Update:Traitor: Ike Nwachukwu Is A Northerner Not An Easterner, He Cannot Lead Ibo-Cofab Delegation--Reports New York[RR] Awka--Ike Nwachukwu (Rtd) is secretly believed to be a Northerner and therefore cannot lead credible Igbo-Confab Delegation in the yet to begin alleged National Conference on the way forward for what is today called NIgeriia, Republic Reporters has learnt. According to credible insiders knowledgeable with the operational mechanics of the former Eastern Region, Ike Nwachukwu is the least person to represent Igbo in anything national or international matter. The man is considered a Sabo in the former Eastern Region. The mother is Hausa, during the Biafra-Nigeria civil war, 1967 to 1970, anonymous source told our reporter that then Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu contacted Ike Nwachukwu to join former Eastern Military personnel to return East. Our source said that, Ike Nwachukwu told Ojukwu that he is safe in the North, that his mothers community and kinsmen, Northerners, will protect him. Ike Nwachukwu was also a bag-carrier for former Military Dictator Ibrahim Babangida, and much more. The question is: How can Ike Nwachukwu be the one to lead Igbo Delegation on matter Igbo in the so-called National Confab, another angry source fumed. This National Confab stuff is a big joke, otherwise, has no business leading Igbo Delegation, What a shame, fumed the anonymous source, he declined to give his name. According to a source, Ike Nwachukwu, as we come to know him on or before the war, was Lt Omar Fanda of the NIgerian army, Republic Reporters investigations unearthed. Republic Reporters gathered that Ike Nwachukwu like other Igbo Saboteurs was, born and raised in the North, and currently married to a Hausa woman., reports said. He was allegedly moved to army head quarters provosts, and later moved to join Lt Col. ... He looks like us but in fact is not one of us..., said the source. For record, former Vice Presdient Alex Ekwueme,84 and respected constitutional Lawyer, Professor Ben Nwabueze,83 respectively declined to lead Igbo-Delegation for age reasons. According sources Ekwueme will be out of the country for two and a half months. Vanguard said if things go according to plans, Confab will begin early next month. Ekwueme source said:Contrary to reports that Dr Ekwueme will lead Ndigbo to the national conference, there will be no such thing. Ndigbo have tried to convince Dr Ekwueme to be a delegate to no avail. All the pressures on him in the last couple of weeks are to no avail. He said he has done his best that he will travel out of the country next week and will be away for at least two-and-a half months. So talks about Ekwueme attending the conference are not true. Both Ekwueme and Nwabueze have resisted pressures to lead the Igbo delegation to the confab.., the source said. With respect to Prof. Nwabueze, credible source said he has accepted advisory role to South East participants in the said confab next month. Professor Nwabueze, is chairman of The Patriots, respected eminent group made of Nigerian statesmen. Nwabueze also played important roles in the crafting th 1979 Constitution, Republic Reporters gathered. He was also part of the 1989 experiment.., another source added. Additional information on Ike Nwachukwu shows the man was a traitor and has no business to lead anything Igbo. Let him eat his blood money, stupid, fumed anonymous commentator. According to a source, During the civil war Omar Fanda was a lieutenant at the break of Nzeogwus coup. He was moved to army head quarters provosts, and later moved to join Lt Col. Muritala Muhameds division after Banjo invasion. There he became a company commander. He commanded company battalion all through Ore road and confrontations to the banks of Niger to Onisha. Not only that he fought against his kin, Omar Fanda commanded the battalion that massacred 3000 civilians who came out to sing one Nigeria. He in company with Muritala Muhamed massacred civilians during the war time. This makes him a war criminal. Under Buhari and Idiagbos government, he was sent as a military governor of old Imo state. It is imperative that we understand his legacies as a governor. This man we came to know as Brig. Gen. Ike Nwachukwu came solely to stop progress in Imo state as the military junta were surprised at the progress Ndi Igbo under 4 years made in Anambara and Imo states then. It was Ike Nwachukwu who stopped rural electrification projects in Imo state. It was him that stopped and changed the original plan of Imo state airport as international airport. It was Ike Nwachukwu who initiated the disaster we experience in Aba today. Under de Sam Onunaka Mbakwe, Ndiegoro drainage project was