OPERATION TAIL WIND: THE FINAL CASTRATION OF BIAFRANS.........

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Jubilant Nigerians in the capital city of Lagos cheer as they read of the surrender of the rebel Biafran forces, Jan. 12, 1970

AFIS PREAMBLE:  OJUKWU AN IGBO, RAN AWAY AND LEFT HIS IGBOS TO DIE, OBASANJO WHO CASTRATED THE IGBOS IN 1970, IS STILL A YORUBA...........

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Operation Tail-Wind

    

Operation Tail-Wind
Part of Nigerian Civil War
Date January 7 – 12, 1970 Location Owerri and Uli Result Nigerian victory, Capitulation of Biafra
Belligerents
Nigeria	Biafra
Commanders and leaders
Olusegun Obasanjo	Odumegwu Ojukwu Philip Effiong Joseph Achuzie Lambert Ihenacho Azum Asoya Ogbugo Kalu Timothy Onwuatuegwu
Strength
unknown	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	unknown

[hide] v t e Nigerian Civil War Operation UNICORD Midwest Invasion of 1967 Enugu First Onitsha Operation Tiger Claw Second Onitsha Abagana Ambush Port Harcourt Operation OAU Owerri Operation Hiroshima Operation Leopard Operation Tail-Wind

Operation Tail-Wind (January 7 – 12, 1970) was the final military conflict between Nigeria and Biafra. The operation took place in the towns of Owerri and Uli, both of which were captured by Nigerian forces. The operation ended with General Odumegwu Ojukwu fleeing to the Ivory Coast and then president of Biafra Philip Effiong surrendering to Olusegun Obasanjo.

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• 1 Background
• 2 Final Offensive
• 3 Aftermath
• 4 References

Background[edit]

On May 30, 1967, Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra independent from Nigeria. For a month Nigeria claimed that Biafra was a part of Nigeria and it would stay so. It was not until July 6, 1967, when Nigeria invaded Biafra at the Battle of Nsukka. Biafra invaded Nigeria in August 1967 but were intercepted by Yakubu Gowon on August 21, 1967, and were repelled back at the Battle of Ore. Biafra kept a stiff resistance until their capital was taken in October 1967 at the Fall of Enugu. The Biafran capital was moved to Umuahia where it stayed for another 2 years. Nigeria captured the Biafran stronghold of Port Harcourt on May 19, 1968, at the Capture of Port Harcourt by Nigerian general Benjamin Adekunle. Adekunle tried to take the Biafran capital of Umuahia and the 2 other Biafran strongholds of Owerri and Aba during Operation OAU. During Operation OAU Adekunle gained control of Owerri and Aba but lost 21,500 men during the battles of OAU. In late 1968 Biafra was given $1,044,000 in donations by a British radio station. The Biafran government was able to deduct money from the donation to buy military supplies for their army. In early 1968 the Biafran army captured the city of Owerri at the Capture of Owerri. The Capture of Owerri gave the Biafrans hope for their cause. For months Nigeria and Biafra were in a stalemate. It was not until December 23, 1969, when Nigeria invaded the Biafran capital of Umuahia. On Christmas Eve 1969 Umuahia fell to Nigerian troops. The Biafran capital was then moved to Owerri.

Nigerian Troops firing artillery gun in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, during the Nigerian Civil War. Col Benjamin Adekunle is seen here with left hand on the artillery gun.

Final Offensive[edit]

On January 7, 1970, the 3rd Marine Commando Division under Gen. Obasanjo, supported by the 1st Infantry Division to the north and the 2nd Infantry Division to the south, launched their final offensive. The Biafran S Division under Captain Azum Asoya was operating along the Port Harcourt - Elele road. The Division found itself cut off and disorganized due to a quick envelopment by the Nigerian 17th Brigade under Maj. Tomoye, the Nigerians now began making their advance on Owerri. On the outskirts of Owerri, Biafran Lt. Col. Lambert Ihenacho's 63rd Brigade came under withering attack by Maj. Tomoye's 17th Brigade, supported by 122 mm Soviet artillery. In less than a day of fighting the 63rd Brigade became overwhelmed by the Nigerian bombardment and were forced to surrender.

Gen Obasanjo Ordering Igbos to sign Surrender Notes!

January 1970, preparing for meeting in Lagos at the end of the Civil War; second from left is General Efiong, third is Colonel O. Obasanjo

1970, initial meeting between both sides at the end of the War; from left to right: General Efiong, Prof. Eni Njoku, Colonel Obasanjo

While the Nigerians were preoccupied with attacking the 63rd Brigade, the Biafran leadership made their final meeting in which President Ojukwu announced his plans to go abroad "in search of peace". Ojukwu handed over the Biafran presidency to his vice-president Philip Effiong and placed all remaining Biafran troops under the command of Maj. Joseph Achuzie. On January 9 Maj. Timothy Onwuatuegwu escorted Ojuwku to the Uli airstrip where he boarded his private jet and fled to the Ivory Coast. Immediately after Ojukwu's departure President Effiong called for a ceasefire to discuss the details of surrender. On January 12 Philip Effiong, Joseph Achuzie, Ogbugo Kalu, and other Biafran officers made their way to Amichi and later Owerri to broadcast their final surrender to Col. Obasanjo.

 

Shikena

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Subject: Re: ||NaijaObserver|| Breaking..Hausa Jails another Yoruba general [1 Attachment]

Kindly watch the following link showing General Diya of the Nigerian army groveling and begging, prostrate like a lizard, at the foot of Abacha: http://youtu.be/h8VM9hZMYZ0

Folks, without going into details of history I want to boldly state that the Yoruba are quite possibly the wimpiest Nigerians and quite possibly the wackiest. They talk loud and boast the loudest but are lacking in action. 

WS - A revered prince of Mushin.

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On Oct 18, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Imperial <imperi...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Kindly watch the following link showing Lt Col Philip Effiong ( a general in the 

ragtag Biafran army ) surrendering to the federal government after he and other 

top Igbo "generals" / leaders were captured by Col Olusegun Obasanjo, General 

Officer Commander of the 3 Marine Commando .

This happened after Lt Col  Christopher Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu( whose 

stupidity and ambition led to the death of 1.5 million Igbos) surreptitiously fled to Ivory 

Coast. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGSRa6KE_rg&sns=em

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 Dede Imperial..

Who is that guy with rounded fingers?

Hmmmmmm. he is only showing one. What happened to the other four ?

  
Yummie Yummie Yummie

vin.....///

....Born to tell the truth

....they are listening indeed
... thick walls will  fall

 Breaking..Hausa Jails another Yoruba general

  

He is Wole boy Kuti

Fellows

no one does it better to these people than Fulani + hausa.

they jail them as they come.

no matter how much they try to break bread and drink with these danfodio boys.  They also jailed these  Yoruba generals.

Obasnajo + Diya + Abiola [aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  + awowlowo = ++++

tinibu has ran back to Ikoyiand has shut up. no more waving his fingers in the air.

Imagine if it was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their Deji will be talking nonsense against IGBO.

They are now pretending as if they do not know that Wole boy Kuti is going to hard labour.

They thought Buhari will jail IGBO first..

I de smile OoOoo

Deji of Akure will be next area boy to go down.

vin.....///

....Born to tell the truth

....they are listening indeed
... thick walls will  fall

On Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:47 AM, "Imperial imperi...@yahoo.com [NaijaObserver]" <NaijaO...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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This is the best answer for people like you : 

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On 18 Oct 2015, at 04:09, vincent modebelu vin_mo...@yahoo.com [NaijaObserver] <NaijaO...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

 Breaking..Hausa Jails another Yoruba general

  

He is Wole boy Kuti

Fellows

no one does it better to these people than Fulani + hausa.

they jail them as they come.

no matter how much they try to break bread and drink with these danfodio boys.  They also jailed these  Yoruba generals.

Obasnajo + Diya + Abiola [aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  + awowlowo = ++++

tinibu has ran back to Ikoyiand has shut up. no more waving his fingers in the air.

Imagine if it was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their Deji will be talking nonsense against IGBO.

They are now pretending as if they do not know that Wole boy Kuti is going to hard labour.

They thought Buhari will jail IGBO first..

I de smile OoOoo

Deji of Akure will be next area boy to go down.

vin.....///

....Born to tell the truth

....they are listening indeed
... thick walls will  fall

Army confirms Gen. Ransome-Kuti's jail sentence

By Ronald Mutum | Publish Date: Oct 17 2015 4:55PM | Updated Date: Oct 17 2015 5:02PM

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Nigeria army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman on Saturday confirmed the jail sentence handed down to Brigadier General EA Ransome Kuti.

 

In a statement Colonel Usman : "‎I wish to confirm that one of the accused persons, Brigadier General EA Ransome-Kuti was awarded the following punishments on the various count charges against him as follows:

 

"The first count charge which was "Cowardly Behaviour" was struck out but he was found guilty on Count Charge Number Two which was "Failure to Perform Military Duties" and  was dismissed from the Nigerian Army."

 

He was equally found guilty on Count Charge Number 3 which was "Miscellaneous Offences Relating to Service Property" and was awarded 6 months imprisonment, the army statement said.‎

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/-army-confirms-gen-ransome-kuti-s-jail-sentence/115418.html

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[Ike Agbor]

AAfis. First you should be ashamed that the final offensive clearly stated "supported with Russian artillery" not Yoruba artillery nor Hausa artillery. Let me restate it here for you. There is no black country in the world that could have defeated Biafra. Remove USSR and British,  the Egyptian  pilots and elements  from Syria, Chad and Niger and tell me the son or daughter of Yoruba that could  have set foot on Biafra. We refined fuel when your folks could not even construct a back house to shit. We built rockets that none of you can replicate. Ask Akinrinade what he saw at Oguta to make him run away...ogbunigwe. See your generals running away from ragtag BH and Diya kissing the floor for Abacha. OBJ could have had his ass fried by Abacha. I was still a kid the day Ojukwu arrived my town Otulu in Imo State and addressed the town folks and the men of the battalion stationed there.  In the words of the people's General.."in 48 hours the vandals at Oguta will be routed". At the water tower in Egwe was a Briton with binoculars assessing the distance to Uli Airport; he was the first to fall; a Biafran soldier sneaked to the mango tree under the water tower, he peaked to see what was amiss and villagers in Egwe took aim with made in Biafra guns... again I repeat villagers not soldiers. The guy was waiting for Yoruba soldiers to show up. Bavk to the people's General the town folk in Otulu and surrounding towns held their breathes; Egyptian pilots were also in the air  as Ojukwu the Head of  State left for Oguta. It was a day Biafra could have died; think of what could have happened if Ojukwu had fallen.  He  led from the front and conducted the routing of your people led by Akinrinade. He Akinrinade had narrated his losses severally.  Your people are a bunch of loquacious  sissies. Ike Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"'afis' via AfricanWorldForum" <africanw...@googlegroups.com> Date:Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:16 AM Subject:[africanworldforum] OPERATION TAIL WIND: THE FINAL CASTRATION OF BIAFRANS.........

[DIPO ENIOLA]

Ike Agbor of Osusu Abala:

 

You are back again with your manufactured stories. When are you going to stop concocting stories about the yeye war? It is a well-known fact that Lt. Col. Ojukwu never ventured into the war front. I have heard from many Biafran officers that he was a paranoid man obsessed with tagging the few strong Biafran top fighters with the label of being saboteurs. Many of them were executed; and those not executed were sent to the war front where they were shot in the back. Why? Because he thought they were a threat to his one-man-rule. The truth must be told, Lt. Col. Ojukwu endlessly complained about not always having his favorite drinks, cigarettes and the effectiveness of the air-conditioned in his offices. Meanwhile, General Benjamin Adekunle, the master military tactician was rummaging in the bush and in the creeks, striking terror into the feeble minds of Biafran boy-toy soldiers. The good General ought to be your hero.

 

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Any intelligent person watching the video recording of Philip Effiong's handover speech must note the following:
A) General Gowon did not declare the process a "surrender." He was very careful in his choice of words.
B) General Effiong first, announced and described himself as Major General Philip Effiong of the Republic of Biafra. He was in his full title, and no one questioned his claims. He thereafter outlined his mission: at no point did he use the word "surrender." He was very careful in his choice of words.
C) He summed up the basis of the acceptance of the Biafra leadership in (a) accepting the current political leadership, and (b) returning Biafrans to Nigerian citizenship: it was that all future constitution will be done by Nigerian citizens of which former Biafrans were pledged. It was not a declaration of surrender. This material difference ought to be clear to anybody, who uses the word carelessly. The Biafrans did not surrender. They entered a negotiated end of the conflict and agreed to the principal terms of inclusion. Anybody who saw those men enter the chambers of Dodan barracks would note also that they did not come with their heads bowed, or afraid of the authority of the Federal government. They did not look defeated. They were clear about their mission. Defeated people do not talk terms. And the terms outlined by Effiong was that there would be a new inclusive future, and a new constitution. Not long after, Gowon announced his transition program and set it for 1974, and then shifted it to 1976. Internal dynamics, including moves by those within the government who were dissatisfied with these negotiated terms ousted Gowon in 1975. The rest is history.
Obi Nwakanma

 

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[Thomas]

I have participated in this forum for more than four years. even though I have learned a lot about Nigeria, it aches my heart to see how some of them are insensitive with one another. with this degree of insensitivity why are they surprised that their leaders are only concerned with how much they can steal when they are in power? for Africa to emerge, Nigeria must be the hub around which to build. human tragedies are not things to be celebrated. where is Nigeria with the so-called 'castration' of the Ibos? Nowhere. Nowhere because for a country to emerge it needs all of its vital forces. constant pestering of ibos because they lost a war does not augur well for Nigeria. proof! Nigeria is spinning on the same spot. And, this is my personal prediction, as long as it continues to demonize the ibos, it will go nowhere!
 

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[Afis Deinde]

This is Idioro Family Affair.

My great Oha of all Inyanmurai, I bend in the waist with respect written all over my body.

Pls don't mind the idiots.

Baba Wharfy called Yoruba cowards, I jostled with him.

Who call these monkeys into my "family affair"? 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Afis Deinde]

AFIS COMMENT:  Obi Nwakanma, When you set out to fool those who are wiser than you, all you demonstrate is your foolishness.
All I set out to show is that, a Yoruba man General Obasanjo was the one that castrated the Igbos into submission.

The newspaper held by children showed who kicked whose butt.

Gen Obasanjo Ordering Igbos to sign Surrender Notes!

Operation Tail-Wind (January 7 – 12, 1970) was the final military conflict between Nigeria and Biafra. The operation took place in the towns of Owerri and Uli, both of which were captured by Nigerian forces. The operation ended with General Odumegwu Ojukwu fleeing to the Ivory Coast and then president of Biafra Philip Effiong surrendering to Olusegun Obasanjo.

YORUBA HEROES THAT KICKED INYANMURAI BUTTS.

OJUKWU, A COWARD OF IGBO COWARDS, RAN TO IVORY COAST.

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Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Chika Onyeani]

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[Vin Otuonye]

Afis:

Yoruba cowards like you are the ones raising their hands.

Vin Cool Breeze Otuonye

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PORT HARCOURT- Supporters of the controversial Director of Radio Biafra and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, grounded commercial and vehicular activities, in parts of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to protest the immediate release of Kanu, who was arrested on Saturday, in Lagos, by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).

Recall that Vanguard earlier reported that Kanu who was Saturday, arrested at Golden Tulip Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos by the DSS, after he returned from the United Kingdom had been granted bail by the Abuja Municipal Council Magistrate court. He was secretly arraigned there by the DSS, but was yet to fulfill his bail conditions

See below photos of protest in Port Harcourt today:

The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra, along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke

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SHIKENA

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Ike Agbor]

If you still think you know what is going on, take a look at the protest in PH; we are gathering all the information from all across SS and SE on this little trigger that befuddles Buhari.

Protesting in PH... on the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu the Director of Radio Biafra. Tell your people to be ready to join Hausa again!
Good luck!
Ike
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Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 2:27 PM

This is
Idioro Family Affair.
My great Oha
of all Inyanmurai, I bend in the waist with respect written
all over my body.Pls don't mind the
idiots.Baba

Wharfy called Yoruba cowards, I jostled with him.Who call these monkeys

into my "family affair"? 

Afis“Just as a solid rock
is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not
affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse
81.
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Subject:[africanworldforum] OPERATION TAIL WIND: THE
FINAL CASTRATION OF BIAFRANS.........

