN IS A COWARD?

Give me a break all u IMBECILES.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs

Educate yourselves.

nigerians and unwriten history. who is telling the truth and whose truth? we too sabi re write history

He that fight and run away lives to fight another day.  98% of Nigerian and Biafran Soldiers who participated actively in that war believe that Ojukwu is a Hero.  Ojukwu left Nigeria and in two days the war ended.  Biafran soldiers had a meeting and agreed to surrender and that was why Ojukwu left the country.  He didn't just run away.

You all believe that Osama Bin Laden is a Hero today but he never stood and fought against US troops.  He only sponsored the destruction of World Trade Centre in peace time.  Osama is hiding from one place to another and yet he is a hero to you.  Saddam Hussein was once seen as a hero but when they killed him, you all turned to yab him as a foolish man.

Ojukwu fought against Nigeria troops for 3 years and sponsored the war with his father's wealth for that 3 years.  In Nigeria who has done that to his region?  If Ojukwu is not a hero, who then is a hero in Nigeria?

With little amunitions Biafrans had, Ojukwu was able to encourage Biafrans.  Even when Chukwuma Nzeogwu was killed, Ojukwu told the World that if Nzeogwu is killed there are still many Nzeogwus in Biafra land.  He said this to cheer Biafrans up.  What do you what again from him?  To die before you call him a hero?

Where were other soldiers in other regions when Gowon took over? Ojukwu was the only person that challenged Gowon that he was a junior to Ogundipe but every other soldier from other region kept quiet. Who is a coward?

Luba


U don't speak for the whole of Nigerdelta so shut up. U can speak for whatever ethnic group u belong to but don't you come here to be the PR for the ND or whatever u people call urselves. What about Igbos in ND do u speak for them? U don't. They are Igbos plain and simple. Go check ur history book. There are many people in that region that fought galantly for Biafra. U can deny it all u want but its true. Phillip Effiong, Opugo, Akpan, Paddy Davies are just a few examples so what are u talking about?

As long as Efiks, Ibibios, ETC ETC fought in Biafra we will continue to mention them. Its history and history can't be erased based on BLIND HATE AND BIGOTRY LIKE FOLKS LIKE U IN THAT REGION ARE ACCUSTOMED TO.


Nigerias not only killed Igbos they killed easterners. So are the Igbos at fault for the killings that went on. Are Easterners at fault. What was Ojukwu's and Eastern response to the killing? They simply told Northerners to go back to their region while they encouraged the Easterners to hurry back home. Looking at how these bloody Nigerians still went further and killed 3 million of us I think OJUKWU and the Eastern soldiers, civilians did a big mistake by letting them go home. They should have applied TIT FOR TAT in the East and Midwest. Wipe every stinking Norther in the South and not even declare Biafra. Dey for just do am like that and "SCREAM ONE NIGERIA." after all that is what ONE NIGERIA stands for. KILLING OUR SELVES AND STAYING TOGETHER.

80,000 EASTERNERS SHOULD NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF A FEW MILITARY OFFICERS BESIDES NOT ALL WERE IGBO BUT YORUBA WERE SPARED NO WONDER THEY ALSO JOINED IN THE KILLING OF BIAFRANS I GUESS AS A SHOW OF THANX TO THE FULANI, TIV MURDERERS. STINKING COWARDS.

IF ANY NIGERIAN LIKE LUBA WANTS TO USE THE COUP AS A JUSTIFICATION EVEN WHEN IGBOS, EFIKS, HAVE FELL VICTIM TO HAUSA KILLINGS before THE COUP SEF THEN I THINK ITS RIGHT TO SAY THAT WHEN EVER AGAIN A HAUSA MAN KILLS AN IGBO MAN IN THE NORTH WE SHOUD DECEND ON THE Hausas in the Eat and wipe them off. Whenever OPC strikes at our people in Lagos we should match down the streets of PH aka Igwe ocha and kill every Yoruba person we can find. If ever the little minority TIV tribe gets on our nerves we should just KILL em off at Enugu benue border towns and anywhere we constitute a majority.

I think ONCE WE IGBOS LEARN TO ACT SO VICIOUS AND BLOODTHIRSTY LIKE THE REST OF NIGERIA ESPECIALLY NORTH THEN WE WILL BE FULLY APPRECIATED. NIGERIA FROM WHAT I SEE IS NOT A PLACE WHERE GOODNESS IS GIVEN ANY RECOGNITION SO IGBOS WHY ARE WE STILL TRYING TO BE HOLIER THAN THOU WHEN WE CAN JUST ACT LIKE THESE people AND THEY WILL LIKE US BETTER?