in top gear to control floading in Aba. It was a gigantic project. Ike Nwachukwu stopped it and till date that project was never re visited. Aba flooding today would have been taken care of if he had completed that project. Mbakwe built industries in all the local governments in the state to alleviate unemployment problems then. Those industries were sold under privatization edit, and Ike Nwachukwu bought most of them. Avutu farm projected to penetrate international market was producing eggs and chicken that was feeding the entire old Imo state. Ike Nwachukwu stopped it. Today that farm site is a jungle. The zenith paint industry located in Mbaise was bought by Ike Nwachukwu. Under Mbakwe, there was rural pipe born water designed to supply clean water to all the autonomous communities in the state. Under this project, my village received clean water for the first time and they stopped going to fetch water 90miles from the stream. The company responsible for this is Hydro tech. When Ike Nwachukwu became the governor he did not only stop the project he also removed laid pipes and sold the equipments. Sins of Ike Nwachukwu:He also underdeveloped owerri urban and destroyed the structures and original plans for owerri development hence making it possible for looters to feast on our misery. Remember Oslo? Have you wondered what happened to that company that was responsible for keeping Imo state urban centers clean? It was stopped and the trucks were sold to foreign companies. How about Amaraku power station? Ike Nwachukwu stopped its operation and privatized it which Onyearugbulem completed by selling it to another foreign company. The Owerri international market under construction before the coup of Buhari, located at owerri Egbu road near mechanic village, adjacent to Trans Egbu estate was also stopped by Ike Nwachukwu. Now that facts are emerging on the war time criminals, it would be fair for him to come open and clean and apologize to Ndi Igbo and be our witness against the other criminals. He looks like us but in fact is not one of us. Who would tell him that we did not forget his sins against us? he should be humble enough to come and apologize. Ndi Igbo should start asking this man questions. He is getting old and we cannot allow him to die without apologizing to us. He has our blood in his hands. He killed our children and took part in the rape of our daughters. If he did not apologize he would not go to his grave without tears in his eyes.., the writer fumed. Commentators and pundits are reacting differently. MOE: I rarely disagree with you, and this wont be an exception: You are right! The true meaning of sabotage excludes a serving military men; it is usually the work of non-military activists aimed at weakening the efficiency of the opposing army... like slashing tires, burning fuel depots, stating ogbaaghara in general. In fact, the term started life as working to minimize production efficiency in Dutch factories. Besides, saboteurs would disguise their identities so as to dodge the consequences of their actions. Now, none of that applies to IOS Nwachukwu. He proudly displayed his name to and from from the then Midwestern campaign led by the murderous militia of Murtala Muhammed, in which he was a volunteered company commander; no one drafted him! It was so blatant then Governor of Western Region, Colonel Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, could not believe his eyes on seeing NWACHUKWU proudly plastered on IOSs chest! The photo is worth a million dollars. The governors mouth was wide open in awe and shock! However, language is a very dynamic characteristic of human culture. In Biafra, SABO (from saboteur) was used to cover anyone of Igbo parentage who in any way subverted the struggle, a sellout. It was such a powerful term the Ifeajunas have all but gone underground; yes, the wife was still around the last time I checked! Yes, yes, Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu is a sort-of saboteur in a class of his own, but SABO is the only term that would -- for now -- convey his inexplicable position during the war. I would understand if Ndiigbo were the aggressors against his motherland, if Ndiigbo were not butchered under his nose like unwholesome Christmas chickens. I would understand if it were just a mere street fight. What I dont get is what was going through his mind. To date, I have not read a line where Ike Nwachukwu attempted a mere regret for participating in the butchery of his brethren. And the killings at Asaba hang on his head like an evil halo. God will one day make him open up and confess. In the 80s Kaduna as a corper, I went with a group of guys to see him as then Korofo Marshall (military police