Jubilant Nigerians in the capital
city of
Lagos cheer as they read of the surrender of the rebel
Biafran forces, Jan. 12,
1970AFIS
PREAMBLE:  OJUKWU AN IGBO, RAN AWAY AND LEFT HIS
IGBOS TO DIE, OBASANJO WHO CASTRATED THE IGBOS IN 1970,

IS STILL A YORUBA...........@@@@@Operation Tail-Wind    
Operation Tail-WindPart of Nigerian Civil WarDateJanuary 7
– 12, 1970LocationOwerri and UliResultNigerian
victory, Capitulation of
BiafraBelligerents Nigeria BiafraCommanders and leadersOlusegun ObasanjoOdumegwu

Ojukwu
Philip Effiong
Joseph Achuzie
Lambert Ihenacho
Azum Asoya
Ogbugo Kalu

Timothy OnwuatuegwuStrengthunknownunknownCasualties and lossesunknownunknown[hide] v t e Nigerian Civil
WarOperation UNICORD Midwest Invasion of 1967 Enugu First Onitsha Operation Tiger Claw Second Onitsha Abagana Ambush Port Harcourt Operation OAU Owerri Operation Hiroshima Operation Leopard Operation

Tail-Wind
Operation
Tail-Wind (January 7 – 12, 1970) was the final
military conflict between Nigeria and Biafra. The operation took place
in the towns of Owerri and Uli, both of which were captured
by Nigerian forces. The operation ended with General Odumegwu Ojukwu fleeing to the Ivory Coast and then president of
Biafra Philip Effiong surrendering to Olusegun Obasanjo.Contents

 [hide] 1 Background2 Final Offensive3 Aftermath4 ReferencesBackground[edit]On May 30, 1967, Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the

Nigerian Troops firing artillery
gun in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, during the
Nigerian Civil War. Col Benjamin Adekunle
is seen here with left hand on the
artillery gun.Final
Offensive[edit]On January 7, 1970, the 3rd Marine Commando
Division under Gen. Obasanjo, supported by the 1st Infantry
Division to the north and the 2nd Infantry Division to the
south, launched their final offensive. The Biafran S
Division under Captain Azum Asoya was operating along the
Port Harcourt - Elele road. The Division found itself cut
off and disorganized due to a quick envelopment by the
Nigerian 17th Brigade under Maj. Tomoye, the Nigerians now
began making their advance on Owerri. On the outskirts of
Owerri, Biafran Lt. Col. Lambert Ihenacho's 63rd Brigade
came under withering attack by Maj. Tomoye's 17th
Brigade, supported by 122 mm Soviet artillery. In less than a
day of fighting the 63rd Brigade became overwhelmed by the
Nigerian bombardment and were forced to surrender.

Gen
Obasanjo Ordering Igbos to sign Surrender

Notes!January 1970,

preparing for meeting in
Lagos at
the end of the Civil War; second
from left
is General Efiong, third is
Colonel O.
Obasanjo  
1970, initial
meeting between both sides
at the end
of the War; from left to right:
General
Efiong, Prof. Eni Njoku,
Colonel

ObasanjoWhile the Nigerians were preoccupied with

attacking the 63rd Brigade, the Biafran leadership made
their final meeting in which President Ojukwu
announced his plans to go abroad "in search of
peace". Ojukwu handed over the Biafran
presidency to his vice-president Philip Effiong and placed all
remaining Biafran troops under the command of Maj. Joseph Achuzie. On January 9 Maj.
Timothy Onwuatuegwu escorted
Ojuwku to the Uli airstrip where he boarded his private jet
and fled to the Ivory Coast. Immediately
after Ojukwu's departure President Effiong called for a
ceasefire to discuss the details of
surrender. On January 12 Philip Effiong,
Joseph Achuzie, Ogbugo Kalu, and other Biafran officers made
their way to Amichi and later Owerri to broadcast their
final surrender to Col. Obasanjo.
 Shikenaafis 

the 3 Marine Commando .This happened after Lt

Col  Christopher Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu(
whose stupidity and ambition
led to the death of
1.5 million Igbos) surreptitiously fled to
Ivory Coast. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGSRa6KE_rg&sns=em

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 Dede
Imperial..
Who is
that guy with rounded fingers?
Hmmmmmm.
he is only showing one. What happened to the other four
?  
Yummie Yummie
Yummie

vin.....///
....Born to tell the

truth....they are

listening indeed
... thick walls
will  fall Breaking..Hausa Jails another Yoruba
general  

He is Wole boy Kuti
Fellows
no
one does it better to these people than Fulani +

hausa.they jail them as they

come.
no matter how much they try to
break bread and drink with these danfodio
boys.  They also jailed these  Yoruba
generals.

Obasnajo + Diya + Abiola
[aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  + awowlowo =
++++
tinibu has ran back to
Ikoyiand has shut up. no more waving his fingers in the
air.

Imagine if it was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their
Deji will be talking nonsense against IGBO.
They are now pretending as if they do not know that
Wole boy Kuti is going to hard labour.
They thought Buhari will jail IGBO

first..I de smile OoOoo

Deji of Akure will be next area boy to go
down.
vin.....///
....Born to tell

the truth....they are listening indeed

... thick walls will 
fall




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 Breaking..Hausa
Jails another Yoruba general  

He is
Wole boy Kuti
Fellows
no one does it better to these people than Fulani

+ hausa.they jail them as they come.

no matter
how much they try to break bread and drink with these
danfodio boys.  They also jailed these
 Yoruba generals.

Obasnajo
+ Diya + Abiola [aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  +
awowlowo = ++++
tinibu has ran back to Ikoyiand has shut up. no
more waving his fingers in the air.

Imagine if it
was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their Deji will be talking
nonsense against IGBO.
They are now
pretending as if they do not know that Wole boy Kuti is
going to hard labour.
They

thought Buhari will jail IGBO first..I de smile

OoOoo
Deji of
Akure will be next area boy to go down.
vin.....///
....Born to tell the

truth....they are

listening indeed
... thick walls
will  fall
Army

confirms Gen. Ransome-Kuti's jail sentenceBy Ronald Mutum | Publish

Date: Oct 17 2015 4:55PM | Updated Date: Oct 17 2015

5:02PMNigeria army

spokesman Colonel Sani Usman on Saturday confirmed the jail
sentence handed down to Brigadier General EA Ransome
Kuti. In a statement
Colonel Usman : "‎I wish to confirm that one of the
accused persons, Brigadier General EA Ransome-Kuti was
awarded the following punishments on the various count
charges against him as follows: "The first
count charge which was "Cowardly Behaviour" was
struck out but he was found guilty on Count Charge Number
Two which was "Failure to Perform Military Duties"
and  was dismissed from the Nigerian
Army." He was
equally found guilty on Count Charge Number 3 which was
"Miscellaneous Offences Relating to Service
Property" and was awarded 6 months imprisonment, the
army statement said.‎
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/-army-confirms-gen-ransome-kuti-s-jail-sentence/115418.html




















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How the Senate of FRN Made Amaechi a Minister -

The Senate may forfeit the right to screen and confirm Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi if he is not screened tomorrow as scheduled by the Senate.

Investigation by Swift Reporters has shown that constitutionally, the Senate have 21 days to screen and confirm any ministerial nominee sent to them by Mr. President.

Under the Nigeria Constitution, President Buhari can go ahead to assign portfolio to Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi and swear him in.

Section 147. (1) of Nigeria Constitution states that:

... The name of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was sent to the Senate on September 30th and he was number Nine (9) on that list of 21 nominees.

Out of the Twenty One (21), Eighteen (18) has been confirmed while two (2) was screened today remaining  Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi despite the facts that he has faced the Ethic and Privilege Committee of the Senate as at when due.

By the end of plenary tomorrow, it would have been more than 21 days and the Senate would have lost that right and privilege.

That will be a slap on the Senate if this takes place; the more reason Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi should be the first to be screened tomorrow and confirmed as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Read the full details -
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[Leye Ige]

"Protesting in PH... on the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu the Director of Radio Biafra. Tell your people to be ready to join Hausa again! Good luck!"--Ike Agbor


It is all well and good. You also need to follow this up by asking your "Ezeigbo" in Yorubaland to pack up and go. AND DON'T INVADE YORUBALAND(and EDO?) under the crap of liberating us for your Biafra to succeed.
Leye Ige
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[Leye Ige]

There are many angles to a war or quest. That these governors attended such an event does NOT mean they are NOT for Biafra; just as the"EzeIgbos" could also be forward commanders of a Biafran occupation. Abi, isn't that "wonderful" that the protest would be in Port Harcourt while Biafran cities like Enugu/Onitsha etc kept silent--at least so far? All that matters is, whether they want to remain part of Nigeria(in whatever form) or not; Biafrans MUST NOT INVADE YORUBALAND, under ANY guise( EzeIgbo or otherwise)--and THAT INCLUDES "SOUTHERN SOLIDARITY" or by whatever name such a "southern" crap is called.
Leye Ige
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Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:42 PM


 









President
Muhammadu Buhari is joined by R-L: Governor of Imo State
Rochas Okorocha, Governor of Akwa Ibom state Emmanuel Udoma,
Governor of Cross River Prof. Ben Ayade, An APC Chieftain
Chief Obono Obla during the Ground Breaking Ceremony of
260Km Super Highway Double Carrier Road from Calabar to
Northern Nigeria on 20th Oct 2015.


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[Kolawole Onifade]

Ike Agbor,

Since you are bent on misrepresenting history; especially the Biafran War History, including the role of the Yoruba generally, the role of Yoruba generals, the military astuteness of the Igbo, the relationship between Igbo and Hausa-Fulani, the humaneness (or otherwise of the late General Benjamin Adekunle) among others, this interview may help in educating you and like-minded Igbo revanchists.


Kola/



Obasanjo was a blundering general –Alabi-Isama

Posted By: Alabi-Isamaon: July 07, 2013In: Featured, Interview37 Comments
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Obasanjo was a blundering general –Alabi-Isama
Alabi-Isama


Wars end but the memories last forever. This is the object lesson to be gleaned from a new war memoir, The Tragedy of Victory, by Brigadier-General Godwin Alabi-Isama. This is an on-the-spot-account of the Nigeria-Biafra war as fought from the Atlantic front. Alabi-Isama, then a colonel, was the chief of staff of the 3rd Marine Commando Division (3MCDO) of the Nigeria Army which was led at various times by Generals Benjamin Adekunle, Alani Akinrinade and Olusegun Obasanjo. Only 27, energetic and full of derring-do, Alabi-Isama was the tactician, footman and engine room of the 3MCDO which was pivotal to the eventual conquest of Biafra in 1970.
The Tragedy of Victory is significant and different from previous books on the same subject for numerous reasons. First, it is the first major account of the war from a foot soldier. It is a 670-page tome with over 300 war photographs which will be presented to the public in Lagos, July 18. Coming 43 years after the end of the war, it is expected to have taken into account and corrected the mistakes and misconceptions in earlier books especially My Command, authored by Olusegun Obasanjo. It is indeed, a rich trove of history of the Nigerian Civil War and attendant crises of nationhood. Alabi-Isama rose to the rank of a Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army upon his retirement in 1977. In this interview with SAM OMATSEYE, STEVE OSUJI and FEMI MACAULAY, chairman and members respectively, of The Nation’s Editorial Board, Alabi-Isama was particularly unsparing of his former commander, Olusegun Obasanjo whom he considers clueless about war tactics,
blundering and cowardly. He also spoke about the Black Scorpion, Benjamin Adekunle, Alani Akinrinade, the then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and the blunders made by both sides of the divide, among other issues. Excerpts:

The war ended in 1970. This is 2013, how come it took you this long to write this book?

First of all, I didn’t know I had what it takes to write a book. And secondly, I did not really want to write the book. As soon as I left the military in 1977, I went to the United States where I lived for 35 years. I came home for my 70th birthday, General Alani Akinrinade (rtd) was there and we got talking about the war and I said well this (Olusegun) Obasanjo’s book My Command; he said if you read it, you will have stomach trouble. It is not worth reading. I said well let me just read the book, he brought me two copies. And with those two copies, I tell you even till today when I read it, I get sick. First of all, the pictures in the book are wrong. Then the maps in the book are also wrong. He drew the map of places he didn’t know and had never been, he didn’t ask questions. If he had asked questions, he would have learnt. He didn’t do that. Luckily for me, because I was renovating my mother’s house in Ilorin, I saw a big box and I opened
the box thinking my mother left me some money. I opened the box to find my old uniforms, my cane, and plenty of war pictures. She didn’t arrange the pictures, she just poured them into a bed sheet, you know how these old women tie things, and she poured them into the bed sheet, tied the bed sheet, put it in a box and covered that box with a cello tape. Except for two pictures, everything else is still crisp clear.

How did I get around taking the pictures? We were looking for a crossing point at a place called Eki, in Anang area, we wanted to cross into the main land and I went on patrol with the troop, it is not normal for a chief of staff to go on patrol with the men but I wanted to see it myself, so when we got there we found there were no (enemy) troops there; we didn’t see anybody so we decided: well let’s move forward. So we moved forward. We didn’t know that we were surrounded. By the time they opened fire everybody ran and so I ran. At school I used to run 100 and 200 meters; that day I ran 26 miles. I sat down under a tree and I was panting, then I saw my orderly, Effiong, “You made it!” I exclaimed. “Yes,” he said, “I made it sir.” And I said to him that I wish somebody would see us now and see how we are suffering, we could even take the pictures and go show them in Lagos how we are suffering. He said, “Oga, am a photographer but
because of the blockade, I had no film, I was out of business, but I have a studio and I have the chemicals and everything but no films.” I told him to write the specification of the film his camera uses. He wrote it and I sent it to my mother in Lagos. My mother went to Kingsway and bought large quantities of Kodak films and sent to me at the war front. I told Effiong, If I stand, take my photo, if I sit take my photo, if I cough, take my photo, fortunately he was a professional photographer. He took professional pictures. He took the terrain, the bridges, in fact, all the movement, the strategies; as a matter of fact I just discovered some pictures that he took of my war room. Since I had warned him never to enter my war room, I think he took them from the key hole.

Then they transferred this young man (pointing to an elderly photographer in the room), and he said he was also a photographer. You are a photographer too, o ti ya! (jolly good, join the show!) So this man also took part of the pictures that you are seeing here today. I was lucky. They took over a 1000 pictures. I never thought they were anything, just one of those albums. My mother didn’t like where you see dead bodies, she would throw the picture somewhere here and there. But after reading that Obasanjo’s book, it would have been my words versus his words but for these pictures. The pictures told the story. I have 650 pages of scripts here with 450 pictures, 35 war maps and 19 documents. It has not been equalled anywhere. Many of the civil war books were written by Biafran officers and men. The Nigerian ones, I think only Obasanjo wrote; the rest didn’t write about tactics or strategies of war. Even now, the book by (Adewale) Ademoyega wrote
about the problem of genocide but he was in jail so how would he know where the genocide happened. Anyway, I got this pictures, I started writing. By looking at one picture, I knew where it was taken and what happened there.



Talking about books, you must have read other Biafran war books. Which of them do you think was a little bit close to what happened: Madiebo, Ademoyega, etc?

Only two of them, (Alexander) Madiebo’s is correct, absolutely correct. And I mean the word absolutely correct. The other one was by Achike Udenwa, I understand he was a governor somewhere. In the book, he wrote why there was starvation. Moving people away from their villages; they left their goats, they left their cows, they left their chickens and everything and we were eating the chickens….and they were starving. How far will you go, and what will you carry? How many cows will you be dragging along? You know, so Achike Udenwa and Madiebo, I think those two books are very reliable accounts.

But they are books that take it from the Biafran perspective? Yours is viewed as the first major book that tells it from the federal side?

True

Now having been as you related, you served in two of the divisions. At the beginning you were supposed to be with Murtala Muhammed and then you also served under Benjamin Adekunle. What would you say were the blunders or mistakes of Biafra?

First of all, starting from August 8th 1967, Biafra should not have gone to the Mid-West at all. Their going there shocked even the federal government. Because (David) Ejoor at that time wanted the place to be neutral because more than half of the Mid-West was Igbo speaking people, the other half is non-Igbo speaking people. But all of them together were killed in the north. Be it Yoruba or Ibibio, you were dead! Now, there was that neutrality in the Mid-west. Breaking that neutrality was like Hitler in ‘Operation Barbarossa’ when he went to Russia. Now, what clearly happened to them was that they got to the Mid-west, they looked at Ore, it’s a large expanse of land and they were defeated by the large empty space. Like the Germans who saw endless land but wondered what are we going to do here? That was even enough to have finished them. And when Nigeria counter-attacked at Ore, they, Nigerians had to run away, the Nigerian troops ran way. And
that’s why you have Oleku ija Ore. Ha, this one wahala dey o…everybody scattered. But you see, from there on, when Nigeria re-organized and they started counter-attacking, why was Nigeria successful? It was because the Biafran troops had gone too far. They were now exhausted, they have had a battle, how many people did they put on the road? Let’s say for instance they had about 10 vehicles, what happens if there was a puncture with one vehicle. It means the troops inside that vehicle would cease to advance. Or for whatever reason they had a fan belt problem. It was a complete blunder. It shouldn’t have happened at all, but it happened. And when Nigerians had the upper hand the Biafrans were tired and they were now running back. It gave the Nigerians the confidence that when we attack these people they would keep running, so they kept chasing them. That was what happened. Not that Nigerians were better, no! The Biafrans were exhausted, they had
seen large expanse of land, how far could they go to the right or left or forward? There were few of them. There was no back up, there was no reserve, there was no planning. And then plus the situation where they said Banjo had deceived them. Look this type of situation had always happened in military history. If you look at 281 BC, there was this General Pyrrhus, that’s why you have what is called Pyrrhic victory, he exhausted himself. And that was what happened to Biafra. The strategy was wrong, the tactics applied were wrong.

