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Biafra:”Ojukwu, unlike Gowon, was not an armchair Army General, he literally went to the hottest battlefield and fought the war and prevailed in the front that he physically led”–Emek Reuben Okala. London, UK

Biafra:”Ojukwu, unlike Gowon, was not an armchair Army General, he literally went to the hottest battlefield and fought the war and prevailed in the front that he physically led”–Emek Reuben Okala. London, UK New York[RR] London-Uk–The passing of a war criminal who should be brought before the international Criminal Court of Justice, ICC, Hague, like […]

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Biafra:”Ojukwu, unlike Gowon, was not an armchair Army General, he literally went to the hottest battlefield and fought the war and prevailed in the front that he physically led”–Emek Reuben Okala. London, UK

New York[RR] London-Uk–The passing of a war criminal who should be brought before the international Criminal Court of Justice, ICC, Hague, like Benjamin Adekunle, who passed couple of days ago, is causing commentators and pundits alike to revisit the Biafra-Nigeria civil war, 1967 to 1970, Republic Reporters investigations show.

Chukwuemeka Okala, reacting to remarks culled by Ozodi Osuji, who boldly stated in his remarks that ‘Ojukwu was a coward who ran away to Ivory Coast at the heat of the battle, said: “”Ojukwu, unlike Gowon, was not an armchair Army General, he literally went to the hottest battlefield and fought the war and prevailed in the front that he physically led”, he said.

Osuji asked, “Did Colonel Emeka Ojukwu actually go to the war front and lead men at war? Or was he holed up in a bunker at Government College Umuahia (I once went there with my senior brother who was then a captain in the Biafra army) and was shown where the bearded one lived.

“So, was Ojukwu a war hero? We all know what he did when the war ended. He fled to the Ivory Coast. He asked my brother who just got out of secondary school (Hussey College Warri) and joined his army to die fighting for him and then abandoned him as if his death did not matter and fled to the Ivory Coast for safety. It is as if his useless life is more important than the life of any Biafran soldier or any Igbo person for that matter.

“For doing that I hate his cowardly ass and if I had seen him in real life would have not hesitated in putting a bullet into his freaking cowardly head..”, he said.

Read full text of Okala’s reaction to Osuji’s remarks.

“After the war, Ojukwu lived in Ivory Coast for about 13 years and returned to Nigeria where he lived the rest of his life for about 28 good years. And throughout the period of the time that he lived in Nigeria, he bestrode the Nigerian world like the Shakespearean colossus while “petty-men” like you found themselves in “dishonourable graves”.

“You had every opportunity to confront him but obviously had no balls to do so. You cowardly ran into hiding in faraway USA and indeed married there and took up the citizenship of your host country. You had no courage to visit Nigeria one day to go close to Ojukwu’s residence either in Lagos or in Enugu to dangle a penknife before him – not to talk of a whole gun that you have only seen but never touched in your life. Now that the man has meritoriously played his part and gone for good, this is the time you feel, you can rear your cowardly head to say, ‘if I had seen him in real life would have not hesitated in putting a bullet into his freaking cowardly head.”

“Ozodiobi Osuji, you know what? You are a bleeding miserable coward that can only boast only over the dead body of your imagined adversary! There is nothing manly in people like you. You are totally empty and a disgrace!. Hitherto I had a very tiny bit – infinitesimal (if you like) of respect for you, but for shamelessly stating what I excerpted above, you have succeeded in wiping everything out. You are the height of cowardice!

‘For your information, Ojukwu, unlike Gowon, was not an armchair Army General, he literally went to the hottest battlefield and fought the war and prevailed in the front that he physically led.

‘Ojukwu was a brave man all his life. He carved a niche for himself – not allowing his father’s choice of career for him to shape his destiny. He confronted the Hausa/Fulani powers, nay, the Nigerian powers with utmost bravery when he foresaw the looming annihilation of your people and the destruction of the entire erstwhile Eastern Region by the North. Without minding the enormous investments of his father in both Lagos and the North, he put everything including his personal life on the line to resist the forces against his people and the entire region that he led as governor.

‘When he came back from exile, he saw his people playing the second fiddle in the country where the war supposedly ended on a “No victor, no vanquished term” and he immediately took drastic measures to take your people to the mainstream politics in Nigeria.

Until he took his last breath, Ojukwu never failed to let the world know that no one can toy with the destiny, dignity and rights of your people within the political entity called Nigeria. How do you call such a person a ‘coward’?

“Ozodi Osuji, you may talk derogatorily about anyone from your neck of the woods the much you like, but when it comes to Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu you have to know to apply your breaks. Someone would be prepared to go to the trenches with you for all it takes if you don’t. In war, Ojukwu was not the leader of the Igbo, he was the leader of the entire Eastern Region of Nigeria that metamorphosed into Biafra. He is my hero anytime, any day”, Chukwuemeka Okala said.

Ozodi Osuji’s full text on Ojukwu and Benjamin Adekunle.

“Gentlemen:I am not particularly interested in eulogizing Mr. Benjamin Adekunle. I am Igbo and what I want to know is whether there were Igbo military officers that fought bravely?

