The senator representing Bayelsa west constituency, Sen. Ben Murray Bruce, has enumerated in a video clip the psycho-causes of Nigerian Civil war in 1967 and the rationale behind the continuous agitation and cry of Biafrans over marginalization and unfair treatment by the federal government of Nigeria after fifty years of war.
‘Let’s go back to history to understand why there was civil war in the first place and fifty years later, same people are agitating for independence’, he said. Sen. Bruce trailed along history with his learned colleagues, unraveling the consequences of ignorant and negligent of the federal government over what he called non inclusion of the ‘bight of Biafrans’ on the Nigeria map.
According to him, “In 1966 we had the first coup which Igbo were alleged to have wiped out the Northern leaders in the military.
“Second coup Gowon took over and there was lots of bloodshed and killings of ndIgbo. “Igbo were killed in the north and they moved back to the Eastern Nigeria were Ojukwu became head of state and declared a nation called ‘Biafra’.
“War started, we fought for three years, the war was over and the South eastern Nigeria was integrated into Nigeria; that is the background” he said.
Sen. Bruce went further to say, “When the war was over, I asked the vice president of Nigeria two fundamental questions which are: Why did you erase the bight of Biafrans from the map of Nigeria? He answered that ‘at the supreme military council meeting they thought Biafra would rise again. “And so the federal government at the time did everything possible not to talk about the war in Nigeria. Read more
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