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PARADOX of REALITIES in the 20 – POUNDS SAGA Exposes the Impact of the Pre & Post War-Time Polices of Obafemi Awolowo on Igbos: 1 IGBO & OBAFEMI AWOLOWO: THE PARADOX OF REALITIES IN THE 20 – POUNDS SAGA exposes the impact of the Pre & Post war-time Polices of Obafemi Awolowo On Igbos: 1. Blockade of Bakassi Peninsula, 2. Change of Currency 3. and 20 – Pounds Sega. READ it from the INTERNET: OPEN to Goggles or Nigerian Voice.com, Queue in Kindness Innocent Jonah on “Igbos & Obafemi Awolowo: The Paradox of Realities”. PRINT OUT, READ THOROUGHLY, then: PURCHASE IT FOR ONE THOUSAND NAIRA (N1, 000 ONLY), for You and Your Generation, for KEEPS, for what truelly happened to Igbos in the War between 1966 – 1976: The Dangerous Decade of Igbo History. After Reading through, Go to any Branch of ACCESS BANK and PAY IN TO: Kindness Innocent Jonah 002 – 9414 – 774 (The Author) If this Book has Blessed Your Historical Memory, please, please and please, BE FAITHFULLY TO PAY for this knowledge, though no one compels you to pay. I want you to read it first before paying, and that is why I posted it for Public Consumption First. But remember it is a Book with ISBN: 978 – 8032 – 78 – 8 Knowledge is costly, please note. Best Regards from the Author, Comrade Kindness Innocent Jonah 080-3666-2901, 080-9595-7698 i IGBOS AND OBAFEMI AWOLOWO: PARADOX OF REALITIES IN THE 20 – POUNDS SAGA A Book that analyses Chinua Achebe’s recent comment on the impact of Awolowo’s War Policies on Igbos, will be presented to the August Body of Igbo intelligentsia. Innocent J.K.O. (Innocent Jonah Kindness O.) President of a Human Rights Group: ROMKEEP: Rights of Man Keep. ii TITLE PAGE IGBOS AND OBAFEMI AWOLOWO: PARADOX OF REALITIES IN THE 20 – POUNDS SAGA A Book that analyses Chinua Achebe’s recent comment on the impact of Awolowo’s War Policies on Igbos, will be presented to the August Body of Igbo intelligentsia. Innocent J.K.O. (Innocent Jonah Kindness O.) President of a Human Rights Group: ROMKEEP: Rights of Man Keep, With Motto: Dismantling the structures of injustice wherever man is found. iii IGBOS AND OBAFEMI AWOLOWO: PARADOX OF REALITIES IN THE 20 – POUNDS SAGA Copyright © Innocent J.K.O. Published October, 2012 Published in Nigeria by: ROMKEEP: Rights of Man Keep, a Human Rights Group, Greater Grory House, 179, Zik Avenue, Uwani, Box 3350, Enugu, Nigeria. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Printed in Nigeria by: AMAD Press, Bookshop House, Opposite Uwani Police Station, Zik Avenue, Enugu, Nigeria. ISBN: 978 – 8032 – 78 – 8 iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Much have been said about Obafemi Awolowo and what he did to Igbos in the War between Biafra and Nigeria known as Nigerian Civil War. While some Igbos may have reason, ambient one at that, to hate Awolowo, many GOD-fearing ones and those who have widely traveled far easily can say, let bygone be bygone. From the later’s stand point, I write. But learning from history is to better posterity. So, I write. I acknowledge activists whose instigation bore great weight to the excavation of facts from achieves to put this historic feat on the table. I acknowledge my loveable family in understanding and bearing with me in the course of writing this Book. I appreciate the typesetters who painstakingly typed and formatted it. I remember the tireless staff of ROMKEEP that put heads together to publish this Book. I won’t forget the Printer: AMAD, for the good job done. I defer to JESUS CHRIST, the protagonist of life. Thanks, everybody. Innocent J.K.O. (Innocent Jonah Kindness O.) (Comrade) +234 – 803 – 6662 – 901 +234 – 809 – 5957 – 698 e-mail: [email protected] v DEDICATION To: The Massacred Igbos between January 15, 1966 to January 12, 1970 To: The numerous Igbos who were turned homo-mortuus by the Policy of 20 – Pounds implemented by Obafemi Awolowo after January 12, 1970. To: The Most disciplined Army Officer in the history of Nigerian Army; The leader of the only True Coup of Revolution in Nigerian History: Nzeogwu Coup; The Only man before now to define the Concept of Revolution in Nigeria: the very Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu. To: One of the bravest soldiers in Nigerian Army history: Lt. Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi NOT TO: Johnson Theophilus Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi who though was a very Brave and Corruption – Free Soldier, but foolishly bent over heels to please the unpleaseable Sokoto caliphate, disregarding the candid advice of Ojukwu, and paid supremely for it. