WHEN SHALL THE PEACE ACTIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS BE PREDICTIVE AND PREEMPTIVE TO SAVE LIVES OF THE VICTIMS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING

WHEN SHALL THE PEACE ACTIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS BE PREDICTIVE AND PREEMPTIVE TO SAVE LIVES OF THE VICTIMS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING RATHER THAN THE PRESENT 'FIRE-AND-BRIGADE' METHOD IT HAS BEEN USED TO FOR DECADES NOW

ALL HAIL THE BRITISH EXPERIMENT ABOUT TO EXPLODE IN 2015 AS THE POLITICIANS CANVASS FOR DISUNITY, SO WHY DOES THE WHOLE WORLD KEEP QUIET WHILE EVIL IS BEING PERPETRATED IN NIGERIA IS THE REASON I AM POSTING THIS FOR ALL TO SEE.

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THIS ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND AT THE POSTS I MADE IN 2011 FOR THE INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCHER WHO REALLY WANTS THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE WHOLE TRUTH

IT IS AN EMAIL SENT TO REUBEN ABATI AT ABUJA NIGERIA, NONY MBAEZUE IN USA AND NINE OTHERS ON APRIL 26 2011

WHY AM I REALLY POSTING THIS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE, AN INTELLIGENT ONE MAY ASK.

A Biafran adage or funny parlance states “ The reason why the hen being taken to the slaughter for making a soup or stew for a human meal is screaming loudly, not because what or who is holding tight will release its firm grip on her BUT so that everyone will hear that at least she made a bold effort to call for help not that she hoped for freedom from entering into the soup pot.” In my culture we do not interpret wise sayings. Think and SOLVE THE RIDDLE.

THE COLONIAL MASTER LORD LUGGARD IN 1914 WITH THE CONNIVANCE OF HIS HOME GOVERNMENT DELIBERATELY AMALGAMATED A BACKWARD REGION TO RULE A MORE EDUCATED AND PROGRESSIVE REGION IN ORDER TO EXPLOIT IT BY REMOTE CONTROLS FROM 10 DOWNING STREET AND BUCKINGHAM PALACE. TODAY THEY ARE AT IT AGAIN AND OUR FOOLISH POLITICIANS WHO ARE ONLY AT ABUJA FOR SELFISH REASONS ARE BUSY STEALING FROM THE NATIONAL TREASURY INSTEAD OF RESTRUCTURING THE NATION.

SOON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL HEAR THERE IS ANOTHER ETHNIC CLEANSING. WHY DOES THE WORLD KEEP QUIET WHILE EVIL IS BEING PERPETRATED IS THE REASON I AM POSTING THIS FOR ALL TO SEE AND COME TO OUR RESCUE.    

……   REV. PROF. J. J. KENEZ, D.Sc.  

NIGERIA IS A BRITISH EXPERIMENT IN MEDIOCRITY

A British Legacy in Deliberate Underdevelopment of Ex-Colonial Territories Resulted In the Dark Years of a Revolving Door of Military Dictators in a Bedevilled Nigeria

By:
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, D.Sc.
Consultant Clinical Psychologist& Existential Family Therapist
Kenez Health Klinik & Happy Family Network International
5 Church Street, Federal Housing Estate, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu
Phone: 0803-9097614 or 0805-1764999, E-mail: saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk
You can also visit my website: www.happyfamilynetwork.hpage.com for more

THE PREAMBLE:

Has anyone ever bordered to ask, why was a primary classroom teacher preferred to lead a developing nation whereas that country had a British-trained barrister and an American-trained journalist as leading nationalists? Alternatively, put it this way, what was the rationale that warranted hoisting a ‘Homo faber’ non-politician that never participated in the agitation for independence on an emerging nation whereas vibrant and prominent nationalists were available and eager to serve. They were deliberately ignored, maligned and craftily sidelined. 

The answer is simple for any political analyst who is worth his salt in evaluating the divide-and-rule diplomacy of Britain: Nigeria was/is merely an experiment in mediocrity by the British Political Class designed by expert neo-colonialists to maximise her full exploitation of the natural resources of the natives! The evidence is so clear and unambiguous. For thirty years, with only a few years respite, the civil polity in Africa’s most populous and the largest black nation worldwide bled under a revolving door of military rulers! Her citizens were simply ignored to grunt and die!

THE DEPOSITION:
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, ex-Biafran Commando Major (BA/6532) of the Commando Brigade & Retired FLT LT (NAF 759) of the Medical Corps, emphatically states that NIGERIA IS AN EXPERIMENT IN MEDIOCRITY BY BRITISH NEO-COLONIAL MASTERS designed to exploit and under-develop it through remotely tele-guiding the Northern Mediocres they had hoisted/helped to cling to political power since her pseudo-independence in1960. To date they manipulate them from Buckingham Palace/No 10 Downing Street! The experiment is on-going; the 2011 post election riots prove my case.