What route should they have taken if they didn’t go through Midwest?

Alright, if I were in their shoes, what I would have done was to ask: what was the aim. It was important to know what the aim was, let me give you’re an example of what I mean. Many people always miss it. In military you can’t afford to miss it. Let’s say we are going to attack Lagos, what is the aim, when we get to Lagos what are we there for? You say to collect tax, if you are advancing from Ibadan and you got to Victoria Island, you really have not got to Lagos because your aim is to collect tax. You must stop the people from going away, the people you are going to collect tax from. If your aim was to get to the sea and say yes I have captured Lagos, you will miss that aim. Your troops will go to the border to make sure nobody will run away, then you’ll make sure that you pamper people so that they will understand why you are there. If you kill them, who do you collect tax from? So it is your tactics and strategies now, your aim will dictate
the tactics and the strategies applied.

Why were they (Biafrans) going to Lagos? What was the aim? If it was to scare them, if it was to capture Lagos, whatever you are trying to achieve, get the aim and then you will know the tactics. How many vehicles do they have coming to the Midwest? The Midwest officers, the Igbo officers they depended on ran away, they didn’t stay with them. Nwajei was not there, Okwechime was not there, those that were there were like Oche, Eziche, they were junior officers so they told those ones to carry on and they stayed back. We are still talking about the blunders. When Biafra entered the Midwest, I was commander at Asaba guarding the Asaba Niger Bridge. They first went to Ogbe Hausa at the cable point like Sabongari. They killed all the Hausa there and I mean all, children, women, everybody. Those that escaped swam across into Onitsha, and they were killed. It’s in Madiebo’s book; it is in Emma Okocha’s book. Emma Okocha is from Asaba and he wrote this
story. I was lucky, not that I was clever when they attacked me, I had grenades ready. Because I was staying at the Nkeffi Guest House which today is Grand Hotel; it was a glass door, they had shattered the glass. Through that, I threw the grenade, it landed well. So the fact that I was able to overpower 20 people was not because I was clever, I was lucky. It’s like David and Goliath. When David shot his slings it went the right way. It is God that directed it for us to meet today.

So that’s one blunder. At that time, you don’t need more than 15 people to capture Lagos. There was no GSM, five people will go to the border, five people will stay at the airport and five people would wait at Dodan Barracks. You could do that at that time because there was still movement. People where still moving, there was no restriction because of the neutrality of the Mid-west, so he could have just infiltrated into the place and then once he has taken over the airport, control towers, and you stopped all planes coming in you simply commandeer all the planes to Enugu to bring in your troops, depending on what aim you want to achieve. You know what, their blunders were too many and then they alienated the natives, the natives of Anang, the Efik, the Ibibios, remember this story, that war story did not start during the war. Eyo Ita was supposed to be the Premier of the Eastern Region. They didn’t let him, he had that in mind I have his picture.
These people where actually waiting for a day like that day and they supported the federal troops. The Biafrans did not recruit these people into their army and those who went into their army did not like to be with Biafra. Udenwa wrote about that in his book. We recruited the natives because they could swim. Without Isaac Boro we wouldn’t have got Port Harcourt, that’s a fact. He taught me (I was his commander) how to walk on the marshy area. He would say ‘ Oga make you use your toes as if you are dancing ballet.’ And then I will use my toes and he would say Oga, you are not moving well and I will say oh shut up! But he taught me and we were successful. I am giving him the credit because that is what he deserves. I kept asking the same question, were the people Biafra or was Biafra the people in the book? If Biafra is for all of you and you have that calibre of politicians in the place, you have that calibre of engineers you had, you needed to
have all hands on the deck. Whether you are from Bayelsa or anywhere, you all suffered during that killing in the north, during the unrest. All you needed to do was call back your key politicians and tell them to go and campaign. Zik and all of them; but Ojukwu put Okpara in jail. He jailed Okpara, he wanted Zik himself to fail, all his businesses were taken from him, and so they already had been defeated before the war started.

The issue of believability is central to this account because it is a historical work and from the federal side, apart from Obasanjo’s book this is supposed to be another major work, why should we believe your own narrative? Two, you spoke of Obasanjo’s wrong pictures and wrong maps. I don’t know what you mean by wrong pictures. Three, you seem to have relied more on the power of memory in your recollection of events; there was no diary, why should we trust your account?

You don’t have to trust me. I have 450 pictures in the place. For instance, Obasanjo said we had an Officers’ Mess, his picture is in the book, eating with bare hands without fork and knife and cracking chicken bone and there is no dining table. I am talking about facts and figures. If somebody is talking about your village for instance and he is telling you that there is a statue of Gowon in your village, you who own the village will say Na lie, na there them born me, na leg I take walk around pass this place and there is no statue like that. You will be talking facts and figures. I, Alabi-Isama commanded the troops that captured Obubra, the entire Cross River of today. I captured the entire Akwa Ibom of today, I led the troops that captured the Rivers State of today. I led the troops that captured the Bayelsa of today. I was there with my feet, the soldiers asked Oga, we go go again? I said we dey go. Eh I get blisters, I will remove my shoes, look
at my own blisters and we were there together. My pictures are there in the book.

They say pictures don’t lie, you said Obasanjo had wrong pictures?

Yes the wrong pictures, for instance in his book he said I was at Itu and he was talking about Ikot Ekpene; he said that he was at Ikot Ekpene and he had a masterly briefing, the picture was Obeya at Itu, it was not Ikot Ekpene. And then there was another picture at Uli Airstrip where he said alright, all soldiers move out and he took the picture alone at the centre of Uli Airstrip. When Adekunle came to the war front after we had captured Port Harcourt, he said he would like to advance five miles with us. We showed him the map, we showed him where we were going, we showed him where we were and the type of enemy we would meet. He advanced with us and when we came back he announced, “everybody come, photographer, Alabi photographer come and take this picture.” There was a bit difference and I am saying so. I was there, he wasn’t there. He could not be writing about where he was not.

This photographer was there with you?

He was there. His picture is there in the book. So when I say a map is wrong, for instance, we went to close a border. Cameroon border at a place called Nsakpa. I can mention the name because I was there. And then he drew the map to show that we went through a road. We didn’t go there. I infiltrated 7000 troops and came out behind them when they were on the road. I told them I didn’t need casualties. I didn’t need dead bodies; I needed to capture the place. If I had followed the route, we would be fighting Biafran soldiers. I would have had casualties. How did you think we would have captured Port Harcourt in 30 days advancing from Calabar, 480 kilometres? We did not enter any town.

So you are implying sir that Obasanjo’s work was a huge misrepresentation of what happened?

What work did he do?

The book

Every part of the book.

Hold on sir

This is the book

Was a huge misrepresentation of what happened?

Yes.

Apart from your centrality to the event, I am sure there are other senior people like yourself who perhaps for the sake of this question, who perhaps had the same idea of what happened contrary to what Obasanjo published. How come they had not come out before your own book to tell the federal story?

They don’t have the pictures; it will be your word versus my word. Obasanjo was the president of the country he was the head of state of the country. Alabi was nobody; you never fight anybody standing when you are lying down.

So the strength of your book lies in the pictures?

That’s it. That’s all. Otherwise it would be my words versus his words.

Still on the blunders, you also said that the Biafran troops spread themselves unnecessarily in the Midwest so they wasted troops?

They did the same thing even in the main war itself because you see in the world war the Japanese were all over Mariana Island in the Pacific and the Americans would just touch a hole. I love General Paton. From Obubra, (I wished there is a black board here,) I would have drawn this map, I know the whole place, I was there. From Obubra to Port Harcourt is over 1000 kilometres, how many people will you put in every inch of the kilometre? Between one kilometre and the other, there is a gap. So let us say that they put 10, 10,000 you would have had more than a million in the army, they didn’t have it. Let’s assume for the purpose of this discussion that they had a thousand or 10, 000 in one point. I went to Port Harcourt with 35, 000, blew through the place. We knew the style, we went to the same military school and during those strategy discussions with Adekunle, he would be Biafran today, I will be Nigerian. If you do this, how will you do this? And
invariably, all we discussed came to pass. For instance Biafra came to counter attack in Ikot Ekpene. They went as far as to a place called Ikpe junction. They had no more reserves. I had not even attacked them. They just saw an open place. Ikpe junction was a killing ground. They didn’t do all that and then, you know why we didn’t eat bush meat? If a soldier would kill bush meat he would have to shoot, the others, maybe Nigerians themselves would kill him because from the direction of shot we would open fire. We never ate bush meat and the soldiers know that. And so when our troops would fire somewhere, Biafrans would fire to the place. Ha! Now we know where they are. We had no intelligence report of where they were. We used to send ladies to go along with refugees and the ladies would tell us what they saw, how many they saw, which building they were staying in and so on.

There is a question about logistics am worried about, 35 000 men is a large number so how were you able to manage and move that number?

I am happy you asked that question because I was 27 years old. How much of it did I know? But one thing I was taught was that if your logistics is wrong you will lose the war. General Alexander Madiebo told me that central cooking was not possible for them after the first two, three months of the war. So they lived on the land. So the logistics was out of this world. I wrote about that as part of our challenges. First of all, you had to cook for 35,000 men, how did I do it? I divided them into sections of tens and they would go and cook. You’ll come to the central bulk breaking point, you collect your garri or your yam or whatever and you will go and cook for your 10 men. It was easy to manage 10 men and that means there are about 3,500 cooking places. Where was the firewood or where was the gas or where was the electricity to cook? We depended on the marine commando ladies we recruited. Many of them died of landmines looking for firewood, so you can
see that even those ones on intelligence on radio and all that were not as important as those ones supplying us fire woods for cooking. The logistic was enormous. In the mangrove forest, in the water logged areas, it was enormous. For instance, we built pontoons to cross Opobo River. It’s all in the book.

Certainly the logistical challenges must have influenced the duration of the war, what other things do you think contributed to making the war last as long as it did?

Well, definitely not from Adekunle’s side. He wanted me to capture Obubra in 30 days, everybody running kitikiti, today if you start walking from Calabar to Port Harcourt, I don’t know whether you will make it in 30 days. Then we were fighting, we were advancing, we were moving and even Gen Madiebo in his book said that within one hour or so, we had captured about 50 miles. How was that possible, he asked? It was the tactics and the strategy. It worked; if it didn’t work we would have been drinking water at the Atlantic Ocean. Our backs to the Atlantic our chest to the Biafran bullets; we had nowhere to run to and if the logistics went wrong, the soldiers would starve, they will not be able to move. If the ammunitions were not enough, they will not be able to fight. If their shoes had blisters and no socks and no foot powder, they will not be able to advance. So many things were involved. The morale of the troops depended on the morale of the
officer himself. The officer himself must be seen with the troops. The Biafrans didn’t do that.

About how many men do you think you lost, just an estimate on your own side?

In 3rd Marine Commando, I lost eight from Calabar to Port Harcourt.

All through the war?

I did not lose any single one in Obubra. Two officers – Captain Fashola at Bori and Isaac Boro at Okrika and I have records.

I don’t think you have sufficiently addressed the question of why the war lasted that long?

It lasted that long because Biafrans themselves did not just give up, it was their tactics and strategies that were wrong and they believed they were doing well. The amount of ammunitions and weapons with which they went to the Mid-west could have been used in defending Biafra. In this case the Biafrans put in

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Subject:[africanworldforum] OPERATION TAIL WIND: THE
FINAL CASTRATION OF BIAFRANS.........

Jubilant Nigerians in the capital
city of
Lagos cheer as they read of the surrender of the rebel
Biafran forces, Jan. 12,
1970AFIS
PREAMBLE:  OJUKWU AN IGBO, RAN AWAY AND LEFT HIS
IGBOS TO DIE, OBASANJO WHO CASTRATED THE IGBOS IN 1970,

IS STILL A YORUBA...........@@@@@Operation
Tail-Wind     Operation Tail-WindPart of Nigerian Civil WarDateJanuary 7
– 12, 1970LocationOwerri and UliResultNigerian
victory, Capitulation of
BiafraBelligerents Nigeria BiafraCommanders and leadersOlusegun ObasanjoOdumegwu

Ojukwu
Philip Effiong
Joseph Achuzie
Lambert Ihenacho
Azum Asoya
Ogbugo Kalu

Timothy OnwuatuegwuStrengthunknownunknownCasualties and lossesunknownunknown[hide] v t e Nigerian Civil
WarOperation UNICORD Midwest Invasion of 1967 Enugu First Onitsha Operation Tiger Claw Second Onitsha Abagana Ambush Port Harcourt Operation OAU Owerri Operation Hiroshima Operation Leopard Operation

Tail-Wind
Operation
Tail-Wind (January 7 – 12, 1970) was the final
military conflict between Nigeria and Biafra. The operation took place
in the towns of Owerri and Uli, both of which were captured
by Nigerian forces. The operation ended with General Odumegwu Ojukwu fleeing to the Ivory Coast and then president of

Biafra Philip Effiong surrendering to Olusegun Obasanjo.Contents

 [hide] 1 Background2 Final Offensive3 Aftermath4 ReferencesBackground[edit]On May 30, 1967, Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the

Nigerian Troops firing artillery
gun in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, during the
Nigerian Civil War. Col Benjamin Adekunle
is seen here with left hand on the
artillery gun.Final
Offensive[edit]On January 7, 1970, the 3rd Marine Commando
Division under Gen. Obasanjo, supported by the 1st Infantry
Division to the north and the 2nd Infantry Division to the
south, launched their final offensive. The Biafran S
Division under Captain Azum Asoya was operating along the
Port Harcourt - Elele road. The Division found itself cut
off and disorganized due to a quick envelopment by the
Nigerian 17th Brigade under Maj. Tomoye, the Nigerians now
began making their advance on Owerri. On the outskirts of
Owerri, Biafran Lt. Col. Lambert Ihenacho's 63rd Brigade
came under withering attack by Maj. Tomoye's 17th
Brigade, supported by 122 mm Soviet artillery. In less than a
day of fighting the 63rd Brigade became overwhelmed by the
Nigerian bombardment and were forced to surrender.

Gen
Obasanjo Ordering Igbos to sign Surrender

Notes!January 1970,

preparing for meeting in
Lagos at
the end of the Civil War; second
from left
is General Efiong, third is
Colonel O.
Obasanjo  
1970, initial
meeting between both sides
at the end
of the War; from left to right:
General
Efiong, Prof. Eni Njoku,
Colonel

ObasanjoWhile the Nigerians were preoccupied with

attacking the 63rd Brigade, the Biafran leadership made
their final meeting in which President Ojukwu
announced his plans to go abroad "in search of
peace". Ojukwu handed over the Biafran
presidency to his vice-president Philip Effiong and placed all
remaining Biafran troops under the command of Maj. Joseph Achuzie. On January 9 Maj.
Timothy Onwuatuegwu escorted
Ojuwku to the Uli airstrip where he boarded his private jet
and fled to the Ivory Coast. Immediately
after Ojukwu's departure President Effiong called for a
ceasefire to discuss the details of
surrender. On January 12 Philip Effiong,
Joseph Achuzie, Ogbugo Kalu, and other Biafran officers made
their way to Amichi and later Owerri to broadcast their
final surrender to Col. Obasanjo.
 Shikenaafis 

the 3 Marine Commando .This happened after Lt

Col  Christopher Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu(
whose stupidity and ambition
led to the death of
1.5 million Igbos) surreptitiously fled to
Ivory Coast. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGSRa6KE_rg&sns=em

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On 18 Oct 2015, at
14:46, vincent modebelu <vin_mo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

 Dede
Imperial..
Who is
that guy with rounded fingers?
Hmmmmmm.
he is only showing one. What happened to the other four
?  
Yummie Yummie
Yummie

vin.....///
....Born to tell the

truth....they are

listening indeed
... thick walls
will  fall Breaking..Hausa Jails another Yoruba
general  

He is Wole boy Kuti
Fellows
no
one does it better to these people than Fulani +

hausa.they jail them as they

come.
no matter how much they try to
break bread and drink with these danfodio
boys.  They also jailed these  Yoruba
generals.

Obasnajo + Diya + Abiola
[aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  + awowlowo =
++++
tinibu has ran back to
Ikoyiand has shut up. no more waving his fingers in the
air.

Imagine if it was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their
Deji will be talking nonsense against IGBO.
They are now pretending as if they do not know that
Wole boy Kuti is going to hard labour.
They thought Buhari will jail IGBO

first..I de smile OoOoo

Deji of Akure will be next area boy to go
down.
vin.....///
....Born to tell

the truth....they are listening indeed

... thick walls will 
fall




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 Breaking..Hausa
Jails another Yoruba general  

He is
Wole boy Kuti
Fellows
no one does it better to these people than Fulani

+ hausa.they jail them as they come.

no matter
how much they try to break bread and drink with these
danfodio boys.  They also jailed these
 Yoruba generals.

Obasnajo
+ Diya + Abiola [aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  +
awowlowo = ++++
tinibu has ran back to Ikoyiand has shut up. no
more waving his fingers in the air.

