Share this truth with Yoruba Children. Read it Slowly and Analyse for General Appraisal.


*A SUCCESSFUL PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST A BENEFACTOR - The Real Lady of Means.*

In 1968 during the Civil War, devastated Igbos men and children were brought by the Red Cross to Lagos, naked and superannuated. They were dumped on the site where the National Stadium is standing today. It was a bare playground by then.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Commissioner of Finance and Deputy Chairman, War Council, told Gen Yakubu Gowon that it was not safe to keep Igbos as refugees. He said a conversational refuge camp would not be ideal at the time the Western Region was battling with epidemic attacks of Smallpox and Cholera. The WHO efforts to help Nigeria contain the spread was much doubled by the cares of the wounded in battle. And that the epidemic, if it breaks out on the camp, the lives they meant to save could be eventually lost.

Awolowo said he knew his people were very passionate, he suggested that Gowon could allow him to call upon them to carry those Igbo children to their homes. Awo also asked for approval of money for him to apply alternative measures:
- residents of Lagos, Abeokuta, Ijebu and environ, were asked, through the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service, to come forward and take away the orphans from Igbo land to their homes for care. Yoruba people responded by taking to their homes the Igbo children, all suffering from Kwashiokwa - a poor health condition predicated by lack of salt in the system.
- they clothed, nursed them, nurtured and sent them to school with their own children.
- Chief Obafemi Awolowo, placed order for Lady's Sewing Machine for the grownup Igbo boys to help people mend their clothes to enable them feed themselves. That is what we know as 'Ovbionma' then (we later knew the source of the word to be the Sewing Industry at Ilupeju called Ovbionma, that was sewing the Military Ceremonial Dresses for the Nigerian Armed Forces). Igbos were also helped for shelters too, in people's Boy's Quarters.
- Also, those Igbo children that said they were in Elementary Schools before they were stopped by the war were enlisted into the Western Region Free Primary Schools, according to their levels.
- the children from the East that said they were in Commercial Secondary Schools were given Typewriter Machines to do freelance typing to feed themselves. Some were helped to advance in Pitman Shorthand courses by their guardians.
- Awolowo entreated the industrial sectors to employ the Igbos who were employable in typing and shorthand, as a means to assist the government on its programmes of rehabilitation.
- as an emancipation strategy, guardians to Igbo children, at their own expense, sent them to Adult Education Centres at Montgomery Street Yaba, to study for GCE and RSA which they did very well, to study in UK.
- Yoruba farmers through the WNBS were entreated to make land available to Igbos coming to the Western Region villages. They could farm and take care of themselves in the communities.
- Our fathers gave each man hectares of land to farm. I remember that time, the man with my father said he came from Afikpo Division. He planted Rice by the river side and Gari Cassava at the upper side, on the land my father cut for him.
- to accommodate the Igbos Civil War refugees, our teachers were relocated from their official quarters to individual homes and Church Mission Quarters for Catechists in our village.
Nobody took anything from the Igbos who sojourned in our territory. Yet the Federal Military Government still tasked the Cocoa Farmers of Western Region to pay more taxes and send food to Northern Region which was under a severe drought due to locusts attack. That was the rise of the 'Agbekoya' riots, at the height of provocation.

Rather than reciprocating all these lavished benevolence, the only historic account the Igbos passed over to their posterities is hate against Obafemi Awolowo and a vow of vengeance upon his Yoruba as a people.

In this moments of attrition, you that are reading this in print, think about it, whether Yoruba deserves this humiliation. You that are Christians, judge whether what Yoruba people, both Christians and Muslims, did to their neighbours in their towns and villages did not please God enough to have allowed such payback.

Please, send your views to Email: reparations1850@gmail.com

This is new to me

This type of one-sided storyline and view points.

Yoruba in this picture are like the proverbial snake that saved a fish from drowning.

I found this article that might be more helpful than what the OP posted:

Igbos In Lagos: My Experience
By Adeseye Ogunlewe

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria .

It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good numbers in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.


https://sunnewsonline.com/igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience/

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/143249-igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience-by-senator-adeseye-ogunlewe.html?tztc=1

In my own view, I think by the first paragraph the writer was trying to say if you live there, and contribute to the development, then you're a stakeholder, not necessarily that the land belongs to you.

But to say the Igbos were dumped in Lagos because of the effects of the civil on them is a lie from the pit of hell.

deekseen:
I found this article that might be more helpful than what the OP posted:

Igbos In Lagos: My Experience
By Adeseye Ogunlewe

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria .

It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good numbers in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.


https://sunnewsonline.com/igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience/

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/143249-igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience-by-senator-adeseye-ogunlewe.html?tztc=1

In my own view, I think by the first paragraph the writer was trying to say if you live there, and contribute to the development, then you're a stakeholder, not necessarily that the land belongs to you.

But to say the Igbos were dumped in Lagos because of the effects of the civil on them is a lie from the pit of hell.

