Nigeria Civil War: "I Watched Hausa's Getting Slavghtered & Thrown into Imo River"

[@henry8750]

My heart breaks. There are no saints in our national crises.

[@samuelakinola6922]

Every body are claiming victims, let everyone go there way, Nigeria is not one nation

[@ayenia2736]

was it a lie? Are you telling us igbos did not kill the hausas and fulanis living in the east then? At least, we know the civil war was caused by the genocide by igbos first with retaliation by the hausa-fulanis

[@ibiyeomieibidavids4552]

They even massacred Rivers people. My own grandfather and several notable personalities from my place were burnt alive in a crude oil tank ​@@ayenia2736

[@ibrahimsule8734]

​You are right brother, you know they claim to be the chosen ones so they commit no atrocities only those they claimed to be their enemies that is the Muslims who are generally the Hausa and Fulanis that commit evils.

[@usmanabubakar2402]

Tell your people to relocate to their distination

[@dorisbrown6696]

What a shame, there is God, we will all be answerable to God

[@OG-dp1kx]

All this started because of the arrogance and foolishness of kaduna nzeogwu.

[@fataiadegbenro984]

Definitely both sides committed atrocities against humanity and their fellow citizens and we should focus on forgiveness and reconciliation

[@fodaysaccoh3472]

They just have to go their own way and avoid all this moving forward, we have absolutely nothing in common with this people, we as biafrans are not perfect but will deal with our issues on our own, people needs to stop behaving as if the British that forcefully joined us all are God and therefore cannot be separated.

[@fataiadegbenro984]

@ unfortunately that mindset you are having is not going to move the nation forward, if I will be honest with you Nigeria is here to stay embrace it and make your own contribution to make it better fixating on separation is waste of your time

[@iykeikechukwu7890]

Which nation are you talking about?. ​ Please, we are not one and let us go our separate ways@@fataiadegbenro984

[@Chy_Udeh]

​@@fataiadegbenro984 We shall see. I hope we will meet here again when Biafra is actualized. Who wants to be in the same countries with pathological liars?

[@fataiadegbenro984]

@ and who are the pathological liar if I might ask? The East have been telling their own stories about the war and no one claimed they were wrong but when others narrated their own stories suddenly they are lier or don’t have the right to do so Do you truly believe the northerners in the eastern states at that time were spared or not slaughtered by the easterners during the war especially hearing what the northerners did to their people in the north? Just be honest with yourself for a moment

[@MukhtarAminuTajuddeen]

The guy who uploaded this video, if your intention is to bring all sides of the story of the atrocities that occurred during the Civil War, should make effort to block some rude and offensive people who don't have the calmness to hear other people's stories. Her story is personal and it doesn't matter what lies you have been fed. If you don't have the calmness to listen to other people's stories and empathize with them, then don't be angry when other people dismiss your stories. Some stupid kids come here to heap insults on a woman old enough to be their mum or grandmum. It doesn't matter what side of the story you have, other people also have their own stories of victimhood. Perhaps it's the reason Reno Omokri attacks some of these people and the lies they spread all the time by bringing up facts to counter their lies. Acknowledge other people's stories of victimhood if you want to have a better understanding of the tragedy and if your intention is to try to establish peace and harmonious existence.

[@Taythestoryteller]

Hi Mukhtar, if you have looked through my channel, you will see that I'have posted tons of videos with different perspectives of the civil war from both the Biafran and Nigerian sides; and believe it or not I have actually deleted the more caustic comments from the channel.However, I cannot and will not be held responsible for any dissenting comments from any quarters, whether viewers choose to believe Haijay's accounts of events or not is not my job to determine or regulate. History has a way of rubbing people the wrong way; but a discerning mind will watch to understand, learn and make more informed choices as a Nigerian.

[@khalifahmd3746]

That interpretation is the worst i hv ever witnessed

[@Opicalo1]

I cryd😂...... When I was born This woman no go kill me. 57:04😅 . She was definitely told wht to say: and why is the man interpreting when she can speak well...... This woman I like her Vibe and humor,but her story get K-leg I swear.

[@ibiyeomieibidavids4552]

Do you know the shameful things Igbos did to the minority tribes of the South? Do you not wonder why these people want nothing to do with them?