Imagine if it
was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their Deji will be talking
nonsense against IGBO.
They are now
pretending as if they do not know that Wole boy Kuti is
going to hard labour.
They

thought Buhari will jail IGBO first..I de smile

OoOoo
Deji of
Akure will be next area boy to go down.
vin.....///
....Born to tell the

truth....they are

listening indeed
... thick walls
will  fall
Army

confirms Gen. Ransome-Kuti's jail sentenceBy Ronald Mutum | Publish

Date: Oct 17 2015 4:55PM | Updated Date: Oct 17 2015

5:02PMNigeria army

spokesman Colonel Sani Usman on Saturday confirmed the jail
sentence handed down to Brigadier General EA Ransome
Kuti. In a statement
Colonel Usman : "‎I wish to confirm that one of the
accused persons, Brigadier General EA Ransome-Kuti was
awarded the following punishments on the various count
charges against him as follows: "The first
count charge which was "Cowardly Behaviour" was
struck out but he was found guilty on Count Charge Number
Two which was "Failure to Perform Military Duties"
and  was dismissed from the Nigerian
Army." He was
equally found guilty on Count Charge Number 3 which was
"Miscellaneous Offences Relating to Service
Property" and was awarded 6 months imprisonment, the
army statement said.‎
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The other question I want to ask has to do with the fact that IBM Haruna said that he killed the Igbos in cold blood because there was a pogrom in Asaba

Did he use the word pogrom?

No, that is my language. Okay, he revenged because there was a pogrom of the Hausas in Asaba. You were in Asaba at that time, then made reference to the pogrom that happened. Now, does that now lend weight to the argument that the killings were on both sides?

Let me tell you what I know. First the officers of the coup were considered as Nigerian army officers, but as the dust settled, they too started to read meaning to it.

Who started reading meaning into it?



The Igbo officers were fleeing. This thing is sectional oh! We have killed Saurdana, we’ve killed all the Hausa senior officers, they started sending their families home. It was not to fight but to flee, I wrote in the book. Because if they waited to fight, they would have all gone to the armoury, it would have been one for one. Now the Igbo officers left, in the police, in the navy, everywhere they left.

But they didn’t take confidently …(cuts in)

They had the opportunities. So they left the Igbo traders undefended. They left the civilians undefended at the mercy of whoever had the gun. Ironsi, himself, as one of the blunderers took, as if to make you a governor was a compensation for a job well done… who wanted to be a governor? I wanted to command the Nigerian army. We wanted to be generals. We wanted our white gorgets as cadets to be red. He removed him from 5th battalion to Enugu as governor and he put a Hausa man there. He removed Ojukwu from 5th Battalion at Kano to Enugu. Having done that …

Ojukwu was not one of the coup plotters?

He was one of those who made the coup to fail in the north and Ironsi made the coup to fail in the south. As if making him a governor was compensation, why did he remove him as commander? So he put a Hausa man there, who was Shuwa, with guns in his hands. They were ready and that was what happened.

But the officers were transferred…

We didn’t transfer ourselves there! It just fell in place that they were Yorubas. So if you use the word that the Yorubas ended the war, that may be true. And that whether the north started the killings and so on, well it may be because you killed their people first. So when they got to Asaba, the Biafrans also killed the Hausas there. So when the federal troops now had the upper hand and got the initiative, they had their day. But in spite of that, the Igbos have always aligned with the Hausas even till today.

You forgot the minorities, the Anangs and Itsekiris

Why I use that word is because the whole east was considered Igbo in my time. In your time you now have Bayelsa. I never heard of Bayelsa before. So when I use the word east, I mean the whole east. When I use the word north, I mean the whole north and the whole west. And I am telling you today that that same west is still not part of PDP. So who is complaining? Who is ruling the country? Let us face this fact for once; I am saying that the strange destiny that put us together, let us understand it. That is why kolanut is grown in the west, it is eaten in the north and worshipped in the east because when we give you kola we give you life. In my father’s village, anytime I go to visit them, I come back with a lot of kolanuts in my pocket. That is life! You think God made a mistake by putting us together? Anybody who wants to fight, let him stand up to fight now, which is called revolution. And if we are going to sit down to talk, it is called resolution,
let’s sit down and talk. I am not a Yoruba man, I am a minority in Ilorin; we are at the backyard of the north. I am a minority in the Igbo area; I am at the backyard of the Igbo. But I am telling you who is marginalised, it is the Yoruba. Where are they in the scheme of things? But the complaints since independence, Igbos and Hausas have been complaining that the country is not good.

The point I want to make about what you have said is that, before the war, the Hausas planned the coup. With what happened after the coup, I was a small boy in Lagos, we ran away at night because our lives were in danger. In the north it was massacre..

They started looking for Igbos when they got to Ore, where they started bombing.

The point I was coming to is that, if that had to happened, what should the Igbos have done under the circumstance. That kind of pogrom, should it have happened? Officers were killed in a coup, pregnant women and children were being killed everywhere, was that called for?

You still don’t get it. I told you about the feudal system; you killed his benefactor and he does not have a reason to live anymore. Live for what? They don’t know how to work, they have no job, you have killed our leaders who fed us. I told you not that we did not eat enough, we did not eat at all.

Are you justifying it or you are explaining it?

I’m explaining it that, you are saying pogrom, these people are not looking at it that way, I gave you the example about that in those days, everywhere that you found an Igbo man.

Was that also part of the reason why, ‘okay, this people we have been targeting them, this is the opportunity to go and get them. Let’s kill them, let’s take all their properties. Even those in the civil service, others everywhere, let’s chase them away so we can occupy the place?’

You are misinterpreting it. That’s not the point. The point was if you had killed the leaders, am sure if they had killed the Hausa and left the leaders, nothing would have happened. It’s like when they killed Ademulegun, they killed Ademulegun with his wife on the bed. They killed Sodeinde with a pregnant wife; what are we talking about here? If you look at it as an Igbo man, then you look at it as an Igbo man, I am talking to you as a Nigerian that what happened then, they could have carried on to the end. They would have done the same in the east. They would just handle the leaders and if you couldn’t get them, what you need to do was to jail them, put them in jail and lock them up even if it was only for one day. You killed a general in the room with the wife on the bed! These are people you ate with and drank together in the officers’ mess. I’m explaining this point for you to understand why they were vicious. A lot of us were happy about
the coup. You will read my second book, don’t worry. But the point is again, when Biafrans got to Asaba, you must have read the book Blood on the Niger by Emma Okocha. When they got to Asaba, they killed all the Hausas in Ogbe Hausa, at Ikebu point. No one was allowed to escape. They wiped all of them out.

After the pogrom?

What pogrom?

This is like a counter pogrom. (Laughter)

You see, after you had killed the leaders, whether you called it pogrom or not, you had killed all of them.

Now you are talking about the psychology of the feudal society…

That is what I am telling you now, if you don’t know I know it because I was a beggar. I was just five years old. I carried plates to go to the street to beg until my mother came on the eighth day and took me, that was when I started going to school. I wrote it in my book. The Emir of Ilorin made me to go to school, the father of the current Emir.

The image of the begging bowl throws up the question of money. In your other interview, you spoke of Adekunle, his terrible state now and you said that, am quoting you now. You said ‘if he (Adekunle) had made the kind of money that the rest of them made, he would be rich.’ That struck me and I began to wonder: in a war situation, do people make money?

Do they?

That’s what you said

But you haven’t been to my house to see…

Hold on, I am not saying you are among them?

It is possible, I am not an angel. May be I didn’t steal enough.

You said if he had made the kind of money the rest of the people had, he would be rich. Who are these people?

I think somebody called me yesterday to say that there was an interview by Akin Aduwo when he said Adekunle told him to go and take 9 million pounds or something.

My question is, who are these ‘rest of them’? Could you be more specific, or maybe how did they make this money from what was going on?

Let me put it this way. Many of us in the army inherited this or that. For instance, my mother bought a place in Surulere, one bungalow, and I said Alhaja, you mean a general should live in a bungalow, lo ta ile o, (go sell your house), I don’t want to live in a bungalow. My wife said ‘oh I will use if for hair dressing.’ Today, that house is being sold for N50 million. Many of us inherited one thing or the other. But again let me tell you, you have seen how officers live. Let me repeat myself, you have seen how officers live. You’ve been to some of them. Let us total their salaries from when they were in the army, was that what they spent in building those houses? Are you saying that Adekunle, if he stole that kind of 9 million pounds, you will see him unable to pay his medical bills?

I’m interested in the rest of them, if you could be more concrete, and how was it possible at the war front to get rich?

It was possible because when Obasanjo said they should pay all the soldiers, if a soldier was killed the other soldiers would pick up the money. It’s a free world now, so many of them could have done that.

Other possibilities?

I don’t know. Maybe they told them to go and buy weapon or supplies, but army officers in Marine Commando… for instance, Obasanjo wrote in his book, that they were buying cow for N60 and somebody was buying meat for N90 and when he came he negotiated N60 and they approved. Which Hausa man brought cow to Marine Commando? Who was he talking to? He said he now discussed with cow dealers and they accepted N60 instead of N90. So which Hausa man brought the cow to the war front? I was Chief of Staff of Marine Commando. I didn’t have meat in my food until we got to Obubra and which meat did I eat? human flesh. It was human flesh and I used palm wine to wash it down, and I did not know until I saw Capt Akinyanju in charge of supply and transport, and I said to him, well done you arrived so quickly you must have been following the attack. He said, ‘Oga, we never leave Calabar o, we’ve been eating meat since.’ I asked him, how come? He said, ‘I no
know, make we go find out.’ The natives came and told us there were so many Biafrans on the streets and they put them in their houses. When we went and opened their freezers or something we found them, they’ve roasted them and I ate and I did not even vomit.

I read Adekunle asked you how did human flesh taste?

Adekunle said I heard you ate human flesh. I said, well, that’s what they told me that it was human flesh, not bush meat. He said how was it? I must have eaten the wrong part of the steak. And I said it was tender o. An officer, Utuk, at Owerri, when he saw me, he started crying. He said ‘the thing wey make me cry sir: the day I peed in my cup and put some garri to drink and as soon as I finished that garri, rain fell.’ What do you make of this? We had terrible experiences. What we went through was not a joke. Today you are talking about Nigeria and that’s why it pains people like me to see Adekunle in such condition.

That brings us to the question of money generally as a value of exchange. There was this story sometime ago that Muritala Mohammed broke a bank and looted the bank. Was it true? Secondly, were there other cases of looting on the federal side?

Let me tell you, I don’t have a reservoir of knowledge on these things we are discussing. I only know my side of the story and that is why in my book I said this is my story. Whoever is going to say it’s not correct must be there with me. Okay, first of all, I was not in Benin but it was Biafra that first entered Benin. The Biafrans did not take the money so they left it for Murtala to come around and take? Somebody must be lying. If you read Blood on The Niger, they took some money from the Central Bank to Asaba because they made Asaba their new headquarters.

Adekunle emerged at the beginning of your story as not only a very good leader but also a genial person. You were also calling him egbon mi, then things changed. There are a number of stories that have been told about Adekunle that we don’t see in your story. One, we know that he wasn’t really in the battle front, the myth about him was that he was a man with the disappearing act. Two, that he was just a brave man in front of the battle carrying gun and killing Biafrans. From the story we know, that he did not even have contact with a lot of Igbos. So how did it come that Adekunle had become demystified in your book?

The first thing was that Adekunle commanded the troop that captured Bonny, today adjudged as the best free-landing in Africa. He landed his troops at Calabar, again adjudged as one of the best free-landing because those were difficult operations then. Anywhere at all, free-landing, river-crossing, those were difficult operations. He successfully did that. Then I became his chief of staff; he had somebody to discuss with. We were friends before the war. He would say we were going to capture Obubra, what do you think? We would sit down and debate, and I mean the word debate. When he had to give his orders there was no doubt who was the commander but the debate helped both of us. We did not operate in Igbo areas, we were in Calabar, Port Harcourt, Eket, Ikot Ekpene, Obubra, Ntigidi, Opobo, Bori, Okrika, Bonnny, etc.

But every time he went to Lagos, Adekunle would say all Igbos must die or something like that. I would ask him, Oga mi, this is the headline, did you say that? He would say he didn’t say that, and that the publisher had to sell its paper but that he boasted anyway. So Lagos did a lot of things to this man. And that was what happened. It was just unfortunate. He would come back with a newspaper saying I will kill anything that is moving, Adekunle was not there to kill anybody. He gave me authority to feed the people. I couldn’t have opened hospital for women and children without him giving me the authority. All I needed to do was ask. These people wanted to take school certificate, this is the school I have opened, he would come and see. One of the pictures was when he came to see the Biafrans that were captured, we kitted them, we gave them the numbers and documented them, he was there. But when he got back after he had captured Port Harcourt,
something changed, he had told the press in Lagos, they said now that you have captured Port Harcourt, where next do you want to capture? he said ‘I want to capture Aba and Umuahia for the commander’s birthday or independence.’ ‘Oga mi, you are not going to send me to Umuahia, nobody will send me there until my troops are ready for it.’ He said, okay, don’t worry. Shande, you are promoted lieutenant colonel, you go to Umuahia. Utuk, you are promoted lieutenant colonel, you go to Owerri. Akinrinade warned him that we could not go to Owerri, because left and right, Owerri to Umuahia is a distance to Aba and Owerri to Port Harcourt. With that there was a gap in between, how many troops did we have to cover these gaps?

So it was okay to capture Aba because it was part of the movement. Remember, from Calabar to Port Harcourt, we were advancing like this with our right flank to the Igbo area. That’s Ikpot Ekpene, Aba, Omoku, Owerri, that’s to our right. Therefore to be able to look after those areas, we needed reserve. If there was an attack for any side, we didn’t have to stop the troops advancing, the reserve would move in there. That was what happened in Ikot Ekpene and we didn’t realise that the Biafrans themselves, the officers were not too fast forward enough. I wrote it in my book there because every town a captain is not there, that’s why we didn’t attack Arochukwu. Uwakwe was my classmate, they shot him and the bullet came out of his mouth and broke all his teeth. He just died on the 15th of January this year. It was because of him I did not attack Urochukwu I sent him a note. He still had the note. He came to my house in Surulere and we discussed
the note. And I said well, you didn’t attack, so we didn’t attack. That’s why there was no war in Arochukwu; there was no battle fought in Arochukwu.

But Obasanjo went an Israelite journey to Arochukwu (laughter)?

Obasanjo, God bless him. He sent Inih to Arochukwu. Here is what happened, let me put it this way, I don’t know how much of Baghdad war that you all know. The British were in Basra, Americans were going to Baghdad. Then for an American commander to send his troop to Baghdad so that they could pass through the British, we don’t operate in infantry like that. Because the man in Basra already knew the position of the enemy, how many they were, he already had his data. All he had to be told was attack this place, he got his data. You now send somebody coming from somewhere to go to Basra and do what?

So Adekunle became paranoid?

Adekunle, now because he had boasted to the press in Lagos that, “oh when I get there, I will spend the weekend in Port Harcourt, we will capture Port Harcourt on the 18th of May 1968. Well anybody who doesn’t like federal troops should just go through Owerri because I have closed Aba road.” You know what we agreed was that he should please announce that we would start artillery fire and anybody who didn’t like federal troops should go through Owerri, don’t come to Aba because we had blocked Obigbo and he started to boast in Lagos. What we are saying is that the mistake Adekunle made was the fact that he had boasted and when Owerri, Aba, Umuahia failed, he failed with it. Oga don’t let us do it this way, it was like the German officer telling Hitler don’t go to Barbarossa, don’t let us go to Barbarossa, he would say laye . He’ll say fall out, you are promoted to Field Marshall, that one quickly surrendered. He said Field Marshall will
never surrender, he said well this will be the first Field Marshall to surrender.

You didn’t say much about Adaka Boro in your book in the sense that he was the man who wanted his revolt, he was a very political person. You didn’t say much about his politics. He couldn’t have been even for Nigeria, we would have expected that he would have been for Nigeria because of the revolt against Nigeria?

I agree with you but we never discussed politics. I was a 27-year-old boy. What wiould I know in politics. I just wanted to be a commander and I had my opportunity and when I got stuck I didn’t know what to do and he said, ‘Oga no be so I go do am, na so and I agree with them.’ You see that’s the difference about commanders you know, we are two different types. I could have said shut up, I’m the commander here. And I would have gotten stuck with what the others did. But in this case that’s the point you were asking me, but in this case I said if you say ‘no be so I go do am’, tell me how I go do am show me, and he showed me and that is why even right here, I wrote in this book here, look, I said ‘Isaac Boro left and Alabi Isama’s surmounting terrain challenges were difficult without Isaac Boro.’ That’s Isaac Boro, that’s myself, he was teaching me what to do, I was his commander but I didn’t know enough.

And you have the picture of the person who killed Isaac Boro, can you just simply.. a kind of?