From the end of the unnecessary fratricidal war till 1999 the polity knew no peace and had no respite from the marauding Generals, all from the North, who changed batons in a marathon race of stealing authority, maiming opposition leaders and successively looting the national treasury. You may not blame them; they were drafted into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) early in life for the sole purpose of dominating the Southerners for ever and were indoctrinated that the military would rule in the future by the Late Sultan Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto, the leader of NPC. 

General Buhari, a protégé of the Late Sultan used it as his main campaign manifesto by reacting to the principle thus; he told Northern youths that if an ‘unbeliever’ from the South won the 2011 Presidential election; they would be slaves for the next 40 years. Read about all his tactics of playing on ethnic and religious sentiments from both local and international media. Below is a recent witness/exhibit: 

According to Friday, 22 April 2011 00:00 by Reuben Abati in Opinion – Columnists; 
“It is Buhari’s CPC that has literally been on the offensive. There is no iota of doubt whatsoever that the angry youths who have made a section of the country ungovernable believe that they are acting on behalf of the CPC. They have been chanting: “mu ke so, ba muso hanni” (It is Buhari we want, we don’t want an unbeliever”). General Buhari has been quoted in the media saying that he deplores the violence, he has also spoken on BBC Hausa service, and he has issued two statements in English language to that effect. General Buhari has to do much more than that. 

His responses to the electoral process and his party’s have been at best contradictory and mischievous. It will be recalled that in the first week of March 2011, General Buhari advised his supporters to “lynch” anybody who tries to rig the April polls. In his words: “you should never leave polling centres until votes are counted and the winner declared and you should lynch anybody that tries to tinker with the votes.” Subsequently, with his supporters having been so incited, General Buhari disclosed that he did not intend to go to court as a person, but that his party could do so, in the event of his not winning the election. 

In the same month of March 2011, Buhari’s running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare also allegedly declared that there would be a “wild wild North” if the elections were rigged.

Buhari and Bakare were strongly criticized for this, with pointed insinuations by a group called “Coalition for Transparency and Integrity” that the CPC duo did not have the right temperament for the job that they sought.

On April 16, General Buhari after voting complained about unusual aircraft movement and the distribution of ballot papers that had already been thumb-printed:

“Buhari said that it was the responsibility of young people as major stakeholders to ensure that the elections were free and fair. If they allow the ruling party to mess them up, it is they who will suffer for the next 40 years.” (The Punch, April 17, at page 14).

There has been a lot of lynching in the North since then! Today, we also have on our hands, a “wild wild North”. So, what exactly does General Buhari want? And what should he do?
I have read the statement issued by General Buhari titled “Message of Peace and Hope.” There is very little about hope in that message. A speech in which the General writes off the entire election as fraudulent and Jega as insincere, and shows no sign of reconciliation with the opposition says nothing about hope, rather it says everything about the likely dangers ahead. General Buhari should realise that it is precisely this kind of attitude that led to the current crisis in Cote D’Ivoire. 
In the US Presidential election in 2000, Al Gore could have put his feet down over Florida: the margin between him and George Bush Jnr was so close, but in the end, he conceded defeat so America could move on. In 1979, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who commanded like Buhari, a cult-like following chose to go to court to contest the results of the Presidential election in part, his disciples insist, in order to prevent violent protest in the South West, and the occurrence of another “wild wild West phenomenon.” It is such statesman-like conduct that is required from Buhari at this moment.” 

I thank Reuben Abati. He is a courageous journalist! I doff my cap for a patriot! In short, he literarily stated that Buhari incited the Muslim youths to lynch anyone who stopped them from winning the Presidential election. Remember that a vehicle plate number slogan; “BORN TO RULE” came from the Northern home state of the Sultan. 

THEREFORE, MY DISSERTATION IS: 
“Nigeria is a perfect example of the British legacy of deliberately under-developing her ex-colonial territories. This resulted in the dark years of a revolving door of military dictators in a bedevilled Nigeria. From the end of the unnecessary fratricidal war till 1999 the polity has not known peace nor had any respite from the marauding military dictators, all from the North, who changed batons in a marathon race of looting the national treasury, perennially reducing our GNP, depleting the natural resources in the Delta region, misappropriating our foreign reserves, maiming opposition leaders and successively clinging onto political power as their late mentor had taught them to do.”

------------------------------------------------Flt Lt J. K. D. Mbaezue,(rtd)

LET ME PRESENT HISTORICAL EXPERTS from WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPAEDIA AS MY FIRST UNEDITED ACADEMIC WITNESSES;

NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR Date 1967–1970

There was a map of Biafra here in the original document

The diagram showed the independent state of the Republic of Biafra as at June 1967.

Location 
Southern Nigeria 

Result 
Nigerian victory 

Belligerents 
Nigeria Biafra 

Commanders 
Yakubu Gowon Odumegwu Ojukwu 

Casualties and losses 
200,000 Military/civilian casualties 1,000,000 Military and civilian casualties 

The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War, 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the south-eastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra.