THE FOOL WHO CALLS OJUKWU A COWARD IS THE COWARD because U KNOW DAMN WELL U COULDN'T ACCOMPLISH ONE QUARTER WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED AS A MAN SERVING HIS REGION.

WHAT HAVE U IDIOTS DONE TO RIGHT ANY WRONG. IF U WERE IN THE POSITION, EFFIONG, OJUKWU, AKPAN, MADIEBO, ETC FOUND THEMSELVES IN WHAT WOULD U DO?

WE ALL KNOW THAT LIKE COWARDS U ARE U WOULD HAVE CAPITULATED IN ONE DAY AND NOT FIGHT BACK AGAINST AN AGGRESSIVE ARMY KILLING UR PEOPLE. WHO SITS BACK AND WATCH AS HIS PEOPLE ARE DECIMATED BY OTHERS.

EVEN SARO WIWA WHO FOUGHT AGAINST BIAFRA DUE TO HIS MISGUIDED HATRED FOR IGBOS KNEW HOW TO STAND UP FOR HIS PEOPLE WHEN THERE OWN TURN CAME TO GET TRASHED BY NIGERIA. HE DIDNT SIT BACK HOME DRINKING OGOGORO.

May u be reminded that as much u may not like Igbos we do have our mixed heritages. Do u know me? I guess whenever someone comes off as pro Igbo HE aint good enough. What headache are worrying about? The difference btwn me and u is that when I see injustice against anyone I will speak up against it and NOT join or sit quiet just because he or she is not from my ethnic group. SOMETHING MANY OF U IN THAT REGION NEED TO LEARN. THAT IS WHY U GUYS FALL PREY TO UR ENEMIES because U ARE FILLED SO MUCH FOR ONE ANOTHER U CAN'T SPEAK UP AGAINST EVIL BEEN DONE TO ANOTHER MAN BECAUSE HE IS IGBO, OGONI, IJO, ORON, ETC.

Injustice is Injustice regardless of the person's ethnicity.

Many minorities don't want to talk about Biafra or want to distance themselves from the topic and name out of fear of REPRISAL BY NIGERIA. LETS BE HONEST. Even many Igbos are scared to openly support Biafra in Nigeria out of FEAR OF REPRISAL. HAVE U EVER WONDERED WHY WE HAVE NO STREETS, AIRPORTS, ETC NAMED IN HONOR OF MEN LIKE Obong Efiong, Odumegwu Ojukwu, Akpan, Opugo, PADDY DAVIES ,etc na FEAR OF NIGERIAN ARMY AND ITS WICKED ATTITUDE.

The non Igbo men who fought and died for Biafra did it because they saw injustice and stood up against it. They did not stand by or join for some stupid gains like houses, and a few government jobs. ITS IRONIC THAT THE FOOLS WHO GLADLY JOINED NIGERIA ARE NOW THE ONES FIGHTING THE HARDEST AGAINST THE SAME DEVILS THEY WINED AND DINED WITH.

IJAW AND OGONI TAKE NOTE.

ALTHOUGH IT WAS AN IJAW MAN Opugo that really gave us the name Biafra some Ijaw leaders led many Ijaw people to fight against Biafra. The same with Ogonis.

The same Ojukwu who was demonized by Ken Saro wiwa and accused of wanting to have an Igbo empire Biafra and kill minorities is the same one Ken Saro sat with at Ohanaeze meeting and apologzed for taking part in the GENOCIDE AND INJUSTICE AGAINST BIAFRA. The same "COWARD" Ojukwu was invited to be a speaker for a program/memorial done for KEN SARO WIWA in PH by the Ogoni people but he did not come for some personal reason.

The only reason why

THE SAME MAN IS A COWARD?

Give me a break all u IMBECILES.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ReFoFp0Gs

Educate yourselves.

What do you what again from him? To die before you call him a hero?

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Oh yes that what they want.

UNACCOMPLISHED IDIOTS CRYING MORE THAN THE BEREAVED. HE IS OUR HERO. SIMPLE.

Hero ko.

Looking back at events that produced Ojukwu, I do say that , the IKEMBA is a hero of the Igbos. At that particular point in time when leadership was sought he lived up to the challenge even though he was not prepared for it he did play out his role quite well.

For other tribes may view him differently as well judge him. But I do say when we remove the tribal toga from him and try to access him as a man, HE STANDS TALL. Given similar situation many will have walked away.

Though the bruises and the immediate cause of the civil war is another tale for another day.

boyscout:

Looking back at events that produced Ojukwu, I do say that , the IKEMBA is a hero of the Igbos. At that particular point in time when leadership was sought he lived up to the challenge even though he was not prepared for it he did play out his role quite well.

