At the end of the civil war in 1970, the then Nigerian Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gwon, said and I quote, “The so-called rising sun of Biafra has set forever.” But ‘unfortunately’, that sun has refused to be hidden “forever” because anytime we see the ‘moon’, we always remember that there was a sun.
The white man put a ‘knife’ on everything that should have held us together, and we fell apart along tribal and religious lines. So much that a Northerner would prefer to give a job to a Lebanese than one Ikemefuna Okonkwo, same way an Easterner would prefer an Indian as headman than one Mallam Shehu. It didn’t stop there, we created ‘minorities’ from among us, and sacrificed our nationalism on the altar of sectionalism.
Nigeria was nothing short of “a mere geographical expression” -apologies to Chief Awolowo. There was no Nigerianism, no clear vision. Nigeria was a matter of fact a nation sitting on gunpowder waiting to explode. And it eventually did. When it did explode, it was Major Kaduna Nzeogwu who slit the first throat. What followed was another bloody counter-coup, and then a civil war.
Immediate causes of the war in 1966 included ethno-religious violence and anti-Igbo pogroms in the North, and persecution of Igbo living in Northern Nigeria. The Nigerian government’s refusal for regional resources control also played a vital role. Over 2 million Biafran civilians perished from famine during the Nigerian naval blockade.
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