CONTENTS 

1 Causes of the conflict
2 Conflicts during the colonial era
3 Military coup
4 Counter-coup
5 Pogroms
6 Oil
7 Breakaway
8 Civil War
9 Stalemate
10 War's End
11 Aftermath and legacy
12 References
13 See also
14 Bibliography
15 External links

Causes of the conflict

The conflict was the result of economic, ethnic, cultural and religious tensions among the various peoples of Nigeria. Like many other African nations, Nigeria was an artificial structure initiated by the British which had neglected to consider religious, linguistic, and ethnic differences [citation needed]. Nigeria, which won independence from Britain in 1960, had at that time a population of 60 million people consisting of nearly 300 differing ethnic and cultural groups.

The causes of the Nigerian civil war were diverse. More than fifty years earlier, Great Britain carved an area out of West Africa containing hundreds of different groups and unified it, calling it Nigeria. Although the area contained many different groups, three were predominant: the Igbo, which formed between 60-70% of the population in the southeast, the Hausa-Fulani, which formed about 65% of the peoples in the northern part of the territory; the Yoruba, which formed about 75% of the population in the south-western part.[citation needed]

The semi-feudal and Islamic Hausa-Fulani in the North were traditionally ruled by an autocratic, conservative Islamic hierarchy consisting of some thirty-odd Emirs who, in turn, owed their allegiance to a supreme Sultan. This Sultan was regarded as the source of all political power and religious authority.

The Yoruba political system in the southwest, like that of the Hausa-Fulani, also consisted of a series of monarchs being the Oba. The Yoruba monarchs, however, were less autocratic than those in the North, and the political and social system of the Yoruba accordingly allowed for greater upward mobility based on acquired rather than inherited wealth and title.

The Igbo in the southeast, in contrast to the two other groups, lived in some six hundred autonomous, democratically-organized villages. Although there were monarchs in these villages (whether hereditary or elected), they functioned predominantly as figureheads. Unlike the other two regions, decisions among the Igbo were made by a general assembly in which every man could participate.

The differing political systems among these three peoples produced radically divergent customs and values. The Hausa-Fulani commoners, having contact with the political system only through their village head who was designated by the Emir or one of his subordinates, did not view political leaders as amenable to influence. Political decisions were to be obeyed without question. This highly centralized and authoritarian political system elevated to positions of leadership persons willing to be subservient and loyal to superiors, the same virtues required by Islam for eternal salvation. A chief function of this political system was to maintain Islamic and conservative values, which caused many Hausa-Fulani to view economic and social innovation as subversive or sacrilegious.

In contrast to the Hausa-Fulani, the Igbo often participated directly in the decisions which affected their lives. They had a lively awareness of the political system and regarded it as an instrument for achieving their own personal goals. Status was acquired through the ability to arbitrate disputes that might arise in the village, and through acquiring rather than inheriting wealth. With their emphasis upon achievement, individual choice and democratic decision-making, the challenges of modernization for the Igbo entailed responding to new opportunities in traditional ways.

These tradition-derived differences were perpetuated and, perhaps, even enhanced by the British system of colonial rule in Nigeria. In the North, the British found it convenient to rule indirectly through the Emirs, thus perpetuating rather than changing the indigenous authoritarian political system. As a concomitant of this system, Christian missionaries were excluded from the North, and the area thus remained virtually closed to Western education and influence, in contrast to the Igbo, the richest of whom sent many of their sons to British universities. During the ensuing years, the Northern Emirs thus were able to maintain traditional political and religious institutions, while limiting social change. As a result, the North, at the time of independence in 1960, was by far the most underdeveloped area in Nigeria; with a literacy rate of 2% as compared to 19.2% in the East (literacy in Arabic script, learned in connection with religious education, was higher). The West enjoyed a much higher literacy level, being the first part of the country to have contact with western education in addition to the free primary education programme of the pre-independence Western Regional Government [1].

In the South, the missionaries rapidly introduced Western forms of education. Consequently, the Yoruba were the first group in Nigeria to become significantly modernized and they provided the first African civil servants, doctors, lawyers, and other technicians and professionals.

In Igbo areas, missionaries were introduced at a later date because of British difficulty in establishing firm control over the highly autonomous Igbo villages.

………….(Audrey Chapman, “Civil War in Nigeria,” Midstream, Feb 1968). 
However, the Igbo people took to Western education zealously, and they overwhelmingly came to adopt Christianity. Population pressure in the Igbo homeland combined with an intense desire for economic improvement drove thousands of Igbo to other parts of Nigeria in search of work. By the 1960s the Igbo had become politically unified and economically prosperous, with tradesmen and literate elites active not just in the traditionally Igbo South, but throughout Nigeria.[2]

CONFLICTS DURING THE COLONIAL ERA

The British political ideology of dividing Nigeria during the colonial period into three regions North, West and East exacerbated the already well-developed economic, political, and social competition among Nigeria's different ethnic groups. For the country was divided in such a way that the North had slightly more population than the other two regions combined. On this basis the Northern Region was allocated a majority of the seats in the Federal Legislature established by the colonial authorities. Handiwork of Deceitful Colonial British Administrators

Within each of the three regions the dominant ethnic groups; the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo respectively formed political parties that were largely regional and tribal in character: the Northern People's Congress (NPC) in the North; the Action Group in the West (AG): and the National Conference of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) in the East. The present disintegration of Nigeria provides the evidence that these parties were not exclusively homogeneous in terms of their ethnic or regional make-up, rather they prove the fact that these parties were primarily based on ethnic cleavages in one region and one tribe. To simplify matters, we will refer to them here as the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo-based; or Northern, Western and Eastern parties. The subterfuge of Britons is clearly demonstrated here; ignoreing the well-known British alphabetical order of presenting H before I and then Y.

