Forty three years after the Civil War, the Americans have released their
21,000 pages of diplomatic dispatches by agents of the United States
government.
Read about the
accounts of prominent individuals like Chief Richard Akinjide, Dr Nnamdi
Azikiwe, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu himself, General Olusegun Obasanjo and others on
the war.
Read Zik’s story on
why Ojukwu hated him; why Akinjide said Ojukwu suffered from megalomania; the
reasons Ojukwu gave for killing Victor Banjo and others.
Read about the role
of a Catholic reverend father, Kevin Doheny, Ojukwu’s intelligence director.
Read why former
head of state, then Lt. Col. Murtala Mohammed, wrote a letter to General Yakubu
Gowon, saying:
“One wonders at
times: why fight to keep Nigeria as one country if two and half million people
in a state of the country cannot live together happily…?”
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