BIAFRA!!!WARRIOR
APPEARS 7 YEARS AFTER CIVIL WAR ENDS
BY
ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,LAGOS,NIGERIA...
The News
office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria has being told for the first time of how an
igbo family celebrated the return of a member of their family ,7 years after
the war supposedly ended between them
and Nigeria in 1977..
In a
chilling narration ,a nephew to the warrior recalled that his uncle told them
that they fed on such things like rodents ,reptiles ,raw cassava amongst other
things while in the forests fighting
their enemies .
He revealed
that it was his uncle's battalion that retreated that made it possible for the
Federal troops to move in thus leading to
the surrender and the no victor,no winner campaign of the then Yakubu Gowon
regime ...
According to
him ,his uncle had no choice than to enlist in the Biafra Army at the time as Ndi -Igbo nationalism was on
the agenda as the Nigerian Army was at the time arresting Biafran youths and
summarily executing them without any forms of trial..
HIs words
:"my uncle told me of how he had to cut the head of a young girl deep
inside a trench where she had gone to fetch water ,he claimed that if he
had allowed her to go perhaps the Nigerian
troops will have captured them at the time and killed them if she whistle
blows"\
"as
soon as that had happened ,he was able
to lift his loads out of the trench he had
discovered that the enemies were waiting
for him and they were firing directly at where he was coming out from"
"He
then dropped into the trench and ordered
his troops to use the Ogbunikwe at the time ,one of my uncles produced the Ogbunikwe but today he is in far away United states of
America working for its government over
there "
He added
that the entire family compound at the time was thrown into a fan fare when his
uncle whom they had given up for dead
showed up ..as the family declared a feast...
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