During the 1940s and 1950s the Igbo and Yoruba parties were in the forefront of the fight for independence from Britain. They also wanted an independent Nigeria to be organized into several small states so that the conservative North could not dominate the country. Northern leaders, however, fearful that independence would mean political and economic domination by the more Westernized elites in the South, preferred the perpetuation of British rule. As a condition for accepting independence, they demanded that the country continue to be divided into three regions with the North having a clear majority. Igbo and Yoruba leaders, anxious to obtain an independent country at all costs, accepted the Northern demands.

During the Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970, the Nigerian government imposed blockades around Biafra, effectively cutting off the secessionist state’s food supply. The resulting famine in Biafra was devastating, as upwards of one million people died of starvation. The swollen bellies and ankles of these Biafran children are symptoms of kwashiorkor, an extreme form of protein-energy malnutrition.

BACKGROUND OF THE PSEUDO-NATION CREATED BY BRITAIN (Unedited)

With an active Parliament and a sturdy economy, the most populous country in Africa had seemingly made an easy transition to independence in 1960. Nigeria's 250 tribes, each with its own language and customs, were divided into three and later four regions, each dominated by major tribes: Hausa and Fulani in the North (29.8 million), Yoruba in the West (12.8 million), and Ibo in the East (12.4 million). Although Western impact came late to the larger and more populated Muslim North, ruled by powerful feudal emirs, its legislative majority dominated the federal Parliament.

The better-educated, change-oriented, aggressive Ibos in the East, many of whom emigrated to key positions outside their crowded region, resented Northern dominance and the many evidences of federal corruption. The tragic events of 1966 began on January 15 when a military coup by army officers toppled the government and led to the establishment of military rule under an Ibo general, Johnson T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, who surrounded himself with Ibo advisers. Northern resentment led to attacks on Ibos, and on July 29 the regime of General Ironsi was overthrown, and Lieutenant Colonel (later Major General) Yakubu Gowon, a Northern Hausa, became the chief of state of the Federal Military Government (FMG). 

In September some 20,000 to 30,000 Ibos were massacred, and many more were attacked and maimed. Having reason to believe themselves marked for extermination, Ibos from all over Nigeria returned in a mass migration to the Eastern Region, where, under their regional military governor, Lieutenant Colonel (later General) Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, many pressed for local autonomy and the more militant called for independence. The break came on May 30, 1967, three days after the federal government divided the four regions into 12 states in a move to decentralize and thereby reduce tribal antagonisms. 

Cut off by the division from coastal trade and oil resources which would have made them economically viable, the Ibos declared the independence of the Eastern Region under the name of the Republic of Biafra (taken from the name of an inlet on the Gulf of Guinea). Fighting broke out in June, and despite Biafran forays during the early months of the war, the federal forces had, by the end of this year, closed an ever-narrowing ring around Biafra, which continued to resist in guerrilla fashion.

FOREIGN SUPPORT.
Somewhat incongruously, the countries supplying arms and other aid to federal Nigeria include Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United Arab Republic. Britain's motives include its colonial ties and post-independence trade and oil connections with Nigeria. Soviet aid of MIG fighters is attributed to anticipated ideological, trade, and oil concessions in federal Nigeria, which it sees as the inevitable winner. Egypt sympathizes with its Muslim co-religionists in the Northern Region. 
The United States, officially neutral, has barred arms sales to either side. But the U.S. government has acknowledged the FMG as the only legitimate government of Nigeria, a move which has evoked anti-U.S. sentiment among Biafrans. Public reaction against shocking reports of Biafran starvation has led three European countries—Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, and Belgium—to halt arms shipments to federal Nigeria.

Biafra has received military aid from France, ostensibly for trade and oil preference should Biafra win. France also reportedly wants to spite the United States and Great Britain. On July 31 the French government called for a resolution of the war on the basis of the right of self-determination. Portugal has given Biafra the use of its air ports and telecommunications. Tanzania, in April, became the first country to recognize Biafra as an independent state. Three other African countries—Gabon, the Ivory Coast, and Zambia—recognized Biafra in May.

REPORTS OF STARVATION.
In October the head of the World Council of Churches relief program in Biafra estimated deaths from starvation at 186,000 in July, 310,000 in August, and 360,000 in September. Relief flights of food to Biafra, which reached an average of 15-18 a night, reduced deaths in October to about 200,000. Forecasts predicted 25,000 deaths a day in December unless a cease-fire was called. The International Committee of the Red Cross has fed 750,000 victims daily in what is left of Biafra, plus 500,000 daily in areas taken by federal troops. 