“Did Colonel Emeka Ojukwu actually go to the war front and lead men at war? Or was he holed up in a bunker at Government College Umuahia (I once went there with my senior brother who was then a captain in the Biafra army) and was shown where the bearded one lived.

So, was Ojukwu a war hero? We all know what he did when the war ended. He fled to the Ivory Coast. He asked my brother who just got out of secondary school (Hussey College Warri) and joined his army to die fighting for him and then abandoned him as if his death did not matter and fled to the Ivory Coast for safety. It is as if his useless life is more important than the life of any Biafran soldier or any Igbo person for that matter.

For doing that I hate his cowardly ass and if I had seen him in real life would have not hesitated in putting a bullet into his freaking cowardly head.

Generals do not abandon their men at the front; a real general does what General Robert Lee did at the end of the American civil war: dress in his general’s uniform, adorned with a sword signifying his command, mount a horse and ride to the victorious enemy commander, General Grant and hand over his sword to his better in the fray.

Ojukwu should have stayed, go into the bush and started a guerilla warfare; he would have worn down the Nigerian army; if in doubt see what Boko Haram is doing to the supposed almighty Nigerian army; Nigerians would not have defeated Biafrans if Biafrans had the will to fight a prolonged war; three years is nothing; Angolans and South Sudanese fought over twenty years to uphold their desire for independence.

Ojukwu ran away and thus make me feel that Igbos are cowards who merely talk but when push comes to shove run from battle…as a boy I volunteered at military hospitals and with red cross helping wounded Biafra soldiers; if I was old enough I probably would have joined the Biafra army (although mother would not have permitted that when her son was killed in 1969…mother herself was wounded when the Nigerian air force flown by Egyptians bombed our market, Afor Umuohiagu in February of 1969, killing over five hundred people, mostly women…for that crime they needed to be charged for war crime and taken to the Hague for prosecution).

Anyway, were there Igbo heroes…and before you open your loud mouth be advised that you are talking to a person who understood the war situation; a Biafra army general who commandeered a division lived in my father’s house during the war, so I heard a lot about what was going on at the war front.

Answer my question: did Igbos produce brave war heroes or did they just talk as they talk at Internet forums and when the kitchen got hot they ran away? Inquiring minds want to understand these things.

As for Adekunle, if he did what was attributed to him, ordering the killing of all Igbos, well, he was not a soldier but a petty criminal, a murderer, and that is just about all that one can say about him. He was an African murderer.

Africans know only how to murder each other, but work to improve one another they cannot do; they are a cursed people; those who sold their siblings into slavery are cursed by all that is decent in human nature.

“May Adekunle’s soul burn eternally in hell fire (if hell exists, that is, and if souls survive our physical death)?, Ozodi Osuji
said, on September 13, 2014

daniel Akusobi, had earlier remarked the following, “Emeka, your piece or response to Jerome on the death of Adekunle is why I believe you will outlive a lot of your mates and you will be able to rightly say NO if you do not want a thing, even at age 97 and a 1/2 years.
Anyone who still believes that Igbos or Ojukwu caused the war in Nigeria should try staying put in a burning building.
A people that regularly faced massacres by their assumed fellow Nigerians, and fail to escape are dummies. It is like the North Eastern Nigerians under the reign of Boka Haram today. If Bokas are not all that volatile and cowardly , and easily identifiable like Hawausa people were in the 1960es, they, areas under attack by BK, would have been thinking of seceding, since Nigeria cannot protect them. Seceding under such a dare circumstance would enable them escape death by massacre, and would enable them protect themselves better.

“Ojukwu is a hero and he lived to say other things we did not hear him say nor do during the war.

“He could not have said them or do some other things unrelated to the war he did on return from exile, if he had stayed put in Nigeria following the last seize fire.
Adekunle and his fellow rapists and cannibals , in one of their craziness would have sort for , catch and roasted Ojukwu for a dinner if he, Ojukwu had not taken a run.

“I had wished Adekunle some longer live so his agony and hell will get deeper in him. He died in a miserable regret about his deeds and words. He was a cannibal, rapist and the only meaning of devil we knew. There are some others too. Obasanjo is one of them. The war took my father, and 3 of my uncles, and I would have been in it directly as a soldier if I was not short then. Some of my mates, taller than I was then, were conscripted and only one came back alive and had since died.

Thanks again pastor and may your flock multiply further, and may they realize that Malakai verse on tithe is not going away soon because of Dan, Nebu and Eke.
Finally , please our son, know it that most of us here that are Igbos know you are nwafor Igbo proper. Ikwere has same status as Ngwa or Orlu in the natural history of Igbo lands.
It is same war, Biafran war, that put all these separatist ideas in some of us. Severing us from ourselves during the war politics was a strategy the masterly Awo gave Awusa people to help them isolate Igbo main lands so they can rape and kill women and children with greater ease.
That land , Ikwere and Ugwuocha as a whole, would have been our own sea-land, ( seaport) if Biafra had succeeded.Good morning pastor and please pray that I find some happiness today since it seems I started the day in anger.