The OP raised lots of issues and I don't think your response has addressed what he raised.
My observation is that the OP did not put a credible source to corroborate the story.

Lifestone:

The OP raised lots of issues and I don't think your response has addressed what he raised.
My observation is that the OP did not put a credible source to corroborate the story.

What's there to address in what the OP posted?

The writer started out with a lie - trying to make people believe that Igbos were 'dumped' in Lagos because of the devastating effects of the civil war on them.

I was correcting that lie. Igbos have been doing business in Lagos far longer than before the civil war. A lot of Igbo people even ran back to the East, abandoning their properties, businesses and investments during the civil war.

Since his opener is a lie, everything else is either going to be lies or half-truths.

By the way, what other issue is in the write-up that's not connected to the opening lie?

Biafra leader had a chance to surrender when access to food to feed his people were blocked and there was potential mass starvation, he fought on and later blame the death on Awolowo. It could have been a different twist if the food were poisoned. Awolowo prevented a war that could have lasted over a decade with the food blockage.

If i twist your hand backwards in a physical warfare and expect you to surrender in seconds and you in stubborness refuse to surrender for hours, you can't blame me if your hand needs to be amputated thereafter.

VENGEANCE IS MINE.

deekseen:


The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good numbers in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.

What manner of lie is this.
Soon, people will tell us that Abia (armpit) is an Igbo word.

More on this. Maryland and Ikeja were part of the Western Region. This images were from during the war.

Ok

This would need more insight from the Yorubas.

First the igbos didn't start living in lagos after the civil war, lagos state was the capital of Nigeria and many igbo leaders like Nnamdi Azikiwe ruled Nigeria from lagos state.

Lol where is your sourse on awolowo telling Gowon that they will adopt igbo children, if fact awolowo didn't care what happened to igbos during the war, he said

"All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder”, (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian Minister of Finance, July 28, 1969).

https://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/all-is-fair-in-war-starvation-is-one-of-the-weapons-of-war-obafemi-awolowo-july-28-1969/

I will keep saying it till tomorrow that Awolowo, a Yoruba man is the reason Igbo race is still in existence in their large numbers today.. first the 20 pounds each policy with return of all Igbos assets provided they have proof of ownership and bank documents to show. and now this.... Yorubas have done far too much for the Igbos and they continue to be the greatest antagonists of the Yoruba race.

They got almost everything for free after the war, equipment, machinery, grants, concessions etc.. things other tribes didn't get were given to them to start life and establish.. Today they go about boasting that they are superior, are this and that, reason they are better than the rest.

chinchum:
Biafra leader had a chance to surrender when access to food to feed his people were blocked and there was potential mass starvation, he fought on and later blame the death on Awolowo. It could have been a different twist if the food were poisoned. Awolowo prevented a war that could have lasted over a decade with the food blockage.

If i twist your hand backwards in a physical warfare and expect you to surrender in seconds and you in stubborness refuse to surrender for hours, you can't blame me if your hand needs to be amputated thereafter.

You are wise..

Most Igbos I am sure never thought of the fact that Nigeria could have poisoned the foods and drinks going to biafra in a form of Chemical and Biological warfare that would have killed them all.. afterall all is fair in love and war.

They go about spreading lies that Nigerians hate them bla bla bla whereas they were the ones expecting their enemies to continue feeding them in an ongoing war.

Some are very helping e.g. Awolowo while some are known to despuse and kill other tribes like in the first coup

Lifestone:

The OP raised lots of issues and I don't think your response has addressed what he raised.
My observation is that the OP did not put a credible source to corroborate the story.

The op told lots of lies.



Louis Ojukwu, the father of Ikemba Odimegwu Ojukwu was the richest black man in Africa as at 1930s before the second world war broke out in 1939. He was so rich that it was his Rolls Rocye that was used to welcome and carry Queen Elizabeth around when she first visited Nigeria because Nigeria as a nation then didn't had a befitting car to carry the Queen so it was Ojukwu's father's Rolls Royce that was used as state vehicle to carry The Queen on her first visit.



Also remember that Ojukwu's father was so rich that British government via Queen Elizabeth asked for his help in writing during world war II and Ojukwu's father donated his transport company's trucks to British government to use during the world war II. And guess what? Louis Ojukwu lived in Lagos even before Nigeria's independence.




There were several other rich Igbos living in Lagos even before independence and before British government handed over Lagos to Nigeria officially.

flokii:
I will keep saying it till tomorrow that Awolowo, a Yoruba man is the reason Igbo race is still in existence in their large numbers today.. first the 20 pounds each policy with return of all Igbos assets provided they have proof of ownership and bank documents to show. and now this.... Yorubas have done far too much for the Igbos and they continue to be the greatest antagonists of the Yoruba race.

They got almost everything for free after the war, equipment, machinery, grants, concessions etc.. things other tribes didn't get were given to them to start life and establish.. Today they go about boasting that they are superior, are this and that, reason they are better than the rest.