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover page ------------------------------------------------------------ i Title page -------------------------------------------------------------- ii Publishers Details ----------------------------------------------------- iii Acknowledgement----------------------------------------------------- iv Dedication -------------------------------------------------------------- v Table of Contents ----------------------------------------------------- vi About the Book -------------------------------------------------------- vii CHAPTER ONE Odia Ofeimum and the Achebe Controversy: The Sense & Nonsense on Missing Documents -------------------------------- 1 CHAPTER TWO Chinua Achebe on Awolowo’s Policy of Genocide Against The Igbos --------------------------------------------------- 30 CHAPTER THREE Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo in Western Regional Elections 1951 ------------------------------------------------------- 31 CHAPTER FOUR Awo on Double Standard Dealing in December 1959 General Elections ----------------------------------------------------- 36 CHAPTER FIVE The Sin of Zik -------------------------------------------------------- 38 CHAPTER SIX Eyo Ita and Zik ------------------------------------------------------- 41 CHAPTER SEVEN Ojukwu Releases Awolowo from Prison ---------------------------- 43 CHAPTER EIGHT Awolowo Reneges on Agreement with Ojukwu ------------------- 46 CHAPTER NINE Was Awo responsible for genocide against the Igbos? ---------- 49 CHAPTER TEN Peace Accord to Give Food to Biafrans ----------------------------- 53 CHAPTER ELEVEN Vote of confidence passed on Awolowo --------------------------- 81 CHAPTER TWELVE Where Awolowo was satan to the Igbos -------------------------- 82 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Retributive Justice due to Biafra ----------------------------------- 96 CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Solution ------------------------------------------------------------ 113 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Human Rights Reports on Nigerian, islamic and World Issues--- 117 ABOUT THE BOOK This Book does not seek to please Ojukwu, Awolowo, Zik, Bello cum Balewa. It does not justify Britain or America or OAU for the roles they played in the war. The crux of the matter is only and only one: Awolowo’s action to Igbos AFTER THE WAR, NOT BEFORE OR DURING THE WAR. I thus speak as a man and not GOD who can even condemn Awolowo for his policies against Igbos during the war. This Book, therefore, focuses on Awolowo’s post war policies on Igbos not pre-war policies no matter how raw-acidic it told on Igbos. This is because Igbo proverb says “you cannot beautify war!! Any how you know to win, do win, that is war for you. Obafemi Awolowo was released from Calabar Prison by Ojukwu who had Meeting with him at Enugu on May 6-7, 1967 in the presence of: - Samuel Aluko (Later Professor) - Sir Francis Ibiam - Chief Jereton Mariere - Chief C.C. Mojekwu (Biafra’s Prime Minister) - J. I. G Onyia - Professor Eni Njoku - Dr. Anezi Okoro Awolowo clearly said “if the Eastern Region was pushed out of Nigeria, then the Western Region would follow suit”. Awolowo used the right word that captured the pogrom against Igbos: “pushed out”. He said, I repeat, “pushed out”. That was what exactly happened to Igbos that made Ojukwu’s Declaration of Biafra a fait accompli: Igbos became sheep for the slaughter initially in the Northern and then in the whole of Western Region. Notable Yorubas spoke out against the evil machinations meted against Igbos like: Wole Soyinka (he wasn’t a Professor by then) and Gani Fawehinmi. Both were castrated in prison by Gowon Government for condemning the massacre of Igbos by all Nigerians in the two Regions of North and West and part of Midwestern Region, that is, non-Igbo speaking Mid West. Many Yorubas fought at the Biafran side in clear condemnation of the pogrom against Igbos orchestrated by Sokoto caliphate, which was embraced by Yorubas, Edos, Ishans, Urhobos, Ishekiris and Auchis. Igbos were massacred by these Southern tribes in both the Western and Mid Western Regions. Hence, Igbos were no longer safe in Nigeria, and declaration of Biafra was the only option. And thank God Ojukwu did declare Biafra, otherwise Northern Region, Western Region, and Non-Igbo Mid Western Region would have progrommatically decimated the territory of Igbos and repopulated it. Biafra gave Igbos what to fight and live for. So, Igbos did not after all lose the war. Infact they won the rationale for the declaration Biafra in the first place: Preservation of Igbo Race. Awolowo saw that Igbos were pushed out, forced out of Nigeria. Gowon in February 2012 during Ojukwu’s burial obsequies said “Igbos were right in declaring secession”. But Gowon could not say that then for fear of Sokoto caliphate. The three war policies that were accredited to Awolowo were: (1) Change of Currency (2) Blockade of Biafra which later ceded Bakassi Pennisula to Cameroon in the August 1968 Marua Accord with Ahmadu Ahidjo of Cameroon. (3) The discrimination of Igbo next-door neighbours by sowing hate-seed against Igbos among Efiks, Ogonis, Ijaws, “Ikwerres”, Itigidis and Kalabaris. These policies combinatorially 100% delivered their essence. Biafra was made defunct on January 12, 1970. So, Obafemi Awolowo, the schemer, should not be
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