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Are You A Biafran? by uyiekpenn(m): 8:30pm On Jun 09, 2020
Whatever that means?

Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.

Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.

However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for

This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.

This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.

Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.

But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra.

P.S. Some y’all think I hate Igbos but I don’t. I can never hate my fellow man. We can be brothers in arms but it’s not a must we must live together in the same country.

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Marine54(m): 9:05pm On Jun 09, 2020
Speak for yourself!

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by uyiekpenn(m): 9:06pm On Jun 09, 2020
Marine54:
Speak for yourself!
abeg shut up. I speak for all of us.

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Marine54(m): 9:16pm On Jun 09, 2020
uyiekpenn:
abeg shut up. I speak for all of us.
you're not speaking for me , you're speaking for yourself. Remember niger delta is not tribe, we have alot ethnic group in niger delta. Perhaps you're speaking for your own tribe if at all you're from south south.....

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by sageb: 9:22pm On Jun 09, 2020
Before biafra agitation, There was Niger Delta agitation so these two can't be one and the same. They have different experiences and divergent interests.

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 9:29pm On Jun 09, 2020
I think only Ijaws should complain about that injustice.
If you are not Ijaw just shut up.

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Banmeallday: 9:34pm On Jun 09, 2020
Again Isaac Boro?



LOL


Ijaw gave us or reminded us our identity called Biafra


Thank you OP

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 9:37pm On Jun 09, 2020
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uyiekpenn:
Whatever that means?

Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.

Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 14 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.

However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for

This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.

This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.

Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.

But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra.

P.S. Some y’all think I hate Igbos but I don’t. I can never hate my fellow man. We can be brothers in arms but it’s not a must we must live together in the same country.
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Biafra amaka

cc lzaa

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 10:19pm On Jun 09, 2020
uyiekpenn:
abeg shut up. I speak for all of us.

He's ibo from ebonyi, don't mind him, they hate the truth
Re: Are You A Biafran? by kingzizzy: 10:20pm On Jun 09, 2020
Kwon1999:
I think only Ijaws should complain about that injustice.

If you are not Ijaw just shut up.


I agree with you. Only someone who is Ijaw should be talking about Isaac Boro, Isaac Boro's agitation was purly an Ijaw thing. But you will see someone come along use Isaac Boro as benchmark to decide what everyone in the South/South wants.

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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 10:21pm On Jun 09, 2020
Kwon1999:
I think only Ijaws should complain about that injustice.

If you are not Ijaw just shut up.


You see silly logic, no body should talk because it's Biafra? That was how you were all defending rape in the morning because its from Anambra, change!!!
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 10:23pm On Jun 09, 2020
An example of abuses against Biafran minorities concerns that of the Ikun people, who were suspected of collaboration. This led to detentions, looting and raping by Biafran troops in Ikunland. Many males were rounded up and ‘disappeared’, while others were shot to death.

The Ikun are minuscule in numbers and the Biafran felt particularly threatened by the larger ethnic groups from Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers provinces where the pre-war agitation for states of their own to be carved out of the Eastern Region had been particularly strong.
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 10:23pm On Jun 09, 2020
One of the most publicised war crimes committed by the Biafrans occurred when Federal troops landed in Calabar in October 1967. About 167 civilians in detention were lined up and executed by Biafran soldiers. The Nigerian Consulate in New York published details of this atrocity as an informational advertisement in the New York Times as part of the propaganda war with the Biafrans, whose own propaganda machinery at home, and operating internationally under the auspices of the Geneva-based Markpress public relations firm, always had the edge over the Federal side.
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 10:24pm On Jun 09, 2020
Igbos Massacre of Hausas in Asaba

During the Biafran invasion in August of 1967, some soldiers had paused to kill northerners who lived in the Hausa Quarter of Asaba; this in apparent revenge for the aforementioned anti-Igbo attacks in the Northern Region. And in other parts of the temporarily conquered Mid-West, non-Igbos were subjected to torture, imprisonment and death on suspicion of having sympathy for the Federal cause. Rape, extortion and seizure of property were common.
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 10:25pm On Jun 09, 2020
For instance, one E.K. Iseru, a lawyer of Rivers origin who was based in Warri would testify at a tribunal hearing that he was once stripped naked and detained for three days without food because he was on record as having agitated for the creation of Rivers State. When he protested about his hunger, one of his captors retorted that “there is no food for Hausa friends.”
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Nobody: 10:26pm On Jun 09, 2020
When the Biafran occupiers began to lose ground, their paranoia increased. Each set back on the battlefield was blamed on saboteurs, and in the desperate circumstances of continual retreat, the policies of the Biafrans turned to draconian, inhumane solutions. The murder of non-Igbos intensified. In Abudu, over 300 bodies were found in the Ossiomo River and on 20 September 1967, many non-Igbos were slaughtered at Boji-Boji Agbor. And at Asaba, Ibusa and Agbor non-Igbos were taken into custody by Biafran soldiers and transported in two lorries to a rubber plantation along the Uromi-Agbor Road where they were put to death.

