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Rejoinder: “Nzeogwu, Others Went On Rampage After Smoking “Igbo” In 1966 Putsch”Says Osuji,By Emeka Reuben Okala London, UK

Rejoinder: “Nzeogwu, Others Went On Rampage After Smoking “Igbo” In 1966 Putsch”Says Osuji,By Emeka Reuben Okala London, UK New York[RR] LONDON,UK–Responding to a piece written by certain Ozodi Osuji, against Late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and his colleagues in connection to 1966 first putsch. Mr. Emeka Reuben Okala said, that “Late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu […]

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Rejoinder: “Nzeogwu, Others Went On Rampage After Smoking “Igbo” In 1966 Putsch”Says Osuji,By Emeka Reuben Okala London, UK

New York[RR] LONDON,UK–Responding to a piece written by certain Ozodi Osuji, against Late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and his colleagues in connection to 1966 first putsch.

Mr. Emeka Reuben Okala said, that “Late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was a very brilliant army officer of Military Intelligence. He was a first class soldier. You need to read the recommendation on him by Maj-General JTU Aguiyi Ironsi, the then General Officer Commanding (GOC) the Nigerian Army and his (Nzeogwu’s) boss even before the first military putsch. In the words of late Major Adewale Ademoyega – “Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was a born leader of men.”

Adding that,”Nzeogwu neither smoked nor womanized nor went on rampage. The plan to sack the pathologically corrupt Balewa Government was conceptualized, planned and finally executed under the code name “Operation Damisa”, initially by the trio of Majors Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna and Ademoyega. Captains Ben Gbulie, Anuforo, Hassan Usman Katsina et al later joined them, Republic Reporters gathered.

Mr. Okala, said that: “Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa – the then PM, Sir Ahmadu Bello the then Regional Premier of North and Samuel Akintola then Premier of the West and a stooge to the duo were slated for elimination from the word go by the revolutionaries, for their wicked and callous roles in making the West ungovernable and sending Chief Awo to prison on clearly trumped up charges. Zik and Okpara that you mentioned were never pencilled for outright elimination. But why would they, if I may ask? “Wild, Wild West” was clearly orchestrated by Ahmadu Bello, Abubakar and their errand boy, Akintola. The revolutionaries agreed to spare the lives of those not slated for outright elimination, if they failed to resist the coup. But to eliminate them if they resisted. And I think that was what spared Okpara’s life as Zik was already overseas for medical attention before the coup. Whilst Nzeogwu was assigned the responsibility of prosecuting the coup in the North, Ifeajuna and Ademoyega were to take care of the East and West. Whilst Nzeogwu carried out his assignment to its logical conclusion in accordance with their term of reference, the rest failed to deliver..”, he added.

Mr. Ozodi Osuji had written in part that, 30,000 Igbo who were slaughtered in cold blood by Northerners were few.

Hear him: “A few of them were killed in Northern Nigeria (30, 000?) and they talk about it ab nauseous. They forget what preceded the killing, the fact that Major Nzeogwu having probably smoked “Igbo” went on rampage and killed Hausa (Ahmadu Bello) and Yoruba leaders (Samuel Akintola) and spared Igbos leaders (Azikiwe and Okpara). Killing other folk’s leaders and sparing your own leaders is infuriating.

Adding that, “I can fully understand why Hausas could become angry and start slaughtering any Igbo in sight. Igbos do not acknowledge their evil but instead point two accusatory fingers at other people, ignoring the three pointing right back at them.

“Ojukwu ran away from Alaigbo when the war he started was lost. If he was in the English or American army he would be repatriated (from wherever he ran to, Ivory Coast), court marshalled and shot dead as a coward. But instead of Igbos acknowledging his cowardice they come to the public forum to make noise, to defend the indefensible, pretending that if they called white black that folks would accept their delusion disorder and call white black…”, he fumed.

