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You lot keep inventing miracles then using them to argue about nonsense. Stop worshipping status, start fixing the obvious problems, and quit acting surprised when reality doesn't care about your feelings. You're capable of extraordinary things. Act like it.
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Now, let's go through what you've written, because almost every line falls apart.
1) "Gowon defaulted after realising he made a bad decision."
Aburi wasn't Gowon's personal decision, the peace of a nation was riding on it. It was a joint decision of the Supreme Military Council which includes Gowon and all four regional governors, Katsina for the North, Adebayo for the West, Ejoor for the Mid-West, Ojukwu for the East . Signed on 5 January 1967 for one purpose: TO PREVENT A WAR.
Since when is honouring a peace agreement a "bad decision"? And who decided it was bad? Not the men who signed it. His permanent secretaries and kinsmen, within three weeks. You've just admitted the federal government broke a signed peace accord and called it good judgement.
2) "The central government ordered everyone to stand down."
WHICH ORDER? Give me the date. There is none. What Gowon actually did from January to May 1967:
walked back Aburi (late January),
issued Decree 8 giving Lagos plus three governors the power to legislate for any region without its consent (March), imposed economic sanctions on the EAST (April), and abolished the regions by decree (27 May).
Now tell me, which other region was placed under sanctions? Which other region had its governor's consent ignored on 27 May? Which other region was carved so its oil-producing areas ended up in different states? One. The East.
3) "He was the only one headstrong."
His position was "On Aburi we stand" implement what all five of you signed.
Asking a government to honour its own signature isn't headstrong. Breaking it is.
4. "The law can be amended at any time."
So you accept that on 30 May 1967 there was no law making secession a crime. Nothing was amended beforehand to make it one. And when the federal government responded, it didn't respond with a court. It responded with artillery on 6 July. You cannot invent a crime after the fact and then blame the accused for the punishment arriving as an invasion.
5) "Tribal war."
A tribal war has two armed sides. Here is what happened in 1966:
A) May, July and September: Igbo civilians in the Sabon Gari quarters of Kano, Kaduna, Zaria, Jos and other northern towns were attacked in their homes, shops and at railway stations. There were no Igbo militias in the North. Nobody was fighting back with an army.
B) July 1966: eastern soldiers were disarmed in their own barracks and killed by their colleagues. Over 200 of them.
C) October 1966: soldiers of the 5th Battalion attacked Igbo passengers at Kano airport. The army didn't stop the killings; parts of it joined them.
D) The dead and the wounded came back East by train , carriages of bodies arriving at Enugu. Over a million people fled.
E) local count said 10,000 dead. British press said 30,000. Gowon himself went on air to condemn the killings. Number of people prosecuted: zero.
One side armed, one side unarmed, soldiers participating, no prosecutions. That is a pogrom. Every serious historian of the period calls it that. "Tribal war" is not a description of 1966, it's a way of avoiding it.
F) "Igbo men didn't want to defend themselves and protect their women and children."
Read that sentence again, because you've just made my argument. You're saying the Nigerian state would not protect Igbo lives, so Igbo men should have. That is exactly the conclusion the East reached. A government that couldn't protect your people, couldn't prosecute one killer, broke the peace it signed with you, put you under sanctions and then dissolved your region without your consent. What do you call it when a people decide they'll have to protect themselves? You call it Biafra.
So here's where we are. You've agreed Nigeria fired first. You've agreed Ojukwu signed a peace accord. You've agreed Gowon broke it. You've agreed secession only becomes war when the centre chooses to fight. And you've argued the Igbo should have defended themselves.
The only thing you haven't done is answer the question:
Yes I agree that the first shot came from the "Nigerian" side. Yes, I agree that they signed an accord to prevent that war. Yes, I agree that Gowon defaulted after realizing that he made a bad decision.
Yes, secession does not call for war only when both parties agree not to go to war, Singapore and Malaysia agreed mutually agreed not to. Let's not forget what the Aburi Accord was. The Aburi Accord was an agreement to make Nigeria into a confederation of states, this included every region not just the southeast. The central government ordered everyone including Ojukwu, a mere subject, to stand down but he didn't heed the order and went on to instigate a war. He was the only one that was headstrong on that.