[@ibrahimsule8734]

The foolish people only believe in only their self cos they always selfish, racist, arrogant,bully and will never accept their fault cos they believe they are chosen.

[@Simplechris4u]

Confirm the stories very well before you accuse the igbos. Alot of propaganda abt the story

[@bigsister6708]

This woman is a complete and professional liar.

[@MukhtarAminuTajuddeen]

The anonymity of social media allows stupid and ignorant people to be rude. Other people's experiences differ from yours and I am sure this woman is old enough to be your mum or grandma, but you're here throwing insults because her story differs from your own.

[@olukunleomotayo472]

Were u in portharcort then? Were you born then?

[@shamsudeenmohammed6888]

The atrocious commited by the igbos is not only afflicted on hausas but also ekwere tribes of PH.

[@anyasodokingsley5156]

​@shamsudeenmohammed6888 common sense is not common so Biafrans will fight their own The red scorpion Benjamin Adekunle did all those atrocities with his army of doom with Biafrans military uniform go read your history.

[@ibrahimsule8734]

How will she not be professional lier, for exposing the ethno racist supremacists.

[@JonathanNnanna]

How can she narrate what happened in 1966 and she was born in. 1961

[@Brightside3994]

She wasn't born In 1961

[@ahmedkarage9633]

History is for lessons, atrocities on all side.

[@DogonTurenchi-c6y]

Bollocks. Revisionist trash.

[@TheMubashar99]

The translator could have done a better job. A lot was lost in translation.

[@Opicalo1]

He was trying to control her one kind.... 😢. Look at his body language through out. His emotional intelligence was quite high.... #FFT

[@josephineekoma9235]

Both were killing each other. , I thought it was now. Let us all ask forgiveness .

[@aeafilmsuk]

This sounds like a movie

[@Chy_Udeh]

EXACTLY! Like Jackie Chan movie!

[@MikeAfrik-lq9nk]

🪖💀1966 Nigerian Army coup by mostly Igbo officers e.g. Nzeogwu, STARTED tribal war by eliminating only West and North politicians. Go and verify history📚

[@collinsokafor8444]

@MikeAfrik-lq9nk it was only Jan 1966 coup led by Nzeogwu that was termed tribal coup but others that were led by Murtala, Dimka, Gowon, Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Vatsa,Orka, Oladipo Diya were not termed tribal as majority of the coup platters came from one tribe. The narratives they always want to build so as to paint the whole tribe they see as Nigeria problems yet don't want to see them leave Nigeria. I believe the problem of Nigeria will end the day igbos leave and other remaining tribes unite to still be Nigeria. I am not in support of a divided Nigeria but if this hate continues then I support every man to his own tribe and nation. Nigeria is even too big a nation..Luxembourg has less than a million population and they are doing well.

[@MikeAfrik-lq9nk]

@collinsokafor8444 👱‍♀️🧑‍🦰White people always say we Black people are INCAPABLE of unity due to selfishness

[@ernestnnadi7249]

This story not yet clear, she's now 61year but the war happened in 1966, so how old were she with 2kids during the war? Pls someone should help me with the help me with this arithmetic

[@nurudeenshuaib8157]

This panel was held over a decade ago, she would be around 33-35 during the civil war, given that Hausa marry early, she might had three kids then.

[@al-hassantsafe4927]

This panel was held between 1999 and 2002 not this 2024.

[@ohadiweaugustine9083]

This video is over a decade old bro... Use ya tongue to count your teeth

[@IbrahimAbdullahi-s8t]

Very Hart toch

[@ebukachiemeka8666]

Listening to this woman, I can say she seems honest. I also heard some stories about how we retaliated the attacks and killed Northerns too. It’s just that we lost more casualties because we had more numbers easterners in the north than north had in the East. Note: it wasn’t only Ndi Igbo that was killed in the North, both ibibios, Ijaws and most eastern ethnicities. That’s why I laugh whenever I see this SS tribes fighting us today. The same treatment an Igbo man gets from northerners is the same treatment they will get.

[@ibiyeomieibidavids4552]

The Igbos killed the minority tribes of the South. This is why people of Rivers, Bayelsa, Cross River and Akwa Ibom want nothing to do with you. They were barbaric. They were evil.