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A few of them were killed in Northern Nigeria (30, 000?) and they talk about it ab nauseous. They forget what preceded the killing, the fact that Major Nzeogwu having probably smoked “Igbo” went on rampage and killed Hausa (Ahmadu Bello) and Yoruba leaders (Samuel Akintola) and spared Igbos leaders (Azikiwe and Okpara). Killing other folk’s leaders and sparing your own leaders is infuriating. – Dr. Ozodi Osuji

Comment:
Late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was a very brilliant army officer of Military Intelligence. He was a first class soldier. You need to read the recommendation on him by Maj-General JTU Aguiyi Ironsi, the then General Officer Commanding (GOC) the Nigerian Army and his (Nzeogwu’s) boss even before the first military putsch. In the words of late Major Adewale Ademoyega – “Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was a born leader of men.”

Nzeogwu neither smoked nor womanized nor went on rampage. The plan to sack the pathologically corrupt Balewa Government was conceptualized, planned and finally executed under the code name “Operation Damisa”, initially by the trio of Majors Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna and Ademoyega. Captains Ben Gbulie, Anuforo, Hassan Usman Katsina et al later joined them.

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa – the then PM, Sir Ahmadu Bello the then Regional Premier of North and Samuel Akintola then Premier of the West and a stooge to the duo were slated for elimination from the word go by the revolutionaries, for their wicked and callous roles in making the West ungovernable and sending Chief Awo to prison on clearly trumped up charges. Zik and Okpara that you mentioned were never pencilled for outright elimination. But why would they, if I may ask? “Wild, Wild West” was clearly orchestrated by Ahmadu Bello, Abubakar and their errand boy, Akintola. The revolutionaries agreed to spare the lives of those not slated for outright elimination, if they failed to resist the coup. But to eliminate them if they resisted. And I think that was what spared Okpara’s life as Zik was already overseas for medical attention before the coup. Whilst Nzeogwu was assigned the responsibility of prosecuting the coup in the North, Ifeajuna and Ademoyega were to take care of the East and West. Whilst Nzeogwu carried out his assignment to its logical conclusion in accordance with their term of reference, the rest failed to deliver.

For saying that Nzeogwu went on rampage after smoking whatever, it goes without saying that your putdowns were based on the figment of your imagination. For having the letters “Dr” before your name, Ozodi Osuji, one expects you to investigate before making hollow and wild conclusions in public. Shame!

“I can fully understand why Hausas could become angry and start slaughtering any Igbo in sight.” – Dr. Ozodi Osuji

Comment:
The attack of the Hausa on your people was based on misinformation by their discredited politicians who, Ironsi let loose out of naivety to roam the streets of the North whilst their counterparts in the South remained under lock and key. Northerners initially sang praises of the demise of the Sarduana and Balewa and jubilated with Nzeogwu whom they saw as a hero. Hassan Usman Katsina was solidly beside and behind Nzeogwu when the Sarduana fell. But the story changed when the likes of Kasim Ibrahim, Dipcarima & Co had their field day poisoning the minds and brainwashing the gullible northern citizenry. Osuji, honestly at your level, you are expected to do some findings before making baseless conclusions. I’m surprised! If what you have said here are something to go by in determining the veracity of your writings, then you have been deceiving your audiences all these while. Too bad! From now, I will personally investigate your putdowns before taking you seriously!

“If that man [Ojukwu] had stayed and allowed his self to be captured and shot to death he would have given Igbos an eternal hero that Igbos of the future would be proud of.” – Dr. Ozodi Osuji

Comment:
Contemporary history is glaring us in the face in the examples of Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Both of them allowed themselves to be captured, disgraced – one sodomised and finally shot. I’m yet to see anyone in either Iraq or Libya singing their praises as heroes. To all intents and purposes, Ojukwu did the most reasonable thing to beat a retreat in order to fight for another day – this time on the political scene. At death he was buried as a hero that he is. That is what matters. His widow wife is a full fledged Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Can’t you even see that her appointment was purely in honour of Ojukwu? My friend, how do you measure a hero?