For other tribes may view him differently as well judge him. But I do say when we remove the tribal toga from him and try to access him as a man, HE STANDS TALL. Given similar situation many will have walked away.

Though the bruises and the immediate cause of the civil war is another tale for another day.

No body is saying he is not a hero

But he shouldn't have started something he knew he couldn't end

Afterall,the biafra war ended with no Victor no Vanquished

He destroyed the life of millions just because he wanted to earn a name for himself in the sands of time.

Forgeting that "the greatest battles were won without war and bloodshed". 

What did he start? The war itself.
We all have read what happened after the first coup failed and befell Aguyi Ironsi. It was a military era and and was the most Senior Igbo officer and when the fate of the nation at that level comes up for discuss he should be able to present a view that will not alienate his tribe.

Igbos were returning home not welcomed in many places and it was quite obvious something was wrong. Even if had thought otherwise then, the prevailing situation encouraged it. and if you had read his book WHY I WAS INVOLVED you do know that he felt he was boxed to a corner. Like a humble sheep who does not have anywhere to run to he had to fight and they fought. Yes the war is over leaving so much scar. Many remember it with nausea.

I think the question of him been judged a HERO stemmed out of the fact that as at the time there was need for decisive leadership in Igbo history ,he provided Igbos leadership.

As I said other tribes may judge otherwise as a Hero at home could be view as a Villain abroad.

lucabrasi:

@udezue and quota system
while you guys have a legitimate grouse against nigeria,yoruba/hausa whaeva,like you accused the poster,arnt you using panadol for another person's headache as well?i think you should leave the niger delta/south south to fight their corner,i see you trying to play to the gallery in their defence like i have seen others do but the south south have made it clear times without number that they are not part of the biafra and if they r breaking away from nigeria,it ll be on their own terms and on their own not with ibos or anybody as they r not ready to go from one enslavement to the other,just an oservatn

@ Lucabrasi who made u information Minister for ND people,
I will advice u to concentrate on the topic, (Is Ojukwu A War Hero or A Corward). OK

lucabrasi:

@udezue and quota system
while you guys have a legitimate grouse against nigeria,yoruba/hausa whaeva,like you accused the poster,arnt you using panadol for another person's headache as well?i think you should leave the niger delta/south south to fight their corner,i see you trying to play to the gallery in their defence like i have seen others do but the south south have made it clear times without number that they are not part of the biafra and if they r breaking away from nigeria,it ll be on their own terms and on their own not with ibos or anybody as they r not ready to go from one enslavement to the other,just an oservatn

@ Lucabrasi who made u information Minister for ND people,
I will advice u to concentrate on the topic, (Is Ojukwu A War Hero or A Coward). OK

@udezue
dude,chill out, you r letting the hate eat you up n becloud your reasoning, i knew i was going to touch a sore spot when i mentioned niger delta and i was right, seems im beginning to get the real reason for the second call for secession/biafra,jp clark and other notable ijaw/south south said it loud and clear that they will never secede with the ibos and will rather go on their own because leaving nigeria to join biafra is like freeing themselves from one master and serving under another master,as for the ijaws that fought on the biafran side bravo,im suprised you didnt mention the yoruba man that fought gallantly on biafra's side, hmmm

no one is arguing that,they didnt fight on your side in the biafra war,but the mechanics of power,politics e.t.c has changed now,so the niger delta would be best served being o their own,why would they enslave themselves under biafra when they have enough oil/manpower to build a naion on their own,what dyu have to offer them?if you r calling for biafra,fine but dont call people who are not ready to join you,they have said it loud n clear they r not afiliated to either yoruba,ibo,hausa e.t.c btw part of south south extends to ondo/illaje too which is yoruba so whats your point
from your comments earlier,you said you fought in the first biafra so im guessing yo ll probably being in the same age range of barrack obama, im sure you know the point im trying to make there

funny how you have selective amnesia when blaming other tribes for everything,you mentioned opc killing igbos and everybody else but you didnt mention bakassi boys

dont use the niger delta struggle to score points or lay to the gallery,if you want to talk about an igbo nation,and racial cleansing then by all means knock yourself out but dont conect yourself to niger delta because of the oil,they are not part of biafra or igbo and will never be,as for ibo in nd,we have yorubas too in nd even producing part of the oil too so u read up on our history,
on one hand you r fighting for emancipation,biafra and on the other hand,you r igbo states are spending the state allocation,if you want us to tak you serious then starting from next year stop and reject the allocation to igbo states after all you are not producing any oil,then we will start taking you serious
@willy willy
wats your point,what r u on,

@Boyscout

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