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Ex-Biafran soldiers plan Abuja protest over unpaid entitlements




Hundreds of ex-Biafran soldiers, yesterday, vowed to engage in a showdown with the federal government over the non-release of their entitlements more than forty years after the war, despite repeated promises.


Apparently to show their seriousness, the war veterans threatened to embark on a street-wide protest in Abuja in a few weeks, if government refused to meet their demand within a reasonable time frame, expressing dismay that most of their members had lost their lives because of the absence of reasonable sources of livelihood.

Rising from an emergency meeting in Enugu, the ex-soldiers, led by Col. Victor Onah (rtd) and Ibe Nwachukwunta, national coordinator and attorney respectively, condemned the non-chalance of the Federal Government towards their plight, in spite of their contributions to the nation.

Apart from demanding that urgent attention, rehabilitation, settlement, payment of their emoluments/entitlements and any other money be given to them, the veterans also asked for their reintegration and assimilation into the nation’s armed forces in order to facilitate the payment of their pensions.
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4 comments

  1. Pity they lost their fight when ojukwu collected his entitlement during OBJ's govt and abandoned them.

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  2. Khalid! What has Ojukwu has ti do with this? U Igbo hater.

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  3. So dat they can start another Biafran war? Did Nigeria govt send them to war?y ddnt dey ask Ojukwu b4 he died. So we shld now b settling rebels and criminals and rehabilitating them at d expense of decent and peace loving Nigerians?and one talk now, they will say one hates Igbos...

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  4. @ Marthins, with due respect to late Ojukwu, his name must be mentioned because he led the war though, for some reasons best known to Biafran.

    I do not think Ex-Biafran soldier deserve entitlement because they rebelled against the existing authority and they loss very unfortunately.

    Really, if you lost war you loss everything.

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