[@chriskewe4238]

The SS people especially rivers people became wary of you because when your people had the east as a whole under their control, and with specific reference to Port Harcourt, you simply carried on as though you were better than everyone. Don't blame them if they are wary of you. Once bitten twice shy.

[@ebukachiemeka8666]

@ obviously you understand the Igbos. The Igbos believe so much on justice and fairness, I wonder what you call being better than others. The best I know and have read, all ethnic groups was carried along and we had relative peace and harmony before the emergence of Adaka Boro who brought in the disunity between the Igbo and Ijaw. Also please if you can explain further, I would like to know why you said we felt like we are better than others. I will like to have a conversation on this. Waiting from your reply

[@chriskewe4238]

@ebukachiemeka8666 please I'll recommend and ask that you pick up and read Elechi Amadi's "Sunset in Biafra". And to the best of my knowledge, Adaka Boro fought the war as a Nigerian soldier, not as Biafran.

[@ebukachiemeka8666]

@ okay, I will look for the book you recommended and read. But I hope you also know that this elechi Amadi was one of the founding fathers of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo. Again talking Adaka Boro, I know he fought by the side of Nigerians. He was resisted by some of his fellow Ijaws when he declared the Niger Delta country, he killed those that opposed him then. When his quest didn’t succeed because he was stopped by Ojukwu who happened to be the Military Governor of the then Eastern Region. This gave room for his deep hatred he had for Ndigbo, that was why when Ojukwu later declared Biafra, he fought on the side of the Nigerian Army and because of his knowledge about the Rivers area he helped the Nigerian Army in winning and killing of Ndigbo in Rivers state like the Ikwerres, Ndoki, Etches etc. Though this groups today now say they are not Igbos. Some said that it’s because Igbos killed them during the war but one question I always ask myself is that Biafran forces which comprises of all the ethnic groups in the then Eastern region couldn’t have killed Ikwerres and still laid down there lives in the process of defending the land from Nigerian forces led by Adekunle Benjamin with the help of Adaka Boro.

[@donatusamako5404]

How many hausas have ever stand and speak about the pogrom in the North ?

[@adde-m7k]

this is to proof that there are two sides to a story, atrocities was committed on both sides unfortunately and i think we should find a space to heel and forgive ourselves

[@DogonTurenchi-c6y]

The failed mission of this revisionist trash is to obfuscate the atrocities and, waves of pogroms, genocide against Ibos by predictable people from a predictable mission.

[@fodaysaccoh3472]

@@adde-m7k yeah but at the same time we must go our separate ways because water and oil doesn't mix, marriage is not by force, why does the North feel like their destiny is tied to biafrans igbos, each time we talk about our freedom from Nigeria they begins to panic, we are not one and will never ever be one

[@gbengadassy188]

That was a very sad experience, but the north started the killing first. But I pray for a peaceful separation in Jesus name, Amen. There's no need for us to kill each other.let it be a peaceful separation.

[@joyegwuatu7861]

Why this hausa people dont allow peace to be ?pls let divide this country.

[@tundeadagun]

So as Northerners were going crazy up north their people were also being killed in the east.

[@kingsleyakam4352]

Interesting story.

[@Ogechi-t3q]

She claims she is 61 now during that time she said she had a child, but she herself was a child then she is not saying the truth.

[@ayenia2736]

this was a probe made during the regime of OBJ around 1999-2000. Add 25 years to the age 61years. Her age in 1966 would probably be 23 or 24 year old

[@mikailfaysaltobi6631]

The tribunal took place in 2001, she said she was 61. And the event she was talking about happened in 1966 i.e 2001-1966 = 35 years ago ..61-35 = 26 years old...she was 26 years old when the event happened

[@ohadiweaugustine9083]

This panel held over two decades ago... Do your calculations.

[@sophiawharton2424]

How old was this lady during the civil war?

[@taiwoalare4409]

This panel was in 2001

[@judeogbonnaya2975]

Is Nigeria really one country?

[@piusobidike7409]

According to her, she was born in Aba all these years she spent in the east her Igbo language is very poor I don't believe her story

[@piusobidike7409]

According to her, she was born in Aba all these years she she spent in the east her Igbo language is very poor I don't believe her story

[@sundaynwizugbe3205]

This is how hausa woman paid the igbos with laid, after looking after her and her son,

[@VOICEOFTHEVOICELESS-ng4sm]

How can such woman cannot speak English but she come to give withness in all hause woman.This is shame.