Many groups and prominent individuals, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, have criticized the American government for not sending direct food relief to Biafra. But U.S. officials maintained that they could not authorize such flights without permission from the federal Nigerian government and that U.S. government food and other aid must be channeled through private church relief agencies and the ICRC. Direct night flights to Biafra have been harassed by federal Nigeria, which had demanded that relief shipments land on federally held territory. Biafra would not accept such an arrangement, however, claiming that food passing through federal hands might be poisoned. In November the federal government said it would allow daytime flights of relief supplies into the Biafran airstrip at Uli, but the Biafran regime did not agree to this arrangement, possibly because night flights containing arms shipments would then be open to federal attacks.

UNSUCCESSFUL PEACE TALKS.
Peace talks began with unsuccessful secret sessions in London during January and February. More promising preliminary talks in early May led to an agreement that peace negotiations should begin in Kampala, Uganda, later that month. These talks, however, made little progress and were cut off by Biafra on May 31. At the August 5-September 9 talks in Addis Ababa, under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity, the warring representatives again deadlocked. Federal Nigeria has insisted that Biafra give up independence as a condition for peace; Biafra has replied that only autonomy can save the Ibos from massacre. 
On August 12, Pope Paul VI appealed for an end to the civil war. At a September meeting in Algeria, the OAU passed a resolution calling on Biafra to cease its fight for independence and to cooperate with Nigeria in seeking peace. Most of the 40 OAU member nations themselves contain tribal minorities with easily awakened antagonisms toward their central governments. It is feared that Biafra's success might prompt other rebellions and lead to a balkanization of Africa. Nigeria's ambassadors have played upon this fear in the capitals of African nations.
At least one Biafran friend altered her stand. Dame Margery Perham, an Oxford University specialist on Africa who in August declared Biafrans as 'overwhelmingly the injured party ... who dare not surrender,' changed her mind on a subsequent visit to Nigeria. In September she broadcast a plea to Biafrans to surrender as the only way to save millions from death and starvation.

FOREIGN SUPPORT.
Somewhat incongruously, the countries supplying arms and other aid to federal Nigeria include Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United Arab Republic. Britain's motives include its colonial ties and post-independence trade and oil connections with Nigeria. Soviet aid of MIG fighters is attributed to anticipated ideological, trade, and oil concessions in federal Nigeria, which it sees as the inevitable winner. Egypt sympathizes with its Muslim co-religionists in the Northern Region. The United States, officially neutral, has barred arms sales to either side. But the U.S. government has acknowledged the FMG as the only legitimate government of Nigeria, a move which has evoked anti-U.S. sentiment among Biafrans. Public reaction against shocking reports of Biafran starvation has led three European countries—Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, and Belgium—to halt arms shipments to federal Nigeria.
Biafra has received military aid from France, ostensibly for trade and oil preference should Biafra win. France also reportedly wants to spite the United States and Great Britain. On July 31 the French government called for a resolution of the war on the basis of the right of self-determination. Portugal has given Biafra the use of its air ports and telecommunications. Tanzania, in April, became the first country to recognize Biafra as an independent state. Three other African countries—Gabon, the Ivory Coast, and Zambia—recognized Biafra in May.

REPORTS OF STARVATION.
In October the head of the World Council of Churches relief program in Biafra estimated deaths from starvation at 186,000 in July, 310,000 in August, and 360,000 in September. Relief flights of food to Biafra, which reached an average of 15-18 a night, reduced deaths in October to about 200,000. Forecasts predicted 25,000 deaths a day in December unless a cease-fire was called. The International Committee of the Red Cross has fed 750,000 victims daily in what is left of Biafra, plus 500,000 daily in areas taken by federal troops. Many groups and prominent individuals, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, have criticized the American government for not sending direct food relief to Biafra. But U.S. officials maintained that they could not authorize such flights without permission from the federal Nigerian government and that U.S. government food and other aid must be channeled through private church relief agencies and the ICRC. Direct night flights to Biafra have been harassed by federal Nigeria, which had demanded that relief shipments land on federally held territory. Biafra would not accept such an arrangement, however, claiming that food passing through federal hands might be poisoned. In November the federal government said it would allow daytime flights of relief supplies into the Biafran airstrip at Uli, but the Biafran regime did not agree to this arrangement, possibly because night flights containing arms shipments would then be open to federal attacks.

UNSUCCESSFUL PEACE TALKS.
Peace talks began with unsuccessful secret sessions in London during January and February. More promising preliminary talks in early May led to an agreement that peace negotiations should begin in Kampala, Uganda, later that month. These talks, however, made little progress and were cut off by Biafra on May 31. At the August 5-September 9 talks in Addis Ababa, under the auspices of the Organization of African Unity, the warring representatives again deadlocked. Federal Nigeria has insisted that Biafra give up independence as a condition for peace; Biafra has replied that only autonomy can save the Ibos from massacre. On August 12, Pope Paul VI appealed for an end to the civil war. At a September meeting in Algeria, the OAU passed a resolution calling on Biafra to cease its fight for independence and to cooperate with Nigeria in seeking peace. Most of the 40 OAU member nations themselves contain tribal minorities with easily awakened antagonisms toward their central governments. It is feared that Biafra's success might prompt other rebellions and lead to a balkanization of Africa. Nigeria's ambassadors have played upon this fear in the capitals of African nations.
At least one Biafran friend altered her stand. Dame Margery Perham, an Oxford University specialist on Africa who in August declared Biafrans as 'overwhelmingly the injured party ... who dare not surrender,' changed her mind on a subsequent visit to Nigeria. In September she broadcast a plea to Biafrans to surrender as the only way to save millions from death and starvation.