Well, the strategy, scorpion strategy, here is what is called scorpion strategy. That’s how Adekunle got the name. What happened was that all of us were to converge in phase one at Opobo, in phase two at Aletu Eleme with Okrika on the other side, Akinrinade was not to attack Port Harcourt, Obasanjo said he attacked Port Harcourt and he failed. No, it’s not to attack PH, he didn’t know and he didn’t ask. Why was Akinrinade there? Akinrinade was to divert the attention coming from the left and when they saw that Akinrinade’s troop ran away from One, they reinforced One. The more they reinforced One, the more opened their plans. It was a tactic between myself and Akinrinade. You have read many mails Akinrinade Alabi, Akinrinade Alabi, that’s my part. We did that, you know that was how Adekunle got his scorpion name. and like I was telling you, you see Alabi Nsama advancing with the troops here, this is Alabi Nsama and before they would start
opening fire and I said, ‘okay, all of you now make una continue o, I will go look for ammunition and come back, would that be right?’

This was Adekunle’s idea?

No, no I drew this.

But he got the name scorpion through it?

I called it scorpion strategy. His sting is in the tail, he just got that name from Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill and Kola Animashaun was a journalist. I think they had a quarrel with what Winston said was that at age of 32 or something you are the commander here, the divisional commander, Adekunle said your father was 26 when he was a member of parliament, why would you think an African will not do, so they quarreled from there. Then he said look, just send him to Alabi because he was asking how did we cross Opobo River without the crossing equipment. And I said we crossed with canoe and I started showing him these things. Look at 500 canoes, one canoe carries six men with kits, 35 men were to cross the river, then we built burton. We built two burtons like Alexander The Great, 332 BC to cross to our fighting positions. 35, 000 troops, 1600 bags of garri, 1200 bags of rice, 600 bags of beans, 20 bags of salt, armoured cars, cases of ammunition,
artillery, weapons, vehicles and more crossed in 48 hours, all day all night. He was the one that consummated the battles after which Obasanjo took the glory for the surrender of Biafra, he was the one that protected him after the Dimka coup and aided his becoming head. Why is it that in spite of all Akinrinade had done for Obasanjo, Obasanjo does not like him?

Despite all that Jesus did for everybody, what became of Him? That’s what happens. People like that, you know I told Kunle Ajibade when they came here, you know in life my dear brother, there is this phenomenon of history. These things do happen that people thought of in rare situations like Ghengis Khan, Ataturk, Hitler, their destiny would take life and blood and people like Mandela would be there. Gowon, despite the Geneva Convention, he also set up another to say this is my code of conduct, don’t kill Igbo, don’t do this, don’t do that. There are people like that. Alexander Dumas in France, that man won all the battles; he was a black man his mother was a slave. He won battles, he commanded the French troops, they sent him to the coldest points and he won battles there. When Napoleon came, in order to get credibility for his scheme, he said everybody was a slave. Alexander Dumas died penniless. You see, this phenomenon happens in life with
mankind. What Hitler wanted with bullets, today Germany got with ballots. Is it not better today without killing anybody?

They are taking over the whole of Europe?

Today is there any country in Europe that would not respect Germany. Now, that’s what Hitler wanted but he did it his own way. That was the level of his IQ.

Let me take you to the political terrain sir. At the point when Ojukwu and Gowon went to Aburi, if Nigeria had accepted Aburi, don’t you think things would have been better today?

You see that is politics and I don’t like politics. But I have started liking politics, you know why, when politicians launched their books, all politicians were there, army is going to launch book it was difficult to find army men around. My colleagues were too old, many of them suffer from arthritis, in fact, today I was told to go and check myself for blood sugar level. They told me to go and check it today because I told them I had headache yesterday and my hands were shaking. Actually I didn’t eat, we were busy here. They said okay go check your blood sugar. We are all old people. Many of my old friends you will see with walking stick and limping. So, Alabi-Isama is different. My brother, You are talking to me about politics. When they went to Aburi, what was Ojukwu looking for? He was not looking for how his people will be secured and safe, he wanted Biafra. If he was talking of security, he would sit down there with his people and debate.
Okay, we would be back in Nigeria on these conditions, they didn’t do that. I am a strategist not a politician. That’s what I would have done. Because you don’t get what you want, you get what you negotiate. He didn’t do that. He wanted Biafra, not security of his people. Are Igbo people not secure now?

But some people are clamouring for regions now?

Yes

The South West for instance, the same route Aburi was enlisting!

Aburi was looking for confederation. We are not looking for confederation, we are looking for one Nigeria. See the kolanut has put us together and we don’t know why. Let us face facts between us here today, are we not better off Nigerians than Biafrans or than Oduduwas Hausas? Today, we have broken the back of the middle class. Can we move this country forward without the middle class? Who finished them? You will read it in my book.

You said Biafra had numerous talented officers; was it Ojukwu’s fault as a general not to be able to deploy them well?

You are very right. I wrote a bit about that in my book where Njoku could have been the commander. Ojukwu would have been a PR person full stop. Zik you go do politics, Njoku you go do military duties. He would have distributed them. What I am telling you is that when we put the Biafrans back in the army after we captured them, they were pleased, they fought against Biafra, so that shows you that they were not looking for slogans. These people were looking for food, for security and they got them on our side and words go out fast. They told the rest and the rest came back. Biafra almost had nobody left at a point. The women and all the children that were starving came back and they got food. Nobody gave me the food to go and give Biafra it was my initiative. I did that so they could come back to the Nigerian side and I went on an attack with them, they did well. So what I am saying is that Ojukwu did not deploy his men properly. You need to read Ben
Gbulie’s book on Biafra, how they went and even furnished their houses because we are talking about head of state house, they went to furnish their houses when people could not eat.

You rated Njoku above Ojukwu?

Because he was senior to Ojukwu.

Beyond that you seems to … (cuts in)

Yes, because I went on an operation with Njoku and Njoku saw what I did, he praised me for it. He was the Biafran commander. I am very sure he would have said I knew Alabi-Isama was not going to sit down there for you to get him, let’s do it this way. I also know Madiebo well, Madiebo just did wonders. How he was able to keep the army for three years, I don’t know. But believe me I will give him credit here because they said they had no weapons. That could not have been his fault, that was where the government failed and the army failed, well that was well said.

You are talking of this second book, a sequel; does it mean this book has not exhausted what you want to say about the war and why not?

Why not, I read a newspaper, I think it was The Nation, December 10 last year where (Walter) Ofonagoro was addressing Igbo youths and he said the first coup was not Igbo coup, I agree with that. Then he said 75 percent of Nigerians were ruled by Igbo people, I agreed with him but he missed the point when he was now talking about Bakassi. He was talking about pogrom and he was taking about genocide. That genocide, I need to address the issue. You slapped me and I broke your head, then you went and reported to the elders, am I guilty? These are the issues we are talking about. Let me tell you here whether on record or off record, the Igbo will rule this country in the near future, only if they stop trading and start manufacturing what they are selling. Where is Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria (PAN) today? Obasanjo went and bought foreign vehicles, that was how PAN collapsed. Now Awolowo warned in Aba that we should have stopped this second hand clothing. He
went into the Aba Textile Mill and he saw it was not doing well and he said ‘don’t worry, by the grace of God when I become president I will stop this second hand clothing and the textile people would start booming’. Today we don’t have any textile mill in the whole country. Look at what you have here with you, which one is manufactured here? Everything including biro and paper and your slippers which one is manufactured here? We are just selling what people produced. What am trying to tell you is that in my second book, I have not finished talking, why is this quarrel necessary when the Igbo and Hausa are ruling the country from independence till today yet we cannot stop complaining. That’s my point about the second book.

As a follow up to this, I understand your views on pogroms, genocide and the blockade and all that but, the way the Igbo see it is that they were unfairly treated by the Nigerian nation. It was like a gang up to exterminate the Igbo. That is how the Igbo are seeing it. Even till today, there is no memorial anywhere to say that we fought a war? At least a million people died from both sides because it is about the Igbo people just want to sweep it under a carpet and forget about it. All over the world it is not done like that, then on a lighter side, I notice that you were wearing a beard as a soldier all through the war were you allowed to wear a beard? Then the last one, I am interested in knowing who were you classmates?

It’s in the book: Danjuma, Ogbemudia, Adamu, Apollo, Bamgboye,

What about in Secondary School?

Secondary school is also here, I was captain of Ibadan Boys High School. The story is there. There are pictures there. We were the Western champion in football, we beat everybody.

The bushy beard ?

As you can see, am still not smooth because I have this acne when I got to England I had too many of it and they told me don’t worry it will all go when you are married. You will have many children, I have many children but it still didn’t go. Any time we were at the sea side, remember we were at the Atlantic shore and there was salty water and when it touches it formed rashes. And because of that I asked and got the authority’s permission. It happened to Ariyo, it happened to Akinrinade, it happened to me so we were given authority to keep our beards and I kept mine.

The Igbo question. No memorial…

If I were Igbo, I would feel exactly like that but I have been detribalised so my thinking is straight and I will tell you where the Igbo were right and where they were wrong and where the Hausa and Yoruba were right and wrong. The thing about genocide, when the Hausa leaders were killed and some Yoruba also were killed and we now found out that there were Igbo people that were not touched, what will you think? Whether they think it was right or wrong, that was what happened. The Hausa were leaderless. Look at what happened during Miss World. I was in Houston, many of those girls came back to the US, their parents were talking in the Golf Club and they said, you are going to Nigeria to do business, you better not go to the northern part of it and people now don’t want to go there because their children went for Miss World and there was rioting and about 100 people died. Out of these 100 how many would you say were Igbo, perhaps more than 50 percent.
And what caused the riot, because some people were in bikini. You see, the Igbo have the right to think so. But I asked you the same question, you slapped me and in fighting back I broke your head, you went and reported to the elders, am I guilty? You killed people in Kaduna; they should let you go, I hear you. If my father had been there or my mother, I will level the entire neighbourhood o. You went to Asaba, killed all the Hausa at night, the Hausa came back in the midnight and revenged. You know those who really lost in this war, not just the Igbo people. Children of 3, 4, 5 years of age who saw their father and mother shot dead in front of them and they couldn’t do anything, they would live with it forever. These are the people I am addressing in my book that this should never happen again. You know I was telling you a while ago that the Igbo would still rule this country whether people like it or not. Just like the Germans, the day they now have
this petroleum industries, many of these things we are using are petroleum based. All these you are holding are petroleum based, we are selling these things (as crude oil), the day they stop selling them and we start manufacturing with them or assembling them, just like the Germans, you will see what would happen in this country. But my brother, they have the right to think that Nigeria didn’t like them. But let me tell you, who will do what Gowon did? Apart from Geneva Convention, he insisted that we must do this, we must do that, even my own mother told me that I should never kill anybody looking at me in the face. Which civil war, in American civil war; there is war going on in Darfur, in the Congo, which did their leaders say don’t do this, don’t do that to the ‘enemy? We should be worshiping Gowon and am telling you why we all have come to this stage of hating or believing that the Igbo have been hurt is because Gowon did not try them (for
war crimes). If he was one of those hawks from the north, one of those officers, they will try everybody, line them up and shoot them. And I don’t see what would have happened because they would try them properly; they carried weapons against the federal government of Nigeria and the national flag. I am telling you that we have nobody like Gowon in any part of the world that did what Gowon did. Yet he was discredited, the Igbo were given opportunities to talk because if people like Obasanjo did operation pincer one , there would be less than one thousand Igbo in Nigeria after the war. That’s what he did in Odi and Zaki Biam. As I wrote in my book, Gowon was not the hawk, he declared “no victor, no vanquished”. And for the Igbo to say they were starved when they already starved themselves. They killed the Italian oil workers forgetting that most of their relief supplies were coming from Rome, they captured 18 of them and even tried them and shot
them.

Why were they killed?

They said they were passing information to the Nigerians; they were working in the oil fields.

It reflects the Biafran propaganda?

Completely and everybody ran away from them. That’s why Goldstein left, that’s why the Caritas left, that’s why the Pope left, that’s why the entire Europe left and now they supported Nigerians and said look go finish this war and lets us go rest. That’s what happened!

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Subject:[africanworldforum] OPERATION TAIL WIND: THE
FINAL CASTRATION OF BIAFRANS.........

Jubilant Nigerians in the capital
city of
Lagos cheer as they read of the surrender of the rebel
Biafran forces, Jan. 12,
1970AFIS
PREAMBLE:  OJUKWU AN IGBO, RAN AWAY AND LEFT HIS
IGBOS TO DIE, OBASANJO WHO CASTRATED THE IGBOS IN 1970,

IS STILL A YORUBA...........@@@@@Operation
Tail-Wind     Operation Tail-WindPart of Nigerian Civil WarDateJanuary 7
– 12, 1970LocationOwerri and UliResultNigerian
victory, Capitulation of
BiafraBelligerents Nigeria BiafraCommanders and leadersOlusegun ObasanjoOdumegwu

Ojukwu
Philip Effiong
Joseph Achuzie
Lambert Ihenacho
Azum Asoya
Ogbugo Kalu

Timothy OnwuatuegwuStrengthunknownunknownCasualties and lossesunknownunknown[hide] v t e Nigerian Civil
WarOperation UNICORD Midwest Invasion of 1967 Enugu First Onitsha Operation Tiger Claw Second Onitsha Abagana Ambush Port Harcourt Operation OAU Owerri Operation Hiroshima Operation Leopard Operation

Tail-Wind
Operation
Tail-Wind (January 7 – 12, 1970) was the final
military conflict between Nigeria and Biafra. The operation took place
in the towns of Owerri and Uli, both of which were captured
by Nigerian forces. The operation ended with General Odumegwu Ojukwu fleeing to the Ivory Coast and then president of

Biafra Philip Effiong surrendering to Olusegun Obasanjo.Contents

 [hide] 1 Background2 Final Offensive3 Aftermath4 ReferencesBackground[edit]On May 30, 1967, Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the

Nigerian Troops firing artillery
gun in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, during the
Nigerian Civil War. Col Benjamin Adekunle
is seen here with left hand on the
artillery gun.Final
Offensive[edit]On January 7, 1970, the 3rd Marine Commando
Division under Gen. Obasanjo, supported by the 1st Infantry
Division to the north and the 2nd Infantry Division to the
south, launched their final offensive. The Biafran S
Division under Captain Azum Asoya was operating along the
Port Harcourt - Elele road. The Division found itself cut
off and disorganized due to a quick envelopment by the
Nigerian 17th Brigade under Maj. Tomoye, the Nigerians now
began making their advance on Owerri. On the outskirts of
Owerri, Biafran Lt. Col. Lambert Ihenacho's 63rd Brigade
came under withering attack by Maj. Tomoye's 17th
Brigade, supported by 122 mm Soviet artillery. In less than a
day of fighting the 63rd Brigade became overwhelmed by the
Nigerian bombardment and were forced to surrender.

Gen
Obasanjo Ordering Igbos to sign Surrender

Notes!January 1970,

preparing for meeting in
Lagos at
the end of the Civil War; second
from left
is General Efiong, third is
Colonel O.
Obasanjo  
1970, initial
meeting between both sides
at the end
of the War; from left to right:
General
Efiong, Prof. Eni Njoku,
Colonel

ObasanjoWhile the Nigerians were preoccupied with

attacking the 63rd Brigade, the Biafran leadership made
their final meeting in which President Ojukwu
announced his plans to go abroad "in search of
peace". Ojukwu handed over the Biafran
presidency to his vice-president Philip Effiong and placed all
remaining Biafran troops under the command of Maj. Joseph Achuzie. On January 9 Maj.
Timothy Onwuatuegwu escorted
Ojuwku to the Uli airstrip where he boarded his private jet
and fled to the Ivory Coast. Immediately
after Ojukwu's departure President Effiong called for a
ceasefire to discuss the details of
surrender. On January 12 Philip Effiong,
Joseph Achuzie, Ogbugo Kalu, and other Biafran officers made
their way to Amichi and later Owerri to broadcast their
final surrender to Col. Obasanjo.
 Shikenaafis 

the 3 Marine Commando .This happened after Lt

Col  Christopher Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu(
whose stupidity and ambition
led to the death of
1.5 million Igbos) surreptitiously fled to
Ivory Coast. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGSRa6KE_rg&sns=em

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On 18 Oct 2015, at
14:46, vincent modebelu <vin_mo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

 Dede
Imperial..
Who is
that guy with rounded fingers?
Hmmmmmm.
he is only showing one. What happened to the other four
?  
Yummie Yummie
Yummie

vin.....///
....Born to tell the

truth....they are

listening indeed
... thick walls
will  fall Breaking..Hausa Jails another Yoruba
general  

He is Wole boy Kuti
Fellows
no
one does it better to these people than Fulani +

hausa.they jail them as they

come.
no matter how much they try to
break bread and drink with these danfodio
boys.  They also jailed these  Yoruba
generals.

Obasnajo + Diya + Abiola
[aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  + awowlowo =
++++
tinibu has ran back to
Ikoyiand has shut up. no more waving his fingers in the
air.

Imagine if it was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their
Deji will be talking nonsense against IGBO.
They are now pretending as if they do not know that
Wole boy Kuti is going to hard labour.
They thought Buhari will jail IGBO

first..I de smile OoOoo

Deji of Akure will be next area boy to go
down.
vin.....///
....Born to tell

the truth....they are listening indeed

... thick walls will 
fall




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 Breaking..Hausa
Jails another Yoruba general  

He is
Wole boy Kuti
Fellows
no one does it better to these people than Fulani

+ hausa.they jail them as they come.

no matter
how much they try to break bread and drink with these
danfodio boys.  They also jailed these
 Yoruba generals.