Your second paragraph is a lie until you provide proof of that, show me where igbos got everything free after the war, show me the grants and concessions

I don't know how true this story from the op is but I know for a fact that the famous ex-boxer Obisia Nwankpa talked about how his father left him as a child in Lagos and hurriedly went back to the East for whatever reason just before the war.

Obisia Nwankpa talked about the fact that he lived with and was brought up around the Mushin area by various Yoruba families who were former neighbours of his own father.

It was after the war returned and his father came to Lagos that he reunited with him.

I can well believe Obisia Nwankpa's story is not unique.

raskymonojendor:
More on this. Maryland and Ikeja were part of the Western Region. This images were from during the war.

Fake! Fake!! Fake!!!
Update your photoshop skills.
Drop the link to the original source of this information.

Which kind lies be this na

kettykin:
This type of one-sided storyline and view points.

Yoruba in this picture are like the proverbial snake that saved a fish from drowning.

Here we go!

Bloody Tribalist do not even know when they mock themselves
Op which one is paining you?
That Ndigbo like people from other Tribes refused to vote a Structure of thuggery, electoral criminalities Apc??
We stood with the real owners of Lagos State awon omo Ibile Eko,so how is that your problem Mr Tribalist,there are Hausas, Edos, Calabar, Akwa ibom,Jos, Benue People hustling in Lagos State Nigeria too,so your Tribally bigoted hatefilled sense is telling you that they voted for this Apc Structure of thuggery and electoral criminalities Na Igbo hate fit later send you to your early grave o
There are appreciative, good and bad People in every Tribe,if Your head is not accepting this reality then you better check yourself in to Yabaleft bcus your mental health is in a very poor state.
This your made up story could have been used for a Positive message but bcus you are destined to do Tribal hate all the days of your life till you go die enter grave,you painted it a picture to drive hate.
Shame on You if you are a Youth

Tribalist thread, mods please close it down.

Rareoil:
First the igbos didn't start living in lagos after the civil war, lagos state was the capital of Nigeria and many igbo leaders like Nnamdi Azikiwe ruled Nigeria from lagos state.

Lol where is your sourse on awolowo telling Gowon that they will adopt igbo children, if fact awolowo didn't care what happened to igbos during the war, he said

"All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder”, (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian Minister of Finance, July 28, 1969).

https://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/all-is-fair-in-war-starvation-is-one-of-the-weapons-of-war-obafemi-awolowo-july-28-1969/

He never said the Ibos started living in Lagos after the civil war. Did ibos not run away from Lagos during the civil war? What he said was that ibo refugees were brought to Lagos during the war by the red Cross.

kettykin:
This type of one-sided storyline and view points.

Yoruba in this picture are like the proverbial snake that saved a fish from drowning.

We are now wiser in our relationship with you guys. Since you guys only know how to reciprocate kindness with meanness, we shall keep our kindness and relate with you the way the North and other ethnic groups in Nigeria have been doing. We are now wiser. The Awolowo era of kindness is over.

seunmsg:


We are now wiser in our relationship with you guys. Since you guys only know how to reciprocate kindness with meanness, we shall keep our kindness and relate with you the way the North and other ethnic groups in Nigeria have been doing. We are now wiser. The Awolowo era of kindness is over.

You showed no kindness in the first place.

seunmsg:


We are now wiser in our relationship with you guys. Since you guys only know how to reciprocate kindness with meanness, we shall keep our kindness and relate with you the way the North and other ethnic groups in Nigeria have been doing. We are now wiser. The Awolowo era of kindness is over.

Yinmu!

flokii:


You are wise..

Most Igbos I am sure never thought of the fact that Nigeria could have poisoned the foods and drinks going to biafra in a form of Chemical and Biological warfare that would have killed them all.. afterall all is fair in love and war.

They go about spreading lies that Nigerians hate them bla bla bla whereas they were the ones expecting their enemies to continue feeding them in an ongoing war.

Some are very helping e.g. Awolowo while some are known to despuse and kill other tribes like in the first coup

it is why i believe we must not allow logic turned on its head.

In 1967, less than 1% of ibos could have afforded to bank their money. In 1967, with over 90% illiteracy rate and poverty rate, pray tell how many banks were even in Nigeria in 1967? I don't want to believe this truth is not known. The 20 pounds policy a good will gesture to all adult ibos was criticised because all ibos lost their money in banks.

Well,a reminder..

seunmsg:


We are now wiser in our relationship with you guys. Since you guys only know how to reciprocate kindness with meanness, we shall keep our kindness and relate with you the way the North and other ethnic groups in Nigeria have been doing. We are now wiser. The Awolowo era of kindness is over.

No be lie.. They are too arrogant and ungrateful... They need to be put where they belong. Well they are unconsciously waking up the Yoruba consciousness...

raskymonojendor:

What manner of lie is this.
Soon, people will tell us that Abia (armpit) is an Igbo word.

I was just about to say this....
But why ?
Lol !