boss); he didnt even utter an Igbo word! When he came to NJ for an award by some sycophants (I guess after his stint as minister), I went to hear him say something about Biafra. NOTHING! To date and to his thinking, it is as if nothing happened. Even Gowon has find time to apologize for his apparent cluelessness, and he is still praying! And IOS shamelessly stepped out to lead a people he tried his darn best to exterminate. As I wrote to Ekwueme Dallas, we are not debating his Igboness. I have even defended the Igboness of his grandchildren who would have more Yoruba blood in their veins. You see, Ike Abubakar Solawole Nwachukwu is born of a father (IOS) who is half-Igbo, half-Hausa-Fulani, and a mother who is half-Yoruba,half-South-South (Ijaw?); and he (IAS) is married to Nadeja Iretioluwa Omotosho (half-Yoruba, half Slavic--Russia/Ukraine?). Yet, our tradition stipulates that you are your fathers son. As long as such a man is circumcised and associates with a certain umunna/town in Igboland, he is a bone fide Igboman. No one has denied IOS his Igboness. I believe moving Imo University to Uturu during his MilAd tenure at Owerri also endeared him to his umunna, hence they (s)elected him a senator. So, the point is simply the message of such an action. To make Ike OS Nwachukwu the leader of an Igbo delegation to catch a dog is unconscionable. This sort of unstudied action empowers the Joe Igbokwes of this world to throw mud at the face of Ndiigbo as a nation. Why? Nothing mege! Nothing will happen. The actions of Asika are more pardonable; he merely sat back in Enugu to lick his ripe pears! IOS has no reason to take up arms against his fatherland and to allegedly participate in the cowardly killing of unarmed civilians summoned to welcome an invading army. I am all for forgiveness, for moving forward, especially when adequate amends have been made and apologies tendered gracefully,makana iwe nwanne anaghi eru nokpukpu. So, until a better argument is presented, Governor TA Orji misfired on his FIRST major decision as the Chairman of Southeast Governors. I dont think Peter Obi would have made such a move. He would have chosen Monsignor Obiora Ike, most likely. God knows we need a younger, urbane, and honest leadership in Igboland. And if the church has it to provide, not my cup of tea, but call my number! So, until we find a better term for the abiding abominations of IOS Nwachukwu, I will stick with SABO (in the Biafran sense). I wouldnt want to make a worm out of a brother. I was not trying to paint a finer picture of him; I was just using a term that resonates with those who lived the Biafran dream. A sabo is a scum of the earth, a sellout, an Igbo-hating Igbo man who is only out to self-benefit... a betrayer of Igbo collective consciousness and agreed agenda. If these defs do not disqualify IOS to lead any Igbo delegation, what else is there to say. Oh well, I did not think anything good was going to come out of the exercise anyway; the injection of IOS at the headship of SE delegation seals that thought... as far as Ndiigbo are concern. A bad tree does not good fruits bear. Yet, I pray that God shows him the light before Damascus. As long as there is life, there is still hope for redemption; after all, we do get honey from stinging bees...,he said. Nwachukwu:Nonetheless, it looks like Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu and family are United Nigeria and United Nations. Very insightful write-up..., he said. Ayo Ojutalayo: So to you integration is Ndigbo living all over Nigeria? Was that not the case when Ojukwu said: There is a sort of siege mentality that my people have acquired as a result of the end of the war. I believe this must cease. I believe my people must face the FACT that the war is ended. They must feel free to partake, to serve, to benefit from Nigeria. They should have no inhibitions about being Nigerians anymore - they should have no complexes? And to you, the Conference is because of Biafra and those who died fighting for Biafra? What are you talking about? Ndigbo chose General Ike Nwachukwu. Tomorrow you people will complain of being persecuted by other ethnic groups. That is why we should not shut up when you start saying things that may invite persecution. The civil war is over. Sensible Ndigbo have appointed an Igbo that will help Ndigbo to integrate into their country. He was not appointed by Yoruba or Hausa-Fulani or any other Nigerian ethnic group. You guys should shut up unless you want to continue to play second fiddle role in Nigeria 100 years after the civil war. If you will rather play second fiddle role, sorry the generality of Ndigbo does not want to. Whatever Abiolas death might have done to Nigerias political