Okala,added though that there is on comparison of Ojukwu and Adekunle, Republic Reporters gathered.
He said, “Like the death of any other Nigerian leader, the passing on of Brigadier-General Benjamin Adekunle is a great loss to Nigeria and us all. May his soul rest in perfect peace. He was a very brilliant but ruthless soldier.

It seems that you are trying to drag me into your (Nigerian folks cyber-warriors) senseless wars with one another, especially between the Igbos and the Yorubas in the House. If that’s your goal, please waste not your time. Just pocket it, it will not work! I have no time for such meaningless quarrels and squabbles.

I was only interested in the case of Ozodiobi Osuji trying to denigrate Ojukwu – a very decent and principled leader of all times who, like Chief Obafemi Awolowo lived ahead of his time!

Albeit there is no basis and need for comparing Ojukwu and Benjamin Adekunle, especially as each played a different role and lived a different lifestyle from the other. But it suffices to say that your claim that Benjamin Adekunle outlived Ojukwu is not correct. Ojukwu was about two years older than Benjamin Adekunle and they both died at about the same age. Just for your attention and nothing else.

It might also be of interest for you to know that whilst Ozodi is Igbo, I’m not. I hail from one of the minority ethnic groups of Biafra – Ikwerre, to be specific whose contributions to the making of Biafra are unsung today when the story of Biafra is told. Like Ozodi, I lost a relative – an uncle and a trained teacher to the war. He was brutally beheaded by the Nigerian troops right before my eyes when my hometown fell. But I don’t hold Ojukwu responsible for it. I roundly and squarely put Hausa/Fulani in the dock for it for causing the war. In the same vein, I would rather you hold the Hausa/Fulani responsible for your irreparable uncountable losses to the war because they caused the war. But we have since moved on. It’s nearly 45 years since the war ended, so why not we do away with the pains, wounds and scars of the war?

Peter Opara reacting said, he never bothered reading Ozodi Osuji’s remarks. He said, “I never bother to read the Thomas Osuji.

There is no use or need to read him. He is stale, and he stinks. I promised not to talk or write about him in these terms, but when the idiot, the sickly idiot goes writing rubbish, outright lie, smear about Ojukwu, then he is calling for nothing short of his head being chopped off literally.

The idiot coward, I may say, is my age mate. Idiot Osuji claims Ojukwu conscripted his brother who had just left secondary school into the Army. That is the devil lying right there, and that devil is Thomas Ozodi Osuji.

His brother having left secondary school just as the war began, he belonged to the cadre of Biafra’s first and/or second batch of Biafra commissioned army officers. Among this group, the courageous amongst them which I have to hazard included Thomas Ozodi’s brother, not a soul urged or nudged them to join the army. They joined on their own volition.

My senior brother who is Thomas Ozodi Osuji’s contemporary, a bit older perhaps, had just finished secondary school and survey course, and was working in Enugu. I had just spent my holidays with him in Enugu and returned. The next time he visited us in PH, he was in full army regalia and in aramy land rover. Not even my father knew my brother had trained and had been commissioned and risen to a Lt. already. 1967. He joined on his own volition.

I joined the Biafran Army on my volition with a rather reserved support of my father. I did not have to join the army for I was young, and my brother was already a captain in the army at the time. The man to whom I was a batsman – Captain Obi, was indeed a contemporary of wet arse coward Thomas Osuji’s brother. No doubt about it.

Several times, kids my age trooped to Owerri town, not far from wet arse Thomas Osuji’s village to be recruited into the army, and several times we were flogged and we ran away. My father never knew I was going around wanting to join the army, neither did my senior brother who had seen several battles being the first batch of Hill Top officers and first officers of Ojukwu’s Special Brigade – S. Brigade.

Now, while we were running around trying to join the army, lazy arse, coward Thomas Ozodi Osuji, like my friend Prince stated, pretended to be ill and sick and impaired and hid in his village doing nothing but nursing all manner of ill-willing against those who were out and about to protect him, including the man he hates the most Ojukwu, who he smears every chance he gets.

Thomas Ozodi Osuji needs to find where Igbo are gathered, and come around and ask to be given a forum to tell us why he would have murdered Ojukwu had he seen him, why Ojukwu was bad to Igbo and to humanity in general.

We will let him talk. But I promise him one thing. He will not leave the premises standing straight. We will oblige him a call to 911 to at least bear him in stretcher to a nearby clinic to nurse his broken skull, arms, leg, and whatever other appendage he may have.

“Now, if Thomas Ozodi Osuji happens to be chanced to give a speech on why he hates Ojukwu in Owerri, Aba, Enugu, Umuahia, Onitsha and such, well, he should know, if he has brains as he claims, that he is sure to be food for IGUN.

“Thomas Ozodi Osuji, you understand and speak Yoruba. Don’t you? You know what Igun is. Those will be the last creatures you see before you head on to the land beyond.

Finally, Opara, said, “Let me tell you what I have not told you in a long while. Thomas Ozodi Osuji, I wu Onye Apari. Onye nzuzu ka i wu.

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