Former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has revealed how first Biafra’s leader, Lt-Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, mortgaged the mineral wealth of Biafra to the Rothschild banking family for approximately $10m.
Gowon made this revelation in his 859-page autobiography, My
Life of Duty and Allegiance, titled “No Going Back,” which was launched on
Tuesday in Abuja.
He said the mortgage of the mineral was in exchange for
French-backed support for the secessionist effort.
In the book, Gowon said that as the war intensified, France
provided the rebel government with enormous support through the former African
territories it controlled, with the backing provided in exchange for what
France hoped to gain from a successful Biafran breakaway.
According to him, the true depth of the transaction only
became known when the Nigerian Consulate in New York intercepted intelligence
on a B-26 aircraft purchase routed through a South American country.
“It later emerged that this was in exchange for what they
had hoped to gain from him in the event of a successful breakaway from Nigeria.
“Indeed, he had pawned the mineral wealth of Biafra to
Rothschild for about $10m or an estimated N5m at the time.
“Our knowledge of this deal was fortuitous because the
Nigerian Consulate in New York had intercepted information regarding the
purchase of a B-26 aircraft that was to have been sent to Biafra through a
South American country,” Gowon narrated.
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Gowon, you lied. You are supposed to say this while Ojukwu lived.
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