history/landscape, the fact remains that there was a Yoruba in Aso Rock for two terms, and unless sensible Ndigbo that appointed Ike Nwachukwu are able to marginalize Biafrans like you, we will not have an Igbo President soon..., he said. Vincent Otoonye: You are too ignorant to know what youre talking about. And while at it, dont kid yourself about Yoruba president again before Nigeria president of igbo extraction. But for Abioladeath, I guarantee you Obasanjo will not be President. They even made it easy for Yoruba by fielding two Yoruba men - Obasanjo and Olu Falea. But for Abiolas death, Yoruba will still be waiting for the presidency. If Biafra is nothing or those who died fighting for Biafra cause is in vain, why are we having this conference? Ndigbo have integrated in Nigeria so keep your integration rubbish. Ndigbo are all over Nigeria. They are the true authentic builders of Nigeria. Outside their home states, they are the largest group after the natives. Which other tribe in Nigeria can boast of that? They are more integrated than any tribe. So what rubbish are you talking about? You are becoming irritating. Why dont you learn to shut up. You wont like it if non Yorubas tell you who Yoruba should send to lead them, would you? Why should Igbo send to lead them should be of any concern to you? Maybe you need to pick Ike Nwachukwu to lead the Yoruba delegation. He sure will serve you guys with distinction. Ayo Ojutalayo: Do internet biafrans want to claim to know better than their uncles, aunties, fathers and mothers that made General Ike Nwachukwu the leader of South East delegation to the National Conference? I have told them many times that they dont represent Ndigbo. The generality of Ndigbo knows that the civil war ended decades ago. Ndigbo will not be fully integrated in Nigeria until people like Ike Nwachukwu is begged to help Ndigbo with reintegration. That is what is happening but the internet biafrans are not smart enough to understand. Just as they did not understand Ojukwus counsel that they should accept that the war was over. When Ike Nwachukwu is still able, Ndigbo better consider him as a presidential candidate in one of the mainstream political parties (not the provincial APGA). There should be no complaint of another Yoruba in Aso Rock before an Igbo if Ndigbo will not put forward an acceptable (to other Nigerians) Ndigbo. A word is enough for the wise!.., he said. A stupid idiot cannot defeat you in an argument. When I defeat you guys in an argument, you end it with a curse or an abuse. Every thing I said is nothing but the truth and you know it. Your type dont represent Ndigbos views but you are the empty barrels that make all the noise pretending to speak for Ndigbo. All you internet biafrans have now been disgraced with the appointment of General Ike Nwachukwu by the generality of Ndigbo who have moved on while your type still live in 1970..., Ojutalayo added. Vincent Otuonye: Which argument did you present and who did you defeat? Keep deceiving yourself. I asked if Biafra is nothing, why are we having this conference? Is that you defeating me in an argument? I said Igbos have moved on and are the builders of Nigeria, is that you defeating me in argument? I said Igbos have integrated into the main stream of Nigeria society. Is that you defeating me in argument? How is it that busy body like you claim to know what is better for us? I told you to pick Ike Nwachukwu as Yoruba leader to the conference. People like Ike Nwachukwu and that butcher of Ibadan, Danjuma, should have been tried for war crimes and you are here glorifying them. But let me ask you: what did Yoruba gain from Obasanjos presidency? Even when we talk of Obasanjos presidency, you are here gloating about it, yet it is undisputed that Yoruba did not support Obasanjo in 1999. So, what really are you gloating about? But for non Yoruba Nigerians, Obasanjo will not be President...Just go sit down jare..., More updates later..., he added. Cyril Anyanwu; Omar Sanda ike nwachukwu has no moral or ethical standing to lead Igbos to any where. The Igbo platform on this conference is already doomed if Ike Nwachukwu is even a delegate. We would rather the igbo seat at the National conference remain vacant than for an Igbo traitor to represent us. How did we get to choosing a traitor like, Ike Nwachukwu, whose hands drip with the blood of innocent Igbos, to lead and Igbo delegation to a National conference? That is an outrage!! and should not be allowed to happen. We should raise our voice and might in protest to this infamy. The persons to lead Igbos to this conference should be Dr Alex Ekwueme, Professor Ben Nwabueze et al. Ike Nwachukwu is a shameless traitor to Igbo land so is anybody who nominated him to lead an Igbo delegation. We need to champion a protest against such insult against our dead Biafran Soldiers.., he said. He is result oriented and completely detribalised. He is patriotic and innovative and has a warm appeal across the landscape.