1969: Nigeria
CIVIL WAR CONTINUES.
The most populous country in Africa continued to hurtle toward disaster in the third year of a devastating civil war. By September 1968, Federal Military Government troops had squeezed Biafra's 12.4 million people into a 5,000-square-mile area; the area has now been reduced to less than 3,000 square miles. The starvation of more than 1.5 million people on both sides has shocked the world as the war has dragged on, with the FMG receiving British, Soviet, and Egyptian military aid and Biafra receiving Portuguese and French aid.

Other nations have responded with food and medical shipments, which must cross FMG territory to reach Biafra. Biafrans fear that the FMG will poison the food; the FMG insists on inspecting shipments to prevent arms smuggling. The FMG halted flights by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on June 5 and continued to fire on illegal night flights made by paid volunteers. Both sides continued to use starvation deliberately for political ends. The once prosperous Ibos, sure that they will never regain their former high status in Nigeria, fought on in this bitter war. The United States remained officially neutral but continued to recognize the FMG as the only legal government. Americans supplied money, food, and medicine to relieve Biafran suffering, but this may only help prolong the conflict.

A BATTLE FOR OIL.
The war-drained FMG treasury was bolstered by industrial expansion, increased cotton exports, and an oil boom. Wartime import restrictions have forced local production of some manufactured goods, so that industrialization has nearly doubled since the war began. Cocoa and peanut production have slipped, but cotton exports have increased. Oil is the FMG's big money-maker. Port Harcourt, recaptured by the FMG early this year, is the source of over half the country's oil. By 1975, Nigeria expects to earn $840 million (mainly from Shell-British Petroleum and Gulf Oil), double the current revenue from all sources. Oil income is also expected to be important in financing postwar reconstruction.
After May, Biafran ground and air forces struck repeatedly at FMG's Port Harcourt oil installations. Some dozen hedgehopping and rocket-equipped Swedish-built Minicon training planes were flown mainly by Biafran pilots trained by Carl Gustav von Rosen, the Swedish count who is Biafra's chief air force adviser. These Biafran air strikes aimed to sap the FMG's oil-based economy and to goad British and American oil companies into pressing the FMG for peace.

A KENEZIAN REFLECTION
From the end of the unnecessary fratricidal war till 1999 the polity knew no peace and had no respite from the marauding Generals who changed batons in a marathon race of maiming opposition leaders and successively looting the national treasury
WHEN SHALL WE BE TRUELY INDEPENDENT OF BRITAIN? 
We are controlled from Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street by remote controls, while we mistakenly think it is the Northerners that are our real enemies.
MY DEAREST COMPATRIOTS, DON'T SIT ON THE FENCE, OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE IS AT STAKE. I NEED VERITABLE ANSWERS NOW BEFORE ANOTHER CIVIL WAR ENGULFS US.

Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, D.Sc. in Psychometrics,

• Ex-Major, BA6532, Degema Strike Force, 12th Commando Brigade, Biafra, 1968 - 1969.
• Retired Substantive Flt Lt, NAF 759, Kano & Kaduna, 1976 -1979 

HAPPY EASTER FOR SURVIVING TILL THE YEAR 2011. 
GOD BLESS AND KEEP ALL OF YOU SAFE FOR ME!

A KENEZIAN EXISTENTIAL COMMENTARY ON ISSUE OF THE TOOTHLESS BULLDOG WE REFER TO AS UN i.e. THE UNITED NATIONS THAT ONLY EAITS TILL THERE IS ETHNIC CLEANSING BEFORE THEY RUSH TO APPLY THEIR BELATED ‘FIRE BRIGADE INTERVENTIONS’ IN FAKE PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS

The first  time I heard an elderly man use the analogy of a hen screaming for help that she knew was not forthcoming, I retorted like this; THE REASON WAS BECAUSE SHE WAS SHOUT ING TO THE WRONG AUDIENCE, NAMELY HUMAN BEINGS….to which a cock nearby retorted thus … NA LIE OO..  IS IT NOT THE SAME HUMAN BEINGS THAT CHASE AWAY THE KITES OR HAWKS THAT SWOOP DOWN TO CARRY HER DAY-OLD CHIICKS … You see, at the time I had the gift of hearing animal talk WHEN I WAS STILL IN STANDARD ONE AT ‘NEMPI CATHOLIC MISSION SCHOOL’ IN ORU LGA OF PRESENT IMO STATE, FOUR YEARS BEFORE NIGERIA GOT IT PSEUDO-INDEPENDENCE, so I burst out laughing so much that the elders thought I was laughing them to scorn…THEY GOT ANGRY. My daddy, mummy, brothers and sisters were not around to notify them that I had the gift, so I had to tell them myself, despite the fact that I knew quite well that they would not believe me…