“As it is, he is a bloody coward all Igbos know it (see, he tried electoral office and each time he did not get more votes than those of members of his nuclear family!).” Dr. Ozodi Osuji

Comment: Ojukwu won hands down in his electoral bid for a Senatorial seat that would have snowballed him into the office of the President of the Senate, but his own party, NPN being afraid of him as they were, willingly rigged him out. They would prefer to contain Ojukwu’s heat from the outside than from within. I hope your embarrassing parochialism allows you to see beyond your nose!

“I am ashamed that he is an Igbo (the ape had my eighteen year old brother join the army and die two years later in 1969, fighting for him and he ran away and did not stay and avenge his death and the death of the kids he misled to dying in a war that they did not understand; my brother spoke Yoruba and did not speak Igbo and for all intents and purposes should not have joined the Biafra army to go fight for the womanizing coward, the lazy ass that could not even write his war memoir).” – Dr. Ozodi Osuji

Comment: May your brother’s soul and the souls of those who died in the course of the civil war rest in peace. But let it be known to you that your late brother joined the Biafran Army on his own volition. Was he conscripted? No! Was he fighting personally for Ojukwu? No! He was fighting for the cause of Biafra and died in that cause. Many people also died on the Nigerian side, I don’t think anyone is holding Gowon responsible for their deaths. Talking about your brother not knowing how to speak Igbo, even Ojukwu himself didn’t know how to speak Igbo. He spoke Hausa, Yoruba, English and French and later learned Igbo. He wasn’t even born and bred in Igboland, he was born in Hausa and bred in Lagos (Yoruba) but he fought the cause of Biafra and mostly that of your people throughout his life. What is your own contribution, even to the community that raised you in Nigeria?

“Chukwuemeka Okala wanted to take me on and for a minute I felt like taking him on and whip his nigger ass but on second thoughts decided that he is a living dead person. A man who denied his own people must be a dead man. That man is a walking dead man. His name is Igbo (my senior brother’s name was Chukwuemeka, like his name), a man whose language is Igbo (he probably speaks better Igbo than I do, I do not speak Igbo well) denies that he is Igbo.
The mercenary probably identified with the Ijaw to get a few petro dollars to enable his black ass to live in England pretending to be a pastor (as if he has read and or understood what is in the bible).” – Dr. Ozodi Osuji

Comment:
Like the demon (devil’s messenger) that you are, you are tempting me here to fall for your gimmicks and lose the focus of this discourse in the process. In the manner Jesus dealt with your master, I will do same to you now! Ozodi Osuji, get behind me! I challenge you to bring forth the above issue at the appropriate time – when the current issue on the table must have died down. I will bruise not only your nose but indeed every part of your body with it! This is a promise!

Emeka Reuben Okala
London, UK

Read full text of Ozodi Osuji remarks on Ojukwu beneath:

THE TEACHING OF JESUS CHRIST IS THAT WHEN WE FORGIVE EACH OTHER WE SEE THE FACE OF CHRIST AND RETURN TO GOD BUT UNTIL WE FORGIVE WE ARE CONDEMNED TO SUFFERING

Jerome: I have said it before and will say it again: you need to forgive what was done to your parents during the war. I completely feel your pain.

I understand your angst at Igbos tendency to feel that only what happened to them matters and that what happened to other people does not matter.

A few of them were killed in Northern Nigeria (30, 000?) and they talk about it ab nauseous. They forget what preceded the killing, the fact that Major Nzeogwu having probably smoked “Igbo” went on rampage and killed Hausa (Ahmadu Bello) and Yoruba leaders (Samuel Akintola) and spared Igbos leaders (Azikiwe and Okpara). Killing other folk’s leaders and sparing your own leaders is infuriating.

I can fully understand why Hausas could become angry and start slaughtering any Igbo in sight. Igbos do not acknowledge their evil but instead point two accusatory fingers at other people, ignoring the three pointing right back at them.