[@ogechiokata4306]

Why don't they want to translate the igbo sef

[@tenialind3480]

Learn how to stand for Nigeria and standing for Islam in Nigeria politics

[@paul-collinsodyssey4771]

Busy with nothing

[@samuelojo5634]

What is the essence of all these now?

[@mr7teen922]

The video is extracted from a reconciliation panel set up in 2001 by Obasanjo to hear and resolve issues in Nigerian history between 1960 and 1999, The military years. This particular video is from a petition by Ohaneze Ndigbo and this woman here talks about the sufferings of Arewa people in Old Eastern Region during the tense pre-war days of 1967.

[@Abe5720]

Could it have been possible to invite eye witnesses from Ozu Abam to corroborate this woman's story. Human's are not eminently equipped to accurately recollect events 54 years after they had happened!

[@mr7teen922]

if a random 86 year old Papa Emeka was to hold an interview and recount his struggles in Kano during the counter coup of July 1966, would you discredit him? or that only applies to other victims? Captain Ben Gbulie told stories of the January 15 coup in 2018 or so giving a near accurate description yet no-one argued the legitimacy of his tales, yet here you are discrediting this woman.

[@Taythestoryteller]

You may be right, but can the same be said about the great literary works of Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi and others of Eastern extraction?

[@collinsokafor8444]

@@mr7teen922 Ben Gbulie was a participant in the coup...you don't forget what you are a partaker of...

[@mr7teen922]

@@collinsokafor8444 EXACTLY. She was an eye witness present during these killings and as such, her opinion should be considered valid.

[@adde-m7k]

but we can accept those from the easterners who claimed atrocities but we should not accept an housa

[@Yessy-b3h]

How old was this woman then!

[@khalifahmd3746]

Most of them don't knw their real age, they don't have a reliable Date of birth

[@OG-dp1kx]

Tribalism is such a stupid think. Absolute nonsense

[@ernestnnadi7249]

She's a liar

[@Franklincnwosu]

HOW CAN BABY BE TROWN IN THE FOREST ACCORDING TO HER LATER BROUGHT BACK PLEASE GIVE ME A BRAKE FOR THE LIES

[@collinsokafor8444]

1966 Ojukwu was in Kano commanding Kano brigade .so where did Ojukwu then announce for all Hausas to leave the SE...the 1966 coup did not start the Biafra war...Ojukwu declared Biafra when he moved to Enugu in 1967 not 1966. She was correct in saying that Ojukwu asked the Hausas to move back to the north as he cannot guarantee the safety as igbos were talling about retaliating the killings of igbos in the north..and prior to that Ojukwu also had moved the hausa in Enugu into the Army Barrack to protect them..what she narrated about the train being stopped along Imo River was qlso a retaliatory effect of train from Kano and Kaduna with igbos beinf stopped at Kafanchan and slaughtered and the dead bodies brought to Enugu.

[@mr7teen922]

So does it justify the killings above the Imo River?

[@tsokacinMako]

You don't know history. At the time of "araba" Ojukwu was the governor of the Eastern region. He was made governor by Ironsi.

[@ayenia2736]

Ojukwu was not in the north at this time, he was the military governor in Enugu

[@collinsokafor8444]

@tsokacinMako So secession was even started by the hausas with the "Araba" which means let's divide and go our separate ways which also resulted in the massive killings of the igbos in the north.. History put it this way by Vanguard Newspaper.." Towards the end of May 1966, targeted killings of Nigerians of South Eastern region commenced especially in the north. This presented problems for Odumegwu Ojukwu. He did everything in his power to prevent reprisals and even encouraged ibos who fled the north to return back to the north upon assurance given by his colleagues in the North and in the West" So the question is the military conducted a coup, which civilians were not involved, but some part of the country chose to kill people who have never been in the barracks and are not military men but peace loving civilians..Ironsi who even stopped the Jan 1966 coup was killed by Gowon and co along with Fajuyi in Ibadan, but the yorubas never started killing all hausa in the west because Fajuyi was killed in a coup. Until we call out every thing wrong as wrong, the country will never heal. What came off the oputa panel..and since the reprisal attack like the woman mentioned, how many attacks have we seen till date against the ibos in the north..countless.