In the tit-for-tat atmosphere of war, it is perhaps no surprise that an estimated 200 Igbos lost their lives when the Federal takeover of Benin City began on September 21st. Later, mobs in places such as Warri and Sapele would turn on the Igbos. Many Igbos, including the erstwhile administrator, Major Albert Okonkwo who had declared the Mid-West to be the “autonomous independent sovereign republic of Benin”, fled eastwards for their lives.
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Admissionclass: 10:29pm On Jun 09, 2020
The biafra issue is really going to come to pass the way people are obsessed with BiAfra on NL.
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Deebwebb: 10:29pm On Jun 09, 2020
Why are you Yoruba's so obsessed about Biafra,op what your business,your not ijaw or South south but from ekiti.there will be a referendum any tribe in Biafra that don't want to join will simply say no and remain in Nigeria,the only reason mazi KANU includes you all is that you have to present a colonial map and some non-igboid were included in the map.we don't need saboteurs in Biafra.
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Yedebem: 10:49pm On Jun 09, 2020
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MinorityOpinion:
When the Biafran occupiers began to lose ground, their paranoia increased. Each set back on the battlefield was blamed on saboteurs, and in the desperate circumstances of continual retreat, the policies of the Biafrans turned to draconian, inhumane solutions. The murder of non-Igbos intensified. In Abudu, over 300 bodies were found in the Ossiomo River and on 20 September 1967, many non-Igbos were slaughtered at Boji-Boji Agbor. And at Asaba, Ibusa and Agbor non-Igbos were taken into custody by Biafran soldiers and transported in two lorries to a rubber plantation along the Uromi-Agbor Road where they were put to death.

In the tit-for-tat atmosphere of war, it is perhaps no surprise that an estimated 200 Igbos lost their lives when the Federal takeover of Benin City began on September 21st. Later, mobs in places such as Warri and Sapele would turn on the Igbos. Many Igbos, including the erstwhile administrator, Major Albert Okonkwo who had declared the Mid-West to be the “autonomous independent sovereign republic of Benin”, fled eastwards for their lives.
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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Yedebem: 10:49pm On Jun 09, 2020
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MinorityOpinion:
For instance, one E.K. Iseru, a lawyer of Rivers origin who was based in Warri would testify at a tribunal hearing that he was once stripped naked and detained for three days without food because he was on record as having agitated for the creation of Rivers State. When he protested about his hunger, one of his captors retorted that “there is no food for Hausa friends.”
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Re: Are You A Biafran? by agulion: 10:50pm On Jun 09, 2020
Yes a proud and happy one, never again will I be a Nigerian,
Re: Are You A Biafran? by Yedebem: 10:53pm On Jun 09, 2020
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MinorityOpinion:


He's ibo from ebonyi, don't mind him, they hate the truth
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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Yedebem: 10:54pm On Jun 09, 2020
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MinorityOpinion:


You see silly logic, no body should talk because it's Biafra? That was how you were all defending rape in the morning because its from Anambra, change!!!
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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Yedebem: 10:54pm On Jun 09, 2020
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MinorityOpinion:
An example of abuses against Biafran minorities concerns that of the Ikun people, who were suspected of collaboration. This led to detentions, looting and raping by Biafran troops in Ikunland. Many males were rounded up and ‘disappeared’, while others were shot to death.

The Ikun are minuscule in numbers and the Biafran felt particularly threatened by the larger ethnic groups from Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers provinces where the pre-war agitation for states of their own to be carved out of the Eastern Region had been particularly strong.
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Re: Are You A Biafran? by Yedebem: 10:55pm On Jun 09, 2020
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MinorityOpinion:
Igbos Massacre of Hausas in Asaba

During the Biafran invasion in August of 1967, some soldiers had paused to kill northerners who lived in the Hausa Quarter of Asaba; this in apparent revenge for the aforementioned anti-Igbo attacks in the Northern Region. And in other parts of the temporarily conquered Mid-West, non-Igbos were subjected to torture, imprisonment and death on suspicion of having sympathy for the Federal cause. Rape, extortion and seizure of property were common.
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