Ojukwu ran away from Alaigbo when the war he started was lost. If he was in the English or American army he would be repatriated (from wherever he ran to, Ivory Coast), court marshalled and shot dead as a coward. But instead of Igbos acknowledging his cowardice they come to the public forum to make noise, to defend the indefensible, pretending that if they called white black that folks would accept their delusion disorder and call white black.

Clear eyed people see white or black so they would not buy the story that a freaking coward like Ojukwu was a brave man.

If that man had stayed and allowed his self to be captured and shot to death he would have given Igbos an eternal hero that Igbos of the future would be proud of.

As it is, he is a bloody coward all Igbos know it (see, he tried electoral office and each time he did not get more votes than those of members of his nuclear family!).

I am ashamed that he is an Igbo (the ape had my eighteen year old brother join the army and die two years later in 1969, fighting for him and he ran away and did not stay and avenge his death and the death of the kids he misled to dying in a war that they did not understand; my brother spoke Yoruba and did not speak Igbo and for all intents and purposes should not have joined the Biafra army to go fight for the womanizing coward, the lazy ass that could not even write his war memoir).

Jerome, I am not trying to minimize your pain; I am trying to tell you that a person who feels angry at the wrong that was done to him pays as much price as the person who did that wrong to him. That is why we must forgive those who wronged us.

This advice, I must acknowledge is kinda of hard to follow, for I have not forgiven Anambra folks. I am from Owerri (we are the real Igbos, others are bastardized by their biological and cultural exposure to non-Igbos); I feel totally angry at Anambra folks; they misled us to a war we should not have participated in.

I also know that if I am angry at these 419 criminals who would sell their mothers and siblings for money I am creating problems for me.

Anger perpetually arouses ones adrenalin and other excitatory neurochemicals in the body and contributes to stressing the body; anger leads to developing cardiovascular disorders (heart attack and stroke); angry folks tend to die early death.

The unforgiving mind lives in as much pain as the evil person he refuses to forgive.

Thus, if you keep on being angry at Igbos you are courting early death! This would mean that you would have allowed Igbos to kill your parents and you!

It is therefore in your best interest to moderate your anger towards all Igbos. Not all Igbos are as bad as you tend to think. Not all Igbos hate Nigerians.

I am probably angrier at Anambah Igbos than I am at Nigerians. I will not stay in the same room with Anambra Igbos; I do not even want to see them for to me they are sub human beings.

I deal with the pain Anambra Igbos caused my mother (the loss of her beloved first son) by avoiding them and having nothing to do with them. I do not have to expose myself to criminals.

My feedback to you is for you to moderate your anger towards Igbos; this is not because what you say about them is wrong but for your own physical health.

Igbos are not going to change; I do not believe that they are going to change in the next 100 years; I expect nothing good to come out of Anambra folks in the next two hundred years.

Chukwuemeka Okala wanted to take me on and for a minute I felt like taking him on and whip his nigger ass but on second thoughts decided that he is a living dead person. A man who denied his own people must be a dead man. That man is a walking dead man. His name is Igbo (my senior brother’s name was Chukwuemeka, like his name), a man whose language is Igbo (he probably speaks better Igbo than I do, I do not speak Igbo well) denies that he is Igbo.

The mercenary probably identified with the Ijaw to get a few petro dollars to enable his black ass to live in England pretending to be a pastor (as if he has read and or understood what is in the bible).

I tell you, Igbos are a mighty confused people; they are not trust worthy. If I were you I would take a break from talking about them.

As for Afis, I do not have to remind you that he is Yoruba (in your put down language, Ngbati, Owanbe people). We all know that you cannot trust a Yoruba man, for when push comes to shove he would deny even knowing who you are! Afis will sell you down the river at any time doing so serves his interests, and not feel bad conscience from doing so!

Jerome, in case you do not know it, let me remind you that you, an Idoma man, are all alone in this world. Nigerians are as useful as refuse. I relate to them from a distance and would never allow any of them to come close to me. There you have it.

Ozodi Osuji

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