[@tsokacinMako]

​@collinsokafor8444, let's not change the topic. The crises happened in 1966, before Ironsi fell. Remember Ironsi fell in July, 1966. The crux is that there were many wrongs on both sides. Reprisals is also a crime, so you know. What caused the "araba" was the Unification decree 34 of Ironsi and his failure to purnish Nzegwu and his fellow coup plotters. Was that a justification for touching civilians? No The government of the Northern region did everything to stop it...

[@khalifahmd3746]

Worst translation ever

[@macten5223]

What's the lady trying to accomplish with this folklore. Nigeria needs genuine unity and solidarity

[@Taythestoryteller]

Alot of unspoken atrocities happened on both sides of the divide during the civil war, so to write anyone's experience off as folklore is rather insensitive. These stories are here for us to learn from our collective past mistakes, heal and forge a way forward so that atrocities like these never repeat themselves again.

[@mr7teen922]

But Igbo people are allowed to cry about their losses during the War? Both sides of the war faced losses. Everyone is entitled to voice it out.

[@collinsokafor8444]

She said she watched? Lies..how many hausa were even in the eastern region as of 1967...before the war even broke out every tribe has gone back to their region..which hausa man will have the liver to remain in a region that have had their people slaughtered in the north in thousands with the knowledge he or she will be the target of the igbos..there was no igbo man left in the north at the advent of the war..those on their way home were captured and slaughtered and this one js here saying she saw hausa being thrown into the imo river.. lol

[@Taythestoryteller]

@@collinsokafor8444 How did you come up with this theory that no Hausa man was in the East? There is a lot of good literature out about the war from both camps, you should read more and educate yourself about the real nature of the Nigerian - Biafran war sir

[@mr7teen922]

@@collinsokafor8444 you cant prove this. Certainly there were Arewa people in the Eastern Region same as there were Easterners in the North. Just because some people have decided to keep shut on their struggles, it doesnt mean such struggles are non-existent. Just watch and learn.

[@techking3873]

I was repulsed by her defensive, jester-like attitude. And sometimes unnecessary combative responses. I’ll admit she got me earlier when she shed a tear earlier about her losing her 3 yr old child. However, you really have to listen to the end to see why she was combative, sometimes laughing, all while recalling a tragic event where her son was taken and she was in grave fear of being part of an ethnic massacre. I am curious to know she knew about the numerous episodes of slaughter of Igbos by the Arewa in the north. Including the barbaric dumping of dead bodies of the Igbos in train coaches just like the one she was in, who were fleeing just like her. It makes no sense why she and the Gambo guy(her relative) keep laughing and having an unserious attitude throughout the testimony. Lastly, why would an ordinary housewife brag to the attorney and the entire court that she has court experience 😂😂 She was never a defendant except in her own head.😂 where her defense of a concocted story outwardly shows. 😂

[@TheMubashar99]

She got tired of the questioning and the baggering, it is typical of eye witnesses.

[@bolatitoadebayo9528]

Na both igbos and awusas killed themselves. They both commited attrocities

[@PhilipEzuteme]

She was lucky enough not been killed because in the North abokis killed Igbo women booth pregnant women and children but she was speared.

[@ogechiokata4306]

You be fool

[@christopheramadi7416]

LIARS.

[@olusegunbankole6416]

You cant live with the fact that your people committed worse atrocities before and during the war right ? You are more comfortable with playing the victim all the time. Because other tribes don't cry and play victim like you. Nonsense

[@ohukwh606hgghk]

She's a bloody liar

[@bolatitoadebayo9528]

Because shes saying the truth? Were u there or born then? Both parties commited attrocities. Genocides on both side. Where is the lies

[@innocentelvis7285]

​@@bolatitoadebayo9528always you Afonja bastard trying to spew rubbish. What's wrong with you guys? Cursed idiots.

[@aliyuusman9780]

Plain truth, be guided pls.

[@Taythestoryteller]

Please watch your language sir, derogatory name calling will get you switched off

[@ayenia2736]

Because she was not igbo? grow up from the lies your parents told you

[@Franklincnwosu]

LET EVERYONE GO THEIR OWN WAYS NO LOVE BETWEEN THEM NIGERIANS BIAFRANS AND NIGERIANS ARE NOT ONE