Obasnajo
+ Diya + Abiola [aereonakokamfo ] +Kuti Adekunle  +
awowlowo = ++++
tinibu has ran back to Ikoyiand has shut up. no
more waving his fingers in the air.

Imagine if it
was EzeEbere that jailed him.. Their Deji will be talking
nonsense against IGBO.
They are now
pretending as if they do not know that Wole boy Kuti is
going to hard labour.
They

thought Buhari will jail IGBO first..I de smile

OoOoo
Deji of
Akure will be next area boy to go down.
vin.....///
....Born to tell the

truth....they are

listening indeed
... thick walls
will  fall
Army

confirms Gen. Ransome-Kuti's jail sentenceBy Ronald Mutum | Publish

Date: Oct 17 2015 4:55PM | Updated Date: Oct 17 2015

5:02PMNigeria army

spokesman Colonel Sani Usman on Saturday confirmed the jail
sentence handed down to Brigadier General EA Ransome
Kuti. In a statement
Colonel Usman : "‎I wish to confirm that one of the
accused persons, Brigadier General EA Ransome-Kuti was
awarded the following punishments on the various count
charges against him as follows: "The first
count charge which was "Cowardly Behaviour" was
struck out but he was found guilty on Count Charge Number
Two which was "Failure to Perform Military Duties"
and  was dismissed from the Nigerian
Army." He was
equally found guilty on Count Charge Number 3 which was
"Miscellaneous Offences Relating to Service
Property" and was awarded 6 months imprisonment, the
army statement said.‎
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/-army-confirms-gen-ransome-kuti-s-jail-sentence/115418.html




















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[Ike Agbor]

Leye Ige, I have made my point and you can tell the tales; wars are fought by men but the women tell the stories.
Your King of Akure could not have existed if not for the monthly first line deductions he gets from the money from oil proceeds that come to Ondo.
You can get enameled in your archaic systems for all I care.
The stories out of countries that want to get to somewhere are not mired in such systems; take a look at India. India once boasted of kings queens and princes but they are in a hurry to leave that behind.

I am working on a book on how masquerade phenomenon has so damaged Africa. The only time in African history when masquerades disappeared from streets and the psyche of Africans was in Biafra; you dared not showcase a masquerade when we needed men in the refinery, boys to plant ogbunigwe, and cobblers to make shoes out of anything, and rockets to be tested; it was the golden era when young men and women spent man hours on improving the lot of the people and so our rockets were guided, our ogbunigwe were primed correctly, coconut oil was converted to engine oil and refineries needed boys to learn sciencel; Biafrans had no time to decorate masquerades.
The Deji of Akure is a masquerade and so is the Ezeigbo in Akure; they spend man hours putting garb on their different masquerades.

We call the wasting of man hours "keeping with the culture" when in other climes people head to "state fairs" to showcase technological breakthroughs. We create "kings" and "Queens" with masquerade garbs and tell ourselves that we are upholding culture.
In the meantime countries get to dizzying heights leaving us to be called "chiefs"

My area has also reverted to decorating masquerades since the war ended, and man hours that could have been used to be creative are misused.
Bill Gates couldn't be born in Nigeria because he would be more worried with masquerade appellations: Chief, Dr. Engr. Sir Otunba Bill Gates.

Your Deji, and the rest are masquerades and if we don't unmask them now, 100 years from now the people on some communication platform again created by humans will dominate us, only that then every African would have become a masquerade.
Ike
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‘The civil war settled nothing’

Posted By: SAM OMATSEYE, FEMI MACAULAY and OLAKUNLE ABIMBOLA on: July 18, 2013In: Interview12 Comments

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‘The civil war settled nothing’
•Gen. Akinrinade


General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), in this interview with Editorial Board Chairman SAM OMATSEYE, FEMI MACAULAY and OLAKUNLE ABIMBOLA speaks on the Nigerian Civil War, Alabi Isama’s book and other issues.

Are you acquainted with the book by Alabi Isama?

Yes; when he first wrote a draft or what I call perhaps a draft. It was in three volumes, big volumes and then he gave them to me to read. His first idea was that I should get it into a printable form. But I looked at it and told him that it would be the work of professionals. They know how to put it together. As far as I was concerned, there was so much tautology in it. One issue was brought out three times. It looked like the book of an angry man. The professionals would really sit down, look at it, get the facts out correctly and make it readable. But I had no problem with the facts, figures and things which he put in the book. It was just the presentation that I had reservations about. But that was many months, or maybe two years ago.

General Alabi Isama said in his book that Obasanjo, in his My Command, misread the 3rd Marine Commando battle tactics at Onne for the entrapment of your troops, when it was indeed a decoy. Would you like to corroborate Osama’s claim?

Yes, it was for me, in military terms, a tragedy – a tragedy in the sense that we lost more men and some equipment in the process which ought not to happen. But there were issues which led to that tragedy. I suspect that if anyone wants to be fair, he would now lay out all those issues and then weigh them against what the result was. But Obasanjo did not. Like I told Alabi, if you read Obasanjo’s book, you would be nauseated to the point of vomiting. But when he insisted that he wanted to read it, I got him two copies, not just one, if he really wanted to make himself unhappy.



Obasanjo himself was not party to all those issues. He was in Ibadan at that time. It was (Benjamin) Adekunle who was in charge of 3 Marine Commando and the GOC. I was commanding Bonny, and we had an operational plan. I had been to see the divisional commander. I was not part of his division. The 15th division I commanded was an independent brigade; and we reported straight back to Lagos. But for the purpose of continuing operation in the riverine areas, the main objective was to capture Port Harcourt. We were very near, but we couldn’t get there by ourselves. So, if the Third Division was going into Port Harcourt, we had a very major role which we could play to secure Bonny channel, to make sure there was no interference; and also, if it was possible, stage enemy diversion from Third Division troops. That was the whole purpose. I had been to Calabar. We sat down in Adekunle’s headquarters. We all agreed to it. Then when the Third Division troops got
to Opobo, I took a boat and found my way to Opobo to reconfirm that that operation was still on. Now when they left Opobo to cross the Imo river (the idea was if they were crossing the Imo river, a very substantial river because it went towards the Niger Delta estuary, and they were using pontoons to cross, since there was no bridge), it was necessary for us in Bonny to stage some operations to divert enemy attention from them, so that they could safely cross. That was what we didn’t do in Onitsha; and that was why we lost maybe up to 2000 to 3000 (soldiers). In Bonny we had what you call a brigade but I didn’t have more than 1,500 men, even though we called it a brigade. It was out of that small group that I had to take out maybe about maybe 500 men to go and do the operation. It was strictly an assault landing, in which case we had nobody on the other side. All we needed to do was to take boats and get into Onne. The village was just a few
kilometers to the main road that led to Port Harcourt. So if we succeeded in getting to Onne and move out of Onne, we would have cut off everybody by the river crossing. That was the whole idea. We were supposed to be supported by artillery from those who are crossing; we were supposed to be supported by a little bit of air power. But what happened was that because they started crossing late, everything was concentrated on Bonny, so we didn’t get any support at all. Then secondly Lagos, who promised to send me a few equipment before the date, failed to do so. Col. Femi Oluleye was rear commander in Lagos. We landed in Onne all right, but instead of being there for say 24 hours, and the Third Marine Commando troops joining us, they never did. Even though Adekunle assured me that they had started to cross, they never did. So by the time we got to Onne, there was no help coming from anywhere. So we had to move out of Onne and go to Bonny again. It was in
that process that we must have lost, maybe about 200 men. That was what happened. So when Obasanjo put what he didn’t understand in his book, I was just laughing because he didn’t know what happened there; and I think you don’t go around making comedy out of a very terrible tragedy. For me, 10 soldiers lost in an operation was a tragedy: what are you doing as an officer? What is your plan? What are you thinking about? So…

(Cut in) That means without your operation there, Third Marine would not have been able to enter Port Harcourt?

That’s right. But what Obasanjo didn’t say was that when the crossing now started, we repeated the operation and this time, we succeeded. But that first one was premature, absolutely premature and I take responsibility because it was stupid. I was their commander. Whether the GOC did or didn’t do his part, for me, was immaterial. Men are put under your charge as commander and I was responsible for them. We lost about 200.

There was this guy Azuatalam, a Biafran officer – what was the story? It was said the guy was very brave and that and you fought him for five hours before finally capturing him?

Yes it was Makanjola’s front, God bless his soul. It was my brigade but Makanjuola was the battalion commander in the area. When that skirmish was over, what really interested me about Azuatalam was that he wasn’t the commander there, he was one of the officers we captured when the operation was over. When finally he got to my headquarters and I looked at him, he was such a nice little boy and he was not really a soldier at such – I mean, not a trained soldier but he had secondary school certificate. He was a smart boy: he worked with me for about two or three weeks. So, I persuaded Adekunle: why don’t we send him to cadet school so he could really become a proper officer? Adekunle agreed and we talked to Gen. Gowon and we sent him to Lagos, and they sent him to Sandhurst and he became an officer. He’s in Port Harcourt now.

He is still a soldier?

I was a bit disappointed on that score. By the time he made captain, I think I was a general then, the next thing I knew was that he had left the army. He left as captain. So, I looked for him in Port Harcourt, I got him, he told me he wasn’t getting real satisfaction out of the job. He thereafter became a marine fellow, repairing boats and things like that.

But it looks like you don’t want to talk about your own exploits in the place; the five hours that Alabi Isama talked about when you chased after him, he said he ran out of bullet, nd you ran out of bullets but you had to go get him?

Yes, but you know when you have a unit you give them work to do. Unfortunately, the civil war was not the conventional war taught in school, where the commander sits at the back and he gives order; and expects his lieutenants to carry out the operations. Unfortunately you had to wake up at five o clock in the morning to make sure, even though your officers were there at the frontline, to get them to start the operation. You had to hang around in the evening to make sure that the operation was carried out. That was how 3rd marine commando worked throughout the operation and that’s why Alabi, even though he was chief of staff, for a long time was always at the front. You would do most of your writing works at night and this same night you travel round to join your troops at the front to make sure that the operation went well, otherwise nothing might happen. So I was there. It was normal. It happened every day. You got out there, you got surprises, you
had to adjust yourself and get on with it.

Yes, another fault: there again, we made another big blunder because we wanted to get to Uli Ihiala at all cost, so we thought if we got to Owerri, we could follow the Orashi river right up to Owerri lake, land on the other side – that is Oguta; and then come out. I think less than five kilometers from Oguta was the main road that links Owerri, Ihiala, Nnewi. So, if you came out of that road, the war was as good as over.

That was Pincer 2 strategy?

Yes, that was short cut. But then we sent Makanjuola there and he landed. He spent about two/three days there but unfortunately all the reinforcement that was supposed to come to Owerri, to now push a little bit to divide the front properly, never happened. So, the rebels concentrated on Makanjuola and they pushed him back to Oguta Lake. There were quite a number of small tragedies that happened during the war. But in this case we didn’t lose too many troops because we were smart enough to get out in time.

You must have been very trusting sir, the Azuatalam guy was a Biafran officer. He could have been a traitor. To have converted him from Biafra to Nigerian army, was that not a big risk?

Maybe. But I think at that stage of the war, we had come to the point where a lot of the so-called rebel officers-Biafran officers, even their men, seemed to think that whenever they were captured, that the war was over for them. That the loyalty they were talking about and the fervent Biafran thing about everybody singing the anthem and this and that didn’t go beyond when things are comfortable…..That’s my impression right from when I was in Second Division, to the operations in the Midwest. That was my impression. Each time you captured anyone and you treated him well, he forgot about the Biafran thing.

Isama himself talked about Third Marine Commando; that Boro was the one training them; that when they got there, he trained them and at first he was sleeping with one eye open. But he discovered that the people were not a threat, after which he relaxed.

My first encounter with riverine area was when I was abruptly posted to Bonny to go and take over the place but I did. I had three officers who I can never really forget. The first one was called Amangala George. He was a school principal, he had a master’s degree, he was my adjutant, I inherited him there. He was not a soldier but he was very intelligent

He was Biafran?

No! I think he is from Yenogoa. I am talking about the people who came from the riverine areas and then we had not captured Port Harcourt but we had Bonny so it was Bonny now that I met this George, he was my adjutant. Not a soldier but a make-shift soldier, he would just put on uniform and we started teaching him the regimen of how to fight. But he was a good administrator. He administered my headquarters. The other one was Yanayo , he was also a school teacher and the third one was Nottingham Dick. If you remember, Nottingham Dick was one of the persons sentenced with Boro. So, you can see these were people who had been involved, in one way or the other, in the liberation of the riverine areas. It was not really as articulated as it is today, as the area has now been carved into Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom states. Back then, it was Kalabari, Ndoni, Andoni, Ijaw, the pure riverine areas. That’s what Boro stood for but Port
Harcourt, of course, used to be their headquarters. So, I met these three people there and I learnt a lot from them. First I had never done any canoeing or boating but in Bonny, there was no way of surviving for an officer. There was no way you could go looking at your troops without you really being able to use a canoe or to use a pontoon; and there was nothing worse than asking people to do things which you could not do yourself. So, I had to learn how to use a canoe, how to use a speed boat, things like that. So those were the things we learnt from people like Boro. Unfortunately, he went to Okrika and he got killed there. Many people got killed but that of Boro was significant because of what he stood for. But what Boro stood for we have refused to address till tomorrow. But if we don’t address these issues, Nigeria is not going to go very far.

Could you substantiate a bit on that sir?

Well, Boro formed what he called Niger Delta Volunteer Force and he was saying they didn’t want anybody to come and mine their oil and all that. Later on they gave it a name. They called it resource control. Some people later still called it restructuring of the system. That’s what Boro stood for. He decided that the only way to get attention was to go around molesting the oil companies and the rest of these insiders, he didn’t make it habitable for foreigners who were digging oil in the place. Well, he died during the war. The whole thing died down after the war because you had to do reconstruction, things like that. But there was a resurgence of it, championed by Saro-Wiwa (Kenule). Again, he approached it from a very sophisticated intellectual angle. But Instead of listening to him, they hanged him. They organized some people to lie and do whatever was needed to get rid of him. Now the third phase of it is the militant agitation involving
Asari-Dokubo and co. What did we do? We gave them amnesty, we make them into tin gods and empower them. They are all billionaires now. But we haven’t solved the problem because tomorrow it is going to come back to us again. A new generation of them will come up, rebels with a cause. You cannot get rid of such a rebel unless you remove his cause. You are always going to get supporters for it until we go to the riverine areas and really set the place right.

When I was in Bonny around 1967-68, if you could paddle a canoe and you got a basket and you went on the Bonny River, you could catch Cray fish, if they taught you a little bit about this thing. You could go to Okrika, at low water, and catch periwinkle –a basketful of it. All those things have disappeared and we are saying that the people don’t have a reason? Well I’m sorry for them. All they do now is to want to hold the presidency, which the Yoruba held for eight years and were worse off for it. When they hold it for eight years, they would also be worse off for it. So really it is either we sit down and really resolve this problem in the interest of everybody, not just in their own interest but in the interest of everybody. Let’s recognize the problems that we have in the country.

That was one lesson I learnt during the war – Lesson because I could see in practical terms how they live in the riverine areas. Those of us who say they are very lazy people don’t even know that sometimes they go out for a whole week in the water catching fish, going from fishing pond to fishing pond and now when they come back to the village and they are sitting down in the morning to drink kaikai and all that, then you’ll say these people are just drunkards. But look, that is their lives. That is the dictation of living inside the creeks and bog where they live. Unless you sit and study, understand these issues, you won’t understand the problems; and you would understand even less the people.

The question of people threatening us that they have kept their arms in the creeks and whenever we don’t do their bidding they are going to go back into the creeks, I take seriously. You know Boko Haram, and all that. So, let’s go to the root of these issues. I thought it was a privilege for me to have served in Bonny and in that riverine area, to go round meeting the people, seeing the villages and the way people lived, the conditions in which the people lived and what is their livelihood. I know we took 90 percent of their livelihood out of them. So if we get the oil, give them the money and let them go and organize themselves.

I want to ask a question that may seem philosophical. I can take the difference in perspectives in civil war literature. What I can’t understand is the difference in facts in the narratives. Who is to be believed and why, in view of the distortions here and there?

But you also know that even in the Acts of the Apostles, the disciples went with Jesus, all of them were supposed to be present but when they wrote, their versions were different, here and there: language, expressions, perceptions and interpretations. That’s why we have so many; Mark, Luke; and everybody wrote his own. I think that is one. But you will find that the facts are very close. In the case of the war, I expected that would happen. However, if you can’t correctly interpret whatever happened, you could at least narrate things as they happened. In that wise, those who were physically present there would have a much better account of what really happened.

Isama was present there, Obasanjo was present there. Yet you find Isama coming out with counter points to Obasanjo’s own version?

