Opinion | Nigeria Died Trying To Kill Biafra: An Anniversary Note For September 29, 1966

“53 years after: this is the face of the living ghost of September 29, 1966, the day the mass killing of Easterners in Northern Nigeria commenced,” Tony Nnadi writes in Opinions.

Atlantic Post

September 29, 2019

2–3 minutes

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By Tony Nnadi

53 years after: this is the face of the living ghost of September 29, 1966, the day the mass killing of Easterners in Northern Nigeria commenced.

This is the face the Murderer-in-Chief who as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, presided over the 1966 wave of pogroms and the genocide tagged “Biafra War” 1967-1970, in which over 3.5 million Easterners were killed by the rogue Nigerian State, in what has now been established as an ethnic cleansing campaign.

Yes, Gowon and his co-murderers may have escaped the justice of man, at the least so far, but God is not mocked. Even as Gowon and his co-travelers mock themselves with the miserable “Nigeria-Prays” chant-sessions:

•(1) The biggest unintended casualty is the One-Nigeria that emerged in 1970. Nigeria died because it tried to kill Biafra.

•(2) The Easterners they tried to exterminate are not only still here, but are visibly present in good numbers all over the world, doing exploits.

•(3) The Biafra they thought they buried in January 1970 has sprung back to life and is currently presiding over the orderly interment of the dead and defunct federation of Nigeria.

•(4) The innocent blood of the over 2 million children starved to death by Nigeria surely still crying to heaven for vengeance and Nigeria is reeling in its own blood, extracted mainly from those who collaborated with evil.

I was not yet born as at the 29th of September in 1966 but the dumb Quota-Generals and war criminals who banished the teaching of history in Nigerian schools were too illiterate to grasp the consequences of evolution of information technology and so today, that generation that nigeria tried to blindfold has in its hand, the minutest details of what transpired, even things that happened before the parents of those Mediocre-Generals were born.

Armed with knowledge of the truth that liberates, that generation, my generation, now presides over the interment of the defunct federation of Nigeria to set its captives free.

As we pray our almighty God to have mercy on those who were deceived by the murderous caliphate to join in the mass killing of Easterners (1966-1967), we thank our omnipotent god for keeping Yakubu Gowon alive to witness the witness the demise of the blood-soaked Nigeria he erected on the foundation of bloodshed, injustice, pain and misery.

Tony Nnadi, an Attorney and Secretary General of the Lower Niger Congress (LNC), writes from Lagos.