Soldiers easily identified Igbo who couldn’t pronounce Obalende during civil war – 80-year-old retiree, Ope - Punch Newspapers

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I retired in December 1995. I retired as a confidential secretary to a Wema Bank branch manager in Lagos. My rise to the position of a confidential secretary was a bit slow because the bank had just started. I joined the bank in 1972 and left in 1995.I wanted to go. When the bank wanted to retrench some workers, I was asked whether I wanted to leave. I chose to go.After retirement, I still had to wake up early to prepare the children for school because they were still young.

When the war started, I was on a bus going to work when some soldiers entered the bus and ordered the passengers to identify their tribes. When an Igbo man claimed to be Yoruba, the soldiers told them to pronounce Obalende or toro . The ones that couldn’t pronounce the two words were easily identified and picked up. We were all living together before the Devil came in. Lagos was a place of merriment; there were parties in many places.

 

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