MY DADDIES, I am not laughing at you SIRS, it is the cock they caused my uncontrollable laughter by telling me that I was wrong by suggesting that the hen in your story was not screaming to the wrong audience RATHER THAT HUMANS HAD NEPOTIC INTERESTS, SKEWED PREFERENCES OR ETHNOCENTRIC-SPECIES PERSPECTIVES WHEN THE HEN WAS SHOUTING FOR HELP ..They laughed and then demanded that I ask the cock to expatiate on his thesis…. THIS IS HIS LOGIC; ….

1. Human beings are racists and nave an apartheid scale of preferences when they kill animals below their status in the animal kingdom
2. They are so myopic when a meal of chicken meat is the topic in question, more so when the hen is past MENOPAUSE that humans classified as OLD LAYERS
3. Therefore, they develop deceptive hearing problems and refuse the listen and interpret the urgency of the CRY FOR HELP of poultry chickens in danger.

COUNT YOUR TEETH WITH YOUR TONGUES MY DEAR READERS OR ELSE FIND THE NEAREST BIAFRAN ELDER AROUNG YOU TO EXPALIN WHAT I HAVE SAID AS IT APPLIED TO THE POLITICS OF THE CAUCASIAN RACE.

COMMENTARIES ON THE INTERNET ABOUT A BEDEVILLED NIGERIA

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The heavyweights in Northern Politics are to be responsible for this. Yet they want to become PRESIDENTS without the political training needed for the job. Whereas General Yakubu Gowon, REALISED HIS ERRORS AND SO WENT BACK TO SCHOOL, the fools who served under him during the needless civil war think that A NIGERIAN MAJOR GENERAL RANK UNDESERVEDLY HOISTED ON THEM DURING THE BACKYARD WAR ENTITLES THEM TO A DOCTORAL DEGREE IN GOVERNANCE. I weep for them and their progeny.

Jude Danmbaezue 

THE FALLACY OF BELIEVING THAT A SOLDIER CAN LEAD CIVILIANS IN A DEMOCRACY IS UTTERLY FALSE, PUERILE AND UNINTELLIGENT. SOLDIERS LEAD MEN WHO WERE TRAINED TO OBEY ORDERS BLINDLY WITHOUT QUESTIONS AT THE BATTLEFRONT. SO NO REAL TRAINED OFFICER CAN LEAD MEN WHO HAVE THE OPTION TO REFUSE ORDERS, ASK QUESTIONS AND DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES THE RIGHT COURSE OF ACTIONS TO TAKE. LET US FACE THE FACTS. THE PROLONGED MILITARY RULE IS WHAT DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY. LET US STOP THE FOOLERY OF THINKING THAT ANY BUHARI, BABAGINDA, OBASANJO e.t.c. .e.e.t.c. IS QUALIFIED TO BECOME A PRESIDENT or EVEN A GOVERNOR IN A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED ADMINISTRATION. .....................

THE REASON ALL OF THEM ARE IN GOVERNMENT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO HANDICRAFT, PROFESSIONAL SKILLS TO EARN A LIVING, SO THE NIGERIAN POLITY IS CONVERTED TO ENEMY WAR FRONTS AND THEY LOOT OUR TREASURIES. .............

BELOW IS THE ONLY SOLDIER I KNOW WHO NEVER PARTICIPATED IN ANY GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS OR CIVILIAN POLITICS SINCE RETIREMENT IN THE 198Os

AND TO DATE IS A PRIVATELY EMPLOYED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST WHO COUNSELS ADOLESCENTS ABOUT TO MARRY AND TREATS OTHERS PASSING THROUGH MARITAL CRISES.

HE HAS A TOTAL 15 STANDARDISED PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS FOR SCIENTIFIC FAMILY COUNSELLING AND HAS WRITTEN MORE THAN 9 BOOKS ON FAMILY HEALTH ISSUES. HE OWNS THIS SITE THAT HAS BEEN 'ENWISDOMISING' THOUSANDS OF YOUTHS.

I was still a second year student at the University of Lagos where the Great Mathematician PROFESSOR CHIKE OBI of blessed memory queried the purveyors of QUOTA SYSTEM thus; Is bravery and gallantry equally distributed among all men, if so, with Quota System, 
WHEN 10 IGBO SOLDIERS DIE AT THE BATTLE FRONT, WILL OUR TROOPS ALL WAIT TILL 10 YORUBAS AND 10 HAUSA SOLDIERS DIE BEFORE THE TROOPS MARCH FORWARD?