You are a lawyer? That's cool. Ojukwu probably thought the same way as you , he thought he could take advantage of the suspended 1963 Constitution but he forgot that the law can be amended at anytime.
Now, to the Igbo massacre. You don't need to be emotional about it, I'm aware of the fact that Igbos were massacred in thousands. But I don't even know if calling it a 'massacre' is the right word for it. I would rather call it a tribal war between the Igbos and the northerners, except that Igbo men didn't want to defend themselves and protect their women and children and hence got butchered by Hausa men.
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see your ignorance smelling from ceiling to floor of the street.
when I had a dull pain in my Testicles one time, I called one of the foremost best Urologist to come from Nigeria... to educate me and guess what... She's a Woman!... Does she have a testicle?... No.
You dumbies always disgrace us everywhere... Imagine an international HR stumble on your tweet... and see your depth of knowledge not thicker than a cell membrane width... do you think you will get a sensitive role?
this is 2026... you don't need the IQ of 9 to know this. You need more than a stitch in time to save your IQ. Dense women like you are the ones screaming "Men shouldn't be Gynaecologists"...
Imagine if I screamed "Women shouldn't be Urologists", maybe I'll be a-testicle-and-a-half now.
Move your head from time to time, it's gathering dust my dear.
"500 Million Europeans, expect that 300 Million Americans protect them against 120 Million Russians who can't even defeat 40 Million Ukrainians while, they don't realize, that they are being invaded by 200 million Muslims who claim to be persecuted by 9 million Israelis!"
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Lol the last time Nigeria was actually defeating Boko Haram was when an Igbo man was Chief of Army Staff. Lt Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, 2010 to 2014. He created the 7th Division, armed the soldiers and took territory back. For once Boko Haram was losing.
Then the conspiracy started from the North.
Northern politicians, notably Muhammadu Buhari in his 2013 BBC Hausa interview, said the Federal Government was killing Northern youth and that Boko Haram fighters should get amnesty like Niger Delta militants. At the same time a whisper campaign spread. That this Igbo General was not fighting terror but using the war as a pretext to avenge the Civil War. An Igbo man who went to save Borno was accused of going to punish the North.
To finish him an Australian negotiator Stephen Davis claimed Ihejirika himself was sponsoring Boko Haram. It made no sense. How can the hunter be accused of feeding the beast. Ihejirika denied it and went to court but the damage was done.
In January 2014 he was removed. What happened after. The army collapsed. Boko Haram took 14 local governments, declared a caliphate in Gwoza, took Bama and Chibok. The man who was winning was removed because his victory did not serve politics.
You politicized the army, turned promotion to patronage and justice to tribe. Now you call on Igbo youths who value their lives to bring those lives to your altar of bloodlust. To die for an army that sits on a mat with terrorists in the North and parades Igbo boys half naked on the road in the South East.
An Igbo man is not built for hypocrisy. Our culture celebrates only integrity and accountability.
This is why they stay away.