Yes, I think if Obasanjo had concerned himself strictly with the short time that he was in 3rd Marine Command and told factually what he saw, maybe his book would not have been so nauseating. But he didn’t. He embellished it. If you were not party to things, you don’t talk about them. If you are told about these things, you can verify them before putting them down in a book. I don’t think Obasanjo took enough pains to really find out about things, all in the process of trying to justify his stand or position. Why was Obasanjo the only general officer commanding present there at the formal signing of documents ending the war? How can he justify that? Was he the only person that fought the war? I don’t know why Nigerians didn’t ask questions: are you the only one who fought the war? He couldn’t get the other GOCs to be part of the formal surrender: of the First Division, Second Division, those who did it before and those who succeeded them and
even Adekunle that Obasanjo succeeded. Why wasn’t Adekunle present there? These are issues which Nigerians ought to have asked; are you the only one that fought the war?

You were not even there when the war ended, you were sitting in Port Harcourt. The matter had been settled in Owerri ever before you showed up. Achuza is still alive today and people can ask him. That made people like Alabi angry about Obasanjo’s claims. That’s why I said when I saw the draft, I told him it is a book by an angry man. Don’t destroy a very good book because you are also angry that somebody had done it in a very derogatory and incorrect way. So, that was why I thought somebody should edit the book. I only got a final copy of the book yesterday (July 7) when I visited him; and even then I have not been able to read him to see exactly how much the original copy has been altered. But I suspect he got some very good people to tinker with it.

He suggested in the book that actually you were the person instrumental to the final surrender push. You were the one they really surrendered to. Would you want to tell us the last seconds of the war?

Yes, I was the chief operation officer for Obasanjo and then like I said, at least in the Third Marine, when you order an operation, it is better for at least the chief operations officer, from headquarters, to be there when the execution takes place. So, in the last two days of the war, I had to move myself to Owerri. As soon as we got back to Owerri, I decided to stay there so that we could continue the operation. In the night, one of the officers came and woke me up and said that some rebels were looking for the GOC. They brought them to me. Their leader introduced himself and said that …

Do you remember his name sir?

Achuzia. We call him Air Raid. He wasn’t my friend anyway because he killed my friend in Port Harcourt. So, we talked…

What friend did he kill in Port Harcourt?

Halliday, the owner of Silver Valley.

He wasn’t a soldier?

No he was just a business man. He shot him in the front of his children and his wife. Till today one of his daughters never recovered from that trauma. She’s in America today. So Achuzia said he needed to get a message to the GOC. I explained to him that I wasn’t the GOC, I was only the operation officer for the division. However, my GOC was in Port Harcourt; and that I was prepared to do anything to minimize the carnage going on, if the talk was surrender. I said okay. It was 5 o’ clock that morning and we were supposed to start the final push; but that I had enough authority to stop it. But how was I sure his side would keep to the arrangement such that after we lost the momentum, we would not go back to fighting again? So I said, let’s go and see Effiong. Where is Effiong? I asked. He said he was in Amichi. How far away was Amichi? He said about a few minutes drive. So about 5: 30 in the morning, we left our own headquarters, I followed him.
My brigade commander, Ola Oni, said he was going with me but I said no way! I told him, if in two hours you don’t see me or you don’t hear from me just start the operation, don’t worry about where I am, it doesn’t matter. So I took another young officer to follow me so we got to the vehicle and I noticed that as morning was coming, people were not interested in the war anymore. The Biafran soldiers sat down beside the road like refugees. Nobody had guns. Even for those that still had uniforms, you could see that for them, the war was over. Then, Achuzia made a request: just in case anything happened to us, he wanted us to visit his wife – can I call on my wife just to tell her that I’m okay because when I was coming here she said they were going to kill me? I said okay , why not? So we went to his house, in a small village. He had a very nice place and I said you people said you were fighting a war; and yet you can keep a bungalow like this
in this place! So, we joked about it so he brought a brandy bottle and we poured libation and we drank and I assured the wife, a European, white lady, that the war was over.

So we now drove to Amichi. Getting there, the time was now like 6: 45-7 in the morning and people were already anxious to find out what had happened to Achuzia. As we came out of the vehicle, among those who trooped out were three of my classmates: Ben Gbulie, Iheadigbo, Nwakwe! Then, some of my juniors were there too. So, I forgot what we came to do there, and were laughing and busy back-slapping, saying we were all so stupid to have allowed this thing to go on for this long,

So where is Effiong, I asked. They said he was upstairs. We went upstairs and I met General Effiong. We were very close at the Army Headquarters before. Then he said something of an honourable surrender and all that. But I told him I didn’t care whatever he called it. All I knew was that the war was over; and they didn’t have one chance in hell of negotiating anything. If I were you, I told him, I would just give up and let everybody go home. So, we just argued about that a little bit and that was that. I told him I would have to take proper instruction from my GOC, since I had sent him a signal that I was leaving Owerri, to check some stories about rebel surrender. So, Obasanjo left Port Harcourt for Owerri. I came back around 11: 30 am, since we had spent so much time drinking and pouring libation. Shortly after, Obasanjo arrived and I briefed him and he said he wanted to see Effiong. So, he did. We then drafted a speech and agreed that Effiong
should go to the radio station nearby to read the speech, saying the war was over; and that everybody should stop shooting. That was it.

Thereafter, we agreed everybody should come to Port Harcourt, en route to Lagos. But as Obasanjo and the former rebel officers were leaving Port Harcourt for Lagos, I called our rear commander, then Lt. Col then, Emmanuel Abisoye. I told Emmanuel that these people were coming to Lagos; and that he should get accommodation for the visiting party and also get all the other divisional commanders. The idea was that the former rebels, the Nigerian divisional commanders and Obasanjo would go to Dodan Barracks for the formal surrender ceremonies. But it never happened that way. Abisoye arranged the accommodation. But the rebel officers never showed up. Obasanjo had lodged them in another place. When Abisoye eventually met Obasanjo, he told him he should alert and bring the other divisional officers to the surrender ceremony. But I blamed Abisoye, telling him he should have told Gen. Gowon. Anyway, Obasanjo didn’t call anyone and Abisoye was the only one who
followed him.

I think Obasanjo has a very acute sense of history and I think he was dying to be something someone had never been before and do something nobody had done before, not just in the military but also during his presidency. So, I think that was what motivated him and that is the reason people like Mohammed Shuwa, people like Murtala Muhammad, people like Ibrahim Haruna and Benjamin Adekunle never showed up at that armistice. So, he took all those photographs and then put them in his book. I thought that was very uncharitable.

Was there any reaction by these excluded commanders?

Nobody bothered. They were not like Obasanjo, all those people. These were just soldiers. I don’t think they were thinking of history or whatever. Their attitude was: let’s just get this job done and get on with it.

We also learnt that from Isama’s book; he said that there was this long trip that George Innih took to Arochukwu, while you were getting the surrender?

Yes, George was supposed to join us a day before because we had finished all the operations in the sector. He was supposed to bring most of his brigade to come and join us in Owerri, so together we could do the final push to Uli Ihiala …

So Innih’s was on an Israelite’s journey?

By the time he eventually came back, the battle was over.

Isama also said in his book that Obasanjo was clueless about where you were at the surrender, and that he was looking for you, moving from one place to the other?

Yes but we finally met in Owerri and I took him back to see Effiong.

Interestingly sir, it was you I think who suggested Obasanjo to Gowon as GOC to succeed Adekunle?

Yes, but those were very sad stories!

Isama described Obasanjo as clueless and lacking depth. I just wonder: if you had seen Obasanjo in that light, would you have made the recommendation to Gowon?

Those of us in Third Marine Commando knew we couldn’t post any officer to the division, who was not strictly southern, a Yoruba for instance, and expect him to succeed in the place. The way the place was structured, the people who either volunteered or were posted to serve there were mainly from the Yoruba West. So there is something about trust and you know this, and the third division needed very high handed discipline because of the terrain where we were, the people amongst whom we were operating. You cannot afford to upset them as such and you cannot operate in a place where you are tearing down the town. We had to keep the population ….and therefore we needed someone who understood what it was all about. Now if the idea, what happened in 1966 during the coup was anything to go by, it was a bit difficult for a northerner to operate in the southern part and get the trust of everybody. It was difficult. Murtala tried it and he did very well but
when you look at the make-up of his divisions, they were mainly westerners.

So you are confirming too that, as I asked Isama, that this war was actually inspired by the Hausa Fulani but the brain and the execution was by the Yorubas?

Yes, really because they took part in some of the operations. If we had gone by what was happening in the northern sector and the rest of them, that war could have lasted like 10 years. It was the southerners who really injected some form of impetus into the war. There was this talk about in the present South-South, the Niger Delta. The people were friendly; they were supporters of federal government. But if you antagonized them, you wouldn’t get anywhere. Also, many of these people were also victims of the pogrom in the North. That was why I suggested Obasanjo to Gowon.

The problem with Adekunle was that he was a very tired man. He had done well but he was tired. The law of diminishing returns had set in and he was getting a little bit irrational. Only yesterday (June 30) Isama gave me a book written by Adekunle’s son, one of his sons. I had never seen it before. But just going through, I now realized Adekunle had written in letters to Gowon, about all sorts of things; and in those letters he had insinuated that people were talking about him trying to take over the government and this and that. All these didn’t occur to me but I thought these were illusions. People must have been telling him: that he was the black scorpion, that he was bullet-proof and this and that; and all that was beginning to get into his head. We at the front we were beginning to see irrational behaviours and I said you can’t enforce, and I start taking orders that I know patently did not make sense. People started getting killed and that’s
why I left 3rd division. I just came to Lagos and said look, if you people don’t have control over your GOC, I have no reason to serve under him. I left 3rd Marine and I came back to Lagos.

The Obasanjo thing, I’m still curious. Apart from ethnicity which you said was important, what attributes did you see?

The Nigerian Army was short of officers as at that time, we didn’t have too many choices anywhere. In any case, none of us had been to any war front apart from Congo. I just believed then that first of all, you couldn’t bring a northern officer to 3rd Commando as the GOC, it’s not going to work. Then, Obasanjo had been to Staff College or something. So, he had enough to recommend him to do a job that Adekunle was leaving. I think he had enough qualifications. He was an engineer officer. He wasn’t an engineer but he was posted to the engineering corps and there he learnt a lot on the job. He was also rear commander of Second Division in Ibadan. So, there was no reason he shouldn’t take over the Third Division from Adekunle. I was thinking in terms of writing him a confidential report or anything like that. He was my senior, anyway . We were just talking about possible replacements: there was Wole Rotimi there, there was Oluleye; there were very
few anyway

And Abisoye?

Abisoye was already commanding the rear of 3rd Commando.

There was this claim by General Isama that Adekunle indeed tried to kill both of you. Could you shed more light on that?

Adekunle, when he was tired and became a bit irrational and started taking decisions, difficult to understand in military terms and refusing discussions, refusing what we thought was legitimate and reasonable advise, we just thought we had had enough. And then Alabi talked about the final situations, and two of us sat down and wrote a battle plan, which we submitted to him for discussion and eventual approval. But instead of discussing the plan, Adekunle wrote a scrap of paper: “Tactics Lesson 101. When am I expecting more tutorials?” So I said wait, this man has gone bunkers, so we had to leave. But as we went back to our headquarters, his provost officer came and told us that the GOC was going call a meeting and would ambush us and get us killed. But I told him Adekunle won’t do a thing like that. But he said sir, I know what I am talking about. So I said okay, what do we do? So I just decided: why should I serve under a man who will organize to
get me killed – for what? So, I decided to get out of there. So, we commandeered ammunition and went back to Lagos. That’s why I’m not interested in writing my war memoirs. I think there are too many dirty things …

How did the army high command take that? Was that some sort of desertion or what?

(Laughs) I think most of the officers in the front were really getting out of their elements. I think we were all getting crazy a little bit in some ways. For me, I just felt I didn’t want anything from anybody, anymore. I didn’t start the war, am I supposed to finishe it? So, why should I do things that I don’t want to do? I admit: It was a question you should never ask in any army but everyone was getting crazy as the war was taking its toll. So, I just disappeared. I just went to Takwa Bay, took a small chalet, and started living there.

Just like that?

Yes! So that’s why I said I think we had all gone crazy. I was living in Takwa Bay until finally they found out that I was there. Gowon wanted to see me and I went to see him. At the meeting, it was on an evening, everyone was there: Gowon, Baba (Akinwale) Wey (Rear Admiral, chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters), David Ejoor (chief of Army staff), Hassan Usman Katsina, Adegbola (Police DIG)and others. But from the setting, it was far from a war meeting. It was more of an administrative one which, at war time, seemed rather amusing. I told them Adekunle had gone crazy; and that I didn’t want anything to do with him again. But Gen. Gowon insisted I should go back to 3rd Marine Commando to which I rather angrily retorted that I didn’t start the war. It was in the heat of this discussion that I suggested: “why don’t you send Obasanjo there?”, when it was clear Adekunle would be recalled. By then, a lot of things were happening in 3rd Marine
Commando, reverses that suggested Adekunle was tired. So, he was recalled and Obasanjo replaced him. But when Obasanjo got to 3rd Marine, he found the division was not such an easy place. He needed some officers to assist him. It was then he insisted that the only way he would stay as GOC was if Isama and myself came back. That was how both of us went back.

The reverses of Owerri led to the dusting up of Pincer 2. Obasanjo was apparently not aware of it until you radioed him that surrender had come. What was Pincer 2 all about?

It wasn’t anything complicated. We had suggested it to Adekunle before but he said it was Tactics Lesson 1. So of course, the thing died a natural death. But we had the documents and we knew the situation in that sector of the war. We needed to capture three cities for the war to end: Owerri, Aba and Umuahia (OAU). Incidentally, there was some Organisation of African Unity (OAU) thing; and Adekunle decided we needed to do something dramatic before the OAU event, evidently inspired by the similarity in the OAU abbreviation. We now launched a frontal attack on Owerri, from which we lost too many men. Though we got close, we could not capture the town. So, to plan these three operations we were able to seal one: the Aba one. We were able to seal from Aba to Umuahia but we couldn’t seal the Owerri one and we were already in Aba, so he wanted us to now go up to, at least, Owerri.

So sir if it were to be today, it would have already been okay, with Aba and Umuahia meaning AU?

AU yes, so we said no you couldn’t do that, he said no, we have to. Then we had a young brigade commander who was going to be responsible for the operation. So I had been able to see him and I had told him that the operation was not on. So he took Edet?, I said this thing is not on but he was a much younger officer than I was. So when we now got to the other group, I didn’t say anything. All he himself could say was, ‘yes sir, yes sir’. So, the Owerri battle was settled. But we didn’t have enough troops. We could manage what we had and get to Owerri. But we couldn’t hold the town. Adekunle said don’t worry: by the time we get to Owerri, he would have got enough reinforcement from Lagos. But I insisted we should get reinforcement first before starting the assault. When my protest became too much, Adekunle said what was my concern – after all, Edet, not I, was the brigade commander! Edet, of course, could not say no, for he was a much
junior officer. So I told Adekunle: “Sir, tomorrow by five o clock, I will personally be there and we will get into Owerri. Since you said we can hold it, it’s your responsibility, not mine. He said yes, why not? That was how we went into Owerri. We got there but as I feared, we could not hold it. I was even surprised that we lasted that long in the town. There was also the Umuahia tactics debate before the action was aborted. Because of my strong reservations about Adekunle’s preferred tactics, one of my classmates, Shande, came to tell me and Alabi that the GOC called him a coward. He felt bad.

For a soldier that was …

He was my classmate, we went to school together. But Shande got killed in the Owerri assault, a death that was probably avoidable. There were quite a number of tragic stories. They ought not to have happened. After putting all of these together, I decided this man had gone crazy. That was why Alabi and I left.

How would you grade Obasanjo and Adekunle because you worked with both of them?

Adekunle did a much difficult and much better job. Obasanjo simply took over Third Division after they had gone all the way from Calabar, all the way to the northern point of Obubra, all these areas in the present day Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Rivers states. The war, in all those places, were over. 3rd Marine were already in Igbo land. What Adekunle should have done was to change tactics a little bit, be less ambitious about what we were doing, and to know that we needed to commit more troops in a place where the people were not our supporters. In the riverine areas, we got a lot of support from people. They showed us the creeks, it was a very complicated place to operate in. That was why when Asari Dokubo decided that he was going to get nasty, I told people you won’t be able to stop them, if they have arms. They don’t have to be very smart, they live there. But you don’t live there. Your soldiers can’t live 24 hours on water in a canoe and eat
there and sleep there and fight from there.

Making comparisons: Isama called Obasanjo bossy and Adekunle listening?

At the beginning, Adekunle had enough honesty. In every war, you change command, you change people but we didn’t have that luxury in the Nigerian Army. The Nigerian Army didn’t have the luxury of, say, moving three officers out and replacing them with fresh ones. That affected people like Adekunle. Also, I didn’t know who was playing politics with him because until I now read some of the papers now published, as letters he was writing to Lagos, people accusing him that he had ambition of becoming the head of state or anything. At that point, he did not want to listen to anyone, any more. His brusque rejection of our proposed operational order, which he dismissed as Tactics Lesson 101, was high-handed. We should have argued it. That was what he used to do. But now, he was changed, as he appeared to know everything. And it was bound to be disaster after disaster. That was why a new GOC had to take over.

