PART SIX - NATIONAL QUESTIONS Permit me to ask the following questions. Tokunbo AremoOdua has asked one of them and I will repeat it as my first question here: 1. The Hausa/Fulani killed the Igbos including the Middle-Belters. The (old) BENDEL, that is, the Benin-Delta people, also betrayed the Igbos. The today four states people, that is, Rivers, cross-River, Akwa-Ibom and Balyelsa states, equally betrayed the Igbos, why was (and still is) it that it is only the Yorubas that the Igbo hates like extrata or snake? 2. Why was the Igbo expecting our cooperation by all means even when it was apparent that the decision to stage the January 15th 1966 coup never had our leaders imput and even, at Aburi, the bargain was, ab inito, virtually between the Hausas and the igbos? Se won bi soni mo eja ni? Must we go together? 3. Could and can any Igbo claim the ignorance of the fact that the Yoruba people, for the best reason known to them, then, had no soldiers? 4. Let all the Igbo people be sincere here, even if this only once, wont Yoruba had become an automatic vassal state to the Biafra nation if we had gone with you without adequate preparation and sufficient and invincible armed forces? 5. A question like that comes next. Why didnt the Biafra waited for Obafemi Awolowo requested two weeks before starting the war? 6. If Professor Wole Soyinka could risk his precious life to cross the battle line, amidst varrious arrest and subsequent detention by the Biafran army, to persuade Lt. Col. Ojukwu, was it not worth it to ponder and find a bloodless solution? 7. Was it only in war and blood wasting that the East and the West could have jointly execute the division? I mean, if the East believed in dialogue and other method rather than blood letting, couldnt the East and the West had joined to host sub-national conference and jointly tell the north we were leaving the amalgamation? 8. During the first coup, can one Igbo man stand and tell me why the Igbos spared all their own and killed all others leaders? I wouldnt mind to listen to that ugly myopia acts justification. 9. If Awolowo had not been imprisoned, at Calabar, on the coups day, on January 15th 1966, wont he have also been killed? Supposed he was killed then, who would all these Igbos be expecting to lead this desired Yoruba support? The Yoruba too would have been leaderless like that soldier Abubakar said of the north. Se oku Awolowo ni iba jebi now ninu saree - so Awos corpse would have been blamed inside the grave? 10. Why do they look at Awolowo alone even while the third force, Soyinka and co, mediated? Were they not significant or matter? 11. At least, rather than war-war, if it were Hausas bad rulling that pained you the igbos, why didnt Nnamdi Azikwe agree to team up with Awolowo+ Middle Belt Tarkar, so that the progressive could have ruled the nation rather the the NPC? 12. With Biafran incursion into the Mid-West and the Ore unnecessary battle, was Awolowo and other Yoruba leaders still expected to be neutral? 13. From all the books I have read so far and from the war stories I have heard, at least, nothing shows that Ojukwu released Awolowo and no signed agreement. 14. If it were Ojukwu that released Awolowo, Gowon would not have appointed him as Federal Commissioner. And by the way, what was the significance of any release that would eventual be into eternal slavery - vassal state? But I can confirm that, very unambiguously apparent, there was still Nigeria, and no Biafra yet, by the time Awolowo was realeased into liberty. If Awolowo left the prison when Nigeria was still whole, without General Gowons knowledge, it means he gate-crashed or broke prison wall. If that had happened, then, still it wasnt Ojukwu that released him. Moreso, Awo didnt break prison wall but was legally released by Gowon. In fact, what people say before was Awo compensated Gowon for the release by accepting to serve his government. But today, very surprisingly, Igbos have turned the truth upside down and claim that Ojukwu released Awo. What an illogical reasoning! 15. If it was true, as claimed by the igbos, that Awo ever signed any agreement with Ojukwu, Awo would not have told him to give him 2 weeks. A two weeks that was promised by Ojukwu but which, within 24 hours, vapourise like factory fans blowing. Why didnt Ojukwu equally respect the two weeks he promised Awo? 16. The North and the East had foresaw the need for an army which the Yoruba West never had foreseen. Or why would Ojukwus father had allowed his son, Odumegwu, after a resounding graduation in a reputable university, perhaps with a first class, joined the army despite uncountable opportunity that abound then? The Igbos are not guilty here but the question that comes to mind from that is why couldnt the igbo recognise that the Yoruba had no military, at all, with which to prosecute any war? Or was it with our bared hands they expected us to fight? 17. Why did Igbo men appoint their 36 kinsmen as provincial heads out of the available 38, 1 each to the north and the west? Does that looks fair to them and is that type of tribe we would have joined to secede without the Yoruba being unduly dominated? 18. Why did the Igbos promulgate Decree 34 of 1966 that erased Federalism? 19. And as Smith Olumide Akinsanmi Okesiji pondered; why did Biafra attacked Lagos?
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