It's looking like the Commander is begging now, but in the long run the Southeast will end up regretting the decision made by their sons and daughters of not joining the Military. #Sentinel
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非洲真的很缺水吗？其实“懒”才是他们穷的根本原因。有数据显示，非洲地下水储量是地表的100倍，为何他们不挖井，而是到处找水？
我之前跟着一支海外工程队在那边待了快八个月，亲眼见过太多让人匪夷所思的事，说出来真的好多人都不敢信。我们当时的营地建在一片开阔的草地上，刚过去的时候要解决用水问题，队里找了个测水的师傅随便找了个地方打井，打到不到十二米就出了清水，水质甜得很，除了供我们队四十多个人吃喝洗澡，还能引出一垄水浇我们开出来的小菜园，天天浇水都用不完。
而离我们营地不到两公里的地方，就有一个百十来口人的部落村子，我第一次跟着采购去村里的时候，就看见全村人都围着一个半米深的泥坑接水，那水浑得放半小时都澄清不了，水面上还飘着虫子和牲畜的粪便，小孩渴了蹲下来直接舀了就喝，大人也不管，不少小孩隔三差五就拉肚子，缺药耽误着能拖出大病，看着真的让人心疼。我当时就问翻译，咱们这边打井出了这么多水，他们咋不来打一口？翻译笑笑说，你往后看就知道了，不是水的事。
没过多久工程闲下来，队长说反正咱们设备人都有，不如免费帮他们打一口井，也算做件好事，结果第一步就卡壳了。村长带着一群人堵在我们选好的井址，说这块地是他们部落的公用土地，要打井就得给他们十袋面粉五桶食用油外加两箱汽水，不然别想动土。我们队里想着反正也不多，给就给了，就当换一口井给村里人用，这点东西对我们来说不算什么。
接下来要找几个当地人帮忙打下手搬东西，我们说好一天给一斤玉米面两瓶汽水，这个待遇在当地已经够一个三口之家吃饱喝足了，比他们自己瞎晃赚得多太多，结果来了五个人，干了不到四十分钟，全都撂挑子坐到树底下乘凉去了，说太阳太晒，会晒伤皮肤，祖宗规矩就是正午不能干活，要等太阳落山再干活。我们想着入乡随俗那就等，结果太阳落山之后，连个人影都没见着，第二天上午好不容易来了三个，还要求必须先给汽水玉米面，不给就不动手，我们给了之后，三个人晃悠着挖了不到半米，又坐下来歇着聊天了，一聊就是一上午，第三天干脆全都不来了，托人带话来说拿到的吃的够喝够吃好几天，先回家休息，吃完了再来。
最后没办法，我们工程队自己上手，不到十天就打出了一口出水稳定的井，还给他们在井口安了简易的提水架，放了两个大木桶，跟村长说以后大家随便来打水，只要别往井里扔垃圾就行。一开始村里人可开心了，天天排着队来打水，结果半个月不到，井口就堵了，我们过去一看，大大小小的树枝石头烂叶子堵了小半井，原来大家打完水垃圾随手就扔在井口边上，下雨一冲全进去了。我们免费帮他们清干净，反复跟村长和村民说不要扔垃圾，要保持井口干净，结果不到两个月，又堵了，之后村长干脆来找我们，说井坏了，你们再帮我们打一口新的吧，那语气说得理所当然，好像我们就该天天给他们收拾烂摊子。
我之前还碰到过一次，营地的围墙坏了一段，找了四个当地工人来修，说好一天干完给对应的工钱，结果四个工人八点开工，九点就歇着喝茶，十点吃早饭，十二点要睡午觉，睡到下午三点才起来，干了不到一小时又说要回家喂孩子，一天下来只码了不到五块砖，第二天还过来要全额工钱，说我们没给他们提供茶和饼，所以干得慢，钱不能少给，当时给我们队长气得直接把他们赶走了。
待得久了我才发现，这种事真的不是个例。有个二十多岁的小伙子天天来我们营地卖野果，我们看他挺活络，就说你干脆天天给我们营地送菜，我们一个月给你固定的工钱，比你卖野果稳定多了，结果他干了三天，第四天就不见了，过了一周晃悠过来，问他为啥不来，他说前三天赚的钱够花了，在家歇着花完了再来。还有国际援助组织免费给他们发蔬菜种子，教他们开荒种地，说种好了够全村吃大半年，结果一半种子被他们煮着吃了，剩下的随便往地里一撒，既不浇水也不除草，长不出来就接着等着发援助。
真的，很多人说非洲穷是因为气候不好历史遗留问题，可我们明明看到脚底下十几米就是清水，储量够整个村子用几十年，有人免费帮你打出来，就只要随手维护一下都做不到。他们不是没有力气，跑出去找野果跳篝火舞能折腾一整天，一说到干活赚饭吃，半小时就喊累；也不是没有资源，地下水摆在那，援助摆在那，就是不肯伸手去动。
我待了八个月见过好多口废弃的援助井，全都是打完没两年没人维护废了，当地人宁愿背着水桶走三四公里去接脏雨水，也不肯花半天时间清一清堵了的井口。你说这到底是延续了几千年的靠天吃饭的生活方式已经刻进骨子里改不了，还是真的就是“懒”才导致一直摆脱不了穷呢？你怎么看这件事？