We need veritable and practical answers now from the brilliant ex-generals who want to rule Nigeria despite having no political training for the job! IS THIS NOT WHAT THEY SHOULD SOLVE AS SUPERBRATS IN MILITARY RANKS? Only AIR RAID or probably BLACK SCORPION with the assistance of the Great TACTICIAN NZEOGWU the SECOND, can come to our rescue now;

WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT FREE FOR ALL NATIONAL CONFERENCE OR ELSE FULFILL THE PREDICTIONS MADE BY SOME U S A POLITICAL ANALYSTS AND FUTURISTIC PUNDITS WHO HAD PREDICTED AS FAR BACK AS 2012 THAT NIGERIA WILL BREAK UP IN 2015 AND WE DID NOT TAKE THEM SERIOUS. WHAT WILL SAVE US IS A TRUE FEDERALISM ALONG THE LINES AGREED AT ABURI DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE UNNECESSARY AND FRATRICIDAL CIVIL WAR THAT PORTRAYED IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE THE FUTILITY OF LORD LUGARD'S NEO-COLONIALISM MISADVENTURE OF AMALGAMATION OF 1914 ............

It is inevitable now. Nigeria cannot stand some people, who have a very queer mindset. They believe their religion is superior. They are sympathetic to Boko Haram. They are victims of a 50 year old brain-washing agenda. Some politicians mobilized them along ethnic and religious lines during last elections.
They were told that Southerners are infidels. Nigeria simply cannot survive the way it is structured. These ignorant Northern youths are merely victims of brain-washing. The violence will continue even after Boko Haram. Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder.
It is not Jonathan’s fault. Jonathan’s is merely the target. Nigeria must be restructured now before it is too late. The ongoing exodus of Ndigbo from the North and the refusal of the government to assist them is the last straw. If something gives and violence erupts, Nigeria will simply cease to exist. Igbo is a very dynamic race, when Ndigbo take up arms, not even the UN can contain the explosion.

THE REMEDY TO THE NIGERIAN PERENNIAL MILITARY SEEKING TO BE PRESIDENTS OR GOVERNORS QUESTION IS TO BAN ALL SOLDIERS FROM POLITICS UNTIL EACH HAS GOT AT LEAST A BACHELORS DEGREE IN POLITICS SAYS DR JIDEOFO DANMBAEZUE, A retired Flt Lt of the Nigerian Air Force 1976 - 1979 and Major in the Biafran Commandos, 1968 – 1969

2015: WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF IN NIGERIA?
By Osondu Ahirika and Kenez Danmbaezue

George Santayana it was, who said, "Those that forget history are condemned to repeat it." That's a fact of life as real as reality. This is in spite of St. Paul's disclosure that, "...this one thing I do, forgetting that which is past, I look forward to the goal that I may win the prize..."(see Philippians 3:13). Such amnesia for the past canvassed here by Paul is contextual, and cannot abrogate the realism of Santayana's maxim. 

If you had doubt that history does replicate itself, then let me shock you with these facts. If you have the calendar of 1975, don't throw it away. It is the same with the 2014 calendar currently in use. Its January 1, falls Wednesday and it ends on Wednesday 31 also. Same with 2014.

Other years that share strictly same datelines with 2014 are, 1986, 1997, and 2003 for the past. In future, this 2014 calendar will replay for the year 2025 and 2031. Truth is, every year has such parities, past and future.

If that does not suffice, then this should. football stakers in Pool who characteristically follow the English and Australian football seasons will tell you their forecast finds solid assurance in both hindsight and foresight. They bet, because, they believe most assuredly, that, history will repeat itself. Often, it does. Sometimes in reverse order. For, as one philosopher said, history repeats itself, but as a farce. 

Take this too. On Sunday, March 2, 2014, Nigerian International Ike Uche was sent off while playing for VillarREAL football club at home against REAL Betis FC in the Spanish La Liga. This was the second red card of his career. Ironically, three years ago, precisely on April 18, 2011, Ike Uche was given the marching order, in a game he was playing then, for REAL Zaragoza FC against VillarREAL FC. Can you discern the pranks history plays sometimes in her reincarnation? That's why I deliberately capitalized the word, REAL, in Uche's real experience. See the farcical trajectory of history with Uche. 

Okay, done with that, I believe I have convinced you that, history does repeat itself, when we ignore its trail. See the alignment at APC for instance....What did Akintola do with Ahmadu that is not being repeated by Tinubu and Buhari now. strange bed-fellows are teaming up again as was the case in 1965 before the WILD WILD WEST saga that precipitated the 1966 coup d'etat and the civil war. Boko Haram is a mirror image of Wild Wild West, and the present poaching of PDP stalwarts by APC strategists who went all the way to America to hire political crooks to plot the results of an election to be held in 23 months distant time.... A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE .. BUT I FEAR WE HAVE NO WISE MEN IN NIGERIA NOR SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS WITH HINDSIGHT.

Major Nzeogwu Kenechukwu Mbaezue, BA 6532,

12th Degema Strike Force, Biafran commandos 1968 -1970

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Flt Lt Jideofo Kenechukwu Davidan Mbaezue, NAF 759,

Foundation Medical Officer, Trainee Pilots Psychologist,

NAF Medical Centre, Kano, Kaduna 1976 -1979