Losing Owerri and moving troops back gradually towards Elele was a bad time for the GOC. By that time he had disorganized his headquarters. He came back from Lagos one day and said he was accused that his whole division was Yoruba. He said so. So, he reshuffled his key men: me, Isama, Ayo Ariyo and now put relatively junior officers, who could not face these top men in charge of sectors, just to prove his division was not exclusive Yoruba territory! Whatever he was thinking, I had no idea. But the new operational officers could not give instructions or challenge the actions of these more senior officers in the front. That led to more reverses and confusion.

General Gowon, what sort of commander-in-chief was he?

I think he was too nice for a soldier.

Too nice?

Too nice, in the sense that he is a very polished person. I can say that because I grew up under his tutelage. So, I know him from his bedroom, to the office, to everywhere. He was too understanding sometimes, and it is very difficult to extract a yes or no answer from Gowon. That is his nature: “I mean, honestly, you boys…honestly, well…honestly.” It’s very difficult to get him to say yes or no! Very difficult!

So how come he lasted that long as head of state if he was vacillating?

For most of his time the army was busy. We got into the war, we fought almost three years out of his tenure. Thereafter, we resettled and there was this big problem. I think the army was too preoccupied with itself: you know we had lost many officers, too many. We had wounded soldiers all over the place, so nobody had time to address the issue of governance until about 74, four years after the war, when people started turning attention to governance, and agitation in the army started that they wanted back all the officers for military duties. All the military governors were senior to me – very good officers. We wanted all of them back in the Army. In any case, what were they doing there?

Then the story would come: two governors were travelling to this event; then they went to Kontagora. They went to the Keffi Guest House, and they were told there were no drinks except champagne. And they said, okay, we would manage it! (general laughter). These people were just enjoying themselves and we in the army were just running around. So, we wanted them to come back and help. Why don’t they get civilians to be governors in place of these officers sorely needed in the military. That agitation culminated in the coup that removed Gowon.

I don’t know if anybody had written about it, but about four months before the coup that ousted Gowon, there had been big commotions at Army Headquarters. Gen. David Ejoor, our army chief of staff, was told to go to Dodan Barracks and tell them off, insisting that officers holding political positions must return to the army. But Ejoor could not do it. So, we called a meeting of all senior officers in the commander-in-chief’s office, that’s what happened. We got all the senior officers, we went to Dodan barracks and we had a meeting with Gowon and we gave him an ultimatum to announce a definite exit date by the military? That was when Gowon started losing grip. There and then. Our chief of staff (Ejoor) couldn’t do it. This was how we started losing grip. Gowon was not a very forceful person. I think he leaves you as a senior officer to make your own decision. But you can’t do that, as commander-in-chief.

I had this debate with Isama and he wouldn’t go that far and I said from his own account of the war, the GOCs were just doing what they wanted and there was no overarching strategy which would say this is where you have gone, stop and so on. For instance, Shuwa was just moving from village to village, he seems to have no plan and then there was the instance of Gowon (and you were there) asking Muritala not to cross the Asaba bridge but he still did and nothing happened?

That’s why I said he seems to leave you finally to do what you like but you don’t do that as a commander, you take responsibility for what would have happened. Therefore, you have the last say. You can debate, you can discuss but the last thing you are going to do, is what you are going to do. I heard, the moment we got to Asaba, Murtala said we were crossing the bridge. I told him wait a minute, you know I have stomach ulcer. Before we leave Midwest and go to the other side there, I’m going to get to Lagos and see my doctor and collect enough medicine from him before coming. So, he said okay. I could go for five days.

Now the argument that preceded that was that there was no way we were going to cross. And we made suggestions as to what we should try to plan and see whether it was possible but we thought it was possible to move out of Asaba, leave maybe half a brigade because we didn’t need more than that because the bridge had been broken anyway. The bridge was still intact as at that time but we had intelligence report that it had been mined. So we asked that we could go to Idah, it didn’t matter, we could do it leisurely, even if we had one ferry. We could do it over one month and get our troops across to the other side and then divide the sector into two. We take the right hand one, which would end up in Onitsha ; and Shuwa could keep going to Umuahia. My GOC said, are you really suggesting that I should go and share boundary with that renegade?

Who is that ?

Shuwa. They were classmates at Sandhurst; they were my seniors. I spent only one term with them because they were passing out when we got there. I said if you can’t share boundary with Shuwa, who else are you going to share boundary with? He said no don’t give me that, we are going to cross this bridge. I drove back to Lagos and I went straight to Dodan barracks. Gowon was so happy to see me and he said well-done boys. I said but there was trouble. He said what? I said my GOC wants to cross the Niger into Onitsha. I told Gowon we would never get there, since the bridge had been mined. Gowon said, don’t worry, we would stop him. I had spent like three days; then went to Abeokuta to spend one night there with Olu Bajowa, because he had a training depot. So, I went to see what was going on there, to talk about the kind of people they were sending to us. I told him I thought it would be better if we had the permission to extend the training for about
one month, since people being sent to the front hardly knew the difference between the gun’s barrel and its butt. I said these people are just coming to die.

After the night, I drove back to Asaba and I had with me Ike Nwachukwu. The reason was simple: I couldn’t leave him anywhere. He was operation officer but I couldn’t leave him. I didn’t trust that I would find him when I came back. They could probably kill him because he was Igbo. So, every time where I went, I said let’s go. I took him to Lagos, we came back. By the time we came back, the operation had been carried out and the disaster had happened. So, we came to a salvage operation. That same morning we arrived, they had landed at Onitsha and trouble had broken out and they had pushed them back. By the time we arrived in the afternoon, we just met stranglers, fleeing for life. That was the first operation.

But he insisted we had to repeat the operation. I said well, there are two conditions: you know my brigade, we have served you so well. Virtually we fought 95 percent of the Midwest all the way from Okene to Benin, from Abudu to Asaba. We have three brigades; one had gone and come back. Talk to the other brigade, let him go and do it. I give you one condition if you are able to secure a proper base there, I promise you I will cross the sea with you and that day we will get to Nnewi. The day we cross, we will get to Nnewi before sun down that’s the only thing I can promise. He agreed.

In the meantime, I added, I wanted to take my brigade back to Iluche. I wanted not just to rest but to do some training, to do some recapping for my officers, and I’d got enough trucks to take them, since you couldn’t train or do anything in Asaba, and I didn’t want my men sitting down idle in the trenches. He agreed. But I asked him about the equipment for the second crossing, so that I could use them in my battalion’s training, cross from Iluche to the other side, and see how adequate they were. But the equipment was so ragged there was no way we could do what we planned. I would get into trouble because the river had so much heavy current, so you needed some powerful boats, which we didn’t have.

Then the next thing he said Daramola had agreed to do the second operation. I said okay; I had agreed to follow him if he could secure the bridge. That was the agreement. I got my tools ready to follow him just in case, you never know there might be some surprise success. But again, there was defeat, tragedy and confusion. Indeed, one of Daramola’s officers, Bassey Inyang, a signal officer who still had his riffle with him, came out of the canoe that brought him from the front to the bank at Asaba. Bassey, how was it? I asked. Sir, he replied, they were shooting at us! I laughed: you were expecting roses? Even then, he (Murtala) thought of doing the crossing the third time.

The third time?

Yes, the third time. But we debated and debated until he abandoned the idea.

So I came back to Lagos and I said I wasn’t going to serve in Second Division anymore. I told them that despite my alert, they could not stop Murtala from his disastrous crossing. He did it two times and each time we lost officers, good officers. I told them I didn’t want to return to the division.

Gowon didn’t stop him?

He didn’t.

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Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 6:23 PM

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[Joseph Onuorah]

I just hope some people do not believe this man! 


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The Deji of Akure is a masquerade and so is the Ezeigbo
in Akure; they spend man hours putting garb on their different
masquerades.--Ike Agbor

Dear All:

The problem with folks like Ike Agbor has to do with no knowing

their limits regarding the extent and how far they could assert or

affirm their cultural preferences.

Even if it were possible for all Nigerians of Igbo descent to ban

the 'decoration' of masquerades and their parades at festivals, such

preference would not be applicable in those areas of Nigeria that are

outside of Igboland.

Nigeria is a multicultural nation in which ideally all citizens should be

able to celebrate their ethnic heritage and customs no matter where

they chose to live and work without offending the native customs

of their hosts.

The Buckingham palace is guarded by masquerades in red and white

garbs--the palace guards who put on a masquerade parade for vistors

every day of the week.. This retention and celebration of an ancient British tradition has not

stopped the advancement and development of Great Britain and her peoples.

This campaign to abandon everything African in us just for the sake of joining

the civilized world is not only myopic, it is also misguided as it amounts to

nothing more than selling the remaining vestiges of our ancient African traditions

that Christianity and Islam had failed to annihilate.

We should be able to chew and walk at the same time.

We can develop technologically without necessarily abandoning our cultural heritage.

Even though the Indians sacked their oppressive Maharajas during British rule, the vast majority

of Indian citizens have held on to the religion of their ancestors--Hinduism,

and are to date still worshipping its numerous gods. This also has not

prevented the relentless drive of Indians to join the technological age.

Bye,

Ola

[afis 'Deinde]

He's a pipe dreamer!

Shikena 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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 the President may act alone by making a recess appointment to fill "Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate." To remain in effect, a recess appointment must be approved by the Senate by the end of the next session of Congress, or the position becomes vacant again; in current practice this means that a recess appointment must be approved by roughly the end of the next calendar year.

 

  The senate is not in recess

It is 21 senate working days and not calendar days.

The Senate has too be in recess for over two weeks for this to happen.

In Amaerica..the president waits till Christmas time to do these recess appointments.

It is amazing that the almighty amaechi has to go through the side door at the back to get in.

side bar...

i will advice amaechi not to go through the side door to get it because this will kill him off totally on any respect that is left.

he will the be a junior minister that might not be able to testify with impetus in a senate hearing.

Ministers make their mark when called in by the senate.

it is an honour to be called in for the Senate to listen to your take.

Adanne Okojo owned the senate. She lectured those money men.

Amaechi cannot beleive how the Senate is toying with him.

they are now screening two or three a day.

the senate has screened those they think that are important including the sokoto lady.

vin.....///

....Born to tell the truth

....they are listening indeed
... thick walls will  fall

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[afis 'Deinde]

"We call the wasting of man hours "keeping with the culture" when in other climes people head to "state fairs" to showcase technological breakthroughs. We create "kings" and "Queens" with masquerade garbs and tell ourselves that we are upholding culture.

In the meantime countries get to dizzying heights leaving us to be called "chiefs"......by Ike of Agbor.

[Leye Ige]

Ike Agbor,
I believe "women tell the stories" fits you perfectly since you have been telling stories about the war, including those endless ones about Russian and Egyptian this and that, coupled with the woulda, coulda, shoulda. So, that makes you a woman--which is not in any way denigrating womanhood but simply following your line of thought. Whether you and Biafra want to join the space age or not is immaterial--what I am saying is that you guys should NOT plan on achieving your Biafra the way you tried in 1967-70. Yorubaland is NOT for your occupation under any guise. And if you think that the EzeIgbo is a masquerade, all you need to do is to FORMALLY denounce them or ask them to go back to their native lands as some of your compatriots have done. Your failure in doing that means they have a role to play in your quest. Right now, what you should worry yourself about is the development of strategies and tactics needed to achieve your aim and leave any of the
African nationalities to navigate their ways into the space age, if they find it necessary. The right of your self-determination also INCLUDES the right of others for their own self-determination. Lest I forget, with our masquerades, we had the first television station in Africa, and before many European countries--a people that can think along such level have no fear about technological breakthroughs. Our "masquerades" actively participated in the free education policy which made it effective and when you copied it, without your masquerades, it failed. Try and include this point in your book.

Leye Ige
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Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 6:23 PM

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Leye,

Why don't you go and make the Ezeigbo to pack up and go? Talk is cheap when Bullshit is taking a stroll. You are the Bullshit that is taking a stroll. Keep running your stinking mouth. Ezeigbo will be all over Nigeria and there is diddly squat that you can do about it.

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Ejo ni Mushin - Prince

[Vin Otuonye]

Thomas, you need not pay attention to the idiot Afis. I call him omo ale (bastard). Let him keep running his mouth.
 
Vin

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[Leye Ige]

Wharfsnake,
(1) Nnamidi Azikiwe said that the gods of Africa will empower the Igbo top take Africa out of the barbarism of the ages. It has NOT happened. And it will NOT happen.
(2) Who was that Igbo that said the taking over of Nigeria by the Igbo is only a matter of time? If you had taken over, you will NOT now be asking for Biafra.
This is NOT an argument. You do what you have to do and we do what we have to do. Simplicta.
Leye Ige

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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

" . . .  it was the golden era when young men and women spent man hours on improving the lot of the people and so our rockets were guided, our ogbunigwe were primed correctly, coconut oil was converted to engine oil and refineries needed boys to learn science; Biafrans had no time to decorate masquerades." . . . Ike Agbor

 

Golden era is a time you wish never ended, you pray for a return of the era. Civil war time is not what one prays for its return.

Ayo Ojutalayo

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ” . . . Martin Luther King Jr

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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

No reasonable person will believe him. Some people will believe him though because it makes them feel that biafra was not undefeated, and it makes them feel good!. 

Ayo Ojutalayo

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[Afis Deinde]

Vin Sweet Boy Otuonye, and I call you "Olori maje'die".
You are still my bitch.

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Joseph Onuorah]

Psychologists actually have a definition for "Pathological Denial" of truth. The thing is that while denial helps one satisfy an emotional emptiness, the truth remains and soon one finds that such a denial is like drinking beer amidst problems: sooner the beer wears off and the problems look even bigger!   Joe
 

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[Ayo Ojutalayo]

The same drunks, when sober, claim SE was given fewer number of states and fewer number of local governments because of the civil war. But when drunk claim biafra was not defeated. 

Ayo Ojutalayo

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I never expected northern Nigerians to be this crude!
 

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[Otitigbe Obadiah Oghoerore Alegbe PhD]

Amaechi a Right Honourable.
Nigeria must be sick.
Otitigbe.

[Joe Attueyi]

Ayo,

As a lawyer you should be familiar with this quote:

Duke Senior:
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

As You Like It Act 2, scene 1, 12–17

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[Afis Deinde]

Yep, attorneys got jokes too!

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Afis Deinde]

"The Buckingham palace is guarded by masquerades in red and white

garbs--the palace guards who put on a masquerade parade for vistors

every day of the week.. This retention and celebration of an ancient British tradition has not

stopped the advancement and development of Great Britain and her peoples."......Dr Kazeem.

In fact, Buckingham Palace makes more revenue for England thru tourism than crude oil for Nigeria.

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Ike Agbor]

Ola,
Now let us compare masquerades and that is exactly what we do in Africa; whose masquerade is bigger than the other.
Now the lineage of masquerades in and around Akure are being compared with those in England; isn't that something and I am obliged to do so with you.
In 1500s in England despite the presence of a masquerade (not masquerades) Shakespeare churned out his books, and also in the 1800s lived a man called James Clark Maxwell whose four equations are the basis of the greatest technologies that exist today--everything electromagnetics in essence the very cell phone you have in your hands are possible because of Maxwell.
These were the enabling environment; I chose to mention just these two individuals, but in spite of that, in the Americas they had extirpated and rejected the last vestiges of masquerades citing the ills of the masquerades they left behind, not minding that a masquerade in Spain had commissioned Christopher Columbus to sail the world and discovered the same America they resided in.
The masquerade in London could lay claim to the development of frigates, the claiming of distant places by her lineage; we could as well be comparing with masquerades in Paris but that was obliterated by guillotines.

But let us stick to the masquerade in London; the very mask around their necks and faces and made by their "subjects" they built structures for people to visit and marvel at. Their are no masquerades in Birmingham, none in Cambridge and the rest of the crannies in the UK.

Back to Nigeria, there is a masquerade in every square mile of that space; from the sahara through the plateau of Jos down to the tributaries of the Niger and that is what you call your culture.
These are masquerades that have no single structure to showcase in the names of the ones that strode the very same land, and the very masks they decorate themselves with are either made in China or by Vlasco in the Netherlands.
These masquerades have not contributed anything to knowledge except in selling their followers to distant lands.
Phew this is what the Indians considered and then assigned their own masquerades to the dustbin of history; the palaces are their for the world to see, I have been to Bangalore palace and Mysore palace in Karnataka state in India where elephants are tended to but we have no such palaces to be proud of even when we do away with our masquerades!

But Ola do you think that in a clime where young men and women are all in pursuit of being decorated as masquerades, that anything good could come out of that; there are no masquerades in China, India has wiped the slate of masquerades, Brazil has no masquerades. In every Nigerian gathering once you take a seat and watch, all you see are men and women "Chiefs", high Chiefs and all in their masquerade garbs.
In not distant a time everyone will become a masquerade; but I still keep thinking of how best to address Bill Gates or Steve Jobs if either had been one of our own... here comes Dr. Engr. Chief, Sir, Ogbuefi, Otunba, Bill Gates; these are the garbs of a masquerade!
Ike
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