-George Etomi Obi Nwakanma: George, the above is a highly idealized view of Ike Nwachukwu, and it may yet describe him. But the National Conference is not for detribalized Nigerians, otherwise, General Nwachukwu would be seeking to either represent Kastina, or properly speaking, Lagos, where hes lived his life and where he has most of his investments, or even the Igbo city of Port-Harcourt, where he was born. In any case, no other part of Nigeria has sent, or claimed to send, detribalized delegates. Every delegation is speaking to a highly regionalist imperative. The Igbo have borne the brunt of one Nigeria and have really gained nothing from their defense of the Nigerian imperative. It is from that perspective tat I view your short contribution on Ike Nwachukwu. When it is convenient for the rest of Nigeria, they demand the detribalized Igbo, and on other occasions, they view the detribalized Igbo who crosses national boundaries as a threat to be eliminated and discarded. In any case, the Igbo have not suggested that Ike Nwachukwu is neither a gentleman nor detribalized. They question the legitimacy of his nomination to lead the Igbo to a convention of other nationalities, when he fought a dastardly war against the same Igbo over the same question that he now purports to lead its delegation. Every Igbo officer worth his salt took a stand against the destruction of the Igbo by the rest of Nigeria and its international allies from 1966. The best of them - the finest officers produced for the nascent Nigerian Armed Forces - drew the marginot line, across which any Nigerian force could not breach without consequence. All those officers fought in defence of Igbo land and the lands and people of the former Eastern Nigeria, and many paid the ultimate price of death, and those who survived had their careers sundered; and many of them were still at the stepping stone of what had promised to be distinguished careers. They were all destroyed. Ike Nwachukwu made his choices. Ojukwu, under whom he served in Kano, called him to defend his people. Nwachukwu responded that his uncle, General Katsina, would protect him. He fought the Biafrans from Ore to Onitsha, and the massacres at Asaba and Onitsha, were under the forces of which he was part. The Igbo say he has the blood of his kinsmen in his hands. In Igbo culture, those who commit that kind of High Aru are banished from the land; some for seven years; some for life. The Igbo say that Ike Nwachukwu dismantled the work done by Sam Mbakwe in Imo state on his arrival to Owerri in January 1984 following the Buhari-Babangida coup. I Personally think that Ike Nwachukwu and Dr. Kalu Idika kalu, his commissioner for Finance and Economic Development have a right to tell their own stories about what happened. But what we know is that Mbakwe left 21 Industrial projects from Aluminium Extrusion to Paint and Resin, to even the Mazda car production plant billed to start production in Umuahia not later than 1985, with the contract already signed with the Japanese. All these were dismantled. Under the NPP governments Industrial program authored by some of the most brilliant men of that era, including the late Ray Ofoegbu, one UNNs most formidable political economists, the Eastern governments of Anambra and Imo, were to establish a vehicle production hub - with ANAMCO - the Mercedes Benz production plant in Enugu already on stream, and Mazda, the Japanese plant billed for Umuahia. The Owerri City Mall already being built by SOMACHI on Egbu road; the massive Five Zonal Waterworks project with their pipes already reticulated, which were scheduled for completion in the middle of 1984, and which could have provided clean domestic and industrial water to every part of the old Imo state from Afikpo to Izombe; the Imo state Rural Electrification Project, with the completion of the Amaraku Power station and the Izombe Gas power station, the first Independent Power project by any government in Nigeria built by Mbakwe in 1981, all were dismantled by Ike Nwachukwus administration, which described these as White Elephant Projects. Today, Imo would never have had power or energy shortage. Indeed, the design of the Imo State Airport in Owerri, whose money was raised by local contribution, was triaged, and the project stalled for a long time until Allison Madueke came to Owerri. The second phase of the Mbakwe projects - the New Owerri Industrial layout in New Owerri - which already had feeder roads and energy hubs in place - was completely abandoned. In fact today, that area has since been bought up and turned into residential areas. The most egregious is that the industries which Mbakwe established were either stripped, or privatized, and bought up by Ike Nwachukwu and his cronies. The Paint and Resin plant in Nguru Mbaise is a case in point. Today, it is not even producing, and is overgrown with weed. So, no, the grouse of the people is not that Ike Nwachukwu unified the Five-Campus structure and design of the Imo state University into a single campus and moved it to Uturu-Okigwe, closer home to his village in Ovim. We are thankful that he did that, because who knows, if he had not moved it to Uturu, perhaps he may have closed down that University as another white elephant project. I personally, have nothing against Ike Nwachukwu. I have been told that his mother of the House of Kastina was more Igbo than Hausa, and lived through the war in Igbo land and beyond. The Igbo have no grouse with Nwachukwus family for expanding its frontier. In the Igbo sense of the world, it is a great thing: a mans in-law is his brother - our people say. In any case, only a cocky Igbo, full of his Igboness, could take a princess of one of the most powerful families in the North without blinking an eyelid: Owu etu anyi neme (to use the Mbano dialect of the Igbo:) - thats who we are. What the Igbo simply say is this: Ike Nwachukwu turned his back against the Igbo when the Igbo were fighting for their life. Thats when Igbo leadership mattered most. Had he only turned his back and not fought, that would be a different matter. But the Igbo say he has Igbo blood in his hands. That is a different matter. People say he chose to fight for what he believed: well, it seems that what he believed then was to kill the Igbo. There is nothing wrong with fighting for what you believed in, but when it comes to war against your kinsmen, it is pretty much a no brainer what you believe in. There were many Igbo who did not believe in that war: Kenneth Dike, Pius Okigbo, Professor Onuaguluchi, and so many others. But when it came time to answering the clarion, they threw in their strength in defence of their people. Okigbo basically designed and built the Biafran war bureaucracy. He was one of those who fiercely argued against the war (read John de St. Jorres The Brothers War or Prof. Gilbert Onuaguluchis memoir). Even Ojukwu argued fiercely against the war and was only compelled to do his duty in spite of his own private position and his late fathers plea. Azikiwe did not abandon Ndi Igbo either. He specifically returned to the East in 1966 from exile, and joined the war effort as an adviser to General Ojukwu. Zik penned the lyrics of the Biafran national anthem. Zik lost his entire library with its rare collections to the Nigerian Army at Nsukka, which is one of the great tragedies of that war. Zik was a war refugee at Nekede, Owerri. Zik only left Biafra late in September 1968, after the failure of the Addis-Ababa peace talks which he led on behalf of Biafra. He chose to seek an alternative means of ending the war and the human suffering occasioned by it. But for Zik and the use of his wide array of international contacts, the Brits and the Americans, could not have pressured Gowon in 1969/70 to rein-in the war plan of his field officers who were intent on massacaring the Igbo at the end of the war, the preludes of which was already initiated with the Asaba genocide. It was Zik who raised the credo: No Victor, No Vanquished as condition for Igbo re-integration. It is thus important to keep in view the implication of Ike Nwachukwus war choices and Igbo historical memory. The Igbo forgive, but they have the memory of the elephant: long and intractable. Perhaps, Ike Nwachukwu has his on story; perhaps he helped in some way, by having the ears of his uncle Hassan Kastina, who as Chief of the Army, stopped the so-called Pincer plan, drawn by another of the so-called Igbo sabotuers, General Alabi Isama of Ogbaru, who was the key military tactician of the 3 marine Commando. We may never know until he tells the Igbo what spirit compelled him to fight the war against his own kinsmen, and having the gumption, years later to seek to lead the same people. That is all the Igbo ask...,he said. Watch and listen more on Biafra beneath: Americans On Biafra National Anthem--Republic Reportershttps:https://youtube/watch?v=qXpDTNqlYq0%2F%2Fyoutube%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DuSfu8J7k-gY _____________________________________________________________________ REPUBLIC-REPORTERS